Kaeru Fukiya

Got in the mood to do some character design work up this past week and was kinda drawing inspiration from Kung Fu Panda, Samurai Jack, the 2012 TMNT show, and the Thundercats reboot designs. So I drew a ronin-like frog-girl thing?

I was going based off a poison dart frog, as those are some of my favourite kinds of frogs, which explains the last image, where i was playing with various colour various found in poison dart frogs. I ended up going with a basic green scheme though, because it went more with the earthy tones I went with for her outfit.

The first two images are her turn around sheets, one that is her in her base outfit, one that has her straw hat and cloak. She's kind of like an assassin type character I guess, so she's sneaky and fast on her feet. She uses a tanto sword that she wears on her waist in the back. I guess as a poison dart frog, she would also use poison darts or at least poison to an extent. Actually, her name references her species heavily - "kaeru" means "frog" and "fukiya" means "blow gun" and is actually what a Japanese blow gun is called.

So yes, her name is Frog Blow Gun or Blow Gun Frog. I'm very original.

The third image is some costume variations with colour variations. I based her outfit off both Japanese robes and kimonos as well as more simplistic kung fu outfits. I also looked a lot at Tigress' outfit from Kung Fu Panda, which is a very close-fitting, streamlined design that is still very elegant. It really matches her character.

And the last image is just, again, some colour variations found in poison dart frogs. I took inspiration from a handful of them to come up with the final scheme.

Little Red Reaping Hood

Is Little Red Reaping Hood a thing?

If not, I'd like it to be a thing. I prefer cute Grim Reapers over the traditional creepy ones I think :3

Nina Run Cycle

It's been a while, but hey look! An animation! Here's a small animation exercise featuring my character, Nina, running with shots from the front, side, and three quarter view. I started it a while ago, but just now got the time and energy to finish it. Everything was done up in Adobe Flash.

Recent Scuplts

Some sculpts I've worked on in the last bit of time. Most of these are still WIPs and I'll probably post more for them later after they've been posed, probably.

Anyway, here's what we have: Lewis from the Mystery Skulls: Ghost animated video, my gardener girl, my Gemsona design Prehnite, the pixie counterpart to my fairy Lemon, Lime, and for fun, a quick head sculpt of Markiplier.

Shaman? Design

Design I did up a few weeks ago. Not really sure what she/he? is, but I'm really fond of the design. Will come up with a colour scheme later and might model it, for funsies.

Field Medic Costume

Had a dream the other night where I was wearing an outfit similar to this. Overall, it's kind of impractical for a field medic outfit, but hey, it's cute. It has puffy sleeves and a cute hat and leggings and neat little boots and leather armor.

Also, a few students in the class I'm teaching right now have been using brush pens a lot, so I bought some to try out. Still getting used to the stroke and nature of it all, but it's fun to play with. Have some more stuff coming up soon.

Pumpkin Warrior

Haven't posted here in a while, so major apologies for that. However, what I'm posting now is actually a bit of an older piece - back from 2013 actually, but I rather liked it. I had gone to the Renaissance Festival that year and saw a neat pumpkin-themed dagger made out of glass by one of the booths there.

I really liked it so when I got home, I drew up a pumpkin-themed warrior girl, with a pumpkin-theme shield, sword, and hat and a pan flute. She's kind of like an autumn/harvest warrior in a way, too, cause of the leaves and such, but eh, she was a fun draw.

The bottom image is just some different colour schemes I tried out for fun.