LM x LM

Watercolor I did before work… Just experimenting… :)

Lisa-Marie is a spoiled and absolute terror of a princess from a distant planet. When Lisa-Marie’s parents agree to have her take part in an arranged marriage  to stop a war between their feuding twin planets, the disgruntled princess is sent her to Earth to gain a better perspective on life. Her parents decide the best way to do this is to start from scratch so, they de-age her from 23 to 8 years old.

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I want to start getting in to the habit of sharing info about my original characters instead of just posting a picture. Lisa-Marie is a character I've worked on for many years. I created her in middle school when I was 11 years old.

I would love to make a comic about her someday.

Watercolor Sketches!

Some of the of watercolor sketches I've been doing before work. More to come in the future most likely.

I really enjoy doing these as they are extremely therapeutic and help me prepare for the stressful day ahead. Plus--- Watercolor Practice! :D

Also, fun fact: To some folks who might this interesting, the guy in the bottom left corner, is the father of the little boy who appears in my 2011, “Phi-Phi on the TV” animation. His name is Bernard "Benny"  Martin... :)

Phi-Phi Fanny

This is the second style test I did! Changing the paint brush settings in Flash helped so much!

I still need fix stuff before I color it… Her hair seriously needs some in between frames and I'm still messing around with the fps, but for the most part, I love how it’s coming out! By the way, this is more fun to look at while listening to music!

Marker Painting!

I've started to get back into coloring in traditional media and I really wanted to try "marker painting". I've been told several times that my more intricate pictures I've colored with markers over the years looked like watercolor, so I thought I'd experiment with rendering a picture with just makers.

I feel like eventually I should show a walk through process, but I guess there will be time for that later if I decide to continue working in this technique... Which I probably will... :)

I really like the look of it, but I'm still trying to get comfortable with it and take risks. It's a learning process I'm more than happy and willing to go through.



This is my character Leo-Rey, "The Last Golden Monkey" from the jungle planet, Oasis. Being the last golden monkey, he's adopted... By an Alligator. He also has a pet cobra. His earlier character design appears in my 2010 animation, "DTV".

I recently redesigned Leo-Rey and made a progress sheet for him.



The first one was done the year I graduated from high school, the second was done a year before I graduated from college, and the last was done a year after college. The one from 2010 wasn’t so much an update of my style, as it was me purposefully drawing the same character, in the same style from 2006.

Now, when I draw Leo-Rey in this more “cartoony” style, I want to showcase his more animated and hyper personality that I don’t feel I was getting across in the way I originally drew him. I’m going to mess around with his design until I’m more pleased with it, but I like the direction he’s going in.

Also, I recently created another marker painting for my mother's birthday.

Princess Aoi is a character I made for my mom's birthday last year that worked themselves into the continuity of a story with my other characters. Princess Aoi is a pixie and she is the Princess of Seifa-utaki forest.

Aoi's battle outfit is a combination of Japanese and Spartan style armor, as well as a couple of others. Even though Aoi lives in Japan, her armor is a bit of a hodgepodge...

I'm not entirely happy with this... There are a lot of mistakes... I feel that things got a little too muddled together and the highlights & shadows are sort of off, but as long as my mom's happy with it, I guess that's all that counts. :)

Funny thing though... I drew the leaf on Aoi's helmet the way I did because, truthfully, I wanted it to look all "swirly and pretty". However, I realized after I finished this picture that it's shaped like an "S". My mom's name is Sandra... ♥

Happy Accidents FTW.
  
I will say that with my first Princess Aoi picture that was created last year around the same time just a few posts down from this one, I really need to start picking up the pace with my updates. Well, I am making new film, so hopefully more news on that soon!