It’s far from finished. I’ve taken to doing some awfully large projects on the computer… I take the penciled bit, and go to town on colorizing. But it becomes one heck of a projects. I’ve taken the theory of emotional images, and turned that elemental lately… my current facinations have been with an extremist’s fantasy art style. Photoreal, more or less, but entirely… fantastical. Facial tattoos, swords, dragons, mermaids, fire… basically, exceedingly extreme.
It’s fun.
That’s the only way to sum it up.
I’ve never tried drawing in this level of high fantasy before. Always before, I’d simply add perhaps pointy ears to make my image “fantasy”, but now what I’m doing is anything BUT. It’s intense, bold, and utterly fantastical, containing emotions far deeper than I’ve ever tried before, containing stories that could never be told, and containing aspects that seem to be unspoken. Everything I draw has an emotion behind it, everything somehow covers something that’s been going through my mind in a very metaphorical (though that’s not the right word) manner. I think, if I keep up with this style, you’ll begin to understand what I mean… it effects my writing just as much as it does my drawing, this need to indicate in unspoken manners.
For example, Tiana now canonically has facial tattoos. Not the Terran form of punk expression, but a subtle and yet far from subtle series of designs. Ariane now plays electric guitar and has a CD out (it’s not her group; Hale’s sort of the leader… it’s Nadir for now) (AND she writes songs… I even managed to write one of them). Ryian writes. Her story actually is being written by me… I mean, the story she’d be writing. And through these in character character expressions, things get spoken that are otherwise not spoken.
It’s strange.
It’s also quite fun.
I guess this image started it.
It should make a clickable thumbnail… heh…
It was my first attempts with the facial marking idea. Tiana’s aren’t so intense… remove the cheek ma and most from the chin… basically the diamond marks, circle marks by eyes, and the weird slashy thingiers. I was bored, so I went crazy with some markers (I want more markers, by the way… I mean, I want some of the good quality ones… kid ones suck, and sharpies are too dark)
Then it went off on this track…
Pencil crayons. I hated the original. Sums it up. I decided to go crazy. She ended up with wings.
Then on…
Ryian, I think we’ve seen this one before… added the dragon…
(though this painting REALLY started it… art teacher told me to put an animal in a flower…)
Then, of course… the cover for The Genesis…the tenative name for Ryian’s “novel”. It has to be the most hugely complex image I’ve ever done, not to mention the most… containing of a story not told. Actually, it probably won’t end up the final for Ryian’s book, if only because Teniae shouldn’t wear Tiana’s clothing, Saerin doesn’t look that much like Ryian, and I’m not sure why Ariane ended up in there…
THIS is what Tenaie looks like.
Notice the similarities to Tiana? Good. Notice the eyes in the background? Probably not, the background’s really light because only Tenaie’s finished.
And I’ll finish up with the pencil for Seperation, which I know I’m spelling wrong in the file name… too lazy to spell check.
That image has one heck of a story within it, let me tell you that… (grins sheepishly) Character models were originally Ryian and Ariane, if you’ll note the whole elemental thing. Of course, I realize now that for an effective demonstration for them, it should be Earth and Fire rather than Water and Fire/Air. But it works. Contemplating that their characters were seperated… the whole emotion of the image should be “never again to see your face” type of thing. It’s the most intensive image I’ve done for a long while, really…
…And it makes me want to draw more mermaids/men.
(goes to get pencil) Oh well, so what if I draw a bunch of crap, this is FUN! Must consider finishing images, though…
