Happy birthday, Alex! Have an Arcanabending Pocketsized Alunze.
This little image is only a placeholder for now; I do have something bigger cooked up, but due to school and work projects I won’t be able to finish it before I leave for MCM Expo. mystery note: you might be seeing this lil’ Alunze again in the close future, only in a slightly different form.
Have a great and least-jetlagged-as-possible birthday, Alejandro, and see you in London! Cheers!
Random early-morning doodlesdesign I’ve been coloring in during a Skype conversation.
I would have looks up bird wings, but I was too distracted with the convo. Next time I’ll pay attention to properly reference them. orz
Sky Trails
Buhbuhbbuhbreak from work via speedpaint. I know I’m never going to go back to this ever so might as well upload it.
This world has some cray cray things going on in the sky(skies), just sayin’.
Dear Hascent,
Until I properly learn how to draw/shade faces I’ll keep butchering your stupidly serious mug and I’m sorry for this but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Sincerely,
Ver
leisure doodle. oh hey, I should be in bed, look at that.
Sometimes Hascent walks out into the snow and angrily poses with a sword for no real reason. What a silly man.
I still don’t know what his clothes should be, I keep changing them in every sketch. Until I sort that out I’ll just keep shaking my fist in anger in his general direction.
So looks like today was very unproductive in terms of actual work, but I’m actually happy I got around to a bunch of Godslayer-related things, both in art and brainstorming/writing. Yup. I’m ok with this. /what are priorities
flapperwolf asked: Can I just ask you where and how you made that awesome map? I've been dying to find a map making program for my own project!
I’m afraid I can’t give advice on any map-making program as I drew my map in Photoshop with a Wacom Bamboo tablet.
If it’s any help, though, I went back just now and took a series of screenshots of consecutive layers to roughly demonstrate how I was working through the entire process:
- I started off with an A4 pencil sketch of the general landmass which I scanned into photoshop, cut around and frankesteined a bit to alter the initial shape to my liking. I turned up the contrast and levels to see the lines more properly.
- I applied some washed out base colors to better distinguish the waters and the lands.
- I added more defined colors and started establishing the basic shaping of the land and seabed using a standard airbrush.
- Now I’ve started adding more saturated colors both to the sea and lands to introduce further variation into the landscape.
- More landscape-shaping with colors! At this point I tried to establish which portions of the lands are higher and which ones are sloping down. I’ve also added a gradient to the sea to darken the deep waters furthest from the shores.
- I decided I don’t want the mass of water to the north-east and edited that part, swapping in more land in it’s place. I’ve also started dotting the shores with smaller islands, peninsulas and similar geographical goodies.
- The final stage was to add some minor details and darken the waters some more. And that’s that!
A tentative map for my story Godslayer. Might be subject to change, but I like what I made with it so far and would like to share.
because guys I love making maps. They’re way up there on my list of favorite things to design. I don’t know why. Just maps. Since always. maps
I have also finally come to the Procrastination Loop/Paradox where I procrastinate from procrastination by working on what I was previously procrastinating from. Now to step up the level to procrastinate from Godslayer by working on the workhaul I have to deal with this weekend! nngh
“Lad’s unmistakably a northborn, got that icy look, “yonder gaze”, some call it. Only true Ilusimi carry the sky in their eyes.”
(Just got through a tad stressful and consequently unproductive art-wise week. I have a lot to get around to this weekend, but I allowed myself to unwind a bit this evening with doodling updated OC designs.)
This here fine young Ilusimi is Im, one of the three protagonists from my webcomic-in-working entitled “Godslayer”.
Some may recall this character from an old scribblesheet I posted on dA. As seen, the design has changed quite a bit, most notably due to bumping up the kid’s age from the initial 8 to a whopping 13. All grown up, what a champ.
Also winter garb. Glorious, multi-layered winter garb.
![Szczurzyna [shchoo-JEE-nah], a female may be also called Szczurzynka [shchoo-JEEN-ka], the root word for their name is “szczur” - “rat” - which is transformed to form a word that could mean “Rat Person” or, more elegantly, a single form of “Ratfolk”.
Not nearly exciting as a fire-for-blood, skeletal wolf, Szczurzyna is another freeform creature design for Slava. A Szczurzyna lives in and takes care of in-door shrines, at least to the extent their small form allows them. They are meek and timid creatures who prefer the dark.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3s06t33hM1r7did9o1_500.jpg)
Szczurzyna [shchoo-JEE-nah], a female may be also called Szczurzynka [shchoo-JEEN-ka], the root word for their name is “szczur” - “rat” - which is transformed to form a word that could mean “Rat Person” or, more elegantly, a single form of “Ratfolk”.
Not nearly exciting as a fire-for-blood, skeletal wolf, Szczurzyna is another freeform creature design for Slava. A Szczurzyna lives in and takes care of in-door shrines, at least to the extent their small form allows them. They are meek and timid creatures who prefer the dark.
Pretty much my reaction to the sudden explosion of Wilłak/Wilgłoda reblogs.
I’m absolutely flattered by the (still growing asdfasd) response and all the new followers who, well, followed.
Hello to all of you, a big thank you for the support and I hope you enjoy my artblog!
