The Villain: Toxic

It's been a while. Sorry about that. I'm actually thinking of expanding to a blog with a larger range of stuff to talk about. There's just ever so far that a story can go. Lots of times I have no idea what to write.

ANYWAY

A few things happened to help me shape the main villain in Peacekeeper's Essence (yes Sarlin isn't the only one). One: I discovered the awesomeness of Imagine Dragons. I came across one of their songs Radioactive (which I'm listening to right now) and I felt a bit... inspired to say the least. When I listen to a good song I just have to make a character fit it. If not, I make one up. Thus the birth of Toxic. It's not his official name though.

Isn't he awesome? Other than all the anatomy glitches. I actually got a massive influence of his coloring with this one person's character (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffs4qGnQAZ8). 

I combined the concept of the Vat with some Romantic themes. To put it simply, he is a symbol of the corruption of sin and the quest for perfection blah blah blah... In his case, it's immortality. Also, Vat start out as normal creatures of Rantis until they allow darkness to corrupt their hearts. Then their physical forms mutate as well. They also grow gray as they age, a symbol of their own death to come. 

I thought I'd mix this concept with scientific testing. Toxic is hundreds of years old and still looks pretty good, sort of. At first all that I had for the secret villain that would show up around the end of the second book was some bird made of shadow. But no- he's one of the few Valloians who gave way to darkness and became a Vat. For the most part the government of Dorimay and Nebey, the two countries mainly occupied by Valloians, have killed these almost bestial creatures. Those that existed in the other lands were locked away long ago by a hero. I'll have to write down that historical, almost myth-like, event at some point. Either way, these creatures are very rare on the surface world of Rantis. 

I hope you like him as much as I do! Here's to an awesomely creepy villain!

Sea

Sketches

Hope you're all enjoying the cooling weather. Looks like summer's wrapping up now. Now if only we could get some rain.

Over the past couple of days I've been able to draw a few character profiles, very sketchy like. The purpose of these was one, to keep me from dying of bordom in class, and two, to just get the anatomy right on these dragons. I'll be sure to draw other characters other than the main trio, but I just like drawing main characters. The others happen to be either antros, human-like creatures, and birds. Both of these I'm not so great drawing. I apologize for some of the side-viewed pictures. 

A front view of a Skreek, those griffen antros. This is Lucian. Here he is wearing long, concealing clothing to match his personality. His glasses are small and round, sitting on his beak. His hair-cut is rather... I don't know. I can't really describe it. His collar fur is covered by his turtleneck. 

Another Skreek: Sarlin. He had hair-like down covered one side of his face. If you look closely, you can see the satanic runes on his clothing, showing his use of black magic. 

 This is Crest. I made a note of her sleeveless shirt.  

This is the side view of a Skreek, a female. I'm not the best at drawing humans, but this didn't turn out too bad. Notice the paw-like hands and feathered tail. A specific tribe of Skreek also sport wings, but I have not drawn them yet.

A view of Demiri, the main character. Her top jaw extends like a beak over the botton.

Demiri's tail and wing design. 

A few odd poses and expressions. 

A front and side view of Demiri's eyes, as well as the markings under them. 

Nikki's eyes. I ended up discovering a way to make them look metallic too. :D 

A picture to show Nikki's dark underbelly.

A head shot of Nikki wearing goggles. His ears rotate freely of one another, like all Valloians.

A full-body view of Nikki.

A full-body view of Klydin. You can see that he has a much different personality.

A view of Valloian talons and Klydin's eyes. Those dark marks are tattoos.

Klydin has a uber-rare genetic trait of breathing fire. The flame is red. 

Another shot of Klydin. I was practicing the Valloian anatomy here. I still have a long ways to go.

The PMV is coming to a bit of a snail crawl, but it's coming together bit by bit. I'm not too happy as my style is developing quite rapidly and the style used in the PMV is one that I don't want to use. *sigh* I meant to finish it and I will. I learned a lot about lion anatomy working on this. I'm about a minute through it. I hope there weren't too many pictures to look at. Have a great October!

Sea