Sundae is Born
So last December during one of the seemingly many dogsitting weeks, I designed this fella.
He's a dessert-themed doggie, with biscuit body, piroette tail, milano toes, banana snout, cherry nose, whipped cream hair, and a hot fudge back. I must have had the serious munchies or something when I created him. ;)
The idea was that he was a chihuahua, and I wanted to play around with facial asymmetry (forever envious of how the Laika character design team pulls this off). I had no idea as to his personality or anything, he was just a stand-alone design for a while.
Summer rolled around and I was thinking, "Man, I should really do something with all these random characters I keep designing... who is this guy??" I got a ruled notebook so I could practice coming up with a creative idea a day, and on the first page, I started coming up with the barest bones of a backstory for him. And then I kept writing every day for a couple weeks, and this random drawing whim I had in December turned into this really big thing that now I know is going to wind up as a comic in the future.
Here's some sketches from August, when he was starting to really come alive in my drawings and deviate from the original drawing (for the better!)
I have some secret hopes for this project that I'm not going to get into here, but I'm completely sure I want to go through with this and it's really cool coming up with new ideas every day. Some happy accidents, some threads of story that end up meeting in really cool ways, lots of story revisions. I do feel somewhat lost in this, as I am just one person trying to define a whole universe, and I don't know how long I need to spend in preplanning before I can get to the "good stuff". It's maddening to think I probably won't be able to actually start the comic itself for another year as I work out the story but I sure hope it's worth it and people enjoy reading it and I'm happy with it and it looks good.
A huge hurdle has been the art style... I just plain cannot do it all in real media, for issues of money and working space... my digital work is crap (and you don't have to be nice and tell me otherwise, I know it's really weak and accept the challenge). The style people have most responded to is my lineless vector style, but vector work on that scale is... tiring to say the least. ^_^; But I don't think my freehand lines are clean enough... dunno. Also it's hard to decide how simple is too simple. Working on a piece of concept art right now digitally, I'll finish it and then evaluate what about my working method needs to change. I hope you guys will be available for some concrit once that time comes.
aaa enough rambling, I'll slowly be uploading all this backlogged Sundae story stuff until you guys are caught up. I won't upload everything because of lolspoilers but enough to hopefully get you excited in the project. :D
...thanks for listening to me ramble!
He's a dessert-themed doggie, with biscuit body, piroette tail, milano toes, banana snout, cherry nose, whipped cream hair, and a hot fudge back. I must have had the serious munchies or something when I created him. ;)
The idea was that he was a chihuahua, and I wanted to play around with facial asymmetry (forever envious of how the Laika character design team pulls this off). I had no idea as to his personality or anything, he was just a stand-alone design for a while.
Summer rolled around and I was thinking, "Man, I should really do something with all these random characters I keep designing... who is this guy??" I got a ruled notebook so I could practice coming up with a creative idea a day, and on the first page, I started coming up with the barest bones of a backstory for him. And then I kept writing every day for a couple weeks, and this random drawing whim I had in December turned into this really big thing that now I know is going to wind up as a comic in the future.
Here's some sketches from August, when he was starting to really come alive in my drawings and deviate from the original drawing (for the better!)
I have some secret hopes for this project that I'm not going to get into here, but I'm completely sure I want to go through with this and it's really cool coming up with new ideas every day. Some happy accidents, some threads of story that end up meeting in really cool ways, lots of story revisions. I do feel somewhat lost in this, as I am just one person trying to define a whole universe, and I don't know how long I need to spend in preplanning before I can get to the "good stuff". It's maddening to think I probably won't be able to actually start the comic itself for another year as I work out the story but I sure hope it's worth it and people enjoy reading it and I'm happy with it and it looks good.
A huge hurdle has been the art style... I just plain cannot do it all in real media, for issues of money and working space... my digital work is crap (and you don't have to be nice and tell me otherwise, I know it's really weak and accept the challenge). The style people have most responded to is my lineless vector style, but vector work on that scale is... tiring to say the least. ^_^; But I don't think my freehand lines are clean enough... dunno. Also it's hard to decide how simple is too simple. Working on a piece of concept art right now digitally, I'll finish it and then evaluate what about my working method needs to change. I hope you guys will be available for some concrit once that time comes.
aaa enough rambling, I'll slowly be uploading all this backlogged Sundae story stuff until you guys are caught up. I won't upload everything because of lolspoilers but enough to hopefully get you excited in the project. :D
...thanks for listening to me ramble!