Project Aether

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 15 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 15 NEXT LAST See what I mean? This comes off more like a breakup than someone flipping the table and leaving the game. The lesson here, everyone, is to communicate even if it is to fight. Don’t be like Gary.

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 14 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 14 NEXT LAST So, if I were to do this pilot over again, I would tweak this ending. Alessa’s cartoony frustration gets a little too real starting here. I think the reason it got away from me is that Gary doesn’t talk, so Alessa needs to

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 13 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 13 NEXT LAST A player’s hand floating around them has been another consistent element across the rewrites of Project Aether (there have so far been 5, not including this one). It provides a constant reminder of how many cards are at a player’s disposal and takes

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 12 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 12 NEXT LAST Another tricky thing to determine was how card spells manifest. Here they kinda just pop in or come in from a shimmering portal like with Hibiki, but it is better to clearly define something like this as it is something you’ll likely need

FIRST PREVIOUS Page 11 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 11 NEXT LAST The designs of the cards have been a pain for this series because you need to balance how much information the audience gets from the card (which determines how much of the card needs to be legible), and how much the audience gets

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