I thought instead of spamming the OCC thread and stuff with my random manga stuff and drawings that i'd make a thread where i can show you them. I have a few sketchs and pen drawings photographed that i should get cleaned up and online tonight, hopefully, also a section of page one to tease ya :p lol
Also looking for ideas for the Chapter 1 cover. I was thinking Fariel and Tanis, cause putting all of us on it gives away some of the suprise of introducing other characters :p lol
So yeah, if you are all online tonight between 9 an 10, i should be uploading some pictures for ya.
Also before you all bitch, none of them are finished, they are production SKETCHS XD LOL
The only ones i've drawn properly so they are recognisable are Fariel, Sonya and Melina.
Though they are just pen drawings :p So not very good and were just a practise for the real version.
Also got this REALLY cool picture idea with all of us in it, got it sketched out so you can all see that too! :D
So yeah, tonight. Promise ^^
~Bryn
EDIT: Also if your character could have a personal saying what would it be? Like Fariels - "My fate is not decided for me." Something like that. You'll find out why when i post up the pictures :p lol
ALRIGHT! READ WHAT I SAY ABOUT EACH PICTURE BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING ASSHATS! XD
Not that any of you have actually been online to pay attention.
But as promised here are some crappy photos of some of my sketchs.
I'm reminding you now, these are SKETCHS, the real versions come later so if your gonna bitch, bitch now before i do it properly.
FIRST! Heres a picture that i'm quite liking, obviously theres some anatomy flaws in some of us but they can be easily fixed in the real version. This will a chapter cover, propably the final chapter, like where we fight Mika and sin. From the top - Tanis, Melina, Neji, Kobie, Sonya and then me at the bottom with my pretty wings :p
And last a zoomed in version of Sonya from the above picture:
SECOND! A couple pen sketchs - Sonya and Melina. Just getting some pratise in for drawing their characters. Once again, bitch now if there is something to bitch about.
These were drawn straight with pen so there are some flaws in the faces. Besides that nitpick away. Also i was trying to make Melina look less like a slutty school girl >.>
I'll post up more over the next few days. I'll try and get page 1 done as well. So yeah. Opinions? :p lol
Well Neji would likely have something to do with protecting or fighting. He normally says
"Shut up and fight," or "enough talk lets fight,"
or something to do with Guardianshipness
"I promised to protect her against all odds, and for that reason I will protect her to the end," or "You truly become strong when you have that special someone you want to protect," or "True power is achieved though the ones you love,"
Well Neji would likely have something to do with protecting or fighting. He normally says
"Shut up and fight," or "enough talk lets fight,"
or something to do with Guardianshipness
"I promised to protect her against all odds, and for that reason I will protect her to the end," or "You truly become strong when you have that special someone you want to protect," or "True power is achieved though the ones you love,"
Why don't you just give Neji and Melina a theme song? The lyrics for Taking Over Me by Evanescence fit them perfectly :)
Right, er, comments... (aside from Feyd's lack of fingers LOL) I don't know if it's just the perspective of him being in the background but Feyd's Dragon Claws look a bit short. Then again they're the same length as his forearms so that's about right.
Really like Sonya, you even remembered the leaf brooch :D
I'll give the quotes some thought. Do you want something they say IN the story, or just something typical of their character?
EDIT - Oh yeah, and the top one would make a good front cover. Alternatively you could, as you said, use it for a chapter picture. But just remember that the story has like 100 chapters XD You're best bet would probably be pics for the 3 "sections" I've devided it into - "Fugitives" (Up til Macalania), "Adventurers" (From there til the end of elven training), and "Avenging Angels" (Fighting the assassins, Yevon and Sin)
Each section also has a quote :D
-- Edited by [BOSS]Fenix at 22:37, 2006-09-19
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
[BOSS]Fenix wrote: (aside from Feyd's lack of fingers LOL)
Sometimes i wonder why i even bother talking, ya have selective reading of something? *bitchslaps*
Also aboutt he quote, both really, something typical of their character and that fits in the story. Like Fariel bitched about her destiny not being decided for her and not being final etc, so thats were hers came from
None immediately jump out at me - I'll go comb the story for some.
And I'd have thought the fact that I put that bit in brackets followed by "LOL" would have made it obvious I had in fact read it and was just winding you up. Dumbass XD
Sonya and Neji have no fingers either XD
EDIT - you know, looking at Fariel's wings makes me wonder why they didn't replace her arms instead of growing out of her back, as she was morphing from bird to human at the time... :/
The fact that it would look stupid is an acceptable counter-argument. XD
-- Edited by [BOSS]Fenix at 22:43, 2006-09-19
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
Okay, some Feyd-related quotes (Sonya's a bit more tricky - any help would be appreciated if you can remember any profound things she said during the course of the story):
“I’ve learned to embrace something far more powerful than Sin.” (to his evil half in the Atellian temple)
“If this isn’t our destiny, then what is? If not us, then who? If not now, then when?” (to Sonya at the party before they confront Sin)
“I’m not the master of fate; I’m just the tool of fate. But whatever’s in store for me I’m not going to run from it.” (Same again)
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
Don't bitch about my wings :p Its hard to fight if i replace my arms with wings :p lol Besides in the second one shes gonna be doing all sorts of crazy shapeshifting cause she will have mastered it by then :p lol
"See past the mask. See me." (Of course that one only works for a picture where she's wearing her Al'bed mask)
or
"The path of wisdom is a long trail of tears."
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
That second one is good Fenix, first one is too actually.
And yay hello Sonya! What do you think of yourself in anime form? Hehe :p Trying to make the characters look more like who their based on to make them more real :p
Yours needs a bit of work though Sonya ^^; Though so do all of them i suppose :P I guess the actual personality to them makes up for their not looking like us! :p
Ive got Melina quotes and some more from Neji which I have taken from the roleplay use them if u wish
Melina; "I want to bring my child into a world without Sin" "I'm not only a summoner but a white mage, we save lives and banish the dead,"
Neji; "as long as she is still alive, i will live to protect her" "I aim to destroy the lie that is Yevon," "The harder the fight the more fun I have,"
I need to do some fight choreographing for Kobie LOL It's all very well to write about the fight scenes but now As is drawing them it occured to me it might help to work out what they actually look like. So it seems I will be spending my spare time browsing gun-kata films...
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
You juat want to make my life difficult don't you? :p
Cause of work i'm not getting much time to do any art. But i'll try and get some drawing down after college today and upload it for ya!
And i'm nearly finished inking page 1, but its not overly interesting. Just introducing Fariel :p lol Tanis comes in page 2. Anyway, i'll scan it into the computer and put the words on it. If it looks gawd awful i'm gonna redraw it XD LOL
SO yeah. Some pictures tonight, hopefully. If not next week some time.
Okay, first film was Equilibrium (because it's one of the films I have with me at Uni) and I've been playing the fight scenes in slo-mo to get ideas (you kinda have to, it's so damn fast LOL). Even though it's with guns some of it is still usable (the close range stuff). You may recognise a certain sequence in my next post XD
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
lol yeah its supposed to help but have you ever tried drawing out a sequance from equilibrum that'll make sense?! XD LOL Sure if i can pull it off it'll be ace. If i can't it will look god aweful XD
Nah, I've worked it all out - it's land in the middle of 6 guys, cross your guns and shoot forward, sweep your arms back and shoot backward as you stand up, shoot forward again, cross, diagonal, cross again with your right arm over your head, diagonal, cross, sideways, head cross, diagonal, cross, spin and windmill your arms to come to rest with one hand above the other, and all six guys fall down.
What could possibly be simpler? XD
Edit - And it would work for Kobie vs six Sin Spawn as well, only with stabs from his Dragon Claws rather than shooting XD
-- Edited by [BOSS]Fenix at 18:26, 2006-09-30
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
Good news - I am in the process of writing a post for the RP (basically Feyd and Sonya summoning their Aeons against Sin), which will be up soon.
Bad news - I am about to spam
Well, not really - I am just posting the fact that I've been looking for a while for a way to compress Sonya's "We've come this far" speech into a usable quote for Asreal's pics and I think I've found a way (not actually in the story dialogue, but meh...) courtesy of Jeff Wayne: "If we can win a battle, then we can win a war."
So there's another option for you.
Also, looking at the pic of Fari and her wings, I think you're going to have to rethink her wardrobe XD Coz you can't fit them under her shirt and they wouldn't fit through holes cut in the back either (they'd be bigger than the shirt itself) LOL And even if they did, getting dressed would be a monumental pain in the arse XD Also no more cloaks, as they'd get in the way - bet you didn't think of that!
You might get away with it in the story, but not in a pictorial manga, so I think Fari will need to invest in some backless tops before the next RP
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
[BOSS]Fenix wrote: Fari will need to invest in some backless tops before the next RP
lol funny funny, but yer right. Though i've already thought it all through so don't worry :p lol I've already got her a wardrobe sorted out :3 When i make 360 pictures of her i'll show you what i have in mind! And i'm so not loosing the cloak, it covers the giant hole in the back of my tops! XD
I havn't been drawing much at all lately and it's been really getting on my nerves. Then today i had an idea and got sketching. I have 2 pages of concept art sketched out. And out of you lot, i doubt you know what i mean when i say concept art. I'm meaning really crappy sketchs only i understand of pictures i intend to do.
I did the first of 4 peices roughly today, this one is of Fariel and Leviathan.
The other pictures i've sketched are:
For Sonya: Sonya with her hands clasped together with birdy aeon behind her making it look somewhat like Sonya has his wings, and that they are both flying.
For Neji: Neji and Diablos standing side by side with Neji's sword in the ground between them and both of them holding it's hilt in the same place, their hands see-through each other to make it look more like they are one.
For Fariel: The picture above, Fariel and Leviathan intwined under water/in the air, whichever. Under water sounds more appropriate :p lol
For Kobie: Um, i'm having a problem coming up with one for him XD LOL Though i have a few ideas.
The 360 profiles have gone in the bin cause they were hideos and need re-drawing.
The first page of the comic is finished, there is only one panel left which is a landscape shot of Luca with the stupid blitzball stadium in it, and i can't draw scenery so i'm having problems. So you no see it yet.
The chapter 5 cover isn't finished yet either :/
I've got a whole page of anatomy and facial expression practise sketchs on it XD LOL
Some Chibi's of Fariel and Sonya XD LOL
And some other concept sketchs, two of which are lovely pictures of Kobie with Sonya and then Neji with Melina :3~
So yeah. I thought i would show you SOMETHING cause Fenix was nagging :p lol
2) I also understand about the pic coz you said you find it easier to draw people then add the clothes around them
So no worries
Is Fari's hair meant to be that long?
Other than that all looking good so far - looking forward to the rest
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
For Kobie: Um, i'm having a problem coming up with one for him XD LOL Though i have a few ideas.
Are you talking about a "with Aeon" pic, or just some random one?
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Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.
Captain Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. All we have seen are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum. Farseer Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror then.