Posts Tagged ‘Sofie Thorne’

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Abunaicon Sketches

by Yamino on August 29, 2011 at 4:06 am
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Hi guys! As yo might have noticed if you follow my twitter/tumblr, I was at Abunaicon all weekend, and didn’t get a change to finish this week’s page in time. I was too busy selling stuff, drawing sketches, and meeting awesome Dutch people. If you saw me, thanks for visiting my table! I had a blast, I really hope I can come again next year. =)

Here are the full versions of the sketches. Sadly, I didn’t remember to take photos of most of them, but these were probably the my favorites:


I have a terrible habit of always forgetting to take photos of sketches I make at cons.  This is just the tip of the iceberg.  My hand was sore, but I can’t tell you how pleased I was that I got so many requests for Korra. (I did remember to take pics of all THOSE.)

These were all drawn with no reference.  I have memorized their designs. XD

Apparently “crossplay” (Crossdressing+Cosplay) is extremely popular in the Netherlands.  I saw a lot of genderbent versons of characters running around, but this group was by far the best.  Marlin (aka Mario… er, Maria? XD) also lives in Amsterdam and said she’d take pics of locations for me! What a nice gal!

Also, there was a gaggle of trolls running around.  I took pics of these two when they passed my table.  I don’t read Homestuck, but I know a lot of you guys do. I was pleased that when I showed Ingrid.  Out of all the billions of trolls, I happened to snap her two favorites.  Is this what they call… destiny?

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Spirit Day

by Yamino on October 21, 2010 at 7:20 am
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Spirit Day by `Yamino on deviantART

I was not able to wear purple today, so I wanted to draw something to still show my support for bullied gay teens in the wake of the recently publicized suicides. I want to add something though, something I feel the “It Gets Better” campaign has really overlooked. The problem isn’t that gay teens are having trouble coping with bulling.

THE PROBLEM IS THE BULLYING. How would it be acceptable if this was a support movement for beaten housewives? Would we be content with just saying “It’s going to get better?” Here’s a suggestion. How about “I promise to do everything I can to put an end to homophobic bullying”? Educate yourself, educate those around you, and speak up when you hear someone say something hurtful. It’s all good to wear purple and show support, but the most important thing is to speak up and make a difference.

The characters on the right are from my upcoming comic series, Nightingale. (Click here for more concept art.) Sofie (Nightingale) is making the ASL sign for “Love.” (Can also mean “I Love You.”) Emily was signing “Spirit,” but she’s been interrupted. XD

Pictured from left to right: Sister Claire, Gabrielle, Evil Cat, Snowy, Sofie (AKA Nightingale), Charlie, and Emily.

I am SO tired, this was very hard to put together- I loathe group pictures, but this was even weirder than usual due to my two completely different styles. XD;

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Bothering Sofie

by Yamino on August 27, 2010 at 3:21 am
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I’m on a ROLL tonight.  To wash out the bad taste of some obnoxious douchey comments I was getting on DA, as well as the bad news that the Blue Ranger quite due to homophobic comments, I wanted to draw one more thing to end the night- er, morning- on a happy note:

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Last Nightingale sketchdump for the night…

by Yamino on October 22, 2009 at 3:44 am
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Some practice sketching of Emily, Sofie’s deaf cousin. While Sofie is usually more mild-mannered and pokerfaced, Emily is the opposite. She might be mostly mute, but she never has any trouble expressing herself.

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Nightingale concepts: Sofie Costumes

by Yamino on October 22, 2009 at 1:31 am
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Yet another concept piece I threw together while brainstorming. On the left is Sofie in a fancier outfit… perhaps a visit to to Opera. On the right… A winter riding outfit? I’m not really sure, and considering that she doesn’t pick her own clothes, she probably has no idea, either.

I don’t want to talk too much about it in case this doesn’t go through, but I’ve been contacting several sources to help me gather research for this. I want to it to be very authentic, to the point that I’m studying 3D street views of Amsterdam on Googlemaps to get a better sense of the locale. Ideally I’d like to stay there a while to get a real feel for it, but that’s a little pricier. =P

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Nightingale: Teaser

by Yamino on October 21, 2009 at 11:54 pm
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Considering that the final production of this comic is quite a ways off, it’s a bit early to be making “teasers”, but it’s mostly for myself, to reinforce the feel, and just to keep practicing this dramatically different comic style.
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Crack Dating Sim

by Yamino on September 19, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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I’ve always wanted to make one of these stupid games for the hell of it. Today, I finally found the means to do it! A delicious little freeware program called Renpy!

This game is an homage to a roleplay I’ve been in for the last 5 years, which is in turn based off Revolutionary Girl Utena. It takes place at the sister school mentioned in the anime, Ohtori Amsterdam. The setting is in 1992, before the anime series, and has an all-original character cast (except for Anthy and Akio, of course.) This game is a parody of the OA roleplay, Utena, the Utena dating sim (4 Days in Ohtori) and just dating sims in GENERAL.

In other words, this is pure stupid crack. XD

It’s not a complete game yet, but I played around with the commands to test out the software, and made a little preview of what may eventually become a full-length interactive game.

DOWNLOAD!
PC/Windows version: http://www.yamiloo.com/game_pc.zip
Mac Version: http://www.yamiloo.com/game_mac.zip
Linux: http://www.yamiloo.com/game_linux.bz2

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Nightingale – Concept Sketches

by Yamino on April 18, 2009 at 3:38 am
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Remember the Nightingale cover I posted a while back?  (If not, click the “Nightingale” tag under this post to see it.)

I did some more concept sketches for the character today. (Click for fullsize.)

nightingale concept artI’d like to get this story planned out over the summer while I’m in Belgium (and where I’ll be able to visit Amsterdam easily, which is the setting for this particular tale), so I can work on this story in my spare time.

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My Finals (AKA Why I took so long!)

by Yamino on March 18, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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Ok, so some of you may be wondering what all these finals were that were taking me so long!  At long last you can see what I was working on all this time.

Comics Painting: 4 Page Mixed Media project

I had to make a 4 page comic using mixed media… meaning more than just paint.  I really went all out on this, even cutting off some of my own hair. (Hell, I needed a haircut anyway.)  Some other materials used in this were the inside of an apple chip bag, plaster wrap for making casts, paper towels, cotton, papier-mâché, ink, watercolor, colored pencils, and acrylic.

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Here are two other painted comics I did for the same class.  This one was mostly scripted: A man with a briefcase walks through a field of wheat, surrounded by black birds.  He finds a barn, heads towards it, opens that door, and… we got to decide what was inside.  We were also limited to only 5 acrylic colors specified by the teacher.

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This next two page comic was also mostly scripted for us.  A couple (any type) are walking down a post apocalyptic beach, when one of them decides to check out a cave while the other one waits outside.  Character A goes in, Character B hears a scream, Character A comes running out… and again, we get to decide what was inside.  Sadly, I never got to finish this watercolor project, but I think I like these characters enough to include them in another story. =)

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Other painting work I did this quarter:

This is a painting with a Little Red Riding Hood theme that I made for my Water Based media class.  Unfortunately, the photo quality isn’t that great.  The innuendo was accidental at first, but once I saw it there I had to play it up.  If she reminds you of someone, you may recall a blind character I posted some digital paintings of before, Sofie Thorne. That’s who I modeled her after. =)

And this was my first watercolor project, a still life which I photographed myself using miscellaneous things on my desk. =)

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I thought you might find it interesting to see what I’m doing when I’m not working on Sister Claire. XD  I don’t know if I developed a real taste for painting, but at least I’m over my phobia of it now.

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More samples of “realistic” digital painting practice

by Yamino on January 21, 2009 at 1:51 am
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Sofie Thorne is an original character I made for a Utena-based RP. She’s blind, much too short for her age (14), and is quite skilled in music, especially the flute. Recently I made a digital painting of her just for fun:

Then, I was assigned a “superhero style” cover for my Electronic Cover Illustration class, so rather than draw a guy in spandex prancing about NYC, I decided to re-tool Sofie as a blind, echolocating, singing superhero named “Nightingale”. And the story is set in modern Amsterdam. It’s about time we had some young/disabled/European superheroes, goddamnit. Then maybe I’d actually READ superhero comics. XD

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I’d love to actually make this a comic someday. So many ideas, so little time…

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