Legend of Zelda Fanfiction: The Edge and The Light – Chapter 1

Posted onOctober 26, 2012September 30, 2013

I finally got around to posting my long-promised “Legend of Zelda” fanfiction onto Tumblr! Chapter 1 is 17 pages, and it’s done in a mix of prose and comics, much like “We are the Pickwicks”, except this story is much longer. Since it’s so long, I got my friend Yunyu to compose some music for it, which is fun. You can see her music track down below, in Youtube form, which is her version of “Zora Domain” backgroundmusic.

Now onto the actual story itself. I’ve posted all 17 pages onto a single post for Tumblr, so you can go directly to the Tumblr page itself to read the thing if you click on the first page. Not the best way to present a comic strip (on Tumblr… but it does make it easier to read/load, in terms of the internet. Enjoy!

Click to read Chapter 1: The Man in Green on Tumblr!

Here’s the Table of Contents on Tumblr.This whole thing is also being posted on my DeviantArt, and also on SmackJeeves, so the most up-to-date chapters are being run there. Chapter 2 is running on SmackJeeves until the 10th November, when Chapter 3 begins.

Thoughts: It’s interesting how incredibly fast writing/drawing in this prose+comics format is. I started doing this in late May, and by September has already written the whole thing, all 300 pages of it. As of this post, I’ve drawn 160 of those 300 pages, and is mid-way through Chapter 6 (so at the half-way mark). I’ll talk about my work processes for this format later, but if you compare my standard work rate in pure comics format, it’s 10 months for 160 pages, not including toning. In this format, I’ve reached 160 pages in 5 months, so twice the content in half the time. It’s interesting when you think about it.

Small Shen – Colour Art

Posted onSeptember 15, 2012September 14, 2013

Hi all! I’ve been away in Hong Kong for a while, and I had a pretty good rest there. Once I got back, however, I found myself besieged with problems. Firstly it was a stomach bug, then it was a computer virus, and now it’s a minor health problem. All-in-all, none of these things are serious, and they’ll all eventually be fixed… it’s just that it’s annoying, that’s all.

What I’m doing right now: Working on finishing a “Legend of Zelda” fanfiction I started years ago, in 2006 and posted on my DeviantArt account. I feel I must finish it, so I’m going to do this before I start work on my next book. Arrgh!! Nose to paper! I’ve made good progress though, and so far there’s 89 finished pages. I will post the first chapter in early October, once Yunyu comes back from overseas (she is writing music for some of the locations in the fanfic).

Colour Art for “Small Shen”: The book’s coming out this Xmas, and this week I show some colour art I did of some of the characters from “Small Shen” a while ago – namely Gold and Jade. A composite of these two pictures form the site banner for “Small Shen”, but here you can see the originals separately, to see what they’re like. The colouring styles for both are quite different, and it was a fun experiment.

Here’s the composite image for the “Small Shen” cover

Here is just Jade alone. I spent a lot of time getting some Mucha influence into her hair, and it’s too bad it’s obscured by Gold on the cover.

Here is male-Gold, and female-Gold. Male Gold appears only in the comic-prose part of “Small Shen” (his is a character who identifies mostly as male anyway, being a stone spirit without any gender originally), but female gold appears in the prose sections.

Yunyu Tour – Sydney Leg

Posted onJune 24, 2012September 14, 20133 Comments

Hi all, I’ve been flat out busy working on the tail end of Small Shen… so much that I feel I’m going a little crazy. Luckily I only have 1 more week of inks to go, before I plow into the tones and then FINITO!! Wow, it’s been a sprint – doing 2 books back-to-back without a break. I need a 3-week holiday after this, and I don’t care what’s a-happening!!

I also set up a Tumblr account, just to see what the fuss was about. It seems an easy place to upload pictures, so that’s what I’ve done a few pics of (in whatever spare time I have), mostly for the next series I want to work on. I can’t reveal anything right now because (a) I need to finish Small Shen, and (b) I need a holiday, but I’m thinking of giving this site a bit of a facelift soon. We shall see.

Anyway, today I’ve got Yunyu’s Sydney concert to promote, which is happening 30th June! It’s the last leg of the tour, and here’s the tour poster I made for her. The Brisbane show at the Powerhouse was a big success (full house), so here’s hoping the Sydney one sells out too.

What: Yunyu: Twisted Tales Tour
Where: Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Sydney, NSW 2012 (Australia) – Map
When: 30th June, 8:00 pm
Cost: $25 – Buy

Small Shen: More Art

Posted onJune 2, 2012September 14, 20137 Comments

Hi all! I have finally finished all the pencils for the “Small Shen” book! It’s got 9 chapters in all, plus a prologue, making a total of about 163 illustrated pages, including the chapter covers (which I will be doing in an interesting and very different style for a particular purpose – ha! Not telling you!). The whole book is on track to be finished at the end of July, which will give it a Xmas 2012 release. It’s looking good so far!

Now that I’ll be working on the inks for the last part of the book, I will show you some art from chapters 3-4!