Digital Dragons, Book One

Digital Dragons is a comic book project created with Minecraft (including several mods) and Comic Life 3. Born from a half-joke/half-desperation move to break me out of another prolonged bout of writer's block, as well as conveniently justify continuing my Minecraft addiction, the comic tells of the first few days of "Sharkerbob" seemingly awakening into his Minecraft avatar, whereupon he becomes stuck in the world of the game! Yes, it's just about the most cliché premise you could think of for a Minecraft "fan fic", but it fits the conceit of the game well enough, and made for an easy jumping off point for wacky early-game shenanigans. As improvised dialogue and characters, I also did not set up anything about the environment ahead of time (aside from one plot-relevant detail), so Sharkerbob's responses are real-time reactions to my own exploration of the area, making for some great organic writing.

This was a really fun project, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed making it!

The comic has been saved as a PDF format, which you can download here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pJRZMOpaYo56VDtdX2YZUQwuVuQq9UaE/view?usp=share_link

You can also click "Read More" to read the comic here on-site!

Strange Shore

Painted this on a lunch break. Not entirely sure what effect I was going for here. This was done in Procreate, which has a lot of interesting "special effects" brushes, a few of the Elemental set you can see here. They are fun looking brushes, but I honestly find I don't really have much use for them normally, so I decided to see what I could get out of them.

Haysius Applecorn

Another concept sketch for a random character. I swear, I had a really hilarious name for this girl, but I wasn't able to write it down, and forgot it by the time I was able to draw her! Oh well. Also, I decided at the last minute to give her one of the Scythes, because why not? Makes more sense for a scarecrow than most of my other character ideas!

Engelika Snozzbury

Felt like doing something overtly toony. While I tend to gravitate towards more "realistic proportions" style of toon character, I'm wondering if I should really try branching into wackier designs.

Dream Wizard

Had an idea for some kind of Dream Wizard who wields a cosmic paint brush. Have tried a few sketches of him. This doesn't quite hit it, but is kinda getting there.

Here's the first version:

Green Bird

 

Super Lady

 

Crazy Jester

 

Had a clown moment.

Some Crazy Card Guy

Really slacking on my drawing again, mostly back down to just doodling stuff. Trying to get myself used to using the iPad, which I'm still kinda iffy on.