New Yolei Design

     I had to take a break from re-designing Kaeru, so I threw this together for Yolei. I kind of really like this. A lot more than her original design. I still have to do some designs of her without the short cloak, and I have to design her shoes a bit better. I wanted her to look more, I don't know, upper-class? (Although her upper-class looks come from Lila Light-Feather's wealth, not her own.) I wanted her and Lila to have similar clothing styles. Hence the use of pastel colors.

The original design on paper. 

(I might keep the arrow concept.)

The completed version minus the arrow's for now.

I'll post more shit sketches later! 

@yumi

Photoshop CC?

Hey everyone,

     So surprisingly my parents bought me the Intuos Pro Wacom Tablet and Photoshop CC, which is crazy because I completely did not expect that at all. I just wanted some cash to buy some more ink pens, and save up for my plane ticket. But hey! It was an awesome gift and I am super happy about it, because now I can actually attempt to make some (semi decent) "quality" art.

     I only have the trial version of Photoshop CC, and it has been at least 5 years since I have used Photoshop for anything at all. So my skills are super rusty and I had to watch at least 3 hours of tutorials just to do basic stuff. But anyways. I have some old art, and new art to post in the next journal entry, once I actually scan it and get it  onto my PC.

So as I stated before I am changing a lot about this manga, especially the title, and I am thinking hard about whether or not I want to change some of the names of the main characters, (although that would throw off a lot of things, but you know, I made this when I was 13, a lot has changed in 5 years.) So if I end up doing that, I apologize to anyone who actually followed this blog and read my posts, or kept up with the characters in any way. <3

I'll be posting pictures soon.

@yumi

Character Designs 2014

     So like I said, I did make some drawings over the past year, but none of these are recent and I apologize, none of these designs are final, they are still a huge work in progress, I am also thinking about changing the name of the manga to something else. But that will have to be done after a lot of long thinking and planning on my part. So don't be surprised if my URL changes any time soon. 

I used my tablet for all of these by the way, it's a really crappy software called IbisPaint, but it worked for the time being since I didn't have a laptop.

Sketch Dump Old Designs Spring 2014

Kaeru Design Spring of 2014

Fraye Design (Old) January 2014

Miki crap design (Old) February 2014

     I hope you could get some sort of enjoyment out of these pictures. Like I said, I have winter break, so I will be posting a lot of recent pictures in the time to come. So please, stay tuned for those soon! Maybe even today!

Thanks again.

@yumi

It's been a year and a half, and I apologize.

     So I have still been working on this comic, but with finals last year and starting college, and just finishing finals today, I took a break from blogging. A really long break. I also stopped working on my manga because I have gotten better at drawing, and I wanted to re draw some of the character designs. With that being said, I won't have school until the 26th of January, so I should hopefully have plenty of time to crank out some new character designs, and hopefully some rough drafts for the manga. Either that or I will just do some character biographies, since I have barely done anything to explain the characters. I will most likely only redraw the main characters, and not the secondary characters, but hey, that's a lot in the amount of time I have, unless I work to do two a day.. lord what am I saying I just need to draw. No planning.

• Anyhow, I am in painful need of new art supplies, such as a new bottle of ink (since my wonderful cat Mikan had the privilege of knocking it over and spilling the contents of it onto one of my drawings which I worked SO DAMN HARD on)
• I need pencils, which is sad because I should be using them to write with in class. ( I end up searching rooms for lost pencils, or pens even.)
• I bought like, two sketch books and a 72 pack of colored pencils because all of my pencils are the length of my pinky. 
• I really need new ink pens, and I need new ink brushes too. Along with white ink as well. (racking up the money lololol)
• And I am going to beg my parents for photoshop, since students get a discount anyways. 

     So yeah. I have been working with what I have available to try and make art, I did a lot of tablet art on my ipad, (maybe a little less than a year ago, so none of them are recent.) I'll post those in a separate entry though.

     I really want to work hard to update this blog as often as I can, because I got really lazy with it last year and I kind of regret it, because I could have progressed so much more as an artist. So even if it is just a crummy doodle, I will try to upload it. Haha. 

     The pictures that I will post will be new character designs and old designs as well. I changed some of the colors, and I changed the way Kaeru looked completely. So I have that going for me.

Anyways, that's all I really have to say for now.

Thanks!

@yumi