Barbarian sort of fellow.

Mean-lookin’, isn’t he? Every year in early January, I have an excuse to draw something mean and rather gruff-looking. This is because it’s my brother’s birthday.

2009 Confronting Monsters I

Beginning of a series… hah. Let’s see if this lasts.  This tends to my usual theme of bizarre spirit-like beings confronting a girl in an odd outfit.  The original is about 20 x 10, which is gobs of fun. I’m planning to paint it, but not sure how, yet.  Maybe I’ll transfer it to wood and paint in acrylic, but I was hoping to paint on paper (watercolor or otherwise!) because I really miss that. The original is on illustration board, but the black and white ink is a finished piece in and of itself, so I don’t want to ruin it.

Not that it’s flawless. There are lots of little things that I plan to fix in the finished piece.

Aubrie is soooo much easier to draw than Clara. Well, as long as she’s dressed in modern attire, I guess. Aubrie is about 5′3″ and pastels seem to suit her very well.

Character Designs

• Clara – Complete!
• Aubrie – Complete!
• Kerrence – Nada
• Ramsey – Nada

Less Important Characters

• Leofrey
• Sounel
• Humphrey
• Melgaliida

For now, I’m taking a break. But if I can get Kerrence and Ramsey done tomorrow, then I can start the comic by the end of the weekend! I’m excited. I really should get quick sketches of minor characters done before I get started, though, for consistency’s sake.

Probably the final colors for Lady Clara. I love green/purple, but at some point she’s going to have to wear red, because that’s really her color.

Demon in a Jar Progress:

Character Designs

• Clara – Complete!
• Aubrie – 50% Done
• Kerrence – Nada
• Ramsey – Nada

To-Do List

• Storyboard first + second chapter
• Make pages
• Fix website up to suit DiaJ

Sounel is a character from my latest comic project, DiaJ. I wanted to make this a larger piece, but I’ve decided for now just to use it as reference for when I really begin to design the characters. It’s nice when a character fits the picture in your head.

This was from Life-Drawing class a few weeks ago. It’s not my best… I think it was one of the first value studies I had to do.

This was actually a mother’s day gift. One very nice thing about my mother is that she has always had an eye for art, and has been able to tell me more mistakes than I’ve been able to notice myself. At the same time, she’s encouraged me to work on my own designs and characters. So this piece includes two of my original characters, Ramsey and Clara, who take a big part in my latest project, Demon in a Jar.

I also did a marker version, but I’m not quite as satisfied with it. Color, at the moment, is my weakest point, and something I intend to work on over this year. I’m slowly getting value (balance of light and dark) but color is beyond me at the moment. That’s sort of a good thing because I’m not going to start another color comic any time soon; if I did that, I’d probably become discouraged. DiaJ is supposed to be black and white for the first ten or so pages.