Lucids: Wendy Krane

I may have mentioned last week that I was not sure if I could post this week.  Once again, sorry for the delay.  I have actually been drawing, but one picture I made last week was meant to be auctioned off for my high school's Drama Club.  I may upload that here next week or sometime in the future, but I figured it might be a little more special if it is not online yet.  Then again, that drawing only went for $12, while the Pokemon comic I drew sold for $50.  (I was kind of floored when that happened.)

In the meantime, I can upload one of my older drawings and talk about that for a little bit.  So, this week, I want to introduce you to another character from the Lucids world I keep mentioning: Wendy Krane.

Concept Comic: Fullmoon

Before I get into this week's picture, I just want to apologize for not posting anything last week.  I started a bit late on the picture I was going to show off, and it turned out to be a bit more ambitious than I thought it was going to be.  I do tend to be easily distracted sometimes, but I do want to return to that picture-a-week routine.

So, what was so big that I could not post last week?  Well, I enjoyed drawing that Pokemon comic a few weeks ago, so I thought I would try another comic.

Fairy Mello

I am back with a new monster this week.  However, rather than making some large monster whose primary offense would be physically-based, Mello here goes in the opposite direction.  After all, if all the monsters one made were created the same way, one might start to stiffen in terms of design, would he not?

Comic: Troublesome Terrain

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...

Karatane, the Martial Bird

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.

It's Lansaur!

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.

Kangolf Attacks!

Once again, I'm trying to draw some monsters.  This week, I have a draft of a rather bouncy beast I call the "Kangolf".

Blue & Gold Dragon

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.

Lucids: Subcon Guild Hall

I do like Pokemon quite a bit, but I really should be making and showing off more of my own ideas as drawings.  This week, I decided to make this picture for two reasons: 1.) to draw more having to do with my Lucids idea, and 2.) to set up some ideas for future projects.  I figured a good way to accomplish this was by drawing a place where many Lucids could meet.

Pokemon: Garchomp vs Weavile

I mentioned before that a month ago, I played Pokemon with some people at PAX East that had organized into the PAX Pokemon League.  I played eight battles against them in all this year, winning six of them.  One of those other two battles never actually ended because we started and played until that Gym Leader had to go meet some of his group.  We agreed to finish that battle later, but sadly, I could not find him again.

As for the other battle, it was a suprisingly harsh loss.  What made it even more embarassing was that this Gym Leader focused on Ice Pokemon, which I consider to be the worst type when it comes to defense.  Part of my loss was due to some bad luck that froze possibly my best Pokemon for smashing Ice-types, leaving him unable to do anything.  However, part of it was that while Ice is an awful defense, it is one of the more powerful and useful offensive types in Pokemon.  This never even really occurred to me when thinking about how a team of Ice-types could work, which is probably why the battle I lost might have actually been my favorite one at PAX.  I hope I get a chance to challenge this guy again next year (and win).

In the meantime, this week's picture, made over the last couple of weeks, was kind of inspired by that story.