Category: Horror
2013 Challenge: Day 2- GRAHR
Spoken of in whispered voices as “the Underdweller”, “Scaled Death” and “The Ravager”…but his tax return is under “GRAHR”.
Day 2: Rogue Psion
A player piece for the Privateer side of my new game, Pocket-Tactics: Demonstar. I’ll be printing this guy out within the next few days, so check back for a fully 3D game piece.
01: Sonho
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Sonho
Brief Bio/Description:
Sonho is a gender-less but male-identifying amorphous, amphibious being. His appendages, and the majority of his body, are comprised almost exclusively of muscular tissue. Lacking a proper skeleton, his body contains flexible cartilage which can be manipulated into different shapes and locations with enough muscular control. Sonho prefers to keep the majority of his cartilage in his head and torso. You could compare his abilities to a cross between those of a jelly fish and an octopus. He finds humans fascinating and loves human humor and sarcasm. He stumbled onto the website known as 4chan, and now he makes tentacle jokes all the time. His human friends often draw comparisons between Sonho and average teenage boys, despite Sonho claiming to have lived over a century already. He loves to eat sushi; not for the taste, but for the irony and reactions he gets.
Style Commentary:
In the past, I’ve had a very difficult time bogging myself down in the details. I resolved today to sit down, rough out a decent pose, and lay the character out with simple details. I’m determined to avoid plain human characters (though I may “cop out” and do a few at some point this month, if the whim strikes) so I can start broadening my skills and get some new research done. Like, for this guy! I wanted Sonho to be technically genderless, and when the tentacle appendages started happening, I wanted to keep in mind some semblance of a factual basis, so I looked up the muscular system of an octopus! Very cool! Back to technical style: I laid down a simple black outline over the pose sketch, then filled a base color, which I copied and changed to the shadow color so I could mask it away for a simple cell-shaded effect. Not my usual approach, but I had fun and didn’t bury myself in immense detail or color work, so: mission accomplished!
Day 1: Slithering Fiend
For the first post, I decided to go with one of the game’s monsters. I’ll have a 3D print of this guy before long (still waiting on a replacement part)
#01 – Edwin Michigan
Though the devastation of the flood was remarkable, a lot of people had no choice to remain. Some lacked the money to make a significant move, others remained simply because this was where their job was. Edwin Michigan is a young man in the latter category; though a kind and empathetic young man, he isn’t the kind of person who willingly makes a major life change.
Mr. Michigan works for a taxi company, and up until the flood, he enjoyed it quite a bit. It was easy work, he was friends with the taxi service’s boss, and he got on well with the other employees. After the flood, however, stories began to circulate about the things that now happened down in the city after dark. And after a few nights, Edwin had more than his fair share of stories to tell.
Like museum curators that hear bumps in the night, or bed and breakfast proprietors with one specific room that nobody ever spends a full night in, Edwin dealt with the dead by making them part of his job. He catalogues the dead that hail his taxi, and occasionally, even manages to make a connection to the living. A taxi and its driver might not be the way people expect to connect with the dear departed, but for Edwin, it’s all about finding a comfort zone.
(Incidentally, I’m posting these both here, and on my art blog.)
#1 – Toshoni
Toshoni lived a pretty good life for a demon. These days he tends to a great library somewhere on the edge of the Underworld. His candle keeps the more malevolent spirits at bay as he wanders the stacks and assists any visitors seeking  the wealth of knowledge contained within his books.
Challenge Day #1: Headhuntress: Fiora
A succubus from the depths of Abaddon. On the hunt for blood, and a fascination with skulls, she uses a compulsion spell to seduce and lure her prey to their deaths. Thus, stripping them of everything that gives them life, draining every last drop of blood and removing the head from the body.
#01 – Daddy’s Girl
Daddy had to go away for a while.
Daddy use to have fun on weekends.
Daddy wasn’t understood.
Daddy’s Girl will take care of things, while daddy is away…
#1: Fire Gremlin
A fire gremlin is an elemental demon with a nasty penchant for mischief and mayhem.
Most wild-fires are either started or made worse by one of these nasty buggers.
DAY THIRTY – Uriel
From The Clone Saints Chronicles: Our project has its own guardian angel in the… “person” of Uriel, who, while giving us credibility and motivation that we’re on the right path, seems to care nothing about the results. He stares for hours on end at his paintings -which are mostly total pants- broken only by smoking and buying more paint. I am under the impression his presence is a penance.
x-posted at Orthocomics.com
Congratulations everyone on 30 days of creation!
The End( is Nigh)- 30 Charas in 30 Days
I’m not sure if I learned anything, but I do think I’ve improved upon my time management as well as trying to draw things I’m not comfortable with.
(lookie!! Hardly any girls!! lol)
Arian Croft – 30 Characters in 30 Days: Tales from Nexus City
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Tiph Hunter – 30 Characters in 30 Days – Mayan Glyph SuperHeros
   
  
  
   
   
 
   
   
  
   
   
 
   
   
   
   
  
 
   
   
   
   
  
 
   
   
   
   
   
Completed!!! That is All!
(drawing 1 character a day for the month of November 2012 by following the Mayan Calendar for those days)
22 – 30 … And the rest!
So sorry to have let this build up like this, but contract work is feast or famine someties, and I had to eat!
Elaso was named by a little boy who found the whelp in a small shoal by the sea. Elaso is a special type of Arachnidian, but fortunately is very young, and able to learn a more peaceful life, if taught by the kind hearted.
Verdalisa is the youngest of the Mystaran dragons- barely a hundred years old. She is also the first young dragon to be born in memory of the lesser races. The secret is, the other Dragons don’t know of her existence yet…
This incarnation of the Goddess Athena seeks to guide the Oberian warriors sent to Apollosis. She knows they walk into Hel itself…
The Wake of the Blue Fire was  spelled doom for those that thought the passing of the fires was a blessing. The necrotic surge in power has meant that the strong willed don’t even die of mortal wounds… and that the dormant corpses of the long deceased can be reanimated with ease… though with what souls or spirits to embody them?
The Wine Knight Ivrion has a penchance for debauchery. His protectors and Hall Guard all have a certain… shall we say, charm?
The vanquished angels and devils, or, if you will, the purest good and the vilest evil souls, cannot enter Heaven or fall to the Pits, the Outer Planes are cut off from the world of men. Somewhere, deep in the earth, the combined demonic forces have given way to a terrifying possibility…
The Potter’s Floumph is a house spirit that mischeviously moves about crockery and other items in a bid to garner attention and food from the home owner. Pedoule is a more volatile Floumph, and will take away jugs, pots, glasses and dishes, and drop them off of tables!
The gods and icons of Death walk the world of the living, and Shi is no exception- a Demon Queen from the distant land of Jadin. Her cult practices orderly funerary rites and observations… and aggressively seeks clients.
These advanced batlike creatures hail from the caves and burrows around the forests of the North Cruth. They are quite intelligent and excellent trackers, but operate only at night. They can understand the speech of men, but cannot talk aloud, and must sign, their voices set to a pitch beyond hearing.
And there you have it, all 30 characters! I had to skimp on the coloring near the end, and lock down a specific look to the art, but it was still a great time.
– Greg Gibbons
#10 The Shr’eal
Monsters and other weird things exist in the Flaorian Woods. Woe to the poor soul who gets lost in there, for they are usually never heard from again…or what’s left of them is found. But for the past few years, many have spoken about an angel of mercy within the Woods–an angel that resembles a demon. It seems to come out of nowhere, coming to the aid of travelers who are fleeing the forest monsters. It does not speak, but leads them out, only to return to the forest.
What is this creature? A person who was saved by it has dubbed it the “Shr’eal”, an ancient word that roughly translates to “friendly demon”. Why has this creature decided to help humans and fight other monsters? No one knows…but there are rumors of a kind-hearted knight who was cursed by an evil witch, who sought refuge in the Flaorian Woods. These are only rumors, however, but one thing is clear–the Shr’eal, whatever or whoever it is, has been a source of hope to those who must journey through the Woods.
#30 – Sarah the Zombie Killer
Little Sarah was an ordinary girl before the zombies came, but when the zombies took her parents (along with all the other adults) she became a force of vengeance. While all the other kids cowered in fear, she found a gun and an axe and began killing the Zombies one by one.
11/30/2012: Malithraxus, Void Dragon
NAME: Malithraxus  SPECIES: Dragon (Observer-Spawn) ORIGIN: ???
Spawned in the cosmic winds and seeded with an intelligence from beyond the Bulk, the cosmic dragon, Malithraxus was born to raze the pillars of reality and birth new life into its smoldering foundation. A being of pure magic, it soars aloft on vast, membranous wings, dripping with the scintillating colors of creation. Its claws and fangs rend through flesh and starship hulls with equal ease, casting those within screaming silently into the void. Its breath is the fire of chaos, giving new form to all that it touches. It is the harbinger of violent change. It has hears the voices of Nexus City, crying for a savior to release them from their prisons of biological and mechanical conformity.
Model designed in Sculptris and TinkerCAD (3d print pending….)
https://tinkercad.com/things/7RjhKpwgpjy-malithraxus-void-dragon-30characterschallenge
Characters 21-30/30 (Mission Complete!!)
21/30 – Amelia. She’s a ghost!
22/30 – Blech. Another WTF creature.
23/30 – Righteous Slaughter. A true founding father of this great nation.
24/30 – Avenging Pequot Warrior. In honor of the 700 massacred Pequot Native Americans.
25/30 – Slugger. He punches things. In space.
26/30 – Fluffy the Pirate. Named after one of my PAX Enforcer brothers, I mostly just wanted to draw a pirate with a Lemmy.
27/30 – Artslinger. This is the front turnaround for another contest, but I drew it in November, so whatever. Think having powers like Green Lantern, but through art supplies.
28/30 – The Scholar. Ended up looking like Gordon Freeman. Unintentional.
29/30 – Tengu. I didn’t draw any anthropomorphic creatures for this thing. Not my bag, really. Still, gotta cover all the bases.
30/30 – s133pDEAD! Okay, so it’s kind of a cop out, but I’m super stoked to have completed this challenge and also my beard deserves to be immortalized!
#30- Caterpede
And thus the challenge comes full circle. I seriously was just like.. what the hell would work for a celebration of monsters… Oh what the hell lets make the caterpital ‘human’. (and yes, I did come up with this today/this morning) lol.)
*she totally has two left feet on her last set of legs XD
#30Characters Chatter…