Fabien

He is all I seem to be able to draw lately. MY BAD.

But he is filled with secrets, and sometimes his arms bend back.

Imps

Violá!

SO. I tried the star child but nah I realise why I never went with it before... instead I'm doing something completely random to generate imagery.

I have 4 characters.

One, is a haughty angry lawman... think... Javert from Les Mes.
I have a ruined aristrocrat.
I have a creepy cave dwelling freaky boy thing.
And I have a magician... Fabien, who befell a terrible curse.


I'm gunna draw them all, well, segments from their really rough sketchy storylines, entwined vaguely. Mostly to do some more interiors, and see if I can develop some more stylistic ...stuff.

THIS IS MY NEW GRANDÉ PLAN.

Old stuff, voilá!

I guess I've been really trying to get to grips with photoshop... using the mouse. Eh heh, clever. Anyway, I designed a whole bunch of characters over the summer with silly features and it was very cathartic but not that productive.

Andrew Bird, The Star Child, and the library.

HELLO BLOG, IT IS I, CARLA.

Wow I have had the biggest spell of doing whatever the hell I want art wise... yeah... you don't even want to know what that entails.

But I suppose its time I get back in the driving seat. My rake's progress, I got bored. Oops.

But I'm going to see if I can tackle Wilde's 'The Star Child' from TODAY, its a great little story full of delicious imagery and I feel inclined to draw beautiful children recently.

I really want to buy loads of books but I am going to library it up and see what they can provide my unemployed brain with, and save my bank balance.

Also I just discovered Andrew Bird and the Squirrle Nut Zippers and well I was pretty desperate for new music and I madly in love with these bands already. Really gorgeous music to listen to and get the creative gears in... motion?

Motivation is hard, shove me.

Yer all guilty!

Traitors, one and all.

Halloa!

Isn't he cuuuuuuuuuuute? I think so... about 12 here. Lonely, bored little aristrocrat. He has a dog though, a greyhound called Urian. (It means devils helper, and I've stolen it from Anne Boleyn's own hound. Muwar!)

I need to ref kids clothes and such, hmm.





Started ACTUALLY reading great expectations today... my first ever Dickens novel. I love Joe <3 Miss Havisham is amazing, as is Estella... couldn't put it down, hhngg.

Planz, big planz.

Rakes Progress. 8 images, do this. It'll be cool.


Anne Boleyn- incorporate tower, water gate, Midnight Crow.
(Not sure what form this'll be in yet.)



O HI INSPIRATION, WELCOME BACK, HOW R U? Txt bk lol.

Pinkerrr

Ooooh this is gunna be fun. 8 images, Victorian Rake's progress.

With a maid, who falls in love with HIM... but you know, he's a jerk. Anyway she follows through the ruin.


This might end on some ambiguous LOL PRISON scene I dunno.

Mmmm... practising

Lol, SAALLOOWWW. It's okay though folks, he has liver disease so that's a perfectly natural look for him. Drives the ladies wild, apparently.

Huwah

This was spose to be a sketch... a photoshop practise... SO WHY DID I SPEND SO LONG ON IT? Earn's face, he stupid smirky face is why.

Dirty, filthy, bad criminal

I'm gunna do a series of images... ala... Hogarth's rakes progress. Did I mention this? Ages ago? Yes, likely. So anyway here's a sketch I did today with awful hands, partial nudity, and cushions.

Oh and my lovely, disease infected muse. <3

Little freak

Boy would get carted off to a circus if he so much as stepped one foot out of his cave... luckily, he doesn't. Also he smells of mildew and the forgotten places by the sea.

Oh you wish

This is boy who dwells in caves... he smells of damp.

Dusting off, reving up.

HELLO INTERNETS.

Who knew that new music and butlers could kick off the old artistic juices again?

I need to do something with all these ideas in my head, that seem to rotate around old houses and I don't know what.

I'm thinking maybe using Mr Fluffy Hair down there as my glamorous assistant, take a bow Earny! And yes, watch this space... I so desperately wanted to update.

A few Shadow snippets

Dirty aristocrat

He casts no shadow

Aha, good evening.

MONSTER UPDATE. Here he is again, with most of my 'cast' as I like to think of them. Oh Shadow, you saucy little slip of a man.

Allo chums

Posey

Oh dear

A princess and a scholar

La la la

PRINCESS

Shadow

Early princess concept, she's changed a little since this.




See how he retains a black stripe? I dig that. =D He gets more lavish as the story progresses, but not excessively weighty... as he has to retain is fluid grace.