Let's Run to Gallifrey One!

Every February there is a big fan-run Doctor Who convention near LAX called Gallifrey One.  I've been going for a few years now and it's a lot of fun.  It is the 50th anniversary of the show this year, so the convention is the biggest one yet.  They're capping the attendance for the first time ever.

So I decided that I wanted a custom bag or shirt to wear/carry around.  So, I made up this design.  I have it up on my society6 page.  I just ordered myself a bag, so we'll have to see how it comes out.

Watercolor Mermaids

I was playing with watercolors this week.  I haven't done anything with them for years, so it was a bit of a learning curve.  I was on a mermaid kick, so it was fun.

Cupid designs

I really like my new Psyche design (shown last week and below), so I've moved onto Cupid.  I really had to think about his age when working on Cupid's design.  He has to look older than Psyche, but still be in his late teens.  I knew going in what I wanted his body shape to be, so I decided to jump straight into working on his head.

 

I started working with sharper angles and shapes than Psyche, and while the design above felt like a good start it didn't feel quite masculine enough for a leading man character.   So I decided to broaden his chin a bit and give his face a bit more definition.  I'm still playing around with some of the interior shapes, but I'm currently thinking that either of the top two (or some combination thereof) will be my final design for Cupid.

 

I tried going in a very different direction for the 4th facial design, but he turned out too old and too much like Jamie Lannister from Game of Thrones...

Reworking Psyche

I've decided to visit my Cupid and Psyche project.  I've been working on it on and off since high school, so for at least 6 years now.  I'm kinda stuck story-wise, so it's been slow going.  Each time I feel like I've improved in my drawing/designing skills I go back and work over the designs.  Some of my earlier designs for Psyche can be found on my deviantart page.  The last major design change took her from what you can see here: Deviantart to the overall look below.  While I've had the overall look down for a couple years now, I've been going back and getting more details down.

After doing some different face designs (a few of which are shown above), I decided that since Psyche is a much softer character overall than the other female characters I was going to have in the film (especially Aphrodite her main opponent) and that she is younger than the others, that her features should be softer and made up of soft curves and spheres.  My final design of Psyche face-wise will be very close to the upper right face.  It feels a bit too young, so her face will be a little less round around the chin.  Body shape-wise she is going to be narrower in the shoulders and overall more delicate than Aphrodite, who will have an strong hourglass figure and will be made of sharper angles and lines.

I'll try to get up more on Psyche in the next weeks as well as a start on redesigning Aphrodite and Cupid.