SpAE

Finally throwing my hat in and making an art post! Also trying to prove that not EVERYTHING I do is quick fractionassed cartoony work (as much as my Challenge entries might suggest otherwise)...just most of it.

Firstly something other than drafts...but still not a finished and nicely refined piece.

Portrait of someone that I don't think is a great likeness of them, but might recycle it into a fantasy portrait. For the kicks. He's seen it, and didn't recognise himself.

Warning: Kaeloree, if you are into surprises, you may want to stop reading here.


Warm up sketch for Kaeloree, based on his fabulous Inmates in Arms fic. I love that thing, I'm going  to read the letters out of it. Warm up sketch to study the personalities of the characters (Kaeloree's Dradeel makes me think of a big motherly hen with flappy big arms). Done at 1 am in one of those frantic 'I just got out of bed to do this because I have to do this' moods.

Moving on. This was the draft for the original proper full pic. It may still be, but that's unlikely.


However, THEN I re-read the thing and thought...well, big bad team of big bad mages, sure, but that doesn't half begin to show the best part of the ending. And it's not dynamic enough.


This is a cartoony warmup sketch (ohmygodnotanotherone) for what I think will be the proper final one (which probably won't be cartoony) which has been laid out. This version also srsly fails at layout. The draft of the other one is better. And that's the story for today.


...um. Can I have my hat back now?