Archive for November 26th, 2011
#26 Beebs
Beebs is a small critter that scares easily. She is very good at contorting her small body to allow her to hide in very strange places.
#26: The Magician
The Magician, signifying the fulfillment of one’s true potential, be it good or bad.
Skillet Hampton
Skillet was a member of a group of street thugs paid to kidnap the Queen elect. But after his fellow members where wiped out by a rival gang, he is left as the only witness to the kidnapping. Unfortunately he was not at the hand off, and…
He can’t talk. He’s a complete mute. But his Hat talks for him. Percival can read minds only while worn and only of the wearer. He only remembers waking up in a hat  shop and nothing before that. He and Skillet go a ways back.
#23 Victoria
Victoria, the girl who ran away and learned to fly…
Victoria is a runaway fairy who grew tired of the strict traditions of her kind. Given beautiful wings from birth, they are encouraged not to use them for flight. Some say its because of the delicate nature of the wings themselves, but Victoria believes it is a way to prevent curious exploration and keep the the knowledge and boundaries of their kingdom limited. Victoria ends up running away and discovered the land of the crows where she accumulated the habits of flight and hunting. Her fairy past slowly departs from her soul…yet she is satisfied and determined to leave it all behind.
Note* The phrase , “Victoria the girl who ran away and learned to fly” came to me in a dream and it was actually the name of a clothing brand that appeared. Ive had this phrase in my mind for a while and I’ve always imagined her to be a rebellious girl. I thought taking it in the direction of a dark fairy would be interesting to show a bit of a contrast of characters. I really enjoyed this piece….again…a little more loose and designy than my usual stuff…but happy how it turned out!
#26 – Ernst Haeckel – Druid
In general, the Druid is usually presented as a weird sort of combination between the practical and the spiritual. Yes, says your basic Druid, I believe in the fundamental oneness of all things and the undying beauty and power of nature, but it just so happens that I use that belief to sic bears on marauding monsters. In the same way, Ernst Haeckel was an amazing artist, but he used his skills to describe something like 150 new species, a feat which included the majority of the Kingdom Protista.
Haeckel himself was an intriguing combination of spiritual and practical. He was an expert biologist, naturalist, and physician, but was also a world class philosopher and artist. He supported the then-new theory of evolution, and yet also supported the German Romantic movement. Heck, Haeckel coined a large number of the terms we use for basic biological concepts (including “phylum,†“ecology,†and “stem cellâ€), and yet he founded a group called the Monist League whose only purpose was to spread his religious and philosophical beliefs. I suppose half the reason he’s included here is just because I find him an endlessly fascinating contradiction.
#12 – Yonkey
The fourth member of Captain Fancypants’ crew, Yonkey just wants an easy life and that’s what he’s got aboard the Captain’s ship. With all the rope he can swing on and a seemingly endless supply of junk food, all he has to worry about is the occasional bout of seasickness.
With his superior intellect he’s been able to repeatedly delay the revoloution, no point starting a pesky war when life’s so sweet.
Shane S
#26 Tronic
Tronic is a all purpose robotic machine. Tronic can pretty much do anything and everything it’s operator wants it to do. From construction, to going on the battlefield with the military,to being a companion to a child, Tronic can be a best friend for any purpose. Created in Japan by Sakamoto Electronics and in America by Tronic Industries, it’s North American subsidiary, Tronic was designed and created by Shotaro Inoue and american designer and robotics expert Terrance Dyckman after meeting at a robotics convention one night 2 years ago.
#25 and 26 – Letitia Lock & General Ghost
Letitia Lock & General Ghost
LETITIA LOCK always thought of herself as nothing special. The troubled middle child between an agressively striving older brother and a younger sister content with obsessing over celebrities on BET, she continually got into all kinds of trouble. After getting arrested for fighting and underage drinking, and washing out of basketball, volleyball, and ROTC, she shocked everyone by doing well enough on tests and bullshitting an essay to make it into a good college. She’s smarter than she lets on, and even though she’s small, she’s been known to take out some big dudes. She got to college, partied too much, and was suspended, to no one’s surprise.
One night, she’s at a party at a rich classmate’s house when she stumbles into the study and sees a bunch of files labeled ENIGMA BRAVO, with what look like bloodstains on them. The folders have strange titles like “The Innermenâ€, “Operation: Wonderlandâ€, “Universe 13â€, and “The Infernal Hive Mind of Myriad, Indianaâ€. Overcome by curiosity and bored by her classmates (“this place was dead anyway”), she steals the files and hides them in her dorm room.
Once she starts looking at them, she’s overcome by the creepy feeling that she’s being watched. She wakes up with a start one night to see GENERAL GHOST standing over her. Strangely unafraid and unsurprised, she asks what he wants. He explains that he was tasked with the program codenamed Enigma Bravo, a top-secret military program. Initially documenting strange happenings that could be either contained or made useful to the military, the General realized that the files pointed to something much larger. He was murdered before he could find out what. A stubborn sumbitch, instead of remaining in the afterworld, or getting caught up in a ghost loop, he learned at the feet of the greatest military commanders and scholars of the world he could find in The After, and returned to our world to search for a living person who could help him finish the Enigma Bravo project. Letitia Lock, he has decided, is that person. “You do go to war with the army you have,” he admits after having observed Letitia’s current lifestyle.
The enemy:  forces from ‘Outside’ — things we call angels, demons, faeries, aliens.  They remain hidden, distorting and transforming things in the world for their use. Their primary agents are The Nephilim, offspring of unions betwen beings from Outside and living things (mostly but not always human). Letitia and the General have some allies: creatures classified as “cryptozoological” such as the elusive, scholarly Yeti, and the Outsiders’ most fierce enemy: the “little men†which show up in every culture’s legends – gnomes, menehune, leprechauns — that teach them things. But these creatures can’t always be counted on, at least not according to the General.
Now that Letitia’s found this world, and some kind of meaning, she’s hanging onto it with every fiber of her being. The general sees some potential in her, and agrees to guide her, though at times it’s painful for the both of them. She’s not dumb by any means, but she’s no scholar, she has no military discipline, she knows nothing about shadowy conspiracies. She just knows that she found the files, she can see the General when others can’t, and she belongs here and she’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. And even some people who don’t say otherwise.
Under General Ghost’s tutelage, she discovers that all the things she could deal with in her life were down to her ridiculous amount of willpower, from  a knack for beating up much larger oppoents to her ability to drink people under the table and function on amounts of drugs that would kill lesser mortals. She possesses a boundless amount of energy that can’t be contained by the normal world… but makes her a perfect soldier for the war General could never finish by himself.
#25-Winchell Warthog
A low-level managerial accountant demon, Winchell is easily frightened. In the above instance, he has been shown the new revisions to tax code governing deductible rates for second incomes earned without the previous filing of a schedule 44: actuarial benefits for hamster owners as pertaining to kibble deduction for business purposes. As we all know, this is completely straightforward and nothing to become upset about.
# 26 – G.O.M.
The Ghost of Montreal allies himself with the Creatures and uses his power to terrorize.
<Creator comments: I do not remember why I named him that. I have nothing whatsoever against Montreal.>
[In 1974, at the age of 12, I drew a series of “comic books” detailing the adventures of Merrill, a 15-year-old human boy, in the Other Land, an invisible dimension which co-exists with our own. The characters I am submitting throughout the 30 Days are the inhabitants of the Other Land.]
#26: Vista
He’s a bad guy who can shoot fire balls out of his hands and he uses swords sometimes, too (Father’s note: Not sure where the name came from, but I think it might have to do with the fact that Xavier and his older brother have been watching reruns of “That 70s Show” recently…)
Thanks, Xavier
#25 The Hydro-Viscositi (aka The Living Waves)
The Hydro-Viscositi (pronounced hydro visk-os-it-eye) are also know throughout the galaxy as “The Living Waves”. They are a peaceful extra terrestrial species. Their home planet’s surface is almost entirely comprised of ocean water.
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#25 – No. 2 and Pearl, the Pink Wonder…
Dixon Ticonderoga, a normal pencil by day, becomes the crime fighting vigilante NO. 2 at night… protecting the streets from the evil Sharpener with his paper-mate, Pearl, the Pink Wonder!
26 – Cutter by Beausephus + Son
CHARACTER NAME: Â Cutter
DATE OF CREATION: Â Summer 2011
CONCEPT: Â “Cutter is a super hero with swords that he is super fast with. Â He can cut and throw his swords, and sometimes has tricks in his swords like forcefields or a sword that can shoot stuff out of it.”
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So when the mood strikes my son (and that is quite often) and he wants to make up “superguysâ€, “superdudesâ€, “supermansâ€â€¦ I pull out a bunch of templates I made for him and he picks out everything from the style of boots to the color scheme of the various costume options presented before him.  I then draw quick sketch, and he edits, adds, etc…  I then draw up the character and he hangs them in his room…if they meet his ultimate judgement.  Then I make him come up with a story for each character.
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For a while my kid would put Wolverine style maks on every character he came up with…and there were only so many re-imagined versions of that Hawkeye/Wolverine winged mask that I could come up with. Â CUTTER is the sword-guy on my son’s super team… well, the good sword guy, there’s a suspect member of the team called NIGHT NINJA… Â CUTTER is essentially responsible for keeping NIGHT NINJA in check…many sword fights that end in draws and mutual respect all around.
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This post contains two versions of the character.  The first is in my usual “style” which is just an amalgamation of all of my influences that developed as doodle during High School and College with no real honed practice or attempt at skill…nothing is really different  or has dramatically changed over the past decade since then.  There’s aspects of this style that I like, but I am really unsatisfied with the hesitancy of my lines.  Lots of small , rounded details, overly rendered in my too big for small detailed style…lots of unnecessary layer work…  It looks okay, but it is hesitant.
The second version is an attempt to capture the simple line work in the vein of Kirby, Darwyn Cooke, Mike Oeming, and Mignola. Â I was aiming for flatter, and cleaner with an attention to the simplicity of the lines and the throwback style costume rendering. Â I’ve been really captivated for the last few months with Kirby’s ornamentation and the way he drew “tech” and equipment. Â A Kirby sword looks like a Kirby sword. Â The odd details of his machinery and almost Incan intricacy of his armor designs (Thor, New Gods, Eternals) are really speaking to me and for the first time in a lon time I am actively working on improving and shifting my aesthetic to what speaks to me now, rather than the habits I developed aping the style of 1990s.
Thanks for checking out my drawings and reading my ramblings…
-Beausephus
#26 combat fatigues
part of a failed military resurection experiment. the ghost of sargent david struthers can now haunt any uniform. this has rendered him mostly invincible.
#25 The Travler
I had a rough idea of a guy on a horse and wanted to do it very graphic, flat and have fun with the shapes and just started doing it, making it up as I went along. Â I may add some design background later.
#30Characters Chatter…