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Chakenapok Blog Entry |
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January 1, 2021, 10:26:44 PM March 18, 2021, 9:10:20 PM 1/1/21: r/SketchDaily theme, "Free Draw Friday." New year, new tablet (well, I've had it a while, but this is my first time drawing in the Sony Sketch app on it). Ugh...I am not too happy. My character drawing skills always lapse when I don't practice, and practice is frustrating because one day I'll get a quick decent sketch that gets my hopes up and the next day I'm struggling to even get it looking human after an hour or so. Wish I were much better at this. 😓 Anyway...I thought I should try a character I haven't done in a long while. Here's Chakenapok or "The Flint," from my fantasy serial Return To Manitou Island. His story is...complicated. Suffice it to say without too many spoilers, he's a lost spirit and, being part manitou, is aligned with an element, in this case fire (thus the tattoo over his lower face and the fire glinting off the cave wall behind him), and at one point he was possessed by an evil spirit (thus his yellow eyes). He's the Big Bad in the story and causes all sorts of trouble for the good guys, partly by corrupting the main character's spirit, partly by threatening to set loose the Big Bad from the first serial...ooooo! He's one of my hundreds of characters I've had the most fun writing even if my art can't yet do him justice. Sigh. [Rough Chakenapok Sketch 2021 [Friday, January 1, 2021, 10:26:44 PM]] 3/18/21: Okay, another shot at Chakenapok from Return To Manitou Island since I rather messed up the last one. It still rather bugs me; but oh well. Keep practicing, right...? Maybe in another year I'll be even better at drawing the same things over again. 😐 Check me out on Toyhou.se for character profiles. I have invites! Extraneous info: I used to read my own fiction aloud to check for errors (back before my parents retired and I had lots of alone time). Chakenapok was probably the most fun character to read...I loved his bad guy dialogue. Kinda miss those days. [Chakenapok 2021 [Thursday, March 18, 2021, 9:10:20 PM]] |