Dark and Light Story 3: Letcia's Heartbreak

Hello everyone, sometime last year I mentioned that there will be another Dark and Light Story. This one is based on the Manga Jiman comic entry that I entered last year. I got the results last week and unfortunately I was not part of the shortlist. As a result of this, the comic entry will be part of a web-comic that I'll be showing sometime this year. The Dark and light Story that I'll be showing here is the first part of the story. It reveals Leticia and Cain are celebrating their One Year anniversary of being a couple.  I'll be tacking this first part again and there will be slight changes when I create the web-comic.

In case you would like to see the initial sketches for the comic entry that I entered last year click here. Here it is:

Since this is the third Dark and Light Story that I created and you would like to see the previous two Dark and Light Stories, click here for the first and here for the second.
I'll be be creating another Dark and Light Story sometime this year.
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Three Year Anniversary in Job and Initial Sketches for Manga Jiman Competition 2013

Hello Everyone! Today marks three years since I have been working as an Event Steward. To celebrate I created this digital drawing. This sketch was created during the second to last week of September, then edited on Photoshop:

Along side this drawing there was going to be a short silent story about one of the experiences that I had while in this job. But I couldn't do it since I have my Manga Jiman competition entry complete. So I felt that it would be better to show you the initial skteches for each of the characters that will be in the comic:

Here are the first initial sketches of the main character Laeticia:

* This is the chosen character design for the main protagonist Laeticia. Here are the facial expressions of this sketch:

The next main protagonist was the senior doctor Derek. This character I felt was very very difficult to do, the facial features were OK, but what I felt that was difficult was to find a suitable hairstyle for him. I did a couple while standing at the bus stop on the way home from church, the remainder of these sketches took place while I was at my lunch break at work and also during the train ride home. 

In total I made about twelve sketches, here it is:

From the sixth character design I created facial expression for each of them:

* The chosen character and facial design indicated here was at first going to be the chosen image. It was heavily influenced after I watched this cologne advertisement, while waiting for some music videos to appear. I was mesmerised on how this guy looked and  I felt he looked quite sleek. When I completing the sketches I decided to say 'No' because I felt the hairstyle was commonly used. I was left gutted decided to choose the last character design.

**After completing each character and facial expression, this chosen image which will be how Derek will be depicted I felt was the right one.

Only one character and facial expression design for one of the character Cain is shown here:

The final character for this Manga Jiman entry is the character SelenaMay:

*The initial sketch here is the chosen character for the manga. Here is the facial expressions:

I'm currently nearly finishing the comic in pencil. By the end of this week the pages will be inked and imported to photoshop for the next stages.