HapoVille

Sketch of the Day: Golem, As Seen in the Video

You’ve probably already seen the video, but this was a quick sketch I did for a YouTube commentary.  Not an insane lot to say about it, that aside.

Sketch of the Day #2: Wasteland Girl

And on the flipside (Literally, this was on the other side of the guy with sword paper – consider me environmentally conscious.) we have a more cutesy, cartoony character… who happens to survive off of crispy squirrel bits in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.  I went for the cyllindrical-limb look for this one, not quite sure I got it down pat, though.

Sketch of the Day: Guy with Sword

Today’s sketch of the day (#1… I may add another one in a few minutes here) is brought to you courtesy of Buddy Scalera, who has been putting out, as far as I know, the only comic book photo references, and performed by Loukas Papas.  I changed the light source, and replaced Lou’s head with a more Asian look, because, you know, racism.  (Actually, it’s because I just watched Warrior’s Way, and wanted something along the lines of something out of that movie, but just got really lazy with the “costume” and hair.)

Where have I been? Where have YOU been?

Alright guys, so 12 days without an update… I know I had a bad habit of doing this with Punk-Pink!, and I really don’t plan on repeating that.  Just to explain where I HAVE been, though, I’ve been spending the days trying to come up with a new webcomic series, one that’s more strip-style, easier to produce, and less intrusive on my everyday life.  It ultimately became a session of rapid-fire comic-making,in the hopes I’d finally land on something I liked.  Unfortunately, the biggest challenge is always coming up with an idea you can really get in to, and I still haven’t found anything along those lines.  It looks like I’ll be giving up webcomicking, at least for a while.  But as I’ve missed a couple days, I think it’s only fair that I show you a few of the ideas and tell you a bit about them.

Sketch of the Day: Cartoon Bast

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas, and a happy new year! I’ll spare you the cheesy “end-of-the-world” joke and get straight to today’s sketch:

A more cartoonish Bast. The smirk she’s brandishing kinda makes her look like Emily from the Corpse Bride. Little bit lop-sided in the chest area, but in my defense one shoulder IS raised a bit higher than the other.

New Android App Test

Alright, so the original Android app was a pain in the butt.  The format came out all wrong when they were published, so I wanted to put this post up as a test of the new one.

So if you see weird symbols pop up, it’s not my fault.

Pen Drawing Self-Challenge: Priestess

Just to pad things out a bit, here’s one result of a challenge I made to myself to practice some sketches completely in pen.  Didn’t turn out terribly.  I kinda like the headwear, and if I hadn’t gotten lazy with the torso this probably woulda turned out a lot better.

Sketch of the (yester)Day: Marrassameut

I kinda fluctuate between two styles: a more realistic, quasi-American style, and a cutesy, Ben Caldwell/anime-esque cartoon style.  I like to consider the latter my “primary” style, switching over to the more serious one mostly to hit and push the limits of my drawing capacity.  That’s not to say I’ve “perfected” my main art style, mind you – you should see the rest of this page – but when I get it, I like what I have.

Anyway, this character I call Marrassameut, or “Mara” for short.  I was going for a harlequinn-type design, but it seems to have come out more as a geisha/Princess Amadala kinda character.  Wasn’t even trying for the yin/yang shoulder poofs.  I still like the design, but I probably could have invested more thought into the legwear.  Boots, it seems, are not quite my specialty.

Sketch… not really of the day.

Alright, so I’m kinda cheating here.  Yesterday’s sketch kinda bombed, so I’m using one I did a while back.  But hey, I never showed this one online, so it still counts, right?  Anyway, this is Talla, a dragon warrior-type character from a comic I’m doodling that might or might not actually be made.  You know how I am.  I should really work on my posing and camera work, these things can get kinda boring…

A Handy Practice Session

Yesterday I decided to draw a nondescript hand drawing a cool-looking knife.  The knife would be like something out of Warhammer 40K, emblazoned with tiny skulls and biomechanical tubes and crap and being two sizes too big.

The knife… didn’t really happen, but that’s okay.  My main focus was on the hand that was holding it.  Let’s face it, I’m terrible with hands.  It doesn’t make me feel bad saying it, even the guys getting paid to do this stuff have trouble with it.  If you don’t believe me, just check out Google.  Anyway, yesterday I actually had a hand turn out decent.  It wasn’t quite in the pose I was going for, but a learning experience is a learning experience.  After some time with it I started going with visual reference (Which is to say, I ogled my hand as onlookers backed away slowly).

Here’s the not-so-final product, with another hand I didn’t quite have time to finish.