Just some slayers...

[secondlina]

 Well, Slayers is back it seems. Many people among my F-list are re-watching this anime right now, and expressing their love for it. It put me in the mood to draw the whole crew again. Not to mention I needed to try sketching and finishing a cover for the Fanbook contest. So here are the sketches.



And bonus, a study of Lina's body type.



I'm not too sure what i'm going to do on the globe. I wanted the main group (plus Sylphiel, Martina, Zangulus, Xellos and Filia) on some kind of "world". But i'm too lazy to re-draw the world map. Plus i'm not talented enough to make a globe look good. So maybe it will just be a shiny sphere? After all, there's a lot of those in Slayers.

It's drawing like this that make me realize how my style blends manga with European comic style or Disney style. I actually give the characters body types. When I drew more "manga-style" all my characters pretty much had the same face and body. Nowadays, for instance, I clearly draw Lina and Amelia with different bodies. I'm not really saying manga style is bad. But i'm happy my style shines thru in little details like that. Before my style just wasn't so defined. Now it's starting to be.

I feel like I draw too much cutesy stuff lately. I kinda miss drawing my dark and gloomy stuff. Maybe i'll work on a creepy drawing for the next post. Because, seriously, everything is perky around here lately. Though I suspect i'm drawing happiness to keep myself out of the deep hole that is my brain when it gets depressed. Heh. We'll see. Either way, it's fun to draw...

- Isa

EDIT : Almost forgot. I caved. I now have a Twitter account. Add me if you dare! Prepare to be annoyed by my antics on yet another medium! http://twitter.com/Secondlina

EDIT 2 : My hatred for Twitter has died. Twitter is actually kinda fun.

Edit 3 : Hatred for facebook is still intact though.

Comments

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would love to have one of your map, oh powerful collector lady! *laughs* I don't have any of the books to scan. I have a few things and I flipped through all of them to try to find a map. The only thing I found was an odd thing is Aqualord. Meh.

Well, in cases like us, face to face isn't really an option (unless you count video chat as that) so i,m quite happy I get to chat with you guys through lj, aim and twitter.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I scanned the map, but it's only of the barrier lands. (For the 'entire world', you would probably have to just draw it out as I did forever ago when I entertained the thought of running Slayers d20.) I guess I'll hold onto it for now since it's a fairly large file that might be better to do a direct transfer over the internet instead of taking forever to e-mail it.

Why do you think I pressed so much to get you and others to use video chat? Even audio chat is better than just typing since you can actually hear the person and get to know their voice even when reduced to reading mere words. ^_-