Akua - Dance of Fire

Yay! I finally finished an illustration, with all traditional media no less. ;D I'm actually fairly proud of this one. I feel I can grow more working with traditional media (especially with mixing colors) but this is pretty good for now.

I intended on submitting this somewhere but didn't make it on time so, oh well. It was a stress reliever anyway. The hot coals! GAH! They took me forever to draw and to color! But I didn't want to give up.

This is actually a spoiler pic. Akua does dance on fire during the comic but he wears a lot more haha. I hope I can get an idea of what to do for Annie and Saron. I will prolly do another one of Kylie too since I gave up on the last pic. Hope you enjoy. I need to get back to the comics.

Isola: Page 6 preview

Sweet reunion of cousins. =D

I love Annie but gah, Kylie is such a sweet heart. I need to develop everybody a little bit more so I can express them properly in the pages. I have to admit, I did kind of jump into this.

Also I did much better on this page than I did my other pages. But still, I'm going back to pencil and pen after this.

Not much to say. Tired. I'm going to be spending time getting an illustration going before going on with the next pages. I need to get it done before Friday, ssh. :)

Isola: Page 5: preview

And there is Aunt Julia. Congrats, you met all of Annie's family. OH WAIT, you haven't met grandpa yet. Well...he's coming a lot later.

This page turned out better than the last one but still, I would have been done sooner had I not start to change so many things. The computer makes you bend comic rules a bit with all the undos and ctrl alt z's. This will be remedied, since I already have up to page 10 thumbnailed on the computer, after that, I'm doing all my pencils and inks by hand. I found that my drawings are defenitly more expressive when I do it on paper.

And less static. So yes.

I will get started on page 6 tonight for it to be finished tomorrow and then inking 7-10! If I could get at least to page 15 done before June...I'd be incredibly happy. I'm going to work hard to get there. Thanks everybody for the kind words. More soon!

Isola: Page 4 preview

Welcome to Isola! Everybody say hi to uncle Monty.

Finally done with this page. And I must say, going through this comic (even if it is just the 4th page) is still a learning process. I fear that my lineless backgrounds could either make or break this comic. I struggled hard with this one, another reason why it took so long, save for the computer drama. I'm not very satisfied with this page. I need guidelines for the backgrounds. So unless I have a solid sketch underneath, I shouldn't bother because it takes longer.

I will wait until the end of this segment to determine if I'm going to continue the lineless background, or mix and match. Either way...the backgrounds on this page are pretty...uh...looks like a 1st grader did it. =( But I'm determined to get better at it! That's why I'm doing this. To have fun and to learn. I also realized me working on one page at a time gets them done faster. Hmm.

I'm going to prep the next page and hopefully it'll be ready in a day or two. I have a little bit more time on my hands for now. I have up to page 10 sketched out, so it's still time to go, go, go. I'm still hoping to launch this thing in June. We'll see...

Back in business

I'm working. Working. Working! Honest. :)

No news is not so good news

Bad news. April was a bad month. A very bad month. *grumbles*

Ontop of which, the main deal is, my computer died. And although I should be getting a new one in a few days, it slowed me down with drawing and comic works. I'm heavily disappointed. So disappointed, that I just stopped drawing altogether. What was the point?
That was a very bad attitude and I was encouraged by a few to continue as best I could. I've kept myself busy to not be sad about things so that took up time as well. I managed to scramble a few hours to myself yesterday and drew something that renewed my love for markers and pencils.

Kylie from Isola!(close up)

This was a lot of fun. Plenty of mistakes, smudges and inconsistencies, but I learned a little more than before and plus this just started off as a doodle. No planning, not much thought behind it. It was just for fun. But MY GOSH, I still love it. Dont think I'll finish it. I already ruined it enough already haha.

I want to make solo pics of everybody else and also a group pic. But hey, I still need to catch up on comic pages! So much to do! ...but alas with no computer, it makes things harder. *wilts*

Sorry, I'm working hard. I promise. Until next time when my shiny computer comes home~