The Inkspiller

@claire-h

Both sound great! (And I don’t mind drawing both sisters.) Gimme the details and I’ll get to work (along with the rest of my backlog of art requests and side projects… over-commitment is a heck of a trip!) 😀

Ah yes, Roaring Twenties… I have to ask, are there trench coats involved? Trench coats are a must you know.

For my part,…[Read more]

@deeprun – not my character, but it’s awesome!

(@beth20, also I’m STILL working on them. I got side-tracked. I need to go and find them and sketch them; hopefully I’ll have something by this afternoon (probably night for you). And @naiya-dyani I still need to go back and draw Kokai as not a 40 year old man).

To everyone else, I also wouldn’t…[Read more]

@katja-r

Hey, nice to meet you! I’m a bit on the older side for Story Embers, but it’s always nice to make new acquaintances. I’ll be looking through the thread – I’m also on the *LATE* side of Story Embers, but I’d love to hear more about your story and help where I can. That’s what this community is for, after all! (In the mission of honoring…[Read more]

@hope-ann, @kristianne-hassman

@devastate-lasting and @Princess-Foo have great responses – but I already typed this thing up so I may as well send it in. 😛

A quiet, passive, reserved character needn’t be inert.
While others are off gallivanting about, sassing each other and exchanging their witty repartee, she plays the part of the straight m…[Read more]

@anne_the_noob14, Absolutely! It’s yours to keep. 🙂

@naiya-dyani, Thanks for the feedback! I borrowed the face from the Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa (1910s/20s – 60s) who was always type-cast as either a villain or a “forbidden lover” – dangerous passionate type. Plus that one still of him just looked super menacing.

But yeah I kinda thought…[Read more]

@naiya-dyani

Still very much a work in progress – trying to get a feel for his face before I attempt a full body / pose + clothing. What do you think?

@beth20

Thanks!

One more thing – do you have a description for their facial features? Expression and personality helps too!

@Beth20, Thanks!

I do have another question:

Merrill you mention as wearing a t-shirt and not loose jeans, but Jaylin is wearing cloth pants and shirt with a jerkin and a cloak – clothing from very different time periods.

What is the time period of their story and culture it’s set in? Are these meant to be modern day clothes (is one of them a…[Read more]

@Eitan

I’ll do my best to answer, and don’t be afraid to ask again if it doesn’t make sense the first time. I also apologize if this answer is kind of roundabout.

I think I understand where you’re coming from, especially as another man – as one who also has long fixated on his position as a servant of God, rather than a son. I have dealt with…[Read more]

@beth20

I can’t guarantee doing all of them, but gimme the description of the one you want most (or a scene you want depicted) and I’ll give it a whirl. Believe it or not I usually draw girls, but it’s good practice for me to draw male characters (I’m very very pleasantly surprised at how well Wiggins turned out).

Also @anne_the_noob14, I’m glad…[Read more]

@beth20

I’m surely taking on more than is wise, but sure! I’d love to hear their descriptions and get around to them when I can!

@naiya-dyani

Ok, thanks! I’ll have to look for Nyel and Kiet – that way Kokai can look distantly related.

I do have a few more questions:

Culture / “Time Period”:

What’s the clothing like? If you had to pick a historical period or culture, what would it be? (E.g., Livi picked 1600s Europe for her setting)
Judging by the name of Kokai, I…[Read more]

@naiya-dyani,

Sure! I love drawing villains and sinister types (that’s… odd.) Gimme the details – can’t promise it back tonight, but probably by tomorrow or day after, sure!

So I’ve watched this thread grow and never once really figured out how to imagine my characters as memes, but I’ll give it a little ol’ whirl.

(Also forgive my stupendously antiquated music tastes…)

(And the fact that I’m jumping in 20 pages in and have never really introduced any of my characters) 😛

My characters describe themselves in a…[Read more]

@anne_the_noob14

So I totally didn’t just spend my afternoon doing this instead of my homework…

Also I forgot to tell you that I was doing this

Or ask if he had a beard or not.

But, I felt given my previous acquaintance with Wiggins, I should give it a shot.

Hope this sort of resembles what you wanted! Apologies that I can’t do it in color…[Read more]

@hope-ann, @urwen-starial

This is a nuanced question, to say the least. It’s too easy to go to one extreme or the other – being obsessed with inoffensiveness to the point of stifling, or so crassly out of touch that one ends up as the poster child for “those views we don’t hold anymore” in three generations or so. But I’ll try my best…[Read more]