"Platform Map"

Ahh, I still use this map. Partially because I really don't want to spend another three months drawing a new one. But also because I like it! A couple things are inaccurate now and need to be changed (like Gadda, it's been... Deleted), but it's still on the site today, and I sill reference it.

2017 me has no comment on this monster, apparently, so you don't get any blasts from the past today.

"Saccharine Horrors"

"This could be considered the spiritual successor to "Unwitting Symbiosis", I suppose. That was made, what, two years ago?! Good lord, time flies.

So this is both a sketch that got out of hand and a celebratory drawing that I made because I finished a short story that's essentially about how Yens lost his arm. Shortly before dying. But it doesn't cover that last bit. But if you've wondered why there's a severed arm (and tons of candy imagery), that's why: arm-loss and Sehenness. Arm-loss DUE to Sehenness.

I seem to be at a point where I'm drawing a lot of Blik. I've always gone through phases where I can't get enough of a certain character, and it seems I'm going through one with him, now. So, if you see a lot of him in this 2017 era, that would be why. Anyway, despite how morbid this drawing is, I'm very happy with it. Since a lot of my art normally focuses on shading and being pleasant, I thought it would be fun to flip that entirely and have a drawing that's biggest draw is the line art, and is eye-searingly complicated and bright. and I succeeded, I think! I'm also proud of the fact that the entire drawing is made with different shades of a single color. It was a fun challenge! At first I wasn't quite sure how to color it, trying tons of different colors combinations and reds (since I knew I wanted some sort of red in there) but I eventually decided to go with just the neon reddish-pink, and it all worked out a bit better."

 - 2017 Brennan


And this, along with "Unhealthy Affection", inspired a love for weird, limited color palettes that I still have to this day. It mostly manifests in animatics. But it blazes strong.

"Monochrome Twins"

"I love how much they love each other.

I guess that Blik does indeed have a good time in some pictures of him. This being one of them. When a friend of mine suggested putting these two in coordinated "twins" shirts, I just couldn't resist drawing it. I'm very pleased with it! I feel that I did a pretty good job on the proportions and the posing (even if Vera's right arm is a tad stubby), and also on making their smiles look genuinely happy (something that's deceptively hard to do, at least for me). Either Blik has a better sense of humor than we thought or Vera's laughing really hard at her own joke, which isn't too out of character for her, honestly. The black-white color contrast was also fun to play with. It must be neat to have a twin that has colors exactly contrasting to yours. The coordinated costume opportunists are endless."

 - 2017 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.

"Happy as Can Be"

"IT'S CUTE.
IT'S VERY CUTE.

Sometimes, you just want to draw something that is so saccharine, it will give you type 2 diabetes. This was one of those times: I just wanted something sweet and innocent up here in contrast with some of the other horrible events that I chronicle in my art. And so here are Bludmar and Leilani!

I'm pretty proud of this one! The dresses were pretty hard to work with, as I've never been the best with cloth physics in art. However, with plenty of references and help from my friends, I think I got something that looks good! And cute. Very, very cute."

 - 2017 Brennan

"Noble Volkie"

"I've been playing some Fire Emblem again! This time, I've been playing the newest game (well, I suppose it's not exactly the newest anymore, since it's been out for over a year): Fire Emblem Fates! It's quite fun! I thought that I'd draw my player character, Volkie, looking rather dragon-y as a result of her heritage. While the player character does turn into a dragon in the game, they seem to alternate between totally human and totally dragon, and you know what? That's boring. So I drew Volkie looking a tad dragon-esque for fun."

 - 2017 Brennan

"Weaponized Insanity"

"It's just the blind leading the blind, really. Or the certifiable leading the certifiable.

Nobles is a horrible person. Really horrible. Murder-people-who-speak-ill-of-him horrible. And he needed an accomplice in his crimes, so naturally he went for Soylent, who was already thoroughly insane enough to do whatever he said without any reason. Nobles sent him to "take care of" whoever he didn't want around anymore, and the Sehen did so without question. When Soylent eventually got caught in the process of tearing someone apart, Nobles denied any involvement and let him take the fall, throwing him out like yesterday's trash.

So I've had art block for what feels like eighty years. It's been tough -- I've wanted to draw, but just lacked any inspiration. But I think I'm getting back on track with this horrifying drawing of these two freaks of nature! What a way to start 2017. I had no idea of what to do for the background of this picture, and that's usually what gets me, but I was able to come up with something I'm pretty pleased with!"

 - 2017 Brennan

"The Cardinal Drammer Rex"

"Skylette, also called the Cardinal Drammer Rex (since she was the first Drammer to rule over Rett), wearing her armor. It's heavily based off of the armor of Roman legionaries, with a bit of my own twist put on it. Since she weighs about a half-ton and most of that is muscle, she has no problem carrying all of that brass. And, for reference, that spear she's holding is 10 feet long.

I had to look up a lot of references to draw that armor, so I got pretty familiar with Roman-era garb for those few days. Funnily enough, a couple days after I had began this drawing we started a mini-project in my World History class where we had to draw a roman gladiator, complete with armor, based on what comes to mind when we think "gladiator" (which is often at least a bit inaccurate). I think I might've had a bit of an unfair advantage for that project.

I love the texture and shading on this one! Metal is hard to draw, but I think I did a good job here. I also like the yellow-blue contrast. And her muscles (which, sadly, the armor covers up a bit)."

 - 2016 Brennan


Nowadays, she'd be known as Scaelette, rex una Drammarum! Thanks, Latin courses.

"Afternoon by the Riverbank"

"What a lovely day for a kid and his numel to look at some rocks.

I love this drawing so much. Words can't even describe how much I love it. I'm so happy with the color scheme and the water and the landscape itself and- Aghhh! It's so good! This is the first drawing in a while I've been extremely happy with, so it's a good feeling."

 - 2016 Brennan

"Cricket"

"So here's a little alien concept for you! I love designing non-bipedal or invertebrate body plans for sentient species. There are a few things you've gotta have if you want a sentient species: senses, the ability to move around in the environment efficiency, a way to manipulate its environment with precision, a large brain (or brain-like thing) and a thing that protects that, and a way to communicate with other species. Now, human bodies can do all that in ways we're familiar with, but how could another species do that? That's what I like to think about and figure out. It's like a puzzle!

Anyway, this critter (who I'm calling Cricket) is based more off of starfish and slugs. They're normally quadrupeds, but can stand up on two legs (or three, if they use their tail as another limb, which they often do). Those antennae up there are for smelling, which these guys do very well, and they can secrete a substance from their tongue that encourages cell growth! How 'bout that. (That last bit might be less than scientifically accurate, but hey, it's cool.)

Forgive the somewhat sketchy line-art in this one, it started out as a sketch and wasn't meant to be colored or shaded. By the time I got to coloring it, I really didn't feel like redrawing the lines to be neater. Or fixing the color overflow. Luckily, since her colors are so light, it's sorta hard to see. But it's there."

 - 2016 Brennan


For the record, I still love doing this.

"A Beautiful Day"

"Of course, he's probably appreciate it more if he wasn't stranded on a desert island.

Man, that cliff face was so hard to do.... Have I mentioned I hate drawing rocks? I hate drawing rocks. And that overturned boat, too -- the trees -- man, there was a ton of really hard-to-draw things in this picture. For it being so difficult, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out over all. The cliff face still isn't the best, but I decided it was good enough and moved on.

Mr. L looks incredibly unamused."

 - 2016 Brennan


There's a relatively small amount of evidence that this project even existed. You're looking at the only real thing that came out of it.

It was a very short-lived thing that I worked on during the summer of 2016 about a guy (who I dubbed "Mr. L") who was stranded on Raoul Island, an island south of New Zealand. I did a whole in-depth study for this thing -- I researched ship routes, the island's ecosystem (did you know that Raoul island has a problem with a population of feral cats?), history of travel to the island, climate across the year... I even drew my own map of the island and labeled where his camp would be.

For all of my research, though, there was no actual product, aside from this one drawing and a handful of sketches. But it was still fun to do.

"Grandmaster Juno"

"I've been playing a lot of Fire Emblem this summer. As a result, I've grown pretty attached to several of the in-game characters, one of which I decided to draw here. Her name is Juno, and she's the protagonist (who you can customize a bit, hence why she has a different name and appearance than someone else's player character might).

This pose gave me a lot of trouble... It was very, very stubborn. Originally I wanted both of her hands to be grasping her sword, but I had already drawn and detailed her entire body besides her right arm, and I realized that there was no way to have that arm hold her sword and still look natural. Because I really didn't want to redraw the entire thing, I settled for this pose instead. I kind of like it better, though, because it shows off more of her electricity magic (sure, in-game she'd need a tome for that, but we're just gonna call it artistic license)."

 - 2016 Brennan

"Bottled Cider"

"Now if only his last name was "Apple".

This was a fun picture to draw (and not just because I could be lazy on the background). I like the way that his feathers look overall -- I tried a new way to draw them because drawing them hyper-realistically like I attempted to in the last picture of Cider ended up just looking sloppy. I'm much more fond of his simplified feathers. They also look greener, and I like the contrast. And now everyone can see my horrible handwriting, yaaay!

Cider has also changed a TON in the last two years. I mean, look at his face in this picture and the last one. Compare them. Seriously. In the first one, he's smug and obviously thinks he's superior to everyone on the Platform. And then look at him in this one! "Hey guys! I'm in a bottle! How cool is that?!""

 - 2016 Brennan


Back before I changed his name to Caeder! The joke was funnier then.

"Sweet Tooth"

""Oh. Hey."

Who says cannibals just have to eat human flesh? Blikivallian is very cultured, he enjoys the tastes of many comestibles. Including sopapillas. And honey. Mostly honey. Honey that is about to drip on his jacket."

 - 2016 Brennan


Huzzah: a relic! A drawing of Blik from before I gave him sharp teeth. What a wonder.

"Breakdown"

"The aftermath of "Don't Protect Me": when Cornelius' magic does indeed become too much for him and tear up his surroundings. He's eventually subdued and captured, but not without a few casualties, Tomma being one of them."

 - 2016 Brennan

"Lilies and Arteries"

"Bludmar in her heyday. Before the whole magic thing, she was a very pretty and kind nam. She used her magic that allowed her to control and sense the contents of blood to check for diseases in her patients, and even remove them. She loved to garden, as well, and spent almost every spare moment growing and breeding flowers, specifically lilies. She even bred a new species and gave them to people as gifts. They were called "Marra lilies" in her honor (those are actually a real type of lilies, though they go by a different name here on our little planet. They're called "stargazer lilies").

Originally, there was supposed to be the current, magic-possessed Bludmar standing below her old self, with tendrils tearing off of old Bludmar's dress forming new Bludmar's blood-arms. However, I decided not to do this. Why? It looked dumb."

 - 2016 Brennan

"Weather Man"

"Apteratimph can control the weather. He also has fabulous hair (it's the envy of all of the other magic-warped starks).

I forgot his eyebrows...."

 - 2016 Brennan

"Death is Surrounded by Life, Life is Surrounded by Death"

"Opposites attract."

 - 2015 Brennan


Now this one? This one I'm still happy with. Quadrilateral and Tetracontagon are always fun to draw, and even if these are their old designs, they turned out super nicely in this picture. And I love the colors, too -- blue and orange are a great pair (as every person who has ever designed a movie poster knows, I'm sure).

"Snack Time"

"You know, it's a good thing that all of the Tepalagos like pomegranates -- if they didn't this adorable picture wouldn't exist. Even Terrak likes them, despite the fact that strelks are strictly carnivorous and they make him vomit if he eats too many.

I'm very happy with this drawing, but something about it bugs me... It feels unfinished. Mainly the siding on the house. I still have a large amount of trouble drawing any sort of architecture, especially at an angle like that. As such, I might edit this later on. It's been sitting on my Photoshop window for quite a while, though, and I was eager to get it done, so I called it good for now."

 - 2015 Brennan


Some say she's still not happy with it to this day...