We Draw Our Characters

Yae

Really quick doodle while Achaea is offline, lol.



(It's not the only thing I've been working on, I swear. )

Melodie

Your doodles far surpass my greatest attempts, @Yae.

I bow down to your gorgeous talents and hope to one day again have a chance to bask in your glorious drawings upon my character/related persons.

Nicaara

Just a wip, but if I upload it I'll have motivation to finish it! Yarr!

Katsuragi

I tried to draw Katsuragi as she'd be dressed on a typical day according to Tokugawa-period rules.

Really didn't like leaving her face so elongated, but I tried to somewhat stick to sumi-e style for this. Originally it was uncolored and unshaded but I grudgingly did both of those things because they're where I need the most practice. The area around her hands/wrist is kind of funky because of my silliness with layers kind of cornering me in a position where what you see is the best I could do without things starting to look really weird.

(in case the upload fails)


Getting a little better every day!

Kerria

@Amanu
Wings are hard >>

Kenway

@Yae O_O I want that brush you used to colour 

Kerria

@Bronislav

Kyrra

All I get from that is that @Bronislav's nose is so long it doesn't fit beneath his helm? Wut

Kerria

that's his arm, and his mask covers his face. My first draft didn't have his mask on, so I think it conveyed better...

Kyrra

Oooh. I see. I've a link somewhere to a guide for cutting off body parts. It's mostly for photography but I think it might work for drawing too, so you don't end up with weird looking limbs. 

Gawi

umm, I thought it was his arm... so I don't know where you are getting nose from.

Tahquil

Oh, you know... less shadows. or at least more consistent ones.

Amarillys

Yeah, looks like his arm to me... like he's reaching up to rub at his neck or so.

Kenway

Okay I know I said I was done with this but then I discovered lantern shields and decided Kenway had to have one.
So now he has one.

Kerria

little bit of adjustment... and the correct year!

Kenway

@Bronislav
Dark Souls 2 inspired?

Bronislav

Kenway said:

@Bronislav
Dark Souls 2 inspired?

Actually, it had several inspirations: key among them being Edena from Final Fantasy 8, and the Predator series.

Haven't had the pleasure/masochism to play through the Dark Souls series yet.  

Xae

Dracen said:

@xae don't make me find you on Skype again and bombard you with ims and stuff.

YOU CAN TRY. *evil cackling*

Dracen

Xae said:

Dracen said:

@xae don't make me find you on Skype again and bombard you with ims and stuff.

YOU CAN TRY. *evil cackling*

Woman, I have a person on my list who can -easily- poke you enough to get my point across! Or I can click your fancy little link.

Ruth

@Cirana! Where's cat Ruth?

Cirana

Ruth said:

@Cirana! Where's cat Ruth?

She's still here on my table, with all her other clones and pre-sketches - albeit sadly peeking out. I promise I haven't forgotten! I'm just not particularly happy or confident with her anatomy, at least not enough to call it completed. (Yours and Gawi's seem to be the ones that I'm having the most issues with, because cats are mysterious, unexplicable creatures people are harder than expected to cut out).

On that note also, sorryyyyy 

Gawi

It's ok Cirana! Good to know you haven't forgotten us though  

Bluef

There is no doubt about it. Cirana is amazing. 



Here's a close up for the detail..it's exquisite!

I gave her Bluef's description and a description of her clothing...that's it. She nailed Bluef down to her skull and staff, which she didn't even have the description of! Her wings...my goodness. HER WINGS!!!

Thank you SO much @Cirana. There just aren't words to express how much I love this!

Melodie

Sooooo.... @Cirana.

Are you still taking commissions? Because I need one of these framed like, a week ago. And I have a tax refund coming in soon.

Celusia

Um.

ffs @Cirana  ...Are you some kind of paper wizard

I'll echo Bluef here..... HER WINGS!!! How did you do the shimmery effect? I'm almost scared to ask whether the lines are drawn on or cut, because it would be insanely splendiferous if they were cut and they look like they are but I don't want to make an assumption because I don't know if that's actually possible but at the same time, I really really want to know.

Edit: I can't even english right now, this is so so pretty and she looks amazingly poised and elegant but like she could easily rip you a new one if you pissed her off.

Bluef

Here are the pics of the design in-progress that @Cirana sent me to give you an idea of what kind of papercutting sorceress we have amongst us. 



BOW DOWN TO HER SHE IS THE PAPERQUEEN!!!

Trey

Skirt length inappropriate for school, @Bluef.  Seriously though, @Cirana is crazy good. Trey's hotter, though.

Kyrra

I love those boots. I want those boots.

Cirana

Haha, oh dear. Now that I look again, that skirt length does makes it dangerously close to flashing.. (Bluef was originally made as an upper-body papercut, so didn't quite think about the dress slit position as much as I probably should have, whoops).

@Bluef: I'm glad you like it! I can definitely say that your wings were one of my absolute favourite things to do (overall, among the majority of my cuts to date). Also, while I'm far from a paper sorceress, it does sound very catchy   

@Melodie: Not taking any more at the moment, sorry! I'm still trying to finish off the ones I've been sitting on since last year, so I'll have to complete those before I start on any others - which might be a little while yet but hopefully sooner rather than later.

@Trey: Fun fact - if you look closely at the first progress photo Bluef posted, I believe we can see one of your (decapitated) failed heads skulking around in the background.

Wessux

I can barely tie my shoes in the morning. I don't know how you can make such fine and detailed cuts. This legit blows my mind.