So I drew some lovely pictures of Sebastien yesterday, but they're so full of spoilers that I can't post them. This made me feel a little guilty, so now you get more Astray sketches.

And some bad drawings from the conservatory, but that's niether here nor there...

In other news, I have begun to believe that the world is conspiring against me when it comes to the ACA. Every time I sit down to draw, something comes up and interrupts me. (OR I forget how to draw the main characters, which is equally irritating.) I hereby vow to stop pretending I have skill in sequential art.

Cheerio.

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Are we having issues sketching? Yes we aaaaare~

This is a page of experiments in regards to Vigdis and Gottshalk, my resident vigilantes. Gottshalk's mask is giving me some issues.. I hated the initial design, and this one is based off of a gladiator's helm I saw recently, but it still isn't very satisfactory. Bah. Something to work on.

Cheers.

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For someone so passionate about weaponry and the history thereof, I've discovered my ignorance in the subject is woeful to say the least. I am attempting to address this. These sketches were taken from the utterly brilliant book 'The New Weapons of the World' by The Diagram Group. I am desperate to purchase this tome of boundless knowledge, but for now I will satisfy myself with note-taking. Pictured here are some of my favourites from the section on melee weapons. I've written the nation (and name/date, when one was listed) along the edge of each piece, though you'll have to tilt your head leftward for most of them.

I also maintain that the five-bladed contraption in the bottom right is too ludicrously amazing to exist. Really. If someone put that in the hand of a film character, viewers would chuckle derisively and question how the director could try and foist such an unbelievable weapon on them. Then one of their friends would come across it on the Internet and correct them, leading to a bewildered and huffy silence and then the topic would be delicately dropped.

Love,

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Having a little bit of sketch-trouble again, but I think I worked through it.

First up is the latter bit of those museum sketches, and an appearance from my children's book concept-characters, Elspeth and Juliet.

The second picture is.. Something. I can grasp what it is, but I haven't exactly worked out what entails yet.. I'll get back to y'all on that.

Toodles.

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Vilhan and pre-infection Ellis. Apparently after having done battle with a mad cheesegrater. Many features of this sketch irk me to one degree or another, but I figured I would just call it done before I ruin it with my haphazard solutions.

Cheers.

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Another coloured image marks the end of my second sketchbook, and a pile of dead animals marks the beginning of my new one.

The first picture is, as you can see, Caelestis. I like her face and body, but the rest is... Unfortunate. I definitely need to work on my skills with coloured pencil. (And maybe buy some for myself, so I don't have to steal my sister's.)

The second page is full of sketches from my trip to the museum today. I hope to get many more. My favourites are the Mule Deer, with its bizarrely exaggerated features, the Couger, and the Mountain Goat. I did get a couple more creatures, but they are on another page which I haven't filled up yet.

Toodles.

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First some doodles of Mot and Iago from an evolving storyline of mine. Initially, it was designed as a complex, multi-lined thing that was simply too ambitious. Determined (or pigheaded) as I am, I decided to trim it down to a single thread. Unfortunately, this means that my dear characters are probably going to die. This does not, however, prevent me drawing the heck out of them. I also seem to be breaking my sentences up alot. Bah. Anyway. I like the way Mot turned out much better than Iago this time around.

The second picture... Was inevitable. It is my belief that a number of stories would have been more entertaining, and much shorter, with Ellis playing the lead.

Good tidings to ye.

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Some old faces with new designs attached to them. I'm not naming names because, well, their names are very unofficial at the moment.. But you might recognise them from way back in the archives. Anyway, I had a little bit of an epiphany and completely swept their story free of its blighting cobwebs, reset it to Andorvich (which makes total sense now that I think of it.), and gave our sulky hero a snappy new outfit. Girly down there doesn't get a new outfit because she's always been a clothes-lacking strumpet. Yes I'm kidding about the strumpet part.

Anyway.

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Mercy and Hepzibah! You remember them, right? Well Now Hepzibah has a draw-able face and everything. The 'partners in zombie slaying' thing was written at my sister's behest.

Cheers.

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