Rikun with Victor "The Chessman" King



His advanced age and short stature hide a brilliant mind, and his cane gives him the ghostly summons that can do his bidding. Each spirit has a different ability depending on what King needs to execute his plan:

Pawns: multiple foot soldiers for a charging horde.
Rook: giant stone head for direct, brute force
Knight: horse-headed knight for jump strikes and air jousting
Bishop: militant bishop for fast, indirect strikes
Queen: almighty queen for massive area of effect damage

Has a love for complex plans and enjoys trapping his opponents 10 steps ahead.

Note: All chess spirits have a ghostly tail (except Rook, which is a floating head) and are summoned when King strikes the ground with his cane. Maximum summons are 8 pawns, one rook, one knight, one bishop, and the queen, all of whom can move freely. Game ends when King is defeated.

It's so great to see everyone's Secret Santa. Big thank you to Slade for doing two for Itami! You made her look great!

Might as well throw my hat into this one.

As usual, I only have Itami as a character you can draw. Makes it easy, right?

Did a couple of these yesterday even though she's not a Voider....YET.

Hey! Look who it is! Only more FRENCH!

Alright! Good to see more material from you, and it's great to see what your first draft is looking like. Here are some pointers I can make:

• Generally speaking you might want to think about your panel arrangements for some of your scenes. The part where we look at the couple talking and then Wren's angry eyes confused me for a bit. Are we supposed to read up and down in that instance or still go from left to right? I also think the panels where the targets see Wren coming could be stronger if you switched the panels between the guy and the girl, so it looks like her image is literally splitting up their conversation
• I feel that the moment of the attack where she raises her shiv and the close up of the guy's face is getting too cramped. The action isn't reading as well as it can so you may want to design some panels with ample breathing room so we can see exactly what's going on.
• The shot where she summons her knife doesn't read all that clearing since the knife is too close to the bottom edge of the panel. Maybe tilt her arm outwards a bit more so we can definitely see she's got a sharp, stabby thing.
• I'm noticing some major negative space going on in the panel where she stabs the guy. All the action is crammed into the right side of the panel and nothing is going on in the left. Is that for the dialogue?
• The part where she stabs the gal's throat could be amped up with stronger poses. Also keep track of where your characters are relative to their panel placement (i.e. Keep Wren to the left side of the panels and her victim to the right) so everything reads more clearly. Some people call this the 180 rule if you're curious about it.

Overall it's a nice start and I would highly suggest that for your future comics you vary up your camera angles. Everything here so far works but it's a bit on the flat side.

I can't wait to see you come onboard. I'm gonna be gunning for you when I get the chance!

Alright, here's my pencil sketch.

Ah, to hell with this.  I'm in.
The Brick is back to play.

Does the Flying Brick still count as a voider?

And here she is, Itami Saitoh:



http://rikun.deviantart.com/art/Itami-Saitoh-446559258?ga_submit_new=10%253A1397129068

Hope she looks good!

Well, I figured that if I DO get into the SDT, this would be my character




Name: The Flying Brick
Gender: A brick
Height: A brick

Bio: He strikes when nobody expects it.  Whether they be sipping coffee, walking down the street, or shopping for milk.  All his targets ever experience is a straight brick to the face.  If that doesn't work, he's very comfortable with simply stabbing you in the back.  Nobody knows how he does it though, because every time he's seen he's simply a brick with an eyepatch that just sits there.  Most assume that somebody from somewhere threw a brick at them, but nobody ever sees who threw it.  Rest assured, when given a job the Flying Brick will see it through with lethal efficiency.

Note: The Flying Brick never talks or moves when seen.  He can be thrown in someone's face or just be standing on a curb, but stuff DOES happen.  Just imagine him as that pile of cash from the Geico commercials who's never seen walking or talking, but is somehow capable of doing stuff.

Hey again.

So I'm also taking a visual development class, and one of our tasks in this class is to create a composition, color theory and all.  I'd like some advice on how the values will work, as well as what kind of accents to use.

This is what the lineart looks like:



And here is what I have so far:



Any advice would help.  Thanks!

Itami "Nomisuke" Saitoh

PHYSIOLOGY
1. Sex/Gender: Female
2. Age: 19
3. Height/Weight: 5'5", about 120-130
4. Color of Hair/Eyes/Skin: red hair dyed pink, yellow eyes, light skin
5. Posture: Attempts to look girlishly cute whenever possible, becomes extremely unbalenced when drunk
6. Appearance: An overall attractive girl, has a slightly curvy, petite figure despite being heavily trained in martial arts, does not have much in terms of clevage but makes up for it with a very sexy pair of legs.
7. Defects: Has an unusually high tolerance to alcohol. In a sense her yellow eyes are an oddity too.
8. Heredity: dark red hair (not many know since she dyes her hair pink), natural talent for martial arts.

SOCIOLOGY

1. Social Class: middle class.  Not extremely rich, but appears to have enough money to buy a number of fashionable outfits.
2. Occupation: Aspires to be a martial arts actress, but for now works as a waitress in Mal's Diner during the week and as a bouncer at P2's during weekend nights.  She's fairly ok about being a waitress but she considers being a bouncer fun (except for wearing the uniform).  At Mal's, she's an average worker but she sometimes daydreams, drinks some of the restaurant's beer, and absolutely refuses to change her dress style despite Mal constantly telling her of its impraticality.  At P2's, she's much more enthusiastic about her job and is surprisingly good at it, but at times she still complains about her uniform.  In both jobs she's known for being a goof and entertaining the clients.
3. Education: Recieved a standard high school education before going to Void to make it as an actress.  Not a particularly studious student, but she does have a lot of common sense.
4. Home Life: Currently living with her siblings Mize and Aize, both parents still very much alive.  She's very close to her sister, but finds her brother to be rather aloof at times.  Being the youngest makes her fairly competative and overtly eager to spar with either of them just to prove she's just as good as them.
5. Race: Japanese
6. Religion and/or Nationality: Not partcularly religious, but does believe in the supernatural.  Is a Japanese American citizen.
7. Place in Community: Not particularly noticable when it comes to all of Void, but she tries to make new friends whenever possible.  She is fiercely loyal to the friends she has and would always come to their aid.
8. Political affiliations: Idealistic if anything.
9. Amusements/Hobbies: Loves martial arts movies and tokusatsu shows as well as reading manga on occasion.  When she's not at work or training, she'd often go out and start browsing various shops.  At night, she likes the nightlife and anything that comes with it.  She can't cook to save her life, unfortunately.
10. Time Period/Era: Void City is a rather chaotic place, so she learns to adapt accordingly.  She also knows that knowing the right people in Void is key to getting her name out.

PSYCHOLOGY

1. Moral Standards: Since she watched so many tokusatsu shows as a kid, she's got the ridiculous sense of moral justice displayed by those heroes.  She is a vehement protector of friendship and cares deeply for others.
2. Personal Premise/Ambition: She wishes to become a martial arts actress, but in the longer run she really wants to make people happy, especially the ones she's close to.
3. Frustrations: The fact that nobody really takes her seriously or respects her.
4. Temperament: overall an easygoing temperment.  She does have her limits, but she often hides her anger by acting like a goof.
5. Attitude toward Life: She believes in having as much fun in life as possible.
6. Complexes: Despite being a fighter, she has the odd obsession with her appearance and insists on wearing dresses, skirts, and any other fashionable outfit despite how impratical the situation (i.e. would wear a summer dress for a training session).  Doesn't like wearing tennis shoes or boots.  She also hates being alone and tries to get along with everyone she meets.
7. Extrovert? Introvert? Ambivert?: Extrovert
8. Abilities: Skilled in drunken fist, can run and fight usually well in heels, has gymnastic agility, and can take damage unusually well.  Can also improvise complex martial arts moves in any situation, but the sucess of said moves are usually up in the air.
9. Qualities: A good judge of character, a massive imagination, speaks fluent Japanese, and has an acute taste for high fashion with high practicality.
10. IQ: Average IQ, though she does put herself in dangerous situation on impulse.
11. Time Period/Era: She despises the VCPD's furry hate and has an odd urge to show that a girl like her can fight just as well as any big, macho fighter.  She also wants to prove that a normal fighter can stand up to the supernatural freaks in Void.