Butttttttt I finally finished Character Design reference sheets for all of my lead Comic Characters so I thought I’d go and post them, I love these guys so much and would love to ramble on more about them as people but these are primarily just character Design notes rather than about their personalities or plot relevance lol (Given they were mostly drawn for ArtFight)
These are all self-indulgent and probably won’t be interesting to people who aren’t me however I’m proud of them so :)
A lil bit of information about the comic story under the cut in case anyone at all is interested in my ramblings:
So the Principle of Paranoia:
The story primarily follows a group of five teenage friends in Northern England in their first year of Sixth Form (which is the 2nd to last year of high school for non-Brits) wherein one of their number, Rihan has recently gone missing with little to no leads or explanation. This coincides with a strange gap in the memories of most of the town and an increasing level of disturbance and oddities in the natural order of the world around them. The story is told across two timelines: the primary present day happenings, of the five as late teens, trying to work out what could’ve happened to Rihan, intercut with excerpts from the past 3 years of their lives, starting when they all became friends and following what happened as they began to get introduced to and mess around with the supernatural elements all around them that were shut off from them only by the thin veil between layers of reality.
The story is primarily a mystery but a lot of the mystery is moreso on the audience, with the intention being that the audience have to piece together what happened from using what they begin to learn about the past to inform the future - where characters are already a lot more aware of their own context and the power of the supernatural than readers are.
It’s basically just my excuse to psychoanalyse my experience of high school alongside drawing creepy supernatural stuff forests lol.
Stuff like that ^^ is kinda the aesthetic we’re going for!
Idk I’m just really excited to get on with creating and writing it and I’m hoping at least someone enjoys it lol.
WOAH i did one of those newfangled art style challenge things, what a gamer.
Yeah, this was a lot of fun, even tho the hades and Monster Prom ones are extremely scuffed, I’m really proud of some of them (Especially Great Pretender which you should watch on Netflix btw it’s very quality).
Art Styles are just fun to mess with and look at and I just had a good time yknow.
I actually made a speedpaint of this which absolutely murdered my CPU given it was 9 hours of footage condensed to 13 mins lol:
I enjoyed messing with trying to go for a vaguely nostalgic vibe for this piece both cause that’s kinda how I’ve been feeling atm and also because that’s kinda the vibe of a significant chunk of the comic.
Woah, the other reason I haven’t posted in ages was cause I was working on this for far too long - turns out making an animatic takes time, who’d’ve thought
It’s kinda unfinished in some ways tbh but like I learnt a lot and there are parts of it I really like even if overall it was a bit disappointing to what I was hoping.
I guess I post monthly now lol. Still got no more fanart to post because I am a disappointment to all friends and family but I’ve been working on my comic for the past 5 months and really wanted to do a redraw of the first ever design sketches I did for it. The characters have all changed a lot in the meantime and my art has improved a surprising amount so that’s exciting! :D
The original version was rather experimental in a weird way as I was attempting a different shading style and using a weird form of light, the shading was ehhhh but I did like the oddly moody look to it so I just really wanted to attempt that again but with more purpose this time.
