I hurt my back bad enough that I had to go to the hospital, so I lost some considerable work time but this page took a lot of work to finish all the same. A new setting means a new color palette to determine. The good news is that the next pages should go much faster because I've finalized all of those decisions. Almost 50 la...
2022-08-21 20:01:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A simple drawing of Lym. My intent is to use this for a few assets like the StudioSR3 website.
2022-08-18 06:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I really like how Lym and Simone came out in panels 5 and 6.
Update: Corrected a typo, oops!
2022-08-01 02:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a rough planning sketch of the cover to Project Aether chapter 1. I went through a few different versions, which is only natural seeing as how the cover is the most important part of the book. Even though they say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, the truth is that by and large people do.
The first cover ...
2022-06-20 18:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
These are moving at a pretty good clip. I may even be done with all of these before July is out.
2022-06-18 17:09:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been working on the cover the past few weeks (part of it is done, you may have noticed new banners here and on the main website), but I took a break to finish page 1. As predicted, this didn't take too long.
2022-06-06 03:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Uploading this one out of order because I need to make some of Lym's cards for page 23, so that'll take a little longer than this one.
Update: I've added page 23.
Update: I've updated page 24 and added page 25.
Okay, those are the B&W pages of chapter 1 done. Phew. I aim to finish the chapter 1 cover by ...
2022-05-09 04:27:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the last page, sorry for the delay. Wanted to make sure I was satisfied with this character reveal.
2022-05-03 23:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh darn, I forgot to pop in that AE in Aether. I gotta pencil that in manually. I'll fix that soon.
Update: The corrected page is uploaded.
2022-04-26 04:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Pages 21-24 will all be posted soon.
2022-04-25 04:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post
...and Levant's match is over. It is intentionally dull, if Lym's reaction didn't make that clear. Levant is able to just brute force his victories, whereas matches after this will need their summoners to be a bit more creative (or lucky) if they are to achieve victory.
In a nutshell, that's the theme of the story...
2022-04-09 04:50:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This spell will make another appearance much later in the story.
2022-04-04 15:51:25 +0000 UTC View Post
That obligatory moment where you gotta explain the basic rules of your magic card game. PAE used to have a system where summoners had magic barriers around them that their opponent needed to weaken in order to win (see the pilot). One day I tried mapping out what PAE would look like as a physical card game, and came up with t...
2022-04-02 20:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
So, while I was working on the Black and White page 16 I realized that I never uploaded the lines for pages 22-24. Oops, sorry about that! There is only one more page left in chapter 1, but it is a full page spread of a new character (kinda) so I want to give it a bit more focus.
Black and white uploads coming within th...
2022-03-28 03:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post
There are a lot of place holder colors in this page, particularly with the succubus here. The parts in purple will be semi-transparent with a sparking effect inside.
Levant is our antagonist, and his deck does not have any consistent theming, which you'll see as other decks are introduced. This is an intentional metapho...
2022-03-02 06:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Blue lines for the beginning and end of the first Aether Clash fight. Yes, it all happens over 4 pages, and that's intentional, but don't worry, the next one is almost an entire chapter.
2022-02-26 06:03:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for the monster fights yo
2022-02-25 05:48:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got a whole bunch of stuff coming down the pipeline over the next couple of days.
In previous versions of the story this is about the point where we would be stalling for several pages establishing Lym's hang ups and motivations. Simone was re-written partially to literally drag her (and me I suppose) into the acti...
2022-02-24 04:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the rest. The setup for the story is about done here, and we start the fun part of the story over the next few pages.
2022-01-29 17:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, we've finished the cold open and are now in our main story with our main cast.
B&Ws of pages 7-10 will be uploaded very soon; some if not all definitely tomorrow.
2022-01-28 05:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I took a small vacation last week and whipped this up in the meantime. It's been a long time coming, but we're about ready for that AH book now.
2021-12-29 05:20:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Heh, I drew this a lot faster than I anticipated, but it is a considerably simpler page than the others, so that checks out. This page features an easter egg, with the big octopus Avatar is named Reginald.
2021-12-12 05:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the page where we get a first good look at the chief antagonist, Levant. The themes of Levant's deck are darkness and parasites. This isn't an elemental foil to Lymselia, her deck's themes are robots, inspiration, and legacy, but it does serve as an effective foil to her thematic journey as the story progresses. ...
2021-12-12 00:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In order to get this done on time I had to cut this piece in half. I'll finish the full piece soon, but here's what we got so far.
2021-12-10 03:27:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the blue line stage of the process. I got a lot to finish in a week and a half, but normally I do 4 of these, so this shouldn't be too rough (hopefully)
2021-12-02 05:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd like to get 2 more pages done this month, but I need to start finishing an illustration.
2021-11-28 05:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post
