June 23, 2008

Mons Regius



It has a name now! SWEET. If you are flying in from IPS, this is some sketches of Andrea and her clothing style. Yes, she is a figure skater too (I have always wanted to have an excuse to draw costumes for them and now I do...). So given her occupation and her current location, she must not only dress in style but warmly too (the story begins around Halloween so the weather gets progressively colder.)

I will post some more stuff as it comes along. But I thought you might enjoy these character designs and get a peek at the new style I have been working on.

December 6, 2007

More Dream Time



Went through my scans and decided to open up sketches. More Dream Time images, these from Dream Time II. The image above is Alexis in one of the many dresses she has. The second one below is Cyle, a friend and fellow knight. This is a concept for his royalty dress.

Most of the outfits are rather plain, with very few embridered farbics or prints. Solid color is a big deal and Alexis whole wardrobe outside of her armor and battle tack are dresses with a modern flare.

The above dress was designed to be one color with a thin, see through gauze coat. white, black or a similar color depends on the color of the dress. What is important about both these outfits is that Cyle and Alexis wear the same clasp of a long bow edged gold plate with rain dropped dangles. The clasp is a standard on most clothing in Cyle's house and since Alexis pretty much moves in, her wardrobe was adjusted to match.

Forgive Alexis angry expression, I wanted to show some movement with the layers of the dress and so I picked an important scene later in the story where is she is confronting a prince who apparently doesn't know his place while in her presence. Alexis doesn't normally pull rank on others but this was an exception, and being in a dress is going to do little to stop her from making said prince eat dirt.

The circlet on her brow pretty much becomes standard at this point.

November 11, 2007

The Muse


Forgiving the fact that most of the time I wish this six foot tall, faux winged, red headed freak would leave me alone, this is in fact my Muse. The Muse really was the bases of Alexis' character from The Dream Time. She suddenly appeared one day while I was working on a sketch of Alexis that totally turned into something else wearing her Mark if Fire tattoo and wings made of fire (you know, that whole phoenix obsession of mine...)

The dress design never made it into TDT so I let the Muse keep it. It is really the one dress I have made that hasn't found a place in any of my stories and I don't think it ever will. If I find the old sketch book with her first appearance in it, I put it up.

And yes, don't take my Muse. I as much as I wish she would go away when I'm doing real work and a pain in the ass to get anything new from her, I like having her around when I need it.

September 24, 2007

Where in the World...

I seem to have it in for bringing back really damn old cartoons. At the rate I'm going, having already begun ironing out plot details and stories for a short Captain Planet graphic novel I couldn't stop myself (or in this case my muse) from wonderenig away on me while I was lurking around the Syracuse Mall this weekened. I blame the really bad asian food I was eating (never eating there again) but I have been questing for some time now to turn up a fedora and a long trench coat I could fashion into the unforgettable guise of Carmen Sandeigo.

And then THIS happened. A moment of brilliance that came flying out of nowhere...a stoke of genius that I plan to jump on and hang on to because damn...the following thought of Carmen taking down Laura Croft in an all out theiving, tomb raiding fight would be AWESOME....I really couldn't stop myself.

So where the hell is the trench coat? Is she now wearing a bright red suit....No. This is Carmen's not-so-wanted secert identy, Maria. But when she decides it's time to go out and have a little fun and laugh in the faces of the ACME detectives, The hat and the coat come back and Carmen takes overs once again as the villianess of VILE...or...maybe...just maybe...

Can't spoil the whole story now can I?

August 28, 2007

Long Hair No More



So nothing much changed this summer besides my hair. I still wear the same clothes, maybe put on a jean size or two...but I am no longer drawing myself with long hair these days. Crunch PB Hell is gonna have a whole new look about it now that I hacked off 11 inches and donated it to Locks of Love.

This was my old DeviantART id until some freakish little bug hit everyone over there like a virus. The "Pixel ID" movement has overtaken DA to the point they might as well just make a whole catagory for us. I mean, come on, what could not be cooler than to have a little Pixel version of yourself? Lol.



I had to modify the original sketch of myself so that it had the short hair instead of the long. This is also made completely in the digital medium. About five hours worth of photoshopping.

I have a long way to go before I can churn out a decent pixeled character.

April 25, 2007

Rebounding TDT


Ah, sorry I've been MIA. I shut up the muse for a while to get some work done, but last night she came crashing through the walls and decided that she wasn't just going to stop me from getting some school work done...but write ten pages in Aetas and then this morning took one look at some art work on DeviantART and started making up new designs for Alexis from The Dream Time Saga.

Now I'm not going to give up my plot without a fight. So just enjoy these sketches. This is the main character, Alexis...from the tentative 3rd book...

And a head shot:

And a quick sketch of The Dream Time's lead male character, Tanon of Kalson:

....yep. And it's about freaking time I got that dress done. Because I could not in any way draw the right one for the purpose it was going to serve. RAWR.

FYI....It is not a wedding dress. Though I bet it would make one hell of a nice one!

February 9, 2007

How I get By...


Some one asked how I managed to get school work done, do my job, and still draw personal stuff.

I think this answers the question.

Notice the bags under the eyes? Yep.