Ahaha I'm Making An Effort To Post Art And Have A For-reals Art Dedicated Blog, Crazy I Know. Here's

How do you come up with awesome clothes? :O

Research! I have a disgustingly huge directory of photos, historical drawings, reference for shoes, hairstyles, etc etc etc. There's no trick or secret, just lots of studying, knowledge of how clothing is constructed, and how individual pieces work together to make an outfit.

I'm happy to answer questions and give art advice but I have to admit I do better with ones that are more specific, heh!

chepeng:

I decided to post some unfinished stuff that is floundering on my hard drive!

And to buck the trend of overambitious fanart that I lose interest in when 80% complete or so…. have one actually finished picture :D

the doctor is always worth it

barbwire butt (Taken with Instagram)

Worldbuilding Wednesday

I'd like to keep this going as often as possible. Especially lately because drawing has been... well. What I've been doing looks like the activity of drawing, but the results look like I shoved my pen up my nose and repeatedly slammed my face against the pages. Ngh. ANYWAY here are past ww posts for perusal, maybe it'll spark some interest.

Discuss?

Where do you start when you begin to build a world? With the people, the landscape, the politics, the clothes? (heh) What seed of thought directs you?

Characters, nearly always! I'll have one or two and just build everything up around them. Though some of my favorite ideas have come from dreams which I am less comfortable taking credit for since they happen without my permission :p but it's still my brain I guess, right??

tomorrowland was all of the things i love!!!!! retrofuturism! saving the world thru SCIENCE! athena's wendy dress (seriously LOOK AT THIS DRESS)! Antique interdimensional rocketships! Hugh Laurie dressed like a crotchety mayor of the emerald city of Oz! murderous yet quirky robot people! directed by brad bird!!! this review sums up how I feel pretty well. I really needed this movie xD

Gryph Encarcer, Jackalope Faun Ranger, Ghostbuster of Eldritch Horrors and Primordial Evils, fights with a giant paintbrush staff using calligraphy magic... because OCs can be whatever you want to draw all at the same time xD

First time I'm tempted to do a proper character Illustration in FOREVERRR, something fun like a flashy calling card maybe

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” tyuran said: I want to know everything! But I guess that’s… not… possible. No but seriously my familiarity with your headworlds is really low so a general overview would be nice (if that is even a thing that is possible and you don’t mind giving one)?”

Let’s see… I really only have about 3 stories (is that only or “only”?); also had some neat collaborations in the past that fell apart unfortunately.

My elfy story is called The Last Paladin (original I know, but it stuck). I started writing about it when I was 14ish and was obsessed with Zelda and Elfquest- I can’t really abide elves in most fantasy, they aren’t badass enough for my taste. Also all-beautiful all-immortal races are very annoying to me :( So I made the kind of elves I wanted to read about and draw- especially draw because POINTY EARS.

Errikan (chosen one, champion, world saviour, whathaveyou) is the title character. His sidekicks are Astral (bookworm, moral compass- the Hermione) and Naroth (cliche silent dark and brooding type); and his girlfriend is Lillia (a psychic priestess who sometimes comes along for ADVENTURE). They run around fighting evil, typical swashbuckling fantasy heroics.

I’d like to do some novels with illustrations (I had written quite a bit when I was younger but I scrapped it all cos it was terrible), and maybe an artbook as well. I was also really obsessed with Dinotopia when I was a kid so I’d love to do something similar. HOWEVER I’m not in a hurry to finish anything with this at all, it’s really a sandbox/playground to dump my art mojo.

My second story is about a seaplane pilot named Shae, the format of the titles were all going to be Shae Maxmason vs. _____ (The Bloodsucking Librarian, The Toxic Militia, The Human Neutron Bomb,10,000 Ninjas! Etc). She’s a courier on a mostly ocean planet with no continents so it’s plagued by super ultra hurricanes (Hyperstorms), but is otherwise kinda a beachy paradise colony planet. This is a pulpy junk-drawer manga-inspired story where I can just throw in lots of awesome things (ninjas, pirates, occult cults, worldwide government conspiracies, etc) and make it all fit because science fiction. And an excuse to have lots of people with ridiculous superpowers fighting all the damn time.

Shae has a secret (what? I can’t tell you, its a secret) (ok fine its a map on her body) that has tons of “special interest groups” fighting over her. She was sent a bodyguard from a shadowy organization called the Guild of Historians. That’s Felix (aka. Bloodsucking Librarian lol). He’s totally a vampire. Shae doesn’t know what the Guild’s plans for her are either, but she is forced to trust Flex because he keeps saving her life, how annoying.

I don’t know what to do with this story at all. In my head it HAS to be a tv show with a two season plot arc (I have it planned out and everything!) but… yeah…

Last story is my newest baby, I call it Amor Ex Machina (I will never not be gleeful over this title XD hee!). It’s… yeah… a girl/robot steampunk fairytale love story, leave me alone :p Edie is a mechanic in the royal military of a tiny kingdom who’s primary export is Giant Robots (of death). She finds discarded curious robot replica of a long-ago famous popstar (Casper) during one of her scavenging trips, she repairs him and he gives her music lessons X3 I’m working the hardest on this one right now because it’s not epicly long and I’d like to publish a book in the next few years hopefully :( I don’t have the best record on these things but I at least have a good plan for this one.

I have a couple of other ideas bouncing around but they are just random characters with vague, vague, nebulous world ideas surrounding them, no plot really. I may do more with them, I may not. Three stories is enough to keep me distracted and unfocused, don't you think?

I like em fuzzy.

Messin with some rainbow hair and rainbow tinsel. Four different sets of ombre brading hair found from trolling ebay which is my ultimate pastime :p these are actually experiments v2 and v3 Imma keep going until I find a blend I am happy with