I was in a lab for 5 hours today so here is the results, minus #1 which was last weeks lab stint.
Sean on some island place, kind of wild. Bad anatomy yes.. Trying out new pens, and just general goofing off.
Today's first. Sean sketches. Left side is mostly human expressions, I didn't explore a whole lot until I tried. Topish one is pretty hitoshi iwaaki expression, pfft. Otherwise others are musings. He likes a girl which I hadn't given a name yet, I think it was rachel. He's sort of a quiet but nice guy, he silently pines for her. Other assholes tend to steal her attention though. (as with everything..) Though he isn't self-defensive enough to care. Rather, he thinks so much of her he doesn't quarrel at all with the others. However, she and the rest are trailer trash, as is Sean, kind of. No mom and his dad is inattentive, so he spends most of his time by his self. Right side is after he catches the soul disease, which although can retain the human shape, is pretty different from the original person. It's ebb and flow, sometimes he is mostly conscious Sean, at others he is the Disease. (I still did make the story years before I read Parasyte, but that's probably why I think it's so good.)
Second page of sketches. Some Sean poses I liked, and I tried to draw him a bit realistically, failingly. I'm still hammering out how to draw him the way I want him.
Decided I'd quick draw a Jack ref. It was actually.. quite quick. It's also not very informative. Oh well. I think his face/shoulder area turned out weird, but he does have sloped shoulders. I like to throw in unexpected characteristics. I also (not in this picture because it's a bad ref) make his eyes close together. It actually kind of has a cute affect, contrary to the whole models have eyes far apart. He's got a long narrow rib cage and of course long legs. I wanted to put a despairaity between Jack's and Sean's height, I don't really know how good it is since I can't see it up close. But Sean is in the 5 area and Jack is in the 6 (6'5"? Maybe too big!! But Iyuno.) Jack works in a small car garage, he's required to slick his hair or keep it under a hat. He let it grow too long. Jack is a bad name, but it was an early moniker that stuck. He's a soft guy around people, somewhat of a pushover. Caught candidly, he seems like serious business, he's very focused and intentful on what he does.
I think I drew him a little too old looking, but this's Sean. I try to make it appear that he is actually 16, since a lot of mangas make children buff so early. Well not child, but you know. I drew him with a t-shirt on, but he usually comes to class in the same grey hoodie everyday, and faded blue jeans. It makes him look bigger/pudgier, but he's actually very thin-framed. He's got black wavy hair and english eyes/eyebrows, making him look contemplative/drowsy and compounded with his general attitude a stoner. But he's not. He's still the 'stoner kid' though. He puts his head down in class usually and sleeps. He's not a failure by nature though, he has a careless content feel towards school, he knows he won't go to any college. He stopped trying, but not in bitterness. He rather likes to think on the things he does after school, if he does anything at all. The teachers don't like him/understand him because of this.
I'm fairly sure the story takes place in South Dakota. Sean befriends Jack while he is on a lunch break. Jack plays tough first, since Sean seems so young. Eventually though, they realize they need each other's company. Sean helps Jack with a girl he wanted to meet, and Jack helps Sean with some mechanical know-how and other things like family life.
After they become friends through the winter, the inciting incident happens in the spring. Sean is about to scare his friends in their sleep using an old story that was told at the campfire. It was a fabricated story of a killer who disemboweled his victims. He had black tear drops under his eyes and black clothes, which Sean substituted for a black headband and black dress shirt, eyeliner he borrowed from Rachel's belongings, and a kitchen knife. Sean takes a free run in the forest first, to have fun pretending to be a wild killer. Hunters spot a phantom deer in the forest, they shoot a few times and track it. When Sean and the deer cross paths, they make a rough collision which forces Sean to pass out. The hunters find his body covered in the deer's blood and freak out, throwing it in a nearby river. The deer watches the whole incident, and loses it when he sees Sean's body go over the edge. It runs out to pull him ashore but they quickly and instinctively shoot him in the rump, killing him for good. They drift downstream, the deer sinks with Sean's shirt in his teeth, dragging him down and drowning him.
Yep, something like that, that's the beginning.
To drown is one of my recurring "nightmares" which aren't actually scary. I usually drown, first freaking out, and at some point I am "dead" which I stop freaking and enjoy being in the water without having the need to breathe. Though, most times I just drown and that's it. I often become an omnipotent observer of the dream as it progresses without me. There have been times I drowned in puddles, ridiculously. My favorites are in deep pools though, like one was the ocean. I got to ride the rolling tide in and out as a dead person with full motor capability, just my lungs stopped moving. I remember catching the undertow and rolling about. This is probably where my subconscious obsession with water and drowning comes from. I can't think of any other way I've died in my dreams, really. I rarely fall great distances, but even if I do it's not scary and guess what, I land in water, or atleast I magically absorb ground impacts. So, don't be surprised to see more water related themes.
