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

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

*points to icon and cackles*

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Hey, why don't you do some kind of creepy golden sphere, to represent the Lord of Nightmares. ^_~ I can see you pulling that off.

I kinda miss drawing my dark and gloomy stuff. Maybe I'll work on a creepy drawing for the next post.

Well, Halloween isn't that far off. You could use that for an excuse? If I see anything dark and creepy, I'll send it your way for inspiration. XP

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Lisa Ortiz (Lina's English VA) will be at my local anime con this weekend.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Hey, you have Photoshop skills! Just insert the actual world map onto the globe, and viola! You have a cool Slayers pic with the Slayers world. (Don't mind me, I've been working in Photoshop for the past few hours. Ugh, my brain!)

I know what you mean about manga style and how all characters have the same body type. I noticed it back when I read series like Sailor Moon. (Waaaaaay back in the last century.) It always bothered me since it made it really hard to tell which character you were looking at if they had nothing distinguishable (like hair, clothing, etc.) showing. Bleh. I know there are some good artists out there (like for Slayers - excluding more recent manga!), but for the most part everyone suffers from having the exact same body type. Think they all just share one body, or what? XP

I saw this morning you were following me on Twitter. I still don't like it. Like for what I just wrote up above, I would have violated the word count for a Twitter post. I like words. I don't like my words being restricted. I drop-kicked Twitter as soon as that class that made me take it was over. Maybe one of these days I'll pay attention to it. Naaaaah!

I hate Facebook so much more than Twitter, however. I'm counting the days until I can watch my page burn a horrible death. Mwa ha ha...

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Oh God, no! Twitter has taken another one of my friends!
Must....resist....bandwagon...


The body type thing was part of the reason I fell out of love with manga/anime once the novelty of it wore off. With rare exceptions (RIP Satoshi Kon), I end up liking most anime and manga despite their art styles and not because of them.

However, the Japanese aren't the only ones who are guilty of this. Most superhero comics don't seem to know how to make a woman look "sexy" without also making her look like an anorexic stripper. And it really REALLY galls me how certain artists (like Bruce Timm and Jim Lee) are great at drawing male characters with varied faces and bodies; but then all the women they draw look like the same person with a different hairstyle and a new coat of paint.
Sometimes I wish I had the balls to approach these artists at cons and shout "I can easily draw sexy women with varied faces and body types and I am WAY less talented than you! You have no excuse!!".

[prettio.livejournal.com]

Ufff... I got very tired of big group pics after my submission for the book. I think I won't be capable of drawing another drawing like that in a long time ´=________=`

The thing I like the most about not the contest but the fanbook idea is to see lots of diferent styles to draw the characters of Slayers · w ·

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

LOL! What has the hate on for facebook? :P

Awesome sketches as always my sweet =D

[rose.livejournal.com]

Ahh, hooray! Added you on twitter then! :) I'm ~honey

[angelchan-2004.livejournal.com]

...more reason to re-make my twitter account. D: I want to stalk Isa!

Love the Slayers art<333 I've recently rewatched the first season, soon to move onto Next!

Nothing wrong with cutesy stuff sometimes, but I do love your style when you do darker things.

[noseless-wonder.livejournal.com]

Yay! SLAYERS! ^^;; Okay, I have nothing really constructive to add. Shiny spheres would definitely fit the Slayers theme though.

Twitter isn't as evil as I once thought it was either. There are still a lot of narcissistic people who like to update everyone about every little thing they're doing, but I'd say a majority of it is interesting, funny, or surprisingly useful.

(FaceBook isn't that bad aside from the bad choices the developers have been making lately, but it's a lot more useful for keeping track of real-life relationships. I've actually connected with some long-lost friends through it.)

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

SLAYAAAAASS!!!! XDDDDD


And I am now following you on the Twitter. You may do the same if you wish: @snapdragon76


^___^

And I know there are a lot of people out there hating on Facebook. I mostly play the games on there. I do find it handy as a way of keeping in touch with friends I don't ordinarily have a way of keeping in touch with, so I find it handy in that aspect. I make sure to keep my privacy features pretty secure though...