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Akando

| November 2, 2012 | 9 Comments

Akando the boy Warrior!!

Akando "The Boy Warrior"

My Day 2 Character!!

 

4 hour photoshop drawing!! I am actually loving this guy, i think i may use him in the future!!!

#01 – Anthony M.

| November 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

 

He came in and sat down at the bar, eyes bloodshot, ragged clothes, scraggy hair, unshaven. Hunched over, arms folded on the bar, he sat motionless — gazing straight ahead with an empty stare that screamed defeat.

His appearance was so haggard he could be mistaken for homeless. He just sat in quiet desperation. Many dismissed him as a bum or a junkie. He certainly had the hollow face of a worn man. But Anthony M. wasn’t a bum. He wasn’t a junkie. He wasn’t drunk or stoned.

Just an hour earlier, Anthony was in a screaming match back home.

“F*cking b*stard!”

“Stop being an a**hole!”

“You’re a monster!!”

“I hate you!”

Every profane word was used…the worst ones more than a few times. They got so loud that he’d be surprised if the police weren’t waiting for him when he got back home. He hated himself. He hated his failure. How could he have let himself blow up like that — especially at his 12-year-old little girl?

It was she that had screamed the loudest and had cursed the most. After the third or fourth F-bomb, he snapped. He looked down and picked up the first thing he saw and threw it across the room in rage. It was her stacked schoolwork — it flew apart and papers and notebooks rained down in a flurry of chaos across the floor and furniture of her room.

The screaming continued, this time with his wife, who was furious at him for his outburst. She had to remind him their daughter had a condition called Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and that she couldn’t help acting that way. Of course, as soon as his temper got the better of him, he had remembered. He just wished he could have controlled himself better.

Anthony would never hurt his little girl. But tonight, he did. He screamed at her and made her feel worthless and unloved. Then after he realized what he’d done, he cursed himself for not having the strength to hold back his rage.

Anthony had always tried to be a good father. Tomorrow he promised to do better, but tonight he had failed, and he needed to punish himself for it.

Day 1 “HOT STUFF”

| November 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

Casey Richards has the ability to manipulate his body heat as well as control, generate and absorb Fire. His abilities are often based upon his emotions, so his energy levels vary. The most intense or active stage of his power is when he is in battle; second to battle is engaging in Some form of  passion and sexual activity. Ironically, he obtained the name “Hot Stuff” from an old girlfriend. Not for his abilities, but for his good looks.

#01-Arachnicat

| November 1, 2012 | 3 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not much to say about this guy, except he is part cat (yay!) and part spider (eww). He fishes with his tail and binds his prey with web until he is ready to feast!

Day 1: Erika

| November 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

 

Erica is Nicolas best friend in school.  She’s cool headed and intelligent  which makes it easy for her to stay under the radar and on good terms with her peers. She’s socially savvy but far away from being a social butterfly and is more often seen reading and smoking in the school yard, than interacting with people. She has two older brothers.

(This is a future character for my comic “Nicola and Belmondo”)

2012 RETURNING CHALLENGER: DAN NOKES

| October 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

Hello one and all!  This is Dan Nokes of 21st Century Sandshark Studios fame and notoriety!  I was a participant in last year’s 30 CHARACTERS IN 30 DAYS CHALLENGE!  I am writing to inform my fans and fans of this endeavor, that I will once again, be stepping into the ring to belt out another 30 characters!  Here are a few choice pics from last years efforts for you guys to gander and get an idea at what I do and what I plan for this year!

For more info please feel free to visit my homepage at www.21sandshark.com!

 

Ruben Kaae – 30 Character In 30 Day’s….. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:)

| December 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

Here are my 30 characters
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:)
It was a lot of fun.
Ruben Kaae
Signing out…:)

Jared Lewis – 30 Characters in 30 Days 2011

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

#1 Glorious Sentai Gokaider Red#2 Aurora#3 Sixth Carbon Lama#4 Longtalon#5 Phione
#6 Deadeye Huitzilo the Vaquerohttp://www.30characters.com/2011/11/14/7-esme-velez-martin-riggs/#8 The Duke of Brixton#9 The Sky Bandit Beatrix Sprawling#10 “Upstairs Bigfoot”
#11 The Uzbek#12 Xaiyoi#13 & #14 Las Hermanas de La Sombras Vigilantes (Isa)#13 & #14 Las Hermanas de La Sombras Vigilantes (Magda)#15 Skaggs
#16 Goroh#17 Munson#18 Quozark the Unflinching#19 TheBinMan.EXE#20 The Outsorceror
#21 Fe-Male#21 Fe-Male#23 Mynah#24 Caldera#25 Biata Boombata
#26 Oosailoo#27 Wee Andrew of Glenclover#28 The Dingo Demon Formerly Known as Sig#29 The Tungsten Rhino Support Crew#30 Tremendous Rowdy

Made it. Just barely. Overall, I’m happy. I had a busier schedule, but there were hours here & there where I could’ve focused & gotten better results. Ultimately, just happy to hit 30 for a second year. I will probably be posting more about the whole experience sometime soon on my sketchblog. Until then, I’ve got some projects to get back to. Thanks for the feedback & support, & great job to everyone who participated this year. Hope to see you next.

 

No Thumbnails, but …

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

Couldn’t figure out how to quickly make the thumbnails and didn’t really have time.  However, here is a montage of the total images that I created for the month of November.  These characters are a good start to my planned graphic novel.

Here is a trailer to my graphic novel that features the characters from November’s challenge.

Trailer 1

You can also see the trailer on my blog.

J. James Final Characters

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

What a busy month, I don’t remember sleep.  Thanks for all your support who kept me motivated on this project, and those who volunteered to be a part of it. Take care of yourselves, and I’ll see you next November! J. James

Nathan Seabolt-My 2011 Characters Overview

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

Here are the characters I created for the 30 Characters in 30 Days Challenge 2011.

Click the images to view the posts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They’re definitely not all gems, but it was tons of fun to do this challenge. I’ll be back next year!

#31 BONUS! – Z

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

 

BONUS CHARACTER!

Z is a mysterious young woman who uses agility, a tenacious attitude and some massive firepower to combat the forces of darkness. Sort of like Kolchak the Night Stalker or Supernatural, if those shows featured a borderline insane girl who seems to have escaped from a manga into the quasi-real world.

Coming in a comic series in 2012!

 

Day #29 & 30 Character Attire

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bending the rules a bit again.  Two characters in one piece.  It’s hard playing catch-up!  Can hardly believe I completed the challenge.  Congratulations to all participants.  It’s been great seeing all the great work!

28# Lighting Cats

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#26 Rich

| December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment

Rich is a music warrior sent to fill people’s lives with appropriate soundtracks at the appropriate moments. Whether it is life’s highs or lows, he is there to fill the air with music that accompany the emotions felt.  He sharpens the moments of clarity, and flattens those that are dull.

 

This is another friend-inspired piece…At first I wanted to tackle this character in a more complex way with actual knight’s armor-however I got so frustrated with painting those details in such short time that I had to leave that initial concept behind. This doodle came out rather spontaneously and I feel was much more loose and fun to paint with the time constraints. Anyway…wow..can’t believe this is my last character…!

Its been a bit of a roller-coaster month…slightly bitter-sweet….I felt like I took on another full-time job…however the rewards have been well worth it. I can’t count the number of social events I had to forgo in order to not fall as far behind…Anyway-this was a great learning experience and I really appreciate everyone’s positive comments/support. Hope to see you guys all next year!

Paisley Queen

| December 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
Sexy Star Fairy of Paisley

"You should write me a love story"

 
When you look up in the night sky, and see a falling star, make a wish if you please but be aware that it may not be a star at all, it may be the Paisley Queen sailing through the evening.

“I’ve come for the wine.  What shall we sample tonight?”

Often sought by others for truth and guidance, the Paisley Queen genuinely laughs it off.

“If they’re so stupid they need direction they might as well just have some wine and get over it!”

Casual Formal Server

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments
Fast Sexy Bastard

Here I was and there I went...

Being the best there is at what I do is the easiest and most carefree way to be.

“Yeah, that’s right, I’m laid back and fun and formal and goofy, all at the same time.  Try that on for size.”

You never know just what story is being built or considered when you pass me, or how you might be contributing to the sequence being built.

“I may be quiet, but I’m a deep thinker.  Herpaderp.”

 

 

30 Characters in 30 Days – A Veritable Feast

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

30 Characters in 30 Days has proven to be a beast of a challenge. Especially because I am NOT AN ARTIST. I am a WRITER, so the challenge for me was to create interesting characters, biographies or stories. The art was not mine, except when it was created by me in a graphic design tool.

My art and challenge was to tell good stories or create interesting people for those stories. So some of these people will link to character bios, others will link to short stories. Was this challenging? Absolutely. Is it necessary? Even more so now after doing it, I realize new characters are in short supply as big businesses are only interested in dragging out the same old ideas again and again as long as they are profitable. And since the churning masses are quite happy with retreaded old ideas, it becomes nearly impossible for new ideas to be seen.

This makes it even more imperative for new creators, to put down their ideas, flesh them out and begin working so when the opportunity for something new to hit the screen, or become a book or find its way into a comic presents itself, you and your product are already refined, sharp, definite and ready for prime time. Contests like these can inspire you and others who see you and your work to take the risk of Creation.

Whether you succeed in this challenge or not is immaterial. What is important is that you recognized that it must be done by you. If you are going to call yourself a creative, such challenges need to be taken on, like the Labors of Hercules, to prove that you are worthy, to challenge your mettle, to sharpen your sword upon the enemies of deadlines, of production, of quality control and of ennui, lack of motivation and most of all, Fear. Actually both fears, fear of failure and fear of success, are equally able to prevent you from taking action. Challenges like this should spur your blood, and make you ready to create as if no one is watching, design as if no algorithm is taking note of your numbers.

I enjoyed this challenge and will spend the time until next November trying to turn these bits of writing into something larger and more magnificent than the seeds planted this month.

I challenge you to do the same.

You can find my writing in all of these places: http://myonepage.com/ebonstorm

Twitter: @ebonstorm
Google+: http://gplus.to/ebonstorm
A Matter of Scale: WordPress - http://ebonstorm.wordpress.com/
Mediasphere Curation: Tumblr - http://mediasphere.tumblr.com/
Tales of the Twilight Continuum: Weebly - http://ebonstorm.weebly.com/
Hidden Realms: Posterous - http://hiddenrealms.posterous.com/#!/68615711

#30 BUCCANEER JONES – MONSTER HUNTER

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#29 WW1 BODILESS WALKER

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#28 THIRD EYE

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#30 The Grisaille Quincurion

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

At night, one might glimpse the Grisaille Quincurion. It is a rare thing to see her alone and rarer still to see her stumbling through the streets. However, she might be seen on some nights, ones which are completely random in date, alone and arms full of her most recent purchase. It has taken her years to track down all of these parts, and many more to bring them all together. Five pieces of–not a puzzle. A game. Five game tokens, scattered across the world (and yet so close, suspiciously close). She might not have been meant to find them all and unite them, but tonight the last one comes home.

She has private quarters in the Lord’s house (quarters which are no where near as luxurious as those ones–but that was a lifetime ago), but she brings the parcel to the Yards on the opposite side of town. While she has her doubts that it will be enough to keep him from interfering, it is safer the farther it is from him. She unwraps it carefully: her strength is inhuman (and what is that? Was that a type of imp?) but it is still awkward in shape and size. Cables run across the room, creating hazards and setting up for awful jokes, and she curses when she realizes that she set it upon some of them. She spends another ten minutes, and she knows this because she has a clock in this room. Timepieces are contraband these days, but this is not an ordinary clock. Three hands tell time, and five pendulum swing irregularly, sometimes slowing down and speeding up without rhyme but definitely with reason. The day they stop is the day that everything will be lost.

She plugs in her purchase, and the middle screen flickers into life. It buzzes with snow, but she expected that. She only wished to see that it hadn’t broken completely on the journey here. She stands in front of the ancient but robust monitor and types:

N45. 46.5148 E4 49.6 2011-11-30

The middle screen flashes many times like it was trying to send a message to her (blinkblinkblink blink blink blink blinkblinkblink) before settling on an image. A strange being is in a room. It sits on a chair before a mirror, fingering long, thin pieces of keratin. It is dark and wiry, falling to its chin (it looks like a chin, at least) in messy spirals which twist and turn in any direction. It seems unhappy with the keratin, tugging on it as if  it would grow faster that way. She rubs her own bald head self-consciously and wonders what sort of keratin would grow upon hers.

(Black, some would say.

White, others.

Fewer would point out that no one knows what colour she is. She never goes out without every inch of herself covered. Not even her four associates know, or are too loyal to her to say. Rumours fly, but no one is certain if she will see about the end of one universe or the beginning of another.)

The screens on the other machines flicker with the same strange message and glow with the light of these strange creatures. They are unlike from each other, but more like each other than they are like her and the rest of these broken kingdoms. Human, she thinks, because she cannot imagine what the word would sound like. She recognizes these beings, and knows that she is too early in their lives. Directing them now would only frighten them. She needs them unafraid when they enter (her past, making it, shaping it, destroying it,).

The Grisaille Quincurion might be seen at night, but she usually is not. She has learnt to walk in the darkness better than shadows, and she will see that her plan comes to fruition.

==> PRESS ENTER TO BEGIN

# 2&30 Just 1 more?

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

 

So during this whole challenge, alot of people have suggested to me to do a character of myself…and my boyfriend-So these two creatures are representatives of us-Me, the snuggle bunny/koala mix…and him as the calm & collected (sometimes too serious) wolf-like character. I sometimes really do feel like a kid around him and all I want is to be hugged and cuddled….I find myself saying to him many times….”Just 1 more? please?”

 

Interestingly–I have 1 more character to do before this challenge ends! Just 1 more!

Day 22 Agent Adios

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

Agent Adios is the code name for Lupe Ayon, a girl discovered to have an unusual apptitude for killing. Saved from a life on the streets she is molded over a period of years into an elite assasin.

As of this post, this years 30 character in 30 days event is over. I made 22! I’m not sure if the site will close to submissions, but I only have 8 to go so I’m going to attempt to finish the challenge.

Day 30: Stella Droon

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

Stella is a wind maker in Floom. She works near the water, as her specialty is in steering sail boats and creating the occasional hurricane. Stella enjoys wearing brightly colored dresses and shoes, and dislikes cold weather. She is Liam’s mentor, although he frustrates her daily due to his

 

 

 

#29 Clara

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

She hadn’t always been like this, this cruel and unforgiving.  At one point, she had actually been a kind an gentle soul.  She could have been a loving mother.  Could have, if the world had not become the blackest version of itself.  Could have, if she wished to be weak and at the mercy of the merciless.  But she was never a sheep.  And let’s face it, wolves do not raise sheep.

Which wasn’t to say that she didn’t have a crystal clear understanding of the wounds she was inflicting.  In the quiet secret hours of the night, she catalogued them meticulously, carving into her own heart her own version of the pain she knew her children would most likely carry with them throughout their days.  Hopefully those wounds will have served their purpose, honing their reaction time and survival skills, helping them to understand that if mercy was a choice, it couldn’t always be the right choice.  And sometimes the greatest mercy was in cruelty.

She called them her children and they called her mama, even the ones who had come to her old enough to know that they weren’t of her blood.  This day and this age details like that hardly mattered.  Times were beyond tough- times were do or die in very short order, and none of these young ones were beyond understanding it.  They had been born to it, and had found their way to her in one way or another, with or without her help.

She was making of them a tribe.  A group which stood a chance of surviving by their own hand, and not at the mercy of all the cruelly wanton souls which seemed to be roaming the earth in hordes.  She fought for them, tooth and nail, and taught them how to fight for themselves, and damned if the older ones, some who had come to her old enough to be well familiar with the way the weak could be used, knew just how lucky they were for the chance she was giving them.

Which didn’t make it any easier.  She watched them sleep, huddled in a great mass for warmth when the coals died down.  When the wounds she carved into her young ones were sharp enough, she took a knife, made a little cut upon her wrist and rubbed dark ash into it, so that she would not forget.  Even as she knew that the world she was trying to remember would be little more than a fanciful lace of words when she was dead and gone, she vowed that she would not forget.  It seemed important not to.  It seemed important to remember, most of all, that mercy was a choice.

#30_Shredding Shark

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments
"Shredding Shark"

"Shredding Shark"

#29_The Silencer

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"The Silencer"

"The Silencer"

#30 – Rattila Half-elf

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

Day 30 - Rattila Half-Elf by George Ward

Rattila  is the bastard child of Lovalor (day 29) and an Elf Princess who died in child birth  (long story).  She was exiled from the elf community as soon as she was old enough to survive on her own and she traveled to a human village which rejected her because of her elven blood.  She learned to hate both elves and humans and made her way to communities that had many mixed races.  She had to learn to fend for herself and became quite a skilled fighter.  She was also hard hearted and was willing to steal or kill to survive. She  eventually met Adrika (Day 14) and became her loyal body guard.  The two of then have become an unstoppable force ever since, much to the horror of anyone who crosses their path.

Lovalor (Day 29) is unaware of any of this but he is aware that he has a child somewhere and is out looking for her.  How will he react when he sees what she has become?  How will she react meeting her father for the first time?  That is a story for another day.

Wren

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

Character #29

| November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

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,  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…