Some more progress, but as I was doing this screenshot I realized I made a mistake. The injured orange cat in the background is not supposed to be a cat (cheetah, to be precise, I hadn't added the details yet). In the story that character was in human form when he was attacked. Oh well, at least I noticed early in the drawing.
Hoping to get this one finished soon, but had to take my mother's dog to the vet today because he suddenly stopped eating , was having trouble breathing, and could not stand up.
It was not good. They discovered that he had a tumour crowding his heart, preventing it from beating. He would have died within hours. We had to have him euthanized.
If there is anything in the world more distressing than sitting in a vet clinic holding your elderly mother's hand as you watch her husky draw his last breath I don't want to know about it.
Finished! I replaced the injured cheetah with an injured Evander and filled out the rest of the pic. I like how angry the lion looks in this. I also like how you can almost hear the wolf saying "Oh shit..."
Some background: My story is a shapeshifter fantasy, and these are all shapeshifters. The wolf has just attacked the human, and the human's father, in black jaguar form, rushed to defend him. The wolf was in the process of beating the jaguar when the lion attacked.
The injured human is Evander (his animal form is a cheetah, but he was in human form when he was attacked), and Daecon has a crush on him.
The injured jaguar is Leander, Evander's father.
The wolf is Darion, who has just in this scene made his debut in the story. He is Daecon's father, though Daecon does not know this yet.
And the lion is, of course, Daecon. This is his first time shifting into his lion form (he is a very late bloomer and was only able to do so because he was in distress over seeing his friends being attacked).
Some preliminary work on my next image. If you recall the last pic I posted here one of the characters, Evander, has been gravely injured by a wolf (they are all shapeshifters, but he was in human form when he was attacked). The wolf was subsequently attacked by a white lion, who just happens to be my main character named Daecon, and driven off.
This pic is the follow-up. Daecon has reassumed his human form and is now attempting to heal Evander. He is using magic that he didn't even know that he had.
First stage: Sketching:
Second stage: Rough inking on top of the pencil layers
:
...and with the pencil layers hidden
Tomorrow I hope to have the rough colouring done. One nice thing about the crappy weather we're having is that I'm building my buffer!
Thank you! It's actually been a big challenge making the cast of a battle manga all female. I didn't really know much about drawing muscular female anatomy (usually stuck to the lanky "sailor moon" build on female character drawings), so I had to do a lot of research.
I just hope nobody looks at my history and thinks man this dude is REALLY into jacked cartoon girls. Its for research, I swear!
The image for chapter 29 of Finding Daecon's Way has started. I'm doing this in between driving nails for an addition I'm building onto my house. It's 32 degrees celsius outside, with humidex of 41, and my house is air conditioned, so not many nails are being driven right now. That's good for the drawings, not so good for the house....
Sketch: This is four of the characters (shapeshifters) flying toward the colony in a hurry, they're trying to head off a catastrophy. Clockwise from top right are Owen the Golden Eagle, Dion the Silver Raven, Jake the Blue Jay, and Arthur the Red Tailed Hawk
Very preliminary ink & some colour started (I am lucky, my husband has a bird feeder outside the window and there are currently eight million blue jays fighting over the seed)
Having a busy weekend! The image above has been completed:
And I've started the next one. Things are getting GAY (finally!)
Preliminary sketch for Image 30, Daecon finally confessing to Evander.
These two are gonna go places.
Rather than make a new post with the update, I'll just edit this one. Rough inking/colouring done
And another update: Finished!
Possibly (definitely) my most ambitious drawing yet. Ten characters on screen (the tenth hasn't been drawn yet), six of which are throwaway characters (all the guys in blue, the "guards") and one of which is making his debut in the story (the guy in purple, Darion, who is the main antagonist - he's been shown as a wolf but not in human form). Add to that the inside of the throne room, which also hasn't been shown yet.
Final colouring done on the foreground three characters and on the floor in the palace. Rough colouring done on the guards.
These are shapeshifters in the palace of their colony. The hair and skin tones of these people are all natural