Bowspirit's Back, Baby!
OH HI HOW YOU BE I'M GREAT JUST FINISHED KILLING AND FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTERING MY COMPUTER BACK TOGETHER hahahahhhhhhhhahh ;___;
I was going to post my pages in weekly batches and while technically the first week hasn't ended yet (since June 1st was a Wednesday and Tuesday mostly only just started), but due to aforementioned computer shenanigans (which took up all but about two hours of my last two waking days) I seriously doubt my ability to get another page done. I dunno, we'll see though.
ALSO HI LJ LONG TIME NO SEE :B
Name? xella! Also known as Crazy Shirt Lady on the Tumbls and just plain Xellandria on the Twits. Mostly just Xella, though :P
First Time doing NaNoManGo? Noooo, I actually was a participant (and finalist) in the... second? Mango, in June of '04. I've participated in several since, but have only completed the challenge... twice, I think (June '04 and June '11).
How would you describe your style? Anime-influenced? Slayers-influenced, specifically? Not as much in some of my other stuff (though it's obviously still there), but my comic started in like, 2001 (and was having the characters drawn earlier than that) so it's still got a very strong 90s anime feel to it, I think.
What’s Your NaNoManGo Flavor? I'm still not entirely sure, but I'm thinking probably something between Mango a la Mode and Mango with the Works-I know "colored" pages is flexible but I am a pedant and I do work in black-and-white, haha. 10-15+ fully-finished pages, anyway!
Show Us A Bit of Art? Uh, well... these are the two characters most likely to be the ONLY two characters in the next dozen pages or so. On the left is Karra, and on the right is Sevvie. Perspective is hard and this sketch has been in progress for forever lol :<
The Story Thus Far: Karralyn Greensleeves is a priestess of Ayara who only recently left her cloistered monastery to cross the sea at her goddess' behest. Sevvie Reves is an itinerant vampire who has managed to get herself kicked or run out of practically every city, town, and village in Meir. They both find their way to the halls of the Bloodraven Clan with the desire to join and the, uh... lack of desire to make friends with each other. As part of their "test of worthiness," the leader of the Bloodravens sends them both out on a mission to retrieve an important artifact from a distant lodge before the xenophobic and power-hungry Hellfyres are made aware of its existence and location... and magically binds them so they can't get further than ten feet from each other in the process.
Picking up only... three? pages after my attempt at the June 2012 Mango (oh god), Karralyn has just begun to come out of a state of unconsciousness brought about by an errant sword sheathe clonking her on the head. I'll include the pages from the start of this scene for continuity's sake, but only the last two count for Mango purposes. You can also read the chapter from the beginning here, or the whole comic from the start (15-year-old art and all) here.
Mango Goal: 2/10+!
I was going to post my pages in weekly batches and while technically the first week hasn't ended yet (since June 1st was a Wednesday and Tuesday mostly only just started), but due to aforementioned computer shenanigans (which took up all but about two hours of my last two waking days) I seriously doubt my ability to get another page done. I dunno, we'll see though.
ALSO HI LJ LONG TIME NO SEE :B
Name? xella! Also known as Crazy Shirt Lady on the Tumbls and just plain Xellandria on the Twits. Mostly just Xella, though :P
First Time doing NaNoManGo? Noooo, I actually was a participant (and finalist) in the... second? Mango, in June of '04. I've participated in several since, but have only completed the challenge... twice, I think (June '04 and June '11).
How would you describe your style? Anime-influenced? Slayers-influenced, specifically? Not as much in some of my other stuff (though it's obviously still there), but my comic started in like, 2001 (and was having the characters drawn earlier than that) so it's still got a very strong 90s anime feel to it, I think.
What’s Your NaNoManGo Flavor? I'm still not entirely sure, but I'm thinking probably something between Mango a la Mode and Mango with the Works-I know "colored" pages is flexible but I am a pedant and I do work in black-and-white, haha. 10-15+ fully-finished pages, anyway!
Show Us A Bit of Art? Uh, well... these are the two characters most likely to be the ONLY two characters in the next dozen pages or so. On the left is Karra, and on the right is Sevvie. Perspective is hard and this sketch has been in progress for forever lol :<
The Story Thus Far: Karralyn Greensleeves is a priestess of Ayara who only recently left her cloistered monastery to cross the sea at her goddess' behest. Sevvie Reves is an itinerant vampire who has managed to get herself kicked or run out of practically every city, town, and village in Meir. They both find their way to the halls of the Bloodraven Clan with the desire to join and the, uh... lack of desire to make friends with each other. As part of their "test of worthiness," the leader of the Bloodravens sends them both out on a mission to retrieve an important artifact from a distant lodge before the xenophobic and power-hungry Hellfyres are made aware of its existence and location... and magically binds them so they can't get further than ten feet from each other in the process.
Picking up only... three? pages after my attempt at the June 2012 Mango (oh god), Karralyn has just begun to come out of a state of unconsciousness brought about by an errant sword sheathe clonking her on the head. I'll include the pages from the start of this scene for continuity's sake, but only the last two count for Mango purposes. You can also read the chapter from the beginning here, or the whole comic from the start (15-year-old art and all) here.
Mango Goal: 2/10+!