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YOU'VE GOT MAIL! Happy Holidays, and thank you for supporting Legacy Of A Fighter, Garchompula! :^) Sorry for the late letter, during the holiday season shipping gets so... slow. (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Hey! I've been meaning to make this for awhile, but now that it's break I've finally gotten the time. I really like your story and happy holidays!
I've been working my butt off on this, but I managed to make DROSERA work as a zine! Question is, now where exactly do I even sell it
To end this Inksgiving list, I thought I'd post this art I made for my birthday 3 years ago! So much of this story either doesn't exist or is so different. I could go into how Yeti was a villain, or Waterloo's original arc, or how my dog was a minor character, but that's all what could have been. I have spent countless hours writing, sketching, doodling this crazy story about a girl trying to become a hero, and I am so thankful to have built up a small group of people excited to see what happens next.
Here is the original draft of the first page of the comic! Notice how crammed everything is - I draw EXTREMELY small on all my drafts to help create a pace of how much content I imagine to put out every two weeks. As I'm typing this, I am on page 36!
Here is an original test of designing the vintage look of the comic - it took genuine years to properly nail down the look, you can see a lot of visual complexities that simply wouldn't be possible with technology. Bonus cookie for whoever can guess what exactly this is referencing!
Early design of an upcoming character (Won't say who!)
His original name being Nite Train, based name and design wise on the motorcycle. He was criminally overdesigned and underused - pretty much just a grumpy old man kept around for some dry wit. When rewriting the story and needing someone to replace the Car, I chose him on a whim and created a backstory as I went!
His original name being Nite Train, based name and design wise on the motorcycle. He was criminally overdesigned and underused - pretty much just a grumpy old man kept around for some dry wit. When rewriting the story and needing someone to replace the Car, I chose him on a whim and created a backstory as I went!
One of the characters I'm so sad I cut - Hurtman.
He is a very obvious character, the most he gets hurt, the stronger he becomes. But that became a massive headache of figuring out in of itself. How do you make a fight of intentionally getting hurt FUN?!? What's the payoff? He just, cannot work narratively.
He is a very obvious character, the most he gets hurt, the stronger he becomes. But that became a massive headache of figuring out in of itself. How do you make a fight of intentionally getting hurt FUN?!? What's the payoff? He just, cannot work narratively.
After a bit of digging, I found the original draft of the car fight. Torched jumps onto the hood and immediately gets shot off. From there, Daisy uses a mass of tumbleweeds to hunt down the car. But I got stumped. How do you fight a car??
Why the name Drosera?
Besides sounding neat, it originally played a much more narrative meaning. Drosera is a scientific name of a carnivorous plant - in the story, it was the pent up hatred nature had for humanity. It was the one who caused Daisy's powers and occasionally took over her body. It just didn't fit - this story is relatively grounded, a spiritual being such as this just does not fit as well as I hoped.
Besides sounding neat, it originally played a much more narrative meaning. Drosera is a scientific name of a carnivorous plant - in the story, it was the pent up hatred nature had for humanity. It was the one who caused Daisy's powers and occasionally took over her body. It just didn't fit - this story is relatively grounded, a spiritual being such as this just does not fit as well as I hoped.
