Throwback Thursday - almost

Digging through some old art and thought I'd pull a few pieces to showcase here. Behold, the awe! The wonder! (The horror!)

This stuff dates back from about 2005-2008. From the top left, moving clockwise:

-When Conan meets Greek mythology, you may get something like this. The original concept sketch for my wacky race, the Gan-Do-Gan.

-SPIKES! Original sketch of the character Cenme.

-Someone is being pouty. This was the concept for the villain Maratur. ....... he didn't look nearly mean enough. Bleh.

-A half-decent half-sketch of Widow, mostly to show his mask and head.

-The original sketch of Aeka, Kuma's father. Alas, for all of my dragon men had woefully thin features. Don't let them hide behind a sheet of paper turned sideways - you'll lose them.

Maybe I'll have to retry drawing some of these at some point. I know the Gan-do-Gan are freaking hard to draw. Ugh! All of my attempts thus far just look awkward. It's frustrating to see something so clearly in your head and not be able to translate it into a visible medium to show others.

Anyway, enjoy the terrible art. I have been having a lot of trouble focusing on anything for more than part of a day lately. I feel so icky right now with depression.

Lei Mai

My latest attempt at humans. This is a major character who appears in Predecessor, a future project that I would like to write. It takes place about one thousand years before the events of The Rebirth Trilogy, and as you can guess, it features at least one ancestor of the characters in the trilogy. Predecessor is the code name for the book (the actual title will be different) and it will be only one book long at this point.

This character came out looking a little older than I intended, but I drew an Asian face without it looking horrible, so I'm not going to whine. I very much enjoyed the details of her wardrobe. I based a lot of it off of period dress from both China and Japan, as the character, Lei Mai, comes from a culture where this is common.

For ten years she's always just kind of been a character floating in the background of my world, and I've really wanted to develop her more. Over the past several months, I've been blessed to be able to figure out exactly what her personality and background might be. She hails from a class that is very similar to the current-day Japanese geisha. I won't say more, but I am now in the process of researching geisha so that I have a better idea of this special class. (I admire the geisha, anyway, so it's a win-win)

My darling scanner insisted on cropping this for me every time I tried to scan it, and of course I encountered Washed Out Syndrome, the bane of all scanned images. Ah well. It's a learning process.

Done in micron pen and colored pencil. As always, I own the character. Thanks for looking! :)

Ulf card

Finally got this guy done. I need to make some hair texture brushes, because painting fur really should be more fun than that.

This is a villain who appears briefly in one of my Taloner books. I wish I had been able to work with him more, because I quite enjoyed his personality and abilities.