On Art and Writing

I've tried and tried over the years to refine my art style, to little avail. I haven't consistently practiced, though, and I think that's the problem. Practice makes perfect, right? Well, perfection is a fallacy, but let's not go there.

I've been practicing my drawing daily and although I've had a fair amount of frustration, namely due to the fact that I have no graphics tablet and inking with a mouse is chaos incarnate, I have at least managed to complete some pieces. I'll linky them here.

First off, here's some character concept art for my novel, Leventus' Aria:

This is Anytos Ven Anaxian, mentor to the main protagonist, leader of Scion Xiphos, and all-round generally imposing guy. Except, he turned out looking a whole lot younger than I had intended, so let's just say this is him in his early years. xD And on that topic, I'm collaborating with another artist to make a short prequel comic for the novel. Shall see how that turns out. c:

Okay, more of a rough sketch this time and I haven't fixed the crummy pose or wonky perspective, blargh, but here is Vrack M'rtho, the main protagonist's first teacher. He's eccentric, unpredictable and reckless, but sometimes he has it in him to do the right thing, even if it's in a weird way.

And here's the protagonist herself, Squin. Squin is, in fact, her child name, but I shan't be revealing her adult name just yet. :D This is, of course, her as an adult, fully trained and ready to be unleashed on the world. Or Hylaxi at least!

I'm currently working on yet another character sketch, of Mavin, Squin's childhood friend. He's not in the book much at the moment, but he will be~!

Just one more drawing then, and this one is unrelated to my book. It is a fan art in fact! My sister and I were discussing that there really should be a female assassin ancestor in the Assassin's Creed franchise. Now, I can see why there hasn't been one. Desmond exploring the memories of a female ancestor could be a little... awkward. xD But! The character we came up with doesn't necessarily have to be Desmond's ancestor. She could be any assassin's ancestor. So, here is Katerinka, 13th century Russian assassin. :3

So, back to writing, I go... oh yes, and finishing the script for the comic. Busy, busy~!

Le News

Hello December. You came quick, didn't you?

NaNoWriMo just passed and completed this year. The novel that's come from that, Leventus's Aria, is still a work in progress, but it's well on its way. At least the first part is written. That will make up about one fifth of the book. It'll be a long one, for sure!

Some artwork should now be forthcoming. I'll be drawing some character concept art for the book, as well as simply experimenting and hopefully finding a colouring style I'm comfortable with.

There's plenty of distractions due out soon to prevent all this happening quickly though, namely some darn fine games. Skyrim was recently released, but I've at least completed the main storyline in that one. Assassin's Creed: Revelations is another. I do enjoy that franchise. So much so, I got it into my head last night to dust off my video editing skeelz. Yes... as you can see below, I'm a tad rusty. But there might be some more videos coming up anyway. ;)