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TM Vol 4 Sketches

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Sort of spoilerish, I guess, but these were drawn before I started my quest to improve my art with my tumblr account (they're actually kind of the start of it, if I'm honest) so I didn't want to sit on them until these things actually showed up, since my art will hopefully have progressed by then.

First bunch is me trying to redesign Nareth. I've known from pretty much the beginning of the comic that he was going to get his hair cut short for volume 4, and under normal circumstances that wouldn't be that big of a deal, but this is me we're talking about. My terrible character designs have resulted in everyone having the same face, so you can only tell characters apart by their hair. Thus, changing Nareth's hair is actually kind of a big deal, since it changes the one thing that makes the character identifiable. I tried to shorten his hair in a way that was similar to his current hairstyle, to make him at least somewhat recognizable, but on the other hand, making him look different was kind of the point. The top three drawings are all variations on it (though really, they're just varying degrees of messy :XD:), and the rest are me arriving at what I liked and trying it from a few different angles.
I like it, I think he actually looks a bit better like this, but it will make him look a bit different. Oh well, I guess as long as another character calls him by name right after he shows up, readers will get the point. ^^;

The next set of drawings are for the transportation. Wagons/carriages are such a simple, useful design that I felt like the elves would have something similar, if a bit differently decorated. My first attempt was kind of crap, though :rofl: I left it in because I thought it was funny. The second one's usable, but not ideal. I'll probably take another stab or two at it before it shows up for real. Get some actual images of carriages and see how I can tweak the designs. As for what's pulling the carriage, I've already shown humans using horses. Equating deer with elves is kind of overdone, though, so I put together some stumpy rams that i kind of love, haha! Their design might change a bit, but it's so easy to equate elves with graceful things that I am totally down with them using rams. :D

The final set of drawings were partially inspired by the first set. Since I had my terrible design sense in my mind, and I had been reading some character design tips online, I wanted to try out drawing some new faces. I needed a bunch of diverse human characters for vol 4, so why not try that now? Not gonna lie, I'm pretty pleased with these. I mean, they're nothing spectacular, but for me? I feel like I just won a marathon, haha! The goatee guy is my favorite, he looks like such a jerk! :XD: Still got a long way to go, but it's a step in the right direction.

These designs - or the next incarnation of them - will show up in my comic Twisted Mirrors, but as all this is from vol 4, you won't see any of it until at least chapter 23. ^^;
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CyanilurusJubatus's avatar
Yay for face variations! For the last guy in the under right: men of that belly size usually don' t have much of a pointy chin, I guess those get lost in the fat of the neck. :XD:
If you look up carriages, my guess would be there will be ones with so many twirls that they wouldn' t even have to be changed much to look elvish! I just found a Cinderella one.
Love the rams! :D

PS: I'll  send a note as soon as I find my brother' s monsters.