YO! I'm working on a comic instead of doing my sister's commission! 8D; I will work on that, okay....
Anyway, I'm working on a comic about Noland! And Stefan and Gabe. WOW! The premise is Noland and Stefan (and Gabe) have a chance meeting in 2013 (the year Noland's storyline takes place), 11 years after breaking up in college. THE DRAMA. Or not, idk. I GUESS YOU'LL FIND OUT?
I started sketching the pages, and have done a little less than 4 pages. HERE ARE SOME BLURRY PHOTOS OF THEM, BECAUSE IDK WHAT ELSE TO TALK ABOUT:
Awesome. Idk why these are so huge. Last time I uploaded photos from my phone, they came out tiny. .______________.
This is actually the beginning-middle of the comic. I didn't know how to draw the beginning when I started this, so I just started from what I could. :V I later came up with an idea of how I want the actual start to go, so I'll work on that now I guess. -u-b
Also, you're not supposed to be able to read this, because I still want it to be at least somewhat a surprise when I actually post this comic................. The second page I uploaded is totally legible, though.;;; Oops!
Drawing these pages reminded me that I'm really bad at drawing interesting camera angles. UGH, COMICS... WHY DO YOU NEED INTERESTING ANGLES AND PANELS THAT FLOW WELL INTO ONE ANOTHER.
Umumumuh... my head is really itchy because I haven't washed my hair in a couple days, so I think I'll go take a shower. Later, guys! 8D
Idk if I have something titled this already, but whatever. xD;
I got bored today, and did some doodles! Noland and Chrystal, aw yeahhhh. I actually really like drawing them together (as friends). :9 So yeah, here we gooooo.
1) Idk what they're looking at. Yeah, Chrystal's hand is on Noland's shoulder............... but she's just like that with all her friends.
She also obviously does not treat Noland as a superior if she's treating him the same as she treats her friends her age... BUT HEY, I guess Noland doesn't really care much.
Except usually he does. Stop being so friendly Chrystal it's weird I'm old aaaaa <<-A good summary of their story. orz
2) Here's the dialogue:
Noland: I know I dress like a square! But is it really that bad to like boring clothing?
Chrys: It's cool, man. (Note:: It is probably not okay to call your teacher "man.")
This one, 3, and 4 are all related. Noland gets asked on a ~*~DATE~*~ (by a fellow teacher), so Chrys invites herself over to his place to help him pick out clothes for the date. Is it totally weird to have a student over at a teacher's apartment? Pretty much. Does Noland care? Pretty much.
Chrystal, on the other hand, doesn't give two hoots. :V
What kind of slang am I using. TWO HOOTS...
3) ....
I just like drawing Noland in clothes. 8D; This is an outfit Chrys picks out for Noland to wear on his ~*~DATE~*~, or something.
4) Dialogue:
Noland: [in response to the outfit Chrys picked out] I-Isn't this a little too young? I don't know if I can pull it off--
Chrys: Nah, dude, you look great! (I'm a genius. ☆) (Note:: It is probably not okay to call your teacher "dude," either.)
Chrystal is very proud of her ability to pick out clothes, I guess. She totally didn't steal it from an Abercrombie & Fitch magazine, or anything........................
5) Felt like trying some realism. CHRYSTAL CAME OUT SO CREEPY, THOUGH. I also wanted her to look slightly younger than she really is (16 or 17, idk), but she ended up looking kind of old. Eye dee kay. :V;;; Despite all that, I don't think it came out too bad as far as realism goes! Still looks kind of cartoon-y, but eh.
Yeah, I know she's missing an eye... .u.
6) Yeah, he's missing an eye, too. >3> I think this one came out better than the Chrystal one, but I wasn't really using a ref for this one. I've gotten really bad at using refs... "orz
I did these realism drawings because I was curious about how Noland's hair would look in real life, but then I ended up drawing it as nonsensical as I always do. xD; SWOOSH SWOOSH. BLOBS. That's how you draw Noland's hair.
Yeah.
I still don't know if he looks the correct age. :^D
AND, I GUESS THAT'S ALL! Thanks for viewing and reading my rambles about my characters! 8D
THE TITLE IS MY INTRODUCTION THIS ONE TIME.
A commission I'm working on for a friend of that Homestuck guy Dave Strider. I do not know the Homestuck well, so I hope this is doing the dude justice. xD; Also, he will be holding a sword, which I have yet to draw. :V
DID YOU KNOW THAT HUGE CANVASES MAKE DRAWINGS LOOK CLEARER?? I always did, but didn't bother with huge canvas sizes because it takes more work. 8D; I think large file sizes affect the way that soft shading looks more than cell shading. And yeah, I'm soft shading this. .u.;;; I still have my qualms with soft shading (in that I'm just making it up as I go), but it seems to be getting easier than it was originally. :V
This is Jo, but her shoulder and face came out weird. :M;;; WHY SO GRUMPY? But man, I haven't drawn Jo in a long time. orz Maybe that's why she's so grumpy.........
Some Noland line art from a couple weeks ago that I decided to rapidly color last Friday. Aww, yeah.... that background. It probably took 5 minutes...;;;
A gijinka of Kyubey from Madoka Magica! 8D My sis wants us to go as "steampunk Madoka Magica characters" for Otakon this year, so I'm going to try to make this... probably not the pants, I'll just buy those or something. And I'll probably just buy some white oxfords as the shoes. And I own a white shirt. BUT THE JACKET, VEST, AND BELT! I will make them.
I don't think this is really steampunk.... BUT I DO THINK IT LOOKS COOL, SO WHATEVER. 8D;
Yeah, that's all I've got for now. SEE YA 'ROUND, FRIEND!
I really like drawing on lined paper! :V I used to really hate drawing on lined paper. And apparently, lined paper annoys some people... I know that now, but I didn't realize it until someone pointed it out. xD I wonder how many people get annoyed by lined paper. :M
But yeah, I liked lined paper because it doesn't fray (?) like my sketchbook paper does. .u.
Anyways, here's a couple sketches I did yesterday, instead of studying for my Psych exam.
Also, none of these sketches have people with two eyes.
Sorry.
:^D
After finally finishing a post for the MCC, I was in the mood to draw Vevila and Vittorio. Vittorio doesn't have a bottom half of his body in this picture because I am extremely skilled and intelligent.
I was listening to this while I was drawing, so that's what that scrawl of weirdo cursive is supposed to come from. o3o;;;
You know, Vevila's kind of fun to draw. I'd draw her more if, in the words of my grandma, she wasn't "TRYING TO LOOK NAKED!"
Oh yeah, and fun fact! I got Vittorio's first name from a guy named Vittorio Giannini, who composed a song I played in my 11th grade orchestra! :V ...Yeah. That song was really hard. orz
The other thing I drew is the most dramatic Stefan and Noland thing, because I'm boring. (???)
The middle text was supposed to say "We spent most of our relationship with our eyes closed." And then some more lyrics from that song up there because it was still in my head.
GUH sorry about this. I'm usually too embarrassed to post stuff like this since you already get too much SteGabe out of me, but I thought this came out pretty decent. >3>;;; Idk if I like how Noland came out in that top picture, though. His face looks too short to be Noland. :T
Stefan and Noland's pairing name would be Nofan. BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE "NO FUN!" 8D ...I'm the only one entertained by that. "orz The pun is more like the pairing has "no fans" because most of the people that I've shown Noland to don't like him. 8D ...Still the only one entertained.
I draw angular butts. ._.
...yyyep, and there's that! :D I'mma go study now. :V
Hey guys! I almost had this post halfway typed last night, when my computer decided to lose internet connection. WHICH WAS WEIRD, because I didn't even switch pages or click on anything, so.... .____. But whatever, I'll try to retype everything.
While I was doodling yesterday, I wanted to compare some of the head shapes of my characters. My characters' faces still all look vaguely similar, but I think I'm starting to get somewhere. xD Most of them still don't have definitive head shapes (like Jo, Tim, Rick, TB...), but here's a couple that I'm working on.
This might not be interesting for you, but this is mostly for me so I have somewhere to put these notes without having to just remember them all the time. xD
Noland: As I sort of mentioned in the previous post, Noland was the first character I successfully (?) made an effort to give a different face shape. I had been sort of experimenting with Stefan and Gabe's heads for a little bit, but I hadn't been getting anywhere. :V
What makes Noland ~*~SPECIAL~*~ is that unlike most of my other characters, he doesn't have an upturned nose, and his head isn't triangular shaped. THIS WAS GROUNDBREAKING FOR ME! If you look at my fan art previous to this picture, everyone has really pointy chins. And I still tend to draw pointy chins, but I like to think that I'm getting better. ;u; ANYWAY, unlike a lot of my other characters, Noland's head is rectangular shaped at the root of things. Another notable thing is that he doesn't have a definite cheekbone. His jawline is also supposed to be more square or something, but........... hm.
I sometimes mess up, and his head ends up looking more like Gabe's. :V;;; I'm trying to be more consistent. xD;
Gabe: Gabe's head tends to be my default guy-in-his-20's head. ...which is kind of weird, because I get a little inconsistent with drawing his head. xD; Gabe's face is kind of like a combination of Stefan's pointy face and Noland's unpointy face. (??? IDK, THAT'S JUST HOW I THINK OF IT.) His nose is the most like how I used to draw noses on everyone, which is somewhat-up-turned-and-somewhat-pointy. (??? DON'T QUESTION ME.) Yeah, Gabe's just like the middle ground for some reason.
I remember writing early on that he would have high cheekbones, and HUZZAH. HE FINALLY DOES! I think. :T I mean, I think they look like high cheekbones... >3>
Dean: I included Dean here because I wanted to look at his face compared to Dare. :V My little sister always gets them confused whenever looking at my drawings. xD I-I THINK THEY LOOK QUITE DIFFERENT, ACTUALLY...
Dean's head and face are really similar to Stefan's. The main differences are that Dean's cheeks slope down more smoothly, and his chin comes to a definite point. (Stefan's chin kind of squares off at the end, a bit.) Another difference is that while Stefan and Dean both have long and pointy noses, Stefan's is more upturned while Dean's points down to some degree. I think Dean's nose is supposed to be smaller, too, and his cupids bow goes straight down instead of outward like Stefan. :m (NO ONE WILL NOTICE THESE THINGS GUH.)
I wrote that Dean's mouth is supposed to be farther from his nose than other characters, but idk if that'll stay true. TOO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT!
Dare: While I said that Noland was the first character I gave a different face shape, Dare was actually the first character I started thinking about faces with. But since I mostly drew his head like I drew my other characters' heads, nothing really changed. xD These days, I'm trying harder to make what I had attempted in the past actually work.
I always try to emphasize a sort of youthfulness with Dare, so his face is very baby-like with round cheeks. His facial features are all close together, and larger than how I draw facial features on other characters. Idk, the smooshed-ness of his face kind of makes it look like he's grinning all the time, which is the point I guess. (/weird vague sentence) I also draw him with the most round and upturned nose out of most of my characters. Alcott might have a more upturned nose than Dare, but I haven't drawn him in so long that I really don't know. xD
While most of his features are rounded, Dare's chin comes to a point. Because of this, I always imagine I'm drawing his head as a heart! 8D Haha.
And uh... YEAH, THERE'S THAT! 8D
By the way, did you ever wonder what Dare looked like before he got into emo fashion? WELL, WONDER NO LONGER!
THAT'S RIGHT, HE HAD SHORT HAIR. That's Dare in 8th grade (14 years old) on the left, and Dare in 9th-ish grade (15-ish years old) on the right. I've been trying to rethink some things about Dare's story for a couple days; specifically, I've been trying to figure out his reasons for the change in clothing. Originally, it was like this:
- He wants to defy "cliques"
- He wants to see how people react, as a sort of social experiment
- He likes these clothes
I really want to nix the first option, because I think cliques are SUPER exaggerated in fiction. Similar people tend to hang out together in high school, but that's just it: people tend to make friends with people who have similar interests, and don't mingle much because of differences in interests. I don't think there's as much ostracizing in high school as I was trying to portray, and I don't think "popular kids" really view themselves as popular. They may see themselves as having better interests than other people, but really I think a lot of people do that.
These days, I'm thinking Dare's reasons are more like this:
- He's very curious about how he looks in other people's eyes, and wants to explore that topic.
- He wants to know what clothes mean to guys.
- He likes these clothes.
Dare is someone who's really interested in his image and how he looks to other people. Questions that usually come to mind when he's around people are, "I wonder what someone will say/think if I say this?" and "I wonder what someone will say/think if I do this action?" It's important to note that Dare's not panicked by these questions; he's just curious about them, and wants to consider what will happen. (This is unlike Noland, who stresses about how other people view him.) Dare's also interested in adolescent-versus-adult perspective, and tries to be aware of what he says and does such that he's reasonably respectful to both adults and his peers. (This mostly applies to adults, though.) Oh, and he's also trying to figure out if clothing has an impact on how respectful you are seen to be, and how respected you are.
BUT OF COURSE, he never really says these things out loud or is even fully aware that this is what he's doing. (It's his natural thought process, so he doesn't think twice about it.) Basically, he's just a naturally self-aware person. In an old picture I drew of him, I included a quote that said "I act how I want to... I do put your perception into consideration, though." This is along the same vein, where Dare is aware of how people view him and wants to present himself positively, but still feels enough freedom to act how he wants to.
The second bullet point isn't really as important, and I haven't really thought about it much. It's just this thing that came to mind when he was talking to his aunt about what clothes mean to girls (who tend to dress to look nice), which got him thinking about what clothes mean to guys (who tend to dress for comfort).
I'm also thinking that Dare meets some sort of instigator, who gets him interested in emo fashion in particular. Haven't really thought that through, yet. I want to go in the direction that Dare's way of dressing doesn't have really anything to do with "rebellion," be it rebelling against cliques (which was my initial goal) or rebelling against adult ideals (which is what teenagers may actually tend to do when getting piercings and dying their hair).
BUT YEAH, THAT'S SOME STUFF ABOUT DARE THAT I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT!
Since that above picture of Dare is so dramatic, let me show you a lovely drawing to remind you of Dare's actual personality.
Keepin' it fly, Dare. I think Dare would make a fantastic rapper. ZACK, MICHKA, LOYAL! GIVE DARE A RAP PART IN ONE OF SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE'S SONGS! 8D but not really
That's all the stuff about Dare for today. :V ...This post is getting really long. But I have a couple more doodles, so TOO BAD.
For some reason, I really felt the need to make a colored picture of Gaelnis from my fantasy story, My Dear Princess. I don't work on this story because there are just TOO MANY CHARACTERS TO THINK ABOUT and I'll just lose track. ""orz Once I get to a point with OFAV and A Life Like This, I might give it some more consideration. The story's actually got some cool aspects to it. not that you know, because I NEVER POST ANYTHING ABOUT IT
Anyway, I thought it might be cool if Gaelnis was darker skinned. Idk what ethnicity this is supposed to be. :U I ROCK! I'm pretty please with his color scheme, though. For some reason, I tend to favor dull color schemes over highly saturated color schemes.
Okay, last one!
This isn't any character of mine, but he ended up looking like Gabe's old friend William. xD NOT MY INTENTION...
Anyway, last night I was streaming on dA some outfit designs for a friend's trap character. :V (You may already know this, but a "trap" is a guy character who looks good as a girl in girl clothes. I didn't know this for a while, so I thought I'd mention.) These kind of characters tend to look like girls minus the chest, so I ended up saying something along the line of, "I'd like to see a masculine guy pull off a dress." As a result, I thought I'd give a shot at drawing it! I think he looks pretty decent, but idk. what do you think? :V My main intention was to make him look natural.
Cross dressing characters aren't usually my thing, but that's mostly because I get confused on what's actually considered cross dressing. xD; Even with Tomato, who by most standards would probably be considered a trap character, I don't really consider him to be cross dressing. I think it's because he's not really trying to say "I'm a boy in girls clothes," but "I'm wearing fashionable clothes."
Also, something I haven't really mentioned before that's more or less always been true: Tomato also has a very "I'm whatever you say I am" view on gender; so while most people call him male and he tends to identify as male, he also identifies as female when someone calls him female. I personally will only refer to him as male, as it's what he tends to lean more toward. I also won't be referring to this stuff very much in the comics, because gender identity isn't a topic I'm particularly interested it. On a side note, Tomato's gender identity is partially influenced on being an XXY person (? I think that's the correct term), as he has the chromosomes to be a boy (xy) and a girl (xx).
Even though I say cross dressing isn't really my thing, I've always been more or less interested in finding out what it'd look like for a guy to wear a dress and not be cross dressing. Guys can't really pull off dresses cut for girls because they're for a different body type, so I think the first place to start would be with tank top-like dresses, loose fitting dresses, and straight cut dresses. I have a feeling guys in dresses will be a pretty normal fashion subset in some decades. :V (Similar to how girls in suits and pants isn't considered cross dressing, while it would've been cross dressing in the 50's.) But that's just my prediction, I don't really know. xD
Anyway, there's all that. I hope I wasn't controversial in any way, as gender identity and cross dressing can be a sensitive topic for some people. Just thought I'd share some thoughts on the topic.
So yeah!! Thanks for reading this super long post, if you did, and I hope I didn't bore you too much. xD THANKS FOR ALWAYS PUTTING UP WITH MY LONG TALKING!
