Day 7..postponed

Sorry guys, things have been getting really busy with my freelance work(which is good :) ).

My schedule is a little off right now so I'm going to postpone Day 7 for tomorrow. So I'll be posting Day 7 and Day 8 together if I can :) I already have ideas for both which is good..cause it saves me time.

I am off to bed now!

30 days of IF ONLY....DAY 6

So...technically it's day 7..but...just as I was finishing up Day 6..our apartment building lost power.
I actually panicked at first because I couldn't remember if I paid the electricity bill. Then I remember'd that I did and saw that the emergency lighting was on since the hallway lights went off outside our room.

It came on later in the early morning, so that's good :)

Sooo...DAY 6!!
featuring..a redesign of Zimmie.

I wish I could have posted this earlier!
Day 6 features the redesign of what essentially would replace 'Zimmie' (who belonged to my exbff Zimmie).
You can see the original design of her
HERE
and
HERE

Although were not friends anymore.. I really don't hold any transgressions or resentment towards her, so don't be hesitant on viewing her work as well if your curious.
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Moving on, I don't know what I'd name the redesign, and I probably won't know until I actually get to revamping the story, because names may vary on how the culture is run, etc.

I do have an idea how I envision her because I vaguely know that I would like the culture to be inspired off of Korean culture.

I've always seen her as a very tomboyish character, and think due to her background growing up in a family biased against women she'd grow up quiet and withdrawn, but hold a lot of frustration and anger. Dragon clan  usually has a quick temper I imagine so this would come in as well.
I wasn't originally going to change her hair color from teal. At one point I decided aqua but after experimenting and thinking about the color design, I felt that blue was the best fit, not only to the color scheme(horns were supposed to have some red in there but I forgot, lol) but to her personality and role she might play in the story as well.

I feel it's also intriguing to have a character that is not only in touch with her feminine side but is naturally beautiful and trying to pull away from that, since she connects beauty to memories of her clan and how she was treated as a women.

I'm not sure what role she'd play in Cloe's life. Originally, in the very first version XD.
'Zimmie' was the daughter of Kafei and Anju(Majora's mask). Cloe had a run in with Zimmie when she traveled to 'Termekis'(Termina lol) and she helped her fight off the guards/slayers/whatever lol. After that the two stuck together ever since, Cloe always being the upbeat, hyper, and sometimes a little bit of the annoying one...

I'd definitely like this girl to be Cloe's closest friend. Friendship is the one theme I want to remain strong and important in this story beside romance and hardships they must face throughout their lives...

Day 6 where is it!?

Just got back from seeing "The Secret World of Arietty" with my friend Joe. I'm happy to say the english dub was pretty well done. There were a few character's voices I was hesitant on liking at first, but as the movie moved forward I grew to like them more. I would have preferred they left all the characters names the same as in the japanese adaption, and that they pronounced Arrietty's name properly as   (Ah-ree-ET-eeh) instead of as   (Air-ree-ET-eeh). English or japanese it would still be prounced the same. Either way the movie was still great. Backgrounds were gorgeous and the sound effects were extremely well done.

So..day 6 will be epic I swear, and I will work on it right now(lol)! You'll see a character you might not have expected to see if you're familiar with the story or have heard me mention it at all.

I want to make something very clear right now...I do not intend on working on this story for a long time, and there are various reasons for this.
Reasons being:
-I have many other priorities that need to be completed
-This story is currently not my focus
-All characters that were created by my friend Zimmie(excluding 'Pandamonium' since I originally created her. she'll get a makeover anyways so it doesn't matter either way) need to be redesigned. This is obvious because they're not my characters lol.
-Because of the previous content, multiple versions, alternate character personalities/traits, etc, it would take me a lot of time to sort/organize ideas, decide what I want to keep and what would change all together. The story would go under a complete revamp which would take a lot of time and research.
-This is the one story I want to look and feel amazing, so I'd like to wait till I gain more experience. I've said that with a lot of things in the past, but I'm very intent on this for this story.
-and my focus is currently not on lengthy stories at the moment.

If you'll have noticed from other sites, I haven't mentioned anything about UPTOWN lately. That being because it's on a sideburner..that is off. Once AnimeBoston is over my focus will be solely on 'Pixel Life'. It may seem like I'm jumping around again, which in a sense I am, but I've done a lot of thinking about why I chose Pixel life as my 'forerunner' and there are various reasons as to why I think it's a good choice and how it'll benefit me more.

So I apologize for any misunderstandings.
In the meantime I hope you'll enjoy the remaining days of IF ONLY's anniversary!

Timezonesss

I just realized something upon looking back at some of my posts...I"M IN THE WRONG TIME ZONE XD

Well..I'm SET to the wrong timezone...Looks nice though...like I'm actually posting at decent times..really it was I was posting around 12midnight to 1am...

Time to fix that..

30 days of IF ONLY....DAY 5

DAY 5 features..ZAUN!

Sound the trumpets! One of the 'generals' for the furry-demon-anthro phobic organization Slayers has arrived!

I've been pretty busy with my freelance work and commissions so today you only get a rough sketch full of fun doodles! It's Zaun after all so it's okaaaay! Somehow when I say his name I feel as though it's spelt wrong or something ><. Hope not.

Anyways! Story time!

Zaun was one of the first 'villian' characters in the story. He was a general of sorts for an organization that spreaded hate, bias, discrimination, and all those wonderful things against those that weren't human. Akujin and Zaun were the biggest rivals at that time.

Zaun also a lot of run in with Cloe, Zimmie, and Rina when they were in...Termekis. P.S When we were pulling away from having the story be focused in the 'Zelda universe' we did so by making small changes here and there. One of them was changing one of the major towns from Termina(from Majora's Mask) to Termekis, brilliant right? XD

So there's a lot of different people in this drawing, but believe it or not they're all Zaun..except for that sassy little guy showing off his tush in the lower left corner(I realized after drawing him for DAY 3 and applied some base colors later, he looked sorta gay..so I thought I'd just go with it for the hell of it here XD)
But to explain the craziness that is above.
Zaun originally started out..BALD. I DO NOT KNOW WHY, but when I first drew him..he was BALD. I think it was so the characters could make fun of him? Maybe his hair was burnt off by someone from the dragon clan? I honestly can't remember too well. Either way, it was pretty amusing and still is.
The little chibis are cute right? He's supposed to be an over testosterone driven guy so I thought drawing him as a chibi was amusing..(as well as flying through the sky nakid..)

The upper left drawing is a redesign of him when I was trying to come up with concepts for armor. I redrew from an old sketch I had and modified it a little. The drawing next to it is a redesign I did just now for fun.
I think for Zaun he's a lot better suited to the older worn down look. He's a warrior! He ain't go time to style his hair! Better to just pull it back in a ponytail ma-jigger! And face scruffies..psh..NO TIME TO SHAVE he's got some anthros to discriminate against!!(PS..I do not share the views of this character lol)

So yes..enjoy all the craziness that is above...

30 days of IF ONLY....DAY 4

Day 4 featuring...Xion/AKUJIN!

After doing Kalou I thought Akujin deserved to be up next, because he's right up there with the first batch of 'originals'!

Akujin was originally known as Xion a named picked up from Bloody Roar 3(Gamecube). Overtime he got renamed as the story got revamped repeatedly.  When I first, first redraw him to be older(back in the day), I drew him as Sol from Guilty Gear. In the beginning, before we realized we could just make up our own outfits we'd draw our characters like actual characters(like Sol for instance), just different hair color and sometimes different outfits, etc.

I'm not entirely sure when his existence came into being. He started off as the 'leader' of the 'dragon clan'(a position he claimed from the original leader of royal decent). He eventually became friends with the gang, eventually growing feelings towards Zimmie.

The drawing is of Akujin as an adult. If I can dig up some old drawings of him, maybe even the first one I might try to draw him when he was a teen. No promises though.

Akujin has always been my favorite male character from 'If Only' of the ones I created.

30 days of IF ONLY....DAY 3

Soooo, after various distractions ranging from Skullgirls new character Double being released which I did some clean-up work for, and a fun anime geek out session with my friend Lauren, I eventually finished poor poor Kalou.

So, fun story time!!

I think Kalou was the 2nd original character I created, and ohhh if only I had the first "original" drawing of this boy..seriously...There will be a video montage of all these "original old drawings" at the end of all this.

Anyways, Kalou was the best friend to Cloe, also part of the "dog clan" (woof?). He had a grey wolf, which...get this..originally was a wolfos when the story was still centered around Zelda XD. Eventually it changed to a wolf. His name was stalker..I'm sure you'll see him later...

Over time Kalou went from being a best friend to a love interest to Cloe. Originally though and still in the later versions(not that it matters anymore sadly) Kalou and Zimmie were the original pair, until more characters came into the mix and made everything crazy.

Like Cloe and a good portion of the other 'main' characters Kalou went through a lot of makeovers. His hair changed various times and I didn't settle on something until middle/end of college I believe.  He doesn't actually have a tattoo in any previous versions(that I can remember at least lol) but I thought it'd give that nice touch.

I didn't have time to color him, but I definitely will be at some point and will update when that happens :)

Although it's late enjoy a sexy man for today ;D


To check out some previous/old art of Kalou check it out here:
A street savy Cloe and Kalou
or
a fun trick-or-treating Cloe and Kalou