Fourth of July 2009 Weekend Art stuff
Before the Fourth of July was horrific for me. Everything just went down the drain, but starting that Thursday, things started picking up. I got to ride with SevenLZ for 5/6 hours as we drove down(for SevenLZ, back down) to South Carolina, to his parent’s place. They have like 4 acres of land there. We talked about lots of random things, and it was just good leaving Atlanta for a change. It was a lot of fun all in all. I got to set off some fire crackers, they made loud noises that scared me. It got better as the time went on, but the noise…. -o-;
Well, the whole weekend was great, I got to do some artsy stuff too.
I did all the paper work using mechanical pencil, which wasn’t fun. I was complaining the whole time. XD oops… I should really get some good pencils…. when I get the money to spend on stuff like that.
Rocky and his crazy hair
I originally drew Rocky with a faux hawk, but that quickly changed the more SevenLZ and I talked. We decided mohawk was the way to go for this character.
This next picture is of Lein, one of my characters from an old story of mine called Eria. It’s a wonder I’m still working on this story. This character has come a long way since his creation, and went through more changes the following day, when I decided his design wasn’t going to suffice.
Design of Lein. And I think I like him with more desert nomad style. And he is a smoker. X.x
One of the best parts about being with SevenLZ is the kind of absurdity he suggests for me to draw. One of those is silly faces. I love his silly faces, so I decided why not give my characters more life and personality, and give them silly faces. No one, at all times, maintain a straight unemotional face.
One of the things that changed as a result of this “consulation” of characters was how silly Kidd really is. He is a very silly, yet kick ass character. Every comic’s gotta have a kickass main character!
Cool thing about having characters that make silly faces is, it can be used in variety of situations to create viewer reaction. I really enjoyed making this look on Kidd.
Oh yes, I did not pchat while I was down in SC, but as soong as I was back up in GA, pchat it is. I enjoyed doing this one especially after all the artsy pep talk between sevenLZ and myself. This has to be one of my all time favorites of Kidd.
Then I did my first meme. It was a meme of styles, I saw Leaf had posted hers, so I decided, why the hell not, and tried it. I think it turned out really well for it just being sketches. I really didn’t want to put energy I didn’t have into finalizing it. Iwas exhausted from 5/6 hour drive back to Atlanta by that point.
The last one, in the another artists’s style, is done in Niaro’s style.
Last but not least, before I passed out at the most awkward time in the world(but the usual time for Becca and me) 3 am, I went on pchat after seeing Becca’s amazing pchat work. I was so inspired I had to go try something, except I never really did it. I realized I was extremely tired. X.x
So I started drawing Rocky, in hopes that I would make him look different from Kidd. I hope I did.
I love his facial expression, I think my next goal is to give him much more ridiculous look. I didn’t have enough energy to go through with this and finish it, maybe if sevenLZ were there I might’ve… but he was probably exhausted from driving me up to Atlanta and driving himself back chased by tornadoes.
Last but not least, Kidd and his sister, Rina. I gotta love how Asian she looks compared to Kidd. For an Asian (Korean), he’s not very Asian looking.
For those of you who can’t read my doctor’s handwriting (not that I’m a doctor), Kidd says “You’re gonna hurt my feelings.” To which his younger sister retorts, “Too bad, you’re such a loser, oppa.” And for those of you who do not know what “oppa” means, it means older brother in Korean.
Now you may ask, why Korean? Well that’s because I’m Korean. I think that’s a pretty good reason.
Category: Art Rant
