Showing posts with label Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ideas. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Jowybean shenanigans 5/7/16

OK Not done this in a long while but last week I may have just come up with an interesting idea for a future show/ comic series.that is separate from my other cartoon world.

I initially just wanted to design some different maid designs with a armour look to them but when I drew the green maid I called Minti because of the green fresh looking colour . A whole new world opened up in my imagination, and here I am two days later with the idea you see before you in its current state.
Its a real encouragement to see me starting to take an interest in the characters and story then just making my character designs look visually stimulating, I do tend to think of character troupes/ stereotypes that exist and then juxtapose them with something completely different to give my art a personality thats individual to me as a artist ,and incorporates my many influences in the process.

Minti
The best way I can describe the tone of this series/ comic would be like if you mixed the zaniness of Excel Saga / Freakazoid with some of the serious story telling of Batman / Game of Thrones.
Thats a really weird way to describe the concept but thats how I see it as of right now. ^^;
Story/ Backstory
In an alternative world, Maids for centuries were known as the domestic servants that aided in keeping the dirt and filth out of ones home. However in the far future they are now more then just a service for the pubic to use or a symbol of sexy. They are a respected conglomerate of soldiers, celebrities, law enforcers and heroines acting under the universal name of M.K.O Maid Knights Order. Their duty as part of this order is to clean up the worlds worst metropolises that are riddled with alarming rates of crime.
One maid known as Minti is one of a few special maids that operates under her families premium cleaning service. This advantage gives her the freedom to enjoy her past time, Which is hunting down the cities biggest criminals and cleaning up their act for good ,and I mean that literally.
This type of Maid Knight is known as a House Rider, This is because in the outside world Minti and other House Riders are representing their Families and any actions they perform as a vigilante or employer could effect their reputation and the name of M.K.O. Although The M.K.O are all united as one, some are not against backstabbing or using greed to raise in their ranks. Minti should know this as many M.K.families are in constant competition with her and each other, eventually these silent tensions could boil over and create unforeseen chaos to the city and the world at large.

Obviously I do not plan to start working on this idea as intensely as my current projects. But I will keep it in mind as I see a lot of Fun to be had with this concept both story and art wise.




Until next post Laters ;)






Thursday, 14 April 2016

Jowybean shenanigans 14/4/16


Some rough thumbnail ideas for future illustration ideas inspired by very different songs. 





Largo - Ko Ride





Gregory Whitehead - Twilight For Idols

I really enjoy experimental music that uses unusual sounds to create a weird contrast to the tone of the music in this case smashing glass among an unknown chant.



            


   Steamboy - Manchester 1866




until next post laters :) 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Jowy shenaggins/ update 20/5/15



Hello All this is a bit of a general update about the blog as well.

I have noticed my blog updates have been a little less regular the last few months. I think this is mostly due to a lack of content with my original work. The fan art I do practically in the Brony fandom has been bringing me in a lot more exposure and money and because I have a genuine passion for MLP I have been relying on that a lot. And now with vendoring at the convention Bronycon in the sates this august I have dedicated my spare time to getting a lot of pony art done for that con.  Do not worry I am still going to be working on the comic Humanisation.com  and my own original characters and worlds. But sometimes you just have to go with the thing that is giving you some income and creative inspiration. I hope to keep posting on here more often with sketchdumps and updates to personal projects. But because of the convention season kicking in I am not promising there will be a lot of big updates.

Still I do have some art to show you.

below are samples of sketches and illustrations I have done over the last 4 years that started out as potential finished pieces but ended up being archived on my harddrive. I have come a long way since then.
















until next post LATERS :)


Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Jowybean shenaggins 11/12/15



I occasionally play GTA 5] and every time I go back i find myself intrigue by the aesthetics of the world. How Los Santos differs from the countryside. How L.A landmarks and buildings are recreated to fit in to the city layout. How far you an see from the beach towards the Rockford Hills. the scale and detail is just so impressive :wow:. I have sent more then 2 hours of my game time just wondering around exploring rather then causing any chaos.  :)

Recently I came across an article talking about GTA 6’s possible locations these included Paris, London (which is confirmed by Rockstar that it will not appear in the franchise again), Hong Kong, Cairo and of course Tokyo.

All these places that I mentioned got my imagination stirring. But no surprise Tokyo was the one that gave me the inspiration :meow: and challenge to design a rather sketchy open world map of the said city. I tried to in vision how the in-game world would look like and used this as a starting point for shirking Tokyo to fit in to a sizeable open world space. then I took in to account well known and less known landmarks, parks and the diverse environments you would get in a metropolitan area.

I will point out that I am by no means an expert or know much about Tokyo or Japan :doh: (I want to change that). but after sketching this map I can at least say I feel more educated on how Tokyo functions at the size it is.

My hope is in the future that we will get a game set in a modern day Japanese city not necessary like GTA (Rockstar see it as an American franchise) and not even to the scale my map is. I have faith in developers that there will be more open world games that will be set in places that hardly ever get explored or shown.


until next post LATERS