More March arts!

So I had the flu last week, which took me out of commission for...well, the week. I don't think I've had the flu since high school, and I'm glad it took 10+ years. I'm totally willing to wait another 10+ years to catch it again. @_@

Anyway, sketch dump today, since unfortunately I was too busy trying not to die last week to get anything accomplished. First off, an aborted character portrait. I really wanted a grittier feel to him, but unfortunately my elf came out looking like a Calvin Klein ad. Oh well. Second picture is a WIP. I love the covers to old sci-fi pulp magazines, so I am trying to recreate the look and feel of those...just with a few differences.

Incubus King 2011

I decided to do a redesign of Sammael I, an incubus character of mine, to go along with my last post. I wanted to tie his new outfit to the succubus's, so I repeated the overlapping plate pattern as pauldrons. I think designing his new outfit was easier than drawing that sword.

Here was my process in drawing the weapon (which I have yet to name). I had no idea what kind of weapon I wanted; I just wanted it to be BIG. I finally decided I liked the idea of a big, blunt, squarish sword, like the uruk'hai use in the LotR movies. But I thought the final shape (no. 7) was pretty boring.

 

 

I thought it would look cool if the sword looked like it was made of (or perhaps covered by) an overgrowth of chitinous plates. And my sister has a large collection of fossil shark teeth, so I added a few of those in as well. In the end, I wanted to break up the symmetry of the blade a little, so I added the purple veins to suggest some sort of disease or sickness.

...I wish I knew more about 3D models. I'd so make this into a weapons mod for Skyim.

"She Devil"

 

Original character illustration of a succubus enjoying herself entirely too much.