summary with a dash of backstory

sorry for the massive inactivity lately, things got kinda crazy with moving, work and life in general.

no pictures this time, but i do have an update for you guys.
since i've never actually given a real explanation of the story, and i'm sure you're all like 'what is this madness', now's as good a time as any to try and give a decent summary.
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The story takes place on earth, following a slightly alternate timeline of history to allow for the necessary technology.

‘Aesir’ was begun as a Cold War era project with Soldat. The aim of the project was to create highly specialized/ super soldiers. Soldat was conceived and funded by the Soviet government.

It was eventually decided that Soldat wasn’t providing satisfactory results- too many variables with subjects, high mortality rate, etc., the project was replaced with Aesir. Aesir was meant to be a replacement/ version 2.0 of the original aim of Soldat. By this time the Cold War had ended, the project was continued without Soviet involvement and funded privately.

The initial Aesir experiments were a fusion of human and animal DNA to try to create superior reflexes/ senses, etc. later experiments also returned to the genetically engineered human roots of Soldat.

e were two phases to Aesir- the original experiments (first through fourth generations) at the first lab which were eventually scrapped as prototypes, and the fifth generation which yielded more satisfactory results and effectiveness.

The labs where Soldat/Aesir take place are in Germany (no specific location yet, but probably somewhere in the area that was East Germany). Currently have the lab/company going by Schützen (been renamed about as often as some of the characters, but schützen seems to be sticking for now lol)

current character roster (if only to get it down in one coherent list instead of all over the blog) :
Soldat: Maverick, Sin, Mishka, Andrei
Aesir generation 1-4: Vidar, Skoll, Vili, Hel, Loki
Aesir generation 5: Skade, Huginn, Muninn
and as was mentioned in a previous post, there are various other background/ KIA before the story characters that haven't really popped into existence yet
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hopefully this explained some things (and made sense while doing it)
questions about anything that wasn't explained here? feel free to drop a question here or the fanpage about it

little tidbits

massive upload ahoy!

first up is a couple sketches of Vili, now that he actually has a face.

nest is the result of me getting bored and drawing everyone (everyone who currently has a character design anyway) as a chibi. and put some personality traits/ quirks/ general info with them, instead of being super vague like usual.

why do you looks so wrong with both your arms Mishka?








Skoll's always so pathetic looking
and his scar changed









and that's all for now

small update is small

some more working out Vidar's new design. and some partially cut off notes to myself lol.

don't really have much else to add this time, other than the internet apparently didn't want this update to happen.

twins and tangents

what's this, more new faces? they would be Huginn (left) and Muninn (right).

now for a small explanation tangent;
the Aesir experiments- Vidar, Skoll, Hel, Loki, and Skade- previously had the designations of units 01-05 to indicate which prototype/experiment they were (these designations haven't been used on the blog). this has recently been changed slightly to account for there probably being more prototypes/experiments interspersed in there.

Generation 01- first round of prototypes: where Vidar fits in, along with others that most likely won't survive to the main point of the story (once they're eventually spawned). eventually discontinued due to a lack of satisfactory results.
Generation 02: Skoll, and eventually others. also discontinued.
- the first two generations attempted to mix human and animal genes. discontinued when the resulting experiments couldn't successfully pass as human/desired traits or abilities weren't achieved.
Generation 03: Hel, Vili (no design for him yet). this generation used more human subjects but tried to artificially produce psychokinetic abilities. ended because successful results were too hit-or-miss.
Generation 04: Loki, and probably others. final prototype round and a mixture of the forst three generations, eventually discontinued when results plateau.
Generation 05: Skade, Huginn & Muninn. first final/non-prototype round.

hopefully that either made a little bit of where the madness is going, or atleast placed some of the characters in relation to each other.


and a colored version of half of Mishka's comparison sketch from a while ago.
posting it now because it's been siting on my files for a while and i'm not sure when i'll get around to finishing the set.

more faces

more of Skoll. working on figuring out how his scar is going to go and getting used to his new face

getting back to working on Vidar (Howl in his previous post) a bit

new face

back to working on some character redesigns.
This time we have Skoll. He's a wolf-bird hybrid, just getting more human thrown into the mix to update him to match the others.

he's always so sad and pathetic looking lol

unrelated update is unrelated

no actual Aesir update tonight. I've been busy working on some things for a local art sale and finishing my costume for a convention next weekend. so to keep the blog from going dead again enjoy some of the zodiac cards i've been working on, because who doesn't like squishy cute things :)


jsut as a heads up; there might not be an update next week because of the convention but we'll see, might be able to manage early/late post

line up again

small update this time.
added Loki and Hel to the height line up.



recap, left to right: Sin, Mav, Mishka, Skade, Loki, Hel

faces and faces

some face/expression/portrait sketches tonight (because the title wasn't a dead give away)

first up is Hel, who i believe hasn't been posted here yet. mostly just practice because i haven't drawn her in a while.
the chibi on the bottom left is me trying to decide whether or not to keep the wings from her original design

next we have Loki's Havoc personality (she has split personalities). Havoc is basically an agressive, slightly psychotic personality while Loki is more neutral and sane
just her making faces. i like the grin one (bitch is crazy lol)

dusting off the blog

an update? no wai!
time to dust this thing off and start posting again now that all the crazy with school and graduation is finally over.

started putting together a height chart of the Soldat and Aesir characters:


for now we have left to right; Sin, Maverick, Mishka, and Skade.

and not to jinx it, but now that everything is starting to settle out, we should be able to get back to at least once a week updates

turnaround

sketches have been setting around for a while, just didn't have time to upload

slight redesign on Frost/Skade's hairstyle.


turnaround of Skade in her for-now uniform. it'll probably get updated to look less old fashioned once i decide what i'm doing for the other uniforms.

uniform sketches

what's this, an update?
these have been sitting around for a good week waiting to be scanned, but classes got crazy.

variation of one of the uniforms Loki gets drawn in from time to time

what has more or less become the 'official' outer uniform for soldat, and possibly aesir.
it just needs an actual unifrom to go under the coat

another variation of a one-off uniform
for some reason i really like the spats lol

minor technical difficulties

computer is currently out of commission with a broken screen, so I won't be able to update any pictures until it's taken care of. depending on if we're lucky enough that the right replacement screen is in stock, this could only last a couple days, if not it'll probably be a couple weeks.

in the mean time I may make some sort of FAQ or info dump post to be productive, so if you happen to have something you want answered go ahead and throw it out there.


also, classes have started again so updates may slow back down again, although I'll try and keep away from the massive gaps that happened during last semester (classes willing)

perspective practice

like the title says, practicing perspective a bit with some headshots. more Nephilim filler

first, Chamuel. I like how this one came out
and those used to be wings on her back

and second is Abbadon. not sure i like how this one came out quite as much
he looks like such a smug bastard (which he is lol). he also has a partial glasgow

both were unreferenced (a habit i need to break)