Finally, after quite some tie of promises and waiting, I have finished the 12 titans. This whole thing is building up to be something a whole lot more than intended. But it's awesome none-the-less.
Allow me to show you them, as they are long awaited. One must note, however, that my style has changed and grown much greater. These designs are also subject to changes.
Adamabeius.
Titan of metals.
Abilities: Total control over metal. Can change it's form and state and can even create metal on a whim. Has an indestructible yet hollow body of an unidentifiable organic metal.
Aethralis.
Titan of Air.
Abilities: Total control over air, can whip up a hurricane or a tornado with little effort. Has an elusive and ethereal body of dense air. Which can be dispersed at any moment.
Aguera.
Titan of Water.
Abilities: Total control over water. Can cause waves as tall as mountains in mere seconds. Has a dense blue body of transparent liquid which can be morphed into any shape or form.
Annovita.
Titan of Life.
Abilities: Can bring life to many creatures, but cannot take it. She spends her life at the side of her partner, Concedere. She wanders the earth remotely in the body of a beautiful white Elk.
Concedere.
Titan of Death.
Abilities: Can remove life from many creatures, but cannot restore it. He spends his life at the side of his partner, Annovita. He wanders the earth remotely in the body of a dark, rough-looking Ram.
Cotysterio.
Titan of Stone.
Abilities: Can control and create all Stone. His body is made of an indestructible granite-like substance.
Gletscher.
Titan of Ice.
Abilities: Can control and create ice. Can also lower temperatures to far below freezing. His body is made of an un-melting and indestructible cold and slimy substance.
Humoctilis.
Titan of Earth.
Abilities: Can control sands and soils of the planet. His body is made of many granules of a razor sharp sand-like substance. He compresses this down to form some-what of a body for himself.
Ignesgena.
Titan of Fire.
Abilities: Can control fire and cause spontaneous combustions. Can also raise temperatures incredibly high. Her body is composed of magma and flame.
Porrocedo.
Titan of Time.
Abilities: Can control time and see all possible futures and pasts of any current event. she is wrapped in a strange, untouchable fabric. Like a slow, calm black and blue flame.
Seminatus.
Titan of Flora.
Abilities: Can bring life to and create plant-life, flowers, trees, shrubbery, etc. She can also control plants, stem or increase their growth rate to stunning levels and move them remotely.
Tempellosus.
Titan of Storm.
Abilities: Can control lighting, electromagnetic fields and gravitational pulls.
That's all twelve. I'd like to go on some more about these, but I have very little battery life left and still need to inform my twitter followers.
Keep an eye out for more from me on the subject. It's really turning into something amazing. I'll tell you more when I feel the time is right. for now, enjoy the titans, and please, leave me feedback, here or on my twitter (@TheDblTap).
Thanks for reading.
Hey guys, sorry I haven't posted anything in a long while, I've been busy working on a freelance comic, but were on a break now while we wait for the editors to get back to us...
Also, speaking of breaks, I broke my hand. I didnt want to work on the titans project with my broken hand as I want it to be REALLY good quality, it's going to be my legacy. Well, I should now call it 'our' legacy, as i've enlisted my best friend, and the greatest writer I know to write the scripts for me this titans project is REALLY coming together, albeit slowly. I havent finished designing the titans yet so i cant show you them much as id love to and it could be a while before i do...
Anyway, my hand started feeling a little better today so i tried drawing... despite the fact that my hand kept painfully twinging and I cant rotate my wrist with this splint on, I would say i managed to create something pretty good.
It's captain marvel (the genis-vell one, as hes my favourite of the captain marvels... Or rather the only one i like). Captain marvel isnt exactly one of my favourite characters. I just like how he looks and felt like drawing somebody i wouldnt usually draw... I think it turned out well. Although i could do better if my hand was able to move more...
Anywhoooo, thanks for reading guys, I promise to show you my titans as soon as i can and I'm sorry its taking so long.
Have a wonderful Christmas and a splendiferous New Year!
Let it never be said that Connor Handley does not try. Through painstaking effort and sheer determination, I have once again, secured myself a job as a comic book illustrator. I will be paid far less than what the other guy said he would pay me, but I will be the proud contributor to a published comic-book and will be doing what I love and that feels great.
I, again, cannot disclose any information about the comic and even if I could, I don't even know myself. I've been given the project, a payment plan has been agreed and I've been told what my main tasks will be, to create around 20 pages to a script, 6 characters, a front cover and to do all of the text and lettering. I am told I will receive information on the characters tomorrow and that I will be allowed to share the cover and first 3 pages with you after it's promo release and will be allowed to share more of the comic's pages after the release of the second issue. I will be contributing to the creation of 1 entire comic per month and will be working with this person/group of people (he referred to himself as we, but often a single person living under a brand identity does this). I figured I would share this here as I was very excited...
The bad news is, my titans project will be going very slowly from now on and whether it will develop past me creating the 12 titans is a whole other question....
Also, I just wanted to share this little doodly image I did today within about 20 minutes, it's of my friend and I, he came up with the funny little nicknames of han brolo and broba fett... And as soon as you know that I totally suck at any FPS online, you'll be able to guess which is me...
Alright, thanks for reading :D See you next time :)
So, you recall my last post? The one bearing exciting news the likes of which made me a very happy man for a very happy... couple of days?
So yeah, that may have crapped out... I have no idea what happened but since Thursday last week I've done no work for the project because my employer hasn't got back to me... I designed one of his 8 characters in his 2 costumes, College clothing and Superhero clothing and did a rough sketch of another... As he asked, but it has now been over a week (for some reason, the email app on my phone is calling it 2 weeks, just to make it sting more, I guess) and I have not heard from the gentleman. Now, this leaves me in a rather terrifying situation, One moment, I couldn't be happier, I had my dream job and was about to end up getting paid for something I do as a hobby, something I do in my spare time because it makes me happy...
Rather than getting paid to stand around faking a smile and giving myself back ache trying to file away millions of little DVDs alphabetically in their little plastic wallets.
Now, I can't say for certain that I definitely don't have this job, who knows, his internet may be down, he could have gone to visit family for thanksgiving... For a week...
Whatever the case, I have no idea what's going on, and now, a week later, I've moved the project's folder to a more organised area in my past designs folder... Symbolizing it's frozen status... Where it may possibly stay. Unless some contact is made.
Aside from all this, I've also been driven crazy, sat by my phone and computer all day constantly checking my freelance account for messages and leaping up to check my email every time my phone makes it's little bicycle chime noise...
So, to occupy myself and keep myself from wallowing all day I've devised a nice little project for myself... Something I was hoping to take somewhere when I had the experience from working with the gentleman who chose me as his illustrator...
Anywho, the project, for now, is called 'DblTaps Titans' and consists of 12 titans of 12 elements. It is a well-thought out, and if I may say so myself, brilliant project with an excellent storyline.
I won't be telling you this story just yet, not until all 12 are complete. I have completed the designs for 6 of them and am extremely excited to show you them... Alas, my organised and methodical mind finds it impractical to show you 6 when another 6 shall remain, so for that reason I'm going to save them for later... However, I will give you some information on the 12 Titans....
Titan 1:
Name: Aethralis
Element: Air
Gender: Female
Titan 2:
Name: Aguera
Element: Water
Gender: Female
Titan 3:
Name: Anovita
Element: Life
Gender: Female
Titan 4:
Name: Concedere
Element: Death
Gender: Male
Titan 5:
Name: Cotysterio
Element: Stone
Gender: Male
Titan 6:
Name: Gletscher
Element: Ice
Gender: Male
Titan 7:
Name: STBN(Still To Be Named)
Element: Storm
Gender: Male
Titan 8:
Name: STBN
Element: Fire
Gender: Female
Titan 9:
Name: STBN
Element: Earth
Gender: Male
Titan 10:
Name: STBN
Element: Time (subject to change)
Gender: Female
Titan 11:
Name: STBN
Element: Metal
Gender: Male
Titan 12:
Name: STBN
Element: Plant
Gender: Female
And that concludes that. I imagine it will yet be a while until you hear from me, unless of course I hear from the elusive gentleman about my dream job. In which case, internet, you will probably be the first to hear... Well, probably not... I'll most likely tell my girlfriend first... Then my best friend... And maybe my dad... But you'll come somewhere before my mum and after my best friend so... Look forward to that.
So unless it's about that comic, expect news of my Titans... And another essay-like post about them...
Well, if you made it this far, first of all, congratulations, and secondly, thank you for reading.
Well, Oh Well, hasn't it been a while?
Well, I'll tell you why.
I moved house. Yep, it took us a week but we moved house above a pub.
That's hardly a viable excuse though because we moved last week... My other excuse is that moving house tired me out big-time and I then had to work for the next 3 nights and my feet swelled to twice their size...
And lastly, I've been working on a huge project, which is the amazing news I mentioned in the post title...
So, I've been trying to get freelance work for a long time, with no luck. I only ever got a freelance job once and that was to do this:
Which, in my opinion, looks great.
But recently I finally got a proper, decent project. My dream job. I'm the illustrator for a comic series. I can't really give anything away because I don't know the rules of disclosure with the person who hired me just yet, but I'll be sure to tell you guys everything I can tell you as soon as I can tell you.
And, there are other things... Last night I did 2 designs which have needed doing for a looooong time. The first of these, The owner of Lovebuzz Clothing (http://lovebuzzclothing.bigcartel.com/) has been trying to get me to do for quite a while now and I finally got around to it. It's a digital painting of Marilyn Monroe as a scene/hipster girl (I'm not good with social stereotypes so I have no idea what I'm talking about). Here's the design:
I used the recent GTA V posters and artworks as my reference for the style and I actually love it. It looks awesome... If I may say so myself...
And lastly, the other design was something I had to do for the pub I live above. The reason we moved here is because my Step-Father is taking over ownership for the place and he asked me to make this poster.
It's nothing amazing, but still, it's design work so it goes up here.
Alright, thanks for reading :) See you guys again soon!
My latest piece is a revamp of an old piece I did a loooong time ago called 'Heavy Metal', this piece featured Iron Man and Master Chief from the amazing Halo series. This piece started off in a comic-like style and I revamped it in my new painted style, it looks totally amazing and quite realistic. I hope you guys like it, thanks for checking them out, leave some feedback if you have the time, thanks :)
So, as I said, I would be re-drawing many of my older pieces. The first of these which I did was of a spacecraft concept which I named 'vaelen fighter vessel 36-B' back in the day... I'm renaming it to 'vaelarien fighter vessel 36-B' just because it sounds better... Anyway, I will now show you the old version (which is worthy of many a cringe) and the new version, which i'm actually quite proud of... I'm sure you can guess which is which...
Well, Thank you greatly for viewing, please, leave some feedback and check back again in the future :)
So, you remember the digital painting of a dragon I did last night? ... No? Well, not to worry, I'll show you again shortly.
I have been watching videos on www.ctrlpaint.com and wanted to try out some of the techniques to improve my digital painting... So I just re-painted the dragon from yesterday, here are the two for comparisson:
The one on the left is the new one and the one on the right is the old one. So, which do you think looks better? Let me know in a comment or via twitter (@TheDblTap)
Next... I have a few ideas lined up, one of them is just something I thought of recently and the others are to be reboots of designs/concepts I've created in the past, so look out for those.
That's right, A DRAGON.
I spent the last 6 hours scribbling and doodling until it looked like something, then refining details adding effects and making something quite pleasing to look at. A freaking dragon.
This is a first, this right here is a style I've never attempted before and I have to say it worked out quite nicely. Although, I drew so many dots that one of the knuckles on my right hand has swollen...
Anyway, not much to say about this really, there wasnt much of an idea or a concept behind it as it began life as a doodle, but yeah, thanks for viewing :) Please, take the time to let me know what you think :)
So, doing the 'invincible men of iron' piece didn't have the effect I wanted it to... I don't feel more motivated at all, and at the most, I feel even less motivated to do that comic I mentioned doing... So, as of now, there are no promises that I will actually get round to doing that comic, I just can't bring myself to see it as a good idea anymore, not enough time has gone into thinking it through, it was never a genre I particularly enjoyed and I feel it would turn out to be pretty cliché in the end...
So, with that idea in the dust, I don't really have any ideas, any pieces to work on or anything, but then I thought, I'll do what you guys want to see! So, I'm looking for suggestions, drawings that you would like to see done and even a style you'd like to see them in, suggestions I enjoy will be added to a list which I will then begin to work on.
So, to offer me suggestions, either tweet me @TheDblTap or leave a comment here. all comments and tweets will be read and none shall be ignored.
Thank you for reading and a double-thank-you to those who left a suggestion!
IT'S DONE! It's finally done!
I finally, after god knows how long, finished my largely ambitious project. Featuring 29 of Iron Man's suits, I named this piece 'Invincible Men of Iron' and I sincerely hope you enjoy it! :)
So, for those who were wondering, here's a full list of the suits I selected for this piece:
Mark I, Mark II, Mark IV, Mark V, Mark VII, Mark VIII, Hypervelocity Armor, Exosphere Armor, Power Assault Armor, Hulkbuster Armor, Inferno Armor, Subterranean Armor, Hotzone Armor, Advanced Armor, Stealth Operations Armor, Arctic Armor, Classic Armor, Shield Breaker Armor, Ultimate Armor, Deep Dive Armor, Stark Racing Armor, Vibranium Armor, Heat Blast Mission Armor, Mark V Stealth Armor, Shockwave Mission Armor, Exosphere Mission Armor, Inferno Mission Armor and Fusion Armor.
I'm so proud of this and it took SO LONG. So if you appreciate this piece and want to help me out, Tweet this blog post or go to my twitter (@TheDblTap) and retweet me, or post this on facebook. Thank you so much for reading/viewing and especially if you shared this :)
Just a short post to point out that I have finally put the effort into making my blog LOOK better, which really is a necessity for a graphic design blog...
Just for the sake of the archive, incase anybody come back here reading this post sometime in the future and I have a new blog design, here's a picture:
I'd also like to talk about a t-shirt design brand which my girlfriend's brother owns, it really is a very cool brand and he produces some brilliant designs. Recently, my face was used for one of the designs, taken from a photo of my second hallowe'en costume (excuse the hairy teeth, I wouldn't sacrifice my beard):
Also, the make-up on my face in the above picture was done by my brilliant and talented girlfriend, who also has a blog which you can find here: http://emilyguysfx.blogspot.co.uk/
Follow her on twitter, also: @PyxiCakes
And, as for the 'invincible men of iron' piece I've been going on about, there are 6 more suits to draw and I've done the background, so, if I stop playing Halo 4, watching Dexter and generally procrastinating, you can expect it in the next couple of days.
Thanks for reading! :)
So, the reason I haven't been posting anything lately (even on twitter) is because, aside from working extra hours to save money up for christmas, I have been doing exactly what I said I would, working on a large piece featuring many of iron man's different suits... I'm not sure how long I've been working on it now but out of 29 suits I've selected, I've finished 18. 11 more to go!
But, as I hate to come here empty handed, and I hate to leave it too long without posting, I quickly whipped up something for you guys. It's an idea which came to me while I was drawing the 'invincible men of iron' piece and I know the title 'iron spider' is taken for the suit which tony stark actually develops for spider-man, I think the name is fitting anyway, so here it is...
It's no HUGE change from the original Iron man suit, all I really changed are the colours, visors and the chest-piece, but I really like it, which is why it's my desktop wallpaper at this moment in time.
So that's it, check back soon for my finished 'invincible men of iron' piece! thanks for reading! :)
That's right... I still haven't done that design piece to kick-start my comic... It seems it's taking a lot of effort to beat this procrastination and it's doing my head in. But, usually what beats my procrastination is to force myself to do something big and beautiful. So, I'm going to do a HUGE picture (in my comic style, just so I don't lose the motivation for this style) of all the different Iron man suits... There's over 60 so I should be well occupied doing this for quite some time...
This isn't the first time I've done some huge project to get out of a rutt, this piece unleashed my digital painting talent and it took me a month, before this I could barely digitally paint at all:
Another reason why I STILL don't have any work done is because I recently installed WINDOWS 8!!!!
I know, a lot of people hate it, but I love new. And this kind of new, is definitely worth the 12 hours I spent getting the thing up and running.. I was one of the first to accept the move from XP to Vista, and because of it, I was more than ecstatic with Windows 7 as Vista was a steaming heap of...
Well, I'm very devoted to microsoft. I was Xbox over Ps3 and I'm MOST ABSOLUTELY CERTAINLY PC over Mac. I see past all the lies and scams and flashy outsides of Apple products and see the limitations and uselessness. If you ask me, even as a Graphic Designer, PC far outweighs Mac in all aspects and I find nothing more frustrating and anger-inducing that using a Mac. ESPECIALLY when it comes to graphic design, It's like Apple hate making things easier, the shortcuts are absolute crap too. You have to Ctrl+Click just to right click for christ's sake. Anyway, I hadn't intended to go off on a rant... I just wanted to offer up an update just incase I actually have some viewers who care what I jabber on about and/or are looking forward to my comic...
Thanks for reading :)
In all honesty, I have been procrastinating a bit lately... All I need to do is design the bandit leader and I can get started on the comic... But I've been toying with a few different ideas, I was thinking of having the bandit group a different race, who were subject to discrimination, but since laws passed (like the pass of the apartheid) and they became free from discrimination instead of being forgiving and just glad for the peace, this race is angry and sour towards the Draezyl and spend their time terrorizing and using them.
Like I said, it's just an idea and i don't know if I'm going to follow through with it..
So, as always, I have been using my spare time... I've been watching the amazing T.V Show, Dexter, About a serial killer, which I've been enjoying greatly, I also did a couple more drawings and went to a Hallowe'en party dressed as tony stark. Here are some pictures:
Well then, I'm sorry i didn't have much else to say, i should get that concept done soon but right now, I'm very, very tired...
So, I finally finished the comic I told you all about in my last post. It's simple, nothing great happens in it, but I made some great choices with lighting and accomplished some really cool effects in this comic. I don't think I've ever got colouring more right in my life and I'm actually pretty proud of it. Basically, the test was a success, the style is a good one and it works just fine.
Well, as promise, here it is:
It's been a while but I've finally got something new to show you guys :)
I haven't been procrastinating again and I've definitely been busy. First of all, extending on the comic I told you I was working on, I've created a couple more creatures for the comic, and here they are:
On the left, the cow-bison-deer thing, is called a 'Bisalces' it's the general cattle-type creature in this world and I think it looks quite quirky and cool, with it's 6 legs and moose antlers.
On the right, the large bull-bear is called an 'Ursaurus' and it is the natural predator of the canverien, the main mount I showed you guys earlier. This creature will also be the main mount of the protagonist.
Now, I haven't spent ALL THIS TIME drawing those... I wanted to test my drawing style as a comic before actually making a comic using the style. And so, I've produced an incredibly short cliffhanger of a mini-comic which has only 3 pages. I've drawn all 3 pages but they still need colouring, texturing and shading.I haven't come here empty-handed mind, I've brought you one small sneaky peak. Here is the first page, uncoloured, untextured and unshaded :)
I don't want to reveal anything else about this comic, so ill just, lucky for you, stop here. Thank you so much for reading :)
Also, it's a little like begging, but I'm struggling for visitors and followers here, so if you find my posts interesting in any way, please let others know, show them my blog, send them a link or tweet them. Also follow me on twitter (@TheDblTap) Thanks :)
So, i came to town today to cancel my jobseekers allowance due to me now having a job... I then decided i would wait around for my girlfriend to finish college... But i have no money, my girlfriend doesnt finish college until 4 and its now oly half past 2. So, to kill time, and avoid spending what money i do have on a mcdonalds i decided to look around waterstones and price up the game of thrones collection for my dads christmas/birthday presents and the walking dead comics for myself...
I left, after finding out that both things would cost a helluva lot, deciding i would try to find them at a reasonable price online...
During this time i contemplated the fact that there are many things in this world which i cannot comprehend. After turning this thought over, i got out my phone, leant on a bycicle stand outside carphone warehouse and connected to their free wifi in order to bring you this incredibly non-art-related and frankly boring blog post about things i cant get my head round...
The first of these, came to mind as i saw some in waterstones... Erotic novels. I mean, sure, a lot of people read them online and a few actually reach publishing stage and are kept in quite racy stores and charity shops... At least thats how things were. With the release of 50 shades of gray into the public, things changed. 50 shades of gray is a very popular erotic novel, read by women all over the world and reaching fame insanely rapid. People i know, such as my mother, her friends, my best friends older sisters, his mother, all their friends... Theyve all been roped in by this erotic novel hype. And i just dont get it... The outcome, as stated by many of its readers, is that they get some kind of sexual satisfaction from reading the books. Now, i hate to be old-fashioned... Who am i kidding? I love it. But, isnt that wrong? To sell something so racy and sexual in major stores around the world? This book encouraged many other erotic novel writers to come forward with books of their own to publishers. And after having read through some of the pages in many of these books, i find that the writing in them is awful and pathetic, as though amateur writers have come forth simply to share their sexual fantasies with others, in a rush so as to catch the hype. Frankly, my 15 year old sister writes better stories. Personally, i also see reading something like this as a mechanism to become turned on, whilst with a partner, is quite an insult to them. Much like watching porn would be an insult to many girlfriends or wives.
Enough about that, onto another thing which i find completely incomprehensible. Fangirling... If thats the correct term... Going above and beyond to become the worlds most infatuated with a certain celebrity. The main two centrepieces of these kinds of obsessions being canadian singer, Justin Beiber and british boy band One Direction. I should state, before going any further with this subject, i seek not to upset or displease anybody, simply just to state my confusion. Groups of mainly girls and homosexual males dedicate their time, money, harddrive space and internet to certain people. And the thing which confuses me, is why... Why do people go to such an effort to obsess over somebody who doesnt even know they exist, wont notice that youve bought all their albums and t-shirts 3 times and have their face on your wall. I have never had a celebrity crush and never found myself particularly attracted to a celebrity. It seems ridiculous being infatuated with somebody you will never meet, who has never once in their life even thought about you and who will likely not even be who they seem to be when you meet them in person. Sure, you can listen to and analyse all of their lyrics, buy and read all their books and biographies and study their face and body in great detail, but you will never know this person. Surely these people must reach an age of adulthood and levelheadedness at some point? And surely at this point, they regret the time they wasted scribbling i heart bieber into their schoolbooks instead of working on a proper lifestyle. Maybe, if they were that much of a fan, they could build their life up to becoming a music journalist or band photographer and one day meet this person. But spending all your life, or even just the majority until the next heart throb steps into play, longing after and aspiring to meet somebody who will probably never remember meeting you if you ever did meet them, seems like a waste. Aspiring to be good at your job, or a great person to be in a relationship with, seems like a better use of your time... Imagine if you ever do meet a proper crush, somebody who you could make a future with, but they know about the obsessive nature, your longing for somebody far beyond your reach and their level, that would drive them off, or even leave them feeling quite bad about themselves.
Im not one to say my opinion is the right opinion, or that youre living your life in the wrong way, i just wanted to get my point across and burn some time...
Well, its 5 to 3 and i still have an hour until my girlfriend finishes... Ive completely bored you with a totally tl;dr and highly opinionated post and now ive nothing to do... Im hungry but were having a large meal this afternoon... What to do...
Well, thanks for reading, if you even made it this far...
Great news, friends, The drawing tablet which my wonderful girlfriend bought me did arrive today, as I said it would, but, even better, I did get chance to swing by her house and pick it up!
I was so excited, that as soon as I finished work at 10pm, I got on my laptop, plugged it in and started drawing... non-stop until just now... 1.30am... And this is what I created:
!!! EDIT !!!
It's 3.21am and I just made an adjustment to this out of curiosity... I wasn't sure which looked better so I decided to post both on here... You can let me know what you think on my twitter @TheDblTap
!!! END OF EDIT !!!
I used my girlfriend as reference (which I do a lot) as a tribute to the fact that she bought me the drawing tablet. This piece was also inspired quite a lot by E.D.I of Mass Effect:
Now, this post has turned out stupidly short... As it happens, I don't have a lot to say about that piece, it doesn't have a backstory or a specific style... I was just playing around with the flow settings on photoshop and my drawing tablet....
So, to fill some space in this post, have some other pictures I've drawn with my girlfriend in them...
Well, disappointingly for anybody who has been religiously looking out for updates on the sci-fi/western comic I've been working on... I haven't done anything new... Anything at all. But, it's not down to me procrastinating, or being lazy, oh no... Somebody broke my drawing tablet... Snapped the wire clean in half... without it I can't do a thing... Well, I can, I'm quite good with Photoshop, but not good enough to draw with a mouse... And using the pen tool would detract from the style of my hand-drawn methods. My wonderful girlfriend bought me a new one on next-day delivery, which should have come today with which I could create all of the many things, all of the many ideas in my head that have come to mind while I've been without my drawing tablet... Unfortunately, either the seller or the royal mail are useless bags of... Rainbow... And haven't got it here in time... I can't see my girlfriend tomorrow due to work so, at the earliest, I won't have a drawing tablet, or coincidentally, any artwork for you guys until thursday... So until then... .... Uhh... Idk... Look at this thing I did ages ago...
I haven't done any artwork recently and that's down to one of my worst enemies. Time. An unstoppable force. Yet all a concept. If you were to tell an alien that you will see him in 2 hours, assuming he is familiar with our language, he'd have no idea how long to wait, without one of our human-created apparatuses. Our concept and measurement of time is based around day and night, the position of the sun at a certain 'time' of day. Time, like the cycles of the sun, is something which never stops and is a strange, strange thing... Difficult to fathom...
Imagine there was no sun and no moon, there was a natural occuring light in the atmosphere and it was possible for all life to go on as it has... There wouldn't be much to relate points of time to, much at all. Of course, as humans, we would find other things to relate time to, like the cycle of normal human sleep patterns. Time is something which IS there and ISN'T... There's no doubt that it happens, it passes, there is such thing as a history, in a few moments this blog post will have been read... Past tense, it happened, it's history. Yet 'TIME', the word, the measurement, the cycle are all things relative to our planet and the human race. Other planets have different cycles, and would have different measurements... Maybe I'm thinking too broadly. Maybe that's why time is a concept which has always eluded and baffled me... But it is a difficult concept. Time travel, while ludicrous, isn't impossible, but I'll get onto that later... What I'd like to talk about first, is the concept of time in film and media. I hate. HATE. Time travel-based movies or shows, because there are always too many errors to count, so many easier, yet avoided, conclusions or loopholes in the story-line. Even in Dr.Who, but I have to admit, I very much enjoy Dr.Who. The concept of the future is always ridiculous too, so far ahead. Like we could ever reach such a high level of technology in such a short time, with restrictions on development like religion and the depletion of fossil fuels. Maybe, if self-sustainable energy is established, but still... However, I recently saw Looper... And I have to say this film was great. Despite the disappointing and inconclusive ending and how stupid Joseph Gordon-Levitt looked with Bruce Willis make-up on. The representation of the future was one of the most realistic I've seen. Obviously, not everybody in the future would be able to afford high-tech equipment, the better things get, the higher the cost will become, there will be a LOT of homeless people and with recessions getting worse, it's even more likely. There are a lot of people (bearing in mind it's set 32 years from now) driving cars of our time with D.I.Y solar panels wired onto it. The concept was also great, it wasn't too unrealistic or unbelievable.. EXCEPT... The concept of time travel... As mentioned before, I'll get onto that now...
If time travel were ever to be invented, we would have time travelers around right now... right? Well, while that is a possibility, it's not exactly definite. It's possible of course, that in the future, like in Looper, time travel is outlawed. Or maybe, it's illegal to travel into the past, but even then, there are always people who break the law, and there are always people who will find a way to. There are many conspiracies too, for one example, Charlie Chaplin's time traveler, a woman in a Charlie Chaplin film who seems to be on a phone... There are several possible explanations for this, but check it out and make your own decision...
Something which I believe is that if Time Travel does ever become possible, it will be like a phone, to contact another person, you both need to have a phone. So maybe, to contact another time, both times need both a sender and a receiver node.
Now, several different scientists have several different theories but we have no definite proof that it's impossible. Scientists in Japan have perfected a machine capable of breaking down light and recreating it in a different location. Isn't that amazing? A teleporter! If this were perfected to be able to break down and recreate solid objects we could be looking at our first teleporter, and the first steps towards time travel! (http://news.discovery.com/tech/teleport-light-experiment-110418.html)
Well... This was a very long-winded way to tell you that time is an almighty bitch and sometimes, just sometimes, it gets out of hand, sometimes, my obsession with time and organisation isn't enough. Sometimes things happen, unexpected variables in any plan. Plus, I'm still adjusting to working my time around my new part-time job, I have a lot of things to fit into a week... Time with my girlfriend (@PyxiCakes), a movie night with my best friend, a weekend with my father, some graphic design time, some gaming time, my new job and last, and most certainly least, sleep. I sleep about 4-6 hours a night, which once used to be a difficult thing to deal with, but now, being the norm, it's easy to tolerate. This is all down to me getting the most out of my time between 9pm and 3-4am. that's a whole 6-7 hours which would usually go totally unused and, quite frankly, wasted.
However, I've spent a lot of time doing several things other than design work... I've been playing Faster Than Light, a great strategic sci-fi game which is both addictive and practically impossible, I've also been playing Borderlands 2, my creative muse for my current project and I've been paying Dishonored, an amazing new game which just came out. Aside from playing video-games too much, I've been working very hard at improving at my new job.
Well, I guess I'll end this here before it drags on anymore... But thanks for reading!
So, it's 10pm, I've just returned from work and I'm KNACKERED. So, for that reason, this may be quite a short blog post...
Now, you may or may not know by now that I've been working on something which I've neglected to reveal information about, and yes, I'm going to show you it for the third time...
I am now going to reveal more information... These are the main protagonist characters for a comic I am hoping to begin creating. Of course, due to limited resources and time, I will be uploading this comic (page by page) on a separate blog (accessible from here via the bar at the top). The main purpose of this blog post today, is to show you a few concepts I've done for this...
First of all, I have the main, indigenous, race of whatever I'm going to call this planet (which is oh so similar to our own). This race is called the 'Draezyl' and they are homo-reptilian. No, that doesn't mean they're homosexual lizards. It means they are humanoid and reptilian. They wear clothes like a human, but have a tail to account for and their feet are rough and solid, meaning they have no requirement of shoes and they were never invented. Also, the things which appear to be hairs on their head are actually thick fingernail-like spines. You may have also noticed, that quite unlike reptiles or humans, they have beaks on their faces. This idea was taken from dinosaurs. Unlike a regular beaked creature, these reptiles also have a set of canine teeth, no molars and no incisors, just canines, although, almost like a dog's, the canines to the bag of the mouth curve around a little to enable chewing where required.
I have a concept image of the creature here:
The next creature I made came from the desire for the character 'Razer' to have a dog. Obviously, I didnt want to just give him a dog... So I started playing around with a few ideas and came up with a kind of... iguana-dog concept... This creature was named by @LiviaTheirin on Twitter, 'Lacariza'.
These creatures are docile and friendly. they act and behave how a dog would, but have the skin of a reptile, they have several thin spines along their back and on the end of the tail and are much faster and more agile than a regular old dog. The concept image for this is here:
I think its very cute.
The next creature I designed came from the fact that, since this comic will have an old-west theme and feel to it, there would definately need to be horses... Or would there? Sure, I'd need a mount, but who said they had to be horses?... So I started looking at other kinds of indigenous creatures of desert/canyon areas and decided I wanted to base this on a coyote... So I took the basic shape of a coyote, but made it bigger and bulkier. I also added a few spikes and an extra couple of eyes and it was looking awesome already! This creature is much faster than a coyote and even faster than a horse, its huge powerful stature and muscles make it a force to be recconed with! Despite it's immense power, however, it is, much like a horse, quite a docile creature, It likes the company of a Draezyl and would do anything to defend it's owner. This, too, was named by @LiviaTheirin and has the very cool name of Canverien!
I also thought I'd put them together in an image to help you get an idea of the size of these creatures, if you imagine that the Draezyl are the regular size of humans, this image should give you some idea:
One other thing which I've done so far is to map out the main town which the story will be based around, it's not a very good or very detailed map, but it was just for my reference. I also made a few signs for certain locations and stores within the town. Both these images are here:
That's all I've got for you this week, sorry that, once again, I turned a short paragraph into a short novel, but thank you so much for reading! And a very big thank you to @LiviaTheirin of twitter for the great names!
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