Post some art from the projects you can't start yet

[rajillustration]

So I dunno about you, but I have to focus on one comic at a time, and so I get ideas for other projects that I really love, and I do the scripts for em, and I even do a bunch of art for it--but I know I can't actually truly work on the project for...a long time. Like, it'll probably be well over a year before I ever post a darn episode of this project. And I don't think I'm alone in having a world that is on the tip of my brain, some OC's that I'm really excited about, but currently only live in a bunch of sketches on my computer and in my sketchbooks.

So, this thread is an outlet for that energy--to get out your need to post OC's and rough concept art for projects you can't start for forever, but you really need to talk a little about so that way you can get back to your main project and move on with your life.

Here's something from my sketches of a project about a human who pretends to be a monster by wearing bunny ears and has a weird boyfriend. And...that's really all I can say about it right now because it's hella shelved. Will she have anime eyes in the final? probably not? Will it be painted or lineart? Who knows? I don't know if she'll dress Lolita either, I just liked it for now.

There's a bear in it? I dunno. It talks.

But whew it feels good to have talked about it. How about you? Any passion projects completely distracting you from your main priority projects?

[Kelheor]

These two comics (main heroes from both). I will do my best to finish concept art and start drawing layout for them at least Will try to do it in the spring, hardly any time for this yet. Both are a kinda sci-fi and action, so this fact is slowing me too

[joannekwan]

This family
Like I have the characters down pat, and ideas for some scenarios, but I don't have a really solid plot for them.
I'm currently working on the basis that the timeline of the story would be with the girl as a young adult, and she would be trying to break away from her two co-parent dads. But then I get these really nice moments of her at various phases in her younger life (like here) and I'm at a loss over what to do with them.

Another idea is about these two jackal-wolf things, but the strongest idea I have for them is mainly their aesthetic and the fact that they live in a chateau fading from its glory days on a really weird island. They adopt a daughter, who is the audience's segue into discovering the craziness, but like above I don't have a solid plot.

So these projects are shelved indefinitely (among a few others) until I get that lightbulb moment for each of them.

[DualDragons]

Oh boy now it's gonna happen, time for me to unleash my concepts on this thread!

Here's the mc for my future project! And yes she has an axe! She'll take place in a story that's fantasy to a degree but maybe a little less than the one i have now.

Traditional doodle:

Expressions because i love them:

More expressions Ovo:

[darthmongoose]

I have a concept for a sort of videogamey/D&D feeling tongue-in-cheek Fantasy comic or game that plays with ideas and expectations that come from the typical tropes and mechanics of the genre.
It's about a half-orc-half-elf-or-something barista at a coffee shop called Yond who joins an adventuring party.
I really like these characters, but the actual concept is undercooked; it needs a proper plot. Parody is hard to do well without feeling like you're just going over the same ground as everyone else, especially after 5th edition and Critrole made D&D's popularity explode so now everyone and their dog has a comic like this.

[Kelheor]

Bea kinda looks like if Lina Invers and Zelgadis had a child and I cannot unsee it now I wonder what her colors are

[nostalgicroxas]

Not a comic but a novel... Trying to still work out the details of the actual story so I don't go in blind.. Mainly it's about this .... let's call him an alien... that falls to the planet from the sky and he's hit by the planet's plague (cause duh no immunity sort of) and some other stuff.. and he... has... magical electrical life sort of powers. Sort of. Hard to explain. ^^;;

[darthmongoose]

Bea kinda looks like if Lina Invers and Zelgadis had a child and I cannot unsee it now I wonder what her colors are

Haha! Good spot! That sort of 90s anime and RPG fantasy aesthetic of stuff like Slayers was a big influence on the design. I always loved how Lina Inverse is this tiny character who has a big costume with this huge cloak and big shoulderpads and a theatrical look to make herself look bigger and more impressive. I wanted that kind of energy for Beansprout (and also I just adore that aesthetic).
Her colours I think were going to be something like black, white and gold? Sort of evoking Dark Knight Cecil from Final Fantasy IV.

[akemikae]

I have a series I've had planned since like....2006, but it's really complicated, and requires drawing skills I just don't quite have yet. So I just keep designing characters and getting plots sorted out. I'll get to this series one day.

[IndigoShirtProd]

I really want to make a morbid, but playful four panel daily comic about these ghost kids. I don't have enough time to think of more ideas for what they would do in the comic.

I also showed off some characters for a magical girl story a little while ago here with a description:

About a month ago, I came on here to talk about magical girls because I wanted to make a team of my own. I'm really thankful for everyone who responded in that topic which you can find here: I also want to thank those who voted in another thread about the color scheme for one of the characters: All of that got the creative juices flowing and I was able to come up with a concept and characters within the month. Now I want to share them here: [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] S…

It would be a huge endeavor and I just don't have time for it, but here's some art anyway.

[Iris-Grimoire]

hhhhh absolutely my case every few days.

I have an idea for a comic set as a distant DISTANT sequel from Splitting Image, tentatively called Truth Be Told, in a different country but affected by the events and using the magic system. By default, I can't start it, but I constantly catch myself making scenes, characters, everything, and I hope I don't do something stupid until I'm at least doing multiple pages a week for SI.

The story is a nymph on her last year of magic university. Inex isn't doing badly, but everyone is concerned by how aloof she is and how she doesn't seem to have any objectives in life other than ticking the list of Adult Things To Do. But when her only friend is taken over by something that summons a giant obsidian egg on campus, she ends up meeting up with other classmates from her Demonology class and discover a mysterious split transforming artifact, that can reveal the egg's secret if put back together. It would have magical girl inspirations with a ton of modern subversions and generally using adults rather than teens, and some extra things about each character to tie in with the theme of hidden truths.

This is also relevant to no one here, but it's also the first attempt to put an old OC of mine into a story finally. I tried tons of things with her, that blue dragon, and this is the first one where I can say 'yes, she'll play off the cast and setting perfectly'. But maybe in a few years.

[Shanny8]

Havent started visuals for the project I "cant start" yet. Going to start working on visuals as soon as the arm issues die down...I made the logo for it, and a lot of the "making visuals" process is generally me updating some old OCs from when I last drew them- which was in the early-mid 90s.

[Prometheus]

I have some concept art for a manga I’ll be doing later this year, hopefully. But at the moment it’s distracting me from finishing my novel. So I’m taking small amounts of time throughout my weeks to at least get concepts down. So I’m working on it in the background while my novel gets completed.
The guy below is a villain - an uncle to the main character. His first sketch looked WAY different, but I’m liking the direction I’m going with him.

[kaetana]

Most of my backburner projects I don't have a lot of recent art for sadly.

I have an ancient Egyptian based fantasy setting that a friend and I started designing back in high school. I was working on an RPG Maker game set in that for a while but eventually got burned out on it. I'd like to do something with the setting some day, whether that be actually completing the game or making something comic-based instead.

I also had a story I was writing for a while based around a changeling character I played in a DnD campaign (I'm predictable, I know lol) that I'd like to come back to some day when I'm up for the more detailed writing needed for the novel format.

[rajillustration]

oo I am quite fond of the aesthetic in the jackal-wolf one. I love comics that get stylized and illustrative like that.

[Rhonder]

I used Inktober (and the period right beforehand) a few months ago as an excuse to practice and get used to some of the new characters that will be showing up in TH!! Season 2. So they're not super far into the future, but I can't get back to scripting right away. In the middle of a large commission currently, and another side project may or may not pop up in a week here... so until then, ta-da~

None of these have much of anything to do with the plot since I was just following the prompts for most of them, but they were a lot of fun to do!

[RCGates]

I like comedy comics, and this one was going to be a horror comedy of a shapeshifter, zombie, and demoness living together in an abandoned asylum.

[Freemints30]

Until I finish my big current comic I will not not start drawing this one. Simply because I want my art style to improve before I start this project. Which is essentially a hard reboot of a 3 chapter comic I made in high school. I have currently scripted 17 chapters out of 42 so I still have a long way to go
Its a paranormal mystery about the strange behavior and disappearances in a small town all involving the strange localized static on the tv.

[desirulz123]

I want to make a WereWolf GL comic but I need to write a decent plot first. here is a concept sketch.

[spadesart]

this is kinda weird but i would LOVE to adopt a comic based on disney's 1983-1998 journey into imagination ride. i have a plot for a potential first season already, the issue is just that my schedule is overflowing.