Lord of Nightmares: Doodled while watching Slayers during an all-nighter
weekend marathon at college, while discussing the Mokushiroku University
idea with my co-conspirator, Psycofoxx. (A wacky “AU” fanart/fanfic
project that parodies a *ton* of anime, games, and movies/TV shows, as
well as parodying college life in general.) The costume came from
a chibi-L drawn by the original author (Hajime Kanzaka) for Christmas cards.
This pic was drawn with an older style of doing the faces, which I’ve changed
since then, and I think I prefer the newer style over the older one. :P
This picture had a history of small problems – in the plain colored pencil,
the cloak looked *too* plain (I was trying to draw it as if she were “real”,
but the cloak lining was a view of the chaos that is her true form); instead
of looking supernatural, it looked like black cloth with gold streaks.
Then when I scanned it, I CG’ed the cloak and nothing else, which works
with some pictures, but on this pic, it was just *jarring*. (If you
want to see that version, click here ) Finally,
I tried adding a simple background and the vignette effect to try and blur
out the jarring contrast between the soft colored pencil shading and harder
CG color. As for going back and CG’ing the entire figure...I’d rather
just re-draw the image, since I can probably do better now than I did back
then. Aside from all that (and the cloak, which is normal), this
is what L-Sama looks like on the incredibly rare occasions she chooses
to manifest in human form. (Usually to harass the Author.)
Yep, blonde and blue eyes, and with a habit of going by the name of “Lucy”
(Although I’ve heard her “alias” listed before as Lucifer, I’ve seen no
evidence of that being part of the official mythos.) The shovel is
the true form of the Ragna Blade, the spell which summons L-Sama’s favored
weapon. (She often carries both the shovel and a scythe,but the shovel
is her favorite weapon.)