manga-style

*glare*

I'm kinda getting back into drawing like this again...probably due to watching Bleach and surfing through some anime-esque galleries on dA, hahaha! I've been reading many comics from my local library as well and there's a number of them illustrated by Naifeh (magicker of Courtney Crumrin's bewitching escapades). I copied his particular style of eyes; you can see several pairs in the photo in where I scrawled his name...

SOOOOOOOO. That book deal? Yeah, it's officially called off. Apparently the publishing company was no good. The author had her lawyer look over the contract; he said that it was vague in the terms of the money she would get and advised her against it. 

She's gonna postpone the project for a while...finish up her business now and maybe revise her book and find an agent next year. Good news? I didn't waste my time on dozen of these sketches, she paid me for my time: listening to her and laying the groundwork for future illustrators.

I felt so bad taking the money though! She didn't accept the sketches I had done so far, she only wanted her manuscript and reference photos of her family and the geese.

Shrug

Book deal has been called off, can't say I'm not relieved. Details, hopefully posted on Friday.

 I do have a picture. It's about 90% finished, some facial features need some colouring in, the shirt needs shading and the sash's colour needs to be fixed. More uniformity, really.  She's not going to have a background...just a floor, hahaha.

Minor sketch dump...

Click for full size.

Heh, you can see my self-ramblings along the bottom. Also there's some early doodles geared toward the africana-style or whatever for the book ilustrations... Basically, wider noses and thicker lips.

I ought to post these more often buuuuut I don't have a scanner and relying on library ones while all the neighborhood kids are hogging the computers is far from ideal.

Will post more often though! I'm  a friend's lineart now shhhhh
So there'll be an oekaki coming up!

Circa 2005

Let's see where my art was lookin' like five years ago, shall we?

Look! She's facing to the right! But see, her eyes are still looking left. Le sigh. At least she's not drawn on lined paper like the ones below!

It says "meenie hair" in the corner. Obviously I styled the hair after like one of my old Gaiaonline avatars; I forget what that particular style was called but it was a pain to work with since it was an uncommon shade of violet. I did a slightly more accurate, watercolour version that I posted to my old dA in 2006. Oh WOW, I take that back. It's not really accurate except for the colouring and the facial expression. You can be the judge, just click here: gaian meenie in watercolour.

Obviously I doodled in class quite a bit back then.  These three are some of the better ones. 

From the same notebook as well. I find it neat that the girl in the forground has a much brighter face. Them lines that run through the whole image aren't as visible since her eyes and mouth overlap those lines, neatly hiding the pesky blue lines.

The library scanner was acting very geriatric-like though it looked so shiny and new!  I was only able to get a few of my Africana- doodles scanned properly along with these.
Anyways, I should be posting my sketches and doodles for the upcoming book soon (not to mention draw more sketches for the author)

Here's a few doodles from a while ago. I haven't had much time this week to scan the doodles all over my notebooks since VBS was last weekend and whatever else in life.

Fffff, they're all still facing the left.
._.