Breakdown Lane

A little while ago I started drawing quick and messy comics on my Twitter, and I should probably put those here at some point.


These are the ones I've done so far (more after the break).

This may be a thing I do. Hopefully. 

ICT2 #008-- by Tonch

ICT2 #008-- by Tonch

Haven't put this up here yet. This is my latest part for the interactive comic, part 8.

Interactive Comic Thingamahickey 2 part 5

I just drew the fifth part of our second interactive comic.


ICT2 #005-- by Tonch

Here's my part. Since it doesn't give a lot of room for good enough reference, I uploaded sketches for the airboat thing and our yet unnamed grumpy pilot.

 

Animal Crossing-- Catching Bugs

Animal Crossing—Catching Bugs

This was my submission to the Animal Crosszine (it didn't make the cut-- oh well! Check it out, there's a lot of fantastic art in it). I've probably redrawn some variation of this idea five times by now, but I always found it particularly infuriating when a bug would fly off a cliff or over the water, or somewhere else that your character can't reach.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a Fujitsu tablet PC.

Batch of doodles and animation

I realized I never posted this stuff to my blog.
Virtue’s Last Reward—Phi

Phi from Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. I drew her a bit differently than I did Luna.

I really dig Phi's design so I felt like drawing her. I also want to try to draw Sigma at some point. (I don't particularly like Sigma as a character, but I do like his design.) This isn't the most graceful composition of text and logos, but eh whatever.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a Fujitsu tablet PC

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Doodles 17

I haven't doodled anything in a while.The boy in the scarf on the bottom was one I doodled while waiting for my main laptop to boot up. I won that race.

Man all I ever draw are similar-looking kids. Time to branch out huh

Made using: SketchBook Pro and a Fujitsu tablet PC

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Lunch a Bunch

Gene is out of food, so he invites his pal Joe Wisconsin on an adventure to find some. Unfortunately, it proves harder than he expected.

I did this for an animation project at school using our own characters that are dear to Wonocva and I. I'm not happy with most of the animation, but that's what you get during a frantic semester. I'm just glad I got the thing to a consistent level by the end.

Made using: Flash CS6, Adobe Premiere, FL Studio, and a Fujitsu tablet PC

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Wisconsin and Gene run cycle

A quick run cycle from the credits sequence of an animated short I made for school using two of our own characters, Joe Wisconsin (left) and Gene (right).

Made using: Flash and a Fujitsu tablet PC

Virtue’s Last Reward-- Luna

Virtue’s Last Reward—Luna

Luna from Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward on 3DS and Vita. One of my favorite characters from the game (very unexpectedly!).

I'm thinking of drawing the rest of the cast like this as well (if I do, there will be no spoilers). I'll probably hate drawing Alice and Clover though; they're two of my least favorites. At the very least I want to draw Sigma and Phi too, because I like their designs.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a Fujitsu tablet PC

Doodles 16

Doodles 16 

I've been quiet on the drawing front lately. Been busy and/or unmotivated.

These are a bunch of generic doodles. I've been trying out my Fujitsu tablet PC I got recently (it's really great for sketching!).

Made using: SketchBook Pro and a Fujitsu tablet PC

Gravity Rush doodle

Gravity Rush doodle

Kat from Gravity Rush.

There's a ton wrong with this picture and I can't draw legs or arms or hands or anything to save my life. (If anyone has any pointers I'd appreciate it greatly.) Makes it seem more obvious why I usually draw characters with the baggiest and most concealing clothing possible.

Not that I'd draw more characters with this attire either. Because this outfit is pretty stupid. But it was a fun game and a fun character.

I need to start drawing more often or I'll never get any better at this.

Made using: SketchBook Pro and a tablet

Link run cycle

Link run cycle

Link from the Wind Waker.

A really quick practice loop. It's really messy and things change proportions and sizes, but I was just messing around for practice. My animation process is horribly inefficient, even for the simplest things, so I need to work on it.

Made using: Flash and a tablet

Rhythm Heaven animation loop

DJ School Flash animation loop
A Flash animation made in the style of the DJ School game in Rhythm Heaven (DS). I was GOING to use this as an animated ID on deviantArt, but then I found out that the site doesn't let you use Flash for that, and then I found out that they don't even let you use reasonably-sized GIFs, and THEN I found out they don't let you use animated images at all. So... damn it. That's the entire reason I was doing this.

Oh well.
Here it is anyway.

Here's the specific game it was based on:

Doodles 15

 Doodles 15

Some miscellaneous doodles. Mostly just random characters that don't have any significance, though there is also fan art in there, in the form of Link from the Wind Waker and Shizune from Katawa Shoujo (top-center and top-right respectively).

Made using: Flash, SketchBook Pro, and a tablet

Black Spot

Black Spot

Sienna got a Black Spot sent to her by someone she trusted and considered a close friend. She's expectedly broken up about this.
This is usually about the extent to which my cartoons get moody.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

Blastronaut

Blastronaut

Quick fan art of Rhythm Heaven. This is the Blastronaut from the Shoot-'em-Up game. Thought she'd be fun to draw because of the space motif. I do like Rhythm Heaven's cheery and sharp-looking visual style (though this drawing doesn't look much like it).

I also recreated the music (with liberties) to go along with it.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

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Rhythm Heaven—Shoot-‘em-Up

A truncated rendition of the music for the Shoot-'em-Up game in Rhythm Heaven on DS. It's pretty repetitive but it was catchy. Mine sounds like a mess though.

Kanji Tatsumi

 Kanji Tatsumi

I wanted a pretty lively character to draw, so I drew Kanji from Persona 4. He's quite a character. And he also happens to be the MAN.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

Persona 3 doodle

Persona 3

 

A really quick thing of Persona 3's silent and nameless protagonist.

I think Persona 3 and 4 win the awards for "most unbelievably surprising and uncharacteristic games for me to end up liking".

If you had described them to me on paper there is no way I'd play them. "A grind-heavy randomly-generated dungeoncrawler with dating sim elements that is dripping in Japanese culture with a J-pop-heavy soundtrack." Almost everything I would normally despise in a game.

It's honestly a miracle I like these games as much as I do. I think it helps that the stories and characters are extremely well-thought-out and genuine, and they have such a unique sense of style.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

A lot of junk

I haven’t been very diligent about drawing much, and I’ve been even less diligent about updating this blog with them (as if anyone follows it). But here’s some of the stuff I forgot to post until now:

Doodles

Doodles 13

Spontaneous character drawings, two really old characters of mine (top-right), and Mulan, because I just got done re-watching that movie for the first time in a long time.

Made using:SketchBook Pro, Photoshop, and a tablet

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Doodles 14
 

Just a few small lame doodles: a couple Link interpretations, and the character on the right is for something a friend is doing.

Made using:SketchBook Pro, Photoshop, and a tablet

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Wario and Waluigi

Two of my favorite Mario series characters. These two are absolutely hilarious together and I wish they'd get a game (or at least side-by-side roles in one other than a sports game). Waluigi is especially neglected and hated on, but I think he's a really funny character. Everybody cheating but him!

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

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Arrietty

A picture of Arrietty for EL, who I saw the movie with when it came out here in the States.

I can't do anything in Photoshop to save my life, seriously. I hate this background. I really need to find some good ideas to start practicing from.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and Photoshop

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Batman and Robin

Really rushed doodle of Batman and Robin (more-or-less based on their animated appearances, particularly the Animated Series). Meant as a really late birthday drawing for Gold.

I'm unhappy about how unpolished and lame this looks, but I did sort of blast through it without thinking much. Not my best effort.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

 

Music

Fi’s Theme

Fi's Theme from Zelda: Skyward Sword. Some of it sounds wrong to me, I probably got some of the chords or harmonies wrong. Oh well.

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Shady Neighborhood

For a game I'm making, when you wander into a neighborhood in the city that's dim and unfamiliar.

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Storm Eagle

Storm Eagle from MegaMan X. I did this from memory, using no reference. I'm usually not nearly good enough to remember songs exact enough to re-create them without reference, but some of these songs got so deep into my brain I can sometimes do it.

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The Legend of Groose

Just did it when I was bored. Groose's theme made in the style of the original Zelda overworld (in FL Studio, so it's REALLY technically not 8-bit).

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The Master Sword

Just messing around with some instruments. This music is played when you get the Master Sword in most Zelda games it's in.

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Zelda—Dawn

My rendition of the Dawn/Sun's Song from the Zelda series, which usually plays at dawn (and sometimes at will).

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Geez. I really need to organize myself.until next time.

Doodles

Doodles 12

Haven't been drawing enough lately. So these are some real quick/mindless doodles during class. Oh man I was mostly asleep when I drew these.
Made using: Photoshop and a Cintiq tablet screen

Majora's Mask Link doodle

Majora's Mask Link Doodle

This is the messiest one yet. I was just screwing around for about half an hour. Very little thought went into this so it's a total mess.

Made using: Photoshop and a tablet

Paper Zelda music and some doodles

 Paper Zelda-- Gerudo Valley
The music for Gerudo Valley's appearance in my still-yet-to-exist Paper Zelda fan game. Was made to be a bit more "western". It's low-quality and compressed BECAUSE. Sorry.

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Paper Zelda-- Title Theme
The title theme for my Paper Zelda fan game. Once again, trying to come up with some sort of mix between Zelda and Paper Mario's musical styles. As with a lot of the music for this I've gone to the Thousand-Year Door for reference. What do you think, does it work well enough to get the job done?

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Captain Falcon sketch

Pretty lame sketch of Captain Falcon. The muscles killed me and the proportions are off (although if he has a big head, I think he has a big head in the official artwork I based this on too).
I suck at thiiis.

Made using: SketchBook Pro (sketching), Photoshop (shading)

 
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Fi sketch

A fast doodle of Fi from Zelda: Skyward Sword.
I'm not really improving much on anything, but oh well. Just gotta keep doodling.

Made using: Photoshop

Samus Aran

Samus sketch 02

Lousy sketch of Samus Aran.
I'm currently in a huge rut with my drawings-- my cartoon stuff is all staying exactly the same and I'm not improving on it at all, and everything else like the above sketch is something I'm just not good at and not really able to improve in either.


This thing just looks like a huge scratchy mess to me. I'd be screwed if I actually tried making a neat, finished piece out of something like this.


Made using: SketchBook Pro (sketching), Photoshop (shading)