Meh. I'll keep the label.
Those two ladies at the top of this page are my cousins.
Practising Talassa's hairline, which is tricky.
Character-design practise for my Comic Royale-submission:
The map of a wild imagination - in sketches, WIPs and rambles
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Daily sketchbook dump - Sept. 10-22
It feels kind of dishonest to label these "Daily sketchbook"-dumps - because there are days when I don't draw anything in my sketchbook. On the other hand, there are days like the 18th, when I draw four pages.
Meh. I'll keep the label.
Those two ladies at the top of this page are my cousins.
Practising Talassa's hairline, which is tricky.
Character-design practise for my Comic Royale-submission:
Meh. I'll keep the label.
Those two ladies at the top of this page are my cousins.
Practising Talassa's hairline, which is tricky.
Character-design practise for my Comic Royale-submission:
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Daily sketchbook dump Sept. 6-10
Entirely Fathoms-focused! How 'bout that? Warning: babble follows.
I've been worldbuilding lately, because as a world, Fathoms is pretty empty. There was just Talassa and Gale, and that four-armed Whalerider guy who would turn up in chapter three. I've been playing around a bit with the Whalerider people (as evidenced by my earlier sketchdumps), but I decided they needed some more people.
So, I invented the Moonface-tribe.
It started as a doodle, which grew into something more - and it was only after drawing a few of them that I realised they all looked like fat axolotls.
Then I started thinking about the markings on their foreheads.
All of the markings are simplified phases of the moon. Children have crescent moons, adults have half-moons and the ones I've labelled as "Speakers" have full moons. Male Moonfaces have moon-markings that curve to the left, while female Moonfaces' curve to the right, to set them apart. It's definitely easier for non-Moonfaces to identify them that way, since they otherwise have no outward physical traits setting them apart.
The Moonfaces are divided in two main factions - the White Moon and the Black Moon. And no, the Black Moon-faction is NOT evil. They just represent another way of living, the same way an eclipse represents another phase of the moon.
I haven't completely figured out what the different factions stand for, but I'll get there. It's fun to play around with politics and religion and imaginary societies.
I've also been tinkering with the plot, and have decided that in some future chapter, a Seer is going to turn up. Below are my initial ideas for the Seer's design:
I've been worldbuilding lately, because as a world, Fathoms is pretty empty. There was just Talassa and Gale, and that four-armed Whalerider guy who would turn up in chapter three. I've been playing around a bit with the Whalerider people (as evidenced by my earlier sketchdumps), but I decided they needed some more people.
So, I invented the Moonface-tribe.
It started as a doodle, which grew into something more - and it was only after drawing a few of them that I realised they all looked like fat axolotls.
Then I started thinking about the markings on their foreheads.
All of the markings are simplified phases of the moon. Children have crescent moons, adults have half-moons and the ones I've labelled as "Speakers" have full moons. Male Moonfaces have moon-markings that curve to the left, while female Moonfaces' curve to the right, to set them apart. It's definitely easier for non-Moonfaces to identify them that way, since they otherwise have no outward physical traits setting them apart.
The Moonfaces are divided in two main factions - the White Moon and the Black Moon. And no, the Black Moon-faction is NOT evil. They just represent another way of living, the same way an eclipse represents another phase of the moon.
I haven't completely figured out what the different factions stand for, but I'll get there. It's fun to play around with politics and religion and imaginary societies.
I've also been tinkering with the plot, and have decided that in some future chapter, a Seer is going to turn up. Below are my initial ideas for the Seer's design:
Monday, 5 September 2011
Daily sketchbook dump Aug 29-Sept. 3
Daily sketchings, plus some other stuff.
Been working on some character-designs for my submission to Comic Royale #6:
It's going to be a short steampunk adventure/treasure-heist story.
I've also done a commission for the owner of this blog. It was fun to do a proper portrait!
And then there's this - Reddit's IDAP-subreddit has this 24-Hour-Art-Jam going, which will be happening every Thursday. This was this week's challenge:
Been working on some character-designs for my submission to Comic Royale #6:
It's going to be a short steampunk adventure/treasure-heist story.
I've also done a commission for the owner of this blog. It was fun to do a proper portrait!
And then there's this - Reddit's IDAP-subreddit has this 24-Hour-Art-Jam going, which will be happening every Thursday. This was this week's challenge:
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