Inktober 2015 Days Eight to Fourteen

These past few days have been really hectic, so I had to play catch up to get back to the thirty one picture plan.

 Here are the new pictures:

Day Eight (Little Puppy)

 A quick side note, it's amusing to me that I drew the eldritch abomination of my friend's dog on day eight. You know what they say about the number between seven and nine, say it and you'll be ate alive.

Day Nine (Alien)

Day Ten (Mirror Mirror)

 One day, I may do a post of this one with different hue settings, they look really cool.

Day Eleven (Devilphant)

 Argh, when did it do that? Washes ruckle paper and my scanner doesn't like that. Argh.

 I'll update with a better scan at some point.

Day Twelve (Mad Glamour)

Day Thirteen (Hallucigenia and Pansies)

 I decided to make this into a series, so there will be three more. I'm gonna rename the red one and call the series in general 'Paleofauna and Angiosperms'.

Day Fourteen (Adorabowl Pirate)

 My sister is probably going to try and steal this off me. She loves owls.

Inktober 2015 Days One to Seven

 Let's get this out of the way: Sorry for the absence, unsurprisingly it was depression fuelled. I'm going to work on sorting out the Breath of Fire thing, but I'm not sure how I'm going to do it yet.

 Now, Inktober drawings! (And painting, I guess)

Day One (Dragon or Demon)

Day Two (Trilobite and Angiosperms in Red)

Day Three (Cat and Shapes)

Day Four (Blue Seer)

Day Five (Shape Squid)

Day Six (Sisters Divided)

Day Seven (Lavender Window)

 I put pictures up of the drawings on Instagram and share them to my Twitter and Tumblr accounts when I finish them, so be sure to follow any of those if you want daily updates.

Ultimecia Graphic Without Text

The Final Battle

 Open Canvas Event Here.

Omega Weapon Art

 My head hurts and I'd like to make the finale as special as possible, so I'm going to be posting it on Tuesday.

 For now, here's a plain version of the Omega Weapon and a quick study I did to nail down how I wanted to deal with drawing the head.

Study.

 This one has the event file up on the PGN community network here.

 (I cannot wait until they enable oe6 files).

Omega Weapon

 I'd better get started on that finale then!

Minnie for Luna

 Here's a piece of fanart I did for a good friend of mine on Tumblr.

Minnie

 I'm really getting into digital art lately. I think I might start offering digital commissions soon. Well, once my tablet starts behaving itself again.

 Now I must slumber for a thousand years. (I didn't get a lot of sleep last night.)

Ash Wednesday

 here at Nine Over Five, we're all about the puns.

 Including puns that require reasonably large amounts of effort to pull off (See Jon Snow).

 So here's the newest one.

Volt Tackle Hug

 Not my best work, but I do like it.

 I don't usually draw straight into digital media like I did here, so I'm plesantly surprised at how it came out

 Also, I'm sorry about the Pikachu, I haven't drawn one in years, if ever.

 It's never been one of my favourite Pokemon, to be honest.

 Since I'm using Open Canvas, I really wanted to be able to upload the event file to their forum and put a link here, but I can't actually do that since the forum doesn't accept the oe6 event files at the moment and I used Open Canvas 6 to draw this instead of Open Canvas 5.5.

 If you don't know what an event file is, it's basically a recording of the drawing process. It records the actions, like drawing or erasing a line, rather than recording in real time.

 The next time I draw something entirely digitally, I'll be sure to do it in OC 5.5 so I can upload the event file so you can see the process.

 I'll also upload Ash and Pikachu here when they update the forum.

 I might colour it, I might not, I'm not sure.

 We'll have to see!

Nine Over Five Presents... Prince Ali (Beyond Oasis)

 I swear, I've had this stuck in my head for the last four days.

 -Sigh-

 So, on to the drawing.

An sketch

 Unfortunately, the hands were a bit small, so I had to enlarge them using OpenCanvas before I started lining and colouring.

 Of, course, it was when I was colouring that I realised I got his armlet wrong, but sometimes you've just got to cope.

Lined and coloured version.

 I made this for the thumbnails on my Let's Play videos of the game, and I'm pretty pleased with th results, if I do say so myself.

An example

 I shaded the letters myself, I like how it turned out.

Nine Over Five Presents... Edna & Harvey

 I'm not feeling well enough to write today's FF8 post, so here's a little bit of fanart to tide you over until I post it tomorrow.

 I've been playing a lot of Edna and Harvey: The Breakout (AKA Edna bricht aus) lately, and I do love it dearly.

 In many ways, it is not as good as its sequel Edna and Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes. However, this isn't because of the story. The story and characters are top notch, it's the interface.

 It's a bit shit.

 This is much improved on in Harvey's New Eyes.

 Personally, I think the story is worth working through the gameplay issues. So this is a recommendation that I am willing to make with great enthusiasm.

 As I've been playing so much of this game, I decided to do a quick doodle-y piece of fanart for it.

 Behold, Edna and Harvey!

(By the way, my buddy Doug did a review of the sequel over on Fission Mailure, so be sure to check that out if you want a more in depth opinion.)

Kit

I stopped hating the sketch I did last week, so I played around with some copics, acrylic paint and coloured pencils on it.

 I also messed around with the colour balance in GIMP, and I'm pretty happy with the result.

Kit's Second Visit

 The litle fox came to the back garden for another visit this week, and I got some way better photos of it.

 Including this one:

 It's looking right at me! It' so close!

 -squeal-

 Sorry about the big reflection, I took this picture through the patio window.

 After this the adorable little scamp ran off back to the nature reserve, and I was sad.

 But no long later, it came back!

 My little fox buddy!

 I'm definitely going to be on fox-watch from now on.

 I decided to nickname the fox Kit. Because I'm super imaginative like that, but also because it's a unisex name and I don't know if this is a dog fox or a vixen.

 I also decided to design a kemonomimi (or anthropomorphised with animal features) version of Kit for fun.

 Here are some of the sketches, including a bonus one of regular Kit.

I don't usually draw gawky teens, so it's been a bit of a struggle.

Grown up Kit.

 I've tried to keep these as androgynous as possible. Partly due to my ignorence of the real Kit's gender, and partly because I really like androgyny as a design choice.

 And I mean actual androgyny, not 'Tetsuya Nomura has issues with drawing masculine looking men' androgyny.

 So there you go, an update on my little foxy visitor and some bonus sketches.

 Look forward to a proper picture of Kit on Wednesday or Saturday, and follow me on instagram for WIPs and random selfies.

Apologies and 'notes' for new piece.

 Sorry for being so inactive lately, I've been sleepy a lot lately. But now I'm battling to get back into the game!

 Also, there's an art contest and the piece I'm working on for it.

 The contest is the dA "Color-me-club" January line art contest. This month's theme is Sci-fi/dancing.

 It's supposed to be a choice between the two, but I decided to combine the two themes together for fun.

 I decided on a retro-futuristic set of space travellers in an almost 'Wallace and Gromit' style space ship. So helmets, skin tight jumpsuits, if I ever colour this, a lot of orange. I'm hoping they look a-ethnic, so can be coloured as different ethnicities depending on what the colourist wants. I also wanted a nomad from the harsh cold mountains, and during the second pass, I decided to have her look South East Asian/Mongolian. Kind of happened by accident, but I liked it so I'm keeping it. She's going to be wearing furs, skins and knitted clothes for a challenging mix of textures. Also, because if I lived in the tundra, that's what I'd be wearing.

 I also decided to give her a mammoth. Because its science fiction and I can.

 Also, I wish we still had mammoths.

 I've knocked up a series of notes over the last couple of days to plot the composition and details, as I like to know what I'm drawing in a piece like this before I start.

 Here are my initial drawings:

First pass

Second pass

  This is where I decide where I want what where on a two dimensional view.

 After using Colors! 3D (I'll have a review up after I've got more pictures to show), I've been influenced to see a picture as a series of planes, or 2D images in front of each other.

 So this prompted a sketch of each plane and what I wanted in it.

Various planes and their contents

 As well as planning the composition like this, I also concentrated on details. The most important being the dancing couple in the fore ground. So I designed the women's faces and sketched out some thumbs and passes on their poses.

The Ladieeeez

 I think if I copy any of these poses, it'll come across as stiff, so I'm planning to play it loose and more or less wing their positions.

 I also sketched out some of the background details, like a robot radio, the mammoth, the space-woman's fellow crew members, the rocket and an instrument.

Background details

 So far, so good.

 I'm already to get going on this. I'm going to start today on A3 bristol board, so wish me luck and hope the drawing goes well!

Sorry for the absence! I hope this makes up for it ;)

 I've been on something of a hiatus on Jon Snow this week, and mostly I've just been lazy.

 However, I have been working on a couple of things.

 Recently I've been kind of obsessed with Condemned 2: Bloodshot. I bought it on a whim when I saw it for five pounds in GAME. I genuinely thought it was going to be awful. However, I love it.

 It has some poor design choices and a few game play issues, but I am really enjoying it so far, and it's bound to get even better.

 So, over the last couple of days I've been working on a sculpture of the main character, Ethan Thomas, in DAS clay.

 It's awkward.

 I'll make sure to post a picture of my progress tomorrow, but I do have something to show you now.

 I entered into a sketch trade with a friend on deviantART and I asked for a picture of Ethan Thomas, in return I did a quick colour sketch of her original character.

Artist's Block for Felizias

 I tried to challenge myself with position and perspective here, but I don't think I did the best job in the world.

 Oh well, that's what practicing is for, right?

 In other art news, I've been doing a bit more work on Keesekwi Commences and I've really gotten stuck into that Joker picture.

 Look! Babby!Joker has skin now! I did it with mostly Copic markers, and it could use more work in other media as well. Right now I'm pondering if I should keep working on the rest of the picture, or just continue on him for the moment.

 Decisions, decisions.

 Anyway, I'll post more tomorrow (and by that, I mean after I've slept), and I mean it this time. No leaving you in the lurch for a week again.

Bloody Atos and some new art

The bunglers at the Department of Work and Pensions put me through a massive amount of stress relating to this assessment about my benefits, destroying my hopes of susccessfully completeing NaNoWriMo on time, and then bungled my appointment.

 We get to the Atos office, and because they lost my paperwork, my appointment had been cancelled.This was an extra stress I wasn't in need of, let me tell you.

 Apparently, they go through 280 cases a day when they organise these things and they lose 6-8 in the process.

 Well, enough of that.

 Lately I've been working on a Game of Thrones fan art starring Jon Snow, and by lately I mean 'I started it yesterday afternoon and have gotten frightfully far in the last 24 hours'. That happens sometime.

 So, beloved readers, here's a sneak peek of my Game of Thrones fan art:

 Or should I say, Game of Thrones/Channel 4 crossover fan art?

 :D

 I blame Anna, I tell her about this joke Sips and Sjin made on their Tekkit series, and she enables me to do this. It's terrible, really, how could she?

 NaNoWriMo word count: 15, 365

 Silver Crosses overall word count: 21, 792

Character sketches, and the Buddleia fiasco

 In our back garden we have this massive buddleia plant. Buddleias grow pretty tall anyway, but ours was also right next to the compost heap, so it was massive.

 It was in need of a pruning for a fair while, but my dad never got around to it.

 Well, the wind decided to do it for him.

 Part of the plant cracked right near the root and fell over onto the fence, only because it's so tall, it was hanging into the neighbour's garden. This was not allowed to stand.

 My sister Anna and I spent three hours chopping the damn thing up, and by the time we were done, you couldn't tell what had happened. It was amazing.

 I also got some awesome pics of a very leggy spider, but I'm tired and it's late, so I'm going to put pictures of my adventures up in a supplementary post tomorrow.

 Anyway, now to the sketches.

Top- Lucretia, Julie, Melissa
Bottom- Joshua, Sebastian, Zachariah

 Lucretia is modelled after an Italian supermodel, who's name completely escapes me (crap). Julie is modelled after Emilie de Ravin, only she's much taller than Miss de Ravin as she's a air hostess. Zachariah is based on Francis York Morgan from Deadly Premonition (which you all know I love). Sebastian is based on a Lucius Malfoy-ey type look, even though I screwed up his eyebrows.

 Melissa and Joshua aren't particularly based on anyone.

 So the lesson here is, Haz needs to get back into drawing, because she's sorely out of practice.

Kenton, Beth and Neifion and other Dreamy Thing details

 So, I have been working on the character designs for Kenton, Beth and Neifion and have also worked out a few more details of the plot.

 First, the designs:

 Please forgive the terrible sketches at the top, it's been a while since I drew without reference.

 So, the new details involve the nature of the gods and the indistinct power, Beth's back story and Kenton and Luke's life in the army.

 First, the gods.

 Some countries have gods associated with them, like the Underwater Kingdom has the Goddess of the Sea associated with it. The power that wants Neifion and Beth to marry is the God of the Earth, who is associated with Beth's country.

 Through their marriage, the God of the Earth would be able to receive power from the Goddess of the Sea and heal himself.

 The reason why this would work is because he made Beth as an avatar of himself and Neifion is descended from an avatar of the Goddess of the Sea, so in effect, he would be marrying the Goddess of the Sea.

 However, because Beth was raised by the Fletchers, she isn't exactly the person that the God of the Earth created her to be, and has not fallen in love with Neifion. This has forced the God of the Earth's hand so he had to remove Neifion's competition from the picture.

 Since I've essentially just described Beth's bacstory, I'll move onto the section about Kenton and Luke.

 As their country is not currently at war with another, their job mostly consists of defending seaside settlements from pirates, which is how Kenton got his scar.

The Closer- picture and process

Or, 'Kelly, this is all your fault.'

 I started it last Monday and only finished it today.

 So, here's the reference:

Reference picture

  While I was visiting my parents I did a practice sketch because I couldn't start it until I got back to Leicester.

Practice run

Character study- Jason (Face)

 A new character study from the Epic Fail universe, this time of Jason Gate.

23/6/11

Sailor Moon picture and process

 As she is the one named Sailor Moon, I did a picture of Usagi for a planned series of Sailor Moon fanart.

 I used pretty much the same process as I did for Beryl.

 First I used a 6H pencil to do the basic sketch.

To do list

 Okay, I just got back from Devon and now I need to buckle down and get some serious work done. So, I'm going to make myself a to-do list to complete by next Monday (there are some things I physically can't do until I get back to Leicester.

 (Sorry in advance for the poor quality of the pictures, I used my webcam to take them)

 1. Do a proper pencil version of this: (completed Tuesday)

A picture of Mary McDonnell and J.K. Simmons in The Closer

 2. Do a larger coloured version of this:  (http://reecey-boy.deviantart.com/art/To-battle-245115342)

Yes, that is a fairy riding a corgi.

 3. Stop being a lazy arse and post that character study of Jason that I've had the sketches lying around for for weeks.

An example

 4. Do the Sailor Moon development blogpost I said I'd do on the dA submission and link to it in the artist's comments.

A stage.

 5. Start advertising for commissions.

 6. Write another PGSM recap.

 7. Start a new PGSM picture.

 8. Finish CV.

 9. Finish picture I started drawing of the view from the B (no other B, I'm afraid). (Edit: I accidentally ruined the paper it was on. So I can't actually do this one now)

 I'm going to be very busy, and this isn't even keeping in mind the character sketches I need to do for Epic Fail, either.

 Well, a girl has to keep herself busy. The devil makes work for idle hands, you know.

 EDIT: Yeah, I failed miserably. Lame, I know.