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Welcome to Dark One Sagas

Natalya is dead, Atlantis is at the edge of war, and Kristy can't pay this month's rent because her immature mother hasn't been home for weeks. While chasing down her 10 000\ allowance, she falls into the river surrounding Toyama castle. Somehow, she comes out somewhere no one was expecting...
Family matters, corrupted governments, and personal insight are just a few of the themes appearing in Dark One Sagas.

Latest Comic:

Teaser

06 Jan 2008 11:28 pm

Teaser Page

It's just a photograph, but it's the teaser for the next generation D1S. This is the last time I'm redrawing it- if I have to again, it's officially dead. I am more confident that my work has improved, however, and I'm not embarassed to post this...yet.
The rest will probably only be posted upon my return to my home country.

11 Sep 2007 09:08 am

Well, this is dumb.

Yep, it's getting a facelift. yep, I'm dumb. Dumb Shan, dumb Shan, DARA.
All of the pages that are up right now are going to be torn back down at some point in the near future. They look bad, they sound bad, the storyline has no relevance to what it is now, and so many things remain unexplained, unrealistic and unsatisfying. Events are happening much too quickly, chapters are much, much too small, and the characters are completely unrealistic! So, now that you know my reasons, hopefully you will be patient until next year.
I have begun to write Dark One Sagas as though it is a novel, occurring in the present tense with a narration from the POV of any chosen character- mostly Kristy so far, with chris narrating his own thoughts and past and taking the narration for about 2 pages. Hopefully, this is how things will appear in the manga.
I have about 7 pages drawn so far. they are of high quality, and I am still reworking them in pencil to fit what I had originally wanted this work to be known for. the qualities I hope o see present in Dark One sags are as folows* Art- I want the art to be of a high quality and a unique realism-inspired manga style; I am currently working very hard to find the right balance of manga and realism styles to suit my tastes B- story. I want very much to have a story relevant to today's world in some ways, that would theoretically be physically possible, is intriguing, exciting and sufficiently mysterious and is generally clever and enjoyable to an audience C- layout. this is the toughest one for me. I want this manga to be interesting not only in the quaity of artwork and the craftsmanship of the story, but the way the pages are put together to convey emotion through visual aids both surreal and abstract; I have only once ever remarked upon the amazingly artistic and meaningful layout of one manga* Love (or Romantic) Egoist, by well known author Hatori Bisco, author of Ouran host club, at the back of which this supplement manga is published. i have studied her work in that particular series (I do not find Ouran's layout to be very artistic- it's too much of a fast-paced comedy for thatm I think), read up on the subject of layouts, studied briefly the victorian language of flowers \(for background effect) \, worked hard on my skills at drawing background items such as buildings and trees, researched clothing, improved plotlines, redrawn character designs, rethought points and generally performed a facelift of every aspect imaginable of this manga. There will still undoubtedly be more before the writing and planning process is at a stage where I am comfortable to post.
I'm sorry for hte terribly long post. In the meanitme, please be patient and enjoy other, more prepared and professional artist's works. I will not let you down in providing an even better manga than before for you to enjoy in future years.
Much love from beneath (most of) your feet, Shan (who is in japan).

28 Apr 2007 09:05 am

It's ALIIVE! Rawr.

Rawr! I'm abck! I'm alive!
whuh huh?!
My art's improved ;D Yay Spring! <3
When it's first sunny and warm, all I want to do is draw *w*
And hey hey, people, if you see this, please cmment, critique, whatever, just let me know you're here! : D
And hey, I've been real busy. Hard to believe last time I updated was 7 months ago. God, I suck!
Ahem hem, now. There are many pags. All organise, all scripted. There are storylines. Doodles help me plan those out.
There is another set of twins to be introdued! o3o
I'm obsessed with twins between The Thirteenth Tale and Ouran High School Host Club.
And this : ) So many theories of twinness in this storyine now. Oho, just you wait! It's kind of confusing at first, but it gets worked out ;)
Anyways! Enjoy! There's more to come! But I'll save them all til scheduled update times, so that they last onger...hehe...just you wait ;)
*scans in next two pages of actual story*
I'll also get some of those links up top to work.
Bai bai! <3

10 Oct 2006 04:02 pm

And up again!

Ahaha...^ ^;; It took a lot of willpower to finish this page...because it's boring to me now. And teh art is horrible D:
But enjoy anyway! ^ ^
So new page SHOULD happen SOON! I'm really bogged down with school...as in...DP program is lots of work, though I'm not finding it too difficult, in all honesty...just my time management that need improvement (for instance in six days I have to read 200 pages of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens...and what am I doing? Posting a comic!
YOU'D BETTER *bleep* WELL ENJOY THIS NOW! D:
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I'm gonna go bake cookies now xD;; (it's a school project, I promise- why else would I be baking?! @_<)


<3<3 Shan

15 Aug 2006 04:06 pm

Ringing it In

Yayyy!
I've just made the move to Smackjeeves from Comcgenesis and already I love it. Comicgen is good, don't get me wrong, but I'm rather technologically impaired, and despite what they say, it's difficult to understand. =( poor dumb little me >3<
Anyways~!
The art gets noticeably better through the comic, and that's because the first comic here is over a year and a half old, probably over 2. THAT'S how much I struggled with Comicgen/Keenspace. Well! I hope you'll treat me well here! And I'll probably redraw those old icky pages, sooo~
Also, the 2 newest pages haven't yet been added because one of them needs to be retooled quite a bit (AKA: I put on way too many blur filters..ehehe)

<3<3<3 Shan

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