The Chromatica Gods

"Some more Chromatica stuff! Here are all six of the gods, which each preside over (and can’t leave) their own zones. In, well, rainbow order, we have Mania, Agape, Stroge, Pragma, Ludus, and Eros. Their elemental affinities are pretty apparent!

For some background, these guys weren’t always gods. Initially, they were acolytes for an eldrich-horror-y monstrosity, who had created humans for amusement. Considering that this previous god really didn’t give a hoot about humanity and treated them like people might treat Sims (”Ooh, how long will one of them last if I lock them in a room without food or water?”), people… Weren’t happy. The six acolytes, tired of seeing their friends tortured and murdered for the god’s amusement, killed it and took its symbols – the source of its power – for themselves. These symbols, as long as they’re attached, give them different elemental powers, extreme longevity, immortality, and also make them glow really bright colors. This was fine and dandy for a bit, but humans aren’t really built to handle that much power, so these gods are a bit, uh, unstable from time to time.

I’m having a lot of fun with the world-building for this universe, even if I’m not sure what I’m gonna end up doing with it. But hey, what’s fun is fun, even if it doesn’t have a point, right? I’d like to make a map of the various zones (they’re all based on colors, of course) at some point, too, so we’ll see how that goes!"

 - 2018 Brennan

Inktober 2018

 

"I think I might try out doing Inktober this year! No promises that I’ll be doing one every day, but it seems fun, and I’d like to at least give it a try.

What I’ve learned from this exercise is that I really need better pens, considering that the one I have only actually tracks ink about 70% of the time… And that I also need a better camera. And better paper. I think I’m just really unequipped to draw on actual paper in general, honestly."

"We’re done! It’s been a really fun time making all these pen sketches, and it’s honestly really helped me relax and decompress, even if it’s just for a little bit each day. I lagged a bit during the end of the month, and I had to play catch up some of the time, but I managed to get every one of them done before October was out, which I think is a pretty nice achievement! I’ll probably post a compilation post or something of the sort in the coming days.

Have a happy Halloween, and a good November, too!"

 - 2018 Brennan


If you're all curious, I got two drawings into Inktober for 2019 before deciding to move onto something else instead. That something else ended up being an animatic, which I thought was probably better than a series of small drawings, since I've been wanting to make more of them. If inspiration strikes, don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

Just for the sake of simplicity, I'm not gonna tag every single character that I have in this mass of pictures.

Eros Bio Test

"Since I was just talking about Chromatica, have another one of the gods, Eros! He… He speaks for himself, I think.

As a fun fact, I have a hard time drawing people looking right at the “camera” – it makes me feel like they’re staring into my soul. Combine somebody staring into the camera with the fact that he’s making that face, and, yeah… I had to cover up his face with a scribble on another layer while I colored and shaded for a bit. He’s making me uncomfortable. Still happy with how he turned out, though! I don’t think that this will be his actual official concept art, since if I make ones for all the other gods I’d like them to all fit together as a set and I’m just not gonna be up to doing detailed shading on all of them, but as fun jokey picture I like it."

 - 2018 Brennan

"Defeat"

"As in “de-feet” if you know what I mean

Y’know since he lost his foot

Anyway, have some characters from another project of mine: Chromatica! I don’t think I’ve posted anything relating to it so far. The gist of it is that the world is ruled over by six gods, who are all associated with different elements (and glow different colors, because I like the idea of having beings of ultimate power also be human glow-sticks). The gods have symbols on their bodies that give them their power, and they’re pretty much immortal – unless their symbol is removed from them, that is. Storge, shown above, used to have his symbol on his foot… And, uh, now he doesn’t anymore. His captain, Anthony, isn’t happy about that."

 - 2018 Brennan

"Anthony"

"Anthony, the captain of the royal guard in the Yellow Zone, and one of Storge's most trusted soldiers. "

 - 2017 Brennan


See?  I told you there'd be more.

"Unhealthy Affection"

"It's supposed to be a two-way street.

Anthony is Storge's strongest and most-trusted knight. As you might expect, they're in good standing with one another, but Anthony has a bit of an interesting view of their relationship (and an extreme inferiority complex), putting his responsibility to keep Storge safe before his own health and well-being, regardless of what Storge actually wants."

 - 2017 Brennan


This was the first real thing I put out there about Chromatica! It changed a lot over the course of its existence, and in all honesty I'm still not sure what to do with it. But hey, here it is! There'll be more on it later.