Starsent

The comic itself has been a slow go. In the meantime I have taken the year and a half I have spent writing scripts for Starsent and used the world as a tabletop setting. One of my players built a Plejaren monk with the moniker Studly Supreme, an explicit but endearing parody of Flash Gordon. He bought the cheapest -and by extension the derpiest- horse analog.

Number 14 for Inktober, I am 4 peices behind. Here's an evil Santa Claus from Starsent. Herik Algrin is his name and being a bad guy is is game.

October 13th, I have been having way too much fun with the owl/bear/moth critters, so here are some chicks/cubs/larva?

October 11th, I have been playing around with imbuing owl bears with poodle moth features. I plan on used these babies in my Starsent comic. October 12th, I wanted to pull inspiration from the sexual dimorphism of barn owls, resulting in an orange female owl bear buddy.

Inktober has been kicking my butt this month, and despite drawings and written development, I haven’t been able to get too terribly far with Starsent. @rubykgrant had the excellent recommendation for me to draw three characters making the same expression, showing degrees of nuance between them. This ended up being way harder than it should have been, bringing out how rusty I am.

Bandel’s design has been fighting and fighting and fighting me some more. I think this is about as close as I have been able to come in terms of something him-ish.

Lately, balancing my day job with my artwork has been difficult. I haven’t made much headway of actually finalizing the comic, but here’s a minor character gone major.

Here’s a couple sketches of soon to be villains of Starsent.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my comic’s progress work, so here’s a doodle dump for the tragic villain Accolade, whose motif is built around making up wild titles for himself every time he pops up. I can’t hardly believe how fast this year is flying by- it doesn’t feel like these drawings should be two months old :/

More fantasy critter sketches since the character designs are fighting me. The mounts (that I named welsferd) are inspired by Ookla’s horse in “Thundarr, the Barbarian”.

I’ve been playing around for what I wanted to have as background writing in “Starsent”. What I’ve settled on in is borrowing alphabets from video games and older sci-fi literature- and one newer-ish sci-fi television series. From top to bottom I have Hylain from the “Legend of Zelda” series for my Nordic alien race, The “Elder Scrolls” dragon language for my reptilian aliens, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Amtor” script for my thin aliens, and “Stargate SG-1″s Ancient script for the Greys.

Here are the main three villains for my upcoming comic Starsent. My reptilian villain Bandel is fighting me, refusing to be drawn and burning through three bristol boards of failed attempts. Hopefully I will have a good illustration of him in the near future.

Pen and ink drawings of my core three characters.