Random Sketches

Hopefully I’m getting slightly better at making these look okay without a scanner…

These are a bunch of characters from my old fantasy story.  I’m trying to practice differentiating my characters from each other more (face, body type, etc) since I don’t want to make them too similar.  I’m probably going to end up changing my style some more.  I’ll just have to keep practicing and see what happens.

Some colored sketches from my old fantasy story! I started this story in around middle school and stopped working on it because it was… not great. But I still really like some things about it, and I think by now I know how to make it a lot better. Not sure what the plot’s going to be like this time, the original one was about a prophecy and a quest and war between demons and humans and that kind of stuff.

Anyway, these are some of the main characters.  The one with the flame stuff is Naia, she’s the one on the left in the other picture.  I’m trying to work on her design a bit, probably I’ll make her look older. The other character in that picture is Cassidel, who I guess is the main character? Still working on her design too, but she’s already changed a ton since the original version.  Naia’s supposed to be her mentor, I’m pretty sure the story starts with Cassidel getting sent away to learn magic from her. Yep.  It’s pretty fun to revisit these old characters and see if I can make them better.

Some colored sketches!

The redhead one is Despera from my fantasy story. I’m having a really difficult time figuring out her character for some reason. I know what she’s supposed to do in the plot of the story, but I don’t really understand her personality or motivation… It’s pretty frustrating. Her design is also pretty annoying since that kinda depends on her personality too, but this is how I’m drawing her for the moment. I wish I could figure her out. It would solve a lot of the problems with this story.

The other one is from my scifi story, I haven’t figured out what her real name is yet.  She’s a sorta punk hacker person who’s been internet friends with Rex since around high school. Not sure what I’m doing with her, but I think she ends up being important kinda late in the story.

So… I haven’t posted any sketches since the beginning of my sketchbook and it’s now about 3/4 full, so I have a lot of catching up to do.  I’ll post a few today and maybe I’ll be able to keep posting things regularly.

This lady is Dariade, one of the sorta antagonists in my fantasy story. (I’m working on two fantasy stories now though… I’m not sure how to differentiate between them since they don’t have titles. I guess this one will be my fantasy story and the other one will be my old fantasy story. Hmm. I really need titles…) Here I drew one in pencil and then a bunch of fast sketches in pen.  I’ve been drawing a lot in pen lately since I tend to worry too much about making things perfect and then they end up looking kinda stiff, I guess… So doing things faster and in pen helps me not worry about it so much. Also I can focus more on showing character expressions/personality.

I’m not sure what else to say about Dariade… Her character is sort of a cross between Hamlet and the evil queen from Snow White. The story she comes from has a lot of problems I need to work on, but I really like Dariade.  I should color a picture of her sometime; her clothes/colors are pretty fun.

askthestriderlalondes:

happy valentines day. have fun kids.

Here’s the Valentine’s Day card set that I helped make.  I drew Rose and Roxy, and cake9 drew Dave and Dirk.  I think they turned out pretty well, and the colors look nice together. I feel like my art is slightly improving since starting this ask blog, so hopefully that’ll continue.

askthestriderlalondes:

Dave: sup, hope you’re all ready to throw down some asks cause were dishing out the hot fresh replies like we’re marie fuckin calendars 

Rose: Indeed. But with rather less lemon meringue pie and considerably higher servings of sarcasm and extended metaphor.

Roxy: fuck poie suonds so good rn like

         some of that green pie

         gruin pies good shit

Dirk: Roxy. Roxy, no. Don’t eat sopor, it’s like genocidal alien pot and is probably wildly hallucinogenic. Also you should probably not be mixing it with your inebriants. 

Dave: yeah cool so while were over here prepping a slime detox go ahead and send us some questions and lets make this shit transpire 

So yeah, cake9 and I are starting an ask blog for the Strider-Lalondes!  We’re going to switch off drawing things, and it’s going to be pretty exciting.  So if you want to check it out or ask anything, that would be cool. :)

Hey, just thought I would throw some sketches on here since I haven’t updated for a while…  The first one is Rex and Kat from my scifi story.  Rex has pretty much turned into the main protagonist of the story, and Kat is one of his friends who he’s known since middle school.  I’ve been trying to give Kat an actual design since I haven’t been drawing her too consistently.  This is probably close to what she looks like during college.

Not sure what else to say about them right now, aside from that I really need to do more world-building on this story…

The other sketch is another Az and Cian one. I’m trying to turn that story into something I can use for more than just practice comics, so we’ll see how that goes.  For being a pretty simple story, it’s strangely hard to figure out because I have so many conflicting versions of it.  I’m working on it though.

Tavros hanging out with sleepy Tinkerbull :)

I made this all in one sitting and now my hand hurts…

cake9:

Up The Wizard Steps :]

**START COMIC FROM BOTTOM**

“Lemme share with you a little secret on how to win the heart of a princess: It’s not easy, but you have to be persistent. You might have to defeat a demon lord and warp through several worlds. But once you do, you walk up the wizard stairs and produce your magic key you got in the water world to unlock the chamber door. Then, you walk right up to the princess, and give her a smooch.”

Hey! So..this took forever haha. This thing’s been in it’s “alllmooost finiiished” stage for weeks. I guess I will blame goin back to college? Yeah sure, let’s go with that. Super late “Too Young” fanart. Mm so I know a lot of people were super bummed PB turned back to 18 at the end of that, but honestly I much prefer 18 yr old Peebles. She’s just more interesting, even though young Peebs is cute. And anyway, 5 years becomes less and less of a difference the older you get. And also Jake’s advice. DAT ADVICE. = foreshadowing..? Or something?

So anyway yeah, I really enjoyed the ep and decided a ginormous scrolling comic was in order I guess. 

So this is my character Matthew Vincent Liao, usually known as M.V.  He’s from my scifi story, which isn’t actually that scifi-ish since it isn’t set too far in the future.

Hmm. I’m not sure what to say about him so… random facts:

He does computer stuff.  He sometimes for fun builds little robots out of random computer parts.  He thinks art and comics are cool, but draws horribly.  He has a pretty high opinion of himself but acts modest in front of other people. He’s lived in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Chicago, and New York City.  He dresses pretty nicely, but when he’s at home he just wears his favorite sweatshirt and lays around.  He drives an old yellow car.  In the story, he’s not exactly a main character, but he’s definitely more important than he seems at first.