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Exams...make....brain...huuurrttttt.I couldn't resist it. I tried to convince myself otherwise, but I REALLY wanted to introduce Rocket and Juliet. In the end, I decided that this way is better.
Rocket, who I hope people will be able to tell easily by how she looks, is Rekki's little sister. I'm hoping people don't hate her too much, because she's not badassed like Rekki, she's ridiculously nice. She's not stupid, and she knows that people take advantage of her kindness, she just doesn't have it in her to not help people. Rocket's pure white hair can be a pain to shade right, I want it to have a really crisp, clean, luminous look to it. Sometimes she does come out too Rekki-ish facially, a large part of the difference comes from just their expressions! Rocket's name isn't really Rocket, it's Rochette...yeah, you can see why you'd use your nickname if you were called that.
Juliet...okay, I just know people will like Juliet. She's a very confident character with a definite dark streak to her. She uses stealth and craftiness to do things, kind of ninja-ish, so I went for making her physique sort of un-ninja looking, she's not exactly fat, but her bodytype just isn't quite right for her profession and she's always worrying about her weight and stuff. It contrasts nicely with Rekki and especially Rocket, who are both a little 'underdeveloped' and very skinny looking. Juu is really interesting to draw because her phsique is different, she's still attractive, she has a nice 'Maralyn Monroe' shape and so far is the only character with something approaching a bust (They're knights, they run around all day fighting and stuff, I figure Juu is about as curvy as they would get with that kind of lifestyle)...By the way, get used to her being called 'Juu', It ought to be 'Ju' as it's short for 'Juliet', but somehow 'Juu' just looks and sounds so much cuter. It's what Rocket calls her.
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Comments: 10
Twisted-chan [2005-04-29 12:10:27 +0000 UTC]
Ah, I love the humour in this fan-manga-comic! It's a little more subtle than other manga, but that is DEFINATELY not a bad thing! >w<
Lovely art, and lovely development!
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darthmongoose In reply to Twisted-chan [2005-04-29 13:13:51 +0000 UTC]
Wow, thanks a lot for the great comment! ^_^
I think that though sometimes the comic effect can be good, many manga overuse techniques like distorting or simplifying the face to show emotion. I didn't want to patronise my readers by thinking they couldn't recognise a person was annoyed without a lot of lines coming from their head and big demon eyes etc. Of course, the downside to this is that I have to labour over drawing the subtle expressions thinking things like: 'hmmm...does Rekki genuinely regret hurting those guys? Or does she just worry that she's gonna get punished for it?'
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Twisted-chan In reply to darthmongoose [2005-04-30 10:21:20 +0000 UTC]
Yes, when you look at the older mangas, they don't seem to have used that SD-style to show expression nearly as often as almost all mangas on the market nowerdays.
I think it's great that you use such methods, as it takes a little more artistic skill to do detailed expressions, rather than the mentioned SD-style ones. ^_^
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darthmongoose In reply to rare124 [2005-04-22 16:17:45 +0000 UTC]
Hehehe, Rocket smiles a lot, and it actually looks cute because she doesn't smile diagonally like her big sis, Rekki! She's one of those typical female lead characters like you get in Shoujo manga, because I really love those bright, optimistic heroines like Kinomoto Sakura, Honda Tohru and FFX-2 Yuna. Juliet's smile tends to be just a bit more knowing and ironic, you can never quite tell what she's smiling about...
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sanjuan87 [2005-04-21 20:03:27 +0000 UTC]
omg loving the new characters "yay for groundless optimism"!
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deedreams [2005-04-21 15:17:05 +0000 UTC]
Yup! New characters! They look cute ^.^ Hope your exams go well XD
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darthmongoose In reply to deedreams [2005-04-22 07:41:44 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. Just one more exam to go. It's the dreaded Writing exam though...AAAGHH! KANJI!!!
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damned-warrior [2005-04-21 13:50:45 +0000 UTC]
^0^ Yay. New characters. Is still good. Keep posting more ^0^
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