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Horo the wise from "Spice and Wolf" - Finishing

ianchase — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:08:00 +0000

After many hours of painting and texturing, the finished piece emerges.

Upcoming Event - Otakon 2010

ianchase — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:08:00 +0000

Those of you heading to Otakon this year can check out our booth in artist alley to find me there along with shounen artist/game designer Jesse "Shiroboi" Davis and Skullgirls creator Alex "o_8" Ahad.

We're going to have a must-see booth where you can not only pick up exclusive prints and sketchbooks, but we'll be demoing Skullgirls and Black Lace Bullet for everyone to see.

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Horo the wise from "Spice and Wolf" - Painting

ianchase — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:08:00 +0000

After the rough colors, the real work begins of rendering the more detailed painting into the piece. I also added a lantern to help introduce a warmer, soft light source near her face.

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Horo the wise from "Spice and Wolf" - Rough Colors

ianchase — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:08:00 +0000

Onto the next step, which is to rough in the colors to get a quick idea of what I want in the illustration.

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Horo the wise from "Spice and Wolf" - Inking

ianchase — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:08:00 +0000

Continuing from the last post.

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Horo the wise from "Spice and Wolf" - Sketch

ianchase — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:08:00 +0000

One of the bits of advice I got back at Anime Boston was that it's often best to create prints of characters and series that you feel are underrepresented in anime fandom and more specifically, the artist alley. It serves two purposes. The first is that it appeals to fans of that series who won't find anyone else selling prints from that series. The second is that, if you do a really good job, it helps promote the series to others who may not have heard about it.

So to that end some of my upcoming prints are going to be featuring characters and series that I personally have found incredibly enjoyable, but I hardly, if ever, see available in artist's alley.

Starting with Holo (alternately called Horo due to the funny way that the Japanese tend to confuse 'L's and 'R's) from Spice and Wolf an unusual tale of two travelers struggling to make ends meet between the world of myths and spirits and the world of free trade and budding renaissance. You'll probably learn a thing or two about macroeconomics from it's very verbose dialogues on the subject.

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Black Lace Bullet - Costume Design

ianchase — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:08:00 +0000

As I proceed to slowly make progress on Black Lace Bullet, the game design itself slowly matures, though in an odd direction. As I examined the core mechanics of the game and distilled it down from my initial concepts, I had to make some fairly drastic alterations to the style and themes in the game. First and fore-most being the absolution of fire-arms from Eve's arsenal. Since Eve's adversaries are for the most part invulnerable to conventional attacks, a conventional tool becomes counter-intuative and limits the ways in which I can have the player interact with the environment. The simplest solution is to abstract the abilities into supernatural powers.

Basically, turning Eve into a magical girl.

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Anime Boston 2010 Con Report

ianchase — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:08:00 +0000

I'm back from Anime Boston 2010. I met a bunch of cool artists and chatted with some cool attendees. I was pretty much stuck at my booth for most of the event, but I did sneak away to do some shopping and eating once in a while.

More after the break!

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