I definitely draw Leif from time to time. A little bit different this time. Possibly more different next time. I've been thinking, if I made another comic (besides Flaky Pastry), one that wasn't meant to be funny, it'd probably be about this guy. So much angst might be funny anyway, though.
Falingard on 10.31.05 @ 21:59 PM EST [link]
No, she's not a cowgirl. That's her name. Cowgirl Bibras. Just a high school valley girl, but with super-strength, trying to lead a normal life while using her powers for good, not evil. Here she is, in her trendy Aquaforcetm duds, waving in a "hi mom!" fashion at the crowd after beating up some offenders with a car's torn-off bumper.
Here she is, originally, several years ago.
Falingard on 10.25.05 @ 21:29 PM EST [link]
It's a figure skater-ette, obviously. At least it's something.
I've been thinking of doing some fanart for webcomics that I like, lately, both because it'd be fun and in the hope of getting a little bit of publicity (and maybe fanart back!) for my own comic (you know, Flaky Pastry). But... fanart makes me feel dirty. I mean fanart for things I actually LIKE, here. Fanart for things I don't like, that's just repulsive.
Falingard on 10.17.05 @ 21:26 PM EST [link]
I was trying to draw this girl all day, but that was an extremely frustrating exercise, as every small sketch stuch in the corner of a page turned out to look okay or good, while whenever I started a larger picture in the middle of the page to make a full figure, that turned out like crap. In the end, I just gave up and uploaded this one.
Bah.
Falingard on 10.12.05 @ 20:54 PM EST [link]
Well, the goddess in the previous post probably has more than one priest, but this could be one of them. Blessing with one hand, Hurting with the other. Always ready to join any battle, on any side, and collecting blood in his huge bottle afterwards, possibly to offer as tribute to his goddess.
Falingard on 10.11.05 @ 16:58 PM EST [link]
Oh no, I haven't posted in... a couple of days... most of it being the weekend and... well, anyway, I have an excuse! My excuse is...
...the new random generator contest at Seventh Sanctum! This time it's a Deity contest, and I the randomly-generated description I chose was:
"This selfish goddess of slaughter takes the form of a maiden. She is very tall and has an athletic build. She has no hair, but instead her head is covered in spines. Her eyes are bloody pits. Her skin is covered in faces, each frozen in a mute scream. She is usually portrayed nude. She carries a net. She has six eyes. She has catlike eyes. She is surrounded by a lethal black aura. She sometimes takes the form of a lizard."
Quite a challenge! And an interesting one! How can her eyes be bloody pits, catlike, and six at the same time? WELL! I did three pages of preliminary sketches, over two of which where I was just looking for a pose. I decided early on to make the "spines" on her head into the backbone kind of spine, instead of the needle/spike kind (which is what I assume was meant originally)... simply because it looks cool and weird! I opted not to picture her as a lizard, but rather to incorporate some lizardly elements, like the tongue and the claws (especially on the toes!) to give the impression that she could go lizardy at any moment.
Because I am feeling like it, here's a step-by step breakdown of how I went about doing the picture! (Yes, you get to see the final version at the end)
A. This was the thumbnail sketch I selected to start with. When I say thumbnail, I mean this was really two inches tall, if that. I find that if you get a cool-looking pose in a thumbnail, it very rarely looks as cool if you try to re-draw it bigger! So what I prefer to do is scan it, blow it up in photoshop, print it, then trace it, and work from there.
B. That's what I did, but then I completely changed the pose! I got a new idea for the net, instead of it being worn like shawl on her arms and flapping in the wind. I also incorporated a suggestion that had her BECKONING US. You know who you are, suggester! The lines all over her body are new, also. She had lines on her forehead, so I figured she deserved to have some all over. They also helped frame the screaming faces.
C. Ink! Followed by scanning and subtle but meticulous tweaking of ink. Maybe one day I'll be so good at inking my own sense of perfection will not force me to readjust a hundred little things, but I'm not there yet!
D. Flat colours! Here I imported the pencil sketch and put it below the inks, so I wouldn't have to reinvent the way the blood drips on her forearms and calves all over again. (Yes I am lazy! But hey, it looked good on the sketch!)
E. Shading level 1 as well as more details in the colours.
F. Shading level 2, and lots of little shiny accents that it's hard to see at that size.
Next is all sorts of colour tweakings, trial-and-error at figuring out what a "lethal black aura" should look like (without completely cutting her off from her environment, or obscuring her), and putting in a kind of background. By "a kind of background" mean... flames. Again. I dunno, it seems I do a lot of flames. Anyway, then the picture is finished!
...
Oh yes, here it is: Illymin, goddess of slaughter.
And a close-up.
Falingard on 10.04.05 @ 22:22 PM EST [link]
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