Carrie Pa Cha's Art Blog

 Still working on the outline, but I managed to crank out a (hopefully) distinct enough title lettering for the series. I worked through different styles and font prototypes to figure out something. I ended up choosing something calligraphic for the project.  

    I completely revamped Tama's outfit to better fit with the mixed modern and traditional aesthetic from SE Asia. I kept the coat's color scheme the same, but I made it longer so it could more easily hide weapons. I added on red and gold onto the Crimson Moon Guardian's uniform to make it more interesting to look like. I decided to remove the mask since it didn't fit with the idea that Tama is a cheery and honest person who is actually very dangerous. I hope this is the final revision for Tama's work uniform.

     This is my blog post that details the rambling adventure of my silly turned slightly serious art project and examination of the official art from a YA/teen book called Lightlark by Alex Aster. I am going to be honest here and I don't think Lightlark is a very well crafted book. This is due to, in my opinion, the author not being skilled enough yet to execute on her ideas and the publisher caring more about money than craft by rushing this book out to market without proper story edits and revisions.      I going to be focusing mostly on the making Muscle Queen Isla and giving a somewhat serious review of Lightlark 's official character art.        If you want more information, I have links to Reads with Rachel video on Lightlark and the strange behavior of Alex Aster's marketing of the book, MyNameisMarines video on Lightlark and the greater discussion on who gets the opportunity to make art and get published, and Julian Greystoke 's chapter-by-chapter read al