Taste Of… Fear

Well, we decided instead of posting more ideas or concept art that we would actually give a taste of our upcoming comic. These two panels come off the second page, were the storyline starts to show up. I’m gonna leave John to explain the creature and the plot though in his two cents section!

Both panels for me were very time-consuming, but very fun at the same time. I think that Johns idea behind the creatures came across very well. You can tell that both characters hold a lot of emotion, in this case fear. Since I am the inker it would make sense for me to also comment on the colors. When I think of something more evil than good I think of a warm color, it sends a subliminal message of evil to me. It was an easy decision to try to add some red on the creature. However, the blue shirt does not fit what I just said. This was because of the character background of the creatures. They used to be humans, now transformed to these beings of evil. The girl follows the warm / cold idea of colors. She is not a main character and we wanted for her to seem defenseless in comparison to the creature. Let me know what you think of this panel!

Johns Two Cents: Now although Matt has had some very “deep” lines, now its my turn. As Matt said the plot begins to slowly reveal itself in this page. I’ll start with the creature. These creatures are called “Creatures of Yin,” and  if you don’t know what yin is it is the black half of the Yin Yang symbol which represents the cold and dark elements of the universe that help to balance it. So this would be, in this comic, a human who couldn’t handle the imbalance of the overwhelming negative energy and was transformed into what the universe declared as unbalanced, which would be the yin of the universe. There are many of these “Creatures of Yin” that will appear in the comic, some of which are more significantly  intelligent than these passive creatures. (This would apply to some of the actual “bad guys” who are more relevant to the story character wise, not all of them.) As you’ve probably already guessed this comic revolves around the Chinese beliefs behind Yin and Yang as far as the universe being balanced, and hopefully I’ve translated the idea that the problem(s) in the story are mainly a result of an imbalance of more Yin than Yang. I also hope for this comic to be some sort of reflection of real life appliance in being balanced in all aspects of life. (Hopefully if there is some imbalance we don’t get crazy monsters that try to kill us)

Note: 1. New pages to be scanned soon 2. A recreation of a video game character will also be inked soon, as John has already drawn it out. Check back for updates!

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