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[HD Scenery Artwork] Taya | Forest Lake (Final Version)

Ok, I guess this will be the final iteration of my forest scenery artwork.

Somehow I never get tired of the refinements. Really have to stop now. I could work on this forever.

I wasn't satisfied with right upper corner since the trees looked a bit blurry and muddy. I tried to give them more defined shapes and contours.

This will be the version which you can also purchase as a product in my art merchandise shop on Red Bubble:
Thaumana.redbubble.com

[Chara Sketch] Dwynity - High Priestess

Maybe you remember her? She was the winged girl in my mini videogame from around two years ago and her name is Dwynity. Despite her young age she is one of the highest ranks among the Gloriya members. She can be also seen on the scenery draft of my upcoming St. Vyan'Dell artwork.

I also plan to use her for several shop product designs.

[Chara Sketch] Cliff Brake Viridon - Underworld Detective

A simple doodle of an upcoming character. He is the son of an infamous syndicate boss but also a detective. How does it work?

I don't want to tell much about him beforehand, except that he is the most important reason why Chaudine wants to win the inheritance trial at all cost.

[Sepia Doodle] Rayne (Maid Dress)

Another iteration of Winrow's mother at a young age. It's still undecided how her final curly hair will look like in the manga but for now I will see if this depiction works.

[HD Artwork] Taya | Resting Place in the Forest

Whew, finally done with my very first scenery artwork.

I have to admit, I took hours to tweak with the whole color scheme, since all the colors felt kinda off until the very end. The colors of the image also looked different on every single screen which drove me completely nuts.

I may have another look at it later before I put this as a new design into my store.

But I leave it at that for now.

Current Status In Short

Hi dear patrons,

I was going to make a proper announcement post about my new shop which opened just recently on Red Bubble. I didn't find the time to get into details because of some stressful turn of events, so for now I just drop that link here. Please check it out if you have some time to spare. 

Thaumana's Shop | Redbubble

The actual reason why I made this post may sound ...

[HD Artwork] Under Construction Girl

Remember her? I finally got her artwork for my online shop done. I like how Metty turned out at the end.

You know, I designed her as a main protagonist in one of my minigame concepts.  I didn't programed anything for this project yet. All I can say is that my envisioned gameplay was kinda similar to the old N64 game Blast Corps and that she is a construction worker who is specialized in building projects in the underworld.

[Concept Scenery/WIP] City of Magical Girls: St. Vyan'dell

I really want to draw more artworks of different locations from my world. When I'm browsing through my artbooks and stumbling over breath-taking maps or concept arts on the world-building focused pages, I always feel like the images speak for  themselves and there is most likely no need to add specific information to get a rough idea about the habitants or the culture of the depicted places. I want to achieve this impression in my future work too, but there is still a long way to go.

[Merch. Artwork / WIP] Master Cuu Long - Dragon Head

Tsu-Lin's master Cuu Long in his dragon form. I don't know if I should go for that design or a more simplified version. The lower half in particular still bothers me a bit. I still need time to think about it I guess.

[HD Manga Page] Chapter 01-06 "Photo Upload"

Manga Archive: https://mega.nz/folder/oiJQHQDL#KSbCrg6nWdAr10t3Tm0iaw

The next page from my corrected prologue chapter which served as test field for my new gradient texture brush. It may be a bit confusing at first because I will randomly upload certain redrawn pages, but since I'm uploading them into my drive folder you can check the correct order of the scenes anytime. There are only two page...

[Merch. Illustration / Sticker] Sonaria (WIP)

Another character from my manga who won't make an appearance until arc 2. Sonaria Manati is her name.

Yeah, right, she shares the same surname like Helenore, the captain of the Marine Queen ship since she is her daughter, haha.

I'm not satisfied with the outline and the shape of her hair yet. To say it bluntly, the tails look like boop. Seriously. There is still much potential to improve this...

[Merch. Illustration /WIP] Kyura Dora - Wicked Vampire

This is another character which has yet to be introduced in my manga.

Kyura Dora is a blood dragon like Taya and has a special liking for the blood of virgin girls - one of many reasons why most people who made contact with her assume that she is a vampire.

I am not sure if I want to go with her color scheme for her hair. I guess I will try some different color combinations out before I make a definite decision.

[Speedpainting (Raw)] Twins of Miroa

Video download link:
https://mega.nz/file/F7p3BYqY#eqmuZwJARnP_0TlHvRF-uJAme20j7yLbdW9WM4cnSRM

Speedpainting video of the maid squad twin girls that I uploaded yesterday.

I feel pretty comfortable with this kind of coloring now. Maybe this will be my definite general coloring style for my manga pages.

[Speedpainting (RAW)] Lambdadelta (Umineko no naku koro ni)

Video Download Link:
https://mega.nz/file/wu4HTAhI#QUgv5-YjB4jiv4m2lIf-rhxiLBspPsdadJpYnG4gc1Y

My first speedpainting where I finally included my layer structure so you can see how my hierarchy looks like.

You can see in the video that I corrected a lot of steps and repeated them again and again. I will most likely take them out in a refined edited speedpainting version later. All in all this...

[Sepia Artwork] Doppelganger Twins

An artober illustration for the theme "Doppelganger".

The design for those twins actually exists since my late high school days when I also came up with the idea for the Malevolus maid squad. They are two of the 13 elite assassins under the command of Lord General Gremorey. The twins are in possession of a skull-like plush rabbit called Franky Jr. who they consider as their best and most trustful friend. They believe that he can foresee the future and often ask him for advice if they fe...

[Merch. Illustration /WIP] "Party Hard"

One of my first artwork ideas for my upcoming merchandise shop. An illustration with a party theme.

The girl should look intentionally like she is not really in a genuine celebrating mood but should still look kinda cute.

I think I can still tweak the background a bit. Maybe other patterns will do too...

[HD Sepia Artwork + PSD] Friend Beyond Death (Fire Emblem)

PSD download link:
https://mega.nz/file/Z3Ax2S5I#SKPRwr8IjytMah-NQZRY0yNrPkoENLFcrQwLqg7vuQw

I think there are just a few games who had a really strong impact on me and the eighth Fire Emblem game, [The Sacred Stones], really shaped my perception of storytelling in games and my artistic influence in one or another way.

This sepia style for instance... If you take a look at the old CGs from t...

[Concept Illu.] Kappa Warrior

I want to fill my lore sections with more illustrations and I want to start with the Kappa Warrior that appeared in chapter 2.

Since I'm currently redrawing chapter 1 I thought of giving it an earlier introduction to achieve a faster pace and Chaudine more to do during the fights since I always felt that the battle with that one floraptor doesn't have a strong impact. The fight with the one raptor later don't leave a strong impression but felt rather comediac, so I want to create some n...

[HD Illustration / WIP] Witches of Sin (Re:Zero)

PSD download file:
https://mega.nz/file/InYjjYyZ#wLUpzrlfZDgK1jpFqU1ALr69q6QIhFwmILkhS5mG_NQ

Good god, one week over already...

I almost forgot to post the HD illustration for my newest fanart here.  Took quite a while since it is a group of characters this time. As always the arrangement and positioning of every character was the most time-consuming part. I am almost happy how it turned out. There are s...

[Speedpainting Video] Hanabi (12-32 min)

My PC can't handle lengthy videos that result in big files during the converting process so I did a short recording after a while again. I found a sketch from my schooldays of a kunoichi character I drew back then. I still like her design so I revamped her for my manga project.

Her name is Merami. She is a fire breather. There will be more of her in the future. 

[HD Illustration + PSD File] Meddy.EXE (MegaMan Battle Network)

PSD download link:
https://mega.nz/file/MuwUkAyA#KcTxUXM8_sZ8onW8wAe-v9WXExANJfStidwCSYWLcik

Colored final version.

I consider Meddy cuter than Roll.EXE by the way. I like the redesigns of the robot masters from the classic Mega Man games but also the female operator characters. There will be definitely more drawings of them in the future. ^_^

[Illustration]Enslaved Dragon Girl Taya (Progress)

Ongoing work. This is Taya back then when she was displayed on the slave market place before she became a member of the Malevolus household. I'm primarily using painty brushes here especially for the hair to experiment with different color gradients.

Beach Trip [HD Illustration + PSD](AI: The Somnium File) Mizuki & Aiba

PSD download link:
https://mega.nz/file/FixiFDiR#HQ8jDI7bSk4-lOLCcziAH9w-xuXFuNats4ju9Ms_2hI

A recent commission of my recent game highlights, namely AI: The Somnium Files produced by the creator of the Zero Escape series. I also uploaded some other works of the game over the last month. Pretty happy that I got the chance to do a commission related to it too.

Well, summer only ends when you t...

[HD Artwork / Progress] Forest Lake

I realized that I have made less general artworks of my manga recently, so I decided to create a scenery artwork for a poster or future double page. It is one of those works which I plan to sell in my shop soon.

On the left: Taya who is wearing a traditional asian-like vest.
And on the left is her master: Cuu Long, who is also a dragon.

[HD Illustration + PSD] Sveta & Matthew (Golden Sun)

PSD download link: https://mega.nz/file/82AxmKCQ#PcZ2tWdjktlOJZDyDVKEqBoB12DKwK8c3j8KW8gGcUg

A commission for a fellow Golden Sun fan. I'm very grateful that I got the opportunity to draw some characters from Dark Dawn since I'm a big fan of the third game too.

Some of the shades might have turned out a bit too dark, I guess. I'm pretty satisfied with the poses on the other hand.

[Illustration + PSD] Mimi Tachikawa 1999/2020 (Digimon)

PSD download file:
https://mega.nz/file/wiYBGQRY#uldacbtiS0cBxiBSP70wMqS8K851cM7lrPtEBAZ7cgo

While my love for anime started with the Pokémon series it was eventually Digimon which aroused my love for monster designs and monster battles in general.

Also, I had a crush on certain heroines from the first series... :p

This illustration was an experiment for trying out new comic-like textu...

[HD Shot] Marine Queen Restaurant (Textless)

A high-res version of the restaurant page without the speech bubbles.

[HD Manga Page] Chapter 1 - Page 4 (Redraw) Restaurant

It's done. I finally made my first redrawn page for the prologue chapter.

This will be my drive folder where I going to put my new redrawn pages for chapter 1 in:
https://mega.nz/folder/oiJQHQDL#KSbCrg6nWdAr10t3Tm0iaw

I kinda have the feeling that I managed to finish the most complicated page of the whole chapter... Well, we will see, haha.

It took too many hours to draw the restauran...

[Illustration + PSD File] Calicia (Ys)

PSD download link:
https://mega.nz/file/IiAQAIpb#ynVqTFnqBgttsTLX1dx0fO99C8Rpb4mVlEekinghXLQ

Calicia is a player character from Ys - Memories of Celceta.

I wanted to do a small doodle and decided to stock up my Ys gallery folder a bit. I'm currently playing that game and I really enjoy the run so far. Ys games are always face-paced and fairly short. The dynamic combat system ...

[Draft] Chapter 4 - Double Page 35+36: Marine Queen Manadome Activation

 I didn't find much time to work on the final pages of chapter 4 recently due to my preparations for my upcoming merchandise shop. Did a lot of registration paperworks for my own trade, it is a huge amount of work here in Germany and a legal requirement for selling merch online. I hope that as soon as I'm done with my consultancies for the tax accounting and the registration I will find back to my regular pace.

Page 35 and 36 are presented as a double page and will show the ship fr...