Semi-serious Art #7

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Here they are: click a thumbnail to see the full-sized version.
These are selective thumbnails: there's more to each picture than is shown in its thumbnail.
The newest are at the top, so the art gets progressively older (read: worse) as you go down.

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I've been collecting a list of phrases that would make great captions for pictures. So far this one and the two further down the page of Kieran & Mort are the only ones I've drawn. There will be more. This is fun!

The campus Writing Center where I work puts on creative writing workshops (playshops really), called for some reason Parlour Parlour. Last semester I got to help run things, and this is the flyer I made for the first one. You can tell it's a very solemn, serious event.

I saw a similar pic to this on Sanna's website and loved it. She's going to start a comic about pirates and ninjas; how cool is that? Anyways, I had to draw my own funky pirate crew, so I did. From the left we have a goofy human steering, a forest elf navigating, an aristocratic elf shooting a rubber band, an otremn playing checkers and eating an apple, and a redheaded female elf being sarcastic. Wheeee, fun.

This took up the whole page. It started out as just a face; I planned to go on to others, but this guy said "No, draw me." So I did. He's a very enigmatic fellow. I think he's some sort of royalty among his own people. He can do magic, obviously. Oh, and he's wearing someone else's shoes. He stole them. I have decided this because I wanted to draw long lizardy toes on him, but failed horribly. So he stole someone's shoes, even though he doesn't usually wear them. He's an odd one, to be sure.

Except for the aborted attempt at a sketchy trenchcoat (*sigh* it looks like a bathrobe), I quite like the stuff on this page. From the top there's some more of that eyeball magic I'm always doing, the aforementioned trenchcoat, a fun pose of someone on a stack of books shooting magic at my signature (why not? I needed something there), and some inking practice. I think I'm actually learning; how about that? I love that hair.

More inking practice! I only had two pens and a pencil, so I tried switching them around to see what I got. Then I gave up and drew a friend of mine. Yes, he's supposed to have gray skin. And red eyes. I didn't say I was drawing his human form, now did I? Whee. I like the result.

The shirt says it all. I don't know where this guy came from or where he's going, but odds are he'll have fun getting there. His name's Temeri. I don't know why either.

The first picture here came from a design on a wooden beam in my ceiling; it looked like two people standing with their arms around each other, looking up at the sky. The one on the left's wearing a furry coat/robe thing; I imagine they live in an artic place. Next to that picture is the inverted version; I like that too. Below is a sketch of someone from class in the act of taking off his hat and tufting his hair amusingly. And the last pic on the page is a fun one from my notebook margins; wheeemagic!

More good stuff from my notebooks. There isn't a lot of space to draw in the margins, so I started drawing tiny things in between the lines. It got to be a lot of fun. I put dark spaces on every other line so the pictures didn't get confused with each other. And on the last section, I drew pirates! Yay! With words and everything. The small writing that you probably can't read says "That's a sword, dangit."

Here be some faces, and a furry creature on a log. Woo. The pale one that's hard to see is a sketch of someone with ferns instead of hair; I was going to do that for Tasseta Tate there on the bottom left, but decided she looked plenty cool as she was. She even gets a shortened name: Tast. I'll have to think of something else to do with her; she's nifty. The other nifty person in the collection is the blue fellow on the right, who was supposed to be an otremn, but now looks entirely too pretty to be a fullblooded one. His face is too long. And he has a goatee. While that suits his face, I don't think it's very otremnly. So for now he's a mystery. Maybe a half-human hybrid, though I can't think of how that could have happened, since the races do hate each other. Oh well. I'll figure it out.

If you're already seen the last page of art here, you might recognize this critter. If you haven't, lookit! It's a stripey! Yay. Stripeys are fun. I drew this one in class when I could have been doing something else [but wasn't]. I'd say this is a perfectly good use of time! If ya wanna see more stripeys [and oodles of other cool artness], go see Sanna's website, The Swerve. 'Tis a very cool place.

I came across this quote in someone's forum signature and loved it. It was just begging for a picture to go along with it, and I had to oblige. Ended up with two entertaining new characters, who I eventually named Kieran Vijiya [on the left] and Mort Shaw [on the right]. Just settling on those names was fun. I started with two real names, and warped them beyond recognition. Yay!

Here's Kieran & Mort again, with the other great quote I found that day. Says something for their friendship, that's for sure: it's an interesting one to observe. About as interesting as their clothes... (*snort* Goofballs.)

Notebook sketches, yay! At the top we've got Mal, the little ecoterrorist plant elemental [drawn in environmental studies class, for obvious reasons]. At the bottom on the left is an elfy fellow with some cool stylized magic around one eye. Named him Trobi [this came from a term in cultural anthropology, which is where I drew him]. That hand with similar magic came from the same place. Next over is a sketch of an interesting hairstyle someone in class had: long hair except for a buzzed slice down the middle. Mini-mohawk [or accident; I'm not sure which]. And on the right is Twig Furrtz, a purple-haired fellow who knows Kieran and Mort in some way. I drew him on the same page as their pictures, and have yet to figure out how he fits into things. But I will.

I always end up drawing otremn headshots scattered throughout my notebooks, and they always look really weird put together. I realize "Wow, that looks nothing like an otremn should; why didn't I notice that before?" At any rate, Dondari there at the top left is the one who looks most otremnly [despite the fact that his eyebrows take up most of his forehead; shh]. Sennem looks a little wonky, and Ander is purposefully weird. That's an otremn eye next to him; I didn't draw the rest of the face. And that odd thingy on the right is the design from a wooden doorway; it looks like a dragon head to me. I meant to draw it again better, but I never did, despite the fact that I spent a whole semester in that room. [Too busy taking notes; tsk tsk].

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