Simeon is playing Saturn, Ananke's husband, who works for the goddess of Time, who is dying. (Oh, Shadowtext, you cut up, that's not what he meant by time passing) She has heard that her servant Saturn's wife is pregnant, and has convinced him to let her pass her powers on to his unborn child. Saturn's nervous about the whole thing, but who doesn't want his child to be a god?

The assignment I'm currently working on for my art class is to show time passing. I'm doing a comic....the medium's just inherently suited to it.

But I'm low on time, so I decided that instead of using original characters, I would just let Simeon and Alyson (and one other person, who I haven't decided on yet....might end up being Will) "play the parts" as though they're acting in a play.

It worked for Osamu Tezuka

I've switched from DM to PC in the D&D game I've been playing the last few months. I just rolled up my character this week, and I decided to draw her out.

Freedom Akta, a Tiefling Warlord. She fights using charisma and bold gambits to lead her team to victory. In theory.

I did Halloran, the goblin merchant at the same time. At the time the story starts, Halloran has been living under a bridge and neither eating or drinking anything, other than scotch made from old socks and dead rats. (Goblin ingenuity knows no bounds)

Before his recent troubles he was a respected businessman, known for his skill at keeping inventories and knowing what his customers would want. He resents the Merchants' Guild and blames them for his recent troubles. When Will offers him a job at Anything Under the Sky, he jumps at it after finding out they're not members of the Guild.

So I guess I took the summer off or something. I dunno, just haven't really been doing much that I felt like posting. School's starting back soon, and I'm getting back into the groove....I'm going to try to pull off my Directed Study project this turn if I can, and I'm getting geared up.

I'm not sure if I'll do Hurricane Simeon, because I'm seriously considering doing Anything Under the Sky instead. To that end: some character designs. First up, Anders the Dryad.

Anders is one of the clerks for the store that Will scouts out. She's noted for being charming, but can't really branch out (pun....oh, who am I kidding, totally intended) because she's magically tied to her tree.

It's been a long time since I've updated. It's been a busy couple of months, between work, school, and various video games.

Hurricane Simeon's probably not starting anytime real soon. No one ever accused me of NOT-flakiness.

Meanwhile I'm working on something else that shouldn't take as much of my free time or be as draining. Still some graphical work but not the all-consuming work that keeping to a schedule on a comic would take.

I'm going to try to work on a short, small video game (potentially episodic but for right now it's just a single standalone concept) tentatively called Henshin! I'll only work on it about an hour a day, so it shouldn't take up too much of my time to make it....who knows how long it'll take, but since it's a fairly small project, hopefully it won't take as long as, for example, Taret Blade has.

Henshin! is an affectionate parody of the magical girl genre and anime conventions in general--hopefully it'll end up being like a shojo Gurren Lagann.

It's giving me a chance to resurrect the trio of Kaori, Shiori and Midori, though their roles and backstories will be changed to something less dumb than it was before.

So that's the status dealie at the moment.

I guess it's a nature spirit of some sort? I don't know. Not a Dryad, but probably related, I guess.

I'm not totally certain about the inspiration or the use of this design.

Not Simeon-related, but I'm still thinking of and working on Simeon. Gotta expect some side-tracking from the ADD, though!

Maria, who shares a body with Alyson, has an entirely different attitude towards life from her host. As such, she's also got a different personal style.

This is the design for how Alyson/Maria looks when Maria is in control when they're getting dressed or whatever.

Following up on the Simeon design from earlier, here's Alyson.

Alyson's always been sort of a problem for me. While I've had Simeon's look down for quite a while (minus a few tweaks here and there), Alyson keeps changing. Mostly because I've never found a look that really captured her well.

This one actually feels a lot better to me. I think I've finally found Alyson's look.

I just realized today--I've only got like two months before I'm planning to start the big Hurricane Simeon comic/storyboard-y dealie, and I haven't really finalized my character designs.

I don't know if this really counts as a modelsheet since it's just the character, including construction lines and a the character with his usual clothing next to each other.

I'm throwing out so much of what I've presently got regarding Hurricane Simeon....and in about a week I've got to have a pretty big chunk of writing done on it. I don't know exactly how I'm going to manage it.

Still, it's a labor of love. Also a labor of getting passing grades, but mostly of love. Maybe I'll pull through. I must succeed, after all!

And here's the finished version of that one from yesterday.

One more day until Avatar. Can I make it?!

I'm giving another go at an old piece of fanart of Ty Lee from Avatar. I've learned things since....what was this, February? Wow.

I put her in her Season 3 gear, or at least the best I could make out of it from the blurry concept art that's been making the rounds.

Season 3 starts back Friday. I'm bursting with excitement. I'm thinking of doing another piece in time for the premiere to make into my new avatar for messageboards and whatnot. I'm thinking Sokka.

Here's another redesign on Feet, whose name is now apparently Will, which might be short for Willow.

It's been a while since I posted, I know. Sorry about that. A lot's been on my plate with work and all, and I just haven't been doing any drawings that I felt like posting. There's been some AUtS stuff, but I don't think that everything I make for AUtS really ought to show up on this blog. The character designs are fine, but scenery?

I did the sketch of her incognito design at the same time, but I haven't inked and colored that one yet. I'll probably upload it tomorrow, unless I get distracted or feel tired after work.

I'm getting just about ready for my next big thing. I've got outlines ready and some notes on final character designs for the major characters. Here's the first of one of my attempts to get something final.

I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows today. I'll spare you the spoilers, but I'm fairly pleased with it, but I read through it way too fast in my eagerness. I think I missed a lot.

More from that new project I mentioned a bit ago today. What do wolves have to do with anything, though? Things might start to come together more next time, but even then only a little.

To Freedom! To Jefferson! To Independence!

I'm going to take part in the EB Siege. I mean it may not have much of a chance of succeeding, but it's better than nothing, and who knows? Maybe it will make a difference.

I thought in the time it took me to type that, I would come up with something to post. I did not.