Oni

Character design for an Oni. An oni is a monster from Japanese myth, but I wanted to use them as a race of beings for my Myth Project. In process, I started with the naked drawing to get the anatomy, body shape, and position. Then I traced the figure and added clothing. Then I inked the figure. I just really like the idea of a rather large beast man with a horn. Of course, thinking about the Oni as a race of beings is great fun. Where do they live, what do they eat, what do they do for fun are all interesting questions to think about. Creating backstory to a character is part of the fun of drawing. Until next time...

Japanese Family

Hello everyone, well here is the project that started my summer. I had this concept of a Japanese family where everyone in the family has an identifiable shape. It all took me some doing, researching Japan, drawing shapes to see what works, and in coloring, I wanted to try to get better at photoshop. Overall, I'm pleased; I feel like this is my first real attempt at character design where I follow through to the end. It was alot of fun. However, I think I could have pushed some aspects of the design, ah well, I'll get it one day. Just gotta keep drawing.

On process, each image shows the steps I usually go through nowadays. Rough sketch, that I scan in and blow-up, and print-out. Then I cleanup the rough, this is usually the most fun because sometimes even with a rough I'm not sure what will appear. Then I rescan and cleanup alittle more; blow-up the image again, and print again. Then I ink the characters by hand and rescan and clean up once again. In this phase I try to clean it well, mostly because I try to ink fast and usually make many mistakes. Then finally, I added color and there it is. Well, enjoy...

Mars the Martian

Mars is the name of this little guy I sketched for my animation class. Mars is a little martian who came to Earth in the 1950's because of his love of cowboy westerns. His only mission is to meet his idols that he loves to watch, while at the same time act out his fantasy of being a cowboy. His wild imagination, curiosity and interest; in what to him are strange Earth objects and culture, leads to his grand adventure. So here are some cleaned up designs. Until next time...

Knights of Sol (Myth Project)

Some characters from my personal project titled Knights of Sol. Myth the character from the last post gets to meet these two characters, who are Knight Captians. Of the character on bottom I was trying out costume designs. Of the female I like her design which came about after only one sketch, which usually never happens. I usually need to draw a character over and over just to get a design I like. Of my process, about the female captian, the red pencel drawing is a cleanup drawing based off my rough sketch. In the cleaned up drawing I try to get it as close to the final image as possible. However in the inking I added detail. Until next time...