SAI Linework

Been feeling restless of late. Could be from the tension and the excitement this coming event on March 31.

To pass of my lethargy, I did a little something:

Based from SlackerLord's avi in Gaia online, one of her old looks.

Its an old drawing and every once in a while I like to dabble with my old drawings and do linework with them in SAI. Took about 6-7 hours, trying out the tools and what else I was curious about, and several more 'undos' than I bothered to count. XD

After this was done and saved, I noticed the textures I so painstakingly worked on for the horns disappeared. WTH! I'm too lazy to edit so I'm gonna leave it as is. And I also forgot the scales on her face and body... oh, well~

Pencil version:

Now on to finishing the remaining pages. Been really busy this month in more ways than one. I'm gonna fall flat in bed and doze off a day after all this is finally over..... and do the same routine again for the next event. XD

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I'm working on it!

With just a very looooongggg break in-between.^^;

As much as I want to I'm a little dry in the imagination category at the moment. I'm motivated, but lack the ideas. TT^TT

Someone.... HELP!!!

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2012, First Drawing~

First drawing of the year 2012~

Pencil and character concept by me, inked lineart and cover concept by my sis, SlackerLord.

Shoun Peracles, made him the main character for our indie, OROZ, that was supposedly for a March mini-komikon event, the first ever indie tiangge to be held in Bacolod. Unfortunately, due to unforseen RL situation, we can't make it for the event in time.... but we'll try to get something done within the year to get him and the rest of the cast on paper.

OROZ art is more detailed than any of our works and can be time-consuming. So we settled for a simpler artwork, and an old story. We revised it from the first version when it was released, Rain on Summer to Crazy Heaven, and returned its story to the original one with just a few changes. XD

And this time, we hope we can make it in time. TT^TT

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Trad to Digi

It started off in pencil, couldn't help adding the lines to her sleeves~

The sequential conversion into digital lineart was done by sis (let's call her SlackerLord now^^). I would have done it but she insisted on finishing as she had other ideas with it as can be seen above.

Her 'look' was something to humor myself, and eventually used for a one page comic strip as a sort of mascot. There was a comic strip contest in ICI which SlackerLord thought we'd give a try in joining. The ones who win get to see their strips published within one of the issues. We were informed beforehand if we did get chosen, as we were immediately contacted just before the issue was published..... unfortunately, we never did get to see our strip in the release but we were told it would be there.

Anyway, the idea for her look was, as I said 'something to humor myself', but it came out as a way of representing me and my sister. We both look alike anyway, being twins and all-- long curly hair, the blackness depicts our often times dark humor; brooding eyes, as we tend to look bored and mean when deep in thoughts; and the unsmiling face, we smile only when the occasion warrants it. XD

The black, white and gray concept of the overall look, represents our style of work. Also means how we really suck at coloring. LOL.

We may have missed the chance to see a work of ours, the best or not, published in other issues aside from ours, but we hope to keep improving on that so anyone else won't be so quick to ignore our works in future.

For a glimpse of the comic strip, here it is:

We probably missed the humor we were aiming at. The incident depicted actually happened in real life, during ICI's very own official launching where we were one of the few sellers present. Try talking to a buyer with the band just ten steps away from your booth and the sound system directly across from your display~

I was the one who suggested to a friend she go upstage and have the band members sign their autographs, she guffawed when I handed her a Death Note. XD

(click on image to zoom)

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HC Cover Concept 1

I really have short attention span.^^;

A cover concept for Hallow Creak. Characters (starting above, and left to right): Nina Fryte, Scarecrow, Witch.

Its a long story.

At least now we have a final look for Nina. Most of her scenes in random illustrations depict her sleeping or hidden.

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WIP: Character designs

Along with BGs and the script, also worked on characters and storyboarding.

Above image is an old drawing from 2007 or so. Can't remember. My sis has been hankering me to use this as reference. It was something I thought I'd try out, different from my usual style. Turns out she liked it.

Concept for one of our OCs. He's called Shoun. One character who's role in every story revision has been changed over and over again.

Plus, my sis bought me coloured leads. Thought I'd try it out and there I went doing a couple of sheets, mostly scribbles. She wanted me to do lean concepts of the guys, and an equally lean yet curvy female characters. Then I asked her, "What about the boobs?"

Storyboard format

This is our storyboard where the marketplace (previous post) was an important scene that set the story to having the main character introduced.

Storyboard format is self made, gathered from different format ideas by other manga artists who shared how they make theirs.

I have a tendency to misplace my scripts, so I created a format where the script is already included in the storyboard --- side-by-side. Other artists have their scripts and storyboard separate from each other for bigger drawing space as they claimed.

Used to write the script in a notebook, any size will do, but the paneling and page concepts are all doodled at the corners or an any available space.^^;

So it turns out into one BIG mess.

My storyboard is bound into one large notebook..... now I just have to find it....

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Making BGs

I fail at it.... PERIOD.

But that doesn't mean I'd stop there. XD
I found alternatives.

Browsing the net randomly can give you a vast deal of ideas when in a slump. A single word in the search bar can give you a lot of possibilities when you use you imagination.

There's a market scene in a page which was included in the first chapter. That required a lot of buildings, stalls, crowds, sold goods, etc.

In a couple of minutes, we had five or so market images stored in our hard drive --- they were all modern/present time market places. And we picked the ones with the most visible stalls, buildings and people in it. Market scenes with too many sign boards were discarded.

From the image chose, we had it printed and placed tracing paper over it. We made use of the perspective involved and improvised with the rest. ^__^

Voila! Instant BG~

I need improvement in making extra characters.... I tend not to put enough importance in them.^^;

Unfortunately, this background was put aside. LOL

We were still discussing over the script and in the end we decided to revise it.... again. Hence, this scene will no longer be in it.

It was good practice. Goes to show that I'm out of it and my imagination has just about a few clogs in it and brain function is getting rusty. XP

For other BGs, my sis came up with her own simple ideas. Digitalizing~

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Pencil to Digital Lineart

Practice makes perfect!

Well, after a series of clicking the 'undo' shortcut keys and several new canvases..... xp

One of the many drawings I've used to practice lineart with Paint Tool SAI. Above drawing is not mine, it belongs to a friend, Shin Oe. She's a member of Blots Inc. and a contributor for ICI (Ice Cream Indie), Bacolod City's very own independent manga group.

With permission I did the lineart and along with fellow members of the RP where the above characters are some of the increasingly popular OCs, Fallon and Abaven, we caused some mid-level interest in a manga community group in Facebook. There was already a proposal for a yaoi version between roommates Abaven and Xenon taken up by the one of the group's talented artist. Hoping to hear from her soon.^^

The projected pose above is still a dream of Abaven's not yet happening even in his wildest imaginations as Fallon is determined to keep him at arm's length away. LOL

I saw Shin's drawing and got interested with the lines, so I thought why not practice SAI with it? I've gotten hooked to lineart with the program, but I probably won't be using it in future works as a single page takes hours, plus we don't have a computer unit that can uphold a lot a of memory space.

My sis and I will probably stick to doing things traditionally for now except the cover pages. The frontal presentations have to give the desired impact if we want to attract attention to our works.^^

Hoping in the year 2012.... well, just good luck to the both of us, especially now that our older brother is determined to get us drunk as he failed to do in Christmas eve after all those shots. XD

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WIP: Accel Rush RP

Lizard and Shade

Work in progress.

Got in mood to draw their new face. Another of numerous OCs, also NPCs for the AR RP going on in Facebook. Don't know if will get to finish this at all. Got hooked to using Paint Tool SAI and have been working on digital linearts with it. Want to color too, but will need to learn how to do so. XD

Make take time to actually finish this if I ever get back to it.

For some reason, Shade is getting popular with the female players in the RP.^^;

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