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The Ghost in the Attic is a Real Weirdo

Everyone knows you should be careful around ghosts. Though no one ever said what to do if you don't know it's a ghost up there. --- More practice. I wanted to mess with drawing in comic panels and this idea came to me. Hopefully I fully grasp them before long. I'll start making some of my own. Or bigger pages rather. I also mixed my usual rendering with some tips I yoinked from a book on color and light. 

Alchemy Accident

The sects of the Celestial Pillars are numerous, and many of them are vying for the same resources. Instead of challenging each other all the time (as opposed to only some of the time) the sects often send out members to operate in other territories. It's not uncommon to see bodyguards, alchemists, crafters, and more arriving and working in other parts of the Midsea. Easily distinguished by their often brilliantly colored sect clothing.   In this way, the sects act as competition for local guilds and prevent many a guild from becoming too eager to tax it's use for others. Not that this competition prevents the guilds from temporarily hiring sect members.

Doodles 1

Some Doodles I did. I wasn't originally going to ink them but I went ahead and did it anyway. Experimenting with bodies and rendering.

Gotra's Seafood Diet

Gotra is hard to satisfy in terms of food consumption. It's part of what makes her so difficult  to deal with. The majority of her body is gut. And as she expands the sheer ease of flexibility makes it hard for her to ever actually feel full until she's FULL. Which. Takes a while. Luckily, 99% of her diet is (largely by accident) sea water, as she "hunts" by getting near whatever she wants to eat and just trying to suck it up into her body. Though that has the added threat of the longer she "hunts" the bigger she gets. Which has it's own problems...

Gotra the Sea Monster

Around the Gold Plains, and especially in the waters of Llanuras, there was a small-time gang of sea-dwellers who used to make trouble for the local fisheries and beachgoers. This gang, The Fishbone Gang, was nothing impressive and largely only made trouble for anyone unlucky enough to run into them when they were bored.  To the surprise of everyone, they disappeared around 3 years ago. When they returned, the group was SIGNIFICANTLY more menacing. Now the Gold Plains State Troopers have them on a watchlist as the gang of sea-dwelling mutants continue to cause trouble up and down the coast. The biggest among them was the formerly meek and plain "Katja Romanov," though now she goes by the name "Gotra." ---- Sharing this across the platforms I didn't share the original on. It's an experiment with PostyBirb. We'll see how this goes. If it works out, I'll sent more and just start posting everywhere all at once. Diversify a little.

So instead of going over the specifics like I usually do over who this character is and what they did/do/etc, I”m going to briefly touch on my creative process. 

I borrowed the original pose from a collection of “gravure” images on both google and various *ahem* sources. I then drafted the pose a few times and made changes I liked.  Honestly I can’t remember the exact pose, I think the arms were up higher, and she was looking off a bit more, though I’m sure someone can find it with a quick google search. After that I approximated it in Aesprite and layered the pose, as one layer, followed by “body features, hair, clothes, glasses.” And colored them all in, with the exception of glasses.

Heloise Agathe Petronella Hipoly

A One-piece fan-character that took on a life of her own as I made her. 

She’s a genetically engineered human with a penchant for radiation which her family uses in their experiments, often times handling, or downright ingesting the dangerous materials. As a result she’s often found traveling the grandline alone, likely sent away to avoid ruining another crucial experiment.

Finally got around to remaking my icon in a more refined capacity. As with all my characters, a little thought went into the “brands” included~ because world building is one of my passions in life.  Everything is from a store in the fictional city of “Noya-Vezeda,” A city I threw together for roleplaying with some of my friends. 

The jewelry is from a store called “Machinist’s” in the region of town known as the “Star Pits.” From the designer “Marshall Wall,” a self-described “Jewelry Engineer” from his line “Wasted Distance” Supposedly made from metals found in some of the more distant parts of the wasteland in fallen meteors.

Cost : 1000.34 credit Marks The jacket is from a store also found in the Star Pits, known as “Pur NE” or “Pure Neon.” It’s an in-house creation. The pink on it is made with a special compound made from some of the minerals leftover from space-rock refining, and a “secret mixture” that together make the color glow like neon. Supposedly the only ones who know this mixture are the store owners, which they also don’t mind selling as a standalone product, and Tannis has no problem using as a hair-wash to give her hair it’s trademark glow Cost : 470 credit Marks (For the Jacket and the Solution both.) The tanktop and the “sporty” pants are from a store in what’s called the “Town Square.” Though it’s not considered such in any official capacity, the most stores are here and the most people hang around in that area. The store it’s self is a Small operation off the street and in a bottom floor store under a restaurant. It’s called “Whispers.” The owners are into some weird cultish religion, but they make good work. A few of their pieces glow too though. It’s weird. But more expensive than Pure Neon’s so people RARELY buy theirs. 

Cost : 90 credit Marks

And the Drink cup is from one of the larger chains in the entire City-state, The “Junkie Burger.” Their food’s always way too hot, but some people in Noya-Vezeda ADORE the burning sensation. There’s even a name for over indulging in it, they call it “Junkie Mouth.” Which usually entails mild-to-severe burns on the tongue and esophagus. thankfully, MOST of them come with their own burn ward in the basement. But, most people are savvy to the proper way to eat a Junk-o-burger, so usually they only see 3 or 10 cases in a year.

Tannis the rogue