Tanya's Art!

[Xia]

*PIcket line demanding more of Tanya's art*

DOWN WITH THE EVIL PIP....

<_< ummm yeah, more art please

[Cutey Kerina]

*hugs Pip too, gives him some tea* Please don't be mad with each *hugs both* I want everyone to feel happy on MSF

[Kijo]

Hey Hey! im looking forward to the art and I honestly dont care when its posted up, I mean the sooner the better dont get me wrong, but the longer we wait, the more suspense there is, and the suspense of knowing the art is coming ^.~ makes that art better, but meh.

*hugs Tanya*


*hugs Pip*

^^ no need for hostilities, we're all one big family here, ne? ^^

[Pip]

Eeep! Did I really come across sounding that harsh? Of course I don't have any hostilities towards Tanya!

[Handmaiden Tanya]

Alright, Everything is cool now, and we can get to this.

Sorting out the two oddball pictures first:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/ ... ersary.jpg <- This year is the KOF 10th Anniversary, as well as the 15th of Street Fighter. Just something I slapped together for it. Came out better than I expected it to. XP

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/ ... /Taiyo.jpg <- The five kids of Taiyo Gakuen, from Capcom's Justice Rival Schools series (aka The best 3D Fighting Game ever). Center: Batsu Ichimonji, Top Left: Kyosuke Kagami, Top Right: Hinata Wakaba, Bottom Left: Iincyou (Chairperson in America. This is an actual translation: Iincyou's name is unknown, and, in fact, she perfers people to call her that. You might remember her from the Saikyo picture up above.) Bottom Right: Ran Hibiki (Dan's sister? Cousin? Who knows.) I love the Taiyo crew, because while my favorite character is elsewhere (Akira, in Gedo (Legion of Heroes [United by Fate in America]) or Sejiyun (Moreo! Justice Gakuen [Project Justice in America]) Taiyo is the most well rounded school and I can relate with more than a few of the characters.

And now, the big stuff.

PROJECT: MANTIS RESSURECTION
This project is based on something from way... way... way back when I was in elementary school, from fourth grade. It started with my friends Kyle, Hunter, Spencer, and JaX. It was the story (ie: LARP) of the crew of a space ship, chasing down an evil villain known as Zorgus. We also pretended it was a TV show, calling each game we did an "Episode". I decided, I'm gonna change it a bit (Tone down the star wars references, change stuff that doesn't make sense, make it more indepth, add more people), and work with it. Who knows, I might start actually writing an illustrated series for it. No, I in fact... plan on doing that.

Why is it called The Mantis? That's the ship.
This sketch could be better, but it gets the point across. This is a new design for the Mantis, because looking back at old designs from elementary school, well, it (unintentionally, of course!) looked like a... certain part of the male anatomy. >_>;;; If anyone wants, I can throw out a sketch of the old Mantis, though.

This drawing was done before the last batch, so it's not quite as quality. Anyways, the coloring didn't come out as good as I planned, but it's okay. Kyle was the main character, the captain of the ship. All question marks on his profile mark uncertaintly or assumptions. IJF stands for Intergalactic Justice Federation. I'll be writing stuff about the IJF and the Earth of that time period and other worlds and such, too.

Hunter was Kyle's first recruit, though often he wasn't as prominent as other characters. I'm not so sure on the coloring job here, either...
The aforementioned Ninja and Thief are myself and Koehne the Fifth (Seen later)-- In the original thing, Hunter never did warm up to me, but Evan (Aka Koehne the Fifth) Wasn't around then, so when I added him, both Evan and I figured Hunter wouldn't like Evan much either.

Spencer was one of the most important characters in the series, and was the eldest of us. Originally, Spencer was a Jedi, used the force, and such, so I went back and changed this all to Samurai and Samurai abilities. Not that much of a change, since Jedi ARE space samurai, but whatever. If you can't read my handwriting, on the diagram of the glasses, it mentions the circle on the right lens is a light, but it can also scan vital statistics of people. The line on the left lens translates other languages to english. Pocket's design is from what I remember of how Spencer drew and described him. In reality, Pocket was a pencil sharpener (But it did look somewhat like the pocket of The Mantis!)
Spencer was probably the first of the crew to like me (in the game AND real life. Though IRL I had known JaX before going to that school, so we were already friends.), whereas Hunter didn't like me until one of the last episodes. (In real life, he started liking me about... say, the last year he was there-- Keep in mind, all my friends are older than me barring a few, so I actually did episodes with the few kids part of it who were my age after the main crew left.)

I'm currently working on JaX's, though his should be next in line. Skipping a couple characters (JaX, the two droids, and Kelsey), we get to me.

This is only sketches, no real proportion assigned yet, and no bio or anything. I'm doing the real sheet after JaX's. I changed my character a little (Because, uh, the original was, uh, a GUY)... But it's basically the same. I come from a place called Sky Palace (I'm thinking of maybe changing the name.) which is a LITTLE like Cloud City in the original design, but in reality it's sort of an ancient-oriented place. I even use an actual Katana rather than plasma/photon/energy based weapons. But to counter the new tech, it has an electromagnetic ward on it so that the newer type wepons won't just slice through it. It makes me a somewhat different character.
Anyone wondering about the "Gekkabijin Kisaki" thing, Gekkabijin translates to Queen of the Night, nice for a Kunoichi... Kisaki is based loosely on my name-- Tanya is a deritive of Tatiana, which means Fairy Queen. Not finding anything defined by that, I went with Kisaki, which just means Queen.

With no profile for Patch, Arthur, Brian, or Ryan, we skip to the new additions, of which there is only:

KOEHNE THE FIFTH! Based on newcomer Evan, you'll notice right off that he looks strikingly like Lupin the Third. That's because not only does the real Evan look like Lupin, he even ACTS like Lupin. So, throwing my "reference-down-tonage" out the window, I have Koehne the Fifth, a giant Lupin the Third reference. This profile was actually done second (Which is why it looks more like the Kyle one [Though, IMO, the art isn't as quality as the Kyle one] and less like the others), because I wasn't sure how to do the designs for any of the others, but knew exactly what I wanted for Koehne the Fifth.

This is all I have right now. I'm going to need to make more profiles, but once I do JaX's, I can start work, because the droids and Kelsey shouldn't be needed until at least the second edition. Hopefully I can get working very soon!

[Xia]

omg wewtness!

great KOF and Streetfighter

And those profiles things were cool

[Handmaiden Tanya]

With my haste to get this up, I failed to mention something: Check out girl Ryu's feet. It's his shoes from Street Fighter, the original! Just felt like pointing it out. I shoulda put Kyo's old headband in her jacket pocket or something maybe... :\

[Vierge]

They look really nice, fun, and cute ^_- At first I thought I read they were for a webcomic but they're not right? That's a shame...

-Vierge

[Thorn]

Lol, bag of loot, bery bery nice, i like it

[Moonlit Naiad]

One word.

Wow.

[Cutey Kerina]

Wow...wow!
That is so incredible Tanya! I absolutely love the two first oddball drawings, you just have an eye for cute little details in an image. O.O The ship and crew profiles are so awesome *bows* Thank you ^^

[Handmaiden Tanya]

They look really nice, fun, and cute ^_- At first I thought I read they were for a webcomic but they're not right? That's a shame...

-Vierge

No, it is for a series I'm starting ASAP. Dont know where you got that it isn't. ^^;

[Cutey Kerina]

^^ coool I wish you mucho good luck on your series. I know it'll be awesome.

[Handmaiden Tanya]

Just a placeholder till monday or tuesday or wednesday when I get up JaX and Kisaki's bios (Maybe other stuff?).
To hold you over, I wrote an overview of what I want for the first edition of the Comic, here you go!

Kyle is wandering the streets of Rome, thinking, when notes Hunter being taken away by Alien Empire agents. He sneaks after them, finds Hunter in a cell. The two talk, and Kyle exits, thinking once again. He begins thinking about Hunter and how the forces of the Empire are controlling the galaxy unjustly. He shakes his head, figuring there’s nothing he can do.
The next day, Kyle sees a notice of Hunter’s execution in battle at the Coliseum later that day, and he decides to finally take a stand.
At the Coliseum, an alien is brutally beating down on Hunter when Kyle jumps in and attacks it from out of nowhere. Together, the two of them finish the Alien off, and Kyle takes off, dragging Hunter with him. Hunter’s bloodloss causes him to collapse along the way, but Kyle carries him. Finding a small ship owned by the Empire, the two steal it and head into space. Hunter, who is far too crippled to do much of anything without seeing medical attention, suggests they go to the Intergalactic Justice Federation HQ in a nearby system. Getting there, the two are received with a warm welcome, and Hunter is seen to immediately. Kyle expresses his want to work for them, and the head of IJF decides to recruit him, and even give him a new ship: The Mantis. Spencer and JaX are also assigned to them to be part of the crew. Hunter and Kyle are both glad to see a skilled warrior such as Spencer, but Hunter isn’t too happy about the 19-year-old JaX. Kyle eventually convinces him with the fact that JaX is an esteemed scientist, and so Hunter reluctantly welcomes him. And so, a new force for freedom is born.

I realize the last sentance is SUPAR-CHEESEY, but I couldn't think of a better way to end it.
And hoo-boy. If I ever get a fanbase, I KNOW the first thing I'll see is Kyle/Hunter yaoi. Because fans are INSANE. **runs from all of you** I'm kiddin'! Kidding!!! Not about the yaoi part though, and I will cry if I ever do in fact see that I have a fanbase.

[Vierge]

Count me in ^^