Archive for November, 2011
#26 Tobias
Tobias “helps” Mannix in his paranormal investigations. Toby is able to summon. But he’s is a few crayons short of a box. He lives with Mannix in Mannix’s apartment.
#25 Mannix
Mannix is a paranormal investigator of sorts. He is in his twenties and lives in his apartment with Tobias.
#24 Mikumi
Mikumi is another of the genetic experiments that escaped the lab with Slythe. She was younger at the time and was close to one of the scientists at the lab, who was planning to help the little Mikumi escape. But something happened and the lab was turned  into chaos, and Mikumi escaped with Slythe and the others.
#23 Slythe
Slythe is a human/hyena mix. She was created in a lab, like Layla, along with several other animal human mixes. She is the leader of a little group of genetic experiments that escaped when the lab blew up.
#23 Wolfred the wolf boy.
Wolfred here is a full blown werewolf. Not wanting to be outed, he joins a traveling circus and gets a job as part of the freak show. Wolfred claims his ailment is hypertrichosis, but I know the truth.
Character #30
This is Juju, a 13 year old (I suck at drawing 13 year olds, lol) who lives with her dad in isolation in an unknown part the rain forest. They study new species of animals together but is one day taken away from her home when her father is killed by other scientists who want to claim hi work ass their own. She found by another group of scientist when she escapes from the bad ones and taken to
England. One of the scientists, Elda, adopted her but Juju only gives her trouble and rebels. Juju spends time trying to fit in with kids her age and cope with the trauma she faced in South America.
(Ignore that hand.)
Character #29
This is the fan, Denny. She’s a 17 year old high school student. She is shy and has no friends. She was obsessed with Kpop and Asian music especially with Dae-Ho. He was going to go on tour in the US and she had been saving all of her money just to buy a ticket, however, her sister spent it all out on alcohol and stuff so she couldn’t go. Desperate to see her crush, she went to the concert venue to try to sneak in, or even see his face. She saw him went she stepped out of her sister’s car, Â with keys in hand, though. ALL of him. The Kpop star was escaping from the venue, naked (his clothes had trackers on them) and she fainted. She woke up in her car’s passenger seat to see Dae-Ho fully clothed (he robbed a clothing store with her sister’s gun that he found in the glove compartment) and eating ice cream in the driver’s seat. He apologized for spending her money and using her car. She found out that he wasn’t who he said he was and that he was in fact blackmailed into being a Kpop star. She invited him over to her place, watched him chop off his dyed strawberry blonde hair and begged him to stay and help him. She learnt that he was not even close to how he was portrayed publicly but didn’t mind who he was…
#29 M’taku – Scientist
They said it couldn’t be done. That room-temperature fusion was impossible. But I’ve done it. I’ve created a source of limitless energy that will take humanity into the next millennium.
With my discovery, war will be a thing of the past. Why fight over oil, when a thousand times as much power can be harvest from a bucket of seawater? We’ll build ship that can travel between the planets with the same ease that you go down to the market. It is a glorious day that is dawning.
Oh some people will complain about the costs to my research. They scream, “Murderer and war criminal.†I am no criminal. I am a scientist and, as such, am subject to the same fickle mistress that all academics are subject to: the almighty funding.
I went to where my research would be tolerated, if not respected. To a place that I could work in peace.
Did they give me other tasks to work on, other problems to solve? Yes.
Did I provide the simplest answer that caused the least pain and suffering? Yes.
Did suffering still result? Yes.
It is an irrefutable fact that suffering will always exist. All I can do is mitigate that suffering as much as I can. And this new technology will do more to abate it than any other civilization had ever done. Why then, when I can give Humanity the Universe as a playground, do you risk everything to destroy me for the crimes of others?
The wrap up!
Well, I finished 30 characters in 30 days without missing one. I have to admit I’m pretty proud of myself for drawing 3/4 of them because I didn’t think I would draw any when I started. When Tyler first told me about this challenge, it didn’t occur to me that I would need art for the posts. I’m a writer and I just figured I would write up a quick character each day.
Little did I know that this challenge would open the doors of creativity for me and inspire me to get the pencils and markers going on my own work. For that, I have to say thank you to Tyler James and the Comix Tribe group for putting this together. I look forward to using some of the characters I created in future projects.
I definitely enjoyed seeing everyone’s art also, it was fantastic and I appreciate the effort everyone put into it. Have a great next 11 months and I’ll see you in November for the next one.
#30: The Caretaker
Text reads:
“She put the world in a cage
to separate herself
from that which she was charged with;
to monitor it’s health.
She doesn’t have to feed it;
it self-perpetuates.
She only needs must keep it
locked behind cold iron grates.
She named herself caretaker
oh so many years ago
when she learned the world was lost
and didn’t know which way to go.
She doesn’t deign to tell us what to do or how to live.
She offers only interest, and that’s always there to give.”
Ok, so not only a character everyday, but a poem every day for 30 days. More or less. WHOOOO. Alllll done. 😀
#30 Stunt
He’s a superhero who’s a stuntman on the side. Or is it a stuntman who moonlights as a superhero?
Character #28
This is Eun Jung. She was publicly the girlfriend of the blackmailed Kpop star but she actually was his body guard hired by the company to make sure he did not escape. She is also an assassin but to public eyes a Kpop star of the all girl group “BreakItDown!” (The all girl group is also an all girl assassin group. Yeah, what a corrupted Korean music company, right?) Tristan escaped from her grip during a US concert tour of his music and she has to track him down and possibly kill whoever aided him in his escape/hiding.
She possibly works hard at finding him back because they slept together as she developed an attachment to him.
#28 Kingsman, Agent E.O.P.
This is Doctor Benjamin Kingsman, Agent of E.O.P. (Evil Old People). He is the arch nemesis of Timmy Nolan, Baby Agent.
#30 – Kenzie-San
#30 – Kenzie-San
Half cat demon and half innocent school girl, Kenzie-San is wonderful until she gets upset. A master of cat fu, she has the ability to either beat you up or win you over with her big blue eyes.
You can likely imagine that I didn’t draw this because it’s nowhere near my talent level. After 30 days of creating characters, I’m lucky to even get a line or two in that matches the picture. I guess I’m good for 20 or so characters in a month, so I’m lucky to have talented kids to carry me the rest of the way.
Picture was drawn by my daughter Mackenzie.
Yamakaji
YYamakaji. Every un-checked and discarded cigarette butt has the potential to spawn Yamakaji.
Character #27
This is the Kpop blackmailed star. The left version is how he looked before he escaped on his US concert tour. His Kpop stage name was Dae-Ho but his real name is Tristan. He was American born and moved to Korea with his family. After a mysterious murder, he was blackmailed by a music company that scouted him for years to become to Kpop star. He becomes extremely exhausted and overworked from all the concert tours, recording, dancing and public appearances as if  he were a slave. He escaped when he was out on his requested US tour, ran into a desperate fan who had her ticket money spent by her sister, shaved his head (yes the hairstyle on the right is a bad representation of it) and lived in hiding with her. He is 19 years old, and rough. He has a soft heart for the fan since she’s nice to him and helps him hide.
Hayato and Kaori
Hayato and Kaori. Their mothers were best friends in high school. Both had their only child at the same age of 20, and Hayato and Kaori were even born an exact month apart. As elementary students Hayato and Kaori saw each other almost every day, growing up almost like brother and sister. Their sense of fashion and taste in music, which was first imposed on them by their take-the-kids-to-the-venue-for-our-friends’-rock-show attitude has since developed into their own adult version.
#26 Old Man Green
This is Andrew Thomas Green but to the neighborhood kids he’s known as Old Man Green, the meanest old man you’ve ever seen. Green is a retired super villain who now lives in a quiet and boring suburban town. Green yearns for the excitement he once knew when he lived a life of crime. Unimpressed with the new super villains of today, Green embarks on a journey to return to his villainous ways but he’ll soon realize just how difficult that will be.
# 25 Robo-14
This is Robo-14, Lewis Emerson‘s loyal but disgruntle robotic lab assistant. He’s called Robo-14 mainly because he’s the 14th edition of his kind. The previous Robos were destroyed in the many accidents that have occurred over the years in Lewis’ Laboratory. 14 is usually the guinea pig for Lewis’ insane experiments hence the reason why he’s disgruntled. On a good day, he will only lose an arm or a leg. 14 has managed to stick around longer than any of the previous models of Robos combined. There are times when 14 longs to be put out of his misery but he always manages to survive. He also can’t escape this torment because he’s engineered to obey and remain loyal to Lewis.
Character #26
This is Hanna from a story I was writing about a guy who was blackmailed into being a Kpop star. She’s the sister of a fan who found him and helped him to hide from the company that blackmailed him. She sleeps around a lot and squanders her little sister’s money for alcohol. She’s 22 years old and although she’s unruly, she desperately cares about her sister and is very protective.
#30Characters Chatter…