Major Tombo

Been sketching very sporadically on a new version of the only character I've ever drawn more than once: Major Tombo. I made him in 2004 for a sort of draw-off on a forum, where there were two teams who'd do artsy battle against one another. Each member of each team had their own character. My nickname on there was, of course, Tombo. My rank, which didn't really have any meaning other than to sound cool, was major. And I was on the evil team. Sadly, the actual battling never took place, and I was one of the only ones to actually design a character. Oh well.

Old versions of the Major in chronological order:Original design, when I still used pencil. Damn ugly, but not as ugly as the one after it.Did you cringe? I sure find myself doing so whenever I look at it.
Last pencil version. Thank god.Dastardly Major Tombo kidnapping a friend's sexy witch character. Oh yes.Newest sketch before the one I'm working on now. I made this almost four years ago. Never finished it, because I didn't really like where it was going.

So now, almost four years later, I finally decided to redo this character. He had changed a little inside my head, and I was actually quite surprised to see how different the earliest versions looked to how he looks now. His hair and face, especially.Wahey! Apparently, he got a bit younger and his hair got a bit more flamboyant. Also, I gave him a sword. Looks kinda katana-ish now, but this may change while I'm working on it. Also, the guns look like shit, but they're just placeholders.

Ok. Bye.

Finished!

It is done, methinks! So here it is:

Sketchy sk- oh wait, lineart done!

Cleanup phase... completed! Yay! To quote one of my very good friends: 'I'm so happy, I do the dance of joy.' Not that I can actually dance, but it gets the idea across.

So here it is:I'll start shading it tomorrow. Not sure if I'll be able to get it done in one day, but I'm sure going to try.

Sketch sketch No. 4

Still in the cleanup phase. The thing with cleaning stuff up is not that it is necessarily very difficult; the difficult part is figuring out how to actually draw the stuff you want to draw. Cleaning everything up, however, is a rather tedious job that takes a bit of patience. Especially if you're as messy as I am when it comes to the initial sketch. So in this case, the difficult part is actually by far the most fun part.

Aaaanyway, here it is so far:
Faces are all in place and I'm slowly working my way through the different layers, from bottom to top. I'm on the penultimate layer, which is also the biggest one: clothing. Taking a break now, but I'm going to try and finish the doctor and maybe even the woman later this evening.

Sketch sketch No. 3

Started cleaning up the lines. Always a bit of a daunting job, especially with this many lines. Oh yes, and they all have hands now too. Except for the little bugger in the background, but I'll get to him eventually.
My hand is hurting right now, so I'm leaving it at this for today. My deadline, by the way, is the first of June. Which is next week.

Sketch sketch No. 2

It's been a while, and the sketch I've been working on still isn't finished, but my deadline for it is drawing closer, so I'll have to work on it more regularly now. Here's how it looks so far:

I'm a bit ashamed that this is taking me so long, but then again, I've never put this many figures into one drawing before. So yeah... oh well, expect the finished product soonish.

Sketchy sketch

Hello again! Right now I'm working on this thingy here:


Terribly rough sketch. Not done yet, obviously. I'm actually only putting this on here so I can show it to the person for whom I'm making it. But it's been a while since I posted anything, so it's just as well. Ok, bu-bye!

My friend's RP character

Hello there! Remember that androgynous RP character sketch? Well, it's finished. And there's a clean and a dirty version. Why? Because he's supposed to be all 'dirtsified' and smudgy, but I sorta liked him before the smudges as well.

Clean version:

Dirty version:
I think I do actually like the dirty version more, especially because that's how he's supposed to be. But please, if you're reading this (is anybody reading this...?), give your own opinion.

By the way...

My own RPG character (Serenity RPG, which is quite a casual one, but fun) turned out like this:

Jason Seba, a traumatised medic who basically runs on whiskey and gets into fights a lot on account of his abrasive behavior. He was a pleasant chap, really...

Wow, this still exists...

Well hello there! What I predicted in my first post, which was almost a year ago, seems to have actually happened! I know myself too well... Oh well, I've finally decided to come back to this place. And I even have some drawings to post. So without further ado...

Evil sorceress, sorta kinda Harry Potter-ish. But sexier. I guess.

A cute fairy. On a flower. D'aww.
A knight and his princess. A drawing which I made for a lovely princess.

And right now I'm in the middle of working on this:
Which is a tabletop RPG character of a friend of mine. Not that we still play (I started this drawing before I started this blog), but I thought I'd finally finish it anyway. I kinda like this androgynous bastard. His shoes need remodeling though...

Well, hopefully I WILL keep it up this time. I mean, it's about time I got less lazy. But if not... see you in a year or so.