Wow! It's been a while...

Hey, guys!  The last few months have been kinda busy.  London was fun.  I got to see new fun stuff and old favorites.  I always want to go back the minute I get back home.  Since then I had a wedding to go to, CTN, and the holidays.  Each time I was going to post something came up.  But anyways here is some of the stuff I've been working on.

First up is the design I've worked up for Psyche's mother.  I'm working on her father at the moment.  I've found I enjoy drawing older characters.  I haven't done much of it in the past, but it's fun.

I've also been working on some new prints.  Here's one that I've finished of Aphrodite.  I've got the rest thumbnailed out, but I've got to work on them some more.

I did up a portrait of the 12th Doctor during the last season of Doctor Who.  I'm going to be buying a button maker so I can make some buttons of it and others for conventions.  I'm going to try and give the River Song and Jack Harkness ones to their actors at Gallifrey One in February.

I'm going to finish off this with some mermaids I was doing with the Color Palette Challenge that was going around a while ago.  I still haven't done all of them, but here's what I have.

I'll try and get another post up soon!

Gods and mortals

As always life's been a bit too busy to post over here.  If you're following me on Tumblr you've already seen all of these, but I like to spread out my stuff. 

Aphrodite, Cupid's mother and the villain of our story.  She's not entirely bad, as she does love her son and most of her actions towards Psyche (or some of them at any rate) are done in the belief that she is not good enough for him.  She's sort of the mother-in-law from hell.

Ares, god of war and possibly Cupid's biological father.  I haven 't fully decided on that.  He's an act first think second kind of guy, with a quick, pretty explosive temper.  However when he's in a good mood, he's a pretty good guy.

Persephone's mom.  We probably won't see her except in passing.  I had to crop her role out as it slowed down the story and I just wanted to get to the confrontation between Psyche and Aphrodite at Aphrodite's temple.

Psyche's oldest sister.  Psyche's sister's are described as being unattractive.  I liked the idea that they were alright looking girls who overcompensated with clothes, jewelry, and make up where Psyche was simple.  Charis is a Greek name meaning "grace, kindness" which aren't necessarily traits I'd ascribe to her.  She's the more hot headed of the three sisters.

Psyche's next oldest sister.  Costume wise I decided to have the main colors of Charis and Melitta's clothes fall to either side of Psyche's on the color spectrum.  Melitta generally has a cooler head than Charis.  Melitta is an ancient Greek version of the name, Melissa, which means "bee" and Melitta likes to think of herself as and tries to be the queen bee of the group.

I'm off to London later this week, so I'll try to post again when I get back.  I'm participating in Inktober over on my Instagram, so I'll try and cross-post some of my stuff over here then as well.

What I've been up to for the last month and a half.

Sorry for the radio (blog?) silence guys.  It's been crazy for the last month or so.  I had a death in the family, my sister just had her bridal shower (which my other sisters and I planned), and we're about a month out to the wedding so it's not going to get any less busy.  So here's a large-ish post of what I've been working on since I posted here last.

Lets start with my Cupid and Psyche Project.  I've pretty much finalized the look of my Zeus and am narrowing down a number of the other gods and goddesses we'll be seeing.

I've also been making Doctor Who stickers for my Redbubble.  I'm working my way down the Doctors and their companions.  I'm going to be starting the 9th Doctor and War Doctor soon.

Lastly, in honor of Sailor Moon having a new anime and the original anime being re-liscensed and re-dubbed, I've drawn up the scouts (or senshi in the original Japanese)

Hopefully I'll get back over here again soon.  If you want more frequent updates or a faster way of getting in touch with me check out my Tumblr.   Link is at the top of the page! 

Cupid and Psyche character sheets

When I get bored or art blocked I like working on character sheet for stuff I'm working on.  Here are some character sheets for Cupid and Psyche.  I'm working on ones for Aphrodite right now.

I've had these character sheets finished for a bit now, but no time to do up a blog post.  I'm going to try and get better about being more regular on here.  I don't know if there will be a post on Sunday as I my cintiq is coming in at the end of the week and I'll probably be getting it set up.

Another Cupid and Psyche illustration

Here's the scene that follows last weeks illustration.  Although for some reason it feels a bit stretched out...I'll have to check on that.

and here are the breakdown images.

Cupid and Psyche Sketches

It's been a busy couple of weeks with lots of graduations, family leaving on trips, and not getting time to do as much art work/animating as I wanted.  The next few weeks look just as busy as well, but I'll try and get some stuff up here, even if it's just really rough bad digital sketches.

I worked on these story sketches last weekend and they were supposed to go up last Sunday, but I didn't get a chance to upload them onto my photobucket.  The images are ideas for different parts of the Cupid and Psyche story.  I'm going to try and take some of these to full color, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to get them up here.  If anyone has a preference let me know as I may put them up on Redbubble or Society 6.

I'm going to try and get something up next weekend, but I'm going to New York in a couple of weeks and am trying to get everything done for the trip.

Have some sketches and storyboards

I'm still trying to figure out digital landscape painting which also means practicing perspective.  I'm using Cupid and Psyche to work on pre-production skills, so did some sketches of key scenes. 

Here's a sketch of Psyche sneaking up on a sleeping Cupid.

Here's another one from just a few moments later in the shot where he leaves her.

Both sketches need more work before I can go in further, but they get what I want across so they're alright.

I also have some storyboards of the opening of the film.  There will be narration over it, but I'm still working out what it will be exactly. 

I now have to figure out how I'm going to get the next boards to explain what I want to happen next, which means research time.