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Having someone else draw one of your characters can be pretty insightful. It helps give perspective to see how other artists interpret your character. Plus, who doesn't like getting fan art? This thread is basically an art-exchange for art goons. Draw someone else's character, and then someone will draw yours. Maybe even multiple someones. It's all in fun. Discussing good techniques for character design is A-OK, as is posting fan art you've done of other characters not from this thread. A few suggested guidelines: For your original character:
For drawing someone else's characters:
Characters not yet redrawn: Dr Sunshine's characters The Worst Unicorn's Aurel Transmogrifier's pirate Characters already drawn (but you can draw them again if you want): Space-Bird's Astral Aves : by Nessa - by Weavernaut - by OxnardMontalvo - by The Worst Unicorn - by DrSunshine - by Pick - by DuckPuncher Fortis' Blasphemous Saga Fantasy : by Space-Bird - by Hamiltonian Bicycle - by Kikka - by Dabbo Nessa's Branwen : by Space-Bird - by ZnCu -by Macaluso - by Friends Are Evil - by Explicit Content Nessa's Lily and Lars : by The Worst Unicorn - by Dabbo Hamiltonian Bicycle's tumblr : by ZnCu Chaltab's Originator : by Nessa Macaluso's Ryland : by Nessa - by Pick - by Unbelievably Fat Man - by EatinCake - macky2dope ZnCu's Rusty & Co. : by Hamiltonian Bicycle - by Fortis Friends are Evil's Brutus : by Oxnard Montalvo - by ZnCu - by Derringer The Worst Unicorn's Svata : by FunkyAl - by Hamiltonian Bicycle - by Space-Bird - by OxnardMontalvo - by SexyBlindfold - by DuckPuncher FunkyAl's Mr. Sad : by ZnCu - by Fortis - by Hamiltonian Bicycle - by Pick - by Macaluso - by Friends Are Evil - by DuckPuncher - by Dabbo OxnardMontalvo's Jay : by Space-Bird - by The Worst Unicorn - by Derringer - by Pick - by DuckPuncher Kikka's Fairsquare : by The Worst Unicorn - by ExplodingSquidx2 - by DuckPuncher Dabbo's A Spooky Witch and An Awful Magician : by Space-Bird - by Hamiltonian Bicycle - by faxmaster - by Dabbo - by DuckPuncher DrSunshine's Hexagon Death Squad (  ) : by JunkerUnbelievably Fat Man's Captain Tacolicious and Candyman : by OxnardMontalvo - by EatinCake faxmaster's Shipwreck Planet : by Space-Bird - by EatinCake - by DrSunshine - by Dabbo Pick's angel : by OxnardMontalvo Derringer's Liam : by The Worst Unicorn - by Macaluso - by felat - by Ruin Completely - by OxnardMontalvo - by meataidstheft ExplodingSquidx2's ballerina : by ZnCu - by The Worst Unicorn Ruin Completely's bunny : by KariOhki felat's space pirate : by Derringer - another by Derringer - by OxnardMontalvo Scrye's WarCry - by ZnCu Friends Are Evil's Clayton and the Tormentor : by DuckPuncher felat's Kevin : by ZnCu - by ArfJason - by Mr Phillby KariOhki's Ria : by The Worst Unicorn Young Freud's Mike One-Three : by Lord Lambeth I'll help kick off the thread by drawing the first few characters that get posted. (Yeah that goes against the first guideline, but we gotta get it started somehow!) ZnCu fucked around with this message at Jun 25, 2012 around 01:34 |
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Can we also use this thread for character design talk? I'm always interested in seeing peoples' approaches and thoughts when it comes to character designs. For myself I am terrible when it comes to more fantastic or science-fictional character designs. They just end up looking a bit stupid, or fairly utilitarian, not cool and stylish like others. I'm better when it comes to ordinary contemporary clothes. On that thought, I was wondering what people do when they approach "Character design" from the perspective of a contemporary setting where people (presumably) change their clothes from day to day? Do you choose a "theme" for your characters? How do you make them consistent and recognizable, even if they might not be wearing the same things in every picture? And, for you fantasy/superhero/sci-fi people out there, what do you do to approach a more fantastical outfit?
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| # ? May 23, 2012 05:52 |
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So, someone has to start, and I really enjoy drawing fanart of other people's characters (when I have time). I make a webcomic. Astral Aves. I'll happily, gladly, draw anybody's characters. Especially if you draw mine.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 06:29 |
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I'm so down with this. I think it being a place to discuss character design too would be pretty cool! I do a webcomic called Blasphemous Saga Fantasy which people seem to like. I'd be interested in seeing anyone's take on any character, but in particular I'd love to see others' interpretations of the character Lina's design. Something about her overall design has not been sitting well with me lately. But really, any character, because my relatively simple designs probably lend themselves to a lot of interesting reinterpretation. I will of course draw others' characters too! In return for sure, but also of my own volition, just not when I should be sleeping. 
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| # ? May 23, 2012 07:23 |
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Space-Bird posted:So, someone has to start, and I really enjoy drawing fanart of other people's characters (when I have time). I make a webcomic. Astral Aves. I'll happily, gladly, draw anybody's characters. Especially if you draw mine. Here's a sketch of  EDIT: Sorry for how rushed it is, it was my warm-up for the day. EDIT2: Also I somehow confused Strato and Aquila, so sorry about that, too. weavernaut fucked around with this message at May 23, 2012 around 15:45 |
| # ? May 23, 2012 08:27 |
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Um isn't the art trade thread exactly what this is?
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| # ? May 23, 2012 09:29 |
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I figured this one was both for redrawing and alternative designs? Plus, we can also use this thread as a general character design discussion thing.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 09:31 |
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I would also suggest making this a general goon-made fanart thread. I'm kind of curious to see what people on this board would do with lot's of other popular properties, not just each other's. Though if people are going to request someone draw their stuff specifically, making them contribute first is probably a good guideline.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 13:40 |
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Actually, that could be fun. Make this one a fan art thread in general (for anyone's characters, but maybe encourage the goon-made characters) and use that other thread that was made for character design/development?
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| # ? May 23, 2012 13:42 |
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weavernaut posted:
Haha, no problem. It's lovely. I realize I don't really have any good character models up on my site, just the comic. You gave him a unique Snape/Alan Rickman quality. Fortis posted:I'm so down with this. I think it being a place to discuss character design too would be pretty cool! I've been wanting to do Blasphemous Saga Fantasy fanart for sometime now. I finally have an excuse! I didn't really re-interpret too much, since I just wanted to draw the character as is.  Triangle posted:Um The other thread seemed quiet, and I wasn't sure how to jump in on it. I figured this was a good chance to get the ball rolling again? Maybe we can just combine the two threads? Given the other is only 2 pages.. Space-Bird fucked around with this message at May 23, 2012 around 13:58 |
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weavernaut posted:Here's a sketch of Please use a beefier image host such as imgur.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 14:28 |
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weavernaut posted:I figured this one was both for redrawing and alternative designs? Plus, we can also use this thread as a general character design discussion thing. Exactly this. I've updated the OP with this and also to mention that fan-art in general is okay, though the focus is still on redrawing requests from the thread. I don't think we need to get into heavy critique but discussing the finer points of character design is always cool. The other art trade thread fizzled out after a couple pages and hasn't been updated in weeks, so this new thread might serve as a fresh start.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 14:53 |
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pipes! posted:Please use a beefier image host such as imgur. Done! Sorry 'bout that. weavernaut fucked around with this message at May 23, 2012 around 16:01 |
| # ? May 23, 2012 15:46 |
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I am sad my thread died out, but am all about this  !
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| # ? May 23, 2012 16:07 |
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Oh man, this is a cool thread! I have a whole bunch of characters that I've done for 12 and 24 hour comics, and NaNoWriMo. Are those kinds of characters okay to post?
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| # ? May 23, 2012 17:21 |
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Nessa posted:Oh man, this is a cool thread! Sure. This isn't limited to just webcomics.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 17:31 |
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Space-Bird posted:So, someone has to start, and I really enjoy drawing fanart of other people's characters (when I have time). I make a webcomic. Astral Aves. I'll happily, gladly, draw anybody's characters. Especially if you draw mine. Here's a guy!  Here's one of my own characters. She's part of a group, but I only have drawings of her and they're both really old.   This is Branwen. She's a paranormal investigator and her coat is possessed by a demon, so the tentacles move on their own. I'll work on my own drawings of her supporting cast and post them later. Nessa fucked around with this message at May 23, 2012 around 21:18 |
| # ? May 23, 2012 20:39 |
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You should post your own drawings, Nessa! You'll have a lot more control over the actual appearance, and be able to give us more detailed information than those little pictures you've included. To make this a more useful learning experience, why don't we include some guidelines for critiques? I've engaged in exercises like this before and I have a few suggestions. Originator
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I think that if we have some of these kinds of guidelines, it might focus the discussion and help us to improve. Also, it's kind of neat to see peoples' firsthand impressions of characters -- this helps us understand what readers or viewers might expect when they see our characters.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 21:01 |
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DrSunshine posted:You should post your own drawings, Nessa! You'll have a lot more control over the actual appearance, and be able to give us more detailed information than those little pictures you've included. Okay, I'll edit my post.  But I really don't have drawings of all of the characters, as some of them only appeared in my NaNo novel.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 21:07 |
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Originator Superhero from a project I'm involved with. Original code name was Ragnarok though that will probably change. His armor is an alien magi-tech weapon with interchangeable elemental diodes. He tends to load out earth metals and act as sort of a geokinetic defender.
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| # ? May 23, 2012 22:35 |
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I saw the owl guy before the rule change and had a couple of ideas about him. Hope that's ok. First I thought that Lars' owl form should have some connection with his human form. So I switched the owl's yellow eyes to blue like in his human form. I thought a plain white owl was maybe a little mundane when magic and curses are involved. I also thought his owl form should tie in a little more with his back story. Since Snowy owls usually have black spots, I thought, "What if his spots were actually runes that tied into his curse thing?" Maybe regular people think they are just owl spots, but people into the occult know better. v  v
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| # ? May 23, 2012 23:35 |
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thousandcranes posted:I saw the owl guy before the rule change and had a couple of ideas about him. Hope that's ok. Oh man, that's a really super cool idea! I never would have thought of that! Thanks!
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| # ? May 23, 2012 23:39 |
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I've been enjoying bsfantasy so here's another significantly less impressive attempt at Lina I guess? Unfortunately I'm not good at proportions or poses or volumes or broom safety so this is what you get. Don't really have anything serious of my own going on at the moment as I'm not at the point where I'd trust myself to be able to draw the same character twice, so I don't really have any serious character designs for the thread, sorry. (Best I can offer is this nonsense tumblr which is more an excuse to scribble than anything else.)
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| # ? May 23, 2012 23:40 |
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Nessa posted:
Okay so I did a slight redesign of this character. I didn't polish it and color it because I'm not super happy with it and not great with human anatomy right now. Anyway. I kept the possessed cloak but made her outfit not so revealing, which I thought was kind of unnecessary. The cloak is now more of an all over thing. It fully wraps around her (I imagine it can be taken off or something) but when it's on her like this I imagine it somewhat fusing with her. So kind of like a Doc Oc relationship. And I made the tentacle thing into more of a ghostly aspect to go with her paranormal investigator stuff. The cloak in this picture for instance is picking up a clue for her at whatever place she's investigating. I imagine her cloak would be constantly moving so there's also other "ghosts" coming out of it. The cloak I would imagine would be really fun to draw every panel because it never has to look exactly the same and can be constantly moving, like smoke. I hope I didn't deviate too much from the original design. I was trying to change somethings while not changing the character.  Well here's my guy, just C&Ping from the Art Trade thread: Here's my character Rylant. Despite what he looks like, he's not a villain (he's actually a super hero. That arm has super strength). These are also older pictures (several years old actually) so his design isn't quite the same anymore (smaller ears, less crazy fur everywhere, etc). He's a teddy bear. I have a whole story with this guy that I want to tell, but I want to make sure it's perfect first. Still trying to figure it out. Also it doesn't show it in the picture but he's got sharp teeth. 
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Nessa posted:Here's a guy! I like hair. She reminds me of La Roux...the two went together well, hope you like it! 
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| # ? May 24, 2012 02:38 |
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Hey Hamiltonian Bicycle: I like your Tumblr. I also did a version of Nessa's Branwen. Possessed clothing is a good opportunity to show some personality. (If Todd McFarlane did one thing right, it was making Spawn's cloak-and-chains its own "character") I also made sure to show the cloak as a flat element instead of a blob, with a different color on the lining, to give it a sense of shape.  Anyone who likes doing fantasy type stuff might like drawing the cast of my comic Rusty & Co.. Plenty of monstery guys mixed in with the token humanoids. Edit: Also updated the OP and guidelines. I'll try to keep it current. ZnCu fucked around with this message at May 24, 2012 around 04:50 |
| # ? May 24, 2012 04:18 |
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Nessa posted:
I tried my hand at this.  I don't really do character-based art that much anymore, but I used to. So I decided to do a rough, quick sketch of one of my old character designs. His name is Brutus and in the idea I had, he is an extraterrestrial megalomaniac and the leader of a technologically advanced, evil cult hellbent on conquering the universe. If anyone here likes drawing bad guys, you'll probably have a lot of fun with this.  And here's a drawing I did of him in, say, 2007. 
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Did a bunch of drawing at the pub tonight, so thought I would post a couple members of Branwen's supporting cast. This is Lily and Lars. Lars is also the owl. Lily is Branwen's best friend and a practicing witch. She's pretty punk rock. It's impossible to make out, but the writing on her shirt says "Heavy Kittens". It's her favourite band. Lars is an old timey Norseman trapped in the body of a snowy owl after being cursed. He can communicate to Lily through her dreams. And I also found an old sketch of the whole gang from R.I.P. (Rose Industries Paranormal), my NaNoWriMo novel.  The great dane is Marcus (he's supposed to be black). Did you know that great danes used to be given as gifts to help ward off ghosts and evil spirits? Maybe that's why Scooby Doo is a great dane. Anyway, Marcus can hunt ghosts. The dude next to Lily is Lucas. Lucas is a werewolf and a pretty boy with dark hair. He's a good werewolf though and wants to find the werewolf that turned him and killed his parents. The dude on the far right is Jeffery. He's an anthropology professor and a skeptic who is just along for the ride. Short brown hair, look like a nerd. Here's Chaltab's character, Ragnarok. I think that's a pretty cool name, actually.  Macaluso posted:Okay so I did a slight redesign of this character. I didn't polish it and color it because I'm not super happy with it and not great with human anatomy right now. Anyway. I kept the possessed cloak but made her outfit not so revealing, which I thought was kind of unnecessary. The cloak is now more of an all over thing. It fully wraps around her (I imagine it can be taken off or something) but when it's on her like this I imagine it somewhat fusing with her. So kind of like a Doc Oc relationship. And I made the tentacle thing into more of a ghostly aspect to go with her paranormal investigator stuff. The cloak in this picture for instance is picking up a clue for her at whatever place she's investigating. I imagine her cloak would be constantly moving so there's also other "ghosts" coming out of it. The cloak I would imagine would be really fun to draw every panel because it never has to look exactly the same and can be constantly moving, like smoke. I hope I didn't deviate too much from the original design. I was trying to change somethings while not changing the character. Cool! I like what you did! The sliminess is interesting. In the story she's in, the cloak isn't exactly sentient, as in it isn't aware of the outside world, so it doesn't interact with things. The demon was put in her coat so that she could easily keep an eye on it and prevent people from trying to release it. And yeah, it's totally fun to draw it differently in every panel. It's like drawing Batman's cape. I had drawn her with the fishnet tights because I was really into Black Canary and other friends of Batman at the time. I actually drew her first and came up with the character later. She's less superheroey in her actual stories, so she usually just wears normal people clothes with the coat. quote:Here's my character Rylant. Despite what he looks like, he's not a villain (he's actually a super hero. That arm has super strength). These are also older pictures (several years old actually) so his design isn't quite the same anymore (smaller ears, less crazy fur everywhere, etc). He's a teddy bear. I have a whole story with this guy that I want to tell, but I want to make sure it's perfect first. Still trying to figure it out. Also it doesn't show it in the picture but he's got sharp teeth. OMG, it's a grimdark SuperTed! I love him! Hope you don't mind that I drew him all cuddly wuddly.  Space-Bird posted:I like hair. She reminds me of La Roux...the two went together well, hope you like it! Nice! But all I can see is David Bowie for some reason.  ZnCu posted:I also did a version of Nessa's Branwen. Possessed clothing is a good opportunity to show some personality. (If Todd McFarlane did one thing right, it was making Spawn's cloak-and-chains its own "character") I also made sure to show the cloak as a flat element instead of a blob, with a different color on the lining, to give it a sense of shape. Oh man, that's awesome! I love the red lining! ^_^ This is truly the best thread Nessa fucked around with this message at May 24, 2012 around 06:59 |
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ZnCu posted:Hey Hamiltonian Bicycle: I like your Tumblr. Thanks! Not much going on there in terms of character design, nice to see somebody else gets something out of it. quote:Anyone who likes doing fantasy type stuff might like drawing the cast of my comic Rusty & Co.. Plenty of monstery guys mixed in with the token humanoids. Oh, a cubical character! I can do cubes.   (Sorry.)
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| # ? May 24, 2012 11:25 |
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Oh hey, the last time we did this thread I got a lot of great ideas where to go with a design. And I wanted to practice drawing faces, great timing. Here's Nessa's Lily and Lars looking distracted.  And here's my character Svata, a chain-smoking vampire who can't stop making up stories about all the cool stuff he doesn't do.  Here's an older, flatter version on my tumblr, which has his colors. http://tinyurl.com/c7xzsto The Worst Unicorn fucked around with this message at May 25, 2012 around 00:40 |
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I've got some spare time, so I'll take a crack at some characters.Friends Are Evil posted:His name is Brutus and in the idea I had, he is an extraterrestrial megalomaniac and the leader of a technologically advanced, evil cult hellbent on conquering the universe. If anyone here likes drawing bad guys, you'll probably have a lot of fun with this. I took a lot of artistic liberties with Brutus, hope you don't mind:  The armor looked kind of organic, so I made it more of a symbiotic relationship, the purple growing over his skin and inserting tubes to gain nutrients. For future reference, and this applies to everyone, don't crop your picture off at the ankles. Even if you're not too comfortable drawing feet, draw 'em anyway, especially for a character design. It's better to have something than expect someone to just make it up themselves, and you can only get better at drawing feet if you practice them. Here's my character, Jay:  Jay is a spirit of the mountains and one of the best talisman carvers around. He's become jaded over the years from being imprisoned by a merchant and forced to carve trinkets. This is what he looks like disguised as a mortal.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 01:07 |
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I am getting in on this so very soon. It will be my reward for finishing my dreamweaver assignment.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 02:29 |
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Thanks, Ham! Took me a while to notice the rest of the guys hanging out behind Cube.OxnardMontalvo posted:
I really like that. I took Brutus in a different direction - more of a rock-shelled demon-type fella. 
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| # ? May 25, 2012 02:55 |
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The Worst Unicorn posted:
I like 'im! here's a thing  And for those participating, here is a guy from my very own imagination, Mister Sad!  He is a stand up comedian and likes to sit on curbs.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 03:38 |
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| # ? May 25, 2012 04:48 |
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These are awesome! Thanks, you guys! Okay I want to do character drawings in return, and also just in general, and I will soon! This week has been kicking my rear end. I did draw these though!  Mimic from Rusty and Co.  Mr. Sad from Buffet of Lies
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| # ? May 25, 2012 06:09 |
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Sad again. edit:  Also this smug jackass, who probably wasn't intended to look quite so much like a tool. Sorry! (I will die before I successfully draw a human hand.) Hamiltonian Bicycle fucked around with this message at May 25, 2012 around 08:37 |
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Fortis posted:I'm so down with this. I think it being a place to discuss character design too would be pretty cool! Blasphemous Saga is pretty great, so I drew Slime King.  Also, it would be cool if someone could draw this character called Fairsquare from my upcoming webcomic. 
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| # ? May 25, 2012 14:08 |
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Fortis posted:Mimic from Rusty and Co. That's fantastic. Thanks!
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I wanted to draw some men for warmups. Here are some mans.   Decided to draw him in an ugly jacket.
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