Stroke 21: fan fiction, sketches and sketchmatics

Long time no post, blogger.

Well here's the thing. New job means I'm still getting used to doing stuff. BUT. I have MANAGED to do things!

One, I uploaded the new part of Blue Star over on my Fanfiction.net account: Just go here to read the story from part 1, or to skip to the new part click here.

Next up, the arty bits. This is mostly doodles and sketches, and isn't a very big update. I've done lots more artwork, but you only need to visit my DA page to see it all, I'm not gonna drop spam it here XD

Link is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS.

Some sort of moth lady thing. With no arms. I'm not exactly sure what she is to be honest!

And a bunch of sketches I did earlier today, with Tikal and Cream and Chao and Jackle, Spyro, Sparx, NiGHTS, Nightopians, Danny, Twilight Sparkle, and a kitty. YES.

That's about it! click the images and you should be able to see the full size versions XD

Finally, under a cut because it is eye searingly purple, the NiGHTS sketch animation clip. Lots of work to do on this yet!

Stroke 20: Sonic 20 work :) (Updated 22/6/2011)

A bunch of stuff for Sonic's 20th Birthday.

Many people will have realised by now, Sonic the Hedgehog means a lot to me. So I had to celebrate somehow :)

First up is the 20th Animation I did, to Endless Possibility.

HQ DeviantART link

And now a picture I'm working on to try get done by the 23rd :P

 

The original version was going to be diagonally orientated, but degraded into a doodle.

Middle of digital 'inking'

And with the background colours applied.

Just got the colouring to go on it now, and the shading. Not sure how to do it but I'll figure it out as I go XD

Anyway, enjoy :P

Update! The final version of Colours of Chaos!

(click it to view the larger image on DA!)

Stroke 19: sketchdump: Spring, Feniiku, Super and Ponies

Just a small sketchdump here as usual!

Past the jump, go!

Stroke 18: Blue Star

Well I uploaded part 14 of Blue Star the other day, and Sonic finally gets to start talking to Tails properly!

The next part has him meet another friend, but first he's back with Robotnik on his airship. No previews of it yet, but 15 is gonna be a bit of a silly chapter lol.

Stroke 16: A pile of new art while I clean up my DA gallery :P

Cleaning out my DA gallery so most of these wont make it onto there. The Blaze one and the NiGHTS one will be shortly though XD


Anyhoo, a pile of doodles!

CUT IT YO~

Stroke 15: Prompt from DA, number 1!

A while back on DA I made a small poll asking for prompts. I didn't get all that many, but I did get a couple.


This one was suggested by chromic7sky, they said 'hate him but eat his cookie' so let's see what we can do with this.

Let's set it in my Blue Star Sonicverse, (Blue Star can be read on my fanfiction.net account) just before part 12 of the fanfic somewhere. Small drabble, just a few sentences but a little bit of practice :)

It's below the jump, in case of spoilers. It's written as if you've read the fanfiction, so you might want to catch up before reading it if you don't want spoilers!

Stroke 14: More old doodles

Let's have some more space filling old doodles shall we? :P

Below the cut!

Stroke 13: Kitsune women, Nightmaren, Hedgehogs and Ponies

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh I need to use this thing more *breaks out the cattle prod defibrilator*


So let's have a small pile of artwork that I haven't put on DA yet. Ummm. Click the pictures for a larger version of them on my Photobucket

Stuff after the jump!

Stroke 12: Ponies to Foot tapping

Once again, I bring more random doodles. These are inspired by my friends XD

Click the jump as there's quite a few images XD

Stroke 11: Auchinawa sketches

As anyone who goes to a convention knows, there's always someone who's forever doodling and being antisocial.

I am one of those people XD


Though this year at Auchinawa I wasn't nearly as bad as usual, since we actualy followed our plans, but I still managed to doodle.

These are some of them. There are loads more but I want to do more work on them at a later date.

 

One day I may doodle anime related stuff at an anime convention.

Maybe.

...

Stroke 8: Out for a Run? complete.

Completed the human Sonic picture I was working on in the previous couple of posts. Nothing else to post right now, as I have to go offline and do some more work on my comics, but enjoy this for the time being :)

In all honesty I prefer the greyscale version, but there are bound to be others who like this one more XD

Stroke 7: Out for a Run? flat colours

Threw some flats onto this just now, gonna add some shading later on, not right now, can't be bothered right now XD

It needs shading since, unlike in greyscale, it looks really flat with the colours at the moment. You can see the shading from the pencil but I still need to supplement it a little XD

Stroke 6: Out for a Run? and a Sonic Thunderstrike part 5 Preview.

Rightyo, let's see what we've got for you today.


Fanart, once again, but this time it's slightly different :P

"What you see is what you get; just a guy who loves adventure!" - Sonic; Sonic Adventure 2

Yeeeeup, that's a human Sonic, what we've got there ^_^ I was doodling it most of the day and it simply would Not. Go. Right. Gonna be colouring it later on, but for now I quite like the greyscale, so it's been uploaded to DA. Will be throwing up WIPs of the colours as I work on them in here :)

In addition, who likes Sonic Thunderstrike?Well if you followed a link from Out for a Run on DA, then that's probably why you're here XD

Have some sneaky previews of some panels from Part 5! New characters appear, bad guys get told off, and I learn to draw my drafts in blue so I don't have to fight with erasers XD

You have to click the jump in a moment to see them! Ready? Go!

Stroke 5: retro colours progressing

Not much to update with, just showing what I've done with that doodle from the other day so far.


There's quite a lot still to do, and the colours all need a lot of tweaking, but I'm working on it XD

Argh why did I decide to colour it in the end :|


Edit: And here's the completed version. go view it on DA :)

Stroke 4: spikes, wings, and jester hats

Just a few sketches I did at work today. They need to be finished but have a little look :P

Feniiku

 

NiGHTS and Spyro

 

 

 Sonic and Tails retro colours

These  are all WIP, so the finished versions'll come later, I just wanted to show them off a bit. Sorry about the watermarks. They're only temporary placement until the pictures are finished, when I'll move them to less intrusive places ^_^

Stroke 3: Magic Mechanics

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things."

I was actually trying to think of something completely unrelated to this picture when I drew it yesterday.  But Technomage Ebony butted in and loitered instead. I was complring worlds of magic to worlds of science, and of course, this ended up with technomages, such as the ones in Babylon 5. Though this picture doesn't look like them, I gave up and drew it anyway. This is a mix up, of sorts, between my version of Ebony from STC, technomages, and Egyptian type clothing :P

Oh, and a lot of glow.

Progress image below. It's been shrunk, but you get the idea.

1. I pencilled then inked the image traditionally, then scanned it in. I gave it a blue screen.

2. I decided to keep the black lineart too, and put them together.

3. simple gradient background.

4. Flat colours

5. Shading

6. The glowy bits on Ebony and the stick

7. Added a whole load of glow using photoshop filters, a border and some sparkly shapes to add some more to the image than just having the simple background.

Stroke 2: Blue Star chapter 12 preview

~And this is probably not the last you'll see of this banner~

 Well now, I mentioned that I would be providing writing in addition to artwork and such, and since I haven't scanned anything new to show artwise, I'll give you all a small preview of the start of part 12 of my fanfiction, Blue Star. This part isn't quite finished yet, but I'm working on it :P

More to be read after the jump!

Stroke 1: Testing testing 1-2-3

"Is this thing on?"

Hai there. If you're looking at this blog, it means you've either found me through links on my DA gallery or forums, or you've stumbled over it on a random internet trawl XD

This is Brushtail, so named because of my namesake original character; Feniiku Lumaris; has a brush-like tuft on the end of her tail. The idea of this blog is to show some of my artwork and comics and sometimes my writing that never makes it to places like DeviantART or fanfiction.net, or anywhere else. I'll be showing both WIP and finals, random doodles, and watever else comes to mind here, so feel free to bookmark if you wanna look ^_^


There's not really a set update schedule, bug I expect it to be pretty regular, as I have a lot of blather you guys don't see :P

For an example, here, have a progression image of the Sonic one you see above :)

◄click here to view the image►

1- Black background
2- basic guide lines
3- black lines
4- flat colours
5- shading
After step 5, I removed the background to make the image transparent ^_^

Anyway, I hope you come back for more art and writing and stuff later! And who knows, you might catch some sneak previews from the various comics I have on DA ;)