A Retrospective
Three months after I proclaimed that I was alive once again...
Everytime I come home from school, I pull out my old binders, stuffed full of pretty much every drawing I have done since junior high. Every story idea I've ever concocted is documented in these drawings, and while I often redraw old characters (yays nostalgias), this time I decided to do what many artists have done before (I am le originale): put my old drawings next to the new ones. So here you have it: An Allison Retrospective!
This is Noel, from a gargantuan project/story I developed all throughout high school. The story, called "The End," was based on Norse mythology and involved some sort of Samsara-like, endlessly repeating cycle of the world being destroyed and recreated... and everytime the Norse deities would have to replay their horribly dismal and angsty melodrama. Noel was from the future (huh?) and was supposed to be some sort of Messiah-like figure who was to save the world, prevent it from being destroyed, ending the bloody cycle... okay. Standard hackneyed high school stuff.
I don't remember quite everything I came up with, since I never wrote anything down, for some reason... but I think Noel was supposed to be soulless (left it behind in the future, I guess), and thus represented humanity in its most pure, unsullied, primordial form – she was sweet, kind, angelic, beautiful... etc. (How optimistic!)
The art kind of speaks for itself, I think. Improved anatomy is good. Still don't really draw noses, though. Noel was one of my favorite characters to draw for a long while. She has since faded away... so the new one doesn't really have her "look."
Und nummer zwei:
This is Chiori. The story she's from, "Mukashi," was something I made up on a fly so that I could draw comics for this AOL mailing list from way back when. I actually drew TWO pages of it. That's more than... pretty much everything else I've come up with. Sad.
Mukashi was supposed to be a love story set in the future, in a world where the cities have grown so tall that most people never see natural light. The main character, Clear, becomes inspired when she hears a DJ at a local club – apparently music is made entirely by "DJs" who hook themselves up to some crazy machine and create music straight from their cerebral cortex or something. The guy's name is Hajiime, though his DJ name is Regime. So obviously Hajime and Clear fall in love (dur dur dur)... Chiori here, another DJ (CODE NAME: CANDY!), happens to be infatuated with Hajime. Wacky Hijinks Ensue.
I don't have anything deep to say about the art, except... if you draw more, you get better. Woot!
In other news, I got new glasses today! Joyysssssssss.
This was a long post. Tune in next time for more retrospectives (maybe)!
Everytime I come home from school, I pull out my old binders, stuffed full of pretty much every drawing I have done since junior high. Every story idea I've ever concocted is documented in these drawings, and while I often redraw old characters (yays nostalgias), this time I decided to do what many artists have done before (I am le originale): put my old drawings next to the new ones. So here you have it: An Allison Retrospective!
This is Noel, from a gargantuan project/story I developed all throughout high school. The story, called "The End," was based on Norse mythology and involved some sort of Samsara-like, endlessly repeating cycle of the world being destroyed and recreated... and everytime the Norse deities would have to replay their horribly dismal and angsty melodrama. Noel was from the future (huh?) and was supposed to be some sort of Messiah-like figure who was to save the world, prevent it from being destroyed, ending the bloody cycle... okay. Standard hackneyed high school stuff.
I don't remember quite everything I came up with, since I never wrote anything down, for some reason... but I think Noel was supposed to be soulless (left it behind in the future, I guess), and thus represented humanity in its most pure, unsullied, primordial form – she was sweet, kind, angelic, beautiful... etc. (How optimistic!)
The art kind of speaks for itself, I think. Improved anatomy is good. Still don't really draw noses, though. Noel was one of my favorite characters to draw for a long while. She has since faded away... so the new one doesn't really have her "look."
Und nummer zwei:
This is Chiori. The story she's from, "Mukashi," was something I made up on a fly so that I could draw comics for this AOL mailing list from way back when. I actually drew TWO pages of it. That's more than... pretty much everything else I've come up with. Sad.
Mukashi was supposed to be a love story set in the future, in a world where the cities have grown so tall that most people never see natural light. The main character, Clear, becomes inspired when she hears a DJ at a local club – apparently music is made entirely by "DJs" who hook themselves up to some crazy machine and create music straight from their cerebral cortex or something. The guy's name is Hajiime, though his DJ name is Regime. So obviously Hajime and Clear fall in love (dur dur dur)... Chiori here, another DJ (CODE NAME: CANDY!), happens to be infatuated with Hajime. Wacky Hijinks Ensue.
I don't have anything deep to say about the art, except... if you draw more, you get better. Woot!
In other news, I got new glasses today! Joyysssssssss.
This was a long post. Tune in next time for more retrospectives (maybe)!
Labels: Chiori, Mukashi, Noel, Retrospective, The End
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