002: Diddling with Deji

...And yes, I am still horribly aware of how that sounds. XD;

Once again, I'm up obscenely late. I'm having stupendous amounts of trouble sleeping as of late, especially as I am thinking so much all the fucking time about my art, what I've missed out on, what I need to learn and what I need to focus on, progress with, etc. All of which have come to the forgone conclusion that- quite obviously- as much as I do enjoy drawing Sonic the Hedgehog and related goodies. 1. It's little to zero challenge to do now. Things like NINETEEN didn't provide too much of a challenge other than managing my time on the project as a whole and getting it done on time- in fact, hell, the only thing I learned was when tackling something of that magnitude, do not wait a week prior. 2. I love him, but there's only so many places you can take the concept. 3. The ideas running around my head interest me more, but it does scare me at the same time. There's very much a portion prevalent in me that thinks I won't be able to achieve anythng, but when I do tackle the scraps of concepts I have here and there I'm like "Oh hey, I'm actually not too damn bad at this at all!"

I'm saying all this because once again, late nights bring two things for me: The need to draw and the need to muse over things. Tonight I went back and tackled anthro again; Dejiiko is probably the only solid character I have in my series of originals, all of which whom- like her- will need a total overhaul. Whilst at the same time, tweaking the anthro style so that it's a little less anime, a bit more Western cartoon, with 'me' still very much being in there. The only things stopping me at present are my own limits of what I am able to draw, so I'm trying to break that mould, in that sense. For a while I didn't think I was able to achieve it, until I started work on Dejii tonight, and had one of those crystalline moments again.

Dejiiko's Mini Expression Sheet experiment

...So far, I think the mission is being achieved. I'm pretty proud of myself right now! Will most likely post a larger version of this on deviantART in the future if I feel happy enough to, but as far as original stuff is concerned, I know that 'Tanuki' needs an overhaul, as does Halsentea (probably both with new names), which is gonna be hard work as Dejiiko is an amalgamation of all of their design elements. So... Fff. I'll see how this works out.