Haru Ichiban's Blog - Posts Tagged "archie"

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?