Upcoming works minor update

As for right now, I am still developing on the cover for the Liga Prajurit comic and it's coming around rather slowly as I am still unclear on what's best for it.

But as a filler, I wish to show you another update of my sci fi work,

Today, it's all about fashion~

I wanted to romanticize traditional clothing yet still looks current/modern. I've made my decision to use the Malay Royal Palace Guard as my base reference and I started from there.

Notice that the other one thing I'm trying to emphasize is the exclusive use of cloth. Where other countries use chevrons, stars and buttons to tell what unit/rank/profession, I've found out that the Malays used cloth not only for everyday practical uses but also exclusively for this function - to symbolize a certain rank, authority, profession, pride, etc.

The first picture shows my few first attempts, the farthest to the left is my base reference - The Malay Royal Palace Guards. From then on, I started playing with colours and accessories, length of the sampin(waist cloth), etc. For instance, the other three not only to test how they look like in different colours and in different variations but also to test if it could be suited to the commonly used sci fi colour-themed ship crews. (yellow for engineers, green for gunners, etc)

The next step, I tried a little more challenge - putting specific batik woven patterns to make each profession/rank more distinctive from the other. The farthest from the left was the one I had most fun because I barely made any changes to the kevlar from the original real life design of a jawi inscripted leather vest used by the Malays. I only added shoulder and elbow pads to make it appear combat effective. The other three are more exploration as well as emphasizing the use of the chindai (shoulder cloth). This particular cloth is used to emphasize authority.

This third attempt started out as a joke but turned to be thrice as fun. What I'm trying to do is to make state-specific themed wear to discern easily each other of their native origin/unit/etc.

Here, we have Terengganu, Kelantan, Pahang and Kedah from left to right respectively.

I haven't made much progress on female clothes but so far this is it bu I had fun with them and will probably do more.

Well, that's it. hope it was worth a look!

Liga Prajurit Comic repaired

http://zharifhazwan.blogspot.com/p/comics.html

Head straight to this link, where all the comic pages are shown in one post.

The comic has gone through minor changes and updates regarding, fixing backgrounds, consistency problems in earlier pages with current ones, blog post layout itself and etc.

If not better, at least now it looks even. I hope you all can enjoy a better read from the changes.

Mildly put, the pages changes are from Page 1 to Page 39.

Thank you and stay tuned!

Minor updates and a little 'teaser'

For the past few days, I've been repairing most of the early pages and it's coming out better than I hoped. At least if not better, at least it will look consistent. 

So for the time being, as a filler, let me introduce a little bit of something that I've been working for the past few weeks; sketches or drawings that I am using as a reference for future work in progress.

This work is, in simply speaking, to explore the sci fi genre. I can't say much for now not because it's super top secret and I'm not sharing but because without a body of work to show, talking too much would be just verbose and pointless.

The idea came while I was working on Liga Prajurit but was never started until the final semester degree of art school where I realized it's potential. After finally finishing degree and Liga Prajurit, I continued it's research and development until now.

Here are some of the works recently done for the work,

Drones/robots that can be ridden, may act on their own or by even remote. Functions as personal transportation, reconnaissance, fighter/bombers.

Example of trading ships/battleships. Some of these ships have dual functions; in peace time, functions as an R&R ship for travellers or trading barge. In war time, functions as a fully armed battle ship.

Wartime only ship. Removes all civilian/trading uses for complete military use; mounting an anti-ship railgun.

While they are not final, simply used as an early reference, should be enough to give a rough idea of how it will look.

Done using Flash 8 Basic.

Liga Prajurit Page 56 (END)

Liga Prajurit Page 56 (END)

Liga Prajurit first chapter has now ended.

Although it is still not presentable as now I will rework a lot of the previous pages in which I see needs serious redo/repair before calling it 'finished.'

but before it comes to that, let me just say for all the viewers out there that have been following till now, through all those delays and bumps I've been through -- Thank you very much for reading.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Liga Prajurit Page 55

This has been a very slow week, bogged down by realization of this comic should've gone better and struck by heavy fever. Trying to regain the pace as there is still so much to be done.

Stay tuned.

Liga Prajurit Page 54 

PS: Page 53 have gone through minor fix after discussion about certain parts that could've worked better.

PS2: reuploaded for fixing grammar error

Liga Prajurit Page 53

Liga Prajurit Page 53