Ghost in a Tophat

Photographer • Illustrator • Writer Just haunting ✨

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This guy is becoming a favorite of mine.

Despite the, yk, complete lack of any character depth.

Tried to take my traditional pen style and do it digitally, and ended up with this. Might experiment more with this style.

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Season 4 of Dragons Rising got me thinking... He really did become the exact kind of guy to fall for young Lloyd's snake prank.

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Concept Art character design shenanigans of Jupiter ✨

I'm so happy to be doing digital art again. Life went to hell for a sec but we back baBY.

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In class redesign of Jupiter!

I was feeling like my guys in Live Like Legends weren't at there peak designs, so I've been playing around some with some different aesthetics after watching a character design video.

I think I'm liking the direction I'm going in, but there's still more work to be done.

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mARTch day 18 Joy

I burnt out. Only way for me to fight burn out is with a redraw.

Behold: A seven year old drawing of the same exact characters.

How time flies. How humans and angels become alliens.

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im burning out help

mARTch day 13 complimentary

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mARTch day 12 Analogous

Just two boys and their lichtenberg scars 💞

Yes, this is a fanart+oc but it is not shipping so we're safe. I just randomly noticed that my oc, Jupiter, has lichtenberg scars and a parent who experimented on him and Danny most likely has lichtenberg scars and his parents actively try to experiment on him. So I imagined the two of them bonding over their messed up parents and then showing each other their scars.

You can see a few of my headcanons rearing their heads in this, but for the most part I tired to stick with Danny's og design.

Honestly, though, I think Danny would hate Jupiter or at least be afraid of him because... well... electricity powers...

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mARTch day 11 Monochrom

Look, okay, so--we ignore that the lightest bits are more orange than red, yeah? Cool, thanks.

Agelaius needs more love in his character design and silhouette work, so I thought today would really suit him as his character overall is very Monochrome feeling. He sort of carries that Batman, emo guy vibes. To be honest, I think I might have accidentally mushed every Batkid including batman himself together to form this character...

Very Emo. Very Swag. Very Shape.

I should go back to shape. I miss having a shape-y art style. I think I'll be doing a mostly lineless style for the rest of this section of the month.

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mARTch day 9 Object Study

My effort is dwindling. But, hey, look. Agelaius' helmet. I'm slowly realizing everyone in this story needs better character design

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mARTch day 8 Pose Study

I think I should go back to the days when I sketched on paper and rendered on digital because wow this was so much easier.

Okay mARTch stuff done now I'm going to talk about my oc.

Alek (aka Undertow) is sorta newer than the other two main characters in this story (by that I mean he was someone else entirely). So he's going through his character design arc right now. He's meant to be a second or third generation aquatic humanoid, but I am having a hard time finding a balance between attributes. This time around, I gave him a gator tail and added external gills like axolotls have! I think I really like the external gills but I am not sold on the tail. Nor am I happy entirely with his clothes. I like his shirt, but I'm having a hard time with everything else because I don't want to aquaman him.

I do really love his hair style, but I'm still finding the proper length. For a hot second, he had funky fins on his arms and legs, but I thought about it and objectively they would *not* help him swim as a humanoid. I'm going through all the herpetology I know trying desperately to make a sci-fi, cyberpunk+steampunk, punkrock shark boy.

No one told me character design was this hard.

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mARTch day 7 Hand Study

I wanted an excuse to post this and I am so happy Hand was on this list.

Ranging in the right corner are civilians in the story (most are students, so I have them different writing utensils) and then in the left are villains, so they're all using their powers n stuff. The bottom three are the heroes in the story.

Honorable mentions because I'm proud of a few of these:

Our Main character and the first one I drew + Carlos. I really like how I rendered this one

I'm so proud of the blood on this one (main villain!!) + Vilarious (I used my own language I'm creating while rendering this hand and, while it's hard to see, I was just so happy with it)

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mARTch day 6 Animal Study

Bork bark.

In my Live Like Legends story, there are quite a few pets. There are also evil robo dogs.

I love evil robo dogs.

The less eye strainy sketch. I couldn't help myself though.

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mARTch day 5 Flower Study

The flower is a Arnica. This turned more into a relationship study but that's whatever.

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mARTch day 4 food study

Getting started on this one was a literal pain. Until I decided I would study my character's relationship with food. He's a little guy (and by that I mean he is a shark/gator man) who can only eat meat, so I decided yeah why not draw him chowing down on some (raw) meat! I have... never drawn meat before.

Also the stupid angle and his stupid hair and his stupid little face.

Edit: My spellcheck got turned off and I am so dyslexic but I fixed it

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mARTch day 3: Inspirations

I took this as just stuff that inspires me. I included shows, characters, places, and animals that I find myself returning to for inspiration. Obviously, this is not all of them, but it's a few <3

Danny and Xiao Honorable Mention:

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mARTch day 2: Fave things to draw I love my little ocs. They're my little guys. Depicted here (starting from the guy on the floor and going across to the right) is River, Namid, Juoiter, Malachi, and Miguel.

I die for each of them.

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mARTch day 1: Self portrait I don't like who I am in the real world. Sometimes it feels funny, almost ironic, that my physical self feels more like a ghost than my persona.

I promise the rest of mARTch will NOT be as depressing, I just don't like myself <3