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[katieaiko]

More Habromania sketches

For color practice. : )

[theshaggynerd]

"Follow the Yellow Brick Road~"

This wonderful mock cover for a story I'm working on was drawn by my good friend, @katieaiko , who also helped me with refining story ideas and more importantly: designing and drawing all of the characters (which I'll be posting more of soon). Please show her some love because I couldn't have gotten this far in the project without her!

The story would be a fairly straightforward fantasy adventure with a good amount of action; to put it into perspective: the biggest influences on how the story is structured are The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. I have a great respect for L. Frank Baum's works and I wanted to create a unique (and most importantly: a fun and engaging) story inspired by them.

At the moment the story has a working title of "Guardians of Oz" and I see it potentially being a short book series, but I would love to see it be turned into an animated series ideally!

Synopsis:

The story follows a recently orphaned Dorothy Gale who gets spirited away to the Land of Oz, which has been thrust into a power struggle after the King's death and the disappearance of princess Ozma. What's more, the newly self appointed ruler, The Wizard, has enacted The Witch Hunts, sending four great witches who maintain order and balance in the Land of Oz into hiding. On top of this, the famed General Gingur, and the opportunistic Nome King have begun fighting against The Wizard's mechanical army for control over Oz. Before Dorothy can be conscripted into Gingur's army, she is rescued by The Wicked Witch of the West, Shula, and is dropped the bombshell of needing to learn magic and become the new Witch of the East if she wants any hope of getting home, before gifting her the magical Silver Slippers. Now alongside Shula, Dorothy must travel through the land of Oz as she makes friends and allies, to help complete her training and save the Land of Oz before it's too late.

[shinyzango]

I just noticed your Nutcracker and Mouse King design while scrolling-- It's FANTASTIC!! I loved the Barbie one growing up, but I agree about it needing some serious improvement. However, it did introduce me to classical music at a young age! I also liked Swan Lake and Rapunzel growing up. I actually have my own adaptions planned for Swan Lake and the Nutcracker myself!! My Thumbelina one can be found on my page actually!! (Sorry not trying to self-promote) And I'd love to know more about yours!

The Rapunzel movie was actually really good (heck it managed to make a big pink/purple dragon look cool as heck), and the other favorite I had was actually The Princess and the Pauper. It was very charming.

and honestly I stopped following them after that one. I just happened to watch the 12 princesses one but it didn’t really captivated me all that much.

and aah! I hope I’ll get around to work on my own version soon enough! it all depends when I’ll find the motivation on working on it xD;

[katieaiko]

Habromania

[katieaiko]

Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI

Terra is best girl, she absolutely destroyed that clown in the final boss fight. :):):)

(Drew theses both a while ago, here's the alternate green(er) hair version as well.)

[katieaiko]

Edgar Roni Figaro from Final Fantasy VI

Been playing it again recently, so here's my current favorite Party Member!

(Automatic Crossbow, my beloved~)

[katieaiko]

New animatic is out on Youtube!

[katieaiko]

"Surprised, aren't you? I knew you would be!"