BlogHide Resteemsdcfisher (56)in character • 7 years agoTlaloc (2.0) God of Rain and Fertility (original work)This is the final version of Tlaloc, for now. A complete model sheet helps me understand how her costume and proportions work from all angles. Drawn and painted in Photoshop, about 4…dcfisher (56)in characterdesign • 7 years agoTLALOC expression sheets (original drawing)It's been a while since my last Steemit post, please excuse me! Taking up on my previous thread regarding character design for the god of Rain and Fertility, here are some explorations of…dcfisher (56)in illustration • 7 years agoENTWINED- TLALOC #6 (original drawing)Based on the reference drawings for Tlaloc (see my last post) I wanted to flesh the character out further. I was aiming to incorporate the main visual aspects that I liked from the reference…dcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoENTWINED- TLALOC #5 (original drawing)This little guy is an amalgamation of the reference studies into something kind of new, a decent first draft leading on to what came next…. It took about four or five hours of pencilling, inking and…dcfisher (56)in god • 7 years agoENTWINED- TLALOC reference #4 (original drawing)This version takes the reference image and starts to add form and depth. I started out by pencilling the reference image lightly but fairly accurately in blue pencil, taking in the details and…dcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoENTWINED- TLALOC original reference drawing #2For this drawing I chose to go in heavy with hatching. You can see from the reference image that I made some modifications, already thinking about what aspects of this character I might like to pull…dcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoENTWINED- TLALOC original reference drawing #1My comic co-creator Dr Mike 2000 gave me this brief for the Aztec god Tlaloc aka Rain and Fertility. 'She appears as a small fertility figure with large weepy eyes. To give her a vertical aspect…dcfisher (56)in reflections • 7 years ago2017 Reflections2017 was a big year for me. I turned 40, finished my Doctorate, settled into a new life in Melbourne, and began my first permanent lecturing position at Swinburne University. I taught 10 courses at…dcfisher (56)in comic • 7 years agoMaking of Alarming Diary Comic (original work)I haven’t made many diary comics since I drew a moonlit bushwalk for New Year’s Eve, 2015 but I still make the occasional one here and there if the mood takes me. It usually starts with hearing or…dcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoEntwined- Xolotl design #4 (original drawing)The final (for now) iteration of Death/Lightning. I’ve taken bits and pieces of reference from all of the above and created something somewhat new in the doing. This was drawn in a simple one point…dcfisher (56)in characterdesign • 7 years agoEntwined- Xolotl design #3 (original drawing)Taken from my blog I make comics! You can buy them here Available for comissionsdcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoEntwined- Xolotl design #2Just to check how this design might look in profile I had another go, but extended the snout to create something a little more grotesque. And maybe, I also didn’t observe it correctly in the first…dcfisher (56)in comics • 7 years agoEntwined- Xolotl design #1With the reference drawing exercises Xolotl out of the way, I could focus on taking this research and bending them a little sideways. First I referenced a dog’s skull and put an electric cap on it.…dcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoEntwined- Tlaloc reference drawing #4This one was first drawn, as usual, in blue pencil, and then drawn over in a 0.3 fine line pen. Then I used Copic markers to colour in the red, green, orange and blue areas, deciding to use ink…dcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoEntwined- Xolotl reference drawing #3Cross hatching is fun. Drawn from Aztec sculpture (image found on Google) Get the full story at www.storybordello.comdcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoEntwined- Xolotl reference drawing #2Line study looking at patterns and capturing the flatness with some consideration for varying line widths Get the full story at www.storybordello.comdcfisher (56)in aztec • 7 years agoEntwined- Xolotl reference drawing #1Get the full story at www.storybordello.comdcfisher (56)in comics • 7 years agoENTWINED- TEZCATLIPOCA (original drawings)The first of the character designs for Entwined is the Smoking Mirror, Tezcatlipoca, god of jaguars, sorcery, beauty, strife, and obsidian. Mike’s original character design pictured her as a…dcfisher (56)in comics • 7 years agoENTWINED- TEZCATLIPOCA (original drawings)The first of the character designs for Entwined is the Smoking Mirror, Tezcatlipoca, god of jaguars, sorcery, beauty, strife, and obsidian. Mike’s original character design pictured her as a…dcfisher (56)in comics • 7 years agoENTWINED- TEZCATLIPOCA (original drawings)The first of the character designs for Entwined is the Smoking Mirror, Tezcatlipoca, god of jaguars, sorcery, beauty, strife, and obsidian. Mike’s original character design pictured her as a…