PAX East is fast approaching, and I will be attending Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23. Therefore, I should get cracking on whatever new projects I want to tackle within the next week. I have also decided to upload multiple posts within the next week. I would like to show at least two posts, but if I can do three, that would be fantastic. I do have other drawings I want to make, though, so we will see what happens from here.
Today, I am showing a logo I made a month or so before Pokemon X and Y were released (I guess September 2013). I drew this with the intention of forming some kind of guild to discuss and explore the game, an aspiration which did not pan out. Still, at least I made a cool logo for the group: "Team Chroma".
In every Pokemon game, there is a group which acts as the antagonists of the game known as "Team [Insert Word Here]" - "Rocket" in Kanto and Johto, "Galactic" in Sinnoh, "Plasma" in Unova, "Flare" in Kalos, and both "Magma" and "Aqua" in Hoenn. They show up throughout the game nudging the plot forward through underhanded actions. "Team Chroma" started as an idea for one of those, but with a bit of a twist. Team Chroma would antagonize the player, but their true goal would be to stop a more evil group known as Team Gris (the French word for "gray") from freezing their country.
Today, I have some images I drew in March last year of Sakura Miyazaki. Who is Sakura Miyazaki? Well, click here for a full refresher (two different links are here, leading to the same character), but in short, Sakura is one of my main heroes for a personal project I call Lucids.
In this concept, an alternate reality exists parallel to the material worlds, a dimension constructed from the subconscious thoughts and ideas of the sentient. This bizarre reality is known as the "Dream Dimension", and it rejuvenates the minds of those who fall asleep. Many people's minds and hearts drift to the Dream Dimension while asleep, but those who realize it happens are known as "Lucids". Thanks to their awareness of the Dream Dimension, they can tap into the Dream Dimension (which have an atmosphere basically made of hammerspace) and essentially gain superpowers. A Lucid chooses what to do with these powers, and unfortunately, many will use such power to attack the minds of others. Luckily, should these "Dream Pirates" strike, other Lucids will rise to defend the unaware. These virtuous Lucids have formed a patrol force known as the "Nites".
Sakura Miyazaki is one such Nite. She is kind of a mage who specializes mostly in force magic, taking on the occasional alias "Space Girl". She can conjure white or black "moons", round discs which generate intense force. Fullmoon, the white discs, pull objects toward them, while the black Newmoons repel objects. Sakura mainly uses these moons to redirect her opponent's attacks, but since the moons generate their own forces, she can also use them to augment her usually feeble physical attacks. She can even cast the moons for propulsion: using Newmoons to jump high into the air or over long distances, or casting Fullmoons to pull herself toward a much heavier object she wants to reach.
With this theme of pushing and pulling in mind, I decided to make something creative and odd: an open-and-closed sign.
