Sketches and shit

Haha! I made the STUPID mistake of just titling this and not even posting anything. How DUMB lol.

So I ACTUALLY have some sketches to post for you all meh?

meh.

Nothing much. pretty much ALL of these sketches were done in a 15 minute time frame before work. So. Nothing solid...whatsoever.

I can guarantee that I'll not only be finishing the grand majority if not all of these, but they'll look a ton times better once I actually get there sketches underway. They're about 2"x3" thumbnails avg. size each, and normally they're about 7" and above.

Anywho.

On to the posting.


So this one is a fanart of Zack and Cloud from Final Fantsy VII: Crisis Core. Even though I haven't finished the gameplay myself personally. I have seen the ending, and already know that Zack is like, dead. Which makes me a sad fangirl.....cuz I like him more than cloud (he's got the most GORGEOUS eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! link link). Anywho. He's gorgeous, and Cloud's just too damn adorable in CC.....and Aerith is just an uncalled for annoyance! (and she is a totally clueless ditzbrain it seems in CC....she was so much more intelligent in the original game......sad......sad sad sad And don't EVEN get me started in on Genesis...........he was nothing more than a media hog pass for Gackt, that's all. He had NO plot relevance, and no real connection to the story whatsoever........quoting poetry at every spoken moment in the game.....bah! You ask him a question and he spouts rhymes. I want answers bitch! Not limerics and sweet-nothings!).
I digress.
So I was listening to my itunes as usual today and the song "WHY" by Ayaka for CC came on and this little diddy just popped into my head and I just HAD to get it on paper before I lost it.
This will probably be done by end of next week. I already love it too much to not finish it. It's a young Cloud lost in thought after Zack dies at the end of the game (sorry for the spoiler for those of you who DON'T know by now), and he adores Zack, almost literally in my opinion (giving way to of course mass fandom and wannabe-real-thoughts on how it really should be lol...I WISH). So he's standing there, and looking up at a feather which is floating in the wind/sunlight/blah, and has his left arm down and his right arm kinda up touching his heart. And there's a transparent/shadowy/spirit-like Zack hugging him from behind, and his right arm is reached around interlacing fingers with Clouds hand that's over his chest, and his head is resting on his shoulder and he's smiling kinda like "it's gonna be okay buddy". Yah I KNOW. TOTAL CHEESEFEST!
But bah. It was a cute thought, and I was all "awwwww" for the moment, and it looks like it'll turn out loverly anyways.


This one is what I'm mainly working on right now cuz it's kinda due at the end of the week.
If I want a chance at getting it published that is harharhar.
Yaoi Magazine
Yup, that's what I'm aiming for. And this will be the first full concept piece for either the cover or the centerfold piece.
It'll most likely be done in both color AND ink/manga tone not only to mess around with it, but to give them an option.
It's also going to be an introductory piece to an upcoming manga story I'll be working on after all this called +--Live--Wired--+
It's the story of this medical school student Faris, and a bio-android named "Mykha". Faris is this punk kid who is really only in school because his parents sent him there to become a doctor, and he slacks off. A LOT. As in...he's suprised he's made it to his Masters Degree soon to be Doctorates a lot. So he runs into this restricted lab that only the professors use for their personal research, and comes across several empty cryogenic freezing chambers, only one of which is occupied. He stupidly sits down on the control panel, unlocking the chamber, resulting in a half-frozen and completely naked young man lying there staring at him on the floor. As the boy is still unresponsive from the cryo-freeze, and not wanting to just leave him there exposed, Faris takes him home and then finds out that he's a bio-android. Blah, blah blah story goes on and he falls in love with him blah blah blah not gonna delve read more here blah
So in this piece it's going to have Faris in his lab attire, holding "Mykha" who is completely nude. Gotta work on the proportions majorly, but this is just a 5 minute if that sketcheroo before work today, just to get a basic layout down.
This will be submitted for the coverpiece/centerfold, and if I can't make those, just a regular artpiece to gaze at if they'll still take it.
If they like the story well enough I'm hoping to launch the comic through Yaoi Magazine. it's quarterly so I'll be able to get around 15-20 pages in each issue, or whatever increment they'll take it in.


This was the first concept for Faris and "Mykha" and they aren't kissing, but "Mykha" is rather unresponsive and blank-faced through most of the beginning parts of the story as he hasn't acquired the ability to express/feel emotions and most physical/mental/emotional anything yet (he's a prototype and his programming is incomplete). So he's just staring at Faris with a blank look and Faris is kinda looking at him with a mixture of curiosity and slight affection (towards the middle of the story kinda).
Will be done later once I work on Faris's design more.


I can't wait to do this one. If I can crank it out in enough time I would like to get at least the pencil art done for this by the end of this week as well if I can so that I can submit it along with the piece near the top (cover/centerfold potential #1)
It's going to be a completely nude "Mykha", just as he falls out of the cryo-freeze chamber. He's still half-frozen and so he's lying in a pool of the cryo-ice stuff, which has started to melt off of his skin so his hair and skin are all wet and shiny yay.
No you don't see his junk (sorry girls, and guys if there are any). He's kinda in the fetal position on his side and has his left arm spread out and above his head, like he's reaching out toward Faris "who are you, where am I?" half-dazed like that, and his waist is turned and his right arm is slouched over his waist, covering his unmentionables. It'll be a total mess with perspective. But even if I can't get it done in enough time to submit, I still want to do it for a future submission anyways. Maybe a chapter entry cover piece for the beginning of the manga yay!


And this one is another one featuring "Mykha". It'll be probably another chapter starting piece with him from the waist up kinda hugging himself and his face tilted upward with his eyes closed, surrounded by binary coding and wires and whatnot. I took the piece idea from Outlaw Star where Melfina is floating inside the computer network of the ship The Outlaw Star and is connecting to the mainframe, and also where in the anime she asks the question "Why was I made? Who made me? And what did they make me for?"

It's kinda the idea I got for this story. It's this bio-android that is just a prototype, can't feel anything much physically/emotionally/mentally/etc and doesn't have a place in the world at all. He's literally just an experiment. So the point of the story is for him to find his purpose through the aid of Faris, a belligerent university student who has no social skill and is not one for friendship or anything. So they kinda help each other out. Faris gives "Mykha" not only his name (his real name is some looong uber computer code...urr.....*looks at notes* BA200806PT0013 [stands for Bio-Android made in 2008 in 06/June, ProtoType number 0013], or better yet as the lab technicians call him "Unit 13" Faris names him "Mykha" because his eyes are colored in a prismatic purplish-black way like the stone Mica looks.

But I took the main story's setup with the character designs and stuff from several examples.

The bio-android concept came from both Melfina from Outlaw Star with her initial design.
And the overall storyline of both Outlaw Star, and most certainly Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis.
The storyline mainly comes from Metropolis because it starts with a boy named Kenichi who gets lost in the expanse of sublevels in a city known as Metropolis. In a fire at a laboratory, he finds that there is somebody still inside and goes to rescue her, only to find that it's a girl, and she's naked. Although he doesn't find out until much later that she's a bio-android. She has no knowledge of anything. She doesn't know much about common language, how to eat/sleep/dress/etiquette/anything!
He literally spends the majority of the movie traveling the city with her and running from a group of thug authorities who want to use her robotic powers to control the mainframe of a building called "The Ziggurat" that she was made specifically for it turns out, and he teaches her everything. Just as he accomplishes this, they are captured and she is hooked up to the mainframe and it drives her insane, turning her into a mad-power-crazed death machine that is hellbent on destroying the city and all who live in it. Kenichi finally is able to reach her just as her power systems overload and her actual body starts to overheat and literally fry, but just as she regains her senses she lets go and plummets to her death in the city slums hundreds of feet below.
In Outlaw Star it is very similar as Melfina has been kept in cryogenic freeze state for god knows how long and is rescued and unfrozen by the combined efforts of Space Outlaw "Hot-Ice" Hilda and her new temporary protege/combat-buddy Gene Starwind and his sidekick Jim Hawking of Starwind and Hawking Enterprises. Melfina wakes up and immediately starts crying asking why she was even created (and she's completely nude here too btw). Hilda dies shortly after that, leaving Gene and Jim in the control of the newly awakened bio-android Melfina, and a hidden space ship built by Space Forces and Pirates called the XGP15A-II, which they name The Outlaw Star. It turns out through the story that Melfina was created by the makers of the XGP for the sole purpose of piloting it, as she is able to directly connect to the main computer, and can navigate it herself effortlessly as the ships navigational system. She is also it turns out created as the "Maiden of the Leyline". The XGP was built to withstand the outer reaches of space and programmed with Melfina to be able to pilot through deep space and reach, and be able to navigate through The Galactic Leyline - a treasuretrove of riches and boundless information awaiting all who seek to and claim it. They reach the Leyline and it is revealed that she is the key to the Leyline "The Maiden of the Leyline", and she is taken into the Leyline's ancient computer system, being forced to merge with it so that it can grant the final quester's ultimate wishes.

But yah, my biggest influences on story and character design were that.


Until next time folks.