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Character designs for my third comic in the Goth Anthology! This one took me forever to get right, I almost gave up and scripted a new one, but it's thumbnailed now and I can't wait to show everyone when it's done!
It's about goths, who are also magical girls. Their gothic magical girl outfits aren't final yet, but I added them in for comparison with the monstrosities that are their default outfits.
Magical goths. I've never been so excited to draw something!
While I frantically attempt to get all these goth comics done in... let's see... 19 days, have a bonus character design! This is the support character for the magical goths. She changes her bow to match their outfits, in deference to their darker fashion sense.
14th January 2014
Trying out my grey brush pens this time. This is Fox, who I bought from plushplushtree a few years ago. She was in... first year on the illustration course when I was in third year, I think.
Fox eats your excess thoughts and can only speak French. I can't speak French so Fox only speaks when Lily is present. Fox is also the unofficial mascot of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf?
18th January 2014
Further adventures in the land of Sarah's soft toys. This is a No-Face plushie made by Ponymonster. It was actually bought for me by an unusually generous con-goer!
21st January 2014
More brush pen pictures of toys. This is Tiptoe and Socrates.
29th January 2014
Another thing from my Treasure Box, this time with no outline. I have no idea what this key is for.
I've been working on the designs for various aliens I made up as a teenager.
These are the mysterious and secretive Shiren. They're about the size of a human 12-year-old and always wear those long robes and hoods. All the other space-faring species know about their lifestyle is that they're primarily aquatic, but able to change shape in order to move on land.
You can see I decided somewhere in between the two pictures that they should only have four digits.
Inktober day 18 - fineliner and grey pens I got a free Derwent fineliner at LICAF so I used it to draw Lena. Take three cards and she'll tell your fortune.
Inktober 2015 - Day 14 : brush pen and markers Well, Isaac’s looking very pretty and dramatic. The process for this went: Brain: Okay, we’re going to do something different, something subtle, with a proper background and- Hands: Re-hash a theme we already used with the heaviest pens we have and no background, got it!
Inktober 2015 - Day 21 : mapping pen and grey pen Lottie isn’t sure how to feel about all these new friends. My hand is still slightly crippled, so nothing complicated yet. Although having said that, my goodness those crows were a pig to fill in, even with a brush.
Inktober 2016 - Day 7 : fineliner and grey pen
Isaac would make a good guardian angel for a goth child who likes things creepy. Assuming he is an angel, that is.
Inktober 2016 - Day 22 : g-pen and grey pen My G-pen seemed to be misbehaving so I drew something nice and simple to test it, luckily it turns out the problem was that I was tired rather than the pen being damaged.
Inktober 2017 : Day 3 - fineliners and grey pens
I had a shift at both jobs AND a horrible cold for the first few days this month, so I’m sticking with simple ones until I feel better. I’ve never tried to draw Sweetpea ‘dolly style’ before, so here he is!
Inktober 2017 : Day 11 - fineliner and grey pen In a house with Hobs, you really should assume you’ll be sharing any food items you leave unattended. It always has to be something simple if I have a long shift at the shop, at the library I can work in it at the counter, but in a shop that is verboten.
Inktober 2017 : Day 17 - fineliners and grey pen Lottie’s ‘friends’ snuck up on her while she was reading.
Inktober 2017 : Day 27 - fineliners and grey pen I was helping my pal Sammy on her table at London MCM for the last three days, so here are the Inktober pictures I did while I was away! Sammy requested ‘Poppet’s friends with a musical instrument’ so here are the two we didn’t see in the tea picture earlier.
Inktober 2018 : Day 3 - fineliners and grey pens I drew Sweetpea this way last year, so here is his best friend; Coriander! She belongs to a holly tree that grows right next to his oak, so they see each other every day. As an evergreen, her ear frills don't fall off like his do, but she does sometimes grow berries under them.
Inktober 2018 : Day 9 - grey and black fude pens I have a neat little brush pen that’s black on one end and grey on the other, so I wanted to try doing some ‘colour holds’ like Sammy does. Although we weren’t sure if it still counts as a colour hold if the colour is grey. The girl Isaac has attached himself to can see him, so his preferred method of introduction is to sit creepily somewhere nearby until she notices him.
Inktober 2018 : Day 18 - grey and black fude pen I’m really pleased with this one, but I might re-draw it later. I made a couple of small mistakes that are bothering me more than usual because I’m so proud of the concept. It’s partly because I used my fude pen when I shouldn’t have, but I realised I could do the whole thing with just that one pen so I wanted to try it! Ah well, I can do another pass some other time.
Inktober 2018 : Day 26 - fineliners and grey pens Poppet and her friends have dressed up as Koroks for Hallowe’en!