This Fan Art is of Kinrou from the Fantasy webcomic Children of the Tiger by Melissa Stone aka purenightshade. I am every grateful to her for being the person to introduce me to the fact there is a webcomics community out there, and I read her webcomic regularly. This version of Kinrou is based off a pin-up she drew of him (you might be able to tell).
In the current storyline he is in a love-triangle with Kishandren and Sahiren, but in order to preserve an element of mystery I will not tell you which one he is in love with. Ha ha!
The story in Children of the Tiger very much hinges on the world, and society, in which it is based. It’s a slow reveal, where we’re gradually given pieces to the puzzle that connect events to wider politics. This is an example of a story that is not happening in a vacuum – the main characters aren’t the only people to exist or indeed the only people who are important. That’s something I like, but I think it’s hard to do. I can’t say whether the script succeeds on every level – all the pieces are not in place yet and the author is still learning.
What I like about the artwork is the bright colours. I’ll be honest: the anatomy isn’t great, but I’m a little guilty of that myself. Actually this put me onto Posemaniacs (which I never heard of before) and is such a useful resource. It basically has 3D models of nudes in all sorts of poses that you can move and practise drawing from different angles. They even include muscle structure. I might post some sketches from their references at some point.
Until then, just enjoy sexy Kinrou.
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3 replies on “Fan Art for Children of the Tiger”
It’s always awesome to read nice things about my comic. Yeah, crap anatomy is crap, but it’s improving slowly. I think. *laugh* But yeah. The hardest thing with webcomics is that it takes so long to tell a story when you’re not doing a daily comic. I’d love to do one. I just don’t have the time or energy… I assure you, your patience will be rewarded once more of these peices fall into place. Anotehr couple chapters and sense will happen.
It’s always awesome to read nice things about my comic. Yeah, crap anatomy is crap, but it’s improving slowly. I think. *laugh* But yeah. The hardest thing with webcomics is that it takes so long to tell a story when you’re not doing a daily comic. I’d love to do one. I just don’t have the time or energy… I assure you, your patience will be rewarded once more of these peices fall into place. Anotehr couple chapters and sense will happen.
Lol, I haven’t even got to my story yet, my characters are still piddling about arguing with each other! But I like the way you drop in names of people and places we haven’t seen, it gives the impression of living people who have lives beyond what we see in the story.
I’m often suprised at how long it takes to explain what, in my head, is very simple. Yes it is frustrating that the process is so slow, that we don’t have more time to commit etc. But, ultimately, it’s worthwhile.
I’m trying to draw my characters with more realistic proportions. I was doing them with larger heads – to be more cartoony – but I think because my style is semi-realistic it just made the anatomy look worse, and it’s not great anyway. I have a habit of making the legs too short. Heh, I should draw more Dwarves!