So Val is a character I made up a long time ago, but never actually did anything with or really had a design for her. She was just a character in Clove's past and didn't have a whole lot of personality or backstory. So I went ahead and created an Eventure about her and developed her much more! For her design, I created a character in DB Xenoverse 2 and based it from there.
Here's the original concept based on her design in DB Xenoverse 2.
A typical day with Clove, Jibu, and Val during their childhood. This is a scene from the Clove Retrieval Eventure.
I've had the opportunity to work in my sketchbook a lot more recently. I'm trying to fill one up to see how fast I can do it, since it usually takes me a few months.
A bunch of sketches I did in the car on the way to a picnic yesterday.
Character sketches, trying out colored pencil again.
After starting a game in Suikoden II, I did some doodles of the main characters.
Did some sketches while watching some DBZ movies/OVAs.
And some studies I did based on Akira Toriyama's drawings of vehicles.
I'm back from my family trip to Canada! It was a really fun weekend and we ended up doing a bunch of cool stuff. Other than relaxing and just hanging out with my family, I also got in a bunch of sketches! Most of these were done in the hotel room or in the car rides.
My Sketch Journal pages that I did daily over the few days.
I decided to re-design Jennie Hamilton, one of my characters, since I WAS in Hamilton in Canada.
These are a bunch of environment studies that I did, most of which were done in the car ride. I did a few in the hotel as well. Unfortunately I only brought a few colored pencils with me, so I was pretty limited on colors I could use.
I did some gestures while in the car of people in the city. A few of these are also of my family from either in the car or the hotel room. The last ones in pen include some environment studies I did in the car too.
Some little doodles that didn't come out the best. A marker doodle of the fireplace in our hotel and then some fanart and random doodles I did after coming back from Anime North.
This might be my last blog post of the week, unless I have time tomorrow morning to make one before I leave. I'm heading up to Toronto for a family vacation this weekend, so when I get back I'll have a bigger blog post.
5/22/13
"012: Butterfree"
Pokemon of the Day!
"013: Weedle"
I'm getting a little ahead just so that I will have enough for this weekend.
"Mystic Gohan Doodle"
It was my friend Joaquin's birthday a few days ago, so I drew him this.
This week didn't have all that much art from classes, since I didn't have class on Tuesday and Wednesday. Plus I felt like this week was more of a catching up week where I caught up on a lot of work. I also worked on clean-up for Aria this week, which is a short film being produced by the Advanced Time Based Projects class at my school (I have not yet uploaded it and will not until it is completed). Plus it was Jinny's birthday, so lots of celebrating and good fun.
"Prince of All Saiyans"
So I've been re-watching Dragon Ball Z Kai with my roommates and so I decided to do some fanart. We just introduced the series to my friend Jinny and she ended up liking it. So since today's her birthday, I decided to draw her favorite character from it, Vegeta. Also, I haven't done DBZ fanart in forever so this was a lot of fun.
"Me With the Face"
Just a doodle of myself. This was real quick sketch I did. But basically Jinny was talking about this one face that I make, so I decided to draw myself making that face. I still need to figure out a good way to draw myself, but this was another test.
"Special Effects Concept"
This is the concept work I did for my special effects animation. I'm planning on working mostly with smoke.
"Dusk Concepts"
Some concept sketches I did of Dusk. She's going to be the character that I use in my effects animation for Animation II, so I decided to do some sketches of her.
"Special Effects Test Animation"
A test animation of smoke and then a short one of rain. These were just some initial tests that I did for my final effects animation.
"Portrait Practice"
A bunch of portraits I did from photographs as practice. We had to do 3 pages front and back of portraits for my Illustration class.
"Solemn Squid Wash"
This is the first part of my squid painting for Illustration class. I did a basic wash so far, but I plan to finish this piece within the next week or so.
"CFD Sketchbook Pages"
Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.
"Pubby Ragger Expression and Model Sheets"
This week at the weeklies, we worked on model sheets and developing a character. I decided to develop Pubby some more since I never made a full model sheet for him. I may finish this one up sometime soon so that I can have a finished model sheet for him.
You may or may not have noticed, but I finally changed my banner. For some reason it still doesn't look entirely like me, but at least it has a more updated example of my current skills. So I've been busy drawing this whole week so far and I plan to continue this mindset throughout all of summer~
"Characterized Self"
Same picture from my banner, just a higher res version.
"New Identity Sketches"
Trying to think up a new internet identity for myself so I drew these to fit with my name ideas I had so far.
"Trunks Giftart"
A quick sketch I did for my friend's birthday.
"Jennie Sketches"
Some sketches I did of my character, Jennie Hamilton. I'm going to end up using one of these sketches for my final improvement piece.
"Banner Concepts"
Just some quick sketches of myself that I drew using a mirror.
A typical day with Clove, Jibu, and Val during their childhood. This is a scene from the Clove Retrieval Eventure.
