SEM Rambles Here

Did you know that it starts getting light out at like 4:30 in the morning here?

Other favorite characters not drawn because I should go to sleep now:

• Ezio (actually really the whole gaggle of Auditores) ((oh and Shaun and Rebecca))
• Azami/Blaster/Yuuya/other Hatoful Boyfriend folk
• The rest of the cast of Psychonauts basically
• Alyx and Dr. Kleiner and Gordon Freeman and Dr. Vance and okay you get the point
• Turrets and Wheatley
• Jake Peril because I would have to design him and Wes Reckless and yeah that one’s a bit obscure
• Cast of VVVVVV because shut up I love VVVVVV and like the characters so much it’s got great writing for short interactions
• Age of Mythology Chiron and HIS DEATH WAS BULLSHIT GAME AND YOU KNOW IT
• The cast of Left 4 Dead 2 (yes even Coach why does Coach get no love) and Louis from Left 4 Dead

I JUST REALLY LIKE CHARACTERS

animuspanthera replied to your post: Someone tell me what to draw

Um, um, FAVORITE VIDEO GAME CHARACTER GO.

Okay here are a few sketches off the top of my head because I can’t just choose one

Chell and GLaDOS (Portal series): natch

Barney Calhoun (Half-Life 2, Episode One): Let me tell you about my fictional boyfriend

Sander Cohen (BioShock): Oh my precious melodramatic messed up fucker holy hell I love and despise and love to despise Sander Cohen

Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello (Psychonauts): Actually every character in Psychonauts is my favorite, but these are my most favorite. Also did you know that Psychonauts characters are really hard to draw when you’re doodling at 4 in the morning while watching Gargoyles?

gingerybiscuit:

i cannot wait until i have the time to finish this series i have like TWELVE EPISODES LEFT come ON

ryley-stbatman:

Top 50 Modern Comic Artists - Mike Mignola

malebeautyinart:

Loki and Sigyn

Mårten Eskil Winge

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dear-photograph:

Dear Photograph,

Sometimes the only way to bring your mom along when you leave home to study abroad is to put her photo, from 26 years ago, in your back pocket and take it along to that same place. I hope this put a smile on her face knowing we were in some way together even though we were miles apart.

Sofia

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Aaaahhhhh no I forgot about that nnnnnooooooo

Fun fact I’ve always had this weird relationship with writing

Like I hated writing until someone told me that I could just write like I spoke

This is part of the reason I hate writing technical stuff (that and the panic about graded papers determining my future)

I also remember in like sixth or seventh grade we had to write a story that was supposed to be like two pages long

But I wrote eight and the teacher didn’t want to accept it

And because I normally never wrote my dad talked to the teacher and convinced her that she should read it because it was like the longest thing I had ever written

I vaguely remember the plot and I remember that the names involved spelling things backwards

Middle school writing why

Why

w h y

Reading more of my old writing

Why was I allowed near a computer

Why was I allowed paper and a pencil

Why was I allowed to have a grasp of any language ever

laurbits:

1) Give them at least one defining characteristic.

2) Give them an origin story.

3) Make sure they talk in a distinctive fashion.

4) Avoid making them paragons of virtue, or authorial stand-ins.

5) Anchor them to a particular place

6) Introduce them twice — the first time in the background, the second in the foreground.

7) Focus on what they mean to your protagonists

8) Give them an arc — or the illusion of one.

9) The more minor the character, the more caricature-like they may have to be.

10) Decide which supporting characters you’ll allow to be forgettable after all.

Debatable points but well-worth noting down. 

(Source: io9.com)