This week, I decided to try something I had not attempted in a long time: a comic page. I used to draw some comic pages for fun when I was younger, mainly inspired by series like Peanuts, or Garfield, or Calvin and Hobbes. Of course, if I tried to make jokes I read from those comics, I seemed to miss the point, so I cannot say my older comics were very good. Still, it is a neat application for artwork, so I may try my hand at them occasionally.
I wanted to practice at comics in case I ever decided to travel that route, but I did not want to try something too big yet. Therefore, this week, I decided to finally draw out a Pokemon comic I had in my head for a while. If you want to know what inspired this, click below, but for now...
It seems like even when I am not actually drawing Pokemon, they inspire a lot of my work anyway. It was probably a little more subtle with Kangolf and Lansaur the last two weeks, but this week I have a concept for something that was originally meant to be a fan Pokemon. Since I don't have direct ties to Game Freak, I can find some other use for this monster, such as making it a Nightmare for Lucids to fight. Therefore, meet Karatane.
I mentioned a few times in my post last week that the monster I had drawn, Kangolf, had a rival who was a dinosaur, as a nod to the Digimon cartoons. Allow me to introduce you to that rival: Lansaur.
Once again, I'm trying to draw some monsters. This week, I have a draft of a rather bouncy beast I call the "Kangolf".
I feel like I have an affinity toward dragons. I was born in the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese calendar. You do not see actual dragons in real life (I cannot count the Komodo "dragon" as one), so you cannot be sure what they could actually be like. Perhaps they were powerful beasts that terrorized the masses. Maybe they were actually wise beings that aided the weak or imparted their knowledge to "lesser beings". For all we know, they might have spawned from carp when they leaped up a waterfall. The bad news is that dragons do not exist in reality. The good news is because of that, we can probably create whatever mythology around them that we want.
In this case, I created a young dragon in armor.
