Antagonists

In every single show I've seen, the bad guys get very bad representation. The times they are given the spotlight, it just shows them acting crazy and scheming. Of course, this is not true with everything, I want to go as far away as possible from the guy trying to take over the world. Name flopping, "Neal" is an adopted son who started a revolution and overthrew his tyrannical father. The times I do move the story to his perspective, will show how he runs the country, and at times he may do some evil stuff, he is doing it because he believes it's for the best. The ends don't justify the means stuff. Almost at all times, you will see his right hand man, woman, "Selesa" with him. Right off the bat, her closeness and loyalty to Neal will come out. Other traits will be revealed maybe in the future.
Here is the development of character designs. The most recent ones should seem obvious.

8th Grade


10th Grade


Last Year


Last few weeks
Plain faces


They have this bar thing in the palace I guess, they're talking to each other here




Most common attire, military outfits


While still my anatomy needs work, I've really started making my characters more realistic, and my style has a distinct look. There are a lot of obvious errors, but I'm glad I'm not just another copycat. I hope you can make out their personalities from my pictures.

Scene Setter

Books have long paragraphs that describe the setting. Then they go into dialogue. I have a picture that sets up the setting, then I go straight into it. After drawing the boar fight, I stopped drawing for awhile, but last week I forced myself to it again. I wanted to create a really cozy rural wood cabin house. I want to give the reader, the same feeling Mina has, going from modern life to outdoorzy place. This drawing is perhaps the longest I've ever worked on, just because I redrew it so many times. In the end, I really did not achieve it, well its here anyways.





Picture: That kitchen room in charlie’s house Dorothy Charlie Bishop Rheysa and now Mina dressed talking
Charlie: What a peculiar story you tell me Bishop. Well, wherever she came from, Mina is our guest here and now.
Mina: Thanks for having me.
Charlie: Right, well, despite our ignorance of what the chronicle is telling us, going with our original plan, Mina will now accompany you two to the multiple ruins. Unfortunately you won’t be leaving as soon as we wanted.
Bishop: What’s happened?

And hopefully I will have more in the future. Baah, my pictures keep getting cut off.

The narrator

Mina, I guess, is the main character of my story. In my grand master plan, she is the only one you can hear thinking. A little spoiler, I plan on using Mina for satire. She is a normal girl, who is suddenly put in this crazy fantasy world. Original right? I'm a little embarrassed, because my little dialogue to let the reader know that she is the narrator, seemed funny and original at the time, but gosh, it sounds really stupid and random. Note, other then having the name Mina, her background info I really did not put much thought into.

My name is Mina Kuo. I live in San Diego California, and I have just graduated from high school, and it is summer vacation. My mother is japanese, my father half Chinese and half english. My father works a lot working as a international businessman doing business stuff with business people in the business world, so he’s away a lot. Which is really pissing me off right now because I opted to not go to France with my bff so to spend time with my parents. I really love him a lot. And especially as a Christian family, I find all the money making very hypocritical. Okay, there is a lot of explaining to do about my family and our religion, but let’s not go into that. Just wanted to let you all know this is my story.

Mina: Why are you narrating your life in you head again Mina? “Shrug”


This viewpoint, I got the ideal from the cover of Bleach 387 where Orihime is looking at you. I wanted that same feeling. This was the best hand I've ever drawn to date.

Action Aspect

In the prologue, this farmer guy is being interrogated. He retells a story. My plan is, in scenes where there is fighting, lots of movement, something books fail to animate, I'd use comic scenes.

Farmer: Yes, yes. One of the hunters was a blonde girl, she actually attacked the boar head on, she was using a lightning element. The other, a young man with black hair, he came out from above and slayed the boar as the girl distracted it. I got as close as I could to the fight, I’m sorry I cannot describe them better. Here is what I think will especially interest you. The man’s sword changed back into a metal ornament, a metal user. The ornament, a keychain of sorts, must have been made of ancient metal with how it could create such a weapon with such a small trinket. And then… it bore this insignia.







As you can see, there is a lot incomplete. Again, my goal is to get something down, improve, nothing permanent.

Layout

Okay, as I started typing, my goal was to put something on paper. So I'd leave comments in the writing to remind myself to replace it with something else later. So this is from the prologue.

This left a shrew of rather, very rustic cozy alleyways that you’d imagine be full to the brink of merchant stands and pedestrians during the day. But at night, with the dreary silence, it was the place where you expect to be kidnapped or mugged. However this was not the case. Fear in this case to lock the doors was not of criminals, but rather to be seen as a criminal due to the tight curfew. Much easier to see then our two black spots, are the dozens of lights seen makingn their way up and down the narrow streets. Though appearing like fireflies in the night, each of these lights was an armored giant riding his towering steed. So it seems pretty obvious why those hiding in the night would take the roof.
(Picture of alleyway, viewpoint: looking up, mainly armored guard and horse, with the buildings and little doodads in the back. Perhaps Croix and Thomas jumping over, if that doesn’t take away from guard.)



As you can see, my expectations obviously not fulfilled. This is a little bit later...

From a overlooking bulwark, the two finally stopped, pausing before jumping into this pit of war and fire.

Man A: Hmmm, you think our sources actually got it right this time?

Man B: Nope.

A: Then why did you take the trouble to spend months planting these guys anyways?

B: (Shrug) Man I could use a cigarette.

A: Me too, lets go.

The two jumped down, darted behind some...



Pictures kinda small cause of stupid photobucket, oh and the main guy in front, I've decided to make him black. Next...

Beginning thoughts

As I mess around with this blogger thing, I ask myself why am I doing it? I guess it might be for attention, I really do feel like I have something special here. But I know for a fact, that what I know in my head, is not going to come out on paper. Where I have spent hours looking at something, a viewer who glances over, will not have to same opinion as I do. So I guess I like to hear other peoples' inputs. What I'd do was that when I first started drawing, I'd come to school with my sketchbook and pass it around to friends on the bus. "What do you think of this?"
What I have been doing the past few months, is actually put something concrete down for my novel. I have about 20 pages, 3 chapters down, and like 7 scenes from there drawn. What I don't wanna do is reveal the story yet, so I'll just have parts cut out for that scene specifically. Things might end up like the pop artist, Liptenstein's work, where you will have no ideal what is going on and it's stupidly funny, but that's okay. The drawings are veery bad.