Prepare yourselves… For a wallpaper version of AvaniaNo.6’s back inside cover illustration, featuring Captains Fontania Eraclare and Alders Wight.
As you might imagine from their detailed uniforms, I spent a while finishing this pic. I am pretty happy with how it turned out though, and both of them sorely needed some updated artwork for their character bios!
The aftermath of Hans and Schmitt’s encounter with the mysterious man, as seen in this deluxe version of the shot from page 7 of AvaniaNo.5.
Due to the large number of smaller panels in the pages before and after this, this will wrap up the chapter as far as the “deluxe” stand-alone pictures will go, but I am still proud of the art in those scenes, so check out the comic itself if you haven’t already!
After confronting this treacherous foe, Schmitt rallies for another attempt at subduing him in this deluxe panel from Avania No.5, page 5. Careful, Schmitt–You might be underestimating who you’re dealing with!
After reading so many sketch comics in @mariiboops‘ Xin at the Register series, I had wanted to draw the titular tigress anyway, but then this contest proved the perfect occasion to finally commit…
Be careful, Viktoria, you’re playing with fire this time!
Schmitt knew this guy was sus, but their brief scuffle all but confirmed it! Now also on the alert, Hans joins him to confront the mysterious stranger in this deluxe panel from Avania No.5, page 4.
The Black Lanners’ morning may have wrapped up, but the day isn’t over yet… Stay tuned for more when Avania continues with Chapter 15!
I’ll be posting a general news update soon, so be on the lookout for that too! And as always, I love to read your comments and feedback, so let me know what you thought of the chapter (or the comic as a whole) below or via Avania Mail!
While I’m working on the next chapter of Avania, so too am I working on Space!Viktoria and her alien crew! Looks like Una and Charlotte won’t be the only space privateers in the finished-pinup game for long…
Still experimenting with Space!Viktoria’s look too, since her history and skills are a bit different than for her normal character. Now I just have to draw the StarWasp itself!
Lieutenant Heathridge arrives before blows are landed… But is this crisis-averted or catharsis-averted? Stay tuned, because even as the chapter concludes, you can rest assured the trouble hasn’t… Catch the last page of Avania, chapter 14 next Sunday night!
Now that I’ve spent some time figuring out Space!Viktoria’s suit design, what about her crew? In this hypothetical space AU, I imagine she’s a privateer instead of a navy pilot, and may enlist the help of her different species counterparts to help her on missions!
This being sort of a joke in that Chasse is fairly obviously intended to be a Rozenich version of Viktoria, and though visually more differentiated, Cattiveria was also intended as an Ambivian version of Viktoria… So she’s kind of teaming up with herself here…
The combination is actually rather amusing though since each variation has a bit different personality and come from much different cultures, so their differences stand out in contrast with one another.
Thanks to @alfafilly for designing both Cattiveria and Chasse (she drew the bases for those two here as well).
So as I’ve been indulging in space raptors lately, I’ve also been considering how Chasse (and by extension, the rest of @alfafilly’s rozenich setting) would interact with the rest of my cast… Except rather that simply having crossover with the regular Avania setting, why not make an expansive new AU that offers some additional storytelling possibilities?
Combine this with the designs I made for a space version of Una and Charlotte, including a space-faring version of their lancer airship, and you can see where I’m headed with this, which brings me to Viktoria!
These are just some design sketches I did a little while back, but I’m already having a lot of fun channeling the look of vintage anime space suits…
Lieutenant Schmitt finds the tables suddenly turned on him as the suspicious stranger proves he possesses more than just a pretty face! This is one of my favorite shots from @avaniacomic chapter 10, which is fortunate because it’s one of the few wide shots in the chapter I can make a deluxe version of, due to the action of the scene leaving less room for fancy backgrounds.
Rozenich typically like eating meat and getting it on with each other, but Chasse is particularly fond of these things… Especially when they also involve violence.
So,uh… Have a happy Valentine’s day!
(And blame @alfafilly for Rozenich and Chasse’s design)
