secondlina | Just some slayers...

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.

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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...

Well, the idea was to just insert an image of the map, yeah, but I can't find a decent one. All the ones I have are yucky, low-resolution. Considering this needs tobe a nice 300 dpi to print... yeah, that plan was flushed out quickly. Unless you have a better quality version of the map somewhere? If you do I would be really grateful!

I like the chat aspect of twitter and kinda use it more for that. I would never stop posting here. NEVER! I need all the words XD

At least we agree about facebook. It's practical to keep your address book updated at least. And a few of my friends are pretty much only rechable thru facebook, so I end up using it more then I would like, but I barely post anything.

Your first problem is finding images on the internet, since most image files will have a low resolution to save space. Your second problem is that you forget who you're talking to, Miss "I Was So Obsessed With Slayers I Have Just About Every Book EVER", and trust me, I do. ^_-; I do indeed have a map I can scan at high resolution. For sure I have a map that was drawn by Rui Araizumi, but it sacrifices geographical accuracy for things like landmarks, color, and a workable size to begin with. I can scan it later if you so wish.

I guess if I had people I wanted to chat with on Twitter it would be okay, but I still prefer the ancient art of talking face-to-face with people. At least Twitter isn't as invasive as Facebook though!

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.

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. ^_-

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