Part one of two in the comic illustration for Chasing Unicorns. I recommend reading the poem first, since the pix will make more sense if you do. If you've already read it, good on you. Go ahead and look at the pictures now. I'll sit over here and grin qietly, cuz I love the way it all turned out.
And here's part two. I'm still feeling quite humble about my unicorn-drawing skills, but I log that off to lack of experience. I had to find some good reference pictures for this. But now I can draw a decent unicorn without reference, due to all the practice. Whee-ha! I needed that.
Here's a bit of birthday fanart for Abril, spiffy artist and creator of the webcomic Natura Morta. She draws great stuff, and doesn't update anywhere near often enough. Everybody jump on the bandwagon and go encourage her. Oh, and if you're wondering, that's Rab and Shiv in the picture. I haven't drawn them in a while, and they're patiently awaiting the day I finish their story.
This takes a little explaining. There is an artist named Sanna, who has a really neat website called The Swerve, which is full of cool stuff. The art gallery is sectioned into themed areas and pet projects, one of which is how I found her site. This particular project is the Mini Shrine to Lord of the Rings. It's full of cartoony drawings of LotR characters, which run the gamut from hilarious to adorable to "ye gods that's good." The site is quite worthwhile. Now, one of her other projects is a page dedicated to a species she made up: the stripeys. It said she was awaiting fanart of the stripeys, and I just had to oblige. Drawing one just standing there would be boring, so I gave half a dozen of 'em wigs and LotR props, and let 'em roleplay. I do like the results.
This'd make one sweet banner, let me say that. It's just a leeetle too big. Just a bit. So cool though. This is going up on my wall. (I was the visual reference, by the way, which makes it even more fun. It's not entirely me, but there is a resemblance.) Oh, and isn't that a great quote? Entirely appropriate, I think. :D
Three more in the "myself as an elf" series, a good deal smaller and sketchier than the above pic. It's interesting how they turned out as three entirely different people, not three versions of me at all.
Random face drawing, which went on from there. These two odd people ended up with some fun tweaks and oddments: inverted mohawk (you can't see the ponytail), mismatched eyes, glowy white-blue eyes, a spiffy forehead tattoo that's not supposed to look like the Batman logo...
Four anonymous people, drawn after watching Lord of the Rings (which is why the fellow at the bottom left looks lind-of-not-really like Legolas, and the guy at top right displays angst a la Frodo). And I don't remember what expression I was aiming for originally on the bottom right, but he ended up reminding me strongly of Loki, the way he's drawn in the Sandman books. A happy coincidence.
Two knife poses, and two headshots (one with a beard so badly drawn that I decided that the person's wearing a fake one). The guy in the middle reminds me of someone I know, which wasn't my intent. The pose at the bottom left didn't turn out like I'd visualized it. I could ramble on longer, but I'll stop now.
Funky alien dude! Yay! I think I started drawing a face, decided to make it a not-human one, and went from there. I think he's pretty cool. Insectlike, but only at first glance.
'Tis a vampire fem on a hoverbike, which you can't really see (but trust me, it's there). I like those goggles.
A good artist on Yerf posted a depression pic, of her trademark sheep sitting in the rain. This is my follow-up pic, which I hope did some good.
This was drawn for a discussion of wing placement on humanoids. My point was that this made much more sense than the straight-out-of-the-shoulderblades idea. Of course, this was before someone pointed out the value of a keelbone. That would change everything...
And after I drew the above pic, I went on to do this one. A batgirl is startled while learning to fly. This'd be a fun story to write, something along the lines of Retractable Claws, which I wrote some years ago. Transformation stories are the coolness.
This here's the illustration for a minibook I made as a Xmas present to a relative: a collection of four of my best short stories. Those are main characters on the cover. The capricane on the left is Adzari, from The Costume; the purple-eyed fellow on the right is Hazlitt, from Sanity; the blue-furred face belongs to Jordan, from Partnership; and the guy with the skateboard and the magic spark (NOT a flower) is Shen, from Just Ask. w00t. She liked it (and so do I). |