Showing posts with label Tryvnah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tryvnah. Show all posts
Sunday, August 18, 2013
The Closest Thing to a Rockstar
I visited Las Vegas recently and it was quite the experience! Between the glamor, stifling desert heat and moral turpitude I found myself thinking the Tryvnah would be right at home. I wanted to take a shot at drawing his full figure, so I took one of my earlier thumb sketches of him and fleshed it out.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
The Price of Being a Daredevil
I was rereading an old roleplay and decided I want to do some sketches of Tryvnah. I created him as a major player in Vahaadi's back story but he doesn't appear as a contemporary in any of my story narratives. Which is kind of a shame, I'm realizing, because he's fun to write.
Tryvnah is a djinni like Vahaadi. He's the animal tamer in the circus troupe that adopted Vahaadi as a young runaway, and he's widely acknowledged as the favorite and likely successor of the troupe ring-leader, Zahar (the huge bird-like creature on the right). He's also quite the daredevil. Between his dangerous performance duties and his hobby in free-running, his life story is readily available in his appearance in the form of multiple scars and injuries. Most notably, he got a little to cocky with one of his beasts and ended up losing most of his left index finger when he was twenty.
In the little thumb sketches I tried to capture more ideas of his personality and interests. Tryvnah's quite a showboat and can seem self-important, but the truth is that he has a very natural self-confidence and a knack for handling just about anything that breathes. He loves animals and is wonderful with children. He considers all strangers potential friends and all friends potential lovers. His talent for leadership, team work, and charisma means that he's quite good at getting what he wants while leading others to believe it was their idea.
As talented as he is, he doesn't always get people to eat from the palm of his hand. His relationship with Vahaadi particularly puts him in some tight positions. In the roleplay I wrote with Evie, he ended up facing off with the notorious bounty hunter Marrik. Tryvnah might not have survived the encounter if Spark hadn't saved his butt!
(as usual, the anatomy is out to lunch)
Here, have an excerpt of the RP:
Tryvnah wasn't given a chance to decide on an action before Marrik lunged at him. Tryvnah barely dodged, and almost gave a hoot of self-congratulations when Marrik swung his staff around and jabbed him with such strength and precision in the small of his back that Tryvnah was sure one of his vertebrae had fractured with the impact. He gasped as the momentum knocked him clean off his feet, and when he hit the surface of the roof flat on his chest all of his breath was forced from his lungs. He gasped for air, pain shivering down his limbs from his jolted spinal column. He tried to get up, but the best he could do was roll onto his side, hissing through his teeth.
Marrik kicked him over so that he was lying face up, planted his foot on Tryvnah's chest, and leaned all of his weight onto it. With his free hand he unclipped a canteen and upended its contents on Tryvnah's face and arms. Tryvnah gasped in surprise and flinched as he was doused.
"Do you know what this is?" Marrik asked, returning the canteen to its place and pulling a needle with a syringe from a pouch. He held it over Tryvnah's face so that he could see it. At first glance, the syringe looked empty, but it was actually filled with a thin clear fluid. Tryvnah looked up at it blearily, but with the pain in his back and the weight of Marrik on his breastbone, was unable to respond. "It's just water," Marrik answered himself, turning the syringe over in his hand with a bored tone in his voice. "Hardly more than a swallow. And yet, Fawzild tells me that's all it takes to kill a djinni. One dose to your bloodstream..." He held the syringe threateningly close to Tryvnah's temple. "For all the legends about your kind, you djinn are so frail."
Tryvnah is a djinni like Vahaadi. He's the animal tamer in the circus troupe that adopted Vahaadi as a young runaway, and he's widely acknowledged as the favorite and likely successor of the troupe ring-leader, Zahar (the huge bird-like creature on the right). He's also quite the daredevil. Between his dangerous performance duties and his hobby in free-running, his life story is readily available in his appearance in the form of multiple scars and injuries. Most notably, he got a little to cocky with one of his beasts and ended up losing most of his left index finger when he was twenty.
In the little thumb sketches I tried to capture more ideas of his personality and interests. Tryvnah's quite a showboat and can seem self-important, but the truth is that he has a very natural self-confidence and a knack for handling just about anything that breathes. He loves animals and is wonderful with children. He considers all strangers potential friends and all friends potential lovers. His talent for leadership, team work, and charisma means that he's quite good at getting what he wants while leading others to believe it was their idea.
As talented as he is, he doesn't always get people to eat from the palm of his hand. His relationship with Vahaadi particularly puts him in some tight positions. In the roleplay I wrote with Evie, he ended up facing off with the notorious bounty hunter Marrik. Tryvnah might not have survived the encounter if Spark hadn't saved his butt!
(as usual, the anatomy is out to lunch)
Here, have an excerpt of the RP:
Tryvnah wasn't given a chance to decide on an action before Marrik lunged at him. Tryvnah barely dodged, and almost gave a hoot of self-congratulations when Marrik swung his staff around and jabbed him with such strength and precision in the small of his back that Tryvnah was sure one of his vertebrae had fractured with the impact. He gasped as the momentum knocked him clean off his feet, and when he hit the surface of the roof flat on his chest all of his breath was forced from his lungs. He gasped for air, pain shivering down his limbs from his jolted spinal column. He tried to get up, but the best he could do was roll onto his side, hissing through his teeth.
Marrik kicked him over so that he was lying face up, planted his foot on Tryvnah's chest, and leaned all of his weight onto it. With his free hand he unclipped a canteen and upended its contents on Tryvnah's face and arms. Tryvnah gasped in surprise and flinched as he was doused.
"Do you know what this is?" Marrik asked, returning the canteen to its place and pulling a needle with a syringe from a pouch. He held it over Tryvnah's face so that he could see it. At first glance, the syringe looked empty, but it was actually filled with a thin clear fluid. Tryvnah looked up at it blearily, but with the pain in his back and the weight of Marrik on his breastbone, was unable to respond. "It's just water," Marrik answered himself, turning the syringe over in his hand with a bored tone in his voice. "Hardly more than a swallow. And yet, Fawzild tells me that's all it takes to kill a djinni. One dose to your bloodstream..." He held the syringe threateningly close to Tryvnah's temple. "For all the legends about your kind, you djinn are so frail."
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Sketch Dump
Just trying to compile and organize some sketches I've had kicking around so I don't have 358724651351 million papers to worry about packing and moving every semester.
An old expression study for my OC Kala
More recent posing, gestures, and hairstyle experiment for Kala
Yet another experiment with Kala's design and style. This was inspired by the work of O-mie. I really like it, but I'm not sure it's going to work for me
This was sort of inspired by an RP with Evie, but I actually mostly wanted to draw Thystle with wet hair
A scruffy, haggard, and furious Vahaadi. This is a scene from his canon story; he's facing off against Iryl and the Heir.
Working on a concept for Vahaadi's fiend form, based on a savannah cat.
Size Comparison of Vahaadi and his fiend form
First piece of concept art for Tryvnah (QUITE old). This is him at age 18, when he and Vahaadi met.
Leimira's ponysona, Snake Charmer (or just Charmer). Her cutie mark is a snake coiled in a heart shape.
Study of Fawn from the Tinkerbell movies. I screencapped a picture of her talking and caught her making this appraising expression.
Bitty chibi Sparks!
I've been meaning to draw Evie's OC Armera for awhile now. I found this thumbnail sketch I did of her to experiment with her pose and build. Evie once wrote her saying something about having arms like tree trunks, so I think she's probably got some sweet guns like Venus Williams, on account of all her swimming and trident-hefting.
Pretty sure this was another attempt at drawing Holly for AC.
Design sketch I did for LC
Steampunk Spark I did for a RP idea pitch. This eventually led into Loose Canon, because this was the first time we considered the idea of Spark getting her powers from Vahaadi instead of a comic-book-esque genetic mutation
And super recent, an unfinished Whirlwind from Skylanders
An old expression study for my OC Kala
More recent posing, gestures, and hairstyle experiment for Kala
Yet another experiment with Kala's design and style. This was inspired by the work of O-mie. I really like it, but I'm not sure it's going to work for me
This was sort of inspired by an RP with Evie, but I actually mostly wanted to draw Thystle with wet hair
A scruffy, haggard, and furious Vahaadi. This is a scene from his canon story; he's facing off against Iryl and the Heir.
Working on a concept for Vahaadi's fiend form, based on a savannah cat.
Size Comparison of Vahaadi and his fiend form
First piece of concept art for Tryvnah (QUITE old). This is him at age 18, when he and Vahaadi met.
Leimira's ponysona, Snake Charmer (or just Charmer). Her cutie mark is a snake coiled in a heart shape.
Study of Fawn from the Tinkerbell movies. I screencapped a picture of her talking and caught her making this appraising expression.
I've been meaning to draw Evie's OC Armera for awhile now. I found this thumbnail sketch I did of her to experiment with her pose and build. Evie once wrote her saying something about having arms like tree trunks, so I think she's probably got some sweet guns like Venus Williams, on account of all her swimming and trident-hefting.
Pretty sure this was another attempt at drawing Holly for AC.
Design sketch I did for LC
Steampunk Spark I did for a RP idea pitch. This eventually led into Loose Canon, because this was the first time we considered the idea of Spark getting her powers from Vahaadi instead of a comic-book-esque genetic mutation
And super recent, an unfinished Whirlwind from Skylanders
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Vahaadi = Spark
I was chatting with Evie and meant to type "Vahaadi + Spark" but I didn't hit the shift and ended up with "Vahaadi = Spark." Personality swap!
Notebook paper for the win.
Notebook paper for the win.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Tryvnah
I don't know why I let my minor characters hog all of my creative brain-space so often, but I do. Here's a fresh sketch of Tryvnah, enhanced with a little Photoshop.
He looks different every time I draw him, but so far I like this version best. He looks like a goofy version of Solid Snake from Metal Gear, hahaha...I can live with that.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
I Just Need Somebody
Evie and I have come to find that Took has Bieber-fever and it cracks us up. As one of her recent posts on her own art-blog she included (at my encouragement/tempting/pleading/goading) a picture of Took singing "Somebody to Love" and I get giggle fits every time I look at it. Evie also said "I’d love/dread to know what he thinks of this," so I doodled up his response!
Yeah...he doesn't really know what to think. I would guess amongst the jumble of indignant/embarrassed thoughts are "I'm going to kill CallyAnn for spilling my secrets" and "please tell me Vahaadi hasn't seen this." Truth be told, I think Took just likes the sound of Justin Bieber's music (maybe because his voice is in his range, hahaha! ) because the lyrics are way too sentimental for him. Took's too in love with himself to need anybody, or so he'd like to think!
Silliness aside, I have one more picture I drew last night that I've decided to post a disclaimer for, since it depicts an ideologically sensitive issue that I don't expect all viewers of my blog to want to see, but it fits the theme of the post and it's a topic that both frustrates and intrigues me. Don't click if you're sensitive to male/male mushy stuff.
This is minor/back-story stuff for Vahaadi, the character on the left. The other man is Tryvnah, a member of the gypsy circus troupe that took in young Vahaadi after he ran away from home. Tryvnah doesn't play any role in the over-arching plot and most likely won't make an appearance, but the bond of rivalry, friendship, and passion that ignited between the two of them means everything to Vahaadi. To him, Tryvnah is the home he could never run away from, the one he won't let go.
 |
| There aren't computers in Took's world...but there's no Justin Bieber in his world either, so this is just for the lulz. Of course, if Took had a computer he'd be too good for a PC. |
Silliness aside, I have one more picture I drew last night that I've decided to post a disclaimer for, since it depicts an ideologically sensitive issue that I don't expect all viewers of my blog to want to see, but it fits the theme of the post and it's a topic that both frustrates and intrigues me. Don't click if you're sensitive to male/male mushy stuff.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)