We don't cry for the gods that die by our hands--
We throw stones if our gods take a stand
We create and destroy our stigmata martyrs.
~Stigmata Martyr - Abney Park

This is my picture for Halloween 2012.
Rather than go for something like monsters or demons or such, I wanted to delve into the realm of nightmares and play with something that kind of floats around in my head now and then: Bahamut's final fate.

This idea is based on something that happens in the video game 'Lunar: Silver Star Story', where the main baddies capture the four dragons in the world and essentially turn them into living batteries to fuel some war machine.
The idea of living, conscious creatures of power like dragons being bound and hooked up to have their very life drained from this is...really kinda creepy, and it is something rather horrifying for Bahamut.

The image itself is...okay. I had different ideas how I wanted to approach this, and having an image with a semi-transparent back seemed like a decent idea, but overall I do and don't like how it turned out.


Happy Halloween everyone.

Color - Bat-Turtle Monster

I decided to take my little bat-turtle monster and give him some color.

I've been doing some thinking on him; like maybe coming up with a name or story, but so far I don't have much, no real name for him yet.

Sketch and Color - Bahakumen

"The end has come!"

Sometime ago, I had done a random sketch of Bahamut as Hakumen from the BlazBlue game series, or as I like to call him "Bahakumen".
So, I finally decided to try another sketch with Bahakumen and I finally decided to add some color to it as well for the heck of it.

Just something random.

Sketch - Axolotl

Some time ago I reblogged an art challenge in my tumblr, the challenge was that is someone would tell me an animal or creature in my askbox and I had to develop a character based on that.
Well...I only got one suggestion, so here we are.

This is an Axolotl.

This character has no name, but she is an explorer of the deep and would later become a guide to the land-dwellers that decide to come down to explore the secrets of the deep.
She strikes me as the kind of character that would work for a kids' educational/adventure show.

Sketch - Alien commander

Some concept sketches of some random character idea, female (yes, female) alien ship commander.

Really don't have anything else for her.

Sketch - Mundane Hunter

Been having a lot of trouble getting the motivation to draw, so I've been trying to do some sketching.

 So, here is a random and mundane picture of Hunter.

Something that will hopefully get my drive back.

Sketch - Worried Gene

This was a rather random sketch I worked on earlier.

I wanted to do something with Gene, but I had no real ideas, so I just started working on this.
He seems rather worried or scared of something.

Oh yes, also forgot to mention, this is one of the rare times Gene is seen without the wrappings on his arms, showing off the strange markings he has on his wrists (I really need help working out the design for them).

I may work with this one more later on.

Sketch - Eastern Dragonborn

I like Dungeons and Dragons and I am a fan of the fourth edition; it is not a perfect system but it still is a lot of fun to play in.
One of the things that I like about the system is the dragonborn race, something that is probably pretty evident in my various art galleries.

Sometime ago my brother gave me an interesting idea for a character that plays off of the dragonborn race, a dragonborn that followed the Eastern traditions rather than the Western. I actually built the character in game and I finally decided it was time to sit down and actually draw him out.

This is my nameless eastern dragonborn character, I developed him to be either a paladin or a fighter, using a spear-like weapon called a tratnyr and a heavy shield. So far he's nameless because I haven't found an appropriate name for him as of yet.

Drawing samurai-like armor is really tricky; even with all the references I looked up, there are many different variations for both combat and ceremony, as well as the different regions and such, so I did my best with what I found to work out for this character.

Sketch - Bat-Turtle Hybrid

Random sketch today.

I was feeling bleh and uninspired, so I just started to doodle randomly when I got a weird idea for a hybrid monster: a bat-turtle.

Random idea, just thinking of a kind of mad scientist experiment.

Sketch and Color - Lawine

Back in the ancient mists of time of 2005, I had created a dragoness character named Lawine; 'lawine' being the german word for 'avalanche'.  She was meant to be a fighter/mage type of character who used ice/storm-based spells as well as a quarterstaff/swordstaff.
About a year later, I revisited Lawine and gave her a bit of an updated look as well as working developing her character, giving her a bit more detail in her character and back story.

I was never really happy with how she looked in the last drawing, so I finally decided to revisit her again after all this time and give her an updated look, so here we have Lawine for 2012.

Lawine is a dragoness sorcerer that is a member of a guild known as the "Sisterhood of the Violet Circle", a guild that is based in the cold, northern areas of the mainland. At first she seems a little arrogant and smug, but this is actually a bit of a facade she puts on, when people get to know her she tends to be a lot more friendly and calm. She's also very adventurous and eager, more than happy and willing to push herself past what she can normally do to improve herself.

Lawine was an orphan that was going to be used in vile experiments by an underground group, but she was rescued by the guild and eventually taken in when she had no other place to go.
Eventually, she and two other characters of mine; Kavinnes and Raine, would 'adopt' each other as sisters, with Lawine as the 'middle sister'. One thing that connected these three were strange markings that each of them had somewhere on their body, their purpose and meaning shrouded in mystery.

In time, Lawine would have an unfortunate run-in with a demon by the name of Ironclaw; a demon that had gone insane because of Lord Zeleme. She was defeated but rather than killing the dragoness, he instead raped her. She was rescued by her fellow guildmates, but the events had resulted in her becoming pregnant, however she decided to go through with the pregnancy and have the child, feeling that despite what had happened, she would raise her son as best she could and overcome what had happened to her.

That child was Gene.

Overall, I am very happy with how the new look turned out for her, but I've been debating about changing her colors; due to some past issues I am uneasy about keeping the color scheme, so I may play around with it a little down the line, see about altering a few things here and there mainly with her fur and hair.
Otherwise, I'm very happy with how this looks.

 I decided to play around with the colors a bit, just some minor changes to her hair and her fur.

Sketch and Color - Lil' Adrian

I was starting to feel down while trying to draw, so I sketched up this little picture of Adrian in hopes that it would help improve my mood.

I really do like Adrian, so I'm very happy with how this turned out in the end.

Alistar Bahamut

Guess what game I've started playing recently?

So, I finally decided to give League of Legends a try, and so far I have been enjoying it, aside from the occasional snag here and there (I'm still not very good at the game).

So for the heck of it, I drew Bahamut up as Alistar, one of my favorite champions.

Alistar is actual my first champion ever, I was able to get him for free and he was my first champion to play in the game. I guess now you can say he's my 'main', even though I have a lot to learn about him, but I enjoy the tank/support role and hey, he's a big minotaur in chains, so what's not to like?

Sketch - Confident Gene

This was a simple and random sketch I randomly drew up for fun.

I was actually wanting to play around with posing, showing off something a tad more dynamic, even while standing, and I decided to use Gene for the pose.

It's...not bad, it didn't turn out as dynamic as the little thumbnail poses I did, but I still liked it enough that I thought it would be worth showing off here.

Sketch - LoZ Zack

Small sketch post for today, since it's been way too long.

Ever since I created my character Zack/Zuloroko, he always had this weird parallel with Link from Legend of Zelda, so on occasion I draw Zack as Link for the fun of it.

That's what this sketch is, a more recent and random sketch of a LoZ Zack. Yes, with a fairy, because I like Navi and Ciela.