Suka Amaia Timeline

Yaaay, I finished a character timeline, inspired by Jessica! Suka, through the years.

Age five: Suka's parents died before she was old enough to properly remember. She was raised in an orphanage by nuns, until she was adopted at age five by a wealthy trading merchant with no children named Eddison Amaia.

Age thirteen: Long past her terrible sea sickness and horrible fear of strangers, Eddison signed Suka up for sword lessons, to which she practiced many hours a day, every day, since she was nine years old. She shows a lot of talent for it. Suka was introduced to Shaari and Phineas, and became close friends with Shaari, both of them being the only other girl child with which they had much contact with.

Age seventeen: Suka lost her arm when she was fifteen in a display of bravado gone wrong. She gave up her sword that day, and determined she wasn't going to fight again. With her wealthy fathers stores of money, he had a fine prosthetic crafted for her. Later this year Eddison fell ill and passed away.

Age twenty five: Suka has come out on top of all the ups and downs and settled into a life she is happy with. She has her family who she loves dearly and would do anything for, and she has adapted to her knew life almost seamlessly.

It was really fun to draw, I'm glad I did this.

Annie

10:43

Rift Profiles

 Okay so I finally got around to drawing these- I'd drawn a couple profiles for these two before, but I didn't design fun outfits for them so I never bothered to post them anywhere.

Anyways, Tinette to the left, all coloured up like a human, and Sherry to the right, also all coloured up like a human.

You know, since both of them aren't actually humans.

Anyways, I haven't painted anything in a while, so I threw these together super fast. I like Sherlock's flannel shirt. It was less annoying than the stripes on Tinette's stockings.

Annie

10:27

Sometimes Everyone Is Just Wrong

 Still trying to crap out drawings every day between doing nothing and doing homework.

Huzzah.

Alan and his original lady, Suka, in her redesigned glory.

Something is wrong with Alan's face, but I'm honestly not sure what, so I dropped it.

Alan and Shaari, super cute.

I should have painted this one instead.

Annie

12:26

Left and Right is Hard

I drew this today for a friend who was feeling kinda blue.

I started this, and I worked on it for about an hour an a half until I was finished- and then I realized, "Oh jeeze, I just painted this entire thing without saving, I better do that," and tapped Ctrl+S.

The dialogue box  opened, and I was in the wrong folder, so I was finding my way back in the directory- and the power flicked.

I lost everything. I didn't even save a copy of the sketch.

Well, I threw a right tantrum, and screamed and cussed and cried under my blankets at my terrible luck over the past week, and then between sobs I heated up some soup in the microwave.

Then I decided to commit suicide via ice cream. Oh man, ice cream is so delicious, how can I not be allowed to eat that anymore? I don't know, I ate it anyways.

And then for whatever reason, I opened photoshop again and started painting it from scratch, because I'm apparently a sucker for punishment.

Fortunately this time I saved a million times, and managed to complete the picture, though I'm convinced my first version was cuter.

It baffles me that a program like Word has document recovery, something as ridiculous to use as Flipbook has document recovery, but Adobe Photoshop CS5.5, that runs for thousands of dollars retail, does not.

What the heck Adobe, get with the program.

Anyways, just some cute art of Shaari and Sherry, who are actually in a pose I always meant to draw Ninja and Sherlock in, and then gave to Shaari for some reason... oops?

Annie

10:57

Sketches Everywhere

I have been SCANNING ALL EVENING.

Okay so, I tried to break this up into two chunks so hopefully it'll upload okay- to the left I have every sketch or drawing I've done related directly to Pirates- and also Alan's parents because oops.

Well Alan wasn't in my other sketch dump at all, so I figured it would be best to include his parents with him, where they belong.

Okay so, we have... couples, couples, couples, couples, portraits, couples, couples, and more couples.

I draw a lot of couples.

Yes I draw other things.

AND THEN, everything else I draw! Because yes, I draw more than just pirates, as much as I love them.  I have couples, couples, couples, and more couples.

I'm sensing a trend.

A lot of Ninja's in this second batch- she's been the focus of my attention lately, because I think she's awesome. We have some Piqa, Sherry, Eli, Kara, and Ainmire in there as well. Oh and me, with a couple pieces from my style meme before I chop my hair off tomorrow and have to figure everything out anew.

Awesome, all of my drawings from what has to be the last four months or so.

Annie

12:40

The Merciful

Another pirate.

An idea I got while crumpled face down on my mat at yoga.

Lenore is Jessica's character again, who had been speaking to my character Lance about being a pirate and sailing under blood red sails.

I really love Lenore's design, she was super fun to age up and turn into something new.

Weee.

Yes it's cliche, no I don't care.

Annie

12:10

Pirate Queen Dalia

A new character I designed this morning. She's the frightful pirate queen, Dalia the Blood Carver! My first African American character-

I like her, she's pretty awesome.

She was only mentioned ever so briefly as a bit of history for a character, but she was so cool I had to draw her.

Awesome. Feels good to be alive again.

Annie

6:06

I Didn't Die

I promise I haven't died!

I've just been really busy from school and it's been burning me right out.

I drew this little doodle today, and I actually finished colouring it!

Just something quick and fun, because I've been losing motivation and I suddenly got inspired to finish it all.

Sherry is mine, Shaari is Jessica's, and I love them very much.

Annie

1:15

Left Hand

Oh look, I finished Sherlock too.

These aren't actually their profile pictures, as I want to give them some more unique clothing than some... facility shirt I made really fast.

It was fun.

Sherry's pants need some help.

Annie

4:32

Rift

I haven't been able to draw in a while, and I kinda miss actually finishing stuff for myself. So, I took some time today, and I drew some photoshop Tinette... I added some quick flat colours in photoshop, and uhm.. I guess I have to go back to doing my homework now.

Weee.

Tinette is incredibly weird to draw in pants.

Annie

6:15

Some Cute Sketches

I like to draw cute things. Especially cute couples. Because they're adorable.

Just some quick sketches of Sherry and Ninja, following them through the years, and then a couple bonuses of Sherry and Shaari from a different universe who are both super shy and make it pretty hard to draw cute couples with because.. because...

Well, they both get really flustered really easily.

They're cute anyways.

Annie

9:29

It's Cold Outside

I feel as if it's been a while since I drew anything- That being the case, I decided to dedicate today to painting up Sherry into something worth looking at!

I tried some new things today that I haven't tried before, in terms of colouring, and I'm pretty happy with how he came out. I wound up drawing him looking pretty scared, so I tried to design a background to accomodate.

D'aw. Sherry.

This would be him when he was younger, around sixteen; lately I've been drawing all of my characters as their older selves.

Now I just need to draw one for Suka- but I'm all hyped up on Tron Uprising and just want to draw Tron things instead. Tron things that are all legs, jebus. 

TRON LIIIIVES.

This show makes me ask so many questions.

Forgot to add the scratches and bruises everywhere. He works hard on the ship and gets kicked around a lot, so I added those!

Annie

4:26

Space Taxi

I haven't drawn a couple pose in a few months, so I decided yesterday that today I would draw Phineas and Suka.

Well, as I was hacking away at benders, I got the sudden, very desperate need to draw cute stuff.

And so I did.

So here is Suka and Phineas, bein' cute and snuggly, on a space taxi, after a fancy evening.

In other words, Suka drank too much and needed to be carried home and Phineas is super happy to do so.

D'aw. Couples.

I love drawing couples.

Annie

10:32

Fancy Waiter Alan

Fine, you know me.

Shut up.

Annie

11:18

A Little Redesign

So I decided to redesign Suka's arm, because I'd never really put a lot of thought into it before. I sat down, and worked out the mechanics to the best of my not-mechanic brain. I gave it a skeleton, and 'muscles' so to speak, and refined the design to something that made sense.

And then I realized what an awful, awful thing I'd designed. One well aimed attack and Suka's got a like, thirty pound dead weight drilled into the end of her arm. That, and it would be a bitch to clean. All that blood. Off all those wires. Yuck.

That being the case, I think it's time to hit the drawing board again and add all that outer armour I'd stripped off for the sake of an interesting design.

I'll see what I can do. I had much fun, regardless! I like it when I finish something and it turned out more or less how I wanted it to turn out. And hey, I finished something! This weekend is going to be dedicated to a lot of homework, but that's alright, I don't mind so much. Think I might also take the time to finish up the ID I'm working on for Sarah's Kingdom's of Calamity group.

Yay, work! I like getting the chance to finish personal pieces. I never want to ink things, so getting past that stage is a feat and a half for me.

Annie

11:58

Ninja Loves All

Well, a storm took the liberty of stealing away my blog update, my photoshop file, and my word file.

Thank you storm.

Anyways- just a drawing I drew today of my character Ninja and Jessica's character Phineas.

Ninja loves everyone in the world, but none as much as her brother. She's been separated from her brother, but Phineas makes a fine replacement.

I'm not sure how long Phineas can stand up to a ninety pound projectile constantly launching itself at his back.

Been struggling a lot in my work again. Not because I don't like it, because I do, but I feel like I'm not taking things as far as they can go. I'm not pushing the boundries I want to be pushing. I'm not taking actions as far as they could go.

I'm probably going to constantly redraw this same picture over the years until I get it right; and one day I might. I feel like it's going to be one of those pictures I forever think about and wonder, "Maybe I can do it now."

Much like this drawing, or this one.

Sorry Jess, I hope you're prepared to see this randomly pop up again three years from now.

Ah well, what is life if not a journey of discovery?

I'm excited to see where this stands in a few years.

Annie

11:46

When I'm Working I Ignore food.

I found some really gorgeous blogs today filled with pretty artwork. At first I was sad, because I realized I wasn't anywhere near that level of competence-

But then I felt inspired, so I just opened a document and started painting to see where I'd wind up.

And this is where I wound up.

Just a speed paint, sketched, drawn, and coloured in photoshop, but it was quite a bit of fun.

Wee!

Annie

9:54

Rehash

I repainted this because I really really didn't like the approach I took last time.

This time I broke it down into simple graphic shapes and tried to paint it reminiscent of my collage pictures I went nuts with forever ago.

I like this version a lot better!

Annie

8:43

First Week Out!

First week of school is over, and I have to present to everyone, the three drawings I have done this week! The one directly to the left is the most recent. I haven't drawn Suka in a while, so she's been on my mind. I sort of cheated, because this is Proto-Suka that I'm using in a pirates RP, but whatever.

I bought some new pencils that our character design teacher suggested! Oh boy have I been having too much fun. I don't think I'd depend on this pencil to do comic pages or anything, but it was really, really, really nice to play with this pencil. It's oil based, so doesn't smudge like grease on cotton, which I really liked. I just scanned it and cleaned it up a tiny bit and coloured it with flats and some tiny highlights.

Suka's not very happy right now, we were sort of a jerk to her and she's having some problems- but it's okay, I've got a plan to fix everything.

Buahahahaha. A very evil plan.

But it's okay! Because the results are for the best.

A pair of doodles, one that I drew in story boarding class of Alan saying, "bitch, please."

I really thought I had him all set up to be awesome and cool, I don't know how he wound up being such a total loser. He's so badly a loser, I back read a few pages of the RP, and I chuckled at his dorkiness.

Sigh.

A sketch of Ninja! Because I really love Ninja very much, and writing for her, and drawing her, warms my heart.

She reminds me a bit of me, when I was younger, only a lot better tempered.

I was a nightmare.

Cheers!

Annie

6:18

Piles of Papers

As promised, I am continuing in my efforts to sketch more! As such, I have many more drawings than I typically do for an upload, and as such, I have broken it into many sketch dumps.

Instead of one giant one that gets resized into something you can't see.

In this pile of drawings we have some Sukas, some Jorns, some Tinas, and an Ainmire!

I did so miss my scottish oaf. I've gotten better at drawing him as the muscled man he is, which makes me happy because he no longer looks like a teenager. He looks like a good and proper twenty something or probably older. When I drew Baeddan this round I made him far too large. Eventually I'll get it right.

I have come to the realization that though Tinette is not overly fond of other people, she does like animals, and likes to take care of them. She has very few hobbies- she can't sew, or cook, or sing, or do any number of things she should be able to do because she was born into a family with many servants. I had a fun time coming up with hobbies; Dancing, fighting, horseback riding, reading, piano...

Yay!


And here I doodled some characters in their back stories, the other characters they happened to interact with, lalala-

This sketch dump is actually older than the one I already submitted. I drew Tinette and Jessica asked me if she was angry. I said yes. She said of course she's angry, because Tinette is always angry.

And so I started my mission to make her happy, which led to me drawing her with my first attempt at a horse.

Animals! They make even the worst people happy.

Shaari and Suka as kids, Phineas as a young adult and Suka as a teenager, Ninja with her new BFFL Jorn, and HUGS ALL AROUND!

Don't hugs just make you feel warm and fuzzy inside?

We had a lot of drama going down. It was going to end in hugs.

I'm not finished with this one, I don't think, which is why it isn't in any of the sketch dumps even though it's the oldest. I drew it reminiscent of a picture I drew a long time ago and was very fond of.

I'd like to colour it the same way, so they can sit side by side, like in a card set or something.

I have to ink it first though, ah ha!

I'm pretty sure I inked the last one digitally- but I'll probably do this one traditionally. It's easier, heh.

I think Suka and Phineas are adorable, but in a complicated spot. Suka still cares for Phineas, obviously, but she's given him up as a lost cause as far as relationships go- but Phineas on the other hand... well, he's got a ways to go.

The other day Sarah challenged me to draw some elemental ladies. After dicking around and ignoring said suggestion for a few hours, I decided I might as well, and I was having quite a lot of fun with them.

I only finished three, as I initially drew earth stick thin, and I don't know what I was thinking. I wanted earth to be heavy and real feeling, weighted with all the earth beneath our feet and trees above our heads. I made her really thin along the thought process of trees themselves- but earth needs to be everlasting, and needs to look capable of being such.

Fire was smokin' hot, of course, with a thin waist and giant hips and big boobs with crazy wispy flaming hair, and water needed to be soft looking. So I drew my favourite kind of figure ever; a tubby one.

Oh yeah, I love drawing heavier people. And now all I have left is air!

Once again, following the suggestion of my roomie, I drew myself as an element from her comic, the Awakened. We'd already determined last year that if I was any element, I'd be the element of rainbows, because I dress in fifty million different colours at the same time.

So, when I designed my human form, I just drew me, as I am every day. When I designed my personification, I was initially going to draw myself as my business card logo, which is a boar wearing a hat, scarf, my glasses, my earrings, with my hair, etc-

But instead I decided to go a little simpler, and took a boar, gave it some wings, added some bracelets, and as a final touch, added a scarf. My personification is a flying pig with a scarf made of rainbows! When it flies across the sky it leaves rainbows in its wake, like Nyan-cat. Only nyan-boar.

Yaaay!!!

Many many many drawings. Sketchbook cleanout!

Annie

7:36