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".
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.
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...
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".
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
