#jvsketches

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Five with Dolores

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some number 5 sketches w/o looking at references

(i tried to draw five with a rifle but it looked like a drill)

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I heard a rumor that you’ll be seeing this post

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once there wasn’t a space, only a boy

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• Team Avatar: Korra edition •

I’ve been reeaaally wanting to draw these guys ever since I finished re-watching the series.

Thank goodness for the long weekend~

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he’s got the moves like daggers

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Childhood OCs & Comic Ideas # 2: City Zombie

/confused? check out my master post about this self project here/

 Age that I made this: 9

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, (a bit of) Drama

Series/ Anime I drawn inspiration from: Soul Eater, Naruto, and my fascination of angels vs. demons back then

I know the title is lame aaaa.

Story under the cut!

Story

Jam, Mark, and McHann are students of the St. Michael’s Fallen Hunters Academy, that rescues the souls of children who died accidentally, of a meaningless death, and revive, (but erases their memories) in order to give them a second chance to live another life by serving the academe; to rid of the world of the Fallen.

The Fallen are enemies of the academy and are called as such because of its origins, creatures of Lucifer, a.k.a. demons who escape hell to wreak havoc on earth. But Jam does call them “Them”, or Zombies in the City (where their team was assigned), hence the title of this comic.

Simply put, the story revolves the training days of the team, how their missions increases in difficultly (as they’ll discover how some cults infiltrated the academy), and strive to be the best hunters they can be so they can graduate— to enter heaven.

(So yes, its kind of my imaginary limbo)

Prologue

One evening, Jam and his best friend Mark were on their way home from their school field trip. The two were riding on their school bus, siting beside each other, while some of their classmates were minding their own business. After talking to Mark, Jam looked out of the window and gazed at the sky. The trip was cut short when some unknown creature suddenly crossed the road— which made the school bus driver jump in panic to avoid the obstruction, but instead drove the bus into a cliff and killing everyone in it.

Few moments later, Jam woke up, not from the accident, but in a well-lighted white room with no walls. The room only consists of a bed (where he woke up from), a table with a brown backpack sitting on top of it, a packed snack, and a piece of note. Confused yet curious, Jam stood up, his body didn’t have any sign of injury, and was able to walk normally toward the table across his bed.

“Eat the fish and bread and go to the registration room – M.”

Jam picked up the tuna sandwich and took a bite. Before he takes another bite, a door opened and a gust of wind pushed him outside of a school hallway— and accidentally bumped into a girl named McHann. After McHann gave a condescending look of Jam from head to toe, her expression changes from annoyed to a nice-to-meet-you vibe, then she offered to shake hands with him – and the two were instant friends. McHann seems to know where the newbies should head on their first day, while Jam just went with her despite having a lot of questions in mind:

“Why am I here?”, “What am I doing here?”, “Where’s Mark?, aren’t we supposed to be in a school bus on our way home?”, “Am I dead?” —

Jam’s train of thought was cut the moment he felt the back of McHann’s hand slapping his chest “take a look at this,” she says. Jam and McHann were astonished that they just arrived at the Academy’s common grounds—

  Characters

This time I made an effort to describe them.

Jam – 15 year old kid who dyed his hair white because he likes it, he’s into video games and comics, he’s a slow-learner/ late-bloomer, often spaces out, but kind, brave, resilient, and willing to go far for his team. He looks up to Mark and he’s kinda into McHann.

           Weapon: Bead bracelet

Mark – same age with childhood friend, Jam; like a yin to a yang, Mark’s traits are the opposite of Jam— who’s intelligent, smart but he becomes an introverted snob when Jam met him after the accident. Jam figures out why Mark does this to him. Little does Jam know, the students of the academy is mandated to have their memories of their pasts wiped out. (more of this in the fun facts below)

           Weapon: M40 Sniper Rifle

McHann – a 16 turning into 17 year old whose death was caused by her mother who poisoned her and her siblings because of poverty. They were left by her dad and her mom was in despair of how to provide for the family so she resulted in such act. (Too dark for my 9 year old me to think of this). Being the second out of four of his siblings, McHann is like the eldest/ mid-child, she’s cheerful, social, will defend whoever fights her and her friends, but can be a super weirdo sometimes (that’s why she and Jam get along). McHann is also nicknamed as ‘cockroach-chan’ by her classmates in the academy.

           Weapon: Scythe

Fun Facts

To get this out of the way, the academy believes that wiping the memory of the children’s past lives will help them focus and objectively fulfill their mission. I loved this idea so much that I used it in one of my comics in the future which both dwell in the same universe as this.

By the time I’m typing this, I find how nice I was able to post this comic idea just when the season of lent just started

There is a scene where St. Michael suddenly shows up as the principal to greet the new comers— he interrupts Jam and Mark’s argument in the common grounds— and just goes there lookin’ good with his all white suit and tie, greeting everyone and giving the students a warm welcome

Jam appears to have no powers and felt useless in the beginning of the comic— because of the weapon he got from the Gethsemane activity (where students are required one by one to meditate and pray alone to God—in the stone where Christ used to pray from in the Gethsemane Garden— to ask Him to give them the kind of weapon that will suite their fighting style), but all Jam received was a bracelet with beads. In comparison to how cool Mark & McHann’s were. He later realizes that it’s a rosary.

These three are the main characters. There are supposed to be a lot (like other teams/ their classmates) who were like enemies to them (like that team who always sees everything as a competition), the friendlier ones, etc.— I think I was really aiming for the dynamic of the teams of threes/ twos as seen in Naruto, Soul Eater, or if I compare it to a recent series, like RWBY. ~Powah of Frienship!~

Since I know the plot of this comic is leaning to that kind of stories in anime back then where you follow the characters’ development to “become the very best like no one ever was” – I decided to end it asap after I finish sketching, like, the first episode.

 /End!

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Childhood OCs & Comic Ideas # 1: Elemental Stones

/confused? check out my master post about this self project here/

Age when I made this: 8 or 9

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, (a bit of) Drama, Action

Heavily influenced by (i’m too ashamed to admit this but): hana kimi (the japanese live action one), naruto, atla – the start of my weeb days

disclaimer: i won’t be surprised if you’ll cringe a lot, but oh well

Story

Naho is a transfer student freshman of an all boys academy-dormitory. He is aware that he isn’t like everyone else in this school, much less of this world. Simply because he wasn’t from it. In his home world, people possessed a power coming from the foundational elemental stones, namely: fire, water, air, earth.

No one knows (yet) where the so called elemental stones came from, or how their world was separated from the humans’. Although the only thing that separates their people to us is the powers they have.

More or less, these powerful stones gave the home world that unique identity they know. Each element holder was tasked to lead their own tribes; tribes who lived peacefully and independently through the years, help each other out, and slowly expanding to more smaller tribes/ clans.

The peace was disrupted because of a decision made by one person, and this was Naho’s father, Dr. Akono, a scientist, inventor, and also the first holder of the fire element stone. When he knew he needed someone to take over his power so he could focus on his secret project (of the creation of hybrid of elemental stones from the shards of the other holders, and selling it in the black market), he decided to make Naho, and not his older brother, Absin, to inherit the fire stone.

Absin knew that his father’s decision should not be questioned, but at the same time he is incapable of just accepting it. He was enraged. He wanted answers. He wanted to know if he lacked the skills, or talent, or failed his tests– something. But his father only gave him a cold shoulder if the topic is ever brought up.

In that moment, Absin decided that if he wanted to get something done, he must do it by himself.

Absin, who also assists his father in the lab from time to time, had an access inside, sneaked to his father’s office at midnight and discovered the secret project. Absin found a hidden passage,that leads to a basement filled with boxes full of bead shaped stones that resemble the elemental stones, but filled dark substance instead. He didn’t think of finding documents to know what are these for.

All that came to him was a crazy idea, if he wish to fully experience the stones’ powers, he would not wear it like a piece of jewelry (like what the other holders/ people do in their home world), and he would rather consume it.

The following day, Naho, now wearing the fire stone around in his neck, woke up late and alone in his room (which is very odd for him because their family is a royal household) without the “breakfast in bed”, “i’ll dress you up young master”, and “this is your itinerary for today” routine bombarding him.

So, he dressed himself, went down to the halls, the kitchen, the dining area, the music room, etc. He called out of their servants’ names for minutes– but none answered him, the mansion was silent and no one was around, so he thought.

Until he arrived in their family library, where he was greeted by the corpses of his parents, deeply impaled by a black metal rod in each of their chests– Naho can’t take his eyes off of this awful sight, while Absin appears out of nowhere, drenched in blood, and patiently waiting for him to turn his back.

Fast forward, Naho’s brother challenged him for a fight, for the survivor to be the one worthy of their father’s throne, and for Naho to hand over the fire stone.

Both of them knew they were unstable for battle. Absin who was currently experiencing the side effect of ingesting experimental objects, and Naho, who lacked combat skills, yet, was very emotional; agreed to the challenge. Absin grins, and was confidently ready to obliterate his only sibling.

It all went too fast– all Naho remembered was how his brother looked like a demon and how darkness engulfed him when he was attacked– but was surprised he didn’t die.

Naho he woke up in a forest, in the smell of healing herbs, and found himself with a thing/person/being made out of black smoke who introduced itself as Master, who appears to have saved him from his death.

Master and Naho’s conversation was short, Naho was in shock that he was asleep for 7 months, and his brother (like what the fire nation in atla did) sent his army to centralize the power to their tribe, is creating monsters, and would not cease in bringing destruction unless he acquired all of the elemental stones.

Thus, the prologue ends and the story begins. After Master trained Naho to master his element, he tasks him to help in finding the other foundational elemental stone holders in order to stop his brother before their world collapses. Naho was of course up for the job, all for the sake of his parents and the future of their people. However, he was surprised that his journey would require him to go out of his comfort zone, again, and jump to a different world. The human world.

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Characters

note: i just threw all out of the important bits here. not much of a personality-wise description. sorry if its incoherent

Going back, Naho now enters in this all-boy-school because he heard rumors that he has two of his childhood friends who are studying there. There he meets:

Syo -  (water stone holder), who lived his childhood in their home world but was sent to the human world (likes some sort of foreign exchange student)

Sukiro  - (electricity stone holder), the stone he acquired was originally a family treasure, but stole it and traveled to the human world because he knew the stone only caused bad luck and destruction because of its impurity (later in my comic it is revealed that his family was the one who commissioned Dr. Akono in the first place to experiment with elemental stones).

Also, they meet other elemental stone holders as well like

Magski - (air stone holder), a lone wolf/ orphan from the air tribe, who won the air stone from a colosseum fight. Since then she was hailed as their queen and leader, the weird thing she experiences is, she doesn’t age and experiences memory lapse from time to time (but can’t pinpoint why)

Dyoli - (earth stone holder), he inherited the earth stone because he was an only child. He’s a die hard fan of Dr. Akono’s works. Despite being blind, this dork and genius kid is talented in creating machines, weaponry, and gadgets. He can only see through the eyes of his dog robot- with a well thought of name, Dyoli Jr.

Shaco - (darkness stone holder), she is a character similar to Syo, of her powers being impure. She is one of the lab rats of Absin who escaped and traumatized from his experiments. She then later developed a power to control paranormal activities– but joins Naho’s crew in search of a cure.

i don’t actually recall why I made their names end in Os and Is. *shrug*

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Fun facts!

Elemental Stones comic ran for 2 years because my sisters were very fond and hooked in this comic (which is weird because Ii noticed most of the chapters were Naho and the gang’s school lives together and filler episodes before I went back to the plot lol), and I enjoyed sketching action scenes.

I stopped because I pursued new comic ideas. Then in 2015, I made a cohesive origin story of the elemental stones, how the home world was established by the initiative Dr. Akono and of the first holders, Master’s  identity, ++ some surprise twists (like Magski being a time traveler).

That’s all for now. Whew!

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slowly trying to fill my world with color

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Virgil be like: "its better than fainting i guess"

Charon: "tHEn thEy aSk mE WHy I dOnt LeT hUmANs in mAh BoAT"

the idea just struck me after seeing Bohemian Rhapsody last week

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Caught up w/ latest bnha s3 episodes today~

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“The (unpurified) Salt Bae” Reigen-sensei

Can’t wait for s2 (@___@)/

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OCs of my 4-koma comedy skit that might be forever a WIP

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Dread and Anxiety

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Things during this week have been not so good and left me unmotivated/ uninspired to draw lately. 

I’m surprised when I tried to draw again after a week of no scribbling nor sketching anything-- I got this. It’s not something good or bad, but it felt different. Either way, I’m glad I can still draw properly ( ha ha)

...hoping for things to get better soon.