Lucids / Monsters: Demonox

So far, when it comes to Lucids, I have mainly talked about the Lucids themselves: people from the material world who have synchronized with the Dream Dimension, a reality born of fantasy.  These people can use their awareness of the Dream Dimension to create their own personal mental realm and (extremely likely case) gain superpowers.  In addition to creating Dream Worlds, people can also subconsciously create other beings to live in those worlds.  These creatures start off as Thoughts, imaginary creatures.  However, when a Thought is either neglected for too long or exposed to a lot of negative emotion, they can easily transform into the many monsters that exist in the Dream Dimension: Nightmares.

I ought to draw more concept art of potential Nightmares, so this week, I drew a breed known as "Demonox".

Lucids: "Nocturne"

This was supposed to be up here by Halloween.  Unfortunately, I have been sinking a lot of my free time into Pokemon X and Y.  I have beaten the main story, but now I am trying to raise Pokemon to battle against other people.  Currently, I am trying to raise a Lucario, but there are so many others I want to raise.  So many Pokemon, so many drawings, and so little time.

Well, I did finally put this one together.  I have shown a few different Lucids on here before.  Sakura Miyazaki tends to grab a lot of the spotlight, but she is joined by her friends Ken "Thunder" and Wendy Krane.  This time, I would like to introduce another character from the first Lucids picture I uploaded here but never really detailed.  Here he is: "The Nocturne".

Pokemon: Venusaur

I have been pretty lazy lately, and now that Pokemon X and Y are out, I do not see me recovering to full strength any time soon.  I am loving the game so far, though, so much more than Black and White.  Currently, I am at two badges and am in the city where I can win my third.  I had no idea the gap between the first and second gyms would take so long, nor did I realize that there would be so many Pokemon to find on each individual route.  If my progress in the game sounds slow to you, those are my excuses.

I was drawing before the games were released, though.  I was just going really slowly.  While we are on the subject of Pokemon, here, have a picture of one.

Fire Starters Vs Rock Leaders

Sorry that I have not updated for a while.  The reason for that is because the picture I am showing you this time took pretty much that long to make.

A while back, I drew a Pokemon comic called "Glory Hog", where one starter Pokemon who had an even, interesting matchup ready to go (page 1) was robbed of his battle by another starter Pokemon that had a distinct advantage over the opponent (page 2).  After the second page, I went into a long-winded lecture about the starter Pokemon (particularly, the Fire-types) and how they match up against certain bosses in their respective games.  The ultimate point was that what worked and was intriguing in some games did not translate well into others.

Anyway, this picture is somewhat related to "Glory Hog".

Here we have the Fire-type starter Pokemon of three different generations: Monferno on the left (middle stage of Chimchar, from Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum), Combusken on the right (middle stage of Torchic, from Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald), and Charmander in the middle (first stage, from Pokemon Red and Blue / Fire Red and Leaf Green).  They are surrounded by Rock Pokemon on all sides, the ones that mark each of their first major challenges (Onix for Charmander, Nosepass for Combusken, and Cranidos for Monferno).  If they had challenged these stone walls as soon as possible, their flames would have been smothered by stone.  But this time, they came prepared, and they are ready to break some blockheads!

Lucids: Sakura's Newmoon

I was on vacation last week, so I could not really update this blog.  However, I did make a small update to a much earlier post, making some minor edits to one of my drawings of Sakura.  It is at the bottom of the entry linked here if you want a look.

Speaking of Sakura, I actually did want to upload a picture of her before I left, but it was not finished.  I have been trying to finish up the picture since I came back, and I think it is at a passable point.

Tamaki, the Shadow Soldier

I have held a set of four characters for the world of Lucids in the back of my mind for a long time but have not really developed at all or thought to do anything with them.  I just did not devote much thought to them besides that they would be based on one of four powers: fire, water, lightning, and darkness.  Then, I began to rekindle my interest in the Fire Emblem series and started thinking that I could base their designs somewhat off their original inspiration (which was, by the way, the different evolutions of the Pokemon Eevee) and combine that with the fantasy-world designs of Fire Emblem units.

I decided to work on the shadow girl first.  The fire and water characters are probably not going to be super important, and the lightning one would be the leader, and I wanted to save her for when I start drawing villains for this series.  The shadow girl, however, might be a bit more reluctant than her sisters, and there may be redemption for her yet.

Meet Tamaki, codenamed "The Shadow Soldier".

Grisly Wing, Banwi

I attend a weekly Internet stream where I talk to people into certain cartoons and games while the streamer plays various videos and video games.  The main event of this stream in recent months has been a playthrough of one of the Fire Emblem games that I have not played yet.  Often times, silly discussions occur either between the viewers in the chat or between the streamer and her audience, including arguments over things that may or may not turn the tide of the chapter.  During one stream, the host tried to defend her pairing of two particular characters who were both "Wyvern Lords", units that ride wyverns (mythological creatures that basically resemble smaller winged dragons) into battle, which soon led to an argument over how to properly pronounce the word "wyvern".  It was a nice little diversion from a chapter that was taking way too long to finish.

Since that night, I have been meaning to draw a wyvern, and I finally received the chance last week.

Glory Hog, Page 2

Finally, I was able to draw out and post the second half of the "Glory Hog" comic I started last time.  If you missed the first page, either look below or see it here.  Will Dewott be able to claim victory over Watchog?  Let us see...

Glory Hog, Page 1

It feels like comic pages take a bit longer to make than illustrations, probably because I am doing a bunch of little ones instead of a single big picture.  I could be mistaken on that notion, but I do enjoy making these comics once in a while.

Today's picture is the first page of a two-page story I wanted to get out of my system.  Once again, I return to Pokemon for inspiration in "Glory Hog".

Lucids: Ken & Sakura Awake

The week of the Fourth of July was pretty crazy.  Between having like five days at my current job in a row at different times (including a morning shift, bleck!) and the parties, I just could not motivate myself to update last week.  Sorry about that.  Hopefully, I can return to the weekly flow I had going on.

Anyway, I have a little drawing featuring two of my Lucids.  ...except they are not acting as Lucids right now.