characters

I’m still alive, which is ever so slightly ironic in an Alanis Morissette kind of way considering I’ve been driving myself into the ground writing and illustrating ghost stories. Hard at work, but with little I can blog. So here’s another random illustration from that ghost story book, to prove I can still draw, honestly.

I have business cards, which makes me happy. The grad show is in like two weeks. I, and everybody around me, are so wound up that the slightest thing will make us explode, atomic-style. That’s about it.

First, if you missed it, check out my post from earlier today.

So anyhow, remember how I was pimping out commissions? I got one! And a month later, this emerges. Thanks for commissioning me, Jai.

Two WoW characters! Man, those are some complex outfits…

Not a lot of time for posting now – got another whole final to do tonight, and I’ve barely started it – so here, sans-explaination, have a bunch of highschool stereotypes.

Fullview would be much appreciated.

So NaNoWriMo’s over for another year. Once more, I have finished another glorious trainwreck that no one shall ever read. (Final assessment: Characters lack personality. No plot. Dialogue okay.)

And with curiously appropriate timing, I’ve just finished up these, which are both a thing for Interpretive and a callback to last year’s NaNo, titled “Lines”. It was a fantasy, largely based around the premise that I don’t actually like fantasy, and wanted to write one I wouldn’t be opposed to reading. The characters depicted are, clockwise from the top left, Simon Gable, Farewell Green, the Priest, and Hare. (For any Traffies reading: there’s also a family surnamed Carter, and another main character surnamed Maxwell. I take my obscure inside jokes very seriously.)

Click for fullsize… they’re rather tiny at the moment.

New Narrative project. The assignment involved a scene with two voices, one of which was either an inanimate object or the setting itself.

How I got from that to an elevator that thinks it’s a film noir detective is anyone’s guess.

A T-shirt design submission.  Our year is printing up some shirts to sell to raise money for our Grad Show at the end of the year; I just finished this and sent it in so no idea if it’ll actually be printed or not.  Either way, it was fun to do something so different from my normal stuff.

A narrative assignment; a 3-page comic with a very strict and rigid structure (no weird panel sizes here) based on a conversation between 2 people, and the idea of “do as I say, not as I do”. It had to be in colour; I’d much rather have done it in grey inks like I did the F Train images, but eh. Really ran out of time on this one; I think it worked out okay but cleaner inking and more careful colours/shades could have really pushed it to the next level. Not to mention reducing the type size by 2 or 3 points.

For the record, I had a security blanket book like that in highschool (a comic, actually – Bryan O’Malley’s Lost at Sea) but he’s definitely still working and my encounter with him at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival was quite positive – he signed my copy and drew a little cat in it. I, of course, was a bit of a terrified mess. “I… uh… you… book?” Never meet your heroes.

A band! So instead of doing a bitchin’ performance scene like Mike did, I went more the poster route. Yes, their name is Buttonville.

Buttonville first made an appearance in my NaNoWriMo novel a couple of years back. They would probably never actually be on a poster, as their main point was that they’re terrible. Next week: whatever Mike decides on, because he’s indecisive!

I do have some big stuff to post – my life drawings from the year, my animation and the art that went into it. I’ll catch up on posting things here in the next couple of days – c’mon, it’s not like anybody reads this anyhow, except maybe my parents. (Hi, Mom! Hi, Dad!) Go ahead, prove me wrong.

So for now, take this drawing of my friend’s D&D character.

It’s her unnamed gnome illusionist of questionable morality and even more questionable gender. (It’s nice when I can put my natural inclination towards androgyny to good use…) This character is so undefined that last I checked, she was writing the backstory as a choose your own adventure. Seriously. I think it might have been my idea.

I recently did an infographics project based on my previous 5 years doing NaNoWriMo which is, for those who don’t know, a yearly challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. To jazz up the graphs a bit, I did pictures of my characters from each year. These are those pictures.