Drawebruary 2014 Day 27 and 28 and Done.

Day 27 and 28. So ends Drawebruary 2014. The last three days are not so great being  that I needed to work on other things and with Day 28 I have no sleep and am too tired to actually think straight in order to  draw. This month had some great drawing days but I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't get the time to do color pieces each week like with Drawtober 2013.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 25 and 26

Day 25 and 26 because I forgot to post day 25 here. Day 25 is the beginnings of another new character for Yellow Baroness while 26 is a frame from my animation project that I am working on.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 24 Archibald The Rook

Day 24 with another concept character sketch for The Yellow baroness. Meet Archibald one of two Sentinel units in Primrose’s squad and the eldest and most experienced member of the squad. Archibald’s call sign is Rook.

So here is another class with in the Aerial Infantry Unit in the Yellow Baroness world. Sentinels are basically the front line defense who’s main object is to keep their wing mates safe as well as important objectives safe. Their armor is designed to protect them from even heavy armaments and explosives. Though their armor and defense is not perfect, for a skilled interceptor can take them down fast. The down side of Sentinels are their lack of speed, mobility and offense options. They have a machine gun but their only weapon other than that are the horns in their armor and shield.

Originally I wanted the aerial infantry fleet to just consist of different types of wasps and hornets but then I decided to toss that concept in favor of making it more interesting by but all bugs as fair game.

Archibald’s flight suit is based of the Hercules Beetle which are probably my favorite bugs now.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 23 Belladonna, Call Sign Deadly Nightshade

Day 23. I’m really late on this one but yeah, better late than never right? So I decided to do elaborate more on day 22’s sketch by doing a full body sketch of this new character for The Yellow Baroness. Her name shall be Belladonna after a poisonous flower.

Now while Primrose is a interceptor class aerial infantry unit, Belladonna is a specialist class aerial infantry unit. Meaning her strength is undetermined by standard air force assessment. She’s a chemical and explosive weapons expert.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 22 The Yellow Baroness Character Number 2

Day 22 where I come up with a new character for The Yellow Baroness. I still don't have a name for her just yet but she is apart of Primrose's squad and she's going to be a chemical warfare and explosive specialist. She will be modeled of the Giant Asian Wasp which from what I read can actually spit flesh dissolving poison.

I think as far as personality goes, she's is a happy character in fact practically maniacal in happiness and can get so crazy happy it's creepy. I want her to be a character that doesn't look intimidating at all but until you get to know her.   

Drawebruary 2014 Day 21 The Yellow Baroness

For day 21 I like to formally introduce my newest character and my newest story idea. So meet Primrose The 1st Lieutenant of the Royal Swarm Aerial Infantry unit, call name “The Yellow Baroness” and the heroine of my high flying story “The Yellow Baroness.” Now the story isn’t completely there but it sort of a retelling of how she got the her call name as she leads her unit into victory against overwhelming odds.
I’m super jazzed and pumped at how well this sketch came out.

I’m so happy. The idea came from playing Kid Icarus Uprising so Primrose also has a machine gun along with her trusty rapier.
 
Primrose isn’t actually an insect but that is what her flight suit is based off of. Basically her country’s scientist looked at wasps to design a vtol style flight mechanism for infantry and she controls it with that joy stick thing.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 20 Messanger of Justice! (or Destruction) Shyna

Day 20 is a little late but I finally draw Shyna Nera Shyna! *fan squeal* She's from the game Silhouette Mirage one of my favorite PS1 games which I thought I wouldn't like when I first saw it in a PS1 magazine because when I was a kid, the character designs didn't gel with me but as I grew I started to love the whacky designs. This game is amazing in all levels, but it is also pretty challenging like a lot of Treasure games.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 19 Show Girl WIP

Day 19 of which is not finished at all and will revisit this.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 18 I L-like Um B-books

Day 18 is a style experiment I wanted to draw a bookworm like girl who is really shy and reserved. So she makes her self appear as featureless as far as her body goes to not attract attention.

I'm just really trying to get more exaggeration out of my style so I'm trying to get a sort of thinness and straightness going on. As well as practice posture and how to make a character appear more insecure.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 17 Upbeat Winter Stroll

Day 17 where I draw a random girl in winter clothing and have a blast doing it. This is going to be digitally inked and colored because I really want to finish this one.

So much fun drawing this.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 16 Primrose Portrait

Day 16, no time because of closing shift. Just a portrait of Primrose.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 15 Draw For a Mawile

Day 15 where I do a quick sketch of Mawile, my favorite Pokemon of all time. Yes even before it got a fairy sub-type and a mega evolution I adored this Pokemon the moment I encountered it in my Ruby Version. The reason why I like it is because it is a steel type is my favorite type and I love it's design.

I wish I had more time to do a more refined sketch but I came home late because of closing shifts at work.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 14 Show Me Where it Hurts

Day 14 and what an appropriate subject to draw than Skullgirl's Valentine herself. Granted it has nothing to do with love at all but yeah.

This sketch just might have killed my art block and am happy because this was super super fun to draw. I had a hard time drawing her boobs but after many attempts I think I got them down. Valentine isn't up there as one of my favorite Skullgirls but she was fun to draw none the less.

Happy Valentines gals and doods.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 13 Bleh

Day 13 bleh...

Drawebruary 2014 Day 12 Third Eye

Day 12 where I have no time to draw something more refine because I just came home so I drew a character that I doodle in class earlier and well she maybe a new character later on but who knows.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 11 Motor Head

Day 11 a 30 minute doodle that ended up becoming a robot thing. Yeah I don't have much to say about this one.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 10 Little Miss Contiello

Day 10 is a little late but yeah Squigly! One of my favorite characters ever and she is just a dream to play in the game. One day I want to do a full colored Squigly piece, one day.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 9 Waiter, Miette and Food

Day 9 where I continue doing these little practice sketches before I start diving into doing a sort animatic for my class project. Miette will be seated on the chair when the actual animation starts and I'll have in a medium shot for most of it.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 8 Rough Layout for an Eating Animation

Day 8 which I'm going to continue working on after posting this. It is a rough layout or set up for my next animation project for my animation class where we have to animate a character eating something and reacting. I want to have Miette eat something and be pleasantly surprised. Like she is looking forward to fine cuisine. I mean she is French after all.

Of course this needs continued tweaking. The hand position feels awkward to me and such but yeah I need to get a first pass animatic done for friday.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 7 More Lanavi

Day 7 more Lanavi. Lanavi deserves more attention from me since I didn't once draw her during my October drawing challenge she is such a special character for, but I have to say am super rusty at drawing her. It's been too long.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 6 She's So Grump

Day 6 where I continue to explore this new character. Just a super rough sketch because I need to get back to work on another thing.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 5 Paige Concept

Day 5 is a new character conept sketch. Meet Professor Paige Italics the creator of my other character, that has made many appearances here already, Aloa.

So this is just a quick 30 or so minute sketch to get the feel of this character and well try to get what I imagine in my head onto the computer screen. So I mainly payed attention to her face though she will get a proper outfit and such in the future but for now this is a general idea of this short fuse fire cracker of a Professor.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 4 Hocus Pocus Alakaboom!

Day 4 with Sucy Manbavaran from Little Witch Academia, the greatest witch period. Freaking love Little Witch Academia and I can't wait for the sequel and the art book that I got with the pledge after support the Kickstarter.

Little Witch Academia is by Trigger the awesome cats behind Kill la Kill.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 3 Tough Pheebs

Day 3 of which I had no idea what to draw and ended up randomly doodling until it ended up becoming Phoebe acting tough or at least trying to.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 2 Lanavi

Dang it closing shifts, you don't give me enough time to draw and then post things in time. Anyways profile portrait practice and a little quick sketch of Lanavi because I haven't drawn Lanavi in a long, long time. Which doesn't make since because Lanavi is like my signature/mascot character and all.

Sorry for neglecting you my green haired mage of the elements. I like this sketch and I may keep working on it and make it a graphic to use because I need a new one of those.

Drawebruary 2014 Day 1 Aloa Start Us Off!

In my attempt to become a better artist I commence Drawebruary and we are at it again. Draw for a month challenge number 2! February edition.

Happy Drawing!

I just did a quick portrait of Aloa because I didn't know what I wanted to draw.

Music share! and Band Camp

No drawings or anything yet, sorry, but can I gush about Band Camp? It's pretty much where I get my music now a days I just really love how indie musicians can show case their work and get money for it as well.

Though I haven't run into indie jazz musicians but I usually just pick up albums based on what I like from my local jazz radio station I listen to when I'm in the car, but I mainly get chip-tunes, electro, funk, and so on kinds of music.

Here are some tracks/albums that I just completely love.

Wandering from the album TRUTHCANNON by A_Rival is such a poppin' track I cannot get enough of it. It totally inspires me to work on Bounty Hunter Aloa stuff. This song came to my attention when I saw the Ultionius: A Tale of Petty Revenge game trailer which featured a remix of this song which helped me consider purchasing the game. Which I have to say the game is super fun. Now the whole TRUTHCANNON album is a great listen. Phoenix, and Ready are other tracks I enjoy but Wandering is my jam right now.

The Beggar

From the album Udana Prana by Amarante. All the songs I feature here are my favorite in the album and here is my favorite for this one. I just completely love the feel of the song. Really calming, a bit gloomy, a bit mysterious. Amarante does folk alternative music and being someone who never really listened to folk music of any sort it's an interesting experience that I'm enjoying. 

Of course I can't talk about indie musicians using band camp with out mention one of my favorite composers ever, Jake Kaufman. My favorite song of his is this one which is Glow from the Mighty Switch Force 2 Original Sound Track but also check out his other work from Mighty Switch Force 1, Shantae, and even in the game I mentioned earlier, Ulionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge. Jake's music has been a key background noise for when I work on my sci-fi stuff during the start of my animation school days and the Mighty Switch Force 1 and 2 OSTs are my most played songs on my phone I love these songs so much.

I can recommend a whole bunch more but I will leave it there for now.

I got one more week of vacation before I have to get back into schooling so I'm going to get as much gaming, show watching, and drawing done this week before school takes over my life again.

2014 Here We Go

Whelp a new year, a new busy year for me in particular. This is a year that a lot should happen for me and I need these things to happen if I want to get anywhere in my animation studies. The most important thing to be doing is working on my portfolio and demo reel. I also need to start developing a network for myself and I simply need to just talk to more artist, make more friends and push my art out there for everyone to see.

I've been quiet for a while mainly because I've been spending my winter break just relaxing after my hectic school quarter, but I need to draw more this year and continue to learn what I can.

Lastly I need to cut back on internet drama, it's a waste.

Well L.A. it feels like it's going to be one heck of a ride this year let's make the best of it.