#flareon!kai

I found these first character sheets I did of the ninja! I had a Nya too but she wasn’t in the same place with these, so idk where she is :(

I haven’t posted these before because I was ashamed of all the bad anatomy and whatnot... but now I look at these and think they are actually pretty good! So I thought you might like these old relics, some of the first concept and character art for Pokéninjago :D

Here’s some colour tests I did to see which of my coloured pencils I should use if I drew the ninja and coloured them traditionally. I never did draw full pieces of the ninja traditionally though, because it turned out all the browns I had were crap and didn’t look good on Cole (or i just couldn’t use them right. the pencils were really hard to blend anyway) and I lost my interest in coloured pencils overall since digital colouring is so much easier and more fun.

I had decided pretty early on that Kai’s head fur would have a gradient from yellow to orange to brown, since he has brown hair in the show, but brown fur against flareon’s red didn’t look too great in my mind. I wasn’t sure if he was dying his hair brown and the yellow was like the natural hair growing from the root, but I thought it’d be fun if his tail and chest fur also had a gradient. So either he dyes those too (which would kinda express his slight vanity, heh) or it’s his natural fur colour. Which would be fun too. Was also trying to decide if he’d have green or yellow eyes, and I honestly don’t remember which one I picked `:D   Maybe green bc it goes well with his coat and matches the foreshadow of him being the Green Ninja even if he never turned out to be that y’know?

Just a Kai (around early 20s I think?) and a Nindroid.

Not sure if it’s Cryptor or just a non-specific Nindroid. I don’t know if I like how I drew them tho. I think this was my first or second time trying to draw out what the Nindroids would look like, and eh, the olden times’ ninja hoods always gave me grief trying to figure out how to draw them. So I’d probably re-design if I got around to it. But they’re Houndooms! They were always Houndooms in my head and I will make it work was it easy or not haha. Or like, they’re modelled after houndooms. I thought for a while if that would work out, since they are kind of copies of Zane in the show, and in my AU Zane is a Glaceon, but in the end I thought nah, their coding and all the mechanical stuff are copies of Zane’s, but they are modelled after Houndooms because they are bigger and more intimidating than Glaceons.

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I try my best here, okay?

But sometimes.. Sometimes you just have to make sacrafices and use dramatic camera angles to keep the comic dynamic.

Please don.t stare at the butt. I embarris.

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Cole does not like the sassy kid.

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Eyy, it’s lil’ Lloyd!

Sometimes, when I’ve been thinking about the newer seasons and especially my own seasons where Lloyd is all grown up ‘n all... And I come and see this comic, my heart says: “Gaaaaah he’s so smol and cute..! Oh little one.. Oh little one..!! If only I could protect you from all what’s coming..!!!” And then I cry internally and dwell in bittersweet guilt and malicious pleasure. ... I am a monster and I know it.

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Sooo, since nobody suggested otherwise, I scheduled the rest of the comic to update the same time it has been updating until now. The last 2 pages are coming 7th May.

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