Giving a big shout out to say that this blog has officially reached 15 followers. So I would like to just give a nice little shout out to all of you wanted to thank you all for following and how much I appreciate all your support.
Running this comic and site can be quite the task despite it also being a passion! Constant hours each night and the process of learning to run a WordPress site. It also brings me such joy to see that people are enjoying my work and all the hard hours put into it. So once again a shout out to all the followers out there.
We are officially there everyone, we are done now with chapter 23 of Kalwa and the Japanese arch is now in full swing. It’s time now for a brief break as the next chapter gets prepped. But in the meantime, get ready for some behind the scenes work in the coming days. As usual, click the thumbnail below and see the end of this chapter, and go one step forward because we have a special finale pinup awaiting.
This is just a little update on what’s in store for the chapter 23. As I’ve said, there’s just one more page left to upload, but I’m also prepping a final color pinup to end this chapter and move forward with the rest of the Japanese arch, so I’m simply giving you all an update on what’s to come pretty soon. Check out the WIP’s down below!
I also want to shout out and give a big thank you to everyone whose been following along, I’ve gotten some pretty enthusiastic comments as I’ve posted pages from the japanese arch online. So big thanks to everyone whose been reading thus far.
Once again I apologize for the late update. As I previously said, I got done late last night and didn’t get a chance to tone. I got up early to do it this morning but didn’t want to rush it without review. So I give you all the late page update of page 25. Only one more page to do before this chapter is complete. As usual, click the thumbnail to read the latest page.
The next page will be up much later tonight. I’ve finished the inking already, but didn’t want to rush the toning last night, I don’t like to quickly tone and rapidly post before I can review the final result. So look for the latest page later tonight, I’ll be posting an update then.
Happy Wednesday everyone, hope you’re all staying nice and safe. As you keep yourself safe, we got a brand new page for you today as we update with the THIRD FROM LAST page of this chapter. This page, we introduce a rather dark and formidable opponent who will be playing a large role throughout the rest of this arch. As usual, click the thumbnail below and check out what we got in store today.
Back now for some more production sketches. Today we got sketches of the tribe from chapter 22, which was quite a task to draw. As this was a group design, the main issue faced here was designing A LOT of looks. I didn’t really have a particular idea of how the Tribe should look as all the characters come from different backgrounds and have different lifestyles. For certain characters like Carol and Mikela I did have a bit of an idea in mind for how they should look, but for other characters it was mainly a free for all with no specific design in mind.
So as such, many of the designs were simply character designs I wanted to draw, and in a situation like this I’m usually drawing in the sketchbook while looking at various anime characters on my iPhone. Characters such as Liz were actually inspired by characters like Samus Aran, a few others were just drawn freely such as the short hair man with the glasses. Also in a situation like this when you have no real concept of design, you can always go playing with the characters and get some really weird looks, a primary example of this being the eyeliner guy you see below.
Most of the characters essentially got off with the first design and only a few minor tweaks before getting into the final pages. The one exception being Carol, who can be seen in both sketches below. When I was initially drawing her, I was basing her design off of Sora from Digimon Adventure, as somehow she came to mind when I needed a headstrong female second in command. My first design for her came out looking too young (as seen in the sketch group on the left), probably because I was looking at Sora’s design from the first season of Digimon as I drew her. The second attempt seen in the second group of sketches came out more along the lines of what I initially wanted. Though I might flex up her hair in the future, it’s a little tricky to work with as of now.
Happy late friday everyone, we got a brand new page for on this fine Friday to help open your Saturday. So that’s another week’s worth of work finished, tomorrow night. Work on another project. As usual, click the thumbnail to see the latest page.
Honestly, drawing characters in an environment is fun, but drawing a really detailed background is REAL tiring. So long story short, this might be a one page week this week, we’ll see. It depends on how long it takes to ink all this.
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