Archive for October, 2011
2011 Challenger: Faith Orcino
Hello everyone. Â I am Pitang, or Faith Orcino. Â I am an amateur comic/manga artist. Â I hope that this challenge will push me more artistically since I have had little formal training with my skills. Â My friend who is a talented writer is usually the one produces many characters in the stories we make, but I want to take a chance and see what I can make from this jumbled brain of mine. I’ll probably be focusing mainly on superheroes, but we’ll see.
Here’s a sample of one of my comics that I publish in my school newspaper. For more of my art, feel free to check out my dA page. I wish everyone good luck and hope that everyone will make awesome characters!
2011 Challenger: Suenghee Brown
Hello! My name is Suenghee Brown, but Sue is fine. I’m doing this as an art practice project. Usually, I can’t keep up with challenges as I lose interest, but this will keep me in check! Though I’ve been drawing since I was very small, just within the past year or so I’ve decided to take art seriously and continue on in the subject—hopefully to one day work as a professional artist. I use both traditional and digital media, and I hope this helps sharpen my skills. I am very much looking forward to working on this with all of you!
2011 Challenger: Kasey Rubenstein
This is me on a good day.
If there was an alarm in this challenge for newbies, I would probably set it off.
My name’s Kasey, I’m a fresh out of college film major harboring an intense obsession with stories and characters, especially those of the fantasy or superhero variety. Characters mill about in my head like free range chicken whether I like it or not, so when I saw all of the other talented, like-minded people participating in this month-long story-inducing extravaganza I figured “Well, why the hell not.”
I hope to thrill you all with an effort that involves little to no drawing… Although I am sorely tempted, my pitiful attempts at art often leave me with a deep depression that is the opposite of productive. Maybe I’ll do outfits. Maybe. Otherwise I’ll just stick with words.
Good luck to everyone in the month ahead!
2011 Challenger: Grant Pasies
Well I’ve already signed up so it’s far too late for me to back out now
Hey, I’m Grant! Well, I’m not really Grant, but I’d rather post under a fake name than have to use my real one.
This is the first contest I’ve entered in like this, so I’m probably not going to be the best. I’m probably not even going to be moderately mediocre. However, I’ve recently felt like all my creative exploits have dried up and died, so I’m going to at least work hard at this to see if I can’t improve my skills.
I don’t always have access to a scanner, so I’m probably going to end up uploading these a week or so at a time. Hopefully I don’t have to, but I’m not expecting much.
I’m inspired by high fantasy, cyberpunk, magical girls, and sentai heroes. Since I can’t draw most of those well, it should be interesting.
Anyways yeah! Good luck everyone and don’t make me look too bad
2011 Challenger: Tanner Levine
Hey team,
My name’s Tanner and this is my first time doing any of this. I’ve been really into fantasy writing all my life, and I recently decided it is what I want to do professionally once I get done with college. I haven’t done much, and this is my first time doing any sort of challenge, but I’m excited to be a part of it.
Can’t draw worth a damn, but I’m gonna write some overviews and sketches for my characters. Maybe if I’m feeling adventurous I’ll draw a couple. No laughing though.
2011 Challenger: Jon Hughes
Hi all. My name is Jon and I’m somewhat of a newbie artist. I’ve been able to take some intro level classes at the university I work at and I started to work on comics in my free time. As I need plenty of ‘excuses’ to draw every day, I figure this would be a perfect one.  My hope is that this will help improve my character design skills (which are all but non existent).
I also draw the webcomic ‘The Principal is an Alien‘, which is my primary ‘excuse’ to keep drawing. It’s been a great learning experience and I think I’ve learned a lot as is.
I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with. Good luck all!
Jon
2011 Challenger: Terrell Rose
Howdy!
Found out about this through iFanboy and figured I’d give it a shot. My brain seems to appreciate a deadline when I have to create, something I fell out of for the better part of two years now. I’m trying to get back into it, and I’m slowly building myself up to the level I used to be at. Practice makes perfect, and all that. I’m really excited about it though. Looking forward to seeing what everyone else pumps out as well.
2011 Challenger: Corrie Ferrell Jr
Hello there. Â Corrie here.
When it comes to art, I enjoy experimenting at times in order to figure out what works for me. Â I like to use both traditional and digital media when I create my art. Â I’m currently trying to improve my skills as an artist at the moment.
P.S.  You can find my artwork on my dA page.
2011 Challenger: Justin Teasley
Whats up ppl. If it wasn’t for Marshall Couture, might would have had a peaceful November. But you can count me in. It will be interesting to see what everyone will come up with. Hopefully something with come out me also …. like drawings and images.
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2011 Challenger: D.C. Stuelpner
Ello, my name is D.C. Stuelpner and I draw…stuff. You can check out my doodles at my blog, A Sketchy Situation, or at my DeviantArt page.
2011 Challenger: Diana Hurlburt
Hello everyone! I just discovered the 30 Characters Challenge recently and am looking forward to participating this time around. I can’t draw to save my life, but I do write–short stories, mostly, but I’m hoping to develop some character concepts this month for a comic script.
Good luck to everyone! I can’t wait to see and read about your characters.
2011 Challenger: Xavier Smith
Hey!
I’m 6 years old and my dad already signed up for this (he’sMatthew D. Smith ). Whenever he’s drawing some for his comics, I sit at my small table next to him and work on my own characters. I even made some of my own little comics and sold them for 50 cents each at the last convention he did.
He thought it would be cool if we both did this challenge this year. I’ve already started working on some of my new characters. My dad scanned some of the drawings I’ve done of other characters to show you on this post. Here’s Megamind, Bartman, and two of the characters from my dad’s comic The Adventurers of Liberty City: Eclipse and Drill.
Thanks, Xavier!
2011 Challenger: Michael Nimmo
What am I doing?
I really enjoy drawing  ‘old school’ – Paper, pens, pencils, markers…then I scan them and upload them.
I’ve dabbled with more serious art – darker looking, but it doesn’t work, so I’ve moved back to my more cartoony style!
Online I’m a comics blogger, specialising in digital comics – Android, iOS and Kindle mainly. That has really kicked off in the last 6-9 months and I’ve had to up my output!
You can find me over at 3 Million Years or on Twitter or Google+
What I’ve got in mind will vary, and I’m already getting suggestions from my son & daughter.
Expect weirdness?!
I don't know where I was going with this....
2011 Challenger: Don Garvey
  
2011 Challenger: Beausephus
After watching from the sidelines I decided to throw myself into the game. I’ve recently been playing with the iPad and the ease of transferring my doodles to the web, so emboldened by my upgrade in technology and my lack of reliance on scanners, etc…, I’m throwing down my supposed art into this challenge.
I’m not looking to redefine anything with my mediocre talent, but I’m just challenging myself to put forth a bunch of the millions of ideas that I’ve been littering my notebooks with since I was wee.
So, here’s my parameters for all of my entries-
1. It has to be a character I’ve created (drawn, written about) before, anywhere from 1980-2010. be forewarned – I was a teenager in the early 1990s, so many of characters reflect that most unfortunate era of costume design…sorry.
OR
2. It has to be a character that me and my four-year-old son have collaborated on. He’s really my driving focus and a crazy creator in hs own right with an exploding imagination full of superheroes, pirates, and “‘injas” (as he calls them).
I’m not sure what the endgame is or what really will emerge after 30 days, but I’m just glad I finally got it together and after 25 years, I am finally sharing my work with people beyond my immediate circle.
2011 Challenger: Melissa Dow
Hi guys, apologies I am getting this in so late, I was on vacation, but back just in time for the challenge to begin!
My name is Melissa Dow, I am an illustrator/character designer living in Portland, OR. Â I work for a small gaming company, as well as freelance. Â I absolutely LOVE character design, and have been working om my own character project 100 Bastards, for awhile now. Â I received a BFA in Illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2007. Â I love drawing, love it, love it. Â My work is largely influenced by portraiture, pop culture, graphic novels, crazy colors and most definitely character design.
For the challenge, I think I am going to work on a few character sets for some web comic/random ideas I’ve had, but I’m not entirely set on that yet.  I definitely am drawn to ‘exaggerated realism’ type characters; crime, noir, not-so-distant-future, slightly alternatie universe, etc, as well as satirical themes.  I also may create some weird animal/creatures.  For the moment, I expect to just do pen and ink, with simple toning to keep myself from taking too much time on each one. 🙂
I missed doing the Challenge last year, and am so excited to get a chance to participate this time around.  I can’t wait to see the amazing work you guys create!
Cheers!
2011 Challenger: Robert Karson
Hi there everyone! I found a link to the 30 Character Challenge on a website I frequent and thought I’d check it out. I’m something of a part time writer and I think this is just the thing to force me into getting new ideas flowing and help me start with my writing again. I don’t have an overarching theme I’m just going to toss out some characters I’ve been working on for awhile as well as hopefully making some new ones. I expect I’ll have all kinds of characters from everyday fiction, to superheroes, to Sci-Fi  stuff. We’ll see how it turns out and I hope it is a lot of fun.
2011 Challenger: Chris Gladis
I found this competition and thought it would work really well with the NaNo project that I’m preparing for this year. At first I didn’t think I’d be able to do it, since I’m already working on a daily writing project, but then I realized that there was no real reason I couldn’t. All I had to do was finesse the definition of a “novel.”
I’m going to go for a single, overarching theme that can be divided into five parts – one for each week – and write stories based on that. My first impulse was the classical elements – earth, air, fire, water and aether. Each element gets a week, and the stories in that week are somehow related to that element. I’ll keep looking for sets of five that might lend themselves to this kind of structure, but you get the idea. In the end, I’ll have a thirty-story anthology that is, if all goes well, over 50,000 words.
This means, of course, that I will need to create at least 30 new characters over the course of the month, across several different genres. Frankly, I have no idea.
Unfortunately, I’m not much of an artist. But I can use those word-things to describe the people in my head, so that will do nicely.
Looking forward to it!
2011 Challenger: Brooke Pettry
Hello!
My name is Brooke and I will drawing for this November challenge. I heard about this lovely little activity through a few of my previous professors and decided this would be fun and really awesome. I have no idea what I might create but I know I want to focus on alternating between female and male for each day as well as going with the flow and having some stylized and others more realistic.
I use digital painting programs as a medium and will use this challenge to better myself and to get the creative ideas flowing from my head.
2011 Challenger: Josh Acocella
I’m relatively new to the writing game being only a high schooler and my first year doing the challenge, but don’t count me out just yet. Over the next thirty days i want to develop an idea in pre-production and I’m hoping this gives me an opportunity to explode with creativity. Though I won’t be representing my characters through visual designs I hope to articulate them thorugh other ways such as: bios, appearance, and possibly a character interview. My goal is to immerse myself in a world of my design over the next thirty days and come up with 30 new characters and ideally 30 new stories.
2011 Challenger: Patrick Smith
Greetings from the apocalyptic wasteland of New Jersey! My name is Patrick Smith and this is my first year tackling the 30 Character Challenge. I’m coming at this as a writer so I’m really going to try and come at each character in interesting ways to make your reading experience more enjoyable. Although if the mood takes me I might bust out the old sketchbook. Pray that doesn’t happen…trust me.
I am a staff writer over at Guerrilla Geek and I hope that working on characters here will be the push I need to get back into creative writing. I’m also on the twitter @Pathasabeard where I write regurgitated movie Quotes and the occasional snarky comment.
I’m very much looking forward to pushing myself creatively and seeing what everyone else brings to the table. I hope that at the end of this to make some cool new friends and maybe some future collaborators!
2011 Challenger: Eadge
Hello fellow Character Creators!
My name is Eddie Nieves but my friends call me Eadge. Please be my friend.
I’m a freelance artist/illustrator based out of Los Angeles. I’d never heard about the 30 Characters Challenge until a recent post on iFanboy by Paul Montgomery pointed it out to me. I’d heard of NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month Contest, which also takes place in November. I was thinking of doing that but this is a lot more appealing to me. That and Paul Montgomery is my hero.
I’m really excited to see what everyone comes up with.
Please feel free to check out my work here:
http://eadgery.deviantart.com/
http://www.facebook.com/EadgeArt
You can also follow me on Twitter @Eadgery
2011 Challenger: Dom Gazzuolo
A year ago I wrote a comic book related post everyday (unpaid) on my blog titled, 365 Days of Comics. It was an interesting experienced during which I learned a few things about myself. I mainly learned that I’m a huge idiot.
Every day…what was I thinking? There were some days I had to fight time, Crank-style, just to get to on a computer and write a parody of “You Down With O.P.P.” about B.K.V. (Brian K. Vaughan), so that I would not miss a day. At the time it seemed important, but looking back I see that I was, in fact, a huge idiot. It wore on my mind and made me overly stressed about something that held no real significance.
Have you ever served at a busy restaurant? Some nights are so stressful that when you go home and get to sleep you have nightmares about stupid things like forgetting to get a refill on someone’s water or bringing over an extra ramekin of potsticker sauce (P.F. Chang’S). You would wake up and have to calm yourself by grabbing your hello kitty stuffed dolls close and remind yourself that it’s over, it doesn’t matter anymore…you’re safe. Stressing over if I was going to be able to write a thoughtful post everyday is a lot like stressing over if I brought extra lemon for a big spender’s water, the previous night. It’s over. It doesn’t matter anymore. I’m safe. Or so I thought…
When I saw this challenge to come up with 30 characters in 30 days my first reaction was, “no, not again!” But after a nice long cry in the shower, I began to think, “30 days…is that all?” There was something about those tears in the shower that turned me into one cocky bastard when it comes to anything that doesn’t challenge me for 365 days.
- 117 days without sunlight…pssh! My sunglasses are broken anyway!
- 238 dys of not being ble to use the letter “A”…hh, I lugh t the chllenge!
- 7 days without BK. Okay…that’s different. I’m no savage. (Have it your way!)
30 days of anything…bring it on!
2011 challenger: Greg Martin
Hi all, my real name is Greg but i prefer my ‘art name’ Selkirk. And just saw the contest-really looks cool and a good way to get some creativity going…looking forward to seeing what everyone is coming up with and hopefully i can complete the challenge :D. Good luck to everyone.
my website is my deviant page: http://selkirk.deviantart.com . Hasn’t been updated that often recently-hoping to change that with the challenge :D.
2011 challenger: Seskimo
My real name is Sarah though go by a variety of nick names, most commonly Sez or Seski.
I’m from the UK (born England, currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland) and my current occupation is the rather boring job of Secretary.
A friend and fellow 30 day artist pointed me toward this challenge (Thomas P. Leahy). This will be my first year doing this. I currently have a couple of other art projects on the go, including trying to get my own webcomic up and running by the new year and participating in the 2012 ‘sketchbook project‘. I like the challenge of doing a picture a day, though I often suffer from what I call ‘shiny object syndrome’ so there is a high chance that some days will be missed! But I’m hoping to keep on track!
I tend to use a range of media, but I am probably best with pencils. Despite this, I tend to use digital media the most at the moment and so there will probably be a lot of CG’d pieces from me.
Here’s to the fun doodle-filled month ahead!
Seskimo
2011 Challenger: Sebastian Chow
Howdy guys & gals,
Seb Chow here. I love to draw and love comics as a story telling medium. I’m thoroughly looking forward to the challenge and really hope I can complete it.
I’m trying to finish some comic ideas to either self publish or submit to a publisher. I had deadlined to have the first issue ready by the end of 2011 but I saw this challenge and had to take part!
I’m trying to become a jack of all trades and am learning to ink, colour and letter as well as pencil. I don’t have much on my deviant site but feel free to have a gander.
Can’t wait to see all the posts and creative ideas. I have lots of character descriptions from guys at work (big thanks guys!).
Get those scribblin sticks a-moving!!
Seb 🙂
          
2011 Challenger: Jeremiah Spoon
My name is Jeremiah Spoon. I’m am artist from El Paso, Texas. I’ve been producing digital environment animations for architects for several years and am now trying to move into character design and animation. I’m looking forward to the challenge and wish everyone the best of luck.
2011 Challenger: Thomas P. Leahy
A baker by day, a doodler by night.
I’ve been on a year long (and more) love affair with the Inktense and Graphitint pencils from Derwent, they’ve lured me out of the world of greyscale sketching and pixels for some time now and given me a fiendish new lease of life. I’m drawing almost every day now and while I am eternally in the grip of bad habits, I’m enjoying the results. I am hoping this challenge will test me a little and encourage me to draw things I might not have otherwise attempted or considered.
I will be working with Inktense and Graphitint pencils (not forgetting the trusty water brush) almost exclusively for the challenge. If you are participating and also likely to be working wholly by pencil etc. I’d love to hear from you. I can see from some participant profiles so far that we’re going to be treated to some really great digital art, I hope I don’t let the pencil and paper team down too badly in providing some contrast. 🙂
My greatest danger is leaving a drawing until the evening and choosing to make my comfy bed the workspace… zzzZZZ.
(I’ll be celebrating my birthday on the 5th so I’ll be preparing a buffer on the 4th to cover my disappearance into London for the day. Bwah!)
Challenge fuel: Tea & Coffee
2011 Challenger: Casey Justice
What’s up, gang? Casey here, and I’m gonna give this my damnedest shot! Many of my characters will likely be superheroes, but I’ll try to spice it up with some other genres.
As any attempts that I might make at “artwork” would rightfully be buried in a titanium vault so as to avoid the horror they could unleash on an unsuspecting world, I’ll just be presenting my characters in OHOTMU-style bios.
I warn you, however: There may be some verse. Tread carefully.
2011 Challenger: phee
Well, I’m trying to scribble down a story anyways, so lets give this a shot. I’ll be mainly using biographical OHOTMU style descriptions, with occasioanl rough sketches, as I can’t draw worth a damn. I live and work in the UK and have grown up on a diet of Batman, Spidey and have a current love for all things 2000AD. So lets see how this influences my designs.
2011 Challenger: Josh Cherry
I saw this and said “Hey why not!” I think it will be a good exercise. I like making characters.
Here is a website I made called ImmortalLloyd.com. Go there Enter any website and let Lloyd tell you about it.
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