Revolution, 3 Years.

A sketch I've been working on-and-off throughout Thesis, and now that I am FINISHED with my Thesis, I can go back to it. :D Still not done at all, but I'm glad to take it to more than sketch-level. :p


I don't usually use the blue-line thing but I wanted to ink traditionally and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Unfortunately my ink bled a lot on the printed blue, and the lines when taken out are not what I'd like them to be. but that's all right, ya live and learn. :p

This is also probably the biggest preview of the direction FT:Rebirth is going in. :)


Also...today marks a very emotional day in my life. Three years ago on March 29, 2007 my father passed away. It is still very unreal for me and hard to realize that it is the truth, but it is. While all I ever wanted was for him to be proud of me and while I wish he could have gotten to see where I am now, I am happy for the good memories I do have of him. I guess what I want to say is never take those around you for granted because life is too wonderful to take for granted. Life is so beautiful, and I truly wish more people could see that. If my father could have seen that maybe he would still be with us. It just makes me remember why I do what I do, and I hope others can learn to see things in this way. Life is just too wonderful to go to waste, so enjoy it!

bye-bye, Spring Break.

So....it's the end of my spring break, and I feel like I haven't accomplished much at all. I am steadily on my way to being closer to finished with my Thesis, but I have no new pages since the last 5 I am working on at about the same rate. It's frustrating not to be able to gauge how much I have left to do.

anyway, here have a quickie of a 'model-ish' Lyra I did as my warm-up today:
I've realized she really is my 'pepper project' if you're familiar with that. haha! :p

Here's this piece o' crap that I can't seem to save if my life depends on it:


I hate it so much, and this is much better than it used to be. It's just...everything about it is bad and done without skill, it's like it's beyond the point of no return and I don't care I'll just take whatever grade Donato'll give me 'cause I've wasted way too many hours on it already and have a 7-page report to do.

On a lighter note, here's its companion piece which is probably the best thing I've ever done! (Though technically it still needs some tweaking before it's officially done)


Not every thing you do will be a gem, but you just have to deal with it and move on! :p

Little Twins and a Traveller

oh man, so many posts lately. I must be on a school break!

After Thesis there's a short project I'll be working on and it involves a younger Lyra and Deneb. This is me warming up today, trying to figure out how old I want them to be. Still don't know if this is too young or not, but aren't they the cutest little twins?


I didn't like how a picture I was working on a while back was coming out, so I wanted to see how I could save it. here are some thumbs I apparently did during my Irish Lit class where I was counting how many times my teacher said 'um' which ended up to be around 210 times, hence the doodling LOL:


And this is the changed image, do you recognize it? lol:


I still have a long ways to go, I don't know if I'm happy with the composition yet. but I do know that painting rock is extremely difficult...aahh! XD;;

Sketch Concepts, more developments

I'm on Spring Break right now! Not that it's much of a break since I have to try and finish my Thesis...but yeah. I wanna do stuff. Too much stuff than I have time for! >__<;;

Not some of my best sketches this post, but these were done a while ago to help me figure out designs and such. The only reason why I hesitated so long was 'cause I was deciding whether or not to keep some of the more spoiler-ish sketches in, but I just removed the text on them so it should be fine.

Zila and Lyra:


Cygnus and Lyra, a looot of spoiler text had to be removed lol:


Bizo/Kauz, again some spoiler-ish stuff was removed:


Deneb is getting a stockier build, I want to vary the body types more which means I have to do a lot more practice:


Drawn as a warm-up this morning, figuring out that I just wanted to draw Hiu's dreds loose since it's crazy fun to draw, and kinda finally deciding on a hair type for Bizo maybe:


I wanted to figure out a way to make Bizo look more At'rik and decided his design may benefit from having some shocks of silver patches in his hair along with making his skin hue more lavender-colored than it already was, probably more so than here I dunno:


Oh snap manly Hiu is manly?? lol kinda?? XD;; I need to study how I can draw his facial features better. :p

Emperor Ka'chkka

I haven't drawn him in a while, but as I was plotting the outline and realizing the larger role the At'rik would play in Rebirth I redid his design along with many others, but I figure I'll show you his for now. I still don't know if I'm entirely happy with how human the At'rik look, or if I should give Bizo an even bigger makeover to match them more, but hopefully Ka'chkka looks alien enough.

haha drew these on the train on my commute home. making him this much of a 'pretty boy' is still hesitating for me, but it may work better for the overall story so I guess it's fine? gotta have a little fun with the characters lol


Also, you get a little snippet of a small part from the story of Rebirth, which really hasn't changed much from the original FT in regards to this aspect of him. Although, this time he's a bit more of a playboy, haha!


Also, these are in pretty much full color. The At'rik have purplish skin, silver hair, black eyes, and are born with dark markings covering their body. The black eyes are new...I think it suits them better as being a more untrustworthy people.


Uhh...I just wanted to draw a full body to figure out his markings, but it turned into something risque, haha! I really didn't intend on it, but it seems the more I draw him, the more he is demanding to have this attitude about him...again, this works better than the original's sweet little meek Emperor to someone who will abuse his power and allies when necessary. :p

I...I really like you!

These are scenes DIRECTLY from FT: Rebirth!! I hope you are looking forward to it, kawaiiI~!!


"Oh, my Lily, you are as beautiful as the blazing of the sun!"

"...what? Stupid, are you from a shoujo or something now??"

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....obviously, I am completely joking. but I HAVE been reading some shoujo recently for the first time in many years just for the lulz, and it surprised me to be quite the nostalgic feeling~! lol oh man, could you just imagine the intense amount of angst if FT was a shoujo?? HAHA!!

wow. I kinda can't believe I just drew these. okay, I'm gonna go study now. XD;;

Digi-Doodles!

Some digi-doodles in between working on Thesis, which YES, I am actually working on for once!!

In an attempt to do more dynamic posing, Lyra turns into some weird type of Akira mix. I had just finished reading the first vol before I drew this...which would explain it lol...XD;;


Oh man, I've been wanting to do so many technical things after spending hours on Matt Laskowski's dev page, it's incredibly inspiring. but alas, I do not have the time to do the things he does...yet! so here's a simple sketch:


Again, very inspired by Matt's work, but really just sketching Lyra. I guess I wanted to draw windy hair?? Also been inspired by the simple yet amazing colors that Tomer Hanuka uses. If I was an illustration major, I would totally take him for portfolio. I want to see if I can beg Tom if I can take both major's portfolio classes...>__>;


anyway, I should get back to work! After tonight I should have only 5 pages left to go! :D

Deneb doodle, more concepts

oh man, crazy postings abound! I must be procrastinating on something!

Anyway, here have a doodle of Deneb I did to practice some new brushes I found by looking through fox-orian's tutorials again. I rather like them, but I don't think they'll fully replace the ones I normally use:


Here are the 4 rough concept images for the Hansel and Gretel environments.


The bottom two were chosen to refine, which I find funny because both of them had crashed photoshop without me saving and largely had to be redone, especially the blue one. go figure!

FT: Rebirth Demo Page!

Couldn't concentrate on thesis, so I decided to do a practice page of what FT:Rebirth might look like, done in 3 hours from start to finish:

While similar, this isn't the actual first page, but I'm liking this kind of style for it. Also I did this for next Friday, when my Photoshop and mini-comic tutorial day is for my club, Cartoon Allies. I figured it'd be a nice sample page to show a quick way of coloring a comic, while still having it look nice. ^__^

some doodles

Some older doodles from my sketchbook.

Kauz riding Tiffy, just playing with his costume design:


Cygnus and Aurora resting, also how the first chapter begins before they enter the Sintu marshes. Colored 'cause I wanted to practice. Dunno yet if it'll look like this for the comic:


I have a ton of sketches I've been doing, mainly figuring out the new character designs and familiarizing myself with them. I've also finalized Zila's human form, which I'll be posting in the upcoming weeks. ^__^ <3

Hansel and Gretel Concept Progress!

The amount of stages that this assignment is going through is crazy, and I just wanted to share some of it with you~!

Thumbs. Silhouette is most important:
A Pair of Rejected Sketches, but I personally like parts of Hansel better than final:
The Chosen Sketches:
More Rejected Hansel Progress:
Refining Sketches, where many mistakes were pointed out:
Gretel's Dagger:
Final Concepts:
Deviation is here!

Doing Concept Art is very challenging, but I am enjoying it. It's very different, and giving me many ideas on how to design the world in FT: Rebirth. :D

Livestream OFFLINE, Concept art!

Because I really need to get work done, LIVESTREAMING: http://www.livestream.com/allisonstrejlau

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Anyway, this is what I did. I'm not very good at doing this...I've tried many times in the past, but it's always very challenging for me to do.

I didn't want it to turn out like 'Hansel and Gretle...IN SPAAACE!' but yeah those are the shapes that happened so I went with them. I have to do 3 more, so we'll see what happens. :p



Thanks to Griffiths and Jen for coming by~! :D

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Today I have to finish the two character concept arts I've been working on and I got a lot to do, so tune in to watch me get insanely frustrated with them, yay! :D

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OFFLINE, I managed to finish gretle for the most part, now on to hansel!

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Livestream canceled + Oekaki

Live streaming event had to be canceled due to my job calling me in to work at a completely different time than I thought. Sorry guys, there's nothing I can do about it. How about having one Wednesday at 12 noon? :D

By the way, have you checked out this awesome artbook? All profits go to the wonderful cause of your choice!!

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oh and here have some silly oekaki doodles I did in the past few weeks:


My Oekaki board is Skylands oekaki, a wonderful board with many members being old friends of mine from the days that I had never even known how to do digital art. Join in on the fun! :D