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There will be a new Release schedule from now on on my Webcomic Ereggia.

There will be 3 pages per week.
One on Tuesday, one on Thursday and another on Saturday. That makes 3 manga pages a Week!

Where can you read Ereggia?

I've been publishing Ereggia in two awesome websites:
MangaMagazine and Tapastic. You can click the Website's name to go to read the Manga!

Chapter one is about to end in a month! Action will come to the world of Ereggia!
Please Stay tunned!

I invite you to join the Facebook Fan page of Ereggia to stay alert of further notifications!

Thank you so much for reading Ereggia and supporting my first serious Webcomic!

Greetings~

Hi guys! I'm here making a special announcement, I usually write on Mondays about tutorials and personal experiences, now today I'm going to tell you some details about my new Webcomic Béance, you will start to enjoy in early march.

Plot

Béance is the story of two guys, a young thief called Griv, he has a lot of problems making friends as he is a pretty violent and impulsive, but there's one person that will change that, his name is Guido a mysterious youngster who Griv saved many years ago when they both were children, and become his friend and protector. They both are living in a big city named by Odora, a city divided by three big stone belts and most of the poor and humble people are living in the bottom of the city, where sunlight can not reach. The two thieves are trying to recover what those people have lost in the darkness, but there are people who will try to keep things as they are and hide the origin of this controversial city.

Concept behind Béance

When I wanted to write Béance the first thing that came to my mind was "Thieves! I need thieves! That would be epic!" I was exploring the Idea of "Hey, why I would make a thief a hero? or why robbing someone is a good action to become a hero?" well, that's the emotion behind stealing something that means something for a person, behind an object or a feeling you can find a lot of things, is not the story of the stolen things, is the story for a stolen and strong feeling. "How can you feel if someone steals your heart n front of you?" Awkward question isn't it?

Becoming a person who steals gold and delivers it to people is not the main idea of Béance, you will see more action, more emotions and a the difference between having something and not to have it, as simple as that but is deeper than it sounds. "Watch out! It is the boy!!"

Concept behind the characters

One of the first things I want to talk about is Why two main characters? In most of the series there are one protagonist e.g. Naruto, Bleach, Superman, Batman, Dragon Ball Z. In this case this is story reveals how two very different people can have a really special bond and destiny. Guido really needed someone to help him, in that case Griv appeared to save him in that moment and also his salvation for life, with a guidance, a model to follow, even if he's not the best person in the world but he's actually your saviour and your friend, that makes you thing that you can amend mistakes from the past, create a new life with new good things and new problems too.

Griv, he's maybe the solution and also the problem in Béance, creating a person who is part of the main problem and believes that doing things his way will resolve everything, but that's actually a lie. Guido, he can be a really nice person, but he's actually a dangerous person in the shadows, the truth about Guido will remain only in his lost heart, no one know who was he before he met Griv.

Publication

- Béance is a project written and drawn by Rizian Larc, and published by Noktos.

- You can read the Webcomic in a Website that will be launched in Early March.

- You can read there Two pages per week.

- When a volume is complete you can buy a printed edition for you.

- You can stay tuned in Béance's Fan Page on Facebook for news and other cool resources.


And we will have... Victory - Lord Béance.

Hey guys! It's been a long time since I wrote in the Blog, that's because I was working in some changes and trying to add some organization to this website, but do not worry, everything's for improve the site and make this Blog a better place for all of us.

Some Changes:

Actually the Blog is currently written in English, but you can use the Translate button that is located in the lateral bar if you want to change the current language to yours. I must say is not a perfect translator, it is a Google Gadget, so do not blame me, oh well, you can, hehe.

Posts in this Blog will be done 1 time a Week, that means In a week you will have a new post, maybe a tutorial, maybe something about inspiration, some process about writing or coming up with some good characters or a good story, I don't know, you can always use the Contact section if you want to ask for an specific topic, or want me to extend a topic in the Blog.

I've added some cool pages to the section "Utility Links", so you can check the pages that are included there, those helped me a lot and I think can help you too!

I've been sharing some cool things to the Facebook fan page, like Sketches, process of my work, some cool videos and tutorials I find on Youtube or other pages, manga recommendations, news and other things! So you can stay tuned to get all the action!

Future Changes:

I'll be adding a section about commissions, if you're interested in one, you can see there the prices or maybe some sales I will do sometimes, but for now this is in Stand by because I'm working very hard on the first chapter of my Webcomic series.

If it is requested I would think about creating a Shout box or something to chat directly without leaving the Blog.

I'll be adding a link (soon) for my Webcomic Béance, It will be located in the lateral bar, the site is still under construction but when it comes out I'll be adding the direct link so you can read the Webcomic with no problem!

So, that's for now, there will be some other changes, it will depend on the things that happens from now on, you're owners of this site too! So let me know if you have something to spare with me to make this a better site! Thanks a lot for reading and supporting Rizian Larc.

Hello again! You are welcome to a new entry to my Blog Rizian Larc, this time I will show you my method to create and compose scenarios through small keys, instructions and an example I made specifically for this exercise, let's start!

Materials:

Traditional: 

- Sheet of paper or paper of your choice, preferably a disposable paper or already used.
- Colour chalk or colours (any of these will do).
- Eraser
- Hard pencil or mechanical pencil, also a soft pencil to add shadows.
- Pen or Ink pen.


Digital:

- Tablet (It can be Wacom, Genius, the one you have can be good).
- Photoshop, Paint Tool SAI, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, any paint program of your choice will be perfect.

The background design has always been a problem for most people who want to enter the world of comics or illustration in general, we have all had problems with the scenarios and it's very normal because our eye is more accustomed to fixed at one point in time instead of appreciate all at once, for this will show you my tactic to cheat a little our eyes.

First, I call this technique the "stain", and I use it when I need to compose quite a scene in my comic or just to make an illustration with background included. The stain (colour) will help us to shape the basic forms that exist in our mind without having to go directly to add details and details, and there's the first mistake we can commit when drawing backgrounds, detailing and detailing at first. Let's proceed to see the image to keep explaining this step:



This technique helps to capture the basic shape of what we imagined in our minds so that it does not slip from the mind and stay longer the structure of what we are thinking, with basic shapes and a thick brush (colour) now draw the landscape stain that was on your mind in a short period of time before the idea escapes out of your mind.

It is important and I recommend doing this step with the colour of your choice and we will superimpose layers either traditional or digital mode to distinguish the colour of the final lines. Now we go to the next step:

Remember: If you're working in digital I recommend lowering the layer opacity to 15 or 25% where the stain is and create a new layer to keep working and if you're working in traditional I recommend a clean eraser to soften a little the stain and to start to work more freely about it.

Second, now that you have cleaned and softened the spot, now you can proceed to add details to the landscape that crossed our mind just now. Try to always shorten adding details and forget about perfection by this point, we need only identify basic shapes in this part of the process, which is the most important because that will define which elements will have our illustration. I recommend following this step with a coloured pencil slim pencil instead of a conventional gray traditional pencil for the reasons I mentioned above in the previous step.




With the added details and you have a base of what you wanted to achieve at the beginning, but in the process will occur to you "Hey, I just think adding new things possibly are going to see much better", no problem!, adding new things is not a sin, rather make it more harmoniously composition, in this way we can say that "we have deceived our eye".

I recommend you always try to superimpose objects in your compositions, or places focus in a "clear" in them to make the illustration shows what we want to show and not just be "a cute background" which is not what we want to accomplish in this exercise about compositing scenarios. I'm explaining this a little more in a newer entry about background, is called Composition and placement in backgrounds.

Always try to add as much detail as you can in this step so it can help you move to the next one, because the more lines you have drawn in this sketch the easier it will be to define the details and the stage itself.

Third, having our sketch now we can begin to define what is what, for example, the roof is a triangle, the rectangle is a fireplace, the two cubes are two wooden boxes, and things like that. For this step now I recommend using a thin brush of black in digital or a 0.5 or 0.3 mechanical pencil if you're working in traditional.




Regardless if you have a detailed or simple style as I mentioned in my post on "The Power of the Sketch" you can choose whether to add more or less details to each of the parts that you defined as objects in the image. Here we should already have completely the details that appear in our final image regardless of whether you added lines of force to it or not, that's choice of each artist.

Fourth, this is the last step in the process that I devised to compose a scene, is one of the most important to "prepare" our sketch before final production, whether coloured or just inking. This step is called the "shadow" here with a soft pencil or a brush medium in our drawing program we will add our drawing some shadows where needed.




It is always good to plan where they will go the shadows of our sketch as a guide to the finished illustration, and when we go to colouring or inking know where the light comes and not get to experience or invent shadows never have planned for the finished illustration.

Well, I hope you have served my tutorial on how to compose scenarios, I will deepen this and more issues related to drawing on the Blog, I'd love to know if this tutorial has helped you as I am new to the "education" and would love to know your questions or suggestions. Remember to always be attentive to answer questions and other concerns, to follow the Blog I recommend my page on Facebook, Twitter and also the subscription button on the sidebar.Thank you for reading my tutorial and see you next time! Greetings!