Wow, I haven’t really sketched these characters since #14…

‘Tis the princess. If you may recall, she has been forced to disguise herself as a commoner in order to escape across the border after a particuarlly nasty revolution overthrows the government that her once father ruled.

I think this is a cute pose for some reason.

Concept sketch for the princess’s commoner outfit.

Concept sketch for the thief kid’s outfit. His feet are a little big here, methinks.

Decided to get this through with this morning before I tore the computer apart. Today’s Sketchbook Monday consists of four characters from a game idea I may actually get around to developing. One day. Maybe.

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Yeah right. XD Anywho, if you’ve seen any of my stuff prior to Vision Riders, you’ll probably recognize at least the first one.

Glenn, the valiant paladin. A powerful warrior, he wanders the world fighting to protect those who need his help. He always seems to know what to do and no opponent is beyond his skill. Although a bit arrogant at times, his formost goal as a paladin is to ensure that justice is maintained throughout the land.

Garret, the noble thief. Sneaky and quick, he often finds himself teaming up with Glenn as their skill sets compliment each other. While Glenn relies on overpowering his enemies, Garret outlasts them, wearing them down slowly.

The mysterious warrior that joins the others late into their main quest. He conceals himself and his movements, and his goals are not always so clear. As can be expected, he probably knows more than he’s willing to tell.

Xavier, the main antagonist. He rarely faces the group head-on, preferring to pull the strings in the background. But is his objective as clear as it seems?

Wow! This has got to be the latest update yet (not counting the Sketchbook Mondays that I missed). So I guess this is a Sketchbook Thursday… I really need to get better at keeping this up. I mean, I’ve yet to miss a webcomic update, and that’s far harder to do!

Just random guy #548. I may use him for something one day, but then again… Maybe I won’t. 😛

‘Tis Jordan, from our upcoming animated series Procyon! He hasn’t shown up in any of the scenes I’ve animated yet, so I try to sketch him every now and then to refine his design, as well as keep it in my memory.

Mouth and nose, together at last!

No real story behind this boy. Just something I felt like sketching.

Last week, I noted that I reseve the right to skip work on a holiday. Well, it just so happens that I consider my birthday a holiday, so now we’ve got two “Sketchbook Tuesdays” in a row! 😛

A character idea I sketched out. I have a tendancy to put ponytails on anything that moves, so I may axe her ponytail later if I use this design for anything. I honestly try to make each character different.

A more fleshed out version of the above character. Her head seems off a bit though, I’m afraid.

Seeing as how I reserve the right to not have to work on a holiday, I didn’t upload this yesterday. Thus, we have another classic case of “Sketchbook Tuesday”. 🙂

One of my stranger sketches, no doubt. It’s Jessie! As a fairy… It was so strange that it had to be done! :3

A random girl fixing her baseball cap. Doesn’t look as much like the original idea as I would have liked. Granted, she’s not from anything and I have no plans to use her in any stories, but still, it drives me up the wall when the sketch doesn’t match the idea. Well, unless the sketch turns out better than the idea, of course! 😉

Oh bother! I almost forgot that this was Monday! XD

It’s Ian in a planning sketch I did before animating the scene where you see this.

Jordan doing nothing of real interest. He likes posing for the camera, I suppose, because it seems he’s always smiling and looking into it whenever I sketch him.

Alas, I got very little done today! I set aside the whole morning to mow the lawn (one of the perks of being my own boss: getting yard work done on “company” time ;)), but the sky took to raining–hard–all day. My schedule disrupted, I figured I could still get some light work on Procyon hammered out, but didn’t even manage that. Ended up wasting the afternoon thinking about what needed to get done and never getting around to it. After that, I thought “Oh well, I’ll just call it a day and catch up on some writing this evening.” Instead, wasted the whole evening playing video games. XD …Now I have a headache. -_-

But enough about that.

Sideburns are fun to draw! :3 Looks sort of like Ebenezer Scrooge, though.

Another sketch of Iccari, who was prominently featured in last week’s Sketchbook Monday. Here he looks more sane! He looks funny, though, because he’s holding his shoulders up, but you can’t really tell with that scarf or hood or whatever he’s wearing–so it looks sort of like he has no neck!

Oh, look! It’s random guy #472. He’s okay, but his design is nothing special. There are some characters that I draw where my reaction is “Wow! I’ve got to use this guy somewhere!” Unfortunantly, this guy isn’t one of them. XD

A very angry version of a character that I haven’t drawn in ages. Known as “Iccari”, he dates back… oh, probably to before I even started attending art school. Humanoid characters with animal qualities can trace their roots as far back as the centaurs, fauns, and gorgons of ancient mythology, but nowdays they’re mostly associated with Japanese anime and manga. I had never tried my hand at them and ended up building a narrative and mythology around a fictional world they inhabit. Since the design can be considered a cliche, I never really finished the story, but every now and again I wish that I had–and usually end up adding a little bit more to it before giving up again. 😉

Here, Iccari is being toted around by a young human that has captured him. He ends up entrusting his freedom to her in hopes that she can help him reach his destination. But is this really a wise decision? …Oh, bother, thinking about the story so much, now I want to go work on it all over again! -_-

By the way, I’m still hard at work on Procyon (our upcoming animated series, for those who missed the announcement). The first “transmission” (as I’ve come to call each two-minute mini-episode) is about one-third of the way done now, I think. The story has continued to evolve even since I announced it, but I think we’re finally headed in the right direction here. I mean, if I’m going to be working on it for a few years, shouldn’t I come up with a story I like? 🙂 I think a lot of you will enjoy it as well…

I plan to share some screenshots and character designs some time this week! Just a fair warning, though: while I think that we’re coming out with some of the best quality animation produced exclusively for the web, don’t expect Disney Feature Animation quality or anything. It’s mostly just me working on it after all; and we can’t pull off Beauty and the Beast or The Iron Giant on a shoe string budget anyway. 😉