Recent content by SoldieringIron

Font update Been plugging away at things, but it's mostly been tedious work. Halfway done with the font I'm hand-drawing for this project. With the lower case done it's time to move onto capitals. Not every letter will be used, but I can save these files for future projects or in case I want...

First full-map sketch Had some time to do a sketch of the map layout today. This helped to iron out the differences between the slightly contrasting geographies and symbol locations. I'll wait to draw the full-scale coastlines until as late as possible for two reasons: 1) I want to make sure no...

Yes, there are a number of other symbols. I'll be looking at some different options for those.

Day 2 Did some more research yesterday and learned some interesting new things. Although Castle in the Sky was an original story written by Miyazaki, there have been several books released related to and expounding on the story or setting. The first was an art book of high quality cell scans...

I'll draw the shape of the land-masses by hand, then take it into Photoshop to clean and color it. In addition, I plan to write out all the text by hand. Making extra work for myself. The drawing of the actual map should be one of the easiest things when all's said and done. It's not incredibly...

Watched this movie again recently at a friend's, and I noticed something new (shouting and making my friend pause the film): a beautiful and strange map in the private quarters of the senior pirates aboard the Tiger Moth (Death Chicken). I knew I had to take a hand at replicating it, but it's...

Not just the McFarland, the manga shows an enormous amount of bullet-holes, although the duster is also much thicker looking in the manga in my opinion (like possibly made entirely of leather) and holds its shape despite the holes. Yasuhiro Nightow's artwork is astounding from front to back.

I absolutely love Team Fortress 2 (especially the Soldier class) and decided to create this humorous buffoon's helmet. The body of the helmet is an actual M1 steel pot helmet repainted, while the two straps (which on the actual game character are useless and connect to nothing) are genuine...