Retro Art, Part 4

hmm... i think i might've been using the term "retro" inappropriately... maybe. well, w/e I do not believe anyone has found out about the awesomeness of this blog anyways, so who cares. Anyways, here are the Leion (pronounced like Lay-on), a race of feline humanoids or bipeds, or w/e term you wanna use. well, one of them is more fox like, than feline, but more details about that later. Anyways, the influence of this race's genesis is probably due to my brother's artistic style centering upon furry art. Anyways... here they are:So here is something i did 2 years ago, none too great, but it depicts one of the cycles center to the storyline. Depiction of Felinar, the cursed, attacking Wreish, who is somewhat of an outcast among the leion, due to his half-as yet to be named demon blood, which is that of a vampiric bat like race. The fox like female, whose more foxlike features do not show up from this little bit is named Celesti, sister to Wreish, and former mate of Felinar. Alrighty, i think that's enough of a briefing.

Jace and Kate embracing each other. mm pic done about 3 years ago. Apparently a lot of people accidentally mistake Jace for a female also.... w/e. I gave him long hair because among the Leion, who take the characteristics of lions, males tend to have longer hair... like you know a mane.... capicce?Here is a picture again of the older generation guys. no date on this one, but pretty old too. this is before the whole story begins, as Wreish looks like he is in his early teen years (to me at least) Forgot what the Chief guy in the back's name was before he became Felinar... looks very odd too. too skinny. and there's Celesti.

I believe they are all part of the Sun Tribe. More on this later, but the Leion are divided into two main tribes, the Sun and the Wind. oh shoot... i dearly hope i still have my concept stuff... hope it's not in my lost binder... very sad...-_-

Alright. and now about my life at UCSD. Very Very busy. and I've recently built up a well of ambiguous anger, and with no direction to aim it at, apparently my body seems to attack itself while i sleep. somehow i've accumulated a few scratches and stuff, w/o my awareness, and just this morning, i woke up to find my pinky and ring finger completely numb. anyways, it's almost 12 am so--- inspirational awe-inspiring stuff will have to wait.

Ravenous Concept Art

hmm trying to get back into the habit of drawing. Concept art for one of the demon species within Zeral's World, the Ravenous:The Ravenous come into the world with no sense of identity, and their only desire is to fulfill their hunger by preying upon a victim and consuming their identity, in effect replacing them. The Ravenous tend to hunt in packs and although quite fearsome in their own right, with the frenzy of their hunger fueling their attacks, what is possibly more terrifying is the dawning realization that they are stealing the aspects of who you are. Given enough time, the Ravenous will complete the transformation and then seek to eliminate their quarry in order to fully replace them. The weakness of the ravenous lies within the transition time from a berserk demon into a sophisticated individual. During this time period those of strong will must strike out against the grotesque image that is a blend of themselves and a monster.

Retro Art. Part 3

Alright, today's theme is for the more story related art--- stuff.

These are the "four" elite demons. now obviously you can see the big Bad in the bg. that one is special, and i'll talk about him----later. Names of the four---- are not concrete yet, but the one in the bottom right corner is named "Felinar", and--- i suppose the Rock guy above him can be named Rog. other two i'll probably research appropriate names for them.
The Guardians of Zeral. These five each hold a piece of the essense of Zeral, who in the past was the Big Big Bad. In case you can't read my bad writing, they are Decay, Energy(Magic), Corruption, Strength, and Life (Vitality).

Ehh, that's all for now, tireeddd....

Retro Art. Part 2

Another Day, another start. Here's part two of the old retro art. yay, I rhymed, go me.

The Blade of the Phoenix.
I personally liked how I included that little box of pure grayscale.
I thought it adds a nice effect to it. This pic looks awesome inverted too.

My dislike of getting my hair cut is embodied in this.Now this pic is REALLY old imo. Coloring is kind of
shabby. but i like Jenny's (right) facial features in this.
This was Falicia's old costume. Her new one looks so much better.

Things have been looking a bit better. College life has been busy enough to keep my occupied. Still can't find my binder, but i haven't really sunken into a huge depression like last time. Still sad though, but---- .... man this adage is retarded and only about 25% fulfills the meaning of what i'm trying to get at but "no use crying over spilled milk". And--- was about to write something really depressing but won't. I just hope that whoever took it gets a good beatdown, then from that gets the sense knocked into them to put the binder in the lost and found at Clics.

Retro Art. Part 1

woot..... lost my old art binder. I am Earth's Number One Idiot. Alright. self recriminations aside, time to upload some of my old art that was lost to the void. Seriously though. I could've sworn i packed it into my backpack from Clics on thursday, and even if i didn't why wouldn't whoever found it take it to the lost and found? If i found someone's art stuff, i'd either A) NOT move it at all, or B) take it to the Lost and Found, NOT C) take it home w/ me. I mean there's NO value to ANYONE other than me. I swear.... maybe i'll really take up my friends' suggestion and check ebay.... anyways i guess i'll upload it all at the same time:

old black and white picture. I really like it, even though i can
detect a lot of my flaws present it still manages to invoke in me
feelings that my more recent pictures fail to do.

Fun litte beach picture i did. Sketched, zeroxed, then lightly went over in color pencil.
Very Simple, Very fun.One of my more recent pictures. I really liked the coloring on this.
I personally think this one turned out really well.

Hmm although i did say i'd upload them all at the same time i think i'll save the others for later. I'm really tired. and --- yeah.

Another day

Haha, i really have no clue as to where the direction of this blog is going, so i guess i'll just keep posting and winging stuff as I go. So this is Tammy, whom I've already posted a picture of earlier:

"Life is meant to be lived with a smile."

Alright, so first a short description of her character. Tammy is the Happy-Go-Lucky member of the group, and she personifies this with the bright colors that she wears. The fox tail is not attached to her, rather it is just an accesory on a belt, which she manipulates with magic. Out of the group, (who i'll introduce slowly) she is the one who is most versatile at creating applications out of magic. In addition, because she took dance, before, she is very flexible, as people who see this picture comment on. Btw, in general her magic looks like pink energy.

Alright. and now about my life so far. this is the part where you may now leave unless you like to be bored. Well, anyways, college has been going great so far. I always feel like i'm out of the loop though, there's just SO MUCH to do. However, one thing i learned is to never regret the path you're on, and make the most of it. alright enough of that- just deleted about 4 minutes of thought because it sounded bad. hmm what to talk about. Well, i'm behind on all my college reading so i suppose i'll work on that. Oh and i'm sad because my voodoo doll's pirate hat won't stay on.

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.