November Improvement Movement

I got a little behind on my Improvement Movement drawings, but here's the belated November prompt - taking a figure drawing and turning it into a character drawing.

Here's the final result!

First I started with a bunch of figure drawing sketches.

Then I highlighted the ones I liked best.

And then here's the rest of the process of sketching start to finish!

And as a bonus, here was the first doodle I tried of Sarah. I didn't really like how this one was coming out, so I didn't finish it.

Amelia Expression Studies

For October's Improvement Movement, the theme is expressions! I decided to get a headstart on this one and did a few extras. I decided to stick with Amelia, since I don't have a lot of various expression drawings of her yet.

These ones I polished a bit more and ended up being the final group.

This was the first group that I decided to leave pretty rough, just as some additional ideas I had while doodling.

Improvement Movement 2019

Along with my yearly recap of art in general, I revisited an old project this year called the Improvement Movement!

It was hard to keep up with it in addition to doing daily projects and things, so some of my last ones were done late, but it was a fun way to keep on working on projects that helped with world-building throughout the year.

Here's a recap of what I did each month:

This was a project I did with a few of my friends, and was meant as a way to keep us all drawing, and kind of simulate the feeling of drawing together. We did the same projects and would post them in a channel on Discord.

It was a fun project, but with everyone having busy lives and other projects, it was hard to keep up as a group. I ended up barely finishing all of the prompts, since it did take up a lot of time, but overall I think it was a fun project.

I don't see us doing it again this coming year, but maybe we'll revisit it another year in the future with some new prompts!

Check out our website here to see everyone else's!

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.

Dark Thunder Vs. Jaboo (Part 2)

Dark Thunder and Jaboo playing fighting games in the living room. This is part 2 of this month's Improvement Movement drawing that I did the other day of them in the fighting game. July's theme was characters interacting!

Here's the final illustration!

And the process!

Jaboo Vs. Dark Thunder (Part 1)

Jaboo and Dark Thunder love to fight, but as they get older, they begin to appreciate taking out their battles in fighting games instead of real life.

Here's the finished illustration!

And here's the process!

Clove's Poses

This month's Improvement Movement challenge was to draw a character in a bunch of different poses, so I chose Clove! I also wanted to draw her in costumes that she wears throughout the series.

Here's the final sheet

And then this is the process!

Eventure Scenes

Some recent doodles of Eventures!

A scene from the Eventure I finally finished writing the other week! It was a rewrite, but I completely changed the whole premise, and I think it turned out a lot better.

Lonny and Pubby riding their motorcycle.

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: Gif Turnaround

Barely finished April's Improvement Movement prompt in time! This one was probably the most difficult so far since it involved a lot of drawings and keeping a character on model. I chose Zandra since she's easy to draw!

So here's the final gif!

And then this is a process gif to show a bit of the process. I ended up just erasing lines on the original sketch layer to clean it up so I don't have quite the whole process documented, but still fun to look at!

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.

Improvement Movement: Draw This Again

As part of the Improvement Movement project, I redrew an old drawing from 2010!

Here's the 2019 version.

And this was the 2010 version.

And this is a gif to showcase the process!