Music borrowed from Binding of Isaac, character is mine, art is by Gami

My Neonata made with pipecleaners is done.

The praying mantis influence on her is a lot easier to see in this type of medium.

I used Chenille stems, feathers, pompoms and craft glue. You can see the middle part of construction here: http://www.livestream.com/bcs3/video?clipId=pla_9983778c-dbe4-4bd1-a6e1-4e854811d775

Everything I learned about 3d, I learned by doing this as a kid. It was ridiculously fun to make it, too.

Starting designing Neonata again. Her third eye (based on the actual light-detecting third eye of wasps) is usually hidden by her long bangs that sway to one side.

Her forearm hands also flex now. They also have a bladed front section so she can attack by flicking as well as grabbing, hooking, and ripping mortal wounds or holding her prey defenseless.

I fleshed out the design of her ornamental protective caps on them, and the eyes, mandibles, and legs are bit more insect-based now. It’s not described here, but the purpose of the mandibles is to inject the usual spider-based toxins. She’s a predatory luna moth, and actually based on real vampire moths.

I think a lot of my original characters reflect a certain love of biology or art-related things…

I think I’ve only typed it out once before, but she lives on Earth in a deep cave and she’s a seer with a fluid-based companion called Leviathan. She’s not really a good guy either, she’s pretty fucking evil and would fall squarely into the antagonist category of not really respecting other life as being worth her time and she’s spent a couple hundred years in stasis in a cocoon asleep.

Her wider character arc involves trying to get to the moon where a Lunar-based colony is, in a zeerust scifi/fantasy world where technology is just sufficiently-advanced magic and the biodomes on Earth have cracked and are venting all the contained oxygen into space so shit gets pretty bad fast.

It just sounds really lame and trite when I type it all out like that, even though I’ve spent years thinking about the world-building and all the places in it. My original characters are the cornerstone of any future projects I make of my own IP and the worldbuilding is super important to me.

Hello, my old friends

A sketch WIP and doodle tests. I got my Monoprice but it’s a little dodgy. Flash plays the nicest with it and I’ve been teaching myself its new strokes and feel in SAI since the drivers got along worst with that program. I would not recommend this to anyone new to tablets. I would recommend it as a spare, especially for traveling to conventions.

There’s this detectable lag of a microsecond and it feels like the strokes are extremely short. I wish I could get an Intuos in a non-several hundred dollar variety and pretty small so I could avoid wrist pain from large motions on bigger tablets, like around 4x6 inches or so. It’s about damn near the same as a Bamboo Fun, same levels of pressure, about the same size, except the tablet pen takes a battery. I don’t know why the Monoprice has a huge non-useful border area around the edge.