Art: Worth Fighting For (Rebel Against Heaven)
Spent a sunny Saturday doing some digital illustration.
Comments and Blethering: I've been trying to work out a simplified version of Tyler's Northern Mockingbird wing design (a more detailed rough is on the art page), think I might have cracked it here. This started out with the intention to show his balled-up fists, then meandered into trying some Andrew Loomis-style anatomy skeletons because I've been reading through his reference books, before turning into basically a big picture of wings and smugface Ty. Materials used: My beat-up old Wacom tablet, Alias Sketchbook Pro with the medium ink brush.
The rough base sketch.
And of course, in my typical style, this has all been a complex way of procrastinating from editing this gentleman's story. So I suppose I should get back to that.
Reversed
Got some news today that rocked the boat much more than I wanted it to, and now I feel very metaphorically seasick.
As a result, blog posts may drop for the next few months, but right now I'm distracting myself by sketching. And by 'sketching' I mean 'auto-piloting to the same head tilted 3/4' that I tend to draw when I'm not sure what to draw. I spiced it up with inverted lighting, limited colours and BLOOD. So despite the laziness, this was fun.
And now back to drinking tea and writing, I think.
Oh, and here's a song to lighten the mood.
Grey from Inhuman
Another piece of fanart today - this is Grey from Inhuman, a brilliant sci-fi webcomic you can read over here. It's all drawn traditionally in marker-pen, and looks stunning.
The artist had what seemed like a crazy New Years week, so I thought I'd draw them a little something.
Party Poison
A doodle of Tennyboo’s Party Poison, because I have a huge crush on her AskPoison headcanon. I love how she’s gone in a different direction to the danger Day videos - her skinny, sleezy, and insane (yet adorable) Party really fits the post-apocalyptic world. Tenny’s completely got the zonerunner slang down, and some of the AskPoison entries are really powerful stuff.
Site Updates: “Rebel Against Heaven”
I've updated two pages on the site - there's now a page for my current writing project, my YA paranormal novel "Rebel Against Heaven". (This project was previously going under the working title "Saint"). Once I'm finished polishing it to a shine and had it vastly improved by the critical eyes of brilliant beta readers, I'll update the page to be less vague.
Also, even though drawing isn't my strong point I like to doodle my characters in between writing. I've updated the page for R.A.H. art which I'll update occasionally - the images are included below as well.
New “The Network” Sketches
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Three new "The Network" character sketches have been added to the gallery...
A quick explanation on what they're about...
- The topless guy is Alex, the young programmer who created the virtual reality game The Network. He has a long list of mental issues including anorexia, which leads him to covering areas like his chest and stomach in bandages to create a slimmer outline when wearing clothes. He's also severely depressed, and when he's not taking suicidal risks he's flipping between self-hatred and a vicious rage. Great guy to have in charge of the world's biggest MMORPG, right?
- The one with two characters in it shows DT, the Network's youngest moderator in her cat-girl avatar, and hacker Muvo in his modified demon avatar. These two have a rough start in the first book, but with the game's owner acting a bit crazy, a moderator could use a hacker as a safety net, and a hacker can always use someone on the inside.
- Then there's DT on her own, looking a bit annoyed. She's a weapons-master character, which means she can come up with any kind of weapon to suit her tactics, but she's weaker with each weapon than a specialist would be and has poor strength and defense. The dark swirly business means she's about to yank a weapon out of mid-air, and that messy scribble in her left hand is a cable for connecting into the game's admin control panel and accessing her various order-keeping tools (like a big hammer).
Easter went by fast. Now I've gt dinner to make, and the clocks are ticking down to work in the morning. Have a good night!
Hailing from the wet and windy Scottish Highlands, Emma is an avid reader and writer of YA novels. She works in IT and drinks too much tea.
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