MJ's mad sketchbook

[AmJanky]

Okay, so I'll be the first to admit that I don't draw as much as I used to and when I do it's not always RP related. But I scrounged some my files for some doodles of my current RPboys; they're not all recent or not at all recent. Be warned.

Xel was originally made for another forum, where his arm was a little more refined then it is currently. Also: not me getting left and right confused.



And when trying to fix the left and right issue getting frustrated and never finishing anything.






I'm still looking for a way to draw his face/looks more consistent, but let me woe and whine in adulthood and say that I just do not have it in me to sit down and draw for extended periods of time.

Axel is actually a ver old character that I dusted off and gave an entirely new purpose. I'll see if I can find some old doodles of that and elaborate if any one wants me to. Also, I'm sure I have some art of Ashley lying around, but I can't find it right now. I will add them too when I do.

[El]

IT'S A TREASURE TROVE!!! AAAAAH LOOK AT THEM ALL <3

It's so cool seeing so much Axel art: please DO share even more if you find the older doodles you mentioned! It's very fun seeing how character designs develop over time, what gets held onto and what doesn't etc. (The Ashley stuff too of course! Dapper, colourful man that he is ❤️)

You make faces look so effortless! And braidwork confuses the hell out of me whenever I attempt it on a Gao piece, so seeing it look so cleeeeean in yours makes me envious. I'm especially fond of the pure B+W one, as that cocky/sly expression of his is so endearing. You have such a way with lineart. I believe I've probably said this before, but it's soooo easy to imagine a whole comic in your style. (Sidenote: I love the consistency of your more silly, charming lil chibis and faces throughout - like goofy annotations 😂)

[AmJanky]

First of all, thanks El, your comments always make me smile. As my reply was last time, comic: maybe. Someday. ;n; It means a lot to hear that people think my silly drawing style would work for a comic, tho. <3



I found some more Axel doodles, so I'll start with those. My traditional sketching is a lot less neat and refined.
Note to self: Left, Axel's missing arm is on the left.
I will never learn to keep left from right and vice versa.





Anyway, in comes Ashley.


(Based on this this.)





Mabes and Ash will have to interact at some point, here's m both in unfinished doodles.




AND WELL, cause I promised... Let me preface this... These make me sorta kinda cringe now. A lot.
But it was around 2007, and I was drawing all of the cool shit, lol.
Here's the bunch of characters Axel used to hang out with. Back then he was called Mech, cause I guess he was a mechanic? As made in Paint.


Glorious.

[LuckyBlackCat]

How do you get the colour blending so perfect, with the light and the shadows? Looks amazing! What program do you use?

Also, love how intricate the prosthetic arm is! You got the ancient Sheikah tech design down to a tee, including the orange and blue contrast, it's obvious the arm is made of Guardian parts. And speaking as someone who finds hairstyles (especially braids) an absolute nightmare to draw, you did a great job with the hair, right down to the loose wisps!

Yeah it's easy to get disheartened and frustrated while drawing, but you have real skill and should definitely keep at it!

[El]

"I made a booboo and I am not going to fix it"
transitioning straight into
"UUGH I have to fix iiiiit"
-cracked me up way more than it probably should've 🤣 How incredibly relatable.

Seeing the marker colours on the Axel portrait is really cool! I'm a fan of how you handle them - and would like to see more of that if you ever get the time and energy 👀 It makes me so nostalgic for the character art of older games from baaaack in the daaaaay

AND THE SASS-! THE DRAMA! THE STYLE of all these Ashley drawings!! Every pose and posture detail ooooozes his personality 👏 I love how much of these pages look like something straight out of a fashion catalogue too - so apt. (The snooty looking down his nose through his low-set glasses is perfect too, though of course nothing steals the show like literally BLASTING THROUGH A DOOR - I guffawed.)

Plus art from 2007?!! Maaaan, that must be peak nostalgia for you, looking at it. The fact that you went right in and tackled that whole crew of characters in one image is commendable. And the very last Axel drawing makes me ask so many questions: that pose, that expression, he's surely up to something 👀

[AmJanky]

First things first: I use an old version of photoshop. Too cheap to update from CS6. I only use the standard rounds in yee olde potatshop and futz to get the blending.
Are there brushes for that? Yes.
Am I stubborn? Also, yes.
Sometimes I futz around in Drawpile or Autodesk's sketchbook.


<3 thanks for your lovely comments, by the way. I come back to read them from time to time.


ANYWAY: I have recently filled another sketchbook and it's been a while since my last doodledump. So here's some doodles from that sketchbook that are relevant and some things I have kept from even the people who have been subjected to my doodledumps since forever.


Lemme introduce Collin in the most Collin way I possibly can:
(incidentally the other two are Yanai and Mellani, you may know them better as Mabel and Ashley's dad and mom)


They used to hunt monsters together.


He's simply my lovely little idiot that does things.








You *know* Ashley strutted that stuff at Yuletide.




What would be the first thing you'd do after regaining an *actual* hand?
Axel knows. (I also hate that I made the same boo-boo and only realized as I am posting this. I am not going to mirror this either, cause I know that won't end well.)


To redeem myself a little, I can sometimes keep my lefts from my rights.


But for now he's got a clawmachine-grabber to deal with. Keep dreaming, tho, Xel.

[El]

My goodness the way you manage to inject soooo much personality into EVERY drawing?!! It makes your whole cast so easy to love and so full of life 🥰 (And of course the equally as consistent humour is just as charming 😂❤️ especially that darned lil ball of prickly-sass, Collin!)

I would say that Ashley deserves to star in his own Hyrulean Vogue magazine, but then I got distracted by that sexy backshot of Axel's shoulders 👀 Sorry, Axel, I know I should be appreciating the new arm instead

[Sav'saaba]

I just realized I have yet to reply to this thread; a big, fat, shame on me. A thread that makes me very happy and that I will gawk at and there's nothing you can do about it.

Your poses are just the best, you express so much with the body language you draw for each separate character. I am still desperate for that comic one day. I'll wait forever like a scruffy mutt in front of a pizza parlor.

I have a crush on all your dolls. ;n; And I don't deserve you drawing mine all the time too!

That Axel checking out his new arm (haha don't be silly how could that ever be) is probably my favorite of this latest batch if I HAVE to pick, from the posing and his comment my heart to the silly little cheeb being absolutely vulgar Axel I thought better of you what would your gramps think.

<3 I'll be lurking.

[AmJanky]

Here we are; with me screaming into the void hoping something eventually gives and I am either inevitably swallowed by said void, or - who knows - I might actually stop screaming long enough to finish a drawing for once. I know the latter is far less probable. But I keep a hoard and I am once again reminded to share said hoard.

Thus; May I welcome thee to the latest installment of: I don't know what I am doing; I never have! (I will never not draw these boogers, so y'all are suffering with me)

First up, we got some Keeks. She's basically her dad in miniature and he doesn't quite know if he should be proud or scared of/for her.









If ever I feel a need to draw a pretty lady in a dress Zir is my go to. I just can't not.



Another thing I can't not is put one on Collin if I feel like it, sue me, he looks gorgeous.



And it runs in the family.



And because I fully realize that none of that is in any way finished and truly does not deserve to be called anything other than doodles, I'll make up with another doodle.

[El]

Oh hush you, regardless of how finished or not they are, every one of these is OOOZING charm as always 🥰

The family dynamics with Collin are so adorable!!! The ones with Kio especially pull at all my heartstrings 😭❤️ (She sounds and looks like a delightful menace). And all these teases of Saba's Inzir REALLY make me hopeful that she'll show up IC sometime soon!! Looks to me like she handles Collin very well 👏 And I wanna know about their story! How they met, how it went, how it's going - gimme all the tea plz. (Her outfit looks gorgeous too 👀 A lot of tasty layering and accessorising in that earlier drawing.)

 ...She doesn't upstage Collin and Ashley(?) though 👏😂 These guys are ROCKING their dragon fits. They look soooo goood on the male figure.

Thank you sharing! Scrolling over these gems always makes me feel like I'm peeping into a character's diary 🥰