Page 10, Character Sheet

Chapter One of Rose With Thorns is now complete! Page 10 has been released today, concluding our introduction to our main character. Rose's abilities may seem random now, but in due time their origin will be revealed both to the reader and to her. I'm not uploading it without the text since there's no speech bubbles to cover anything.

I also finally did an outfit and color sheet for Thatch. His attire will change as the story goes on (as will Rose's), but this is a good start. He actually won't appear until Chapter Three.

Character Design: "Rose" and "Charlie"

Within the coming week, I am going to be officially starting a webcomic titled "Rose With Thorns". This blog will start to update more frequently when that happens, as I'll be providing the links to pages as they are released on Wordpress.

Before then, however, I thought I'd share the designs of two of the (so far) three major characters that the comic revolves around.

This is Rose, the title character. She's a seventeen year old girl from a troubled home.

This is Charlie, a half-Native American man that Rose meets after running away from home.

Cover art concepts and an initial first page were posted on the blog quite a while ago, but they'll be completely redone for this.

Character Rotation - Bit

Character rotations are a fascinating part of the design process, especially when one of the views requires leaving out the character's arm. They're also challenging, but in an enjoyable.

This is a character I created quite a while ago, and though it's not apparent here she's half alien and half human. She goes by "Bit" and works as a mechanic. If this was in color she'd have purple skin and poppy red hair.

Captain Ralph - Character Expression Sheet

Back in 2007 I took Illustration II. One of our assignments was a character head turn and expression sheet. I absolutely loved it. Captain Ralph here was abducted by a time-travelling restaurant manager who wanted an authentic mascot for his sea food chain.