Bionicle Manga Extras

This IS a side blog to the main Bionicle Manga tumblr. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE follow this page in addition to the main. Hello and welcome to the Extras page of the Bionicle Manga! Here you will receive news posts, WIP, updates on situations, answers to questions, and anything you didn't want to know but will know about the manga. This will have special content on it. There is a probable chance that spoilers will occur.

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2005 Bionicle Manga Master Post

This way you don’t have to dig through all the posts, so I’m doing the digging for you!

Chapter 1

Chapter 2 (Part 1)

Chapter 2 (Part 2)

Chapter 2 (Part 3)

Chapter 2 (Part 4)

Chapter 2 (Part 5 / End)

Chapter 3 (Part 1)

Chapter 3 (Part 2/End)

Chapter 4 (Part 1)

Chapter 4 (Part 2/End)

Chapter 5 (Part 1)

Chapter 5 (Part 2)

Chapter 6 (Part 1)

Chapter 6 (Part 2)

Chapter 6 (Part 3/End)

Chapter 7 (Part 1)

Chapter 7 (Part 2/Final)

Chapter 8 (Part 1)

Chapter 8 (Part 2)

Chapter 8 (Part 3)

Chapter 8 (Part 4)

Chapter 8 (Part 5)

Chapter 8 (Part 6)

Chapter 8 (Part 7)

Chapter 8 (Part 8)

Chapter 8 (Part 9)

Chapter 8 (Part 10)

Chapter 8 (Part 11/END)

Chapter 9 (Part 1)

Chapter 9 (Part 2/END)

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So im not sure If anyone really follows this anymore, but I’m not as active posting here anymore, and I tend to now post sketches or previews to my Ko-Fi page.

Just so you know!!

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Alright! 

Stream is over for now - I’ll see if I can do another one later, but I do have plans this evening… so maybe tomorrow or friday. We’ll see!

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Doing a Test Stream on my laptop:

https://www.twitch.tv/data2048

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Things are working and stuff! Feel free to come watch! (I’m working on a comic page. )

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if I were to stream, who’d be interested in watching? I’d be doing comic work today since I’m a little far behind.

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Streaming!

Picking up from where I left off yesterday: https://www.twitch.tv/data2048

Come chat, come hang. I don’t bite!

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Streaming!

https://www.twitch.tv/data2048

I’m gonna work on a few different things, so feel free to poke your head in!

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It's not all Bionicle today, I got some other work to do on art, but feel free to come watch and chat!! I don't bite ;;

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GUYS GUESS WHAT.

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO STREAM FROM MY IPAD.

Join me on Twitch! ( https://www.twitch.tv/data2048 )

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Verbal Hangout?

I know that some people are working right now, but…

I’m doing some artwork and I can’t stream yet, but would anyone like to do like, a google hangout and chat while I work?

If yes, then lmk, and I’ll set up a room and stuff and send you a link!

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Chapter 6 so far! It’s almost 28 pages long!

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Alright so slight update...

I really was hoping to have the next chapter started in January, but I got hired for some gigs, and things are popping up left and right, booking me until April/May.

So as much as I was hoping to get things in line by January, the reality of things may be that I don’t get the chapter started until May 2020. It’s a lot later than what I want, but it’s the best I can do as of right now.

I can’t say much, but things may change for me in 2020, and I am looking into opening up a patreon to support myself, as well as a new comic along side this one. This is all a big change for me, and I’m about 80% sure that I will be making this change in life... but no promises yet. We will see.

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Sup!

So I figured I would give y’all an update here.

The next chapter for the manga should be started by January at the earliest, if not then the summer time (May 2020). 

Due to life situations, my original method of working on sketches while working on the final few pages of the current chapter, didn’t exactly work. So I finalized the script in that time, and I’m now working on the thumbnails.

I’m about... 16 pages in? So its going to be a decent chapter! I think, at least.

On another note, I wanted to touch base on guest artists: I am unsure if I will be taking on guest artists for this chapter. That’s not for certain, but if I do, I’ll probably limit it to two artists, and one page per. Idk yet. But if you do fanart, I will totally post it not only here on the extra’s page, but I will create a “bonus content” page by the end of the chapter and feature guest artwork!

So anyway.

I’m gonna try and get some promo art out as well. Like, sketches that have no importance to the chapter or comic itself.

I miss drawing.

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The Le-Matoran concepts!

So I’ve realized that I am so used to having to physically turn my paper while drawing that, despite the function on my iPad to turn my canvas so I don’t have to turn the iPad… I still turn the iPad, therefore the entire drawing ends up on a slant.

I had a lot of fun trying to come up with designs for the Le-Matoran. For the most part, the entire Gukko Squad is in their flight gear, rather than their usual outfit, because they will be seen mostly in their getup. So the only matoran that you will see in two outfits is Kongu (his usual outfit and his alternate). I’ll let you come up with what their outfits could look like :P

I am very weak with coming up with patterns and jewelry designs, so for now, they are primarily solid colors.

As a note!! Yuusei and Leiah are NOT actual Le-Matoran (duh). On BioSector01, there are two unnamed le-matoran that are both musicians. Yuusei will fill in the spot for one, while Leiah is kinda… well, she… hm. She primarily plays a part MUCH later in the Zaahir storyline, so she won’t actually be in the comic ^^U But it was fun to put her in anyway (spoiler: she later becomes a Toa of Plantlife). So again, Yuusei may appear, but Leiah will *NOT*. So maybe the gift for this chapter will be the guest appearance of someone’s Le-Matoran OC :O Who knows!

I can’t say when Chapter 6 will actually start, but concepting and planning usually starts close to the end of a previous chapter… so uh… Chapter 5 will hopefully come to an end by August.

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Gukko bird and Nui-Rama sketches

Decided to make a gukko bird more like a gigantic hummingbird than anything else… will I ever be able to draw this again? Probably not.

As for the Nui-Rama, the first drawing was waaay too small/cute for my own liking. So I pushed it a bit further to make it have a curvier body, but more points. I’m still trying to decide whether or not to add another set of legs (or more?) to make it more wasp-like. So really the only difference between 1 and 2 was that I bulked it up a bit and added a bit more to the back.

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A little while ago, I made some maps of the villages because it helps me visualize character placement.

I totally had to run through the koros in the MNOG just to get certain things placed correctly, but even at that, I still changed a few things.

CONSISTENCY IS KEEEEEEY.

I JUST REALIZED I NEVER POSTED THIS LOL

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Reblogging this here for reference

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More concepts!

I enjoy writing my own thoughts as I draw things. If you’ve never been in a stream with me, I end up talking to myself half the time about what things should be, but what they look like.

You probably won’t see any of these in color until I draw them on the Le-Matoran. But a lot of greener tones with some jewel tones (i.e., purple, pinks, dark blues).

So almost instantly, I like these “artsy” outfits better than the original, but who knows! Each matoran will have a vairant of the designs.

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Working on some concept stuff and preparing the long process for Chapter 6.

So I guess I should point out that the next chapter involves Le-Koro… and I think some of Onu-Koro? I’d have to double check. But as is, Chap. 6 is gonna be fairly short in comparison to 4 and 5. But it is also a chapter NOT featured in the MNOG, which means I had *some* creative liberty with it.

I’m gonna work on the artsy outfits a bit more. Yay concepting!

I will start working on all the Le-Matoran soon, but I seem to have misplaced my template ;w;

ALSO GUESS WHAT THIS ALSO MEANS? GUKKOS AND NUI-RAMA. If there’s one thing I can’t draw, it’s birds.

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Been a long time since I posted here!