#deep forest
“Sasuke Inari“ - Piece for Giant Robot’s “Deep Forest“ show. Got inspired by Sasuke Inari shrine located in Kamakura, Japan. My first idea was to draw the famous Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto but while browsing Pintrest I happened to ran into Sasuke Inari shrine and fell in love ! ( Also it’s close to my grandma’s house, I wonder why I never heard it before ) Later I sketched & double checked if I have enough green color copic. Then I watched youtube video of walking the shrine, anime GingitsuneandGugure Kokkuri san ( both about fox shrine ), and read manga Sansukumi to get the shrine vibe but at the end didn’t end up drawing shrine. It’s ok, it happens. Especially with me. Always do a lot of research but a lot of times doesn’t end up reflecting in the piece. But its totally ok! I have more knowledge now. Anyway I’m happy with the result overall ! I especially like my tree details. But I did realize that I need more improvement on coloring nature because I never do. My next goal :)
Listening to - Walking in the Rain in Kamakura
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Yavanna, áva hehta eldalyar! - the elven song to the Valië of Earth …
I already miss summer.
taking pages from roughs to pencils
wrote about how I take comics from rough scribbles to legible penciled pages for all my patron tiers! featuring sneak peeks from Deep Forest, and how I expanded this running sequence into a whole page ✍ Here’s a direct link!
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DEEP FORESTMEGAPOST
A sci fi comic series about a group of kids growing up on a colonized alien planet, living very different lives - Regina and wolf girl out in the woods in abandoned laboratories, and Danna and Devrik Tee in a town where magic and science are studied side-by-side. Each story can be enjoyed by itself, but they build into a larger continuing narrative. I’ve been working on this series since 2012 and they’re very dear to my heart! Give them a read if you like the sound of weird queer kids doing science-magic, discovering the inequalities of the current/past systems around them, struggling to understand new perspectives, and deciding what kind of people they want to be.
“Each issue focuses on feelings like longing and a sense of joy in the moment despite the uncertainty of the future…These are wonderfully subtle and restrained fantasy comics, and I only hope that she continues to do more…” - Rob Clough, High-Low Comics, 2013
wolf girl
Wolf Girl is a girl who is also a wolf. This comic is an essay Regina made her write about what she did today, and she did a very good job with the spelling and everything. CW: animal death, blood
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Deep Forest #1
Ruff n tuff kids in the woods! Abandoned mad science laboratories! Tiny animal minions! Cadavers in the bushes! Can you dig it? This 12 page story made critic Rob Clough’s “Best Short Form Comics of 2013” list (along with the sequel DF#2).CW: Injury to a child, dead body, ableist language.
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Deep Forest #2
Danna Tee is smart, pretty, and responsible, and she has big dreams - witch dreams. She wants to follow in her famous mother’s footsteps, but something about the new corporate funded Academy for Witchcraft Preservation just doesn’t sit right. Danna walks the woods looking for a little peace, and for some answers - too bad she’s only gonna find more questions waiting for her in the Deep Forest…
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Professor Regina
A semi-canon prologue to Deep Forest, and where it all started - a weird girl in the woods with all her animal minions. Pet deaths are always hard, even when your pets are imaginary. And what if you could make those imaginary pets real? How much of their death is your responsibility…? CW: animal death.
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Shifter Takes A Swim
A mysterious scruffy shapeshifter deals with anxiety and inner turmoil by digging through ink to a new pencil dimension. A 4-page poetic short, published in (out-of-print) collection L3no2as part of my CCS 2013 thesis! How does this connect to the Deep Forest? I wonder…. :3
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EverythingDeep Forest
All comics, drawings, sketches, etc are collected in these tags:
DEEP FOREST//PROFESORA REGINA//WOLF GIRL// DANNA TEE//DEVRIK TEE//SHIFTER
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PATREON//KO-FI//STORENVY//GUMROAD
PERSONAL TUMBLR//TWITTER//INSTAGRAM//FB
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what’s this? inks?? on a page….with panels??! comics are H A P P E N I N G!! wolf girl and Regina are at the Dump, doing Dump things.
✏in-depth process post on my petreon//buy comics about these kiddos on my store// read more for free on my Deep Forest tag//gimme a tip if you like
[ID: Close up photo of a Deep Forest #3 comics page in progress, depicting wolf girl sitting up on a trash heap and looking around inquisitively, with Regina in the background, tool in one hand, forcefully kicking some chunk of plastic/metal with a KLONK. her backpack is in the foreground. The panel is inked with brushpen on top of printed blue pencils.]
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one of the various deep forest character line-ups I just posted for patrons at the source link! did u know……today I inked most of a page :O it’s true, sometimes instead of drawing characters over and over on random pieces of paper, I draw them over and over but…….on nice paper and……..INSIDE OF PANELS, if u can believe it
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Some sneak peeks from my ol pay-treon (laurellynnleake) of Regina and wolf girl from my Deep Forest comic series as I continue to pencil pages. All patrons get art updates like this one with secret sketches pulled from my project piles, early access to new comics, commentary on my art process, etc! how bout that ❤️ direct link in the reblogs because this website is ridiculous!
direct link!
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Very pleased with this one! A forest princess
A forest pond
