Teens of Valor - Chapter 2 page 2

Story so far: Lisa can venture outside of the headquarters now, though with a member of HCOP watching her. 

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I didn't do the splash art as planned for this page; it didn't make sense for me to do so for these panels. Next page however, would make a probable splash art page. 

Next week is another comic concept post! 

Teens of Valor - "Off to a Good Start" comic concept

So after that rough draft I posted earlier in the week, I still played around a bit with the buildings and the idea.

Then I started to clean up the rough paint and added minor details to the buildings. I also began adding smoke from the fire surrounding the buildings to add depth...and cover up empty spots. I tried to make the embers spiral towards the fire (or away, depending on which side you start) to get to viewer to focus on the fire rather than the rest of the image. Focal Point! 

To increase the focal point further, I added color only to that spot/the fire and its embers in the wind. 

Finally, I adjusted the color balance and levels.

'Off to a Good Start' - a Teens of Valor comic concept, WIP1

Well, technically, this is WIP 2 since WIP 1 was a rough sketch/painting of a view from the alley. I opted for this point of view instead for a bit of a change up. 

I ended up scrapping this rough though and re-painting everything excluding the foreground elements. 

I need to remind myself to paint the sky first then layer things on top of that. 

I'm going to try to finish cleaning up WIP '3' before I post it.

Teens of Valor - Chapter 2 page 1

Story so far: Months has past since Lisa's brother was found and it seems the siblings reunion is still quite the talk around HCOP's headquarters/base. 

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Author's note: I didn't  get to put in the usual tone I would for the comic page this week. I had a few things pop up during the week  and completely forgot to put in the tone before placing the text. The reason I say that is of how I work with these comic pages; I draw and paint the stuff I need in Paint Tool SAI and then move the image into Manga Studio debut to put in the text.

Next week will be a 'comic concept' and the week after will be the next comic page. Right now I'm planning on making a large splash page possibly for the page but not guarantees;  I haven't figured out what I want it to look like yet. 

Teens of Valor - Mess Hall

The Mess Hall, as it's called as opposed to the Cafeteria, was named so due to the literal food related messes members of Heroes for CoOperation (HCOP) had to deal with in its earlier years. 

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Next week will be a new comic page, the week after will be another comic concept. 

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I posted some of the WIPs earlier this week on my blog and Facebook page. Work in Progress progress can also be seen on my Behance profile's WIP section: Mess Hall (Teens of Valor WIP) 

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Teens of Valor- Mess Hall (WIPs)

7/2/14 10pm GMT+8

I decided what I wanted to paint for this week's Teens of Valor update; the Mess Hall. Nope, not the "cafeteria" but I've decided to name it the "Mess Hall". It's a bunch of superheroes with a range of age, what's to say there aren't any messes in the future? *laugh*

If any of the visitors are wondering why I'm posting a Teens of Valor image in the middle of the week instead of the usual weekend date (Sunday), I'm posting the Work In Progress images, so the final image for the Teens of Valor update will still be uploaded/scheduled for Sunday.

With that said, here are the WIPs so far!
It took me a while to get a sketch I wanted down; I still didn't get the right look I wanted but after scrapping two or three of the initial sketches, I decided to just use the one I had and paint in the changes. Keeping it loose.

From the final sketch to the base paint application to a smoothed out, but still messy painting, I think I spent around 5 hours on it so far. I can't recall when I started after dinner so on the low side, 4 hours and on the high side about 5 - 5.5 hours.

Teens of Valor - Chapter 1 page 18

Story so far: The siblings certainly have things they needed to work out. 

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Next week will be a comic concept update, the week after will be a new page. I need to update the text script soon....I also need to figure out how many pages I want to have for Chapter 1; I could stop the chapter before Lydia meets Rose Water for the first time, or I could get it to just there. 

Life sketches from various locations over several days

6.25.14 GMT +8 

I'll admit, originally I was planning on oing outside often and sketching on location but the days after I arrived were all rain, followed by heavy downpour that would appear and disappear again and again. That combined with not wanting to head out which resulted with me playing MMOs and PC games ...well. 

I even tried sketching while getting a haircut, thus blind without my glasses and got a fuzzy sketch. 

Sketches below are from on the way to NTU hospital. Which by the way also heavily down poured on our way their. Literally, we exited the apartment and it doe poured. Luckily it was before we left the roof area of the door. 

Teens of Valor - Sparrow character design (Brainstorm)

Sparrow - original character design

(Brainstorm)

 Sparrow's scheduled to appear soon in the comic so I needed to create several versions of what Sparrow might look like. Both hairstyles and costume design turned out the way they did. Right now, I'm leaning towards the 4th hairstyle with a variation of the 2nd costume. 

I wanted to create a bird themed superhero but quite a few were already taken. Falcon (Marvel superhero), Hawkeye (Marvel superhero), Hawkgirl (DC superhero), Hawkman (DC superhero), Vulture (Marvel supervillain). I did think about an eagle themed character but since the character was female, an eagle seemed more masculine than feminine. A swam would have been a choice as well if Capcom hadn't taken it already. 

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Next week is a new comic page! 

Rose Water - character design brainstorm (Teens of Valor)

"RoseWater" is a temporary name I have for her, as I mentioned in an previous post ("Ramblings"). At the moment, I think I have an idea down for her physical appearance.