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One of the projects I have for Forbidden is a series of pin-ups of the characters. So I'm starting with Lei. My, he looks kinda ferocious in here, LOL. He's usually sharp-tongued but quiet.

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Yeah, day 5 was moot. I was kinda tired and didn't want to draw--on the other hand, I did write for a while. And now, day 6 I was out most of the day doing errands, so not much time. Since the subject was quite difficult, I decided to scan the lineart, since I knew I wouldn't be able to finish it on time. And anatomy is the thing I need to work on the most, right?
Anyway, it's Lei and Sween... x2. She's both in her daily (sunny) form and in her nightly (shady) form. Lei acts so tough near her, but I wonder about his feelings if he'd be in the middle of both Sweens... I kinda want to make a picture with both Sweens holding him, but my sexistly-conditioned mind tells me it'd look odd.

The specifics:

•Time taken: Approximately two hours. I think I never took so much time with simple lineart.


•Media used: Micromarker, black gel pen, black thick pen and cool white high quality drawing paper.


•30-day trial: Day 6/30, July 10th 2018

I was right not to color this picture yesterday, the coloring took three hours, much more time than I had. This picture in general took a lot of effort since the communal pose is difficult and I kept the use of references to a minimum. Left side for Sween's nightly form, right for sunny form. Instead of roughly dividing the page like what I see in pictures of this kind, I went for a smooth transition between light and dark, day and night. I kinda have a feeling Lei won't stay much longer in that pose...

The specifics:
•Time taken: Approximately three hours, plus the two for lineart.
•Media used: Color pencils, pastels, micromarker, black gel pen, black thick pen and cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 7/30, July 11th 2018
•Technical notes to self: Black, blackish grey and mouse grey get perfect coverage together, and good for that non-shiny black.

Gotta confess I cheated a bit on this one... I had this page half-made before today, heh heh. I spent a lot of time today writing, it can't be helped. Anyway, page 29 of the comic, page 16 from Day 1. Lei ate her trap hook, line and bait =D

The specifics:
•Time taken: Approximately an hour and a half (plus unknown time from before), not counting the digital alterations.
•Media used: Color pencils, pastels, neon marker, micromarker, black gel pen, black thick pen and cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 8/30, July 12th 2018

Day 11 was nothing but rest all day, much needed rest since I developed a thumb tendinitis—not the artwork’s fault, there’s a couple things I do effort with it at home. So here’s day 12, I was feeling lack of inspiration (mostly because I can’t decide who to picture in next Angel Power Compendium’s image) so I just decided to make another comic page, this one from scratch.

Ohh, so Lei’s confusion only lasted a moment. Oh well. Last Lei appearance for a few pages, until Day 2. Sween’s dialogue partner now will become someone much more mysterious…

The specifics:

•Time taken: Pretty much all day, but I did all kinds of stuff meanwhile.
•Media used: color pencils and black pen with some micromarker and pencil, some pastel. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 12/30, July 16th 2018

Well, I have been working less and less on drawing, but it does seem this trial makes my creative juices flow. The 21st I wrote about 1,500 words for my next novel (I know, not too impressive); the 22nd I made a cute box with lovely paper, glitter and felt (it feels very Christmas-like--I wonder if I should upload a pic?) and today I was going to make the Lei version of the police tape, but as I drew it, I thought maybe I would try typical coloring instead of the bold, solid color. So I didn't finish it. Also today I was taking off the paint on my bedroom wall and cleaning it up, which was like a craft. I was also watching one of my favorite series from teenagehood, and I thought about a cool idea for another Forbidden novel. (One published, another in the verge of doing so and seven more in drafts... Please end what you started first, Captain Haru!)

Wow, you can't imagine how hard is this pose until you've tried it... But still, I guess I am easing in my efforts because I am more satisfied with my current skill, and also because I can hardly follow a routine every day. I like creating every day, but my creative efforts can and will change direction with the day.

The specifics:

•Time taken: Approximately an hour and half.
•Media used: Pencil, black pen and micromarker. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 19/30, July 23th 2018
•Technical notes to myself: Stop using the sketching pencil for sketches that need to be erased.

Anyway. I'm posting this today because I finished it today, but I did most of the artwork yesterday. This pic looks so simple but it was a ton of work, choosing the right grays and stuff. And yet, it didn't quite work out as I wanted it. Lei is facing the light and Sween is turning her back at it, so I need to redo this to make Sween's face fully shadowed, but I quite didn't want to do that, so that's why it turned out this way. I think her face looks weird...

Anyway, today's about the everyday bread for an angel: memory deletion. They can do it very specifically and can also combine it with another power to alter people's memories... but that's for a future illustration.

Five days to go... It seems I have been doing this forever...

The specifics:

•Time taken: I was a lot...

•Media used: Watercolor pencils with some pencil. Warm white 75 grams watercolor paper.

•30-day trial: Day 24 and 25/30, July 28 and 29th 2018

And finally the colored version of the lineart I posted days ago. I had some trouble with this pic's coloring. When I finished it, Lei's skin looked purplish. I quickly noted what the mistake was: the pic is painted in cool colors, while I had painted his skin in neutral (or perhaps neutral-warm) tones. So I grabbed the Pale Lemon Yellow pencil and gave him an overall layer. Strange how color works: now much cooler, it actually looks warmer.

Lei's skin is still a problem spot for me. Even though the coloring is better now, and kinda looks alive, the problem is that his skin should be snow-white. Milk colored. Almost albino. Not this darker pink tone. I can't do that with colors yet, unless I want him to look like a statue. More experimentation is needed.

I also wrote almost 3000 words for my third novel today.



The specifics:
•Time taken: Approximately three hours and half, lpus what the lineart took me.
•Media used: Color pencils, pencil, black pen and micromarker. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 26/30, July 30th 2018
•Technical notes to myself: For cool-colored pics, use Granite Rose, not Light Flesh. Especially with icy colors, or they will crash. Granite Rose is for Lei, Light Flesh for Sween in sunny form.

Okay, so the 31st we had a blackout (again<.<) but I still managed to make a couple of nice crafts (two decorated pencils, one with the Rio characters and another with a fuzzy cat). 1st August you may not know, but it is a sacred date for me, so no work.

So we're at August! The month where a lot of hot men have their birthday. Lei is the 13th, while my childhood crush Kojiro Hyuga is the 17th. (And I know more). I can totally imagine this happening with these two grumps in the picture--next they will get in a fistfight for sure.
Funny that I made them at the beach--we're totally freezing in the middle of Winter here.
There are three stickers in the picture, but I already know by experience they don't show off in scanning. The stars have holograms and Golden trim, the can of Coke is dimensional. Of course, the scanner butchered all the turquoise tones and turned them into cool blue. By the way, I tried a new type of lineart, the one I was thinking of--pencil, not micromarker. It gives it a nicer look, which pleases me.

One day to go--but since 1st August is a no-count, maybe I should add a day more...? This has been such a long month, but somehow, it's strange that it is almost over... Oh well. I got very important things to do for next month, including finishing my second novel.



The specifics:

•Time taken: Approximately six hours.

•Media used: Color pencils, pastels, collage, pencil, black pen and micromarker. Cool white high quality drawing paper.

•30-day trial: Day 29/30, August 2nd 2018



Kojiro Hyuga, Captain Tsubasa © Yoichi Takahashi
Lei Synge-Sturmmond, Forbidden, Forbidden: New Days ©Haru Ichiban
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Another awful lighting weather today... This pic looks nothing like I imagined it, and the scanning made it look nothing like the original... so you can tell how accurate is the rendering of my idea. I thought this pic would be better in watercolors; I don't know why I did it in pencils. Anyway, this is about how I feel right now, LOL. I found this text on Tumblr long ago, and I always wanted to do something with it.
So, today is the last day of the trial... Well, there was some improvement; I will write down the specifics of my progress in a future post. Taking the rest I needed, it wasn't awfully tiring. I think this trial is something that could be repeated in a year, to see how I've changed. I hope I have people cheering for me then!



The specifics:

•Time taken: Approximately seven hours between yesterday and today.

•Media used: Color pencils, pastels, pencil, black pen and micromarker. Cool white high quality drawing paper.

•30-day trial: Day 29 and 30/30, August 2nd and 3rd 2018