Methinks it may be art time again.
I've wanted to drawn/write a comic for aaaages. Most attempts have been half-hearted and short lived. Most of them end up evolving wonderful complex story-lines in my head, and never making it onto paper because it's too hard/I'm having issues with my abiities/I just plain suck. This one, hopefully, will work. It's set some time in the future, about 200 years ago. Several other planets have been terraformed and interplantery space travel is quite common, as are things like bionic implants and things like that. For a comparison, the setting is somewhat Cowboy Bebop meets Firefly, via Ghost in the Shell and skimming through various other works of science-fiction on the way. But hopefully without being TOO much like any of them. It centers on a group of thieves/confidence tricksters/general wrongdoers who work together for the goal of shiny riches.
These here are four of the characters I'm working on for it. Two of them I'm sure are familiar ;) (All the textures are from either
http://www.cgtextures.com or
http://mayang.com/textures)
(Click thumbnail for full view)Saida! (which has my own made up pronunciation which is somewhat like cider but more er... up at the end. More of an "uh!" than and "uhr".) Oh, the fun we shall have with her. She's wry, sarcastic and cynical along with having a bad attitude and a dodgy moral compass. She'll steal anything that isn't nailed down, and some things that are if there's time to remove the nails. Her hair's all down and normal here, but I think she's one of those characters that messes with their hair style a lot as a solitary concession to their femininity.
(Click thumbnail for full view)Calliope originally had sort of rose-gold hair. But then I decided that was silly and was as good as a neon sign saying "I am not human" which is not a good thing to have when you're an android wanted for vicious murder. She's a slightly doolally android at that. She's one of 18, and the only one of the prototype run to have been given a sort of conscience. Of course the ability to philosophize about the nature of right and wrong made her a fairly ineffective tool, so her creators tried to get rid of that ability. They never succeeded in erasing it from her memory, but the numerous reinitializations of her operating system have given her an unstable personality. She is not actually guilty of the murder she (along with the rest of the prototypes, the difference is that most of them
did do it.) is wanted for. Saida allows her and Rhesus (another of the androids) to stick around as her pension plan.
(Click thumbnail for full view)Daniel, who looks hauntingly familiar I'm sure because he's a shameless rehash of Pip. He's been Saida's best friend since they were 5, and probably the only person who willingly puts up with her attitude for any amount of time. He's a botanist who works on terraforming. He's very intelligent, but horribly scatterbrained so keeps a large portion of his memory on post-it notes and in his lab assistant's head (who I think may have to be short and red-haired as a homage to the years of Unplugged). He's considered a bit eccentric because he chooses to wear glasses in an age where eyesight can be corrected easily without surgery. He also talks to his plants at length and often more than he does to people.
(Click thumbnail for full view)Epiphany only recently popped up, so I'm not entirely sure what I'll be doing with her, if I even keep her. She's about 13 and an orphan who runs away from her carers and stows away on the ship cause she thinks the life of crime is glamorous and adventurous and other words ending in orous, and so much more exciting than growing up to be a clerk or something. The realities are something of a shock to her.
But y'know, since it's me, Queen of the lazy and unmotivated, it'll probably stay as just random drawings and stories in my head.
