Thread: Roku's Sketchdoodles

Hey Rokuni, these are great character studies! I'm not really a big anime fan or anything like that, but I do have an interest in character creation and storyboarding. You seem to have some good solid foundations for these characters and just need to get yourself motivaded to follow through.

I would just take a couple of them, make up a short little story around them and render a complete and finished comicbook "skit". Once you see what the results could look like you might find yourself motivated to do more - and you won't have to wonder why you never have anything finished to share.

Mahalo for sharing

I agree. I love the character concepts.

Especially the bandages hiding the stomach/mouth and how the prince's twin looks just like him, if she cuts her hair. There is a lot of fun you can have with those two concepts alone, storywise.

Great work. Keep on sharin'.

I would just take a couple of them, make up a short little story around them and render a complete and finished comicbook "skit". Once you see what the results could look like you might find yourself motivated to do more - and you won't have to wonder why you never have anything finished to share.
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That's actually what I'm doing with 'name'. It will only have two chapters, but it's my experiment in comicking-- paneling, background, body language (since the main characters...hardly talk at all), dialogue from other characters, and also digital toning. So far it's alot of fun.

And oh, motivation... Really, I wish I could just illustrate stories all my life. I think my real problem is insecurity. Quamuy's comic got shelved for a while because I worried that it wasn't exciting enough for my nephews, or that they wouldn't like my characters, or that it was too exciting for their mother (she's a bit, ah, religiously strict). I finally had to realize that I wanted to do the comic for -me-, first and foremost. So now I've picked it up again. Other stories go the same way, though. I worry that they're too boring, too cliche, too long... Once I start, they're easy (and so much fun&#33 to keep going.

Thanks so much for your comment! I really appreciate it :3

There is a lot of fun you can have with those two concepts alone, storywise.[/b]

(First, thank you&#33 I'm actually having a bit of a problem with that *laugh* I originally created them to be very minor characters, there for a chapter, and then gone. But now that I've fleshed them out a bit, I'm really wanting one or both to tag along for the whole story. Otherwise, I want to give them their own story. I'm reallyreally bad at making disposable characters ;;

Another character, while we're at it~ This is a wip from the first page.

Mwra (or Muura, either way works), Quamuy's giant wolf companion. She's sort of his guardian, and sort of a lesser god. Depending on the legend, she sometimes has many heads, or many eyes, two tails or five, and sometimes she's a wolf, sometimes a woman. I still need lots more practice drawing wolves, ohman. Here's an older doodle of her as a human. She's...supertall. Crazytall. And not very friendly. Quamuy is the only one who doesn't seem to notice this. He thinks she's a giant lovable teddy bear.

Eek, I ramble alot.