Doodle dump of my random doodles from the past three weeks, I'd think it is? Lots of going over old character and costume designs. I was just really into doing some research for costume designs a few weeks back.

Quick storyboard stuff I did for class. The assignment was to have a character dive off a diving board and portray that one moment in three ways: a character driven way, a plot driven way, and combo of the two. The first is character driven, second is plot driven, third is the combo driven shot. The teacher told us to make a quick given circumstance to tell the class before showing the board ideas. I think the story is generally self-explanatory - man is chased by a pursuer and must choose between a leap of crazy faith or going up against the pursuer.

I couldn't quite say I have a favorite of the three, but I know that I spent the least time on the combo one, even the thumbnailing for that one just came out easily and I ended up going with one of the first thumbnail ideas for it. I think I had the most fun doing the first one since I enjoy just drawing faces. : D At the same time, I feel as if I learned the most from the 2nd one. Watching some ninja turtles gave me an idea to add a walkway thing there - I thought it cut up the frame better to do it that way. And for some reason, I had the hardest time plotting the other spouts until it dawned upon me that I was drawing the perspective lines wrong due to my late-night derpness- HUUURRRP. @___@

I used my character Ark for the board even though I originally planned it to be a random character made up on the spot. I'm usually a bit... I don't know how to describe it - wary of showing characters I spend a long time on to anyone, I suppose? It's a strange sort of shyness, but I thought I just wanted to draw him in a moment like that - conflicted between making a dangerous jump or getting killed by a pursuer of some sort. I think it was a better idea because I felt like I was able to make a story much easier, quicker, and feel more for it.

I sorta cheated (sorta) and did a "diving board" of sorts... just not the swimming pool kind. >__> I was watching a gameplay for The Amazing Spider Man game (with SAM RIIEGALL AS PETER PARKER!!!!) and at 5:48-ish of the video it suddenly hit me to have a character having to prepare to jump off a sewer... whatever that location is called.... The teacher was more than fine with my cheat, so everything ended all well~

Personal afterthought:

I dunno if I could have done more to an extent, I guess? The teacher had nothing more to say on it - she just nodded and said "good job", and I think someone in the class said "whoah". I'll take it as a good sign. Best check it out more later, though. O__O; Upon my further notice, I felt like I should have upped the contrast in the pictures to up the focus better. =___= Next time, I guess... next time...

Randomly selected figure drawings, portraits, and caricature (attempts >__>; ) I did in class.

This is more or less what I've been up to lately. xD The first few weeks was on head construction, and on the last day the teacher had everyone trying to do caricatures of each other. That was insanely hard for me, and I think very few people in the class were getting it. Most people were still drawing it in a too "academic" sort of way.

The last portrait of the realistic portraits series was a one hour portrait. I sort of wish it came out better. =__= Some parts looked legit to me, a lot of it turned out being very "hm... that's not what I wanted O_o; ". And it still didn't look like the model.... It's in a good direction, so I suppose one problem at a time? Haha...

PENCIL SKETCHES!!!! ... Can't think of much more to say. >__> I do a big chunk of my drawings on paper with a pencil, so I thought to post a few of them here.

 Biiiirddd maaannn!!! Based off of my old picture for "Papageno" from waaayyy back. There's supposed to be a random passerby person in the bushes where that bunches of yellow is in the black hole among the green.

The birds are mystical, random birds so that I don't have to copy one specific bird all the way. I also think it keeps the wonder of "what's that?" better if it's not a real species of birds.

I thought over the fact that magical girls are basically either white or Asian then decided to draw a black magical girl. After speaking with my friend on that thought, we both only managed to come up with one black magical girl . 

The girl is named "Felicia". If I were to continue, she'd also have a magical staff and one of those sickeningly saccharine backgrounds to go with the magical girls theme. I tried to incorporate a bookish design into her outfit... but I don't think I did quite right... maybe book pages sewn onto her dress? It'd look poor - but it'd look SO awesome, right? lol

My favorite part is that I made her heart bow thingy a compass. 8D

 The two boys from the flashlight picture together again in their childhood. Rohan (the one on the left) is fussing over Cameron's scraped knee because he's a fussy boyfriend like that. XD

Slight re-imagining of Rachel. She's a mysterious girl with strange powers, a cocky attitude, and obsessed with two men in coats who have done something to her that has made her swear a vendetta over them. And obsessive with re-claiming something she thinks they have stolen from her.

A series of doodles that I have neglected to post for a long while - so here is a duuuump~ O: 

The one at the very top is something I was doing while thinking of ballerinas. I think I should have left it a lot more simplistic looking than it turned out in the end... I have a problem with slapping details when it's not needed - it's a work in progress. >__>

I've been drawing those two adopted sisters a lot lately. Especially the girl with the sunglasses (Benni ). The very bottom is the two boys with the flashlights again. I didn't note how much pink the blue-eyed boy was wearing until my friend mentioned! XD Haha. 

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Sister of the doodle girl I drew earlier in my last post. Her name is "Ballari".