Old Vintage Rough Sketches n Doodles of Djehkäujaa 002

Here are some very old vintage 1999 sketches I did when I was at AIPH in Philadelphia.

I feel like Djehkäujaa is probably my most proudest character I've ever created. She's dynamic in many ways, physically, mentally, emotionally, metaphorically, and figuratively... So, if my project ever becomes anything, like a film or video series of shorts, I want it to be worthy and befitting of her.

Some of this stuff I actually don't like anymore...  or, it's not very good... oh well...

Djehkaujaa 1999 Rough Sketches 004 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 Rough Sketches 003 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkeujaa 1999 Rough Sketches 002 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 Dragon Rough Sketch 004 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 Dragon Rough Sketch 003 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 Dragon Rough Sketch 002 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 Dragon Rough Sketch 001 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

The Owl Motif

Unfortunately, the majority of my old concept work with owl motifs are pretty much lost forever... I often liked to work with symbolism, and motifs, when I was younger, and since I first started developing this story & characters, I kept incorporating owls... In the King James version of the Bible (which I did read in various parts as a kid) there's a verse that goes:

King James Job 39:29 

"I am brother to dragons and companion to owls."

There are, however, so many other translations of this verse now, that I've seen it written all different ways... and not even as "dragons" or even "owls"...
As it turns out, the Bible doesn't actually say whatever you previously thought it did... there's much better translations out there now, and different original manuscripts also...

So, I feminized it and changed it to:

I am sister to dragons and familiar to owls....
or various other versions I scribbled out in other lost sketchbooks...

So, here's the only thing I could find, so far, of anything with the owl motifs:

Djehkaujaa 1999 Dragon Owl 001 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

At the end of the year (2015) in December I started to notice OWLS, but by New Year it was EVERY DAY... It was kinda freaking me out, actually.... But, literally, at least 1 random owl will show up throughout the day, online, on TV, radio commercials....  it's generally way more than that. Usually about 3 per day...

Back in January it kept happening so frequently than even my family began noticing owls also.

I kept wondering why... I'm not really New Age anymore.... but, I kept recalling that in my old Dragon film project (this one) that I often incorporated owls into everything with the dragon character... Now, here I am, scanning my dragon drawings....

Djehkaujaa 1999 Doodles 003 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 Doodles 002 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 Doodles 001 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 004 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 003 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Djehkaujaa 1999 002 by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Through the helped of a very wonderful friend of mine, I managed to get the new Free Open Source version of OpenToonz by Studio Gibli. I'm very grateful also.

I manged to get the thing to work...

I think perhaps after I am done scanning my stuff, eventually, I might play around with it...

I know which scenes I would like to experiment with.... but, I don'[t know how to create and arrange music to be exactly what I want....