Old Forgotten Posts of 7 Years: Part 2

This is part 2 in my old blog post series. I'm setting the date for 2019 but posting this compilation technically in 2025!

Mr Dude Redesign (December 29, 2019)

For December's Improvement Movement prompt (and the final one of the year!), I decided to redesign Mr Dude! 

Here's his final design! I included the different hair concepts I made in the process too.

And then here is his old design to show a side-by-side comparison of what I improved, too.

Life Drawing (October 19, 2019)

These are some various life drawings I've done the past few months.

Yaguzi's Family (September 29, 2019)

I've been planning out eventures all weekend, so I decided to make the Lynx family tree to try and figure out how this family works. They don't have names yet, but that'll happen soon!

Here's the family tree!

So basically, Yaguzi is 25% deamon (which is about 50% demon). I was playing around with the idea of how deamon traits are passed down through families. I decided that demons likely come about when deamons breed with another species, since they become more people-like. Since Yaguzi's family lives in Compass World, they become demons pretty quickly down the line.

For his grandparents and great-grandparents, I got a lot of inspiration from different types of cats. His great-grandpa is based on a Norwegian Forest cat, his great-grandma a tiger, and then his grandpa a maine coon. This was a lot of fun to make, since I really think genetics is interesting and how important it is in how characters look, in relation to their families.

Ralphie (September 15, 2019)

After a bunch of traveling, it's been hard getting back into drawing often. I've been trying to do some quick doodles to get back into it though.

Here's a quick doodle of Ralphie!

More from The Nays Comic (August 8, 2019)

I realize it's been about a year since I've drawn a comic page. I've been so caught up in writing more of the story and making concepts that I haven't really spent a lot of time drawing the beginning. This was fun, but also took a lot of time to draw, so I guess that's why I haven't been keeping up to date on drawing these. Maybe I'll draw more before another year passes!

Read the previous pages here!

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Shelter 128 Floor Plan (August 3, 2019)

Here’s a floor plan of Shelter 128. The M and S Nays generally spend a lot of time here when they’re not on missions. Bird-in-Trainings use the computers in here to do work, and one of the Higher-Up Birds resides here to oversee work.

This was originally for this month's Improvement Movement challenge, but I might do another one since I'm not sure if I wanna draw a full illustration of this one yet.

Kominushu (July 8, 2019)

Some more NAD drawings I've done. I usually don't get to do these in the summer, so it's been fun to finally draw some of these more main characters!

Kominushu is the kind-hearted younger sister of Trekkon who looks up to him. She is very calm and gentle and likes to see the good in others. She believes everyone has a little good in them, even if they choose to do evil deeds. Despite the hardships she’s gone through in her past, she has always kept a smile on her face and stayed positive. Her strong-hearted personality has made her very likable and inspired others. She’s close friends with both Clove and Sarah, and will do whatever she can to keep her friends safe.

Hide & Seek (July 7, 2019)

I've been writing the Hide & Seek Eventure, so I decided to do some quick sketches of a bunch of the scenes!

Detective Ragger (May 23, 2019)

Some more sketches!

I've been playing Detective Pikachu on 3DS and it's been making me want to get back to working on Detective Ragger. Maybe someday I'll have time to make games for myself again.

Sketches with Emotion (March 5, 2019)

Sometimes I get that feeling where I put a lot of myself into the sketch and it just flows better and looks less stiff.

Here's a shot from the Eventure I rewrote. Gair's running from the White Cloaks, and in turn, even pushing his friends away in fear.

Gamishness Revisited (March 3, 2019)

I decided to start up this project again of drawing the Eventures of The Nays in the style of games I've played.

This one is Dragon Quest I (or, Dragon Warrior, as I played). I played this game a long time ago, so I don't remember a whole lot about it. This Eventure is Complex.net when Scott and Chozu take over the Bouncy Room, so this is the Bouncy Room Lady trying to defend herself against them.

Midi Inspirations (February 24, 2019)

I've been in the mood for listening to midis recently.

I called this the Music Mania Easygoing Remix since I listened to the songs twice in a row instead of once so I would have time to put quick colors behind them. I'm planning to use these in a game I'm making.

Biggert City Sketches (January 9, 2019)

Some drawings of Biggert City characters!

My friend was jokingly saying we all needed to draw frogs, but I took her seriously and drew Josinda.

 

When DMunn obtains The Gek's powers and takes over his brother.

Detective Pubby

For this month's Improvement Movement prompt, I played around with colors and lighting. I decided to take a scene from Detective Ragger for this one. I wanted this scene to take place at night, but I had fun coming up with different light sources and light colors.

These are all 4 of the variations together!

This is the original with flat colors.

And the process it took to get the flats laid out.

First I did the window lighting.

And here's the window lighting process.

Then I tried out moonlighting.

And this is the process for getting to the moonlighting.

And finally, the police car lighting.

And the final process for the police car lighting.

Mr Dude's House Floor Plan & Illustration

Mr Dude's house is basically his own private World Leader Headquarters while Ginko and the White Cloaks rule his World. This is where he sleeps and does all of his timeline research. It's also the area where The Nays visit when they're in this World.

I did this floor plan for this month's Improvement Movement!

And then I drew a view of the inside of Mr Dude's house, based on the above floor plan. I wanted to focus on the Timeline wall, since that's what he's most known for. This is one of the most important parts of his house that he focuses on and references every day of work.

Clove Meets Ralphie

On one of my days off, I took the opportunity to spend some time on an illustration, since I've been meaning to do more of those!

Clove finally meets her brother Ralphie in her dreams. I wrote this Eventure the other day, so I wanted to do a little illustration of one of the scenes. Also played around a bit with lighting in this one.

And then here's the process!

Vehicle Concept Art

For May's Improvement Movement, I drew characters riding on a vehicle I designed back in March.

Here's the final illustration!

And here's the process!

Improvement Movement: Vehicles

I designed a bunch of vehicles in The Nays for the Improvement Movement!

For this month's Improvement Movement, the prompt was to draw some vehicles! This is something I struggle with a lot, so I went ahead and just sketched out a bunch of ideas for various vehicles that I've wrote into The Nays. There are more than these ones, but I drew a good variety.

Here's a breakdown of all of the ones pictured:

• Malcolm's Speed Boat: I realize this is more like a large ship that Malcolm might not be able to afford, so maybe this is a ship that Celia's family owns and maybe the North Harbor residents go on cruises in it. His speed boat might actually be something a bit smaller and cramped, but I didn't think about this until after I already finished drawing this concept.
• Kolo's Linkship: Based on a more round design that NimbusStev made up, this might be the linkship that Kolo drives with the S Nays.
• Cipo's Linkship: An idea for a linkship that Cipo pilots. I based the overall design on a tape recorder, because when we used to play with toys, we would use tape recorders as the linkships. I imagine it opens from the top like a tape recorder, and there's a ladder on the side for them to get out of it.
• CPO Linkship (alt): This was the first idea I had for a linkship, but not so sure if I like how it came out. That's why I drew the design above it instead.
• Mr Dude World Police Car: This is the car that Rabiah and Johnny steal from the police to rescue Scott, Aya, and Jennie during the War on Mr Dude World Eventure.
• Pidge Flyer: This is a glass box that Pidgebeetle owns and often transports The Nays around in. It's made from glass and wood, and is powered by the top strings. You can see Pidgebeetle piloting it in this image. I imagine that Pidgebeetle attaches his wings to the strings, flaps his wings, and it makes the outer wings flap. So it can only really be powered by a bird, which is fitting for Tag World.
• Cipo's Bike: Cipo obsesses over his bike, but it's just a normal bike with CPO on the side of it.
• Slyro's New Wagon: A covered wagon powered by a bug creature that Slyro shows off to Hawkin and Pidgebeetle during the Return to Muko Inc. Eventure. The Nays steal it from him, which is why I drew Shaw in there piloting it.
• Party Sanctuary Mine Cart: The mine cart that Bobby escapes from the Party Place with the M Nays in, during the Escape from the Party Place Eventure. It can fit around 25 people in it, which works perfectly for the group they need. This is why the M and S Nays need to split up so they can all fit.

Aya to the Rescue

This was a scene that was really vivid while I was writing it, so I decided to draw it. I really need to go back and actually rewrite the Shitaka Fireworks Eventure so it can show the backstory of what actually happened.

Scott gets arrested for his crimes in Shitaka City, but Aya comes to his rescue and breaks him free.

And then here's a process gif for this illustration!

Fun Times at Work

I've been able to do a bunch of little sketches at work during some of our workshops and other various activities!

We had to design a mech off of an object, so I chose bubble tea! This is a flying airship basically that runs off of bubble tea. I took some reference from the machines that make bubble tea.

We did some learning at work when I first started and I got to learn about how to make a DnD character and some other things! So much fun.

Sketchbook Eventure Planning

I planned out some places, costumes, and characters before writing recent Eventures.

These were concepts for a new character named Fabiana. The bottom right image on the second sheet is what I decided her final look will be based on.

Some initial concept sketches to plan out what Rasake and Matoko's wedding area looks like. Also their wedding clothes.

The Nays Exam Floor Plans

I've been creating some floor plans to help plan out what certain locations will look like in my story.

In The Nays Exam, there's a trust test where one partner must lead the other to the glowing areas while blindfolded. This is actually based on an activity I did with some family members a few years back. I wanted to make a floor plan so it'd be easier to write this part though, with directions.

These are all very rough floor plans that helped me while I was writing, but are very very rough. All three of these are escape rooms.

Experimenting with Sizes!

These are some quick illustrations that I wanted to give a more finished look to than my regular sketches. I also played around with different sizes for them.

I wanted to play around with colored lighting, and I thought drawing a scene from the Bobolo River would fit perfectly! This is when The Nays first begin to realize that the spirits of the Bobolo River are playing tricks on them. 

When Rasake gets married, she sends out her invitations in video form, since most of her friends don't have permanent addresses that she can mail them to. Digital files send faster than physical mail between Worlds, anyway.

Nona in the Smoke

It's been awhile since I've dedicated some time to gesture drawings since I've been so busy, but I decided to do that the other week. And from there, I made a finished drawing!

Here's the finished illustration!

And then the process gif.

As a bonus, here are all of the quick gestures I did in about 1-3 minutes each.

Selfie Concept Sunday!

When Zandra and Yaguzi are released from the Rectory of Reform, Cipo holds an M Nays Reunion Party in hopes to welcome them back into the group. Amelia excitedly takes a selfie with them because it's a big event. They're not exactly expecting it and are caught by surprise.

Here's the final drawing that I did!

And this is a gif to showcase the process. I ended up putting a bunch of filters on it because I was hoping to get an "Instagram filter" effect through Photoshop. I'm not going to go into the details, but you can check out the gif to see what I added.

And then this was the drawing BEFORE adding all of the filters.