Current location:	San Jose
Current mood:	awake
Current music:	Radiohead - Kid A
Entry tags:	art dump, orichalcum

art dump #128 - original - Orichalcum [6]
While I've been dying from backed up projects in advertising and rotting in the photography darkroom, I have in fact been accumulating material for Orichalcum. I just didn't actually have any time till after the quarter's over to post all this stuff. DX

The setting in brief: Chinese steampunk in the Qing dynasty, late 1800s. I've altered the history so that the Chinese were the first to discover/innovate flight. Through dirigible technology. In short, SPEED BLIMPS!




Sketches of said speed blimps. I like the bottom left one most, but it resonates too much of vanships from Last Exile >_> so I decided on the model to its right. Top left model is the 1st existing "blimpette" prototype.



Protagonist Prototype 1. Initially I had only 1 primary character who's both pilot and engineer, but found the design too generic and that I needed at least 2 characters.



So I split Prototype 1 into 2 characters 8D This here is the ace pilot. Confident, bold, and a bit full of himself. The face shot next to him is the protagonist XDD Pilot doesn't have a name yet, gah DX I have no experience picking Chinese names and I don't want them to sound retarded D8



...And the protagonist. Who's a little less fetching than the pilot *snrk* He's an aerospace engineer so I gave him a more practical mechanic-like outfit with big pockets. The middle strip in the 1st design looked too gimmicky so I took it away. Kept the hat from Prototype 1 XD



Expressions chart whoo! Did this when copping out of doing storyboards cuz this is way easier XD; His face is too short in the top right sketch so he looks a bit retarded ahaha 8D;



And sketches to test out the ink pen my teacher lent me. The oldschool kind where you have to dip the nib into the well every half minute XD I liked using it but it would've taken too long on the whole comic so I hadda pass =/

Okay, anybody have any experience with Chinese names? I need help naming my Pilot, Engineer and Engineer's Dad DX