Adventures in Mahou Shoujo

 It started in 2008, with the old-ass lineart.  There was some kind of character-generation challenge either on DA or at the Tower (can’t remember which, now) involving Sailor Senshi based on art supplies. I wound up with Sailor Tempera.

That really didn’t go much of anywhere, so I got to rethinking the concept and eventually she became Chroma…and got teammates.  The designs have changed a lot, as has just about everything else, and two of the girls are gone now, but at the top is the final product.

I have a whole story concept to go with them; it’d probably count as YA, but since it’ll never get serialized or written, I’ll just lay it out spoilers and all.

Old Again, New Again

 Forever ago, I used to be on Gaia Online…left once I realized it’s a huge money-sink and the concept of RP (well, as I know it) is beyond most of the population.  Before that and in the years since, though, I’ve still gone to the tektek avatar creator* site to mess around with all the shiny items.  It’s actually a good place to mine for design ideas.  Back in the day, I drew my own avatars and colored them by mouse.  A lot of the old artwork never got finished…

…yeah, and it’s probably not going to, either.  LCD monitors are not conducive to my coloring method on a large scale like this, not to mention I’m way out of practice.  So, nursing some eyestrain, I decided to just redraw everything.  That turned into another trip to the avatar-creator and several hours later I have a redesign.  It’s not 100% accurate to the sprite image, but that’s the point.  Playing with it.

* note Tektek got killed off by Gaia a few years ago.  Much of value was lost.