Varick Edel: Malen Vier

Oh my god, I am dying in a mountain of work right now and I seriously need to de-stress a bit, so I felt that posting something pretty exciting would help.

well anyway, I'm excited for it! It's a 5 page short story that takes place in the FT:Rebirth universe, but it doesn't have anything to do with the main plot. Everything right now is up in the air until my teacher approves of it, but I really like the direction it's going in and I have faith that I can make it into something pretty cool.

Also I kind of really want to write it in German. haha I know the teach won't like THAT very much. XDD

Here are my first brainstorming ideas/sketches for it:


It took about 1-2 hours of brainstorming on the phone with my boyfriend before things finally 'clicked' like they should.

Malen Vier is a lot more light-hearted and different from anything I've done before. The story is simple and sort of classic, but done in a way that focuses more on the environment and characters. I want to get better with body language and pacing. (hence the hopefully German text)

Here's some sketches of Varick Edel, a somewhat disgruntled Evaiyan Prince, but really, he's just a normal bored preteen.


Here's his poor tutor, The Frau. It's a throwback to the nickname we gave our crazy little German teacher we had for 6 years, although, I'm pretty sure it's correctly Der Frau if male and Die Frau if female, but properly it should be Sie or Sind, really....but let's not get into that. Then again, she really didn't teach us very well. Unlike this strict Frau. XDD lol


By now I had been asked by quite a few vet FT readers if NB would be making a return in FT:Rebirth. My answer is...kinda? A non-elemental form of Nintalian Betela is what the kids here are playing, and on Evaiya it is called Malen Vier. I do not think NB, as the game as it was in old FT, will be as central an element as it was. I do know that I would like it to exist somewhere, probably with people playing it in the background or some minor story element at most. I still like the idea of a unique American sport comic, and I may do more with Malen Vier in the future.


ALSO EXCITING I have been working on an FT:WIKI. It is crazy-intensive and can tell you pretty much anything you'd ever want to know about the FT world. It will be a good reference if you ever want to read more about it or look something up. :) I am having fun writing everything down, and after I'm done I'm sure you'll be thanking me that I take GREAT pains to not include exposition in FT:Rebirth, if I can avoid it. XDD;; I'll try to debut it by next week. :)


Okay, have a good night everyone! I gotta get back to work! haha~!

Hourly Comics Day

Hourly Comics Day! I actually participated this year, or at least I did it, and it was a lot of fun! Yesderday was a pretty eventful day so it made for pretty good material, so here you go. Hope you enjoy 'em! ^__^

Needless to say, you're gonna have to click to enlarge these. I apologize if some of this is hard to make out, but most was drawn on the train and I don't have time to ink/do better on these! lol Enjoy:


Okay, back to work! Gotta make up for lost time! :)

Edits for the Better

I've been very busy and many exciting things are happening, most of which I can not tell you about I think...BLAH I want to scream it out loud, but I may get in trouble. :( Can I at least say I'm working on some things with Archie Comics now? 'cause that's pretty cool. nothing big, but still nice to be able to say! lol

SO I wanted to show these for a while, just some examples of the many panel edits in FT:Rebirth!

From the very beginning on Page 4, I re-did an entire panel. I was on a real time constraint with the first scene, but I knew it had to be done. I'm happy I did:


A Preview of the next page I just finished, I ended up re-drawing Lyra's face on many of the panels in this scene. I am still getting used to drawing her, but I did rush the inks a bit on this scene:


Another re-drawn Lyra, and some tweaking on Deneb. I wish I hadn't rushed so much when inking these, (tight deadlines blaahh) but it would have saved me some time on edits! lol:


I wanted to add more images, but for whatever reason Blogger is bugging out on me and not letting me add any more...come on. SO this is all for now I guess.

Read FT:Rebirth here, with an update every Tuesday!! :)