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 Another late xmas gift for ichiban_victory  : A crossover fanart of Slayers and the old Disney animated series "Gargoyles". Here, we have Lina and Gourry in Gargoyle form. I gave Lina a few of Demona's attributes since Demona was a Gargoyle who learned magic. Seemed to fit.



I've posted a lot of drawings lately but very few comics. I'm sorry! I'm more into a awesome colored drawing mood then a funny comic mood lately. I don't know why. But I have a few comics I want to draw - expect a comic on the next post!

Ooooh, I can't end the post without showing this to you guys! You know the Muse that pops from time to time on this journal? Well she gets fanart by the talented kokumi009 ....



Lucky!

Over and out.

-Isa

Slayers Fanart sketch, for dqbunny's late xmas present. At first, I was going to draw her a more adult themed Slayers fanart. But, then I started thinking about stuff and trying out sketches. I started thinking about the Slayers buddy-family unit ("Nakama") and how awesome it was. This is pretty much based on the anime, since they are somewhat separated a lot in the novels and in the manga. If they keep doing anime seasons, they might separate them there too for plot reasons (or not, god knows zel brings in the estrogen brigade...) So I kinda wanted a little friendship based picture, because this is one of the great characteristics of the anime and because it's also thanks to them that she and I are friends.

Also, I can't draw dirty scenes to save my life. I keep feeling like the character is about to turn around and glare at me for it. Heh. My sweet innocent soul.

And yep, the image is going to have a frame with body-soul-heart-mind symbols, one for each of the four characters.

And there will be bright colors!!!

-Isa

The gender switch contest on ameliazellove seemed like a good excuse. Basically, you draw Zel and Amelia, two of the main characters of Slayers as they would be if they were of the opposite gender, either born that way or transformed suddently. I chose the *born that way* scenario, because then Zel would have been a kick-ass female from the start, and we always need more kick ass females. I wanted them to keep their personas despite the gender change, but obviously the personas would be similar, but different due to the fact that they got raised differently. Thru several drawings I wanted to explore these subtle differencences. So here we go:

The character sheet...



( MOAR GENDERSWITCH )

In a non-fanart note, I just worked another 12 hour day. I am dead. TGIF.

-Isa

Okay - Old contract person tells me he really needs me to refinish old drawings on a contract completed 4 months ago. Sure. I say yes. Then he tells me it's mega urgent. So I get it done on the same day. THEN he expresses how he dislikes the refinish I did and asks me to change things in the image that litterally calls for me to re-draw it. FINISH the job at 4am this morning. Goes into work half-asleep. Sent Invoice and drawing. Guy sends back drawing asking for more changes and claims he will not pay me since I only re-tweaked a drawing and it  (and I quote) *Can't possibly take that long*

*Isa brain twitch*

Should I -

• Try to explain to him that I require payment and that I had to re-draw the thing and that I won't do any other changes before he pays me.
• Tell him politly to keep this drawing since he already has it and doesn't want to pay me but that I won't make any more changes or deal with him again due to this attitude he has and has had in the past.
• Tell him to stick the drawing where the sun don't shine and never deal with him again.

One of the reasons I decided to pause my contract work was because I was tired of dealing people who think making a drawing is like typing a word document. OBVIOUSLY, it takes FIVE SECONDS and if you don't like an inked section, you can just hit the backspace button and ink it again! Yooooweeeeeh! Drawing is, after all, a portal to a magical land where no work is required to create something that looks exactly how it does in your head!

Fuck this guy.

Have some Slayers Fluff to counter-balance my foul mood.



-Isa

p.s. I'm aware that i'm exagerating and that he's not that bad but iv'e had 2 hours of sleep, my REAL boss is riding my ass and this guy just sent me five emails asking when i'm gonna be done when I clearly told him I am at work and cannot complete this task. He's a moron.

So, the final episode of Slayers Evolution played. As per usual, we watched as a group sharing comments (often sounding like BIG BADABOOM!) considering that the last episode was full of EPIC. It was fun. And we all kinda hope there will be more, but if there isn't, it's been at least really cool to see them hang around for a little while longer. Though honestly, Rezo? Die man. And don't come back this time. In any shape or form. 

I tried drawing Lina to underline the epic, but she wasn't cooperating.



Goodbye lina, it's been real.

I spent the week being sick with a fever. I did nothing but go to work and sleep when I got home. Really. I mean, no drawings, no cleaning. Just sleeping or watching movies if I felt like it. This week felt like a giant waste. I might have gotten better faster if I could have taken a day off. Being a contract-ee, I don't really get any. So the sickness dragged on. But now it's gone. So hopefully, this week is going to be a little more on the productive side!

 Weirdest thing at work today. We had a seminar about the internet, more specifically internet networking and relationships. They put a lot of pressure on the internet not being instant even if it may look and seem like it is and that networking on the web took as much time as making real contacts in the real world. There was other rules too such as; only use a few networking tools and really get involved with one or too so that rather then being omnipresent, you are intergrated, which makes you seem like a better business person.

I found it funny how I already applied almost all of the rules mentioned in the seminar to my internet social life. 

Slayers evolution-r episode 11 was pretty cool. Except for what happened to Ozel. I am sad. I will draw her tomorrow :(

I've been thinking of re-starting the secondworld soon. It would be a reset, so basically restarting the story. However, the problem with the first story was that it was too long and complicated. So this time i'm going to create something that follows more the lines of mini-quests of D&D campaigns. People will be allowed to re-work their backstories accordingly to the new general story (which is pretty similar to the old one up to now.)... I'll most likely post something about this on the secondworld LJ soon enough (keep in mind i'm pretty busy guys XD) I don't know if all the players are gonna return, but i'm pretty sure most will. 

Finally drawings! More Slayers Steampunk!



Gourry, is that a giant wrench in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?
GIANT WRENCH!



Lina's work overalls look familiar for some reason. Chibis inspired by artbook drawings.


Ozel!!! You'll have a role in the Slayers Steampunk. You have to. You're a bona-fide victorian ninja maid.



Visafrank (or however you spell it) hehehe cool.

I don't own slayers blah blah blah but I do enjoy drawing them.

I'm tired today --_--


-Isa

 Here it is; the final costumes for the Slayers steampunk..



Don't everyone look awesome? I especially like Amelia. I wanted to do a photolike pose so I can add a background and color it sepia style. Oh yeah. I hope you guys look forward to reading it. I'm hoping the reception of this fic written by Earthstar and drawn by moi will be good and not a "oh hell, another alternate realiy fic!" Trust me when I say; you'll never expect what's going to come up in it XD

Aside from that, i'm currently working on my own new banner for the Lj. I like this one. I decided to go for less characters this time. The first theme was panel. This one was inspired by a lyric in a song I suddenly heard on the radio... "Photoshop the horizon!" Now if I only knew what the song was? anyways, it's basically very simplified. The background turns into colors. A single work is present, a yellow brick road runs towards the horizon and on it the Slayers cast will be walking. I like this banner. It's kinda peaceful...



Spent the evening working on storyboards, cleaning and packing. Off to Montréal for the weekend. Yay!

- Isa
 

 I picked up two movies last week; the Dead like me movie and the final segment of the Futurama movies. I didn't watch Futurama "Into the Wild Green Yonder" yet, but I did watch Dead Like me. The Dead Like Me movie was a little weird. It felt like they had a great plot idea in the intro and then it died half-way thru the plot. The camera blurs were annoying. I was sad that Rube was gone, though it worked well in the plot of Georga getting a "Raise"... I really didn't like the new Daisy, the actress wasn't pretty or classy enough. I was glad the kept the same actress as Reggie (she grew up so well!). I liked the whole Georga-Reggie thing going on, even if it was full of cheesiness (also, wtf Reggie boyfriend was a complete asshole.) 

You could tell the movie didn't go where the directors wanted it to, and it didn't answer any of the plotholes remaining in the series. I did like getting a spoonfull of George's attitude once more, getting to see Reaper murders was hilarious, and I love the movie introduction, done in comic form. But generally, it was kinda disapointing. I think they lacked budget and didn't get the actors or settings they wanted and had to make due. Meh, it was worth a try and die-heart fans will at least enjoy seeing the characters get one last run. Considering this was pretty much a flop I do believe it WILL be the last run. But that's okay, this way Dead like me and Death keeps it's mysteries.

I do have to say... POST ITS RAINING FROM THE SKY = Awesome.

Now for drawings; I,m in a big banner mood, so I drew the website banner earthstar_chan  asked me to. The theme is "a sea of tea"... I really like it. Especially Ozel doing her super-robot-ninja-maid serving tea. The world needs more super-robot-ninja-maids. It only lacks color, I wait for Johanne to tell me what type of colors she would like to see in here.



Again, for a project with earthstar_chan ... Here is a few sketches. It's for a giant Slayers fanfic-with-illustrations based on the idea of transmitting the story to a steampunk universe (much like the one you can find in Howl's moving Castle or the webcomic Girl Genius). At first it seemed like we were going to do a very "Alternate universe" type of story, but more and more as we compose the plot, this is actually going to a be a story that ties in nicely with the series and the novels. You'll all see. Here are the costume designs for lina and Amelia...



The plot is somewhat secret for now, but it's going to be amazing! You'll see!

Bah, as a final note i'd like to express my extreme geekout over Watchmen and the Harry Potter trailer. WOW. Even if the movie WOULD suck (but that's impossible) they both look so beautiful O_O... It's crazy what you can do with digital cameras and special effects these days!

-Isa

Yes, yes, more Slayers. I got my boxsets of the series in the mail this week and well... That's all I watch so... Slayers obsession for now. speaking of the first seasons though; woah, did the 80's hit that hard or WHAT? Hello, weird colors and animation.

The next post will most likely be back to normal lol.

My computer still has a virus. I know where the virus is, what it does and I tried deleting it a bunch of times and it's still there. May it be cursed.

So, these comic pages are dedicated to dqbunny (some kind of xmas-birthday thing) because I owe her a drawing and that these comics are based on a fanfic she wrote, altered in image by yours truly. I promise i'll finish and send all my xmas-slash-birthday drawings one day. Life is hard with two jobs, no more time to draw (woe.)

Onwards, to the funny comic!

(still no LJ cut because Lj is STILL a BIATCH@!)







So there you have it, a little comic about Gourry daydreaming. Before you all ask -
He wants to remain seated because of emotional and physical "trauma" due to having a pleasant dream interrupted by an angry orange blur.
Dream-Lina doesn't talk because I figured Gourry would not know what she would say in reality in that situation, so he can't imaging it.
I love naked-lina panel. Horray, random dream-nakeness.
Pocota was fun to draw.

-Isa

So yeah. I never found I was the most awesome storyteller in the land. But I still tried drawing some doujinshis (fan-made-comics) thru the years. This comic is fairly old (hence the fair drawings. I could do better now.) but I always found it to be one of my greater successes. I originally drew it for an art trade with

ichiban_victory.

The plot is Amelia-centric, canon couplings (though not really any couple stuff happening. It's mostly just hinted at).

I've been meaning to post it for quite some time for all those on my f-list who have most likely never seen it. Such as cottoncandykid, eveshka, gigabahamut666, inverce, lycorne, neshel,  snapdragon76, the_flowergirl, yukinoomoniand zenavvy.

Enjoy the read guys! This comic has won the prize of having an ending that made all the fans who have read it tear up a bit XD

-Isa

(Comic in the form of Links to photobucket because Lj is being a bitch.)