Things aren’t looking very good as after seeing the poor woman and what’s happened to her. What is that Kalwa will see that might change her mind. Check it out on today’s update, click the thumbnail below.

Just a little note for tomorrow!

I’m so sorry for the slight wait everyone. This page was supposed to to be up on Saturday but I had a couple of events distract me from working and then over the weekend I got busy with my work life and had trouble getting back to work. But we’re back with a new page and should hopefully get ourselves back on track with regular updates. Anyway enjoy the latest page now by clicking on the thumbnail below!

These are a few pages from the sketchbook that were essentially practice. This of course was back when we were planning for chapter 11 which of course featured raptors as the main antagonists. True tragedy of the world is despite the fact that I love dinosaurs, it’s always been a struggle to draw them. In fact I feel like I’ve spent too much time learning to draw humans and not enough time drawing animals or other creatures. Dinosaurs in particular have always been a challenge because of their long snouts and leg structure. I do own a lot of dinosaur toys, but most of them are preset posed figures with little to no articulation, so most shots I simply have to use my imagination and kinda draw the dinosaurs the way I think they’d look in a pose.

Fortunately, starting last year, Mattel has released more articulated dinosaur toys with their Jurassic Park Amber line which has provided me the dinosaur toys I always wanted and have really needed all these years. I would like to feature more dinosaurs in the story or at least feature them in artwork, so that would be even more chances to practice.

This was originally posted probably earlier this year or maybe it was last year. This here was a little fan art I received from a fellow artist on Deviant Art. He was doing water color paintings and just needed a random subject, so he painted Kalwa. I was nearly brought to tears over the drawing, not only was this the first Kalwa fan art, but this was the first time I had received fan art for one of my characters. It also came at a great time, I remember having a particularly bad day that day until this artwork really lifted my spirits. I currently have this printed out and hanging on my wall.

So I really wanted to do another page in one day and have the next page up tomorrow. But fate had other plans in mind, and I got stuck doing other stuff that mostly kept me away from my computer. Still I did do a sketch up of the next page. I’ll be working on it a bit during the weekend and see if I can get this page up by Tuesday at the latest. So here’s a little preview of whats to come.

So these are a couple of the early sketches to the pirate hunter crew from chapter 12 and 13. While Keleisha and Rodric mostly went unchanged (with the exception of Rodric’s eye becoming permanently closed), Harri’s design went through a few drafts. I initially wanted him to look like Orlando Bloom’s character from Pirates of the Caribbean, though also having some uniqueness so he didn’t come off as a flat out copy. However many of my designs I felt were coming too close (or being flat out copies) of some potential designs I had for Victor who had yet to make his debut at the time. So Harris received a large number of redesigns before finally settling on his current one.

Funny thing about this chapter, despite wanting to do it, I actually had very little idea of how to shape the story. The pirate arch was kinda a last minute addition I put in as I felt like having an additional story to further pad things out before we had Orestes return (as we didn’t have that many enemies at the time). I also wanted to introduce the fact that there were more phones and A-Tech themselves were using them, which would be a catalyst for the entire Kalwa saga. Though I had designed the characters and did have their personalities and stories planned out, I didn’t know how the story should go. Most of that was actually left to my co-writer who even provided their names. Only from his ideas was I able to finally drive the story to what we have today.

So I’m sure you all forgot about the Kalwa in anime series, because I know I did. But I recently just remembered it so here is the next entry. This is Soul Reaper Kalwa, that’s right, she’s in a Bleach outfit. Check back soon for more progress.