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Post by Huntress on Aug 10, 2016 14:07:00 GMT -5
The WIP projectOh man, the last post on this thread is from January. Lack of free time etc etc etc and other such complaints. Which is actually what spurred this. Namely, I was talking to Thorn about my general lack of drawing among other things and she suggested that I could post WIPs if I don’t have actual drawings to post. At which I said that unlike most artists worth their salt, I don’t actually draw by way of a messy sketch refined into more and more detail; instead, I sort of work a picture into existence bit by bit so that a WIP of any stage would look like the Cheshire Cat. And then I thought that this might actually be a pretty nifty thing to document. So what I did was set the timer for five minutes at a time and scanned the result every time the timer went off. The subject matter: Ene and Theodor, because I like a challenge (read: making my life unnecessarily complicated); two figures interacting in space is a fair bit trickier to draw than a single figure, plus these two have wildly different body types to make things more interesting. Ene being of the “luscious curves” sort and Theo looking more’rless like you’d expect a young blacksmith to look. 00:05: whenever I draw anything resembling a human head, I start with a sphere with a cross in it to mark the spots for the eyes and nose and otherwise proportions, then immediately throw it all to the wind and stick the actual features way outside the previously established markers. Every time. I draw by way of flipping the pencil back and forth to use the pencil and the eraser in just about equal measures. It’d make for a heck of a video blog, titled How You Should Not Draw xD 00:10: actually tell you what, this head needs to be narrowed a bit.
00:15: another head-and-face marker bites the dust. I’m also starting to see how I never have time to draw. This is how far I can get in a quarter of an hour.
00:20: I do in fact plan out how the final image should work out before drawing it, it just exists only in my head and gets tweaked bit by bit once reality gets a say.
00:25: I see people complain about drawing hands a lot. Personally, I love drawing hands. But they do make for endless tweaking and erasing and redoing and now watch me spend several five-minute stretches on this. 00:30: orrr maybe I can get it done in another minute. Which still doesn’t rule out the possibility that some huge stretches will have to be erased later on because again, I’m a shmuck who can’t plan out a composition in advance. At this point I also have to stop and take a step back to figure out which hand is which because there’s a possibility I’d have to include her wedding ring at this point. If I left it for later, I’d forget. (My own wedding ring is on the right hand, and it’s generally 50:50 which hand people choose to wear theirs in here, but in foreign parts the left hand is so much the norm that we got curious comments about our right-hand-ringwearing. So Ene’s is on her left hand just to avoid making a completely unnecessary statement, and doesn’t show up here.) 00:35: hmm, that upper arm is giving me trouble. Time to just go do something else for a while, because this is how adults deal with their problems. At this point I had to go deal with a baby who thought that cooing, sticking his tongue out and farting very loudly are all much preferable to sleep. I agree on principle, but how is anyone supposed to get anything done this way? 00:40: tweak tweaky tweak tweak 00:50: okay, I cheat, because the first five minutes were regress instead of progress and got almost entirely erased back to the point of 00:40, but now I’m hitting a stride.
01:00: another stretch where the first five minutes got erased. This is where different body types and different genders are fun to draw, because men tend to be blockier on the whole, drawn with short straight scratchy lines, and women are softer and rounder, drawn with longer swooping lines. Man, this is the amount of drawing I can manage in a solid hour, then. I could probably try to do speedsketching, but when I undertook this, my entire point was to draw the way I usually do.
01:05: fine fiddling with expressions. The trouble with drawing an established character as opposed to just any random human face is that you need to hit the same face the same character has had in previous drawings. In Ene’s case it means staying aware of the defining features of her face (straight eyebrows and nose) and needing to hit that expression of having a joke at the expense of the entire universe. 01:15: Theo actually has no business having a stubble because he’s blonde so it wouldn’t show too well without being an actual beard, but I can’t back out of character design any more.
01:20: this feels like an excellent point to do some shading. 01:30: shading, folds, erasing excess lines and other such fun fidgety stuff. 01.35: gotta give that dress some color for depth. Until this point I wasn’t actually entirely sure if I’d be drawing anything below the waist or let it fade off like this (this sort of spontaneity is kind of a perk of this Cheshire Cat approach) but it’s getting late and realistically I might go durr and never finish it if I don’t finish it now, or just not get the time tomorrow (spontaneity is not a perk in a household with a baby) so I’ll spare myself the extra fiddling with getting the distance to the floor right for both of them. (The key is, of course, making the bar stool as tall as it needs to be.) 01:40: hour and a half of figure drawing, five minutes of throwing in a background just so that there’s some degree of surroundings. Whee. I’ve never timed my drawing before, but if I was to draw as much as can fit on the paper, with lower bodies and a proper detailed background, it could probably take around five-ish hours? I need to start doing quick sketches on a deadline if I’m to get anything done these days >___>
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Post by Thorn on Aug 10, 2016 16:41:58 GMT -5
Glad to be of service! xD
This is a cool idea- it's always insightful to see how an artist gets their artstuff done. I especially like Theo's expression here and, yes, Ene does have an expression which nicely fits her somewhat dark sense of humour, as you said. =P
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Post by Huntress on Oct 5, 2016 13:57:38 GMT -5
Hero Citywell fancy dat. I'm not taking part in Hero City, but admins, much like cats, roam all over the place and stick their noses in everything. Every now and again I come across inspiration this way. Thus: Nyx Nightshadow, courtesy of Thorn .  Zero peripheral vision but buckets of style, so there. Which resulted in us discussing curly hair and the maintenance thereof. My own hair handles reasonably well with the occasional tangle, but since Fraze's is long and curly, I get to witness the work involved on a daily basis. Managing curly hair isn't so much time-consuming but constant and if you don't give it regular treatments, you end up with a halo of frizz that eats combs. In other words, I concluded that Nyx probably really doesn't like people dropping by uninvited when it's one of those casual days in.  Fraze saw the picture and said that it's entirely accurate and in no way an exaggeration. The struggle is real.
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Post by Huntress on Dec 31, 2016 4:21:17 GMT -5
2016was an odd year, in that stuff happened and celebrities died and somewhere along the way it became memetic in being the Worst Year Ever, until in the end you couldn't get anything bad happening without someone holding it up as proof that 2016 is a vengeful god out to get us all. (Or is it just my Facebook feed? It's probably not just my Facebook feed.) In the end it started to bug me a bit, probably due to really not being original any more, not that it stopped me from getting a brainwave to the effect of "but if 2016 was an actual god out to muck with the whole world, what would it- heyyy, I know exactly what a time-based supernatural twitbasket would look like, actually." And a doodle was born.  I've said before that the concept of TMC as the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is a bit of an outdated concept by now - most people here probably don't remember the character, let alone the glitch he was based on - but the entire point of obnoxious time-based deities is, they're clever and find a way. All Horsemen have a tool they use for their horsemanship; a scythe for Death, sword for War, scales for Famine and a circlet for Pestilence. TMC's is his bike, which is clunky and impractical but excellent for showing off and gets the job done.
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Post by Twillie on Dec 31, 2016 14:59:23 GMT -5
(Or is it just my Facebook feed? It's probably not just my Facebook feed.) Nah, it's not just you. I can't seem to escape the sentiment, whether it be online or in real life. It's been getting a bit bothersome for me too, probably because complaining about 2016 like it actually has motivation and treating New Year's like a countdown to "normality" is in no way productive xP Nice sketch, though! Can't say I'm familiar with the character, but he and the other Horsemen sound pretty interesting (I think I've seen drawings of the other Horsemen from you, now that I think about it). Does TMC stand for something? |
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Post by Huntress on Jan 1, 2017 6:05:36 GMT -5
(Or is it just my Facebook feed? It's probably not just my Facebook feed.) Nah, it's not just you. I can't seem to escape the sentiment, whether it be online or in real life. It's been getting a bit bothersome for me too, probably because complaining about 2016 like it actually has motivation and treating New Year's like a countdown to "normality" is in no way productive xP Nice sketch, though! Can't say I'm familiar with the character, but he and the other Horsemen sound pretty interesting (I think I've seen drawings of the other Horsemen from you, now that I think about it). Does TMC stand for something? I don't have very high hopes for 2017 being any better than 2016, since the processes that caused the events that made people complain about 2016 wouldn't just magically go away with the new year and celebrities will presumably keep dying as well, since none of them are immortal (with the possible exception of Keith Richards, if he ever kicks it then that will be the apocalypse.) TMC stood for Too Many Connections, which plagued the forum for a heckuva long time. I think what happened was the Proboards servers at the time couldn't handle the rather impressive strain our disproportionately huge forum was putting on them. We were one of the biggest, if not the biggest Proboards forum both by membership and traffic. So you'd be browsing along, engrossed in a nice bloidchat - which could move at Skype-speed in their heyday - or just finished writing a long intricately reasoned post and clicked enter, and WHAM, TMC right in your face and you'd have to wait or refresh for a while until the server was released from the chokehold. It was a pain xD That's when I got in the habit of copying every post of mine before posting. In-story, TMC the Horseman was born out of a one-line joke (as always) during Guild Wars 2 which lasted for months and moved at a steady clip of a page per week or so, so I'd occasionally write a post with the Horsemen milling about in their secluded plane watching the humans and bickering among themselves when I didn't currently have anything to do with my actual player characters. TMC was an obnoxious prat with universal timey-wimey lag powers who grabbed the job in an unexpected power vacuum after Pestilence retired (stupid medical advancements putting long-time professionals out of work), got on everyone's nerves by having zero work ethic and refusing to be a team player, got run over by the plot and sealed in a magic gem, created another power vacuum which forced Pestilence out of retirement (not cool), spent some time possessing a mild-mannered wet-rag pirate captain in what was effectively an Unlikely Roomies sitcom, and came back with a minor redemption arc I think about two roleplays and five years later. Thems were the good times xD I never actually drew them much for whatever sad reason, although I do have this post on this thread. 'course, now I'm inspired to go and dig through my Photobucket to see what else I ever did with them. In fact, there was some pretty intricate concept art. Starting with Famine:  I was fairly proud of this one because I managed to hit just the right balance between pretty and creepy with her. War:  Set in the Mysterious Ice Cave of Plot where a final battle took place. Death:  Started this whole Horseman business with a single post as a homage to Terry Pratchett and was intended as a one-time gag really. I should know better. and TMC:  why did it have to be chrome, I have no idea how to do chrome. I started one with Pestilence but never finished coloring. What I did do once during my BA studies was spend a whole lot of classes working on a biro sketch on the inside of a notebook cover, honing out a scene where a valkyrie is visiting Pestilence in his tavern to tell him that he's to resume active duty whether he likes it or not, and actually wrote the scene in a roleplay several years later.  The perspective is a bit wonky, but it was a biro sketch so whatchagonnado. And then there was a wee illustration of Guild Wars 3 where the Resumed Four are in Famine's summer home poking at the increasingly dire apocalyptic scenario in the guildworld, all "lol what do": ...whoop, accidental textwall xD |
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Post by Twillie on Jan 1, 2017 14:40:15 GMT -5
Regarding politics, I'm as unsure as anyone else about what will happen, but I'm going to assume nothing too favorable. The celebrity deaths, though, I don't care much about anymore. Our generation is reaching that age where the adults we grew up with are getting old, so these people were going to pass sooner rather than later, anyway. That, on top of the fact that I never knew any of these celebrities personally, I can't bring myself to let the deaths upset me that much. With 2017, I'm trying to put most of my expectations/positivity towards my personal life. That's what I've done with any other new year, and that's all I can realistically make goals for since it's all that's in my control.
And ohhh, I gotcha XD The neoboards have forced me to make the same habit of copying any posts I write, although for different reasons besides overloaded servers X3 And yeah, that calendar post is the one I've seen before! That looks so cool, how did you make each page look just like a calendar you'd buy at a store?
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Post by Huntress on Jan 2, 2017 12:17:14 GMT -5
Regarding politics, I'm as unsure as anyone else about what will happen, but I'm going to assume nothing too favorable. The celebrity deaths, though, I don't care much about anymore. Our generation is reaching that age where the adults we grew up with are getting old, so these people were going to pass sooner rather than later, anyway. That, on top of the fact that I never knew any of these celebrities personally, I can't bring myself to let the deaths upset me that much. With 2017, I'm trying to put most of my expectations/positivity towards my personal life. That's what I've done with any other new year, and that's all I can realistically make goals for since it's all that's in my control. And ohhh, I gotcha XD The neoboards have forced me to make the same habit of copying any posts I write, although for different reasons besides overloaded servers X3 And yeah, that calendar post is the one I've seen before! That looks so cool, how did you make each page look just like a calendar you'd buy at a store? I'm guessing a big part of being upset over a celebrity death is realizing that they'll never make more of the stuff we enjoyed them in. That was the reason that made me go D: over the death of Terry Pratchett (whose last book was admittedly kinda meh, the Alzheimer's took his books before his death did). But s'true, influence the things you can change and try not to fret over the things you can't, or how did that quote go again. Hurr durr, I can't be 100% sure of my calendarmaking processes any more, but I think what I did was create a calendar grid with the template in MS Word, type in all the numbers and holidays and other such calendar-stuff and then transfer it all to Paintshop with the inelegant yet effective Print Screen. Then fiddled with fonts and transparencies and whatnot until it looked nice enough. My calendars need to have ample space around the dates because I write stuff down a lot. They were all size A3 when printed out. |
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Post by Huntress on Mar 5, 2017 14:51:55 GMT -5
The Townbecause if Medieval can stay relevant for several years after its end then this lovely little crapsack world of deathmurder and general mayhem can too, amiright. If you weren't in the Town, what happened at the end of it besides all the overturned governments and general hope for a better tomorrow was that Ene (who was technically my character the same way people technically own cats; mostly she wrote herself) decided to start a ghost pub and conscripted a bunch of deadmurdered teenagers for this in a combination of free labor force and a sort of afterlife group therapy setup. Wacky antics presumably ensued, don't put it past me to get another idea five years down the line and hoist surprise character tags on people because this is how I roll. This here was originally a tie-in fic idea because loose ends will do that to me, but I have this great big problem with writing other people's characters, best summed up as "OH GOD WHAT IF I GET IT WRONG AND THEY HATE IT", which rather puts a damper on any writing attempts. Curiously, I have no such issues with drawing other people's characters, and all the better because it really works best as a comic. (I still feel like I should apologize for this thing. I sorry.)  Gonna tag Celestial for Ivan and Liou for... uh, the overall concept of the Malfoys- I mean the Sheridans, who hopefully never got hashed out too clearly appearance- or character-wise because if they did, I most likely got them way wrong.
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Post by Huntress on Mar 17, 2017 15:24:03 GMT -5
Flufflepuff's spring cleaning project is working wonders on my motivation. I made my own list for the event, took a good look at it, went DO NOT WAAAANT and promptly went and drew something else entirely. ...I figure the event hasn't actually started yet, so >> Thus, the Res-Sisters now in Technicolor. Lizica , Tiger , have a tag. I like to imagine that after the events of the story, these three went on to start a weekly knitting club where they get together to have beer, talk about their lives, occasionally but not always listen to the others talk about their lives, organize events, have karaoke nights, get up to no good and generally do everything other than knit. Frankly the thought of drunk Joan is genuinely terrifying. Or maybe she's an aggressive drunk. |
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Post by Huntress on May 3, 2017 11:29:49 GMT -5
Mafia Wars- the original, of course. Inbetween the countdown to the Wrighton game we'll be sort-of-mostly-co-hosting with Fraze and all the reminiscing happening on the 'bloids, I remembered this one lil thing that started my career as "event co-host who's only in it to draw art". Mafia Wars was a roleplay Carrie and I ran in the Splatterboard in March 2008 or thereabouts. Truth be told, I never actually read the roleplay and I have only a vague idea about what it was actually about. It's in Memory Lane, if you're curious. If you're not curious, my contribution to the story was a bunch of film noir comics that served as narrator-posts because those were the parts that carried the story. They're all scattered across the roleplay threads and the links are largely broken, so this is as good a time as any to gather them all in one place. It all started in a dark alleyway somewhere in Tabloid Town where Don Carrie received a letter. Don Hunty caught wind of the situation in due time.  The "you" in question was, obviously, Goosh, who always served as my right-hand yurble. And so they met one suitably drab and rainy evening... ...to establish the plot and the requisite kitschy movie poster. so basically, it was money vs familial ties. Chapter 2 began at a nice social shindig at a mansion in Tabloid Town. And it was going so well, too. and then - treachery! Backstabbing! Cops! Nukes! Overall no sense of restraint as far as writing the plot goes!  Most turf wars probably don't end with nuclear weaponry deployed, but that's what you get when I'm involved. And that was only the second act. Chapter 3 - soulful music leading in to a mid-plot change in events. Maintaining a good chokehold of the turf is hard work. Moreso when a third side is formed out of those who aren't happy with the status quo. Of course, every action has a reaction. And so the gameboard gets shuffled again as soon as the next suitably dreary night comes to serve as backdrop. But it's going to be more complicated than just shooting a bunch of people. Not that there's anything wrong with shooting a bunch of people. Holy heck I can't remember who the third third-side!Don was. Going by the comics and my wonky memory, the third side that united the original two sides consisted of Rider, Squiesh and Rikku, but that's all the detail I remember. Now what happened was the tail-end of the story was more than just roleplaying. There was a stretch I ran with Scar, where the newspaper editor codenamed the Editor kept publishing things to rile the public up against the mafia. The mafia continued to be not-best-pleased. So the story transformed from a pure roleplay to a map-searching game to find and dispose of the Editor. Eventually, of course, he was found. Why Scar spoke with a French accent is lost to the ages. And so it ends... or does it?  For the uninitiated, Phoenix Down is from some computer game or other that I never played, and is used to bring people back from the dead. It was a reference widely used on the 'bloids at the time. In the aftermath, though, there was a blooper reel, because I can't ever stray very far from my usual trademark stupid-funnies. The fact that I managed to draw a whoppin' 15 straightforward film noir comics without any goofing is already mildly impressive. The gameplay consisted of people teaming up to search buildings to smoke out the Editor, and as far as I can tell nobody actually found him so we forwarded the plot on our own. Resulting in this. errrybody likes trenchcoats. He's a family man after all. Rider is short, and also Fullmetal Alchemist references that were much more relevant eight years ago. Combing through my photobucket for these reveals that the lumbering behemoth that was the Guild Wars 2 roleplay was also ongoing at the time, if close to the end (the thing was longer than the Harry Potter books combined). How the everloving hell's bells did I have the time for all this?
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Post by Huntress on May 27, 2017 10:20:41 GMT -5
I now have a new (and massively overdue) sketchbook =D The way I do it, I draw the cover of the next sketchbook on the inner cover of the previous one, color it digitally, get it printed out and laminated, and then bound with a stack of paper and a thicker sheet of cardstock for the back cover. This is the first one that has actual nice paper; up until now I always drew on standard ol' printer paper because... uh, because I've been drawing for pretty much my entire life and as a kid I'd always just draw on whatever was available, so somehow it never occurred to me to get nice tools. It's a cycle I've recently started to break. So 50 layers and 59 MB later: Bonus commentary: * I don't think these two actually exist in the same universe, or at the very least in the same timeline, but that's the sort of subject matter I get my sketchbook covers out of. If they did ever meet, they'd probably get along like a house on fire, bad-dum-tssh. * But the meepits exist wherever the heck they want. * The beer in the glass is a red ale, because why not (they're more interesting than pale ales but not quite as strong as dark beers. Historically I always wrote Cap'n Hunty as a teetotaller, but eh, characterisation marches on and she can hold her booze fine, it's just a matter of proper timing so you don't drink and sail. Bloody Mary is probably the heavier drinker of the two.) * I realized halfway through coloring the sword that I've actually drawn the Sue-Sword before and when I did, I gave it a ridiculously ornate carved hilt. So let's say that at one point, the Cap'n took it to a smith and had it all filed off for ease of use. It was probably long overdue anyway. * The little Outside critter behind the sofa is the same one I used for the comic with the Sheridans and might or might not be Pup or related to Pup, depending on what Coaster thinks Pup looks like. I could never get a proper visual myself. Whatever it is, it's some kind of a cross between Stitch, Toothless and demons of hell, and I find it quite adorable. Should try to draw it fully sometime. * The coasters on the table were made by way of yoinking Lizica 's Melville History Museum logo, tinkering with its colors and sizing it down. They're just barely legible in the final printed form. I figure that Joan supplies Ene with a lot of free promotional stuffs for publicity, and Ene will happily take everything that comes her way because hey, you try running a pub with a decent overhead. (also see: I take shortcuts with small details wherever I can xD) * The picture on the wall is... well, okay, I reused the burning clocktower painting I made a while ago because if I'd done anything original, it would've taken forever and gotten scaled down in the end. It got adjusted to a different angle so as to serve as a photo taken of the clocktower the night it burned. Ene probably got it off her daughter who works at the town newspaper, and she's very much the type to keep a framed shot of the fire on the wall - not to be a prick, but to remind people what the Resistance fought for. |
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Post by Shinko on May 27, 2017 10:34:23 GMT -5
Ha, I love Captain Huntress giving stinkeye to the meepit that's trying to eat a cigarette butt. XD And the nice detail of the smoke on the ceiling- though it makes me wonder how much money Ene sinks into keeping her ceiling clean. My aunt smokes and her ceiling is stained yellow from it, lol.
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Post by Huntress on Nov 20, 2017 7:27:30 GMT -5
Wrighton - StoryCrossposting various Wrighton arts is a particularly overdue undertaking because my sketchbook has 15 pages of Wrighton-stuff plus some newer things I haven't actually scanned and posted yet, so I'll do this in increments. First, all the various flavor images of the game itself, because that's what inevitably happens when I take part in running a game. Plot-spoilers are ahead if you so happen to be someone who didn't take part in the game but actually cares about getting spoiler'd (well, it could happen). The Wrighton map in all its completely unnecessarily detailed glory Prologue header (so quiet, so innocent, so no-idea-what's-going-to-happen) Chapter 1 header LOL DOME OUTTA NOWHERE. Chapter 2 header errybody be waking up on roofs. It occurred to us only later just how little of our playerbase was in our previous games, meaning very few people could expect the way we run a game. As a rule, we can always be expected to troll the players. As a result of roof shenanigans, doors were found. Concept art usually takes the form of scribbly sketches for me. Chapter 3 header A mysterious stranger with David Tennant's hair appears to do exposition. Crowd-drawing skills are put to test. The fair in the prologue is still valiantly trying to stay relevant. Cats appear to give plot-relevant trinkets to the players. (Drawing different-styled cats, surprisingly fun.) Chapter 4 header Mysterious doors are entered to reveal a mysterious catacomb of tunnels which oh by the way is a buried spaceship. Chapter 5 header Waking up in a library after a sleepover, wonderful header-drawing material. Plot-relevant note on the corkboard at the dinner party, doubling as a bit of a reveal about the Boss' character.  His handwriting was made by way of writing the line, turning it upside down and then copying the resulting scribble as best as I could, to convey the handwriting of someone who learned the Latin alphabet a good thousand years into his existence and whose mother tongue is written as elegant alien circles *coughGallifreyancough*. Chapter 6 header The Tallinn Seaplane Harbour - I mean the Command Center of the ship. It's two big ol' stone arches, although I'm aware that the darker one in the back is creating an optical illusion of a dome. Epilogue header  "] The spaceship aboveground. Basically a big white slightly unseemly pancake covered in a patchwork of alien graffiti - I mean murals. Big ol' eyesore that the neighboring towns aren't very happy about because they think it's probably a new mall or something.
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Post by Huntress on Nov 21, 2017 7:52:34 GMT -5
Wrighton - Charactersaka the things I draw when I'm just trying to get a visual of a given character and don't necessarily care too much about putting them in a scene of any sort (although there's often an overlap, because that's how I roll). I'm a strongly visual person (shocking, I know) and a lot of the time I just can't see the character before I've drawn them. Thus, lots of art happens. Lots of tags will also happen. Kathleen Morrigan, my perky Irishish reporter chick and intended narrative glue who ended up more of a standalone character than narrative glue: This was the first time I actively sat down and pinpointed proper human proportions, which made the final sketch look kind of odd because I've been ruined by a lifetime of drawing cartoony proportions. And the colored Kathleen avatar I had for the duration of the game: Same sketch partly colored, because I'm lazy. Kathleen owns ties in all colors of the rainbow because that's how you spice up a simple suit with minimum effort. Esther ( Shinko ) because I don't pass up the chance to draw cute kids: (She probably looks closer to one than four years old because that was the live model I had to work with and I wasn't quite invested enough in this to want "four-year-old Asian-African child" in my search history, ahahayes.) Athene ( Gelquie ) aka Greek Lady in Wheelchair: Scip ( Fraze ) aka Woobie AI: Heretofore unmentioned easter egg: the background of this picture is the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS, for no real reason other than I needed a background for it and this served well enough as equal parts spaceship reference and the general Doctor Who vibe we kept piecing through the story. Which of course begs the question of what Scip got up to during his couple-thousand-year idle period. The Boss, with his Kathleen-made coffee mug that he secretly loves: Drawn by way of taking Peter Capaldi as basis and then not being very good at drawing Peter Capaldi, but he turned out precisely how I wanted him to turn out, so yay. Ayo ( Liou ), or as I put it, I've drawn a lot of expressive eyebrows and ears in my time but this was my first time drawing someone with expressive shoulders. The Pizza Dude ( Draco ) (well, his name was Glenn, but I like Pizza Dude): Fionn ( Celestial ) in varying degrees of hotness: Loorea, Kathleen's alien ancestor/previous form/the technology of the reincarnations was always a bit wiggly. Perky redhead either way, just that she was once a Klingon Saiyan Jaffa some warrior race of superhuman strength and general cliché-ness, but didn't really fit in with the rest onnacounta being a massive nerd by her people's standards. Ms Wuffle the Space Chinchilla ( Fraze ), the ship's liaison in the intergalactic bank. Also adorbz. Mina Khouri ( ♥ Azzie ) or rather my rendition of her because sometimes I don't let a lack of references stop me. ...It occurs to me that "fortysomething lady in a flower shop" is an oddly specific repetitive theme in my sketchbooks. (Part of me is now tempted to draw an AU scene in which Mina and Ene meet up and talk shop. Another part of me thinks that it's a Really Really Bad Idea, seeing how one is an adorable cinnamon bun and the other a cheerful murderess-arsonist-terrorist. They might still happily bond over hibiscus strains, though.) And my Selfie of Doom probably also fits the bill of this post, so might as well tack it on here: Not going to tag everyone again, they wouldn't map to the picture very easily anyway. Y'all know who you are.
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