Raw pg 8

And now I'm behind! Woo! Good thing this is practice and not the actual challenge XD
Too much other stuff to do this weekend....crafting and faceups took up all my time.

But hopefully I'll get back into it. I have page 9 finished, so that will go up tomorrow.




One of my more favoriter pages. I love the chibis in the 2nd panel (or first, depending on how you look at it). The odd angle of Alex in the third. It turned out ok. The last panel is my least fav but what can you do?

Raw pg 7

Oh this page...

I almost threw it away and started over. The first, third and last panels - I messed them up so bad!! I kind of managed to fix things...I really like Alex's hand holding the cup. It looks so much better than it did. His shirt is still massively bad. The chibi panel sucks...and Chibis are my favorite so that's sad.
The first panel isn't as awful as it was, but still the worst of Isis. Ugh.

It's done though! Yay!

I'm not sure about the thought balloons. I generally hate when people overuse transparent balloons, so I didn't want to do it at all, but I couldn't think of anything else! I might try squares next time, but it's what I usually use for Alex's thoughts so I didn't want to do that either. :\

I'll figure something out.

Raw page 6

Almost caught up!! I almost skipped page 8 yesterday....I got all of the latest (very late) page of FC inked and then it was halfway through the day and thought about not doing it....but it's done! And possibly my favorite of the bunch...espcecially considering the huge mess-up I made right off the bat XD

Too bad I shouldn't really talk about it since this is pg 6 not 8...




 Pg 6...Kind of a mess. I don't hate it but I feel like it could have been better.
It's hard to see what's really going on because I think I failed...but hopefully it gets explained in the next page which I only just scanned in. I thought I finished it, but I haven't even added text yet XD
I'll get the hang of this eventually. 

Raw pg 5

Second update in one day!!




Nothing really to say about this one...it was kind of easy.
The second and third panels bug me a little, I wish Alex wasn't so smiley...but at the time it seemed like a good idea.

Yeah. Meh.

Raw pg 4

I'll probably do 5 later today so I can start catching up. I'm on page 8 today...so I'm a bit behind on the posting.

This one is my least and most fav. It started out great and I killed it (which is bound to happen when working in mediums I can't fix with the "undo" key).
However, the third and fourth panels are totally my favorites!!




It's kind of sad how hard I try to make sure all my characters look different...even sadder is the fact that Alex looks more like a girl than Isis. Sorta. At least you can tell she's a girl. Hopefully.

D:

You can see where i really really really messed up the second panel. And then just kept making it worse....and then deleted it completely with black marker :D
Why do I always hear the world "delete" in my head as a Cyberman voice???

Just an fyi, I'm not looking at anything while doing these...so my coffee pot is going to be a sad sad sad piece of crap. TOO BAD.

Blurg, I should have erased that edge up there D: Stupid Photoshop. It didn't show up there!

RAW pg 3

OMG IT'S ISIS!!!!!

LOOKIT HER! I have tried so hard to get her to work with her new character...when I say new I mean new as of years ago. This is not Isis as she was originally conceived foreverago, but how I think she really would be. If that makes sense. 

This is pretty much it. I mean, it's rough, since that's the point of the whole exercise...but that's her. If I get nothing else out of this page-a-day thing, I am relearning how to draw women (slowly) and figuring out one of my main characters, which is a little important since she's due to show up any minute in the main series. In all I think I'm happier with this page than any of the others. If only because of her...and possibly because Alex looks super-cute in that second panel XD

I wish he'd smile more...lol

I'm doing all my lettering in PS, which actually means the pages aren't getting finished in one day since I don't scan them the day they're finished...but it's close enough. I am fairly confident I will be able to keep up a page a day for an extended time...but now I'm committed to this stupid thing, and have no choice but to finish it!! NO CHOICE!! XD

Raw pg 2

No words. Done completely in my sketchbook, no editing, erasing or any kind of correcting (save for a minute color correct, just so the color shows...straight out of my scanner a lot of blue gets lost). This was actually the first page I did...that top panel started out life as a random Alex doodle (of which about a billion and three exist) and became a panel...which then became a page. Sort of.

Alex has the attention span of a gnat. He gets bored easily and tends to wander off. Which is why he requires a "babysitter"....

I wish my greys weren't so...extreme. I have a pale grey and dark grey...I need an inbetween. I need more blue too. Or I'll just start using other shades of blue. I try later on...Don't know how much I like though.

OMG My handwriting....it's so bad D:

Raw

I decided to practice for November (because I have nothing better to do lol). In the last four days I've done four pages of a story I'm calling Raw as a working title. Maybe I'll officially name it when it's finished.

It's not going to be some big intricate story (hopefully) and I have no idea what I'm going to do from day to day....it actually started with a doodle I turned into a panel and then kept going. I'm using a non-photo blue pencil to lay it out, then I've been going over the pencil with pen in blue and black, then coloring with markers and other stuff, all in blue, grey and black.

I'm trying really hard to just let it go and not fix any mistakes...so far I've been good, and only one panel has really been edited...but not til the fourth page. other than that only the text was added digitally.

 Raw: Page 1



 If you follow my DA page, this is kind of a prequel to Forgotten Children. Or if not a prequel, it would be some time before FC, David and Alex have only just started working with the local law agency.

I really like that drawing of David, looking over his shoulder.

This is page one, but it's the second page I did...Hopefully they get better than this...

I'm pretty happy with what I've gotten so far, it's not awful, and being forced not to constantly correct all of my mistakes means I've got either get it right off the bat or deal with it. The fourth page has a horrible panel >.< But it's there now!

I plan on doing a page a day til this little story is done. It's not too exciting (so far), mostly just chatting over coffee ;)
Character development is my friend. And look at all the practice I'm getting! :D

Alex, David, Elizabeth, Forgotten Children/Raw and all of it's characters are © me.