Protei Monster Concepts.

I really have been thinking a lot about what creatures populate the world Nat and I have sort of created. I mean it is based very heavily on the world we exist in. But its hard to explain. I suppose that's what we want to emphasize. I think our characters exist a little in between what people see and something a bit beyond that. I will probably try to go more in depth into that later...

 Anyway.

Anatomy Studies from Artslam.

There was another post here. But I've decided to delete it and take a more focused and detailed route. It will take longer, but I will be happier with the result. In the mean time, I just finished my first thirty days of the slam (with flying colors, I might add) and along side doing my normal routine of Protei stuff, I happened to do a lot of anatomy studies. A habit I'd do well to keep up.

 

 

 

 

Scanned Sketchbook.

It was kind of silly of me not to post here for so long, because now I have close to a hundred images of stuff I've drawn for my first 19 days of the slam (a lot more than nessesary... but I can't seem to stop myself). Those will go up momentarily. But first I'd like to post the contents of a sketchbook that I scanned today. Its a little leather thing Natalie bought me while I was visiting her in Spokane. There are a lot of emotions tied to that little book. But I drew a lot of things in it too, here's some of them:

These were all done in the span of like, maybe three weeks. Time started going by slow after I left Spokane.

So Excited for Artslam.

 

Sooooooo excited.

Some progress!

Its taken me a shamefully long amount of time to get this far on this. But its coming along and I've learned a lot of things just from working on these three panels. One. To save time I should use the overlay layer feature. A Lot. Two, try to work in as few layers as possible because SAI hates the size I'm working in. Three, find a way to make panels faster. Shit.

So this is the opening scene of Chapter 1. The city of Sharkshallow, bathed in sunlight. The panels zoom in on the clock tower overlooking the bay and the lighthouse. And the next panel leads inside with the orange sunset light beaming in through the window across the clocks.

I feel like maybe there is innate knowledge inside me telling me where to go or what to do. I just need to work more and work harder to access it. I regret to say that I still have not worked on Frolic that much and I intend to rectify that soon. I've got the most up to date version right here:

It's coming a long as well. But I need to add more life to the buildings below. Perhaps some people and carts on the trail. Definitely some smoke from the houses and I need to make sure I don't forget the birds. I've learned so much doing both of these respective pieces that I feel like they are transforming me. I just need to work harder. Soon I won't have nearly as much time for this and I'm sure I will miss it.

I also did this commission for a kind person on Furaffinity who was one of the many that helped me through a difficult situation with my mom's car. I hope to get this and other's wrapped up soon. I've got a long list of stuff to do before I can relax. But overall I am happy that I've made it this far with my work. I saw my ex boyfriend the other day and he commented that I'd improved dramatically since I'd left him. That boosted my confidence a little. But I'm increasingly realizing that maybe all of these ideas and juice I'm getting really isn't coming from me, but my 'muse'.

Thank you, Pressfield.