Haru Ichiban's Blog - Posts Tagged "30-day-trial"

When I saw this pic scanned, I almost screamed. The scanner absolutely butchered 90% of the icy blue tones in it! I need to redo this so they show up (somehow). Anyway…
Jason’s turn! Obviously, together with Lei should have come Sween, but the pose I want for her (which I already did, but botched it) will probably require a bit more nimbleness in my skills. It is a very hard pose… Anyway.
Jason is a secondary but recurring character in the Forbidden series. He’s the same race and rank as Sween (though he’s much older and experienced) so he also has a very childish personality, though in his case it’s better concealed. But he loves to play superhero! That should tell you a thing or two.
Observing Jason, I noticed he actually has a quite rigid posture. He needs to loosen up more! So not the best subject for making fluid poses.
About Jason… well, I merely described him as wearing a gothic outfit (to match his gothic looks), so I was wondering if to make a stylish one or a sexy one. But sexy is not his kind’s style: they are pretty, cute, beautiful and such, but I guess the sexy stuff is better reserved for humans and demons. Just a bit of flesh isn’t bad, though.

The specifics:
• Time taken: Approximately five and half hours. Discount one hour where I cooked, ate, washed the dishes and checked the mail. I am not counting here all the time I needed to get Jason in a relaxed pose (two hours, including massage).
• Media used: color pencils and black pen with some micromarker and pencil, some pastel. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
• 30-day trial: Day 2/30, July 6th 2018
• Technical notes to self: That pastel sucks, too bad I gave two bags to charity last week and could have donated this as well. I wonder if it’s cuz it’s old? But then again, the Caran d’Ache I have is ancient and doesn’t have that problem. Winter colors depress me.

And today's turn is for the would-be comic relief (if his job wasn't so serious) Archie. The same race as Sween and Jason, and probably the oldest of the three (though he sure doesn't act like it). In New Days, Lei will comment he is like a male Sween.

The scanner butchered this picture in a rather strange manner, chopping the colors and adding a lot of red (the funny thing is this pic doesn't contain any red... What looks like red is actually orange). Of course, for such a carefree character, straight lines don't apply.

Just like Jason, Archie is a secondary but recurring character in the Forbidden novels. He didn't have too much stage time in Forbidden, but his role in the second novel, New Days, will be quite impressive.

I'm also becoming quite tired... I don't think I've painted four days in a row without rest--maybe in my teenagehood, but not making a whole pic a day... Maybe I'll need to take a break soon.

The specifics:

•Time taken: Approximately three hours.


•Media used: color pencils, pastels, micromarker and pencil. Cool white high quality drawing paper.


•30-day trial: Day 4/30, July 8th 2018


•Technical notes to self: Gotta take notes of what does the scanner do to each color...

I was so damn insecure about making this picture, but I like how it turned out despite its several problems. All the background is rocky, but painting rocks with watercolors is quite hard (in fact, hard is what they don't look like). I will work on this pic more for the compendium.

So... second Angel Power Compendium illustration! This one is about angels' healing magic. I was wondering if to draw Mayii (who uses the most healing magic in the first novel) or Archie (who uses the most healing magic all through the books). I decided for Archie, since not only he'll eventually use more magic, but being a black-winged, his magic is actually way more powerful AND genuine (while Archie can heal with his sheer power, Mayii, being a quartarian, can only extract the life force of her "patient" and use it to heal them).

So 20 days, 10 to go!

Also... look forward to the next illustration in the Compendium, my favorite one, and the least "angelic" of the angel powers. Just two words: Day 9.

The specifics:

•Time taken: Five hours... I think? Could have been less.
•Media used: Watercolor pencils with some pencil and yellow pen. Warm white 75 grams watercolor paper.
•30-day trial: Day 20/30, July 24th 2018
•Technical notes to myself: How do you pain rocks with watercolor? Maybe using salt would be good?