Acquana
First Post
November 30, 2005
Alrighty.
So, I know you haven't heard from me in a bit, Queen_Dopplepopolis, but I am going to working on your request tonight. I tried several ideas for your character and in my opinion they all looked terrible. Time for reference!
In the meantime, here's what I've been working on recently. After finding out that designerskins.com does custom skins, I decided it would be the most awesome of the awesome to design portable game system skins for all of my friends based on their Mutants and Masterminds characters. These will be their Christmas gifts, and I'm really having a blast designing 'em.
When I get the finished skins colored and arranged onto the skin templates, I'll post them. For now I'll post the figures that'll be on each of the skins. So far I've gotten all the figures drawn for the Bantam skin.
First, the Guardian Sphyx figure that will appear on Millicent's DS skin.
For Wendy's DS skin, she'll have her own Band of Thieves make an appearence. The Bantam (or Tacit if you prefer ...)
And Bently and Murray.
I have a Pulse drawn, but I haven't scanned him in yet.
Working on these has made me excited enough to want to make one for Wellstar's and I's DS. I asked Wellstar if that'd be cool since it's technically his. My idea was to do a piece based off of the world-hopping campaign, with all of the characters done in the style of Ayami Kojima, who does all the more recent Castlevania art. Wellstar loves the idea, and after immersing myself in her art from Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, and Curse of Darkness this is what I came up with:
Post sketch thoughts
Ammut works amazingly well in this style
As does Pojo
Ma is kind of ... eh, but that's mostly because I still haven't gotten much of a hold onto his character.
I finally got something that looked like Virgil after smooshing together a lot of Kojima's less "bishounen" characters, and the poor guy looks like such a sad panda.
I can't quite get a hold on Sylas, because it's difficult to make her "pretty tough guy" face type look older than the ambiguous mid-twenties age. And his hair being short also makes this a problem, but maybe from a 3/4 view it'll look better.
I despise Kojima's "young girl" face type. Perhaps Gaia will be a background element as a dragon instead.
I think my little chibi there has the right idea on Hiro. I was amused that Hiro solidified in that style so quickly, and while I was working I suddenly realized he looks exactly like Soma from Aria of Sorrow. LOLZ HIRO SUCH A DRAMA QUEEN LOLZ Oh, and uh, yeah ... Soma's a dude, in case you were wondering.
So yeah, there's my post for tonight. As I get more along in this project I'll let you guys know.
Alrighty.
So, I know you haven't heard from me in a bit, Queen_Dopplepopolis, but I am going to working on your request tonight. I tried several ideas for your character and in my opinion they all looked terrible. Time for reference!
In the meantime, here's what I've been working on recently. After finding out that designerskins.com does custom skins, I decided it would be the most awesome of the awesome to design portable game system skins for all of my friends based on their Mutants and Masterminds characters. These will be their Christmas gifts, and I'm really having a blast designing 'em.
When I get the finished skins colored and arranged onto the skin templates, I'll post them. For now I'll post the figures that'll be on each of the skins. So far I've gotten all the figures drawn for the Bantam skin.
First, the Guardian Sphyx figure that will appear on Millicent's DS skin.

For Wendy's DS skin, she'll have her own Band of Thieves make an appearence. The Bantam (or Tacit if you prefer ...)

And Bently and Murray.

I have a Pulse drawn, but I haven't scanned him in yet.
Working on these has made me excited enough to want to make one for Wellstar's and I's DS. I asked Wellstar if that'd be cool since it's technically his. My idea was to do a piece based off of the world-hopping campaign, with all of the characters done in the style of Ayami Kojima, who does all the more recent Castlevania art. Wellstar loves the idea, and after immersing myself in her art from Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, and Curse of Darkness this is what I came up with:

Post sketch thoughts
Ammut works amazingly well in this style
As does Pojo
Ma is kind of ... eh, but that's mostly because I still haven't gotten much of a hold onto his character.
I finally got something that looked like Virgil after smooshing together a lot of Kojima's less "bishounen" characters, and the poor guy looks like such a sad panda.
I can't quite get a hold on Sylas, because it's difficult to make her "pretty tough guy" face type look older than the ambiguous mid-twenties age. And his hair being short also makes this a problem, but maybe from a 3/4 view it'll look better.
I despise Kojima's "young girl" face type. Perhaps Gaia will be a background element as a dragon instead.
I think my little chibi there has the right idea on Hiro. I was amused that Hiro solidified in that style so quickly, and while I was working I suddenly realized he looks exactly like Soma from Aria of Sorrow. LOLZ HIRO SUCH A DRAMA QUEEN LOLZ Oh, and uh, yeah ... Soma's a dude, in case you were wondering.
So yeah, there's my post for tonight. As I get more along in this project I'll let you guys know.