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FIRST PREVIOUS Page 10 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 10 NEXT LAST Another one of my favorite pages, but I’m going to talk about something else again. Lym and Alessa are both in their late 20s in this build of the story. In the draft after this they were both aged down considerably to be […]

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 9 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 9 NEXT LAST Each Aether user has a theme to their decks. Lym’s is electricity, robots, and the color blue (there is thematic reasons behind that, and why it isn’t something like water, but I don’t want to get into them right now). Alessa’s is fire,

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 8 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 8 NEXT LAST One of my favorite pages, but I don’t have much to add so let’s talk about Lym’s design real quick. The first version of Lym had a lot going on: glasses, long hair, long scarf, unique jacket, and so on. The tricky thing

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 7 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 7 NEXT LAST Hibiki the Ignition Samurai is one of my favorite designs out of this project. She looks very different currently, and I can’t wait to get a finished illustration of her on here. Her ability is different too, again because of the evolution of

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 6 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 6 NEXT LAST Alessa Rose is a character who I had in the works WAY back in the Red City days, which I think was around 2008. I had a lot of fun drawing her in this comic, as goes on a roller coaster of emotions

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 5 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 5 NEXT LAST Gary has been present in a few versions of Project Aether. This version has him at his goofiest, with an ability that seemingly has no use in an actual match. Other versions of the character gave him the ability to wander onto the

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 4 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 4 NEXT LAST Lym not reading her cards is a gag I’ve kept intact throughout all versions of Project Aether. The barrier is another element that has remained, but I’ve played with how it functions a lot. Currently it isn’t resent unless an attack is inbound,

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 3 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 3 NEXT LAST Gary is an early concept intended for Action Hat, originally. I had other summons in mind for Lym, including Ascalon, but Gary fit the more Bugs Bunny-ish antics of early Project Aether. At the moment, I do not have him in the current

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 16 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 16 NEXT LAST I learned a number of things from this pilot, and one of the most valuable lessons was in regards to Lym. While the concept of “Yu-Gi-Oh but if the protagonist didn’t care and won anyway” sounds good on paper, in practice it makes

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 2 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 2 NEXT LAST Aether Clash was not drawn in ideal circumstances. I was between homes at the time, and made this outside of my studio with limited tools. That said, this was also the largest canvas I had worked on in a while. It was only