Sun and Wings, or, Stuff I Think About

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Paper Heroes

Created by Grégoire Guillemin

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This is pretty awesome, don’t you agree? I love the absolute mane of hair Black Widow has going on.

Interadulation asked for some pics of Core ‘in beastie form,’ so I whipped up a ref sheet thingie for him. 

There’s some leeway in this—it’s by no means finalized, after all. The wings come and go, and sometimes there’s only a wing on one side or he gains more. It kind of depends on his mood. The horns change form, too, though usually they’ll have more than one point to them. 

Sometimes the mask has a ribbon holding it on, sometimes it won’t. 

The tail is in the most elaborate incarnation it’ll ever be at present. If you want you can just refine it down into a sleek tail tipped with the stinger—we won’t mind.

Thing(s) that don’t change: The mask always stays on and (at least for now) always has this pattern to it. Core’s hair is long and black and has a mind of its own. It generally likes to billow dramatically. 

I’m calling this the centaur form, though it only bears a passing resemblance to an actual centaur. It helps me differentiate from Core’s quad form (which is vicious and ugly and terrifying—at least it will be). It’s probably the ‘prettiest’ of the three forms he uses the most. I added the little secondary limbs on a whim and liked them too much to get rid of them.

I mean—lil’ tiny psuedo-insect-arms! :D

Core is probably one of the most self-indulgent characters I have. Especially in this form. Those wings are completely impractical, and it’s only because the quad part of him is so massive that he’s able to keep from face planting. 

But I love him too much to care. :) Just lookit those lil’ secondary arms! 

Crispy asked for sketch trades, and here is my answer. :) Here’s her two characters, Aryian and Jeih. I’m not quite sure how one Lock patches up the other; my guess is Ary’s just about to use his Will to simply knit Jeih back together. 

I imagine their dialogue is something like this:

Ary: You’re an idiot.

Jeih: Whatever.

Decided it was time for a new profile pic. Stars everywhere!

Before-bed doodle. I dreamed up this animal during school today—here it is colored. I’ll try and scan in the stuff I did in school sometime this weekend.

Funny how a species can spring up from a botched drawing of a stylized wing.

Monocle Owl! MONOCLE OWL!!!

YES.

(via mephistosastaire)

Playing around with anatomy tonight (despite my limited knowledge of the subject). 

Top: Working on drawing the human body (well, the female body) more realistically. These were done without refs—I wanted to see how well I was able to take what I’d observed during my lifedrawing class and various snippets of anatomy and put it into action. 

One thing I need to work on is drawing different body types, so I played around with muscled/not muscled, curvy/skinny, etc. My ‘norm’ is a slender-ish hourglass, so I was trying to get away from that. 

A problem I’m having is when I draw heavier body types, I have to really work not to turn them into caricatures of the ‘fat person.’ There’s a lot more thinking involved than you’d imagine—where do the fat deposits go? How does the body sit? There’s a lot more softness and flowing involved than in my ‘norm’ body type.

I want to be able to show the beauty in healthy bodies—it’s fine if a person is a little overweight or a little too skinny or not the modern standard of pretty. They still have lovely curves or lovely planes of lines. They still can be beautiful. 

Bottom: Trying to figure out the wing attachment system for dragons. The red is the wing itself—the muscles and the membrane. I know the wing pecs need to be fairly large, so the ribcage deepens after the pecs for the first pair of forelegs—the walking legs—to accommodate this. 

The blue is me trying to figure out how to support the front half of the dragon during flight. The wing membrane extends back into the tail in order to prevent ‘flop-butt syndrome,’ but I’m not quite sure if the current system is able to keep the dragon’s forelimbs and neck/head elevated. It’s a fairly heavy part of the animal, after all. The blue is my idea of a kind of ‘cradle’ of muscles that would kind of fasten the ribcage in an elevated position during flight. They attach fairly far back, and then the muscles tighten up the slack in the body to keep the ribcage up. Make sense? What do you think?