OH SHI-! A GARGOYLE!

Not sure there's much to say here. Ran out of room for the wings, but I drew what I could for it.

Love how the rib cage turned out, but the spine cheats out a bit too much when I should have relied more on foreshortening. In the end, just a lecture sketch. It does remind me how much I loved taking anthropology. I should see if they have any classes on that next semester.

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I'm getting better at showing more definition in the face without making the person look too old. I used to avoid those details like the plague, but now I can't get enough of them.

Also getting better at drawing noses from different angles.

Ask PC is back

http://ask-pc.tumblr.com/

Sean and Vic return to their wacky question answering antics. This should be fun.

Here's a my tumblr for more random shit

tx2tumbln.tumblr.com

Sacred Stones Comic

I'd be more upset about a how this month has gone if I hadn't managed to channel my emotions into my work so well.

This comic features Ross and Lute from Fire Emblem 8. They've been a favorite pairing of mine for the last 5 years, but I've never been able to draw them well until now.

This time I think I finally managed to incorporate Fire Emblem's unique style into my own, and I even managed to pull off some really complicated hand poses on top of that. I'm especially proud of the hands in the final panel because they do the most to describe what's going through lutes mind, and most important of all, the hands actually look like their her hands.

glare

I think we've all been through this more than once as a kid.

You do something wrong, but they want you to learn what it is on your own. You don't realize that though, and instead you just start think there's something wrong with you.

Pluto Practice

One thing I learned from Animating that kitten last month was that I need more practice with quadrupeds... actually I already learned that during the Pony deluge, but this just shows how much practice I need.

Real dogs would be an ideal choice, but Pluto does a lot of dynamic poses to learn from, and his design is simple enough that the derivative doesn't break down.

And with him being a dog among anthropomorphized dogs, I should learn a little bit more about the differences between the too expressively.

The cartoon I referenced for this is viewable here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZUgfk_EOk&feature=share

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Orpheus lead Eurydice out of Hades, deemed never to look behind him to see if she was there. He could not hear her presence or her footsteps; all there was for him was faith that she kept up with him, and that she wanted to follow at all.

But the illusion of this isolation ate away at his faith. The long trek piled doubt on him with every step.

Such a simple quick motion, to turn his neck. Yet the damage such a simple motion did.

And she was not behind him. Whether Hades' promise was a lie and she was never there, or whether she chose not to tempt fate, or whether she was wisped away to quickly for him to see her a final time, she was gone.

Another Ent (and the first ent)

I seem to draw these Whenever I get too anxious. Kinda intended as an ent, but more of a person rooted and stiff and struggling and turmoiled.

Drew something similar to this about a year ago. Thanks to a hefty schedule, a long commute and some sparse bus scheduling, I had only about a 5 hour break between a shift on new years Eve and a morning shift new years day...

This is what came up for the commute home between those shifts. Definitely one of the deciding factors that led to me going to Monterey. Anyway, That recent picture at the top of the post isn't nearly as stress induced. I WOULD feel guilty about having these feelings again when my current situation isn't nearly as bad as it was last year... but that would only increase my anxiety. I have to be a little selfish at some point.

This picture is not as related, but I never remembered to post it either. It's more cybernetic than tree related, but the inspiration came from wood paneling.

Model Green in the Rain

I've got something Really fun for today. This is a scene for Bridgette Brian and the Bunny Detailing what Brian Green goes through Shortly after the events of this story, and shortly before she meets Bridgette.

She's run away from her home unable to accept the death of her only friend, and also in fear that she may fall under the same fate. Unsure of what to do, she begins escaping into her memories of her friend, but the more she does, the more they fade away...

This scene concludes with her finding the hair styling products and dying her own hair red so that she can see Model-Red whenever she looks in the mirror.

It's sort of a twisted way of coping, but she overcomes it as the story progresses.

Not sure where I got the energy to do this all of the sudden. I did finally see the little match stick girl recently, that's probably what led me to use the switching back and forth between Green's Memories and the bitter reality.

Back shoulders

Shoulders and backs were always a little hard for me. The contour lines of it are always covered up by the arms, and there's little definition in the middle of the back, So even when I drew the frame of the posture before drawing the actual picture it still looked off. I guess this is something just just relied entirely on practice.

Ok, enough of that, here's a quick joke.