May June July

May June July - pencil and ink

I'm seriously starting to worry about the amount of sleep I'm getting, because I keep updating my blog in the middle of the night. As I promised, I will present you the one that started my "obsession" for creating backgrounds to characters. May, the lookout of the pirate ship Moonlight, was my first character I started developing. When I was a child, if my memory serves me right, my friend presented me with a notebook and told me that she and our mutual friend were writing a story about a pirate ship and it's crew. In a way I forced them to take me "on board" and even though I was a crappy writer I enjoyed it very much. We came up with the name May June July when I discovered that they all could be used as female names. July was originally supposed to be the second middle name (I've absolutely no idea if the term is even correct, but you get the point.), but when I couldn't think of a last name for her, it was decided, that July would be her last name. May also has a cat, Kitty, who is a very efficient rat hunter.

I used pencils and ink in this picture. Because May is not a role playing character, I didn't add a scene to this picture, but just simply an every day routine of hers.

Oliver Shadow

Oliver Shadow - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink

My next role playing character is Oliver Shadow. Oliver is a ten-year-old little boy, who has run away from home. His favourite food is meatballs and fortunately he found great friends along his journey. The only thing he grabbed from home was a little music box that reminds him from his mother. In this scene his friends have just saved him from the evil duo, Ares and Ring, but unfortunately they killed his mother. He's mourning for his late mother and listening to the music box. This was the clean version of the happenings which concluded with his mother's dead, lot's of other staff happened as well, but I guess for the mental health of everyone except for Oliver himself I shall leave it unsaid.

The picture itself was made with ink and coloured pencils. The grays are made with a pencil, because I don't have a proper gray-coloured pencil. And yeah, I took a foto of it because the skanner has something against colours.

A New Project

After Project Element I had to think for a new project. At first I thought that I would draw some random things but then I remembered that there are lot of things I could draw. And all of these could be cathegorized under a lable. They are characters from my past, some of whom I have portrayed in a live action role-play, others who I have invented for a normal role-play. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you: Project Imagination! This first picture is quite sketch-like, but it is quite the style I wanted for this picture. The only thing I used was pencils. Meet Seréne (never mind the accent, I was young when I invented the name), a dorwinrim human from Middle Earth...or a place quite like it. She was the first actual role-playing character of mine, though not the first character I invented as a playable character. Perhaps I'll present her to you later. Anyhow, in the picture, Seréne has just dropped herself into a well which she discovered was actually a lake in a cave. What a lovely place for a well...

Seréne - pencil

Project Element, Part IV

Wind - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink

Howcome I always have to update at night? Might be because of the inspirations I get only during the hours I'm supposed to sleep. Here we have it, the last peace of the Project Element; wind. I just hate skanners but I'm visiting my parents and they do not seem to have a proper camera to bring out the colours in this one. It might have also something to do with my very bad skills with cameras. The hair is quite big but I'm growing rather fond of it. Besides, who says elementals should look natural.

Project Element, Part III

It's almost 2 AM, but I had to write a new entry. I just finished the third element. I must say that my friend was my inspiration when I colored this piece. He suggested that I should do a sunset in the background, so I did my own version of it. I actually had to use an orange crayon, because I didn't have an orange coloured  pencil. I wanted to make this picture look peaceful but still powerful and I hope I have achieved it. Not the most common view of fire, eh?

Fire - coloured pencil, ink, and crayon

Sketching fire

What-ho! I started to draw the third part of my project element: fire. A little sneak peak for you guys. I'm not quite sure yet how to colour this, but I'll think of something.

Sketching, sketching...

Project Elment, Part II

Earth - coloured pencil and ink

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new element: earth. With the first element I used only different shades of blue but now I decided to add a bit of brown to the greens. Unfortunately you can't very well see the brown I added to the eyes of the character because that's the thing I'm most proud of in this picture. I tend to scan my works and play with the contrast, so it would bring up the colours more. Unfortunately it's never perfect. Perhaps I should learn to edit my pictures with a computer.

Project Element

Some time ago I started a new drawing project, and yes, I do have projects like these quite a lot. My project is to draw the four basic elements of the western culture: water, earth, wind, and fire. Here's the first one of the elements: water. It is my first drawing with coloured pencils, so I'm quite happy about the way it turned out.

Please do not copy my pictures.

Water - coloured pencil and ink