Tori Makoto

I. No. Longer. Suck. At. Digital. Work.

Very, very, very, very proud of this. It took about 6 hours, with a break for piano and Fringe in between...So basically I started at 2 and finished at 10:15.

This was done as a request work for Aaron, so there, that's what she looks like.

Thanks to Kim for teaching me how to use my tablet and program properly. <3

This is Tori Makoto, heiress to Frimala, drawn properly.

Thanks to FireAndDarkness13 for the base and Rolf Hicker for the background.

Yoseph Bartholomaus Ostheim

Yayayayayyayayyayay!

Less fail Joe!

than last time! Tried experimenting with smaller more realistic eyes and less anime hair. Worked better. Wewt.

For those who are out of the loop, this guy, serious as he looks, serves mostly as a comic relief character in the Modern RP. He's a biochemist who works for the Org, has ADHD in the worst degree, and has a lab partner (amongst other things) named Colin.

The Rat Twins

Yay, a 2 picture post! Not only that, but they're starting to actually look okay! (things are posted in reverse order to how they show up on the page, so this is like my 5ths post today as opposed to my 2nd ).

I was telling Stephanie/Aaron more about Kolor and how it's named 'The Twist' for all the animorph varieties that live there. I'd already started with nameless, weirdly dressed cat boy, so I thought after the fail of Drad and the Quepies that I would continue on yesterday's theme. Steph at the time was reminiscing about her poor deceased rat, Moon (RIP <3)

Which spawned the idea, what if I made Koloran citizens based on peoples' pets?


To my delight, Steph loved the idea, so she found a clear picture of Moon and I sketched her out a human form (left). We decided on no clothes (which is a common practice in Kolor), added some freckles and a fluffy haircut, and voila. It'd look better if it was shaded (might get colored), but basically her tummy and back are white, as well as the insides of her arms and legs. The rest is a dark gray.


Now, Steph has another rat, Princess. Since Moon turned out so good, I decided to give her a go, and the result is pictured to the right. Princess, in real life, is chubbier, so I tried to reflect that a little bit. Her name inspired thoughts of elegance, so she wears pretty ruffled things and skirts and corseted dresses, a choker, and a bow around her tail.

Due to confusions that keeping Moon's name would cause, and the fact that Princess isn't really a viable name, Moon has been renamed Luna and Princess has been renamed Secili. They are both aristocracy.

Draduro (badly)

Ewwwwww it's awful.

It was working WORSE with the the shit, so I just smacked some chest lines on him and let him be. The little floaty head at the side was supposed to be what the page was about, drawing him like I once drew Cadance with a bunch of different expressions from a bunch of different angles. His straight face shot sort of evolved but bleh. The only thing close to accurate about this is his hair (which still sorta sucks) and the fact that his eyes are slitted (but drawn badly).

Kano, Rae, and a waterfall

Not entirely sure what sparked this but uh, here, have some bum:

It's a very poorly drawn Kano spying on the slightly better drawn Rae from behind a bush at some point in time. You can't really make out the waterfall but it's to her right/behind her (from our perspective) and that's why she has no clothes. Originally there was a leaf from the bush he was in blocking her backside but it looked even worse than this.

Finan, v1.0

My feline furry friend here has no name or history, but I've started to design Koloran citizens, and he was the first (and worst so far).

No idea what he's wearing or why.

Bunny and Teacher Quepies!

It's pronounced 'Que-pee', but I don't know how to spell it. Whatever.

So for philosophy we have make a commerical and use 5 fallacies to advertise it, so mine is this pet-rock-esque stuffed animal inspired/stolen by/from something Skye came up with a few years back. So I was bored and drew Stephanie a bunny and my philosophy teacher as Quepies. Totally lame but I was really bored.

Oops about lack of postage yesterday by the way, so I'll post what I drew then mixed in with todays as well.

Lady Makoto (color)

Thanks to Kim for teaching me how to use my brush tool properly!

I decided to not ruin it by adding shading. Save that for next time. Besides, with that random background, there's really no 'light source' anyway.

Woot. Now we know where she got the hair color from.

Lady Makoto

Version one and version two. I see improvement, don't you?

I think I may seriously color the second version, cause it's nice enough to practice on at least.

She also needs a name, taking suggestions...Oh, and Lord Makoto needs a first name too!

(By the way, the chibi dialogue reads:
Lord Makoto: Now that's what a woman should look like! *siiiiiigh*
Kiyoshi: Dad...what about my mom? =(
rofl)

Lord Makoto...

...Version one -.-

He looks like Jesus with chainmail wings goddamn it. But, if Lady Makoto is any indication, he'll end up being okay looking after a few more tries.

PENCIL WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TOO. Need to get mine back!

Doodlies

Sketch doodles of random. Ignore the guy in blue, I don't even know who he is or what he's doing. The floaty heads are cool though, love the hair on the left guy, and I then another attempt at Yoseph (lol) to the right.

And Lord Makoto again appearing in my sketches. Stop looking like Jesus!

S.I.R.I.U.S.

What I couldn't remember to write on the page:
S entient

I ntervention

R etrieval

I ________

U nit

S even

Never actually came up with anything for the second 'I', so suggestions are welcome.

((No, 'Superbly Indescribable, Really Incredibly Uber Sexy' doesn't count. Sorry Stephanie/Tea.))

I might color this one, but the only bits to color are his face...

I'm very pleased with how this turned out, especially since I did it with pen...wewt!

(And if you're wondering what 'GMH' means in the tag, it stands for Genetically Modified Human. Most Modern RP characters can have this tacked on.)

Ryu, Serving Boy

This is what happens when I have nothing

to draw. I draw a line and then it just kinda turns into something weird.

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She needs a name. A spontanious creation in Philosophy class, I guess she's a subject of the org.

Myro (Dragon Form)

I sort of ran out of paper while drawing it (sadface), but I finally got around to a first draft, conceptual sketch of what Myro's dragon form should look like. I just added the stripes because I was bored, and figured his hair is retarded, his scale patterns can be too.

I was considering drawing the individual scales on him, but the bell rang. Darn.

To those who wonder, I imagine him as sort of a cross breed between a Knucker or Tibetan dragon (from a Dragonology standpoint) and a variant of a European. Basically, it has the form of a Knuckler (thicker hands, opposable thumbs, long body), but more the tail of a Knucker (an also winding-bodied dragon, but with tiny wings). The European variation comes from the horns (traditionally shorter and thicker, but I thought the long, skinny ones played more with the body shape and triangle-based head), the spines, and obviously the massive wings. Unlike most Europeans (especially ones that I draw), the membrane does not connect again at lower point on the body, but instead branches out from the same place on the base.

I'm not sure if I like the fangs. And the limbs are bleh, but I do like this overall.

Drawn in: Philosophy.

Rat

The progression of this picture: First, I drew a starving face base. Then I thought, ooh Rat. So I drew a very sketchy face. Then I drew a neck, and some shoulders, and some very badly sketched clothes, etc. Eventually it all ended up being a sketch of a crazy looking Rat.

Then I thought, what if I drew his younger self, looking very dead but proper, as his 'shadow'. So I drew a rounder, healthier face, framed with shorter, clean-cut hair. But dead, bored eyes. Then I thought, why not give him smart clothes, to contrast? His parents dressed him up to look the part of a son and pretend to the world that he wasn't crazy.

Then, since he was a shadow, he needed to be shaded. So I shaded all of him, including his face. Of course then I look to my original sketch, and sort of cringe; it's horribly sketchy. So I fix up the lines, shade it in (though with the pencil, the blood splotches and random holes in his clothing make him look more like a calico cow than anything).

And then I just decided to unshade the shadow's face since it looked odd.

The text at the bottom is just a little snip from his first murder, and I thought having the text grow more sketchy ((erm...more like my normal writing, should I see a problem in this?)) as it progressed to show his breaking sanity.

Drawn in: Literature

Tori (Child)

Stephanie could not stop laughing when I drew the outline...I think she thought I was bored enough in substitute-teacher Philosophy to draw Hentai.

Sorry guys, it's just a young Tori in more complicated pose than I usually attempt without a base.

Please excuse the feet. I know they're awful.

Leah and Evan; Sketch

Not very good, but I decided hey, might as well post it. Was just explaining what dog-dragonthing hybrid people would look like, so I drew Leah in her (unshaded) 'dragon' form and a very bad Evan in human.

Evan's so awful, I normally draw him much better...I'll have to do him over.

Butterfly Nerd

I just liked how the little one in the bottom left corner of Jason's picture turned out, so I decided to redraw her. Then I decided she should be tiny, so I drew the flower to demonstrate.

Mr. Shaw's lectures provide wonderful background sounds to drawing. =)

What's odd about her? She's not a character at all, just a random thing. Oh well.

Xavier

This kid needs a last name!

To make up for last weekend's lack of sketching, here's one of 4 (of varying degrees of okayness).

Does the little chibi in the bottom right look familiar? :3

Doodles

Uh, yeah, product of Philosophy class again. I like to draw there!

Dissapointing, but something. I particularly like how Stephanie's makers color (want), the weird 3 headed ferret, and the dino. Mac's pretty cute too.

The protoss head might be on to something....

Pink Sweater

Myro had a mishap with the washing machine. Uh oh.

Drew this today in Philos

ophy while Wingate was talking. The reason? I was drawing Myro, then I was like, ooh! I have colored pens, I should color him!

My 'red' pen wrote pink. -.- And so, now we know Myro sucks with a washing machine.

Or I guess, sucked, considering his latest sad turn of events.

If you understand this...

...you know me too well.

First day of school, pretty awesome, I think I'll have time to draw on spare or in philosophy.

This was done during my spare, to explain to Stephanie the goings-on of Terrassia and its crazy retarded inhabitants. Actually, it was just Raylin, but all these other people got involved too, so they got heads.

Sorry about no post yesterday, had work and school prep and suck =(

Myro or Drad maybe coming soon (I tried Drad today, and like, half of him worked, half didn't).

6:17 am on a Tuesday

Just a little ditty I made with a base. I forgot to do proper layering, so the coloring sucks...ah well!

Base from: http://pixel-hime.deviantart.com/art/Manga-kiss-base-134954926?offset=25#comments

Teacher Ryu catching his young love/student Saku in his kitchen before heading off to work.

((I don't know where the light source is...@_@))

((And right after posting it, I realized lots of things wrong with the continuity: Ryu's hair should be brown, not green, Saku's should be a lighter shade....Ah well.))

Kano, Master Elemental

Here's an uncommonly badass picture of Kano, weilding his two major elements of fire and water. This turned out pretty well, but I used a base heavily (yeah, sadly, I didn't do the fire and water), which can be found here: http://kawaiidaisukechan.deviantart.com/art/Male-Base-17-124341638 .

Starting to actually look good now...hope this streak continues!

((PS, I don't know why his shirt off...he's a shirt person. Fanservice I guess XD))

Shut up and comply

=D
I tried to finish this yesterday, but I had stupid work for stupid 4.5 hours and got home at stupid 11:30 when mom said 'no computer'.
AND my internet died for 3 hours while trying to post this. *tears hair out*

Anyway...Yay. People, non chibi people. Progressively getting better!These two are Raylin (the pale one) and Draduro (the darker one). That's all I'll say!

Ryu (Child)

Well, I wanted to see what would happen with a black background, 1 layer and extremely sketchiness (to help practice thin hair strands).
This is the result:


Scratchy, and I never erased, just to see the effect. I kind of like it, it's a bit different, very dark. I might do a series of these (which will hopefully get better), but we'll begin with the often done 12-year-old Ryu and his traumatic experience of losing his mother.

I HAAAATE the wings on this though, there was no way to do them better without using more detail than the rest of the picture, and that would look odd. I do kinda like the color highlights, though.

Ryon Bladescar (Floating Head)

Well I didn't post one yesterday, so here's a crappy picture for today:

Pretty awful, yeah, I know. I'm trying to slowly graduate and force myself to draw faces, and then people, but meh. I figured it'd be easier to just do a floating chibi head rather than an actual face (though, you may or may not see my attempt at a serious picture today, tommorow, etc). On the bright side, I did learn more about the retouch tool (it can darken as well as highlight!), and figured out how to mix and blend colors depending on the touch-sensitivity of my tablet (hoorah!)

Now for the who. This is Ryon (formerly/still sort of known as Raidon) Bladescar, the youngest & bastard prince of Hyerun. Despite the badness of this kiddified p icture, he's really 20-something and really attractive. If I can't do justice on tablet, I'll scan some pictures I've drawn by hand and show you what he's SUPPOSED to be.

Anyway, this guy hates the rest of his family, and they all for the most part hate him. His biggest rivalries/hatreds are between him and his oldest brother, Grey, and his father, King Gregory Bladescar. Ryon enjoys fighting, caring for animals, and most of all, women. He's an electric elemental as well (the only reason he was accepted into princehood, as they're rare), and uses a twin-bladed staff as his weapon of choice.

I really need to draw him better!

Baby Dragon -Blue-

Okay, this is good. Two days in a row...let's see if this holds.

I think I'm getting a bit more comfortable with digital drawing. This still sucks, but it's less sketchy, and I experimented with different pressures on the graphics tablet pen, and discovered a new button (it did the highlights quite nicely).

Hopefully tommorow I'll have a new addon installed for PSP that lets me add scales properly.

This is no character in particular, though maybe they should be. They're pretty cute!

Credit to Sandra Staple and her wonderful how to draw book 'Drawing Dragons' for the pose!

Trianna

Well, I've finally did a lot of things today:

• I started a blog



• I reinstalled my graphics tablet



• I learned how to USE my graphics tablet



• I learned how to use layers on PSP (Paint Shop Pro, my photoshop-variant of choice)



• I drew a picture entirely digitally!

Very exciting. So here it is:

Now, I know it kinda sucks, it's dark an all. But I decided I'd start with something I was comfortable with drawing (dragons) and just work from there. It's only three layers in total (the black outline, the body coloring, and the background coloring), but still...I mean, for a first attempt, it's not that bad!

I hope to be updating daily, with either hand sketches or digital sketches.

For those who don't know: This is Trianna (tree-ANNE-ah), a black dragon (who I decided had bits of blue-purple on her, cause she really did need a twinge of color), and Karimo's mount. She's absolutely massive, intelligent, and will follow her rider anywhere (as he will for her). She's technically a bad guy, but not really.