Swing Into Action Kalea

Kalea: "Yudron, a Glatorian asked me if I could swing into action. I sure can!"

Kalea enjoys her little side wood swing. This is when she feels more in tune with her internal element of air. "Swinging is like flying. Your legs dangle from the seat, and with a lean-push you go higher and higher till you feel like the wind is going to knock you into the sky." she would say.

Sometimes she'll swing so high her toes touch the tree leaves above the support branch. She especially likes it when a few fall, like green glitter that wind-drifts.

I was asked by a Deviant Art follower, Yudrontheglatorian, if I could try to draw Kalea in a different pose besides her forward stance in her design page. Here she is, swinging.

I tried adding a marker overlay to this one too. The difference is subtle.

Kalea the Wind Jumper

Another female Toa of air besides Onah. This character design came from some doodling with a symmetry brush in Firealpaca. A little selecting of shapes and merging them together gave me full body forms of a female Le Matoran, both as a Matoran and then as a Toa.

I had thought about making her into a character idea I've had for awhile, Kelekena. But Kelekena is meant to represent me if I were to make a character of the Bionicle world. I wasn't sure if the structure of this character quite held the right personality for a character that represents me. I know I fit the element of air pretty well, but still haven't decided on a design.

This character may be named Kalea, or Yolana. Both details about those names are shown in the character display sheet above. 

I'll just go with Kalea for now. Here she is as a Matoran traveling through the forest with glee. The left version is textured with paper and marker overlays. The right version is the base digital illustration.

Kalea's background and character build aren't yet thought of, but a design is a design. I only know she's a joyful, free spirited and outgoing kind of personality.

Toa Kalea.

Base digital illustration on the left, textured version on the right. I think I like the textured version for this one. The marker overlay gives it kind of windy feel, as though a cyclone is spinning around her.

The Great 'Jaller'peno-Comic

 

The Great 'Jala'peno 

It's been awhile, hasn't it? I have to say it's not till recently that my Bionicle nostalgia returned to me and I've been in a big mood to dabble in making simple comic pages.

Remember how Jaller's name was once spelled Jala? So many pun related things pop into my head, I've been making a list for Bionicle ideas mainly to make into comics or illustrations (possibly single illustration comics). 

One night I imagined Jaller with a grumpy face while wearing a red jalapeno costume. You can figure out why that happened, it's obvious. :P He's a fire type dressed as a pepper, which makes him hot in more than one way.

Originally this was meant to be a single illustration of Jaller and Takua, specifically the middle panel of this comic page. It only took moments for extra dialogue and characters to pop into my head and become a comic.

Here's a look at the outline and blue roughs of my process. A day and a half passed by while working on it, but my time spent working on it was on and off.