My second MAG (Monthly Anime Gaijin competition) submission ended up tuning into a mini-manga project. Here's basically my first attempt at sequential pages. Instead of submitting a standard pin-up page I thought I'd try my hand at illustrating the battle between Kazuya and Akeru, which these character's started back on colony 179, (based on events in the story) I was pleased with the results and it took me around two weeks on and off to finish.

I think it looks pretty good just in B/W like a typical manga (See the Inks version above). I like the cool 3 tone anime style colouring, it fits the manga theme well and the bright colours used gives it a comedy anime feel similar to Dragon Ball or Pokemon.

It's supposed to be a humorous Pokémon parody and if you're unfamiliar with Rene's characters, here's a little background info: Kazuya (the Saiyan, top panel, first page) is Akeru's (the kid's) rival. Akeru uses a giant mecha called Colossus to fight battles for him. Colossus lives in a "pocket dimension" and Akeru unleashes Colossus when needed! I changed many character elements such as the mecha design and the fact Akeru looks older than he should because I wanted to make it a lot more unique to my own style as well as improve on the existing designs.

I could have done some nice glowing metal effects on the Mech if I used the airbrush, but I wanted to keep it, or at least most of it within the anime cel style. I like the smoke coming out from Colossus' gun turrets and the lettering for these pages too. It's the first time I had tried professional style comic lettering and I managed to pull it off ok.

Line art : Pencils : Inks

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