Once again, it’s been a while since I’ve posted any old school “Hominids” drawings. I figured since Chapter 4 just ended and thing were looking bleak, I would post some drawings of the characters having a little fun.
You’ll notice in a lot of these old drawings they all wore war paint. I didn’t want to go in that direction for the comic so I gave the Tree People defined pigment instead. This still gives them all a unique flavor while also helping differentiate the species.
In case you’re wondering what that faded shape is above the characters, it’s an AT-AT Walker I drew on the other side of the paper.
I found these oldies in some of my homework from junior high. There is something to be said for keeping all your drawings, even the terrible ones. You can look at what you knew at the time and how much you still needed to learn. I have a huge pile of papers stretching from 6th grade to college. Every once in a while I go through them and find little gems that I forgot all about. This last time I found a lot of old Hominids drawings. I pulled them all out and will be updating the site every week again with all those old classics.
As I grew a little older I started getting more comfortable drawing females so characters like Sno and Lye became more prominent.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted any old “Hominids” art. To be honest, growing up, there was a long while where I did very little with this world. I’d moved on to other ideas and creations. It wasn’t until I started the comic where these character returned to the forefront of my mind. However, from time to time I would revisit them thinking it’d be fun to update them to age I was at.
This is a piece I did in high school. I was doing a lot of experimenting back then. Although Icari is classically inked with markers and pens, I cut him out of the paper and glued his body to cardboard to raise him off the canvas for a bit of a 3D look. Then I colored the background in colored pencil to push it back.
You’ll notice this is a far stronger, more confident Icari. You may also notice a certain tattoo on his arm that he doesn’t have in the comic. Might we meet this Icari sometime in the future?
I still like this piece considering my skill level at the time.
There comes a point in a lot of these drawing that you can tell I’m turning that age where girls get noticed in a different way. So many of these are just fantasies on paper.
When you’re only 12 years old and you’re trying to teach yourself how to draw, there is nothing better then to learn from the professionals all around you. I copied more comic covers and panels then I think I could count! It was a really good way for me to figure out how to pose a character or provide some weight. If only I had thought to do that with backgrounds too, but like every young artist, all I wanted to do was draw characters!
This particular plagiarism came from an early issue of Sam Keith’s the Maxx. Here is the original drawing:
You can call it cheating if you copy this stuff as an adult (and many artists do). As a kid growing up though, it’s all inspiration and learning. Thanks Keith!
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Growing up I didn’t draw the female characters much. They were really just supporting cast for the boys. What can I say, I didn’t really know anything about girls at the time. This actually presented me with a nice opportunity to make these character far more fresh and original. Trust me, you don’t want to know some of their original names. The only ones that stayed close were Sno, her name was Snowball before, and Lye. Her name is the only thing that is from the old days though. The rest of her is completely new.
These drawings we’re fun because it was the first time I tried to define them on their own as independent, strong characters. It’s almost strange to see them covered up. They suddenly feel more objectified when you put them in native bikinis. That could just be me though.
Digging though some of my old piles of paper, I stumbled upon some real old drawings. I thought they were pretty fun and worth sharing. Enjoy and see you all on Tuesday with a new page of “Hominids“!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted old “Hominids” drawings. To be frank, I was having a hard time finding them all. So many of them ended up in different places. Fortunately, the other day I found the mother load! A huge stack of forgotten drawings.
This was one of the first drawings I did playing with markers. I believe I was probably about 14. I love it because the characters are just hanging out and having fun.
I’m a little late with this post. I’m not sure how many people are checking out this section anyways. If you are, let me know what you think of these old drawings and if you like to see them posted here.
This drawing cracks me up a bit. First off, you can’t really see anything. I might as well have just colored my entire paper black. If you can tell what’s going on then you’ll know Keyli is trying to coax Sno into going for a midnight swim with him. The part that cracks me up is that Keyli looks totally creepy. This should be a really fun, playful moment and all I can think is, ‘No Sno! Don’t get in the water with that creeper!”
By the time I was 14 and 15 I wasn’t drawing Natives much anymore. There were other stories and characters that I was playing with at that time. This was the first time I drew the characters in an updated form, maturing them.
At the same time I was drawing a ton and almost never finished a drawing, thus the random legs sitting on the rhino.
