Character Design

I'm sure I had a spiffier title earlier today, as well as something to tell. Oh well, I'll remember it later. Or not.

This here's Ameixia. She's been following same themes from the start, but I finally have a facial design I'm happy with, including a super simple hairstyle, which should be easy to draw. Her hair's very straight and stubborn, and as we first meet her, she's not at her best, so it might be neater later....

Her hobbies include gemstone enchanting, deadpan snarking and suppressing her inner manic pixie.

This one is... some sort of a arcane trickster in a sword-and-sorcery type setting ( with maybe a touch of steampunk.) So, basically Eberron?

Magic is imagining something and then making it happen

I actually like this one, more or less.

'tis a character.

Eyes are uneven and such. Eh, it's still okay.

Realistic, no reference

Not too lovecraftian, but I still haven't gotten over my habit of making faces. In all honestly, I don't like it too much, but practice is practice.

Neutral expression = BOOOORING. more exaggerated posing and facial expression would be lots more interesting.


Bonus.
It's supposed to be standing meditation.

As an aside... sometimes my head gets too big and heavy and I can't do anything.

Right now, I like colors and brushes and things like that.

Thinking in Fiction

I keep doing that, thinking these snippets of... Backstory? Exposition?
It's definitely a fantasy of sword and sorcery - kind.
I probably should write the stuff down, but the thing is, it's not my hat. It's Ben's hat, even if he's not wearing it.
Not that I've been doing such a good job with my hat, either.

*edit*

THE HAIR SHALL EAT YOU!

Movies // Iron Man II

Went, saw.

Okay, but not as good...

Science was a bit less believable, MST3K Mantra applies. Besides, hey, kirbytech.

Most of the charm of the first movie did come from building the tech - it was like a more geeky version of a training montage, after all.

All things considered, it was about as good as it could be, I think. Although the new element business was over way too fast, in my opinion.

Art and....

Mostly artwork here. The thing is, when I'm depressed, I don't write blog posts.

I do have that single-mindedness trait that can be so useful in science, but it really messes things up when it's focused on a show or a book series or such.

This fails on so many levels...

But, there's something about the technique used that's interesting. I think the proportions are off and that's why it looks bad. Face has uncanny valley effect, but that's not the problem here, exactly. In any case, there is something intriguing here, so it might be worth showing off.