Wow, I haven't updated this journal in nearly 4 months! I'll try to be a bit better about that eheh. redface (But then that's what I always say.)
Since my last update, Hermes Moon finished it's evolutions, and I took a short break from working on EI's. Instead I helped with the Gaia Olympics event, and drew the manga for Barton's Olympic Team, "Cat Fish". Since up until recently my work primarily involves avatar items, I didn't have too much confidence in how well my non-sprite drawings might be received by the community. But your responses were so unexpectedly positive! eek and there were some of the most hilarious comic edits! (some were so horrible they made my brain bleed XD) Thank you all for your great comments! Reading all you had to say in the forums was more encouraging for me than you'll ever know.
And I'm happy Barton won! twisted
During that time, I was asked to make another evolving item. After much deliberation with my managers, we came up with the Fallen Wish.
Here are a select few (very) quick sweatdrop stage 1 concept sketches from the brainstorm.
<img src="http://www.melon-pan.net/phi/gaia/fwsketch1.jpg">
As stars will be an ongoing motif, the initial stage ended up being similar to how Hermes' Moon started out. I actually -really- like the compeito idea, but it didn't end up being consistent with the rest of the item, and especially not for the start pose. Maybe somehow I'll figure out a way to squeeze that in there... xd
A few points I can share about Fallen Wish are that it certainly won't be just silver themed, and that I hope to give it a -little- bit more masculine elements. Please expect something that has a somewhat similar feel and style to Hermes Moon, but like nothing that's on Gaia right now.
In any case, I'm really excited for this item and all the new variations it's going to have! whee
When possible, I'll try to share the ideas for each evolution, as well as the poses that didn't make it. Thank you guys for your continued support! You all have some very creative speculations. whee I learned a lot from my last evolving item, so this time I'll be able to consider all the suggestions and feedback from Hermes Moon, and hopefully make the Fallen Wish the best item I can! Please look forward to future evolutions!
thank you guys~ heart -phi
superphi · Wed Sep 17, 2008 @ 08:09pm · 69 Comments |