Archive for November 3rd, 2013
03: Dailuna
Character Name:
Dailuna
Brief Bio/Description:
Dailuna is a member of the cosmic council. She presides over the white dwarf maintenance department, and takes her job very seriously. She’s also one of the leading fashion trend-setters in her galaxy. Her “hair” is actually a cerebral-nervous window, which mimics the appearance of a galaxy. The more relaxed she is, the fewer the number of white star bursts and the calmer the changing of the colors. When she is agitated, the bursts are rapid and the colors swirl. She paints her lips and hooves and sometimes applies cosmetics around her eyes and on her facial skeletal pieces.
Style Commentary:
Dailuna is almost the lofty cosmic being I’ve had stuck in my head for three days now. Almost, but not quite. Again, I had a great deal of fun with the pencil-sketch brushes, and used about five layers in Photoshop to slap down a goofy background and basic colors on her. I wanted to do more with clothing today, so I played around and took a little extra time painting in the different areas and used a clipping mask or two to help keep her figure separate from the background. Honestly, the most impressive stylistic revelation, to me, is that I am exponentially faster at laying down and finishing rough colors now than I was even a few months ago. I love it!
2013 Post#3 — Luna
Wilcox Post#3 — Luna
Luna is a mysterious woman who look into people’s lives and tries to help change them — for the better. She is not always met with favor, as her appearance is disturbing for some people. Luna’s skin is split in sections of stark white(her right side) and stark black(her left side). Her clothes also have this feature, though the black & white split are on the opposite sides. Still, she is an exotic beauty; and her efforts often lead to the person being helped find romance and love.
Monster #3 — Clawbert Glum
Today’s monster: Clawbert Glum. Ferociously shy creature of the night. Or something.
Day 2: Cartoln Weaver
Cartoln Weaver, my day 2 character.
He’s prone to look down on others and has a certain lust for power. Probably hindered by the fact that he lacks discipline and really isn’t as smart and manipulative as he thinks he is.
A random fact about Cartoln:
Physical contact makes him slightly anxious.
Day 3: Rubicante the Space Bear
Cuddly by day and night. Loves butterflies and the innards of his enemies.
Day 3: Park Ranger Colin Duggan
Often times Tank-Monkey is asked to do more outdoorsy type missions… cuz well… he’s a monkey. Park Ranger Duggan is pretty green when it comes to the world of super monkeys… he tries to understand… he’s a pretty quick study but… it’s a little much to take in sometimes.
#3 May Day & E-Quip
Day 3 – May Day and E-Quip
Back in the late 90s, warzones were dominated by butt kicking and no-name taking heroes like Duke Nukem, Max Payne, Serious Sam, and May Day. But the battlefield shifted when those health packs, weapons, and upgrades scattered around the world were finally noticed by the evil doom soldier army and in one swift move war was changed. While most military outfits switched to respawned soldiers, carrying 2 weapons max, and regenerative shields, one company took a different route.
A-Tech Defense developed a revolutionary prototype weapon they named E-Quip. An all-in-one gun with a built in AI that selects what types of munitions to fire based on advances circumstantial sensors. In order to alleviate the necessity to carry 17 different weapons around on your back. It can consume enemy weapons to refill it’s ammunition and gain new firing modes. Feed it a rocket launcher, and it can shoot rockets.
When A-tech called in May Day, she thought she was finally returning to the warfront she knew, not getting saddled with a metal babysitter who fancies itself in charge and keeps insulting her puns as she works.
#3 Ciara, The Elf Magician
Ciara is a novice magician who just staring a life in noble Magical College. While other student is a high elf. She is a half human half elf and found herself has a less magical power than other  people. One day some sleeping power on her has awaken and destroy half of college!  It’s make other student fear and like her more on the same time . How can she control those greatest power in herself? and what is a origin of her power?
2013 Challenge: Day 3- Sir Roderick The Overwhelmed
Sir Roderick, reacting to the news that the banquet requires climbing stairs to attend.
Day 3: Privateer Commando
Finally got my printer up and running again! As such, I should have 3D prints of these guys from here on out. The pieces are pretty small (about 20mm tall) so a lot of the detail won’t show through, but they’re serviceable boardgame pieces at this size to be sure.
Character 2: Mr. Slilch
Mr. Slilch is a lanky goon. I’m going to try and do mostly dramatic noir characters because of reasons. I’m most comfortable on toned paper.
Character 1: Rosario
This one was very quick as my brain was still refreshing from the 31 characters I did for #Inktober. Decided she would be monochromatic.
#2 – Roland Wong
(Whew! Â This is a little late – mostly due to my deciding to work with the colors and inks in Clip Studio, a program I recently purchased. Â Nice program – lots of useful tools – but not the wisest choice I’ve made while laboring under a deadline. Â Also: Photoshop layer folder don’t work in Photoshop Elements, so I had to bounce between two programs to get the template to work right.)
Roland Wong is Cosmetigene’s best salesperson in the Greater Vancouver Archology. Â A man of great charm and charisma, he makes his living selling cosmetic gene enhancements. Â Want eyes that changes color via your mood? Â Looking for tiger-stripe hair or glow-in-the-dark fingernails? Â How about some chlorophyll in the skin to give you that extra bit of pep through the day? Â Cosmetigene has it all, and Roland can sell them to just about anyone.
It’s not a bad life… but Roland misses the days when he worked an entirely different job, as a plainsclothes detective in the GVA Police Force. Â There his charm had been used to coax testimony out of reluctant witnesses, and to ease criminals into confession. Â He’d been good at that job too – perhaps a little too good. Â On a corruption case, he found he’d angered the wrong high-ranking official, and soon found himself out of work.
But his past collides with his present when a routine sale becomes a terrible murder. Â One of Roland’s gene enhancements for a client was altered: instead of giving his client the robin’s-egg-blue skin she wanted, it turned her skin cells into toxin-producing factories, poisoning her from the inside. Â All evidence points to Roland, and his job, reputation, and freedom are on the line… unless he can find the real killer.
Day 2: Omi the Octopus
Doodled this one up while watching Monsters University and Turbo!
Did you know… Octopus’ actually only have 6 legs, 2 tentacles while squids have 8 legs & 2 arms? Crazy!
#2 Iron Maiden
In front of the Gates of the Nine, one being stands. With the strength of a mountain, the Iron Maiden guards the bridge between worlds, preventing the crossing of any who would dare to upset the balance.
Day 2 – Baron Cavanaugh
Baron Cavanaugh de Montague e Leon – 1797 – who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. I love reproducing period costumes and this model came from an intact uniform worn by one of Napoleon’s generals dating from around 1800. This character was inspired by a costume that I made last year but never got to finish due to illness. Thought I would realize the concept here..
#2 Daieth
This guy’s a member of an alien wizard race that with de-pigmented noses and beards on everyone, even ones who can’t grow beards.
Le Chameleon
Or Madam Chameleon
She’s a spy. One of the best and deceptively cunning. Also she is probably played by the Seven of Nine chick. Or at least that’s what she ended up looking like. Moderately unintentional. This is her in a leotard and holding one of her wigs.  If you think she’s good, she’s better than Mission Impossible flawless mask good.
Sorry I’m not putting more effort into these. It’s kinda five to midnight and I’m getting killed by a headache.
Allorshan Warrior
Taking it back to middle school with a project that I haven’t even thought about in years.
02: Oretta
Character Name:Â
Oretta
Brief Bio/Description:
Oretta is an obnoxiously curious member of her family, and is well known in her tribe both for getting into terrible trouble, and making wonderful discoveries. She is best friends with the tribe chief’s children, despite being considerably older than them. She hates to be idle and has an insatiable craving to move and discover and try new things. Many of her tribes’ men and women admire her, but are sure to let her know about her short-comings. Having a large ego is frowned upon in her culture. Even still, the efforts everyone seems to make to keep Oretta from getting too big an opinion of herself also serve to make Oretta feel more like a burden than a blessing. At the core of her excitable, happy, and restless personality is a dark sprout of inadequacy and insecurity.
Style Commentary:
I started Oretta with a slightly different alien female in mind. I wanted a slight, androgynous frame and a body comprised primarily of straight lines and very slight curves. Oretta began like that, but as I hashed out her legs, I felt the need to make her more muscular and earthy. I was also excited to rediscover some incredible pencil-like brushes I’d purchased in Photoshop, and went to town with the sketchy quality it let me build on my digital canvas. I almost left her as just a sketch, but I really wanted to add a splash of color to her. So I blocked in her body shape, slapped on a clipping mask, and used some selective soft-edge, pressure-sensitive opaque darks and lights and reflective gold to throw some extra life into her. I’m really excited with how she turned out.
#2 – Emily, the grumpy little girl
Emily is a grumpy 9 year old girl who is very upset about something… but what?
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