oh hurty eyes hurty eyes

You know when you are SOOOOO tired that your eyes are hurty? Yeah, that is now. Celebrate yay etc.

Schoolies:


That lady had some crazy hair . . . I was incapable of doing justice to its spikiness.

You know how some people have a "reading face?"


Lol dancing kid. She was hella far away but I had to record her dance for posterity's sake.


More of raincoat child and mother:



I like the nickname "Puff," like just a pet name that her mother came up with? Or maybe her first word? Or like Jigglypuff, lol I don't know. Puff and her mom have a complicated relationship. Before she was born her mom was some sort of dancer who got knocked up . . . I guess she made it bigger as a singer than a dancer, but I think it was more a career choice made out of necessity. Puff might grate on her, especially when she's being a brat. But still they are quite accustomed to each other.

If I had to assign them a story it would probably follow a similar plot line to all those changeling stories, a la Labyrinth or Hat Full of Sky or that one book I read as a kid where there was this ice thing and the pictures were fucking rad. Except Puff is sort of a "straight man" character, and she'd probably be quite fine on her own (despite being five).



End on the Villainous Triad. Lol Xonck got fucking gypped in the setup he's just about hidden.

Busy little bumblebee

Okay okay school stuff to start

Just a bunch of cafe drawings, nothing special. At Macrina nobody would pose interestingly, so I just made up poses. Here they are like in an illustration, I guess?

If I had to make up a story I would say that it would be a rescue story, about the kid trying to save his mom and baby sister with the help of a private investigator and a retired boxing champ.

This other stuff is actually also school work, MAYBE. I think I've decided on my character for junior year. She's a little meringue cookie raincoat child.


That dude is not her dad, by the way, though that is her mother. I just drew him in to see what her dad might look like and lol he is not it.

Her mom is some kind of singer, I guess? She's left on her own a lot and loves her umbrella. I think she's about five or six.

This is what I desperately want to do for junior project:

Ha ha lightning umbrella. Edited with a color sketch!



The main problem is lol two characters, do I want to model rig skin unwrap tex and animate all by myself? Ahahahaha I may in fact die from my ambitions. But I do think it's a very cute story and I'll pitch it to Adam regardless. If not she'll just be dancing around with her umbrella.

So other less school related things--

More of Sweetheart (her technical superhero name) in her more final costume style thingy? And a super terrible drawing of Edie for size comparison, her sidekick is tall. I'm thinking that maybe they have a difference in action styles, with Edie being more free-flowing parkour and Maria L being more masculine power punching shit (although notice how they are always bowlegged, why?) I think I'm going to de-bow her legs for the next round.

And in other news--

Holy crap everyone is dead!

Oh wait that's how the last book ended oh shit

Another design for Chang and Miss T looking different. I'm sure she has another arm, I just didn't draw it.

it's great to be lucid

I think it's a wonderful state of being.

Anyway, REAL work always goes firsties



A design for the flash class. There's a story behind it, The Nightingale and the Rose, or "Oscar Wilde Bitches About the I-Know-What-I-Likers in the Art World." Otherwise enjoy your suicidal bird shirt.

I won't get this out of my head until the 24th. So um deal.

Miss T on the train back from Harschmort

Chang on the train from Harschmort, same scene.

Really not a lot for him at all, but the Trifecta of Doom needs to represent itself in equal measure to the Triad of Wickedness.

Le Comte d'Orkancz & Angelique, totally prior to the events in the book sort of kind of perhaps? Right when he's like "hey you should contribute your memory to the greater good."



The Contessa!!!



I think she is my favorite villain in not just the book, but in a long, long time. Again, I'm really kind of curious about her motivations and also glad not to know . . . ? D'Orkancz and Xonck had great James Bond type motivations, so her ambiguity is crazy cool compared to those, it makes me think that she had an even better James Bond reason for being in the Cabal with the others.

And to top it off a color sketch of Edie in costume. Wtf that wig is ridiculous, I need to curb my terrible wig fetish a little for reality's sake.

we're all having SUCH a FANTASTIC time here in the RANCHUMS

I seriously don't know what is wrong with me today. It must be the insomnia + coffee spectacular combo attack.

Nananananana PREP WORK nananananana


Nanananananana FINISHED PIECE nanananananana

Dum dum dee dumm DOODLES dee dum dum dee doo


Lol hiiiii Miss T I forgot that you spend 60-70% of your time running around drinking tea and killing people and being molested, experimented upon and splattered with gore and taking it like a champ

Also shoes.

First Real Post

Yeah, so no icon, no layout fanciness or anything yet, but sketches and things. Let's start out with what I'm supposed to be working on, which is a classy 1860s Japanese cable car, if, you know, Tokyo had put in cable cars in the 1860s.

It seats a grand total of nine, including the attendant who takes the money and pulls the cord to make the driver (leading the team of horses, probably three or four on popular lines) stop at all the stops. It doesn't go backwards without switching the lines so a driver who doesn't stop in time for the platform probably won't be a driver for long.

This is what I'm actually drawing more of:

She's a super herooooo! Fuck, I'm such a geek. I think she might be just an excuse to draw foreshortened marvel poses (not pictured). She also has a foil, and it's fun to draw them just pounding each other into concrete.




You can see where the guy, Quick, had a knife or some sort of counterweapon to her bat, plus the chick, Edie, was also a bit taller/he was bit shorter. Edie's design has kind of shrunk since the initial drawing (also a bit skinnier). I think the refined drawing doesn't show off her left hand as the initial where I think it was, I dunno, prettier? But at least her right arm isn't (as) broken. The foreshortening on her raised foot isn't as pronounced and it looks . . . too small? Not forward enough. And sadly, like a lot of my refined stuff, it looks awkwardly stiffer than the original doodle.

This is the first time I've had to consider how the damn wig she wears stays on. And to end:


(I haven't read this book in ages, but I just found out there's a sequel, a real sequel and not this misleading volume 2/the 800 page original got split up by the still-hopeful publishers shit. I don't remember if Chang has the hat or if Svenson actually wears a pince-nez, but these are the images that stuck in my head when I imagine this book. All I seriously remember is that Miss Temple rocks the sausage curls and they spend all their time together arguing about what to do next. Oh god steampunk.)