When Designing Characters (especially Costumes--I'm Thinking Specifically Of The Organic-nanotech Iron

FFFF I guess I could... delete the door?? I haven't looked at the comic in months and the only page I saved before it was taken down was the one with the exterior of the manor, for reference. It looks like there's a door there but I suppose it could simply be a hole. OHGOD I have no idea I need more to go on HALP

WALTER MANOR?

Ok this is gonna be rambly bear with me. I don’t blab about what I post here usually cos portraits and clothes whatevs, self-explanatory. But ARCHITECTURE, OK. I am so happy with this you don’t even know. I’ve messed with sketchup a few times in the past with the intention of modeling locations in my stories but this is the first time I was motivated enough to power straight thru 3D’s infuriating learning curve (I still can’t function in Blender at ALL the interface makes me cry but I’ll keep trying). I traced the elevation from the comic and the rest has been a series of educated guesses from what I know about architecture. It’s pretty straightforward to figure out scale and floor locations based on window placement. I reeeally want to do the whole manor because it’s fun to think about all the wacky stuff that must be in it and I’m seriously looking forward to the comic for exactly this reason. Seriously, where is Bebop.

So YEAH I totally want to do the interior, etc, but that depends on what Bunny and Sam share with us. Hint hint.

Hint hint

moroccan table, a set on Flickr.

Painted this last summer for a dear friend. Only just now took the photos off my camera ffff.

My fiercely burning Tony Stark fetish has been flaring up and the only cure is FAN ARRRT

Camera phone and photoshop express for android are poor substitutes for a scanner and actual photoshop, but those don't fit in my pocket, ok. I've been using my phone so much for stuff I'm considering getting a nicer one.. I kinda want a galaxy note for the giant screen and stylus, but I need my qwerty slider, kinda want a mytouch slide for the 12megapixel camera and HDR... etc. Godammit gadgets still not scifi enough, gimme all these things in one smartphone already I basically want a pocket-sized tablet laptop is that too much to ask??

:p

Extremis Tony is my favorite (ugh don't get me started on that magical bleeding edge armor, I suppose he stores his extra mass in a pocket dimension??) but a while back I did some research on bionanotechnology for a paper and I always have my own sci/fi bullshit ideas for how stuff works. Instead of having an undersuit stored in his bones (arrgh bones aren't hollow, learn to anatomy!) he'd sweat out a protocellular metallic gel that functioned as a medium for nanobots and synthetic flora to leave his body and interface with the armor like a circulatory system. He'd sprout fiber optic "hair" that would wire into his nervous system. Wetware! It would be super gross :D

I steal ideas from myself (in this case the Antonia Stark that I did forever ago)... cos it IS challenging and fun to design robot armor, but you can't really improve on perfection :p There's only so much you can do before it loses its iron man...ness.

BUT I needed to give him rocket launcher arms I DRAW WHAT I WANT

I dug into my hoard of cheap wigs and cheap kanekalon for styling practice and I'm pretty happy with the result. It definitely confirmed in my mind the value of starting with higher quality wig and hair fiber though! The black fiber absolutely refused to hold a curl. I want to try another fluffy shoujo style again soon. Its very tedious work, I tied in about 3 packs of extra long jumbo braid, but also calming, so its been the only type of crafting I've been able to manage lately. Been slowly stumbling my way out of a 6month+ funk due to cross country move and difficulty adjusting despite having moved a gazillion times in my life... I think Im pretty good at moving but that doesn't mean its actually easy :\ I'm doing much better but better =/= good. Still working on that. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwr8nXkDxtL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p70ktgej1d86

I use HDR Camera+ app to tweak exposure/saturation/etc. I do actually own a real camera but lol who uses those anymore :p it kinda makes me want a camera phone with real HDR and the fancy cases that let you attach real camera lenses geez. I don’t have room to take an actual camera with me when I’m out on bsns, despite some sweet photo ops out in The Nature. To think I used to view camera phones as the silliest thing ever (I still find them silly, but let’s be honest, the thing smartphones are worst at now is actually being a phone).

Taken with Instagram

I like em fuzzy.

dyyyyying to make this uuuuuuuugh i need a new sewing machine

BEHOLD.

My masterpiece 8D Well, defining masterpiece as a project that incorporates all the art skills one has learned up to that point. So considering how long ago I started this and how long I sat on it after finishing (sorry about that, the internet), this is no longer a masterpiece as defined as a showcase of current mad art skills. OHOHoo that's right, I have other projects in the works as we speak

Anyway, since Errikan is my bb I owed him a big sexy hero image, and the size is inspired by the time I went to the Mucha museum in Prague and realised HOW HUGE his art really was and ever since I knew that I just had to make really really big art. And I finally found a printer that does huge art at accessible prices :D

the paladin - 26x52"

And of course, there's also 8x16" and 15x30" for people who don't want a door-sized picture of an adorable elf guy embarassing their roomates :D

BUY MY ART if you want to!

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” tyuran said: I want to know everything! But I guess that’s… not… possible. No but seriously my familiarity with your headworlds is really low so a general overview would be nice (if that is even a thing that is possible and you don’t mind giving one)?”

Let’s see… I really only have about 3 stories (is that only or “only”?); also had some neat collaborations in the past that fell apart unfortunately.

My elfy story is called The Last Paladin (original I know, but it stuck). I started writing about it when I was 14ish and was obsessed with Zelda and Elfquest- I can’t really abide elves in most fantasy, they aren’t badass enough for my taste. Also all-beautiful all-immortal races are very annoying to me :( So I made the kind of elves I wanted to read about and draw- especially draw because POINTY EARS.

Errikan (chosen one, champion, world saviour, whathaveyou) is the title character. His sidekicks are Astral (bookworm, moral compass- the Hermione) and Naroth (cliche silent dark and brooding type); and his girlfriend is Lillia (a psychic priestess who sometimes comes along for ADVENTURE). They run around fighting evil, typical swashbuckling fantasy heroics.

I’d like to do some novels with illustrations (I had written quite a bit when I was younger but I scrapped it all cos it was terrible), and maybe an artbook as well. I was also really obsessed with Dinotopia when I was a kid so I’d love to do something similar. HOWEVER I’m not in a hurry to finish anything with this at all, it’s really a sandbox/playground to dump my art mojo.

My second story is about a seaplane pilot named Shae, the format of the titles were all going to be Shae Maxmason vs. _____ (The Bloodsucking Librarian, The Toxic Militia, The Human Neutron Bomb,10,000 Ninjas! Etc). She’s a courier on a mostly ocean planet with no continents so it’s plagued by super ultra hurricanes (Hyperstorms), but is otherwise kinda a beachy paradise colony planet. This is a pulpy junk-drawer manga-inspired story where I can just throw in lots of awesome things (ninjas, pirates, occult cults, worldwide government conspiracies, etc) and make it all fit because science fiction. And an excuse to have lots of people with ridiculous superpowers fighting all the damn time.

Shae has a secret (what? I can’t tell you, its a secret) (ok fine its a map on her body) that has tons of “special interest groups” fighting over her. She was sent a bodyguard from a shadowy organization called the Guild of Historians. That’s Felix (aka. Bloodsucking Librarian lol). He’s totally a vampire. Shae doesn’t know what the Guild’s plans for her are either, but she is forced to trust Flex because he keeps saving her life, how annoying.

I don’t know what to do with this story at all. In my head it HAS to be a tv show with a two season plot arc (I have it planned out and everything!) but… yeah…

Last story is my newest baby, I call it Amor Ex Machina (I will never not be gleeful over this title XD hee!). It’s… yeah… a girl/robot steampunk fairytale love story, leave me alone :p Edie is a mechanic in the royal military of a tiny kingdom who’s primary export is Giant Robots (of death). She finds discarded curious robot replica of a long-ago famous popstar (Casper) during one of her scavenging trips, she repairs him and he gives her music lessons X3 I’m working the hardest on this one right now because it’s not epicly long and I’d like to publish a book in the next few years hopefully :( I don’t have the best record on these things but I at least have a good plan for this one.

I have a couple of other ideas bouncing around but they are just random characters with vague, vague, nebulous world ideas surrounding them, no plot really. I may do more with them, I may not. Three stories is enough to keep me distracted and unfocused, don't you think?