Summer Sketchdump

hup I'm behind. We'll go recent to oldest, because blogger wanted to update that way!

I've been working on a possible webcomic to do after Final Arcanum (trying not to get TOO ahead of myself) and am playing around with the concept of commissioned, inter-dimensional treasure hunters. I have loose ideas of the main cast (four characters) and a few working titles, including "Hunters" and "Avant Garde." Nkiru is part of infiltration in the main cast, and is a shape shifter. Don't have much set for the universe yet, but I know Shapeshifter's always have inverted-colored eyes. (HUP and I'm not even sure if the comic is colored yet.) I have to do a little more work on her, but for the most part I think she's set in stone.
I'm already biased and kinda loving Yori a lot. He's Intel, 4' 1", and over 500 years old. And super smarmy. Fffff so excited for him. He's so much fun to draw.

My goal for Hunters/Avant Garde/Something is to make characters that I really enjoy drawing and love. It means I have a lot of work in store for me, but I think it'll be worth it. That and I've got time.
FINAL ARCANUM SKETCHES YAY. Working on some later in the story concepts. The only problem with doing that is I want to draw the characters like that now. Gaaah Kite I can't wait until you change your hair.
It's a fat racoon.

GIANT IMAGE. This was a vote incentive awhile back, but I figured I'd throw it up here. Enjoy the many things it includes!

May/June Doop

Soooo Shazz and I have begun to ship our characters really bad. So bad that I have to make weird sketches of them and probably color said sketches later. hurrrrrr
XUN. One of Fuu's adopted bebe's. He's needed a desperate redesign and I like this one so much more. ;u;
How cuuuuuuute. Also, who enjoys Fuu's hotpants? I do. unf.
Ferret! He's my new super adorable Volf Psion(Psychokinesis)/Rogue. He's actually suuuuper bad at thieving (levels are Psion 8/Rogue 2) so it's very helpful to be able to control light and sounds and whatnot with his mind. 8D;
Oh yes. DM-chan sent all the Rising Legion characters into magically enduced dreams where we were confronted by the main baddie, Katal.

I mean look at the guy. He just screams skeevy. Avidan is not so sure how to feel about this, obviously.


ANANKE. WHAT'S GOIN' ON WITH YER EYE, DUDE?

HNNG. 2x21

I believe it's one of those panels where the artist asks "Why did I do this to myself. S-sob"

HUP. It's Finals.

Finals means... more art? IDK life is weird.
So our D&D group started assigning our characters different parts from 30 Seconds to Mars' song "This is War". Avidan ended up being the leader, and Fuu is the Victor. I'm liking how they came out. 8D;

Some Vale. She's cute. That's all. 8D;
Reworking Sophisticated Mutation and now struggling through protag designs. I know I want her/them(possibly twins?) to be female buuut that's it.
Second design. So I've been listening to Lady Gaga a lot. u_u

Redesigning Yori slightly, and rand secretary character? IDK *rolls*

March Sketchas

I redesigned Chaim awhile back, but I think I finally settled on liking it. Now I just have to remember he's a good 6 feet tall. Hup.
AAAAAAAANGST IVER, AAAAAANGST. I like this sketch, just for the imagery, but I need to tweak his posture some more. We don't need "durp durp heart in my hand." It needs to be more "AAAUGH WHYYYY" amirite?
While Xandrei visited, we made new D&D characters (for better or for worse) and I created a mimic psion-telepath named Niko. Still tweaking her design but so far so good!

A bunch of us discussed who our characters in Empires Clashing would be from Alice in Wonderland. I'm not a huge fan of Alice, but the imagery is always cool. Have a hatter!Desch. 8D; There are so many problems with this, however, I doubt it's going anywhere. xD
More Ananke redesign - Yedimyze is far north, so why wouldn't he take advantage of fur fashions? The guy has gold coming out of his ass for pete's sake.

Character Designs + Redesigns

Now that Zero and Kite finally appeared, I needed to flesh out their new costume designs. Their original designs were done over two years ago. I reaaally like the improvements.

And I've finally fleshed out my character for this quarter's World of Darkness - Hunter game, aka - Dallas Evans. A few concepts have been on the blog before, but this is the finalization of everyone's favorite one-armed hoodlum. Obviously I've been watching the Boondocks so much. A+ show though.

Ha ha ha aaaand Dallas by the END of the games. Faeries do some weird crap, man. 8D; I'm really hoping I'll get the chance to play him again.

I wasn't a fan of Ananke's old design, and after re-writing his character history and fixing plot holes, I found something that make sense.

Speaking of Ananke (and the underground Western Court that he happens to run), Callum's a top-notch spy, and kinda awesome. More of him to come? Perhaps!

Just a Few More

Experimenting what a half-Lenzian would be like. I forgot how much I missed soft shading. ; n ;


Some future designs for Citli and Iver. Bwahahaha. Gotta love doodling.

IDENTITY - Character Designs

Rachel and I have been writing Identity, a sci-fi mob wars story for... a little over a year now? We finally have a main cast fleshed out and want to work on a plot. I'm hoping to possibly do ID after Final Arcanum is over (so yup! It'll be a webcomic!) The plan is to make it a horizontal/ish strip and I'd like to update twice a week. Rachel will be writing, and I'll be doing the art.

Keith Rowen, the main character, is a past boxer. The story starts with him, and as it runs you discover he's pretty closely tied with the Estevo family (the most powerful mobster family in New Chicago.) Generally speaking he's grumpy, cynical, a perhaps not your smartest hero, but he's likable in that he's really just a big teddy bear kinda way. Or at least that's how I think of him.

Adam is actually a cyborg originating from the Hive, a fairly mysterious scientific plant in the center of the city. He provides recon for the scientists in the Hive, researching both the progress of New Chicago, and monitoring the fickle Dead Zones. Keith runs into Adam fairly early in the story, and I'm super excited to make a ton of internet/pop culture references due to Adam's wireless setup.


Ellie, who kinda needs a last name, is a victim of a Dead Zone. I'm not the best at describing them, but basically you want to avoid them at all costs due to the fact that not only will the radiation in them mutate your genetic make-up, but there are previous victims-turned-monsters in there that are not so nice. Ellie managed to escape luckily enough, and provides the sass for the group. She's quick-witted and sarcastic, and develops a soft spot for Adam during the story. Alas, robot-mutant love!

Evander Estevo, or just Vander, is the Don of the Estevo family and aspires to control New Chicago through the family with an iron fist. He's managed to monopolize most of the New Chicago underground, but hey, why stop there? He and Kieth have run into differences in the past, especially when it comes to Kieth's romance with Vander's late-sister Lily.

Bwahaha I'm excited for this story. >D Hope you guys enjoyed the preview!

Qwila - Tai Shun

I've been not only tampering with the idea of a sequal to FA, Vox Liberi, which I'm doooubting I'll actually write, but also the Qwila race. They're a peoples based off velociraptors. They also farm and eat humans, yay! Luckily they only have to eat once or twice a year and they're extremely long lived. The race as a whole tend to be taller than humans and like the Adelee, are considered more advanced or enlightened. They're also a slow-paced, sloth-like race. They rarely leave their islands up north and don't really care for the rest of the world.

I don't have a lot of info on Tai Shun except that he's the main character of Vox Liberi and that I really can't have him wearing a vest. It either has to go, or I'm going to need to make it some sort of symbolic connection to Acacitli, and I'd really rather not. xD

Savannah Sketches

I went down to Savannah, GA to visit some friends of mine, and ended up doing a massive amount of sketching. So here's to sharing? xD I'll definitely have some beginning of school sketches going up sooner as well.

First is a new mage character of mine, Salvatore Malcare, the leader of the Scions of the Blind Seer in Nilarion (Rachel's world) who is an evil and scary man. This is why I don't make magic users! They end up able overpowered somehow and ridiculously frightening. Sal has massive amounts blood and mind magic soooo... yup. He'll be interesting to play if I get around to it.
Sketcha from an RL log. Somehow Jonan and Avidan get along really well, minus the fact that Jonan is trying to explain that the party has demon problems and Avidan thinks he's just a crazy, superstitious old man. HUP that'll go over well with the rest of the group.
Jacob and Katal. (Katal is our villain who is a being called a World-Slayer. Name kinda says it all. durp.) BAD TOUCH, BAD TOUCH.
I've been revising Selam a bit more, who takes up his place as a lord in the Rothfelt house of Khemar. Rothfelt and Thaydin... kinda get along I think?

Iver is also sad and tired sometimes. He should sleep more. 8(

And to the bottom right is Iirer's holy symbol. It frightens me! This means I've done well, bwhahaha.

Top is of Alter and Avidan, being drunk elves. Doesn't get much better than that, actually. I had some dialogue for this head scene but HUP it disappeared along the way.

Bottom is more Katal, and more Avidan probably ruining things for the party. I'M SO GOOD AT THIS YOU GUYS.

A concept sheet for Deror in Final Arcanum. Normally I wing designs for minor characters (badumpsh! You get it?) but Deror is cute in his scared-up-face way.



An Adelee glyphwriter. This character does not exist. I just wanted to draw her. That's good progress right? XD
This is actually an old sketch I never shared with the world, save Zimmay. Gotta love normal Desch-Jasperisms. Why do I always end up playing characters that annoy the other characters in some way or another?