Can you hear it? Can you feel it? It is coming They are coming They are the forgotten ones They are coming to take their lands back From now on no sight shall be without their unifying magic of insanity They have been hiding in your eyes In your eyes
Sometimes the art process takes me nowhere near my own personal look on art.
This particular image started out with me painting a red circle, and continued without my own will. This is how it goes: There is a direct instruction in my head to paint a certain color in a certain shape in a certain place. After I do that, I get the second instruction that may appear very clearly or sometimes rather blurry.
Step by step I follow out this out of nowhere input, and I don’t judge whatever it may be doing. It is as though of I am not creating the image myself, but recreating an already existing image.
When I finish, I am unsure whether I actually like what comes out, since I never included my own taste and interest in it anyway. But I still pay it much respect since it comes from the other side with a reason.
I was listening to Empire Ants as I was about to fall asleep, so an image suddenly and randomly flashed in my head. (When the music changes beginning from 2:12)
You know, when you see a dream, even if it is meaningless you get really touched by it. So the same happened to me with this one and I felt like drawing what came to me. The image in my head was so blurry though. I had to make it concrete, which was tough. I'm not even sure if it was Noodle that I saw.
Anyway, I hope you like this speed painting.
My final project of this year’s graphic design class.
This is a back to back spread that becomes some sort of a booklet when it is folded. The facing pages are those that I have uploaded separately, and you can see the whole spread at the very beginning.
Our wonderful teacher (Adam Pekalski) had given each of us a city from Italo Calvino’s novel, Invisible Cities. The stories in the book are very visual, you instantly have an image in your head as you read them. I really enjoyed picturing and illustrating Zobeide. Also I’ve got to say that I was inspired by Dragon Age Inquisition’s tarot card designs (I really love them).
It is the original and the whole text in the pictures, so read it and enjoy it.
Welcome to Sena’s Adventures!
The Government Building in Shun Fei, one of the three independent city states
The story takes place 165 years after the original story, with a completely different world building than Legend of Korra. (Yes, this comic is a sequel to AtLA and not LoK.)
Life in Shun Fei is a little bit different than how things used to be.
As for the main character of the story, it is Sena, a 12 year-old, non-bender boy. He is a bookworm and mostly annoyed with his life.
>>Click here to start reading from page 1
Now, please let me tell you a little bit about how this comic came to be!
I was a die-hard fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender as a kid, and that love has never died. I've always felt that Avatar's world was so lush and alive, that so many unique stories could be born from it. And even the most simple and humble ones would be infinitely interesting.
You definitely don't have to agree with me, but I was personally disappointed with how things went after the first series, meaning with both LoK and the comics (which I must admit I've never watched or read in entirety). For one thing, I couldn't come to terms with how Avatar's world had changed so much and became a lot more like our own world. So I asked, "If it were me, how would I write it?" And that's how this comic came to be.
( Despite this, I really hope that LoK fans will still enjoy my story as an AU! )
Sena's Adventures, at its core, is meant to be a story which examines the complex spiritual problems that arise from modernization. AtLA did something very similar, but through the framework of imperialism and war. Sena's Adventures on the other hand, takes place in a peaceful time. And even though its world is technologically far less advanced than that of LoK, it still carries the seed of a conflict between "reason and magic".
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I wanted this story to feel simple and naive, like a children’s story. I really like that about AtLA and I believe many others do too, despite our biological ages.
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And a final confession. I have never tried being active on the internet consistently before and it makes me a bit nervous. I have actually been drawing this comic for almost 2 years and I made only 24 pages in total, because I had very long breaks. But now that I’m uploading it, I intend to try my best to keep it going consistently.
Just so you know, from page 9 and on, I went monochrome for convenience and I’ll probably go less detailed with the shading in future pages for the same reason.
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Please enjoy Sena’s story!
( I’m really excited for the other main characters to be revealed, but it will take a while! )
The vulnerable truth beneath...
Mineral Palace, art by me
Would it make sense if I said all my searching has been in vain? It all started with a boy who infused himself into me like a chemical. I had dreamed of him for very long, so had he come to me. What he showed me, I am not sufficient to tell. To this day it has been greater than me. That was when I stopped posting on here. But my search has only been after he left. Now I am angry for old bearded men have corrupted and sucked from my juicy life sources. I want somewhere to be juicy again. After 3 long years I am here again to be more senseless than ever? Who knows how long will I stay.
Because I cry every time I think about them.
Gonna put a link to my Hunter x Hunter fanarts here just in case that someone wants to check them out [x]