Sun Staff concept - digital sketch 2

A slightly more detailed version of the first sketch. I looked up "sides of cliff" images on Google for some ideas, so there are extra smaller rocks towards the bottom and random pillars of rock as well. The city got a small update as well with extra buildings. 
The girl at the moment, will stay the same. 

Flying in the sky Concept

A bit of a random inspiration while watching a video in class about Buddhist temples. 
I suppose this also came from Laputa : Castle in the Sky or even Sky High; both are films.
The backdrop later spawned the character though she needs a lot of work...

Sun Staff concept - digital sketch !

The layout of the concept art/sketch is based off of Legend of Legends' splash art but the staff, character and background/backdrop are purely from my mind (as it wandered around while thinking about the staff).

I had a difficult time deciding on how the character should look like and have it  correlate with the staff well enough. I think her clothing will have to be the one helping with the connection as well as colors. I'm thinking gold, yellow and dark orange for the whole concept art. 
Taking a break from musing over the character poses led me to brainstorming the backdrop which at first was going to be more of an eastern theme but ended up being an odd...city in the mountains? Not quite sure what my brain was thinking. I may go back and brainstorm some more. 

Backdrop for sun staff concept

Originally I was thinking of an eastern appearance for the backdrop but while sketching it became more...western.

Updated blog/site's appearance

After seeing Weebly get updates, I decided to clean up my site a little more, especially in structuring the pages. For example, if you check out the  "Social Media & Previous Blogs" or the "Portfolio & Bio" page, it's not a large amount of text that requires a lot of scrolling! 

I plan to do the same for my portfolio site.

Sun staff concept - Brainstorming

Still tryin to figure out a pose ( and now clothing as well) for the character design/ concept.
So far I've been aiming for the staff to be behind the girl and for her to have long hair. Clothing is still in the works though. Background ideas consist of temples and light gold themed colors..
Really hoping I can at least sketch out this concept this weekend!

Update

The summer courses I'm taking now run only through Mon - Thurs (with an exception of one class, that has 2 Fridays....). In theory, I would have weekends free but unfortunately this weekend is preoccupied with studying for the midterm for one of my classes. 
We'll have to see about next weekend; at the moment I don't think I have something due after Memorial Day Weekend but I could be forgetting an large assignment.
Here's hoping!!

Graduation ceremony tomorrow!

Decorated my cap for graduation tomorrow!

Updated portfolio

Added a group projects section on my portfolio site. 
In other news ~ my finals are done for this semester. Now I need to finish packing and move out of the dorms.

Onward to the weekend and a moment's relaxation before moving back to dorms for summer courses and graduation!

Gotta study, study, study ):

Sadly, I've got to study for my finals so as a result, this means no time to sketch or draw.

...Though I might have time after my final Wednesday night. We'll see. No promises at all!