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

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Some friends and I were walking the Artist Alley at DragonCon, and I commented on how many over-endowed and scantily clad women there were. It was really eye-opening how sexist the comic industry is in the US.

They're a homosexual couple, and one of them rolled his eyes at my comment and said he was hoping to one day change that.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's about what people want to see too. People like the sexy. We just need to show them the sexy comes in many shapes and forms.

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Though they complain that women don't buy comics... gee, I wonder why.

/sarcasm

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's about what people want to see too. People like the sexy. We just need to show them the sexy comes in many shapes and forms.

Maybe I should just drop an issue of Strangers in Paradise in front of them, bookmark one of the pages with a picture of Francine in a sexy outfit, and say "STUDY THIS!". ~_^