Haru Ichiban's Blog - Posts Tagged "sween-funew"

Yeah, not my best pic ever, and it's quite old. Sween doesn't look the same during the day (sunny look!) as during the night (black hair, yellow eyes) which surprises people. Wings are optional :)

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

Last three days we had two blackouts and two storms, the ideal combination for painting. Together with the curse, it made a fantastic environment for working. Not to mention, it makes me lazy--I'm only human. Yesterday I made this comic page, there was very crappy lighting thanks to the all-day storm so the coloring may not be so good.


The specifics:

•Time taken: Six hours, I think. I started sketching it the night of the 17th and finished it on the 18th.

•Media used: color pencils and black pen with some micromarker and pencil, some pastel. Cool white high quality drawing paper.

•30-day trial: Day 14/30, July 18th 2018 (actually uploaded on the 19th)

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. Bold colors, police tape, Persona 5-style coloring, but I thought I would draw Lei like this (which I might do later). I also began sketching this last night, which might be a good thing to do for me sometimes.
Day 16/30... It feels like forever that I have been doing this... If only I had someone who would do the challenge with me or cheer for me would be much easier, I think.

The specifics:
•Time taken: Five hours or so. I started sketching it the night of the 19th and finished it on the 20th.
•Media used: color pencils but mostly pastels and black pen, micromarker and pencil. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 16/30, July 20th 2018
•Technical notes to mine: That cheap pastel is totally useless. Better use the good pastel for everything.

I was so damn insecure about making this picture, but I like how it turned out despite its several problems. All the background is rocky, but painting rocks with watercolors is quite hard (in fact, hard is what they don't look like). I will work on this pic more for the compendium.

So... second Angel Power Compendium illustration! This one is about angels' healing magic. I was wondering if to draw Mayii (who uses the most healing magic in the first novel) or Archie (who uses the most healing magic all through the books). I decided for Archie, since not only he'll eventually use more magic, but being a black-winged, his magic is actually way more powerful AND genuine (while Archie can heal with his sheer power, Mayii, being a quartarian, can only extract the life force of her "patient" and use it to heal them).

So 20 days, 10 to go!

Also... look forward to the next illustration in the Compendium, my favorite one, and the least "angelic" of the angel powers. Just two words: Day 9.

The specifics:

•Time taken: Five hours... I think? Could have been less.
•Media used: Watercolor pencils with some pencil and yellow pen. Warm white 75 grams watercolor paper.
•30-day trial: Day 20/30, July 24th 2018
•Technical notes to myself: How do you pain rocks with watercolor? Maybe using salt would be good?

Today's pic is about Day 9 and the magic Sween uses then (also, how she looks when she does). I guess I'll call it 'hellfire magic' for now, since Sween pretty much improvises it. This kind of magic is forbidden and it is only accesible to angels when they give up their premises of "being good" completely. As you know, it's very powerful and can cook up a demon in seconds. As you can tell, it's not something they use everyday and really questions their "good" alignment.

This pic can and shall use more work, but it was quite hard to make. I needed to draw the face four times to get it right. It took me two days, after all.

The specifics:

•Time taken: I was a lot... eight hours, I think.

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

•30-day trial: Day 21 and 22/30, July 25 and 26th 2018

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