Art When Luck Shoots You Down [The Graphic Novel]

[Dragon Warrior]

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[size=1][b]Quick Note: This Comic Has Foul Language and Violence. Some Other Adult Stuff Too, But I'm Too Lazy To Waste My Time Saying What They Are. Cool? Cool.[/b][/center]

Hello fellow Otakulites :] Dragon Warrior here with a new adventure for you... or an old adventure, if you will. Some of you may have read it, but [b]When Luck Shoots You Down[/b] was a story I posted here on OB in the Anthology previously. It's a humorous story following the life of a man named Kensley who has horrible luck and gets involved with mobs, gangsters, and assassins without any intention. Or any clue, for that matter.

I chose to stop writing the story, but now have picked it up again as a graphic novel. I will make the first three chapters of the story posted on OB as books for the graphic novels, and continue from there. It'll take some time, but I will post each book here on OB in this thread.

I regret to inform you all that Book One is not completed yet, but is in production and will be soon. However, here's a teaser for you...[/size]

[CENTER][URL="http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7016/luckbook1coverbj6.jpg"]Book One's Cover[/URL][/CENTER]

[size=1]I also don't intend to leave you all high and dry by posting this thread with nothing more than a picture. So I'm posting below several sketches I made while developing the looks of some of the characters, the majority being from Book One. This is my first time doing a graphic novel and I'm trying to make it look semi-decent here, but I cannot vouch for my skills in drawing or coloring in Photoshop. This graphic novel is more or less a test of my skills at doing it and a way of practicing and improving said skills.

If you have any questions about the graphic novel, please do ask. That or feedback on the art and everything would be great. I'd love to hear about it from people like you. It'll motivate me to make this thing spectacular. So, please, feel free to reply and I'll try to finish Book One soon. In the meantime, click the links below for the sketches, and the very bottom link to view the written story version of [b]When Luck Shoots You Down[/b] (Chapters 1-3). Thank you :][/size]

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[b]Sketches of Kensley D'Agostino[/b]
[URL="http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/93/kensley1bv0.jpg"]Random Kensleys[/URL]
[URL="http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/3368/kensley2qh2.jpg"]Kensley Chewing?[/URL]
[URL="http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/8052/kensley3nm6.jpg"]More Random Kensleys[/URL]
[URL="http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5262/kensley4au7.jpg"]A Draft Of Kens Saying A Line From The Comic[/URL]
[URL="http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4189/kensley5uf7.jpg"]Kensley As A Badass[/URL]

[b]Sketches Of Assorted Characters[/b]
[URL="http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8256/bruteln0.jpg"]Random Brute[/URL]
[URL="http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9410/rigbyzp9.jpg"]Reggie "Rigby" Summers[/URL]
[URL="http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/5554/naomitx8.jpg"]A Fairly Early Sketch of Naomi[/URL]
[URL="http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/5624/reizopy5.jpg"]Thirteen Berettas Leader, Reizo[/URL]
[URL="http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/5807/sanjang4.jpg"]Thirteen Berettas Member, Sanja[/URL]
[URL="http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2160/synthlg1.jpg"]Synth[/URL]
[URL="http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1047/archmt8.jpg"]Arch Banner[/URL]

[b]Random Other Stuff[/b]
[URL="http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1329/layoutfo9.jpg"]A Quickie Sketch of Book One's First Page Layout[/URL]
[URL="http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/8813/llamafacezi0.jpg"]Llama-Face! You know.. I don't know either...[/URL]

[SIZE="4"][URL="http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?t=58881"]VIEW THE ACTUAL STORY[/URL][/size][/center]

[Jeremy]

[SIZE="1"]I'm excited to see this story come to life in comic form! You have a great style in your drawings that's gonna make this a good read, and yeah, you know I'm stoked. The character sketches look good, and the first sketch page is tellin' me, hey this thing is in the works for real. Good luck on kicking off this first graphic novel of yours and you better let me know when page one is up : p[/SIZE]