Saturday, March 12, 2011

The creativity unfolds...

... sadly not in the drawing department!
For some reason when I finished playing Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening, I decided to play an old game by the same developers, BioWare, called Jade Empire. The storyline is a bet bleugh, the controls are bleugh... but I really like how they potrayed the asian culture and the style. It suddenly made me in such a creative mood that I fetched my old laptop and started up my foreverlasting novelization of my fantasy story. I doubt I will ever finish it in this lifetime when it took be way over 2 years to even finish editing what I already wrote (Imagine this... It was around 48 pages and after rewriting basically most of it, the story is so far 89 pages and I still need like 5 pages to rewrite!). Either way, I think I want to do some more concept art for my story, because I feel like I havent done enough, as well as those ideas I get my me and my friend's big project that still has to go out of development-hell...
Either way, it's slightly too late to start doing anything drawing related, or else I wont get any sleep, but expect there to be maybe a bit more active around here from now on! I hope...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

*whack*

Okay, so creativity havent had it's place in my life as it used to. Damn school... But I managed to haul something out of my ass tonight, even when I didnt spend much time on it.


AAaaaaaaall the way back in 2001 I suddenly had a brainfart and decided to create a ginger-haired girl with a ninja-like suit. I was really happy about it and made a bunch of seriously-wtf-ish ugly characters to the story, but it has since developed to be a bit... prettier :P. Then I "upgraded" her and she now looks like at the picture above. Or well, this is how she look with my "modern" touch, she still had the same outfit, but I wanted to try make a quick drawing of how I would expect her to look like if I actually created her today.

Either way, the story is so "wonderfully" called Ninja Magic... Because it was about ninjas... with magics. (I know, it's a horrible title, but I was only 12 or 13 when I made this up...), so far I have made 2 "seasons", one where this particular character is the main character and one where there is someone else. She is called Kasumi and ends up becoming this so called ninja thingie to defeat a group of devil worshipping cult that almost kills off all of her friends, until she finds out about her true powers and forges a spear that can defeat these cultists. In the second season she barely get any screentime because she is somewhere killing off evil doers, but she is legend among other ninja thingies, so she will of course have an appearance just to kick all evil's arses.

Anyways... Enough with the old school babbeling. I tried this different style because I remember back in the old days when I was drawing at some Oekaki Board (Oekaki means scetch in Japanese i thinks... These boards used simple flash drawing program thingie where you could draw pictures and artwork where other people could comment and tell ya what they think about your work, some even could show an animation of how you've drawn your picture), I sometimes tried a style called "color-dotting" where you would use dots to do the coloring or shadings, and that is what Iwas trying to do here. It didnt take me long to do this one though, I didnt bother to work hard on the lines, but I really like how this one came out anyway... I think I will do all the other characters as well!
But first... Bedtime. *falls asleep*