Okay, first picture I am putting up is a story/manga I plan on doing eventually. I used Prismacolored markers for this picture. I actually am a bit lazy in creating the manga itself because I am doing other things. However, I still love drawing out the chars here. The story is called Zodia's Treasures and this is what the front cover of Volume 1 would look like.
The char in the middle in the main char, Sakura. This story is based around the Greek Zodiac. Surrounding Sakura is the 12 signs of the Zodiac. The first sign is Aries, which is the Red symbol on the left side of the picture. It goes counter-clockwise in the following order starting at Aries-
Aries (red)
Taurus (light blue)
Gemini (yellow)
Cancer (silver)
Leo (gold)
Virgo (Navy blue)
Libra (pink)
Scorpio (burgandy)
Sagittarius (purple)
Capricorn (dark green)
Aquarius (sky blue)
Pisces (Sea green)
There is alot of symbolism and I chose those colors because each color represents that sign. Also the four bands of color flowing from Sakura represent the four elements: Fire (red), Earth (green), Air (Yellow), and Water (blue). Most of my manga stuff will be colored pencil. Also technically, Sakura has peach colored hair but I didn't want her hair and skin tone to look the same here. I did this picture back in 2007 or '08 I think.
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