Last of the Shai

This is Beloch Shrike. One of my first characters. I haven't messed with him in years, but he still holds a special place in my heart, despite being painfully gary stu.

The art is pretty bad. Hands continue to be a problem for me, but I refuse to stop drawing them. At least his front leg turned out halfway decent.

Princess Champions Rebellion

A few years ago, Morrie and I had a long conversation where we made up this royal family who was very oppressive, and the 12-year-old princess ended up becoming the champion of the rebellion. I really don't remember much of it, but I've had a sketch Morrie drew hanging on the wall for a year or so.

This is my rendition of that sketch. Turned out pretty well, I think!

Halfling in a Hallway

I am pretty darned happy with this. It took some time, but it seems to have worked pretty damned well.

Inspired by yesterday when I spent 30 minutes looking for images of a group of adventurers exploring a dungeon, and didn't find anything.

Truly Terrible Hands

Didn't have much time today. Actually haven't slept since before the last image I posted. So just a little sketch today. Every single one of these hands turned out abysmal, but quality isn't the goal. Consistency is the goal. Quality comes with practice.

Star Wars Choices of One: Grave Shooting from his Bacta Tank

I missed a day, but that's to be expected I suppose. Technically this is being posted two days after the last drawing, but that's only because I went to bed immediately after work on Tuesday, and woke up at 1am on Wednesday to do all of my normal Tuesday-evening stuff.

Just before doing my drawing for today, I finished reading Timothy Zahn's latest Star Wars novel, "Choices of One," which features the same group of five stormtroopers he featured in one of his other recent novels, "Allegiance". The book was really quite good, and just before the end there was a scene where the stormtroopers were pinned down.

Abruptly, the last two survivors seemed to wake up to what was happening. They boths pun around, dropping down with their backs to the kegs, their weapons tracking around to their rear...
Toward Grave, lying in his now-open-topped bacta tank, the blaster he'd concealed as the attackers ran past with barely a glance braced against the edge of the opening. His weapon spat one last shot, with his usual deadly accuracy, and one of the two aliens collapsed to the floor, his own final bolt shattering another piece of wall.

The drawing is somewhat off from what the book describes. The gun isn't braced against the edge of the tank, and I'm pretty sure the tank in the book was horizontal, not the more standard vertical, but meh. This is what I pictured so it's what I drew.

While it doesn't look great, I'm somewhat happy with it. Drawing people from the side has always been difficult for me, but I think this turned out well. Particularly the shape of the character's head. The arm he's leaning on would look a lot better, I think, if I had moved him over in the tank a bit. But still, it doesn't look abysmal.

Guns are difficult to draw. I've never liked drawing them because of that.

Final Fantasy 6: Edgar Firing His Autocrossbow

Edgar Figaro is one of my favorite characters in Final Fantasy 6. Along with every other character. That game really was remarkable, wasn't it?

I'm pretty happy with this drawing. It's not as much of an action-pose as Terra Escaping from Narshe, but I'm really happy with the way Edgar's hair turned out. Hair is always difficult. The only truly glaring flaw, for me, is the forward hand. It looks simply abysmal, but I couldn't really get it to work the way I wanted to, and I decided to call it quits.

Still, overall, I'm quite happy with this. That makes 3/6 posts I'm happy with so far, since starting this blog. 50% success rate isn't bad this early in the process, I think.

Ascendant Crusade: The Whispered Queen Overlooks her Forces

I sketched this once on lined paper. It was one of those sketches which really didn't look good, yet somehow looked like it had a potential to be really cool if I just did a better job with it. This is my most recent attempt to recapture whatever made me feel that way about the original sketch, but no luck. It really just ends up looking like I'm putting a bunch of shittily drawn characters next to each other.

I don't think I'll attempt this again until I'm significantly better.