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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Manga Jiman 2014 (Part 2): Violinist Amethyst

Happy October Everyone! I hope you'll all have a brilliant month. Today I'll be posting some sketches of the second Manga Jiman Entry that I'll be working on after the first one.

This story will be about a twelve year old boy called Amethyst, who has a keen interest in playing the violin. The reason as to why I decided to make a comic about a violinist is because at the age of twelve I began playing the violin. I played for much of the school year but stopped when I reached year 11. The reason....well the violin that I used to play did not belong to me but it belonged to the school. Do miss playing this instrument. I felt that I need to pay homage to this wonderful instrument as well as my old violin teachers Miss Hockridge and Anda. It's also dedicated to anyone who is playing an instrument to the best of their ability and having great enjoyment. There will be several reasons as to why he plays this instrument but the main reason will be revealed in the comic. Here are the sketches of Amethyst:

In case, if you are wondering Amethyst has appeared in another story click here to see. He may look slightly different as to how he originally looked but I felt that it would be interesting to put him in comic form. Here are two other sketches of him playing the violin. The first drawing makes the character look a lot older. However the next drawing looks nice:

Another character that will be introduced will be his violin teacher. She is a huge help for him. Here are the first and final sketches of this character:

Although I did say in my last post that I'll be entering both. I've now decided that when I've finished both entries I will pick either this one or the other to enter into the competition. Both of them are very significant as they represent the fact that I began being a steward and began playing the violin during this month several years ago.

There will be Fan Art Friday this Friday. Please look forward to it.

Monday, 22 July 2013

Summer Story: Angie's Forward Flip 3/3

Hello Everyone, I have now completed the summer story and it can now be shown in it's whole glory on my blog today. This is the continuation of the Winter story, that I created during Christmas time and posted up in January. I chose to do a Summer story as I could not think of a decent Winter story that could continue with the one I shown in January. All three friends of the winter story are present but the main protagonist is Angie who was seen in the previous story drawing her two friends. She a lot younger than she was then as it is a tale of her past. Part of this story is true, where I made and earned a great friend played games with her and also I did a forward flip.

Before I show these images, I thought I show the picture that inspired me to create the story. The concept was conceived during the spring time. With the idea that at some point during the year, the temperature will go sky high, I thought that it was necessary to create the story:

I used orange in different tones since the outline was in orange and scanned each picture. I was a bit iffy about how each page was scanned so I chose to change the brightness and contrast of some of the images. There are no words in these images, so you'll have to look at the images to find out what is happening:

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With the success of completing this story, I've decided to create a Mid-Summer Story. It will be based on another one of the three friends which is Demi. (She is seen in the fourth picture with Angie.) It has already been planned out through thumb-nailed sketches. Now, I will need to create the characters as well as find a couple of references. There will also be a prequel before the Mid-Summer Story which is in fact a Dark and Light Story. It will be as similar as the previous Dark and Light Story, but with an huge difference, within the plot as well as the colour scheme. Thanks for visiting my blog and please feel free to leave a comment. \(^o^)/

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Summer Story: Angie's Forward Flip 2/3

Hello Everyone, I hope you're all having a good week so far. I thought I'd share another two pages worth of the Summer Story: Angie's Forward Flip. As you can see here it has been inked in orange ink pens. I think you can probably guess the colour tone it would be in. It is in it's last stages and will be finished soon so please bear with me. Here are the pages:

It looks quite interesting to see the drawing in front. I'm surprised of how much I've improved, since the first set of pencil sketches.

Hmm... It seems that I should have take extra care when I was drawing...still never the less it still looks OK. I'm I love what I've done with these two so far.

The final images will be shown in it's greater glory and scanned to it's perfection when it's completed. I can't wait to show you all.

Thanks for stopping by. Please leave a comment I would love to know what you think!

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Summer Story: Angie's Forward Flip! (^_^) 1/3

Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a great and decent time during the month of June. I thought I'd let you know that the continuation of the Winter Story, will in fact be a Summer Story. But it will be still be based on Angie, who it one of the close friends of Rae. It is still in the works but it will be finished very soon. There are about 24 small pages in total. I thought that I'll show you the first stage of sketches in 2B and HB pencils. Although a mass amount of smudges were made throughout the process, it didn't stop me from producing. (^_^ ) Here are two pages of different parts of the story. Enjoy:

I'm immensely pleased with these scenes that I had to show it to you.

I was also quite proud of these scenes too. I'm really looking forward to what it would look like in colour.