These are characters developed for my new webcomic, Nexus Neighborhood. The models were created in Blender 3D with some basic composite nodes. The dark black lines were added later in the GIMP.

I love the idea of drawing freehand. I imagine it is freeing to have an immediate result unfiltered by various computer programs. But instead, I am making a model in 3D and applying a more 2D style in an image editor. I wonder if that is a disadvantage to the expressiveness and overall quality. I have to go through several different programs and techniques, akin to picking up a pencil in a spacesuit.

Whatever the production, I am satisfied with the end result. Now I feel it is more important to get this thing off the ground – the project, technique, and style can change once up in the air.