TechLoveAffair
August 22nd, 2006, 07:47 AM
Pretty nervous about posting this. I hope it's in the right place...
See, I've had these two characters, Jam and Suka, in my mind for some time now, and I've drawn them myself countless times, but I really need a fresh angle on their appearances because they're getting stale, and I love these characters. Would anybody here be willing to read my (rather lengthy) character descriptions and draw what you get from them? A sketch or basic lineart will do. I'm getting in a rut with these two and I'd really appreciate it if you helped me out of it!
I will warn you, these characters are from back in my anthro days, so they've got a little bit of animal mixed in them. People with fur and tails, basically, not that Sonic anime fanart BS. I wanted to make them as realistic as possible for a serious storyline. I should also mention that these characters live in the far future, so they look fairly young despite their ages.
The prose is below, I wrote the brunt of this about four years ago and refer to it from time to time to refresh my memory:
Name: Jam
Species: Snake/Demon
Age: 57
Eye Color: Mostly red, with a gleaming yellow spiral extending from the middle of his clover-shaped(like four circles arranged in a close diamond shape) pupil, to the very outside of the iris.
Height: 6'8"
Weight: 217 pounds(30 pounds of 'deadweight,' a term used to classify weight gained by traveling between worlds, usually goes to the bone structure, increasing density but not mass)
Hair: Golden with erradic breakouts of slate black spots all along his straight, midback-length strands.
Protrusions/Wings, etc.: His demon wings are larger and plated with a black-red material, resemble huge(15-foot spanning)Raven wings with a thick film between the main bones rather than feathers. Small groupings of bunched-up spikes all along the main bones. His scales are blotched red and black, spiking out just a bit at the elbows and spiking up a little at the knees, has a small crest on his back between his wings, made up of randomly protruding scales. His teeth are like knives with the long, sharp sides facing the back of his throat.
Occupation: Travels the farthest reaches of space and Hell with Suka to satisfy his impulse to wander, awaits the day he'll become a general in Hell again.
Clothes: Fishnet tanktop; black leather gloves with dinged red armoring on the backs of the palms, arranged like three large scales; traded his fingernails for technologically enhanced, retractable, black claws about 6" in length; a collar that glows when he transcends to demon form; tight black pants with leather straps going around each leg just under the pelvis and knees, and just above the ankles. Dirty old red Converse shoes, with shiny metal grips on the bottom instead of the regular white rubber ones, steel-toed on the outside, Converse etched into the plate.
Weapon of choice: Modified dagger Olbaid. Olbaid's blade resembles a Wakisashi of sorts. It has four isoceles triangle shapes lined up along the first foot of the front and spine of the blade, to serrate especialy close targets. Has been fashioned to a ten foot handle and the blade has been stretched to three feet. A 5-inch diameter glass ball full of mercury replaces a hilt/handguard.
Attitude: Well, Jam's a bit quiet, and is much more perceptive than he lets on. He's a strategist with emotion, and can be extremely manupilative if and when he wants to. Though he usually walks around with nothing less than a solid lack of emotion on his face, he's very much the same battle-hungry Jam he was as a child, if not much wiser.
Powers: Fire manipulation up to the point of creating golems and the like, control of lesser demons to do his bidding(he's good at it, but would rather do things himself), inhuman grace and speed, demonic strength, can travel to Hell at will, soul consumption(like all the other demons can do, just stick his hand out palm down, and a panicked soul from purgatory will soon be no more than a bit of fuel for him), and can detect one's alignment with heaven/hell.
Likes: Strong demons; cruising the nebulae and starclouds in his ship; Suka; pizza; fresh blood(a taste he picked up from spending so much time in Hell)
Dislikes: People who threaten Suka; the pompous Overlord of the Underworld; peas; angels of any sort
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Name: Suka
Species: Eagle/Lynx, mostly Lynx
Age: 55
Eye Color: Colored iris is twelve alternating circles of yellow and black, like a target, small pupil. Perfectly white coronae.
Height: 6'0", both forms
Weight- 140 pds(fifteen pounds of deadweight, 125 pounds of muscle)
Hair: Striped white and black(alternating from root to tip), about shoulder-length, hangs in thin gelled strands, or worn in a ponytail held by red metal demon fist.
Fur/Feathers: Short-coat Calico patterned fur, with brown, silver, red, and black. More black than anything else. Tufts of large(varying six to eight inches), black feathers at her shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles. Lynx tail.
Protrusions/Wings: Her wings are large and span about fifteen feet total, with bushy black feathers that grow back in as soon as they fall out. Two red talons stick out from each extreme end of the wingbones. Small(less than an inch) spikes have formed on her back, one per vertebrae. She has short, black fingernails, which naturally sharpen to deadly points. Her toe-talons have formed into retractable black spikes about the size and shape of household nails.
Occupation: Traveling with Jam, selling her handmade armor, studying the Dark Arts.
Clothing: (All of this is custom tailored by Suka herself) Black lace thong and bra, with a white leather coat that cuts off above her waist; a large, bloodred, metal belt fastened loosley at her hips, a large horned skull beltbuckle dominates its front side; baggy white leggings which are banded to her thighs and upper-knees by black leather strips, lace-up leather boots that go to just below her knees, these have thick titanium plates on the insides of the toes and fifty pairs of laceholes; a total of four earrings shaped like an arm, leg, torso, and head, two on each furry ear.
Weapon of choice: Dagger or claws. Her dagger isn't anything special, just a black, unpolished, ten inch long blade with a bloodred, unbreakable tip. The handle is a short, grooved, silver shaft with a four-sided pyramid spike sticking out of the bottom.
Attitude: Quiet and defensive, one usually won't get much out of Suka until she feels comfortable with them, and even then she isn't incredibly talkative, unless someone brings up Hell or the dark arts or a new galaxy being discovered. Then she can go on for hours. She's also very tough to anger, kinda thick-skinned when it comes to most insults...Until you find the right topic; a few negative words about her deceased mother is all it take to have her at your throat, screaming insults and burning your legs off.
Powers: Basically what Jam knows, but she's not as quite as skilled. She can form beautiful armor with twists and curls and spikes, and her weapons are a favorite of many collectors, elegant and simple. She can also manipulate objects around her to her advantage, her maximum lifting capacity is somewhere around 30 tons, so she's not going to be lifting any buildings anytime soon. These powers, though fun and effective, are taxing to her low mana banks.
Likes: Jam, making weapons for weeks at a time, traveling around aimlessly with Jam, blood.
Dislikes: Anchovies, annoying people, string beans, angels.
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If anyone does decide to take this offer I'll be forever in your debt :yayca:
See, I've had these two characters, Jam and Suka, in my mind for some time now, and I've drawn them myself countless times, but I really need a fresh angle on their appearances because they're getting stale, and I love these characters. Would anybody here be willing to read my (rather lengthy) character descriptions and draw what you get from them? A sketch or basic lineart will do. I'm getting in a rut with these two and I'd really appreciate it if you helped me out of it!
I will warn you, these characters are from back in my anthro days, so they've got a little bit of animal mixed in them. People with fur and tails, basically, not that Sonic anime fanart BS. I wanted to make them as realistic as possible for a serious storyline. I should also mention that these characters live in the far future, so they look fairly young despite their ages.
The prose is below, I wrote the brunt of this about four years ago and refer to it from time to time to refresh my memory:
Name: Jam
Species: Snake/Demon
Age: 57
Eye Color: Mostly red, with a gleaming yellow spiral extending from the middle of his clover-shaped(like four circles arranged in a close diamond shape) pupil, to the very outside of the iris.
Height: 6'8"
Weight: 217 pounds(30 pounds of 'deadweight,' a term used to classify weight gained by traveling between worlds, usually goes to the bone structure, increasing density but not mass)
Hair: Golden with erradic breakouts of slate black spots all along his straight, midback-length strands.
Protrusions/Wings, etc.: His demon wings are larger and plated with a black-red material, resemble huge(15-foot spanning)Raven wings with a thick film between the main bones rather than feathers. Small groupings of bunched-up spikes all along the main bones. His scales are blotched red and black, spiking out just a bit at the elbows and spiking up a little at the knees, has a small crest on his back between his wings, made up of randomly protruding scales. His teeth are like knives with the long, sharp sides facing the back of his throat.
Occupation: Travels the farthest reaches of space and Hell with Suka to satisfy his impulse to wander, awaits the day he'll become a general in Hell again.
Clothes: Fishnet tanktop; black leather gloves with dinged red armoring on the backs of the palms, arranged like three large scales; traded his fingernails for technologically enhanced, retractable, black claws about 6" in length; a collar that glows when he transcends to demon form; tight black pants with leather straps going around each leg just under the pelvis and knees, and just above the ankles. Dirty old red Converse shoes, with shiny metal grips on the bottom instead of the regular white rubber ones, steel-toed on the outside, Converse etched into the plate.
Weapon of choice: Modified dagger Olbaid. Olbaid's blade resembles a Wakisashi of sorts. It has four isoceles triangle shapes lined up along the first foot of the front and spine of the blade, to serrate especialy close targets. Has been fashioned to a ten foot handle and the blade has been stretched to three feet. A 5-inch diameter glass ball full of mercury replaces a hilt/handguard.
Attitude: Well, Jam's a bit quiet, and is much more perceptive than he lets on. He's a strategist with emotion, and can be extremely manupilative if and when he wants to. Though he usually walks around with nothing less than a solid lack of emotion on his face, he's very much the same battle-hungry Jam he was as a child, if not much wiser.
Powers: Fire manipulation up to the point of creating golems and the like, control of lesser demons to do his bidding(he's good at it, but would rather do things himself), inhuman grace and speed, demonic strength, can travel to Hell at will, soul consumption(like all the other demons can do, just stick his hand out palm down, and a panicked soul from purgatory will soon be no more than a bit of fuel for him), and can detect one's alignment with heaven/hell.
Likes: Strong demons; cruising the nebulae and starclouds in his ship; Suka; pizza; fresh blood(a taste he picked up from spending so much time in Hell)
Dislikes: People who threaten Suka; the pompous Overlord of the Underworld; peas; angels of any sort
====
Name: Suka
Species: Eagle/Lynx, mostly Lynx
Age: 55
Eye Color: Colored iris is twelve alternating circles of yellow and black, like a target, small pupil. Perfectly white coronae.
Height: 6'0", both forms
Weight- 140 pds(fifteen pounds of deadweight, 125 pounds of muscle)
Hair: Striped white and black(alternating from root to tip), about shoulder-length, hangs in thin gelled strands, or worn in a ponytail held by red metal demon fist.
Fur/Feathers: Short-coat Calico patterned fur, with brown, silver, red, and black. More black than anything else. Tufts of large(varying six to eight inches), black feathers at her shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles. Lynx tail.
Protrusions/Wings: Her wings are large and span about fifteen feet total, with bushy black feathers that grow back in as soon as they fall out. Two red talons stick out from each extreme end of the wingbones. Small(less than an inch) spikes have formed on her back, one per vertebrae. She has short, black fingernails, which naturally sharpen to deadly points. Her toe-talons have formed into retractable black spikes about the size and shape of household nails.
Occupation: Traveling with Jam, selling her handmade armor, studying the Dark Arts.
Clothing: (All of this is custom tailored by Suka herself) Black lace thong and bra, with a white leather coat that cuts off above her waist; a large, bloodred, metal belt fastened loosley at her hips, a large horned skull beltbuckle dominates its front side; baggy white leggings which are banded to her thighs and upper-knees by black leather strips, lace-up leather boots that go to just below her knees, these have thick titanium plates on the insides of the toes and fifty pairs of laceholes; a total of four earrings shaped like an arm, leg, torso, and head, two on each furry ear.
Weapon of choice: Dagger or claws. Her dagger isn't anything special, just a black, unpolished, ten inch long blade with a bloodred, unbreakable tip. The handle is a short, grooved, silver shaft with a four-sided pyramid spike sticking out of the bottom.
Attitude: Quiet and defensive, one usually won't get much out of Suka until she feels comfortable with them, and even then she isn't incredibly talkative, unless someone brings up Hell or the dark arts or a new galaxy being discovered. Then she can go on for hours. She's also very tough to anger, kinda thick-skinned when it comes to most insults...Until you find the right topic; a few negative words about her deceased mother is all it take to have her at your throat, screaming insults and burning your legs off.
Powers: Basically what Jam knows, but she's not as quite as skilled. She can form beautiful armor with twists and curls and spikes, and her weapons are a favorite of many collectors, elegant and simple. She can also manipulate objects around her to her advantage, her maximum lifting capacity is somewhere around 30 tons, so she's not going to be lifting any buildings anytime soon. These powers, though fun and effective, are taxing to her low mana banks.
Likes: Jam, making weapons for weeks at a time, traveling around aimlessly with Jam, blood.
Dislikes: Anchovies, annoying people, string beans, angels.
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If anyone does decide to take this offer I'll be forever in your debt :yayca: