- BloodyBerry's Drawing Blog

Boredom

Well, I've nothing else to do on a very slow day so I decided to finish a drawing I wanted to discard... upon the persistence of my sister who wanted me to join a local drawing contest in Facebook.

Each participant is allowed 2 entries of his/her Original Character/Artwork. So duly noted, fan arts are disqualified.

My first entry was the Weavers Family, which by the way was nearly chewed to bits by our very hyper puppy. I caught him nibbling on the sides of the paper. I just cut of the damaged sides and kept it in a safe place.

My second entry is this:

Mayu playing with spells out of boredom.

paper size: 11" x 14.5"
tools used:
* polypencil for the rough sketch
* mech. pen. 0.5mm & 0.9mm B (Enice) 0.5mm for the lineart
time: 3 hours (more or less)

She's one of our OCs from Oroz. I did the lineart, tones were done by my sister, Tin. She used my contest entry to try something out. XD

And here is the original lineart:

I may be drawing some more characters from Oroz... depends on my mood though. XD And I'm gonna need a lot of motivation~ ^___^

2011 - Drawing 1

Meet the complete Weavers family~


The Weavers Family

paper size: 14.5" x 22"

tools used:

polypencil for the rough sketch
Zhixhin brand gel ink pens (Enice) 0.5mm for the lineart
Jian Xing brand permanent markers (Marker) for the negative fills

First drawing for the year 2011. XD
Well, I started it on October 2010 and stashed it in the cabinet while still a rough sketch. Found it a month later all wrinkled with bug stains on the sides. Proceeded to work on it only yesterday... took me the whole day to finish the entire thing. The intention was to sell it but my sis found the finish piece she changed her mind and decided to hold on to it as a 'sample'. The Weavers are among the few of her favorites of several of our OCs after all.^^; I could name 50 or so of OCs for a start but that would make a really long list.

The Weavers. The siblings are the weavers of stories, truth or fictional. They have the ability to make things come true by just speaking it. Domino, the eldest, is the weaver of Myths and Legends. Yaya (white), the middle, is the weaver of Romance and Tragedy. Yiyi (black), the youngest, is the weaver of Fairytales and Horror. Nina (sleeping), is just an ordinary girl who owns the book of their story collection, but there is something else that she holds the Weavers are keeping secret.

And that's about it. ^_^; The OCs we've created are the representations of the numerous stories we've made since I could remember. However, it only lasted up to there --- the creating of the characters and the stories remaining unfinished.

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After 2 months or so without drawing I could really feel the stiffness in my hand gripping the pens and markers and applying the strokes. My hand is still sore up to now. I want to draw again as soon as my hand allows me to hold a pencil without throbbing. I have about 3-4 dozens of leads sharpened and ready to use and about a dozen or two of erasers lying in wait for errors. LOL

I hate procrastinating, but I can't easily find the means to inspire, yet alone motivate myself in a place where everyone thinks you're from another part of the planet.

Or more like "MISCELLANEOUS" with the way we create and discard. A collection of our drawings made on impulse; as a note or as sort-of character designs for stories we've come up out of the blue (stories we write and forget about after a day or two -_-; ). These drawings are our way of putting an idea into paper, but it depends on the mood...

And these moods differ depending on the day, time, weather and the last person we've talked to--- which often leaves us wanting to bury someone alive or boil in hot oil. Not exactly the kind of mood to inspire but, hey, it works for us. Plus, the more my sis and I argue, the more we can actually create new characters (they just eventually end up non-human).

A majority of these randomly created drawings were done on scraps of paper, notebooks or the blank pages of a book. The more disposable they are the more I want to use them. Since my family runs a School & Office Supplies store there's plenty of reject papers around. Clean sheets of paper makes me lose the mood to work, a personality of mine to keep things clean the way they are.

Whenever we do get a hold of anything we can draw on we find ourselves with a pen or pencil in hand and already doodling and forming shapes on the blank page.

These shapes may be an eye, a pair of eyes, mouth, nose, hands, hair, expressions, body movements or an entire character complete with apparel but no face. We doodle with whatever hits us. There are times when our erratic scribbles can be used as patters on our characters clothes and extras, or they're just plain scribbles.

The number of our random works are still increasing up to this day, and when a new one comes up, expect it to be piled on top among the rest after a couple of days. If not, its easily discarded.

Well, its more like 'Drawing' Sale.^^;

Been on a drawing spree since October 28, 2010 after sort of browsing through cosplay photos of the local cosplayers. Started getting ideas and motivation to draw something out of them. May and may not be an accurate resemblance with the photos I used as references (I notified the cosplayer involved).

I realized that there are thousands of photos of just the local cosplayers alone.^^; But I have to admit, very few with good photographic outcome.

Those with a real feel to them were the ones I picked out--- even lesser than the few good outcomes.

Anyway, after drawing them--- the finished product is pretty big, by the way-- I decided to sell them. It started off as an idea to animize cosplayers in nearby areas to sort of advertise our new business venture in cloth wear customizing <-- we seriously lack publicity in that part. Each 11.30" x 18.95" (28.5cm x 47.80cm) drawing costs Php30.00, its a bit smaller than a half-size cartolina. Depending on the details involved though, price may vary. So far, I've only done some in the mentioned price range. After months of procrastination, I'm getting my hand warmed up--- and I'm getting sloppy. T__T

#1 - Reference pic HERE.

#2 - Reference pic HERE.

#3 - Reference pic HERE. This one was a request.

#4 - Reference pic HERE.

#5 - Reference pic HERE.

Image quality isn't so great--- crappy photographer here.^^;
Took a pic of the drawings indoors since I can manage to finish each at night. Couldn't wait for tomorrow's sun to shine and make full use of the natural light.

On another note about the drawings for market:

may still contain pencil marks
visible pen strokes
not so sharp lines
paper may discolor and ink may stain with time

The materials I used are not-the-expensive kind and those that are easy to find within range of our town.

House of Masks: Characters

The House of Masks

Where everything, and Everyone
Are not as they seem...

~*~*~*~

Count G, the Proprietor and the Contractor
[pending illustration]

Mistress Ruth, the Bride
[pending illustration]

Masca Rosa, the Mask
[pending illustration]

Ruveus, the Merchant
[pending illustration]

Midoa, the Witch

Athriam, the Fallen Angel

Diana, the Albino Vampire

Enelos and Inieos, the Basilisks

Yubel Kii, the Darkling
[pending illustration]

Rie Rozco, the Phantom
[pending illustration]

Eve, the Cursed Doll

[pending illustration]

Hale Vent, the Corpse
[pending illustration]

Leah Vent, the Imp
[pending illustration]

Illustration concepts inspired by Gaia online community. Here are the existing avatars: HoM

Titles we're thinking of working on in future-- maybe not all of them just a few we can manage to make somewhat interesting.

This is a list of the many UNFINISHED stories we have considered turning into manga/comic but haven't gotten around to it with all the new ideas we keep coming up with.

These stories we've often tried to merge to refrain from creating an even longer list.

Isla - action, fantasy, supernatural, comedy
Oroz - action, fantasy, comedy, adventure
Accel Rush - action, comedy, sci-fi
Hallow Creak - fantasy, supernatural, comedy, school
House of Masks - supernatural, tragedy, mystery
Romantease - fantasy, comedy, school, romance
U13 (Unlucky 13) - action, comedy
TH3M - fantasy, supernatural, religion
Century A.D. (Angelic Disaster) - fantasy, tragedy
Gia - fantasy, adventure, war
Blades - fantasy, tragedy, war
Androgyny - drama, romance, mature
R.A.S.H. (Ryuka, Asuka, Shizuka, Haruka) - action, mystery, tragedy
Maraverde - comedy, mystery, supernatura, horror (?), tragedy (?)
Crazy Heaven - comedy, romance, josei, gender-bender
Love Story - romance, tragedy, slice of life
Rosal - romance, comedy
Are You Really Mine? - drama, romance
Co-Ed Complex - comedy, school
Contents of a Red Notebook - semi-fiction, comedy, dry humor, slice of life
Spellbinders - fantasy, supernatural, comedy
Guath - fantasy, adventure
belove~d - fantasy, romance

Genres following after each title may not be accurate since the stories themselves are often revised.

Photoshop works courtesy of my sister. I did the pencilling, she finished the ink lineart and ran them through photoshop.

<< Image to the left is an unfinished version. Worked on this during the Digital Painting Workshop. The completed version got corrupted and couldn't be opened. It got infected with a virus from a borrowed computer. Good thing we managed to have it printed beforehand.

There was supposed to be a background with a sort of watercolor effect which my sister learned just the day before from her various references. She tried it out on this drawing. Too bad I couldn't put up the finished outcome.

Next Image is supposedly mine. Well, I started on it, only managed to do the base color part before I shoved all the work on my sister. The Digital Painting course required each student to submit one finished work colored in Photoshop. Since I was practically new to the program it took me a good deal longer to work on my drawing than the 5-6 sessions.

The color combination sucked (I'm no good at it) and with little time left, she had to make do with what I started. The gloves were supposed to be yellow or something, I did something before she could fix it and it turned into a muddy sort of color. Coloring is definitely NOT my forte.

Other images on the right are for an OC Tournament in DeviantArt called the Samurai Duelers League or SDL for short.

The SDL Profile Template on the first one belongs to RoninsUltramix and is to be used for duelers who join SDL.

The application and coloring of our OCs was done by my sister (with me prodding in the background).

Second image is another of her handiwork. I just wanted her to tone it but she did more than that.

In regards to Photoshop works by my sister... there isn't much since she rarely finishes any of them. When she gets in the mood to work either Photoshop acts out on her or the computer crashes. Her opportunity to use Photoshop is limited.

Before we knew the existence of Photoshop, she used to color them in Microsoft paint-- a painstaking process of cleaning lineart.

The above image is mine, the ones below are all my sisters. She drew, inked and colored them all by herself. The 'newspaper' pattern on the middle one she made from cutting out clippings from old newspapers. Above and below drawings were colored and tweaked in MS Paint.