A Bunch of Stuff

So I thought to myself "Hey, Freak!"

"Yeah?"

"You know, you've got a bunch of pencil crayons you never use."

"So?"

"Maybe you shoud, I dunno, use 'em, or something."

"Why?"

"I dunno.  'Cause they're there?  And it'd be fun?"

"Yeah, I guess."

(Note:  conversation may not have happened exactly as depicted.)

Anyway, for a bit of a change of pace I decided to do a drawing in colour:

And of course, I drew Gillin, probably my most-drawn FR character.  I used a set of Prismacolour pencil crayons (yeah, the brand name is spelled without the "u", but as a card-carrying Canadian, I'm physically incapable of spelling it anything other than "colour").  Not sure if I really like working with pencil crayons or not - it's a bit grainy and I'm not sure if that's the nature of pencil crayons, the texture of the paper I'm using or inexperience (or some combination thereof).  Maybe I'll try again at some point with different paper and see if it makes a difference.

Moving on... we come to another of my FR characters, but one that has not previously appeared in this blog.

This is Merv J. - I've never really decided on what the "J" stand for.  He's a merchant, part-time antique collector and fancies himself something of an adventurer (spoiler:  he's not, really).  The orb-like object he's shown holding is one of his prize antiques.

And lastly for today are some design-type sketches of The Word Smith:

The goals here, more than anything, was to try to establish a bit more of a consistent construction for the character so most of the construction lines have been left in.  Not sure how successful I was in that.  Also, a couple of random hands, just because.

That's all for today.  Until next time,
Freak Out
-TFitC