Showing posts with label Something Kinda Like. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Something Kinda Like. Show all posts

Friday, June 18, 2010

Oh hey. SKL stuff.

Listening to: Evacuate the Dance Floor
My brothe
r graduated today. I don't wuv him at all. I won't miss him at all.... *sniff* U-Uwah....I don't care if he's spending the summer at home until September....*wibblewhimper* Urrrgh. ANYWAY. I finished my final project for History. it turned out to be quite a winner. I'll be posting all my completed illustrations that went into it. All these characters are part of my franchise(?) thingy called Something Kinda Like. All the characters are based on politics, military bodies, populations....pretty much making it a not-plaigarism-of-Hetalia-and-purposefully-educational.

Here are my character designs for East and West Germany. Top: I made WG look more outgoing and open, but kind of naive and curious. I gave him wings on his outfit as a representation of democracy.
Bottom: EG was my favorite to draw throughout the whole project. His patched eye is supposed to represent the west side of Berlin, which was divided amongst the western allies. He holds a sickle and hammer, the symbols of communism-- as well as a star on his clothing. My inspirations for his design were
Crona from Soul Eater, and Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji. He turned out to be my little ball of moe.

More Chara designs.
Top:
When I created him, he was meant to represent the Soviet Union. Then, his meaning kinda morphed over time-- representing the actual unity of the Communist nations, or of Communism itself. I meant for him to be an affable yangire. I tried to make him intimidating as well as almost handsome...even though he's a chibi. I think I pulled it off pretty well, though. He was inspired by Alucard from Hellsing.
Bottom Left:
He represents the Russian military, who watches over EG like a big brother. In fact, he was born from doodles I would draw in my planner of a boy in a hat and scarf with clothes too big for him...and he became this. He's usually very serious, competitive, and strategic. Because it's cold in Russia, he always wears a long coat and scarf. There is almost always a star motif on his outfits. He was (very subconsciously) modeled after Kino from Kino's Journey.
Bottom Right:
He represents the U.S. military, he watches over WG. Now, now, is anyone takes offense to this, I apologize-- I'm an American as well.....but, the objective of this project was to demonize the west in the form of propaganda-- it was kinda necessary. I was never sure what his outfits should look like, but I always kept the wing motifs--it added a nice patriotic touch. I always thought of marine and civil war hats for him, because I didn't want to draw helmets. Come to think of it..... most of them wear hats.... ; c;

I'll post more pics and the video itself in my next post, hopefully, it's a lot including pictures I didn't use....


.....Now for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT~! :D


This pic is supposed to be a parody of the ending song for the anime K-On. Yes, that's our Esa. That's me, Artie. The other two are our significant others. = u=
This was actually meant to be figure drawing practice. I still can't decide where certain limbs should go. @_@ Youkai is a bit of a challenge. I want her legs to be positioned in a more interesting standing position-- either that, or a normal stance with a more interesting arm movement.


Good night, sleep night, dream of....stuff and nonsense.

~Artie

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Pure Evil sketches.

Watching Glee. I officially love that show.
Summer vacation is so very soon! I want to do some posting before school ends Alex heads off to Texas. I've been working on my final project for History class, so I'll be putting up some sketches from that.

Here are sketches from a work-in-progress called
Pure Evil. It's about a little demonlike child who claims to be the heir of the earth's domination. He tries every day as he learns about how to be "evil", but in the meantime he lives in a flower shop with a handsome narcoleptic man who takes him in as a little companion. Lotsa cuteness and hilarity will ensue. I'm working to make this a strip-comic rather than a story-style comic.

Here is my first design of the lead character. In the end I stuck with design #2 and worked around it. He is meant to be rather ambitious and pushy, also quite a tsundere. He likes to practice being a king and his authoritative roar. His working name at the moment is Lionel, or Nell for short. I have more designs for other characters: This is our lead's right-hand man...boy....thing. he's quite a cherub, isn't he? He's meant to be cute and always holding his blankie. He's usually asleep and takes frequent naps. He enjoys blowing things up in his free time, being a weapons expert. I'm working around my second and third designs of him, with his downturned horns and straight hair. I modeled him after Tamama from Keroro Gunsou (Sgt. Frog), Mikuru from Haruhi Suzumiya, and Hunny from Ouran Host Club. His working name at the moment is Dezzie.



This is their second-in-command, and our lead's older brother. He's a total gentleman and speaks poetically, but was deemed unfit to rule the world. I accidentally modeled him after Austria from Axis Powers Hetalia. I may need to draw more designs of him-- it turned out too perfect the first try!

Merry summer to all, and to all a good night.