APPRIVOISE!

I'm...I swear I'm keeping up with the work at hand.

Let's get the reels rolling.

This page hadn't been inked for several days after it was penciled. Well, the sketch of Aruna, over on the right, was inked quickly, but the little montage on the left hadn't been inked for a while. I'd scanned it in while penciled, and began coloring it...but then I decided to ink it, then scan it in for coloring.

Aaaaand here's the result. I learned, in the process, to not let myself near paint programs ever again without first practicing and experimenting more with the paint program in question. (PARADOX MUCH?) I spent maybe...7 or 8 hours, mostly on Saturday, coloring this. The way everything is shaded just looks...bleh.

BUT LOOK! COLORS. I'm proud of myself for...sticking to this self-assigned assignment for such a long time without giving up? (In the event that the thumbnail isn't linking to an image, click here.)

Yes, I'm counting this as a separate drawing from its linework.

Brainstorming and playing with the characters for Rose Hero. It's a lot like toying with action figures. I think it turned out fairly well. I used the brush only for people/objects in the foreground, and used my pilot pen for most of the rest of the lines. Sorry if the handwritten text is...horribly unreadable.

Character designs for some villains in the story. I realized I hadn't really updated these two in a while. Cronie's face needs to be rendered differently, so that it isn't solid black on his paper bag face.

More of the two from above. A demonstration of Cronie's power to manipulate paper into whatever shapes he wants. The third panel...was supposed to be the formation of the Paper Dragon's head/mouth, but I think that didn't come across too well.

Again, Cronie's drawn-on paper bag expressions seem...distractingly-bold.


OH GOODNESS. STUDIES. I knew I could still do those.

Now why do I like that sketch of Kubo Tite's face the most on this page? I mean, the woman in the upper-left is nice, but...

SO. Six drawings today.

That's 246 drawings in total.

I -should- have 284 by today, though.

So I'm behind by... 38.

I'm making..very slow progress. I'll catch up soon.