Sketch Blog

Working on chapter 3! (Ft. beautiful hand model Simon)

Hi all! I decided to relocate my bonus sketches from Oct. 2015 to this blog, instead of hosting them on the main comic tumblr. I hope you enjoy them in their new home!

Boop boop! Having some fun with pixel art.

Expression sheet for character design class.

Hank’s character sheet, for character design class! This was a lot of fun to create!

hey everyone, the comic updated! (have this unrelated lizard wizard. sorry for the hiatus!!)

This is a vulture design (spot illustration) that I made for a class project, but secretly, I was thinking of the messenger bird mounts in the snake empire. Vultures have such a regal, ominous appearance. I’ve been studying color theory lately as well, and it’s really improving my art. Shout out to this tutorial in particular!

This awesome fanart was done by my classmate, as part of a secret santa event we had! Please check out her blog!

also there’s some sneaky achewood fanart on the borders. I started reading it today and I’m enjoying the weird tone.

Progress page! I start with 8.5 x 11 inch pencil roughs, which I scan, digitally redo, then print out at 11 x 17 inches. Then I traditionally ink those pages, scan them again, and digitally shade them. 

These are some watercolor thumbnails for three environments in Liquid Shell. I’ll be posting the whole process once my teacher hands my work back (I did this for a school project!) Some of the scenes are studies of the scenery and composition of Studio Ghibli films.

look at these nerds 

This was an experiment where I added exposition to the story, but in the end, I liked the flow of the original pacing better, so I cut this page. Plus, I wanted to see what pure digital inks would look like. For this story, I like the look of traditional inks better (all the other pages are drawn with a nib pen on printer paper). I still want to give digital inks a try though - I just need to practice more!

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