I draw things sometimes.
My Art : Jekyll and Hyde
My Films : Buy Prints!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Okay, maybe I’m a little bit obsessed with Lindsey Stirling right now.
You have to understand that the idea of someone who can play the violin and move about gracefully at the same time is absolutely blowing my mind.
(there’s some severely messy construction in all of these but I am really art blocked right now so don’t hate me too much plz)
Haruki and Meg from my story Of Gods and Introverts
I’ve been in this minor internal war recently in trying to write and (re)design this character Meg, the thunderbird goddess. I’m pretty damn comfortable writing Haruki (who is Japanese-American) but Meg is Native-American, and the scale of research involved to become even remotely familiar with that culture … daunting. I’m not even sure how to go about placing her in any specific tribe. :|
Race doesn’t come in to the story too much, but I am concerned about running into stereotypes and generally uninformed story choices! I’m not even particularly familiar with Native American stereotypes, and I’m not 100% sure I could identify, say a “noble savage” character on sight. I would love to build Meg into a direct subversion of those cliches, but I would have to be able to properly understand them first. XD
As for herself, Meg is an enormously powerful goddess who God-mods her way through the story and has an outward personality of Willy Wonka crossed with Totoro, hence the wall-eyed stare.
ANYONE WANNA BETA-READ FOR ME??
I am just about finishing up the second draft of my Jekyll and Hyde story (working title: The Pseudoscientists). It started out as a rough outline and has now mutated into a half-storybook, half-outline story experiment that I actually kind of like in some ways. But it’s definitely reached a point where I am way too close to the material to tell if anything is working, so if anyone would like to take a gander at it, please message me. :)
Just some Rachel doodles from last week! I’m fond of how her character is becoming a bigger part of the current draft of my Jekyll and Hyde story.
I think I am finding that the clearer grasp I have on the story as a whole, the more lively and specific my character sketches yet. Key word here is “I think”—I haven’t drawn these guys nearly often enough lately to feel sure!
Anonymous asked you:
Quick gender-switched sketch of Jekyll and Hyde please?
I would like to do some more costume research on lady!Jekyll, but basically she would be a very intelligent and witty hostess with a very well-kept secret.
Lady!Hyde is almost exactly the same as regular Hyde, with a stick-thin, boyish frame and a penchant for cross-dressing. Because what’s the fun of going against social norms if you don’t shove it in everyone’s face all the time?
“Hey! Maybe something nice will happen! WHY WOULD ANYTHING NICE EVER HAPPEN??”
This is my character Haruki, and it seems that I draw him about once a year when I need to be really grumpy about something. His story keeps changing!
Right now he is a witch-king who lives all alone in his castle, until it gets unceremoniously destroyed by a bipolar goddess. He is then forced to travel around with the goddess’s clan of Sailor Senshi-esque magical girl soldiers whom he hates, deeply.
But my goodness these last few weeks have been nothing but nonstop job drama. I don’t know where I’m going to go yet but I’m finding Next to Normal lyrics getting stuck in my head a lot recently….
Didn’t I see this movie with McMurphy and the nurse?
That hospital was heady, but this cuckoo’s nest is worst!
Since my training period at Disney is coming to an end, we finally got permission to upload some of our early work from the program 8D
The first assignment was to come up with a re-imagining of a classic story (coincidentally, that Disney has already done) and I chose Peter Pan. I tried to capture the slightly eerie vibes I got from reading Peter and Wendy… nothing over-the-top spooky, but just the natural strangeness that would have to come from a kid who is both immortal and eternally childlike.
It’s a shame that we’re not allowed to show our more recent stuff since I think I improved a lot since then but whatevs >(
Today was sucky so I drew a thing and now I feel kinda better
I love this little brat!!!! I wish he’d gotten to keep his crazy costume after he turned Good. The poor kid had to run around in his drab-ass school uniform as some kind of penance for being way more fun than the other Digidestined.
I love how the designs in Digimon make almost no sense. Unfortunately this kid held such sway over my imagination that it’s really hard for me to design my own Evil Emperor outfit without those horrid massive shoulder pads and the weird crazy hair.
Ooh I think I forgot to upload this sketch!
It’s … really just an pose exercise, but I wanted to figure out how to draw Dina’s two-handed sword.
(Also she has super strength, the sword’s probably made of something super heavy and painful. She’s actually not too good at swordmanship I bet, she just whacks that thing around and generally manages to knock things unconscious by virtue of her sword’s sheer weight. She also can have a bit of a temper—don’t get on her bad side. Unless you’re her girlfriend Inara, who can vanish objects away with her mind. Then you’re pretty much safe.)
Without Jekyll to temper his desires, Hyde quickly descends into delirium. The night is not going terribly well so far.
Oops this was supposed to be my “thanks for 2000 followers!” post but it’s at least two weeks late. And it’s still just a sketch … writing this up I realize it’s a really strange piece for a happy “yay new people!” post. :|
……it is however a pretty accurate representation of the personal work I post on tumblr. “Here, have an intensely dramatic scene with almost no context and which probably has 1/4th its intended impact when presented as a stand-alone image.”
