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:

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:

Daily sketchbook dump August 23-27

Daily sketching is going so-so - mostly because I'm trying to finish storyboarding the second chapter of Fathoms. And also because I am lazy and easily distracted.







And last but not least, a photo-reffed iguana, for a weekly sketch-jam thing on Reddit:

Sketches and link-exchanges

I've just been reminded that this blogging thing isn't just the internet-equivalent of hanging pictures on your mother's refridgerator door, but also a social thing. Thus - I'm going to tell you about some neat people!



Olov Redmalm, teller of ultra-violent space-westerns, and creator of Wayfar, the greatest future-tech-noir comic to ever feature a guy named Ivar.



Linus Remahl, who does really, really neat stuff of all kinds, but who really needs to update his blog more often. Please?



Bockom, creator of the glory that is Bastard Pike and the Lobster Mobster. Perhaps if he's prodded enough, he'll update more. :P


BG, who is silly and doesn't have a sketchblog (this is a hint to get one, BG!), but who really needs to draw more. The world needs more bat-pig-cats.





Daniel Olsén, cartoonist, illustrator, all-around awesome guy.




Alek Kalabakov, who has done more crosshatching than you probably ever will, and then some. What he doesn't know about crosshatching is not worth knowing.



And last but definitely not least, Efraim Ramsén, drinker of coffee, conqueror of deadlines, drawer of zombies, and the one who reminded me I ought to be doing this sort of stuff.



Aaaaand - that's about it for the bragging about cool people I know.

Oh, and before I go - here, have a bonus daily-sketch thing:

Daily sketchbook dump August 11th-19th

With bonus digital painting practise! From photo-reference I ganked off Google Images.

This is mostly Fathoms stuff, because after a long break (to focus on the Lifedrawing course with Pernilla Persson) I needed to get back in practise before I start working on the next chapter.

Here's how I plan my page-layouts/write my script (both of which tend to happen more or less at the same time):


The rest:

In which I draw animals

Skansen is a really neat place. I needed to practise animals, so it seemed the logical place to go.

First up - odd-toed ungulates (i.e: reindeer, moose, sheep):


Bears and birds:


Moose, squirrel, various birds:


Lemurs, meerkats, lion tamarins, turtle:


Also, my cat:

Daily sketchbook dump August 4th-10th

I got a bit lazy after returning from Gotland for the last time, and skimped on the sketching for a few days. I'm trying to do better now, though.


You ever have a character you just cannot draw properly, even though you know exactly what they look like? Bai Li Tai is that character for me. I just can't get him right. I'll have to practise more.



The lower half of this page are quick sketches of people at a café.





... You know, I didn't notice until I scanned it, but Haunt looks like he's going "So, tell me about your problems," *eyebrow-waggle*.