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.

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!

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.

A quick redesign on Feet's "Gentleman Thief" mode. Less gentleman, more urchin in this incarnation.

I'm planning on starting something up pretty soon. I won't give any details just now, but today's sketch is a big clue.

Character design. I've been doing mostly fanart on the blog lately, but I'm working on a project that requires some character design so that's what's getting posted today.

This is a preliminary design of Feet (not her real name), the main character from Anything Under the Sky. We're planning to have her in multiple outfits, one of which is her disguise as a Gentleman Thief.

So as a follow up to my Raven Variation before, I'm doing a variation on Squirrel Girl as she might appear if she were to join the cast of X-Men Evolution. In this hypothetical situation, she would be a member of the X-Men, I assume, since I don't recall the Great Lakes Whatever existing in that universe.

I tried to give her a suit with the "colors on shiny black" look of that show, while still paying homage to her old costume.

I'll probably do one of Squirrel Girl in her civvies next. Then I'll have to figure out my next redesign. I wonder if I can think of one that isn't a comic-to-cartoon situation?

I was thinking about, as a character design exercise, trying to do up some variations on character design seen in professional shows.

In today's case, I'm starting small--a minor variation on Raven from Teen Titans. I tried to recreate in Murakami's style Raven from the DCU Teen Titans comics. Mostly because I saw a picture of her on the web and thought her hair was freakin' adorable. So I figured I'd have a go at that, and that made me think that there were other, similar drawings I could do later in the same sort of mindset.

For example, next I'm thinking of trying to draw Squirrel Girl in the style of X-Men Evolution. We'll see if I get anywhere on that.

So Peist, lead supporting character of Ballad, is a fairly powerful fairy. I decided to give him a full-on fairy form in addition to the more humanoid form he spends much of his time in.

I don't know if I've quite got it yet, but I'm getting closer.

I've done some last minute character redesign for Peist. I've based him quite a bit more on David Bowie this time around.

I'm trying to vary up head shapes between different characters, because I'd kind of like to be able to change the characters' clothes and hair during the course of Ballad and still have them be recognizable.