The script for chapter 24 is finished, I just sent it to my co-writer yesterday for review, so I’m just waiting for it to come back before officially rolling. But in the meantime, I’m rolling out the annual summertime piece, I know we’re a little off from the first official day of summer, but I just wanted to draw it. So here’s this year’s illustration. I think I’ll try do a few more as the summer goes on, moving a bit away from the beach theme.
A little gallery of some production previously posted on this site, just as a way for new time visitors to catch up.
I spent the whole day yesterday writing the script to chapter 24 and just crashed and burned at the end of the day. So right now I really got nothing to post for you al to enjoy. So to fill the void, I’m doing a repost of character artwork for characters other than Kalwa, including some of the really older ones from a couple years ago such as Bridgette and Cassidy. All of these are available to view in the art gallery as well, anyway I hope this entertains everyone as I work to get some more stuff up. I’ll be reviewing chapter 24 one more time tomorrow before sending it over to my co-writer.
Dug this up on the Facebook page today and kinda forgot it was there. So this is the ORIGINAL cover to chapter 8 done nearly 3 years ago, it was essentially completed, but I felt the drawing just looked so boring, it was also a bit difficult getting the two bodies to intermix. So I ultimately scrapped this cover and replaced it with the one you can currently find on the site. Anyway, thought I’d share it today.
Just a little project I threw together over the last few days. This was kinda a piece to practice curves, and was inspired both by some pin ups from W.I.T.C.H. and an AMV on youtube I’ve been obsessed with all week tuned to the song Move like Jagers. Initially I was gonna gonna draw Kalwa in a bunny costume, but the original drawing was just not working out an I deleted it knowing I wouldn’t want to work on it anymore, thus we landed here.
So I got a little caught up working on this tonight, I’m still kinda debating if the orange overtone is working for this piece. So there might be a slight change depending on how I feel tomorrow. We’ll just see, in the meantime here’s the hard time in progress work on chapter 24’s cover.
So a simple spoiler for the new bio picture and the fact that… he’s got a new hoodie. So yes, on previous covers that featured Zack, he was sporting a blue hoodie. However while I was coloring this and put down the old color scheme, I felt Zack looked pretty dull and monochrome, didn’t really stand out at all. So he got a hoodie makeover.
Storywise I feel this is kinda fitting for the character. Zack’s overall story arch is that he is a complete wimp, who has always needed his sister to bail him out, so he strives to better himself and become a stronger individual. So the red hoodie can symbolize his ascent to a stronger more independent character, or at the very least, show that’s he’s gone from a minor character in the background to stronger character in the future. Anyway, wanted to give an update on that.
Probably to date one of the toughest covers I’ve worked on. I actually had the image of this cover for a while but I didn’t know it would be so difficult. I initially went back and forth on what the final pose would be. Initially I was going to have Kalwa doing the overhead Naginata move in which the weapon is raise overhead. However this made it difficult to position with the logo and I though it was kinda boring.
So ultimately I thought it would be better to have the weapon coming at the viewer, but of course this led to some MAJOR perspective challenges. I must’ve redrawn this image of Kalwa at least six or seven times before finally settling on the look. I was using my Classified Lady Jaye figure just to get some reference. Also at a certain point I just threw caution to the wind and just started drawing madly to try to convey the motion.
Also a fun little note one this is the fact that those lines in the background are not actually motion lines, but rather planks from the floor and ceiling, so they act as a double device here playing in both the background and effects.
I’ll actually start working on the script for chapter 24 next week, oh and as a little bonus, down below is an image of me working on the perspective at my desk.
Just a little update on the bio pictures for the site update, all of them now inked and ready for color. I’m trying to juggle a few projects at a time right now especially since I’ve hit a few snags on some other work, including the next cover image. Since I’m working a full time job, I try to take care of the heavy lifting on days off and do bits of the work on regular nights. I’ll be working on color for these and hopefully get moving on serious site updates later this week.
An adventurous manga series about a teenage girl and her time traveling cell phone 