30 Day Character Design Challenge - Day 8

8) Draw a non-human character— the less human-looking, the better (so avoid things like elves, vampires, etc.). Bonus: Make up their species instead of using existing mythological creatures.

Day 8. I decided to try drawing this one straight on paper with a pen. Partially because I haven’t for a while, partially because I’m sitting downstairs right now and it’s late. I forgot to do it earlier, so I’ve just quickly put down a quick… Wolf griffin? I dunno, but she looks cool and her name is Dyrene. I actually like the idea that she’s a queen of a ruler of her culture.

30 Day Character Design Challenge - Day 7

7) Design seven pairs of shoes. Bonus: for some of the pairs, make the left and right shoes different, but still recognizable as a pair.

Shoes for day 7 of the challenge, and I’m pretty happy with the result. I don’t practice as much as I probably should, so it was interesting to just draw a bunch of different shoes. Really, I understand how feet themselves work, and how the fit into heels and such, it’s just ankles that look weird when I draw them.

I think my personal favourites are 7 and 5, just because I feel like I got across a lot of what kind of person wears these kinds of shoes.

30 Day Character Design Challenge - Day 6

6) Go to this random aesthetic generator and draw a character inspired by the result. Bonus: make the design 100% serious, even if you get “dad wave” or “soap flapper.”

Day 6, and I got “Bird Skeleton” from the aesthetic generator. Now, this excited me, as this is actually kind of a redesign of a character I’ve been kicking around in my head already. She originally came about from the idea of the most cheery and unthreatening grim reaper to walk the Earth.

Her basic concept is that she turned up unexpectedly in the afterlife, and, since none of the Powers-That-Be could decide what to do with this situation, she essentially got assigned as the Grim Reaper’s assistant. Hence her outfit featuring bones, or more specifically, bird skeletons.

30 Day Character Design Challenge - Day 5

5) Design ten unique hairstyles. Bonus: do a turnaround of each one.

Day 5, and I know jack shit about hairstyles, or how to draw microbraids in my art style. As you can see on style 3, braids I draw are huge and bulgy, and that doesn’t translate well to microbraids.

Frankly, I only like 3 of these, and they are 1, 5, and 7. They are also the only ones I felt even a slight urge to colour, but it’d have looked weird that only 3 designs were coloured, I’m sorry. So instead of just leaving it black and white, I just reduced the opacity on the planning layer so it could fill the space.

30 Day Character Design Challenge - Day 4

4) Grab your oldest sketchbook that you can find and pick an old character to re-design. Bonus: pick the character by opening to a random page instead of hand-choosing.

Day 4! This has a mildly interesting story. You see, me and my family fairly recently did Spring cleaning. We put all the filled sketchbooks in the attic, which I can’t get into, since I’m scared of heights, and yes, I’m that pathetic in regards to it.

However, wonder of wonders, I had my Deviantart. My deviantart that I’ve had since I was I think thirteen or fourteen. I went on the oldest page there and grabbed an old drawing of one of the many Kingdom Hearts OCs I’ve amassed over the years. I considered redesigning Amy Terasu and make her notculturally appropriative as all hell, Jesus thirteen-year-old-me. However, I decided against it since, frankly, I want it unmolested to remind myself occasionally that I was a goddamn idiot at that age.

Now, on to the actual design I did. For all I harp on gritty reboots, I sure jumped at the chance to do the same to my own Kingdom Hearts OC. In the original, she was just supposed to be a history buff who kind of gave herself a challenge to make a keyblade of her own. In the redesign, she’s a full on archeologist, in a more Lara Croft 2014 situation, an expedition gone south in a big way. Except, instead of a weird devil island, here we’ve got Heartless.

Please don’t ask about what’s on her bandolier or in her hand, I can never remember jack shit about items from games. Also, that keyblade was so hard to try and update, and I’ve not drawn keyblades in a while, that’s my excuse.

30 Day Character Design Challenge - Day 3

3) Draw five mouths, each of which reveal a unique character. Bonus: all are making the same expression.

Day 3 of this challenge! I really enjoyed this one, I liked trying to get across character with just a view of their mouths. I’m tempted to grab these mouths and run off into the sunset with them for some new OCs.

30 Day Character Design Challenge - Day 2

2) Design a character in a genre you don’t normally draw (example: if you normally high fantasy characters, you could do sci-fi, steampunk, etc.)

Day 2 of this challenge! Since I usually draw high fantasy, and girls, I figured I’d go for Sci Fi, and draw a dude. And this time, not give him a background that includes a building.

I figure the gauntlets and belt don’t match because he actually scavenged them/stole them because they have much better technology than the rest of his gear. Don’t ask me how, tho.

But yeah, now you can see why I usually draw High Fantasy XD

(Apologies, I forgot to post this yesterday)