2 Sketches of the World of Marie Antionette

Icons

Recently, my girlfriend bought me a small pack of watercolor pencils and I played around with them:

I was trying for a cutesy children's style, useful for computer icons or just plain little graphics. I would like to work more with this interesting medium in the future. : )

Dirty Sketch

Above is a dirty colored pencil sketch of the protagonists from my developing Sci-fi story, Rogue Wave. The story was summarized in the previous blog post. I still need work with the character designs (making her look older and tweaking her hair--bangs or no bangs?--and making him look more...human? Lol. ) This particular sci-fi world/universe is suppose to look like a 1940's version of sci-fi. Signy's outfit in this drawing obviously doesn't exude 1940's but I do have outfits more loyal to that fashion. But the boy's outfit clearly is not, so I'm trying to design a sort of hybrid of modern and 40's vintage fashion. We'll see!

Rogue Wave Story Pitch

This is Signy, the main character in my developing science fiction story, Rogue Wave.
From what I've been able to write, Signy, an over-qualified elementary physics teacher, arrives at her friends' home to find their son, Maxwell, alone. His parents have disappeared for many weeks. So, running away from the secretive galaxy detective agency who are strangely interested in the boy's parent's research, Signy and Maxwell venture out into the wild, black expanse to solve the mystery of why his parents are missing--revealing many things about themselves and about the universe.
It takes place in outer space involving black holes, bounty hunters, other dimensions and the afterlife, panpsychism, and fear. It is still developing after all my reading on quantum physics, philosophy, and cosmology.

The story has been brewing in my head for a couple of years and will continue to do so for a bit more, until I have enough to illustrate it into a graphic novel. Wish me luck!

Burlesque Poster

I'm making the poster art for the burlesque performance at my university, hosted by the feminist club. I've been feeling down about my art and going through an identity crisis so I'm happy to at least be able to enjoy making this. 

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