Card Project 1: Me!

alrighty, in order to have a backup just in case my computer fries (again, not recently, but just in case), or something like that, i've decided to upload the "finished" colored versions of my little cards project, one at a time, so i can just draw it out, and so i can actually describe each one aptly (is what I tell myself). Okies, and here's number one:

"Spice of Life, and all that stuff."

Ok so here's the character i based off myself. Gave him messy hair, and bright eyes (for an asian as people tell me, i wish i had eyes that were really that bright). He wears a "trench coat" that doesn't really look like one but w/e, because when i was in 7th grade, i thought those looked really cool. His weapon of choice that he is sporting on his shoulder is---- custom made i suppose, haha, so i really don't have a name for it, however it is meant to be a variation between a spear and a sword/polearm, the spear being the end with the cross hilt with the straight and forward blade, the latter being the blade on the right curved and meant for slicing. He wields the element of fire. anddd there's our basic info for him.

Now, as to why i've chosen to create a character after myself, well, quite honestly a lot of other artists do that. the better question is why i would choose to let him carry my name too. Most other artists would find this vain or narcissitic, which quite honestly i am really, so there, what are you going to do about it? lol, alright kidding aside, i believe------ that i was going to say something profound before deliberately derailing my train of thought.

Back to the character being described above. his personality actually diverges quite a bit from my own. Well, initially he starts as a character that is/was like me before, where he's super anti-social, pragmatic, and coldhearted except to those that are very close to him. He used to be the type to carry grudges unforgiving of the slightest wrong upon him that he felt/knew/believed was unjustly deserved, which applies about 10x as much to those he cared about. This was when he had long hair during the first arc of the story, that would be fuking awesome if it could be made into a video game when i grow up. *ahem* ANYWAYS, currently his character is now everything i aspire to be, omitting some character flaws for character development. Carefree, happy, funny, he feels his life is his own, with no obligation to anyone, but rather he chooses to help everyone (ehh---- this just to make it seem like it rhymes, there are MANY exclusions to that statement, hahaha). I tried to depict this personality aspect mostly in his hair, keeping it as airy looking as possible. hmm well i think that's all for today.