Archive for November 29th, 2011
#21
Just your typical mustachioed police chief.  Not a fan of new recruits. Judges a man by the size of his facial hair.
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#8: Alternate Universe Monkey Punch
My boyfriend told me about a dream he had where he met the creator of Lupin III, who turned out to be a kindly old woman who was just in the middle of an archeological dig.
The mental image that resulted was too good to pass up, and I ended up quickly sketching what turned out to be a badass-adorable elderly Japanese woman. She dabbles in archeology and swag old-lady fashion when she’s not busy drawing surprisingly saucy cartoons.
Day 28: “Freedom” Flare
Character #28, “Freedom” Flare. She gave herself that name.
“Freedom” used to be a teenage girl who considered herself nothing special. She was always very annoyed with injustices she’d see on the news. One day, she kind of got… really mad. On the news was a case of a man put to death, unjustified. This drove her to such a passion to right people’s wrongs that it awoke an energy inside her that’d been passed down from generation to generation, waiting to wake up. This was the Light Flare. It transformed the girl into a being, solely composed of spirit light. It took a long time for the girl to experiment with her powers, and she figured out she could swap between this new form and her human form. Over time, she found out the light form could skate around as if the Earth’s surface were a slick skating rink. She discovered the other light dimensions, which she could skate right up onto, like gravity alterings. After discovering her light form didn’t need to breathe and could explore the ocean depths and the expanses of space, she finally made a large decision, the decision to stay in light form forever. She doesn’t yet regret it, she loves feeling so free.
After her big decision, she renamed herself “Freedom”, because she could go wherever she wanted now. Her movement includes skating around with those tiny feet, like the world’s an ice skating rink. She is just pure light, she needs not to eat, sleep or even breathe.
She has a big thing for justice, and will go around like a super hero, rebuking those who “commit injustices”.
Around the world somewhere, there is one who contains the Dark Flare. When it will awake, no one knows…
#7: Magic Student
This is not a prompt from the story generator, but I just realized I hadn’t drawn any dudes up until the jerkface comedian, so maybe I could balance it out a bit.
I like this design, but it’s dawned on me that the dudes I like to draw tend to dress like college professors from 50+ years ago. I guess I project my own interests on my female characters too, but somehow it’s more noticeable on the male characters I draw. I should probably work on that.
#28: The Boy in the Wood
This is the boy who lives in the wood.
When he was a child, he was very, very good.
But then came the day he fell under the spell.
He listened to trees and their victim he fell.
Deserted his body, he took greener form.
His friends found his corpse and they bore him home.
He moves ever slower, his aura engorging
on mulch down below, it’s power absorbing.
#6: Opinionated Comic
I played around with a story generator and played off some of the prompt phrases for characters, and I was too lazy to come up with decent names for them.
This guy’s kind of a big jerkface.
#5: Focused Queen
Only two days of November left? TOO BAD STILL DRAWING
I picked up a bunch of minimal character descriptions from this story generator, and this is meant to be a “focused queen”. I’m afraid I don’t have much of a background for her, but I did like drawing that ceremonial uniform.
#28 The Ritual
After a long period of research and experimentation, she was ready. Looking out beyond her consciousness, and bracing herself for the jolt, she broke into the stream of a group of amateur summoners, effectively appearing in the place of whatever it was they had called, jumping many miles in the process. Of course she had prepared in advance, taking a great number of concoctions and dressing herself in a manner most otherworldly, in the manner of the beings she had summoned previously. Apparently this was not enough, since upon her arrival the summoners were most distraught, and she had no other option but to kill them. Not that she cared. By this point her experiment had already failed, and it would take several months of travel and preparations to try again.
#29: Padma
Padma is a cheerful little panda who lives in the bamboo forest with her little panda friends. Gosh, I’m not very good at this character description thing. A little late in the game to be admitting that, huh?
#30Characters Chatter…