HOW ABOUT SOME THROWBACK THURSDAY?!
As I’ve said many places, The Hues goes back a long way, and I’ve been drawing these characters in various iterations for a VERY LONG TIME. These are some old drawings of Andy (or, as she was named at the time, Aijiko.)
Of the main characters in TH, Andy has probably changed the least visually. She got a bit chubbier, is all. :)
Oh gosh, this is so embarrising.
I… have more or less decided I’m going to go through with making The Hues into a comic.
TH has been my baby since I was 12 years old. It began as, more or less, Sailor Moon fanfiction. For a long time, in my adult life at least, I was convinced it would never see the light of day because I thought I’d lost all objectivity about it. It’s been filed away in the back of my mind for quite awhile, but I’ve been mulling it over for the last year and a half or so, and I think I’m ready to move forward.
This picture is from 2003, approximately the last time I was working on it actively, as it was originally an epic tale spanning three books. I actually did finish writing the first book, and if you look reeeeeeally hard in certain dusty corners of the internet, you can find it, poor pacing and characterization and all.
BUT, the new version will be a post-apocalyptic science fantasy, about a group of magical girls who discover their powers a little later than we would’ve liked. Basically, the question I’m interested in is, “If the Big Bad invaded Earth and the Magical Girl Squad wasn’t ready, what would happen?”
And to cut into the painful whitey-whiteness of our main cast, the new cast will be multicultural, multiracial, and with a variety of body types. It’s going to be SO RAD.
Anyways, I’m not sure when I’ll be starting The Hues, since I only have the very basic story arcs in my head at the moment, plus changing the setting to post-apocalypse throws a bit of a wrench in the existing mythology I had before, but I think I can carry the basic spirit of the old stuff and put it into the new stuff.
And all this was to let you know that, last weekend at Matsuricon, I spent some of my idle time at the table doing some concept sketches. So here they come!
I don’t entirely hate this one. It’s a picture of Hue Scarlett, from the Hues, my previously-mentioned magical girl fiction project. I should redo this picture with my current skills.
That’s it for the stuff from 2001! Maybe in another year, I’ll look through the stuff from 2002. ^_^;;
Aw yeah, it’s 10-year-old Gundam Wing fanart!
I had a brief crush on Heero (top center) at the time. Of course, I hadn’t really seen that much of the show at that point, but that didn’t mattter.
Another Sailor Moon O fanart. ANGST. I didn’t finish drawing Demetrius’ robes, so he’s just a poor, floating torso.
Uh oh.
It’s…
It’s…
IT’S… NEOPETS FANART. D:
I had a deep and meaningful Neopets fanfiction that involved the fairies. Oh god.
IT’S A… um… Sailor Moon after a few generations of accumulated blingitude?
Yeah, I think at the time, I was just trying to add a ridiculous amount of bling to this future-reincarnation of Sailor Moon.
I was a really big fan of Sailor Moon O: Orion’s Story, a really awesome Sailor Moon fanfiction from back in the day. This is am illustrated moment from the story, which had something like 40 chapters planned (to fit into a typical TV season of Sailor Moon) and actually got to around the 30-35 chapter mark before the author got a life and lost interest in it.
She’s now a published romance novel writer under the pen name Merry Shannon, so hooray for her. :) We’re still friends on Facebook after all these years.
This is one of the few colored drawings in this sketchbook. I did a few of them in the first few pages of this sketchbook, but it didn’t last.
Samishii and Yousei are two characters from my very embarrassing original fiction, Sailor Moon-inspired/loving-ripoff magical girl story, The Hues. It’s my baby, and I still have a huge soft spot for it, but it pains me because I can’t really produce it without feeling weird about it.
This was also apparently the period where I was dotting my i’s with circles.