Done with this! (for now)

Long Live the Republic by *ragchow on deviantART

Nice wings!

Ridley

(Ahlma and Cheyan too!)

But here's a Ridley post.
I originally came up with a Ridley character a few years ago back when I was dabbling with a chat based role playing game in the Final Fantasy Tactics realm of Ivalice.
Ridley von Clayborne. She was a Dark Knight who succumbed to a vampire... and thus, was a blood sucker. I don't recall what exactly happened during the course of the game. But I do remember someone got angry and posted an angry journal entry about how vampires do not exist in the Final Fantasy Tactics realm ...

Think about that for a second.

Anyway. I stowed Ridley for awhile after that game. I brought her back when I resumed writing for Cheyan. She became Cheyan's best and childhood friend. At this point, I ditched the vampire edge (Twilight came out about this time.)

Ridley was not intended to be fully human.. or as I call them now, Syrtian.
So, she had elfish ears.

I soon took a comic course at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. A perfect place for me to start drawing for this idea! After a few revisions I came up with a solid idea for demonesque species known as the varachians.
Ridley would be ousted as one by her kin at the end of this short comic.
I haven't looked back at that comic until now...

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*Cough* It's pretty bad.
Anyway.

I contemplated continuing that comic but fell flat a few times. So I decided to start it again. And I did.
I didn't get too far, however... and about this time I really got interested in War for Arcadia.

But here are the three comic pages that I didn't get too far with.. but overall, I like how they were coming along.

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And so. I started with WfA. At first, I was just going to use my primary character, Cheyan. But then I got this crazy idea of including Ridley. But I tied in the varachian concepts with her and POOF! She had horns, wings and a tail! Easily a favorite character of mine.




Inspired by the AWESOME Ben!


Disclaimer: Smoking's bad, m'kay?

WIP

Hey there. I don't usually like to give anything away... but there's nothing really here for that.
The chapter finale of War for Arcadia is upon us... and while there's still plenty of time left to get organized I have been chipping away at my cycle 1/introduction comic for my characters to explain their motivations to the finale.
I'm really liking my pace with these pages now.
Sketch.
Ink.
Render.
Place.
Color.
Word bubbles/Action Texts.

Content!

First, Ridley's design for Round 23. May put in that cross later. Cheyan will give it to her during T.C.E's first round because of vampires!

Mafioso Ridley

7/1 Cheyan Sketches | War For Arcadia

So! I'm joining War For Arcadia

Explanation? Well. I'm still learning it myself so I shall simply copy and paste you the information directly from the web site.

"Welcome to War for Arcadia, a comic-battling website where all the content is provided by folks just like you.

Wait...What exactly is comic-battling? Basically, two artists are pitted against each other with their respective characters and are given a rough setting. One artist goes first drawing a comic in a week's timespan. His opponent replies with a comic in the same time period. This happens one more time (for a total of four comics) and then a poll is opened to determine the winner."

Anyways. I'm going to enter my favorite character. Cheyan.
Of course I'm choosing her because she's the most fun to draw... and I would love to see other people draw her.

Below is updated reference sketches.





And in casual clothing.