Oh them muses

So, it turns out that I forgot about one muse... Erato, the muse of love and romantic poetry. Since I love here almost as much as Urania (and since I'd already done all the others...) I decided to give her her own page:

PS. I know it's been a while, but I had a nice long vacation at home and now, for reals, I'm back to work, I promise ;)

Home on the range

Alright, so in case you hadn't noticed, I haven't been posting. I've been sketching a lot, believe you me. The problem is that I'm currently visiting home--meaning no scanner, no tablet, and no photoshop. Sooo... it might be a while, but in the not-so-distant future you can expect a large update. Until then, adios amigos!

StrangeHearted

So here's some insight on my process when working on my graphic novel. I start out by doing these tiny thumbnails to figure out my page layouts, and I'm still almost positive that these thumbnails are illegible to anyone but me.


These represent the first twelve pages of my story, the rest of the thumbnails I drew directly on the script when I finished revising it for the second time. Aaand on the bottom of this page you can see a doodle of one of my main characters, Dominic.


This is an initial cover design concept for the first book of StrangeHearted:

PS. The finished first ten pages can be found in my gallery on DeviantArt: romanykate.deviantart.com

Getting warmer

Pinup girls are just too much fun to draw.


Here's the finished sketch of one cover design, but there's still quite a bit that needs changing:

Gift horse

These are a couple of sketches that are part of larger projects for friends, because I am too nice for my own good.


These are a couple business card designs for a local dj. The bottom design was given the go ahead:

My heart is a kaleidoscope

Sooo me and DJ recently had a Sailor Moon marathon and needless to say I was a little inspired. I had forgotten how awesome that show really was. The Outer Senshi, soldiers of the outer planets Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, were my favorite characters. Being as inspired as I was, I decided to sketch up some fanart.

SailorNeptune is of course inspired by the Neptune of Roman mythology. Since he was god of the sea, her powers are obviously water based:



Uranus was the Roman god of the sky, so SailorUranus has wind powers, but the attack 'World Shaking' always had me a little confused...

Although the Roman god Pluto was associated with death and the afterlife, SailorPluto's powers are more time-based. She is guardian of the Time Door and has the power to stop time, but her attack is still called, 'Dead Scream'

SailorSaturn is known as the soldier of destruction and silence. Saturn, in mythology, is a god of agriculture, but because he was the god that new when to plant and when to blight the fields, he became associated with death and the silence of winter. In the series, SailorSaturn explains that though she comes to destroy the world, SailorMoon is resposible for its rebirth.

All characters (c) Naoko Takeuchi

PS. The title of this post is based off the English translation of the theme song for SMS... I think DJ is probably the only one laughing

Everything nice

Here's some rough cover designs for an upcoming two-part anthology. One book, entitled SUGAR, will feature cutesy, family-friendly stories while the other, SPICE, will feature more adult-rated stories. Both books will be written and drawn by all girls. I have a little story that will be in the SUGAR book, but I'm designing the cover for SPICE.

These are a few designs that were given the go-ahead by the professor heading the project, but there are quite a few changes to still be made. I'll probably be posting the progress as I go.

The Road goes ever on and on

Finally we come to my one true love: Tolkien and all his works, namely the Hobbit. As you might already know, this classic story is being made into a film to serve as something of a prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy that's already been made. It would be a dream come true to work on these films and I'm currently in contact with some folks that are doing just that. So, in attempts to tailor my portfolio, I've been working on some hobbit-centric pieces and these are some of the sketches that I drew to initially nail down what I wanted the characters to look like in my style.

The door of Bag End is a particularly important setting. Here it is before Bilbo's infamous adventure:

And here's the infamous hobbit himself:

Everyone's favorite wizard:

Also, you might have heard that they're making a second film to bridge the sixty-year gap between LOTR and The Hobbit. I suspect that they're going to involve young Aragorn and Arwen into that mess, so I figured I should sketch them as well. Plus it gave me an excuse to draw pretty medieval dresses:

All characters (c) Tolkien

Gotta catch 'em all

I like Pokemon. I'm not ashamed to say it. I played the game, watched the show, read the manga, and now me and others of like-mind have decided to put together a little story about us... as pokemon trainers. It's been a lot of fun so far and we're still just in the concept phases. Anyway, here's some of my sketch stuffs thus far:

In our little ditty, I'm the flying type gym leader, DJ and Josh are the star trainers, and Lateef is the fighting type member of the Elite Four.

Obviously, pokemon doesn't belong to me--no matter how much I wish it did...

Forever solstice

One of my best friends is a writer and during his last semester he wrote and directed to films, one of which was so badass that instead of working on my own final projects, I sat down and sketched out some fanart. You can find his screenplay here: http://mr451.deviantart.com/art/Forever-Solstice-83104093

Main character: Alecto Callahan


Two of the most awesome supporting characters: Gustav & Veronique

These are Tyler's characters, and as such they don't belong to me.