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It took me two hours to write the alt text lmao, no wonder I took so long to upload this one...

This is yet another piece of old art, from around 2017? It was done for a class in grad school technically, and I say technically because I didn't have to draw the two, but the point of the class was to design with collages (per se) and look, I WILL take any opportunity to draw my children. So Ara and Wyda from my comic, it were. I originally wanted to try drawing them like Orthodox icons (with relevant design details for both, as Wyda is a jinn, so "another pantheon") but due to lack of time, I couldn't do it. I opted for this layout instead.

These are some of my favorite pictures of all time, to be honest. Ara especially, as at this time I tended to have problems drawing her facial structure and this was one of the first illustrations where it was finally starting to "stick!"

The Enochian writing involves a long story but to try to make it short: I use the Enochian alphabet for the angel and devil species in my comic but the language used *with it* is a conlang of my own. I never made a page for it on my webcomic's site because while it's popped up in the comic here and there, there's a scene where Ara DOES go into it with the main character and I've been waiting for that...Well. IDK, maybe I could just make a temp conlang page, anyway, digression! The text says "dakiniara esrevinu." No, I'm not telling you what it means yet, but you're supposed to read it bottom to top, right to left. :P

For Wyda's, I originally wanted to make a conlang for jinn, although of course influenced by Arabic and all relevant aspects of the place of origin--but again, more lack of time for that (because I hadn't made it yet for the comic either), so I...went for a mishmash of Arabic writing because I went "well, you're not supposed to understand the jinn, so it could just read like/sound gibberish to human ears..." :meowShrug: I still intend to go with my original idea but for the purposes of this image, it is what it is. Sorry! For what it's worth, the two lines used WERE real phrases and words relevant to Wyda, but uh. I can't find my notes, so I'll edit this one day if I ever find them!

Not sure what else to say lol. Third image is how they looked for showing IRL. Hope you enjoy!

https://ac.jadinerhinestudios.com

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I have other short comics, such as a comic involving:
🤖 detectives in the future --> https://belinconnu.jadinerhinestudios.com/?pg=6#showComic
:meow_ghostreach: a ghost for a child --> https://belinconnu.jadinerhinestudios.com/?pg=2#showComic)
🦌 a girl who doesn't remember anything but appears to be in some kind of simulated fairy tale reality This one was done for 24 hour comic day! --> https://belinconnu.jadinerhinestudios.com/?pg=16#showComic

I have an excerpt of a bigger story, about a young girl who stumbles from one dreamland into another down below--one of ancient times... (only available for sale): https://naan.itch.io/demiurge-short

I have a minicomic that's basically a music video in comic format: https://warchicks.jadinerhinestudios.com/discography.html

Lastly,
I have a fancomic for the series Rayearth and Corrector Yui, done for a fanzine: https://okilies.neocities.org/initialize/

You can find all of these for sale here: https://naan.itch.io/

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My main comic, on hiatus, is Legendary Beings Ara & Celi, about a young girl chosen to be an Angel by her predecessor--it's only too bad the girl doesn't want anything to do with the job (or the Angel.)

You can read it here: https://ac.jadinerhinestudios.com/

You can buy the first three PDFs over here. The extra short story will also eventually become a PDF, don't worry: https://itch.io/c/2765998/legendary-beings-ara-celi

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Things to do in the next few hours
-new intro
-edit my old posts to have the #NAANcomics that aren't Ara & Celi
-do da kahmik share post

Things that will likely happen before that
-get distracted
-be too tired after eating lunch for some reason
-go draw something and be distracted
-forget the plans, go nap

Driving thought (don't worry, I waited till I'm parked LMAO) -- go back to all my comic posts and tag them with an additional #NAANcomics :fernthink: Ara & Celi has its own tag but I have more comics, so this way people can follow that hashtag too if they wish. (Plus, more organization!)

Also reminder for when I get back: make a post to promo my short comics.

"Rexach: A detective travels around the US (and other places), solving mysteries found in the background of photos sent to her."

That's the pitch I gave on Patreon some years ago, when I still had a Patreon! This was for a poll where patrons could help me decide which comic I should do as an exclusive Patreon-only comic (temporarily of course, as all Patreon comics are wont to be), so that way I could make headway on a story!

...Nobody voted, so uh. I ultimately just chose for myself and that was Rexach. It's very neat story if I may say so myself, and to do the whole Internet thing, it would have involved me writing the main character as Puerto Rican, whose last name comes from one of our poet laureates, Sylvia Rexach. There was no deeper meaning behind that, however, as I named it after the abandoned theater that carries her name. I always passed it anytime I went home from school: http://www.puertadetierra.info/edificios/cines/teatro_sylvia_rexach.htm

Here, the intent was to do test pages for the comic, because I really want to do at least one comic where it doesn't take me at least two years to do 5 pages :| I want to see if I can get over my need to do "proper" art on the pages and see if I can do not quick, but fast and understandable and loose pages. Rexach in my mind has a certain aesthetic look and I'd like to see if my experiment ideas fit. This all takes place in 1979 but because these are test pages, I didn't bother with historical accuracy for the fashion HAHA.

(more in replies below, this is already getting too long!)

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While in general I appreciated the feedback, since I knew why stuff looked off--I also think it's pretty stinging because well, let's just say, other people passed to the next pitching stage of the round whose art needed WAY MORE improvement than me. IDK man, I'll cop to a huge ego if it sounds like it but I'd like to think I at least proved I know how anatomy works. If I need to improve, then what does that person need to do? They should be asked to improve too!

Anyway, Aisha is technically the main character. She was always there since the beginning (like almost everyone else in this comic) and part of her inspiration came from one of my alma mater's student magazines, which had a section about uhhhh, had to be about Muslim women in America or something because they had photos of a hijabi performing different typical "American" activities. I have the issue somewhere deep in storage but one photo was said hijabi holding a football, a jersey and of course, being still conservatively dressed with long sleeves pants. She even had on the warpaint XD And I went "there, that's how Aisha should be! A giant NERD!"

Interestingly, in some feedback I received when reaching out to people in appropriate "yes you can ask for feedback here" places, especially Muslims, a lot of them took issue with Aisha being involved with such a violent sport and wondered why. Interestingly part deux, I, uh, wondered if they thought she was going to play herself, since the idea was that she never would play. It was everyone else! I thought I had made this clear but perhaps I didn't either. You never know! But either way, it was a fair worry. Just one that, uh, would break the entire thing if I took it into consideration...

I think someone suggested changing it to soccer and I went "but that's violent too????" Obviously less violent than football, right, but IDK man, maybe we were watching different soccer games...Also, if I wanted to do a comic about soccer, I'd just done it. Just saying :P Boring!

Most if not all, of the people who said the above feedback were men though, and I'm not saying that to diminish their feedback. More like, I wish what women thought as well for a rounded intake!

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In case readers at home only see this toot: this is a second toot attached to one with more recent art/character design! These specific pages are from an old comic pitch to the now-defunct online magazine Sparkler Monthly. As it was then, it still is now: The Footballerinas is about a young girl deciding to create an all-girls' (American) football team at her school. Hijinks ensue, of course. Each of the girls come from different sports backgrounds, bringing said skills to this newfangled experience...

Unfortunately like everything in my life, even if I planned for one thousand months ahead of time, I always rush things. In this case, it was believing the lie told to me that grad school would allow me hours of free time LOL. So a good chunk of these pages were rushed--I'm sure this is why some of the feedback say to improve at drawing, basically. My actual skill at the time wasn't proven. I'd hope the writing, synopsis and script werestrong enough despite that, but alas, no such thing.

I was told my story is quite charming, but the art fits better something more dramatic, not a sports story. Which is very fair but also, too bad I have no money to pay someone to collab with--or that anytime I try to generally collab ANYTHING, it always falls through with me holding the bag lul. So welp, the story's stuck with me.

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This is technically "old" art, if you count months-old art as old (or has it been a year already since I drew this? I can't remember anymore :akko_badday: ), but--a character sheet of the cast from my Footballerinas pitch. I wanted to, uh, not show anything from it for reasons but eh, beggars can't be choosers.

Two characters may have their design tweaked later. :zerotwowave:

The comic pitch is about a young girl deciding to create an all-girls' (American) football team at her school. Hijinks ensue, of course. Each of the girls come from different sports backgrounds, bringing said skills to this newfangled experience...

The inspirations for it come from childhood memories (and wanting to "give" that same feeling) of watching Babysitters' Club and Mighty Ducks, with a heavy dose of my time spent at my alma mater's student sports bar which showed all airings of, well sports, on its TVs. (One specific game that started to spark it was one involving the Cincinnati Bengals, especially with Ocho Cinco :zerotwoevillaugh: )

I also originally pitched this to Sparkler Monthly in 2017 and got soundly rejected--I'll post the pages below!

You'll have to go to twitter to see some more, sorry: https://twitter.com/JadineRhine/status/1640872985002139648

#MastoArt #CreativeToots #OriginalCharacter #OC #art #CharacterDesign #manga #comic #TheFootballerinas #NAANcomics

The last entry of a repost activity for OCtober! This story has changed a bit since I last wrote the entry below. I actually tried to do a thing through Patreon for it, seeing if people wanted it to be my second project, my pitch or something of an exclusive Patreon comic (and then posting it later.)

This would have required interest in my Patreon AND my work, mind you and of course, it went nowhere despite having two-three folks kindly patroning (?) me. No votes or even a comment lol. Barely a care unless I give away it for free...

All of the captions for these posts will be copy/pasted from my tumblr: https://jadinerhine.tumblr.com/post/132057949431/october-and-inktober-days-18-20-you-can-help-me Of course, you can take a look on there ahead of time. MIND THE 7 YR OLD CRINGE.

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(in order of image) Vik, Lucas and Grace :ai_wave:

Grace Rexach, obviously the title character, is the detective in question. She has her own “office” in a building whose ownership is murky – but nothing bad seems to happen, as evidenced by the amount of people who don’t mind coming to her for her cases. After all, who isn’t fascinated by a perpetually and seemingly cheery woman who only dresses in black-and-white, has natural platinum-blonde-veering-on-white hair, and has an intellect that makes you wonder if she’s for real? Oh and she drives a totally far-out! car from Oldsville, man. Also black. There’s a theme here…

Grace is the one who ends up bringing people together in her world, people who wouldn’t even be in the same bar; from an era of solitude to an era where Vik’s motley group of friends visiting her constantly –either to hang out or to help her– she finds herself being surrounded by the same images and people she’s always seen on TV. Is it her natural charm or just the fact that she’s willing to talk to anyone?

Speaking of Vik and her friends, these young Punks is one of those: the ones who loiter around the place and do jack scratch because there’s nothing else for them in life. No prospects, no skills that people want –and to boot, she would find the same despair on the Rez*. Yet in Grace, there seems to emerge a purpose, a reason for being. Her smarts are used in Grace’s job/cases accordingly, and even though she’s opinionated about life and certain types of authority, if it’s Grace who asks, she’ll do it. Her friends are the same, though not as intense about it in the long run.

Unfortunately for Lucas, he’s the one against whom Vik butts head all the time. He’s soft-spoken from a family of people who’ve worked in law in some way – and as such, he’s serious and stressed about things much of the time. He just wants to do a good job and become a good cop or whatever his old-school father wants. It is with Grace he finds a ground to stand on in the beginning, becoming essentially her Watson. (Or is it Vik who’s her Watson? Hmmm.)

*Based on data of the era found so far.

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Apparently I miscalculated and this was supposed to go up yesterday. Oops.

This is a story I still would like to do, but alas. It's just me waiting tbh. I should poke my collaborator one of these days...

All of the captions for these posts will be copy/pasted from my tumblr: https://jadinerhine.tumblr.com/post/131070459076/october-and-inktober-days-1-6-those-one-shot Of course, you can take a look on there ahead of time. MIND THE 7 YR OLD CRINGE.

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:ai_wave: Nina from Ouroboric Dreamer – no story yet, concept art here: https://jadinerhine.tumblr.com/tagged/ouroboric%20dreamer/chrono :ai_wave:

I share this precious woman with the equally precious Aeraellyth! This is from a horror story we are both writing and drawing; originally for an anthology project, while we were rejected, we decided to still go ahead with it because we feel the story is fascinating and deserves to be told <3

We’re also meanies who decided to not say much because a huge chunk of the story’s entrenched in mythology and dreams and symbolism and snaaaaaakes. In fact this drawing is composed of symbolism! Symbolism everywhere ahahahahahaha *slapped into sense again* But a lot of the story loses a lot of its impact if we divulge too much about it (does that makes us good writers or what? ;D)

#OCtober #OC_tober #OC #OCs #OriginalCharacter #NAANcomics

Today's characters can be found in the short #comic "Ronda Onda", available to read for free here: https://belinconnu.jadinerhinestudios.com/?pg=6#showComic

All of the captions for these posts will be copy/pasted from my tumblr: https://jadinerhine.tumblr.com/post/131070459076/october-and-inktober-days-1-6-those-one-shot Of course, you can take a look on there ahead of time. MIND THE 7 YR OLD CRINGE.

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:ai_wave: Detectives Saf Minga and Gouk Treye from "Ronda Onda" :ai_wave:

Recent characters given the last two’s mileage, but this is another one I love to make more short comics for. I fell hard in love with these two partners by the end of making this comic – to the point where I am certainly close to making Ronda Onda shorts, haha. (So redundancy much?)

It’s basically a detective story in the not-near-you future, where, in the case of the comic posted above, they’re investigating a robotic hybrid crime. Saf’s the more serious-minded of the two (as well as harboring a secret or two), but Gouk simply likes to tease his partner, lightening the mood most times. But they’re both dedicated in many ways, even with most of the police department making fun of Saf over silly details like surnames.

Gouk’s supposed to be eating a little snack XD Saf’s just mad he probably was eating it instead of being attentive or something.

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Decided to do an #OCtober thread myself, except it's all old art from 7 years ago, because I have no time (didn't even edit out the old urls!) and hey, a lot of the art I did? I still like!

Plus, I will take any opportunity to talk OCs :zerotwopeaceout:

All of the captions for these posts will be copy/pasted from my tumblr: https://jadinerhine.tumblr.com/tagged/OCtober/chrono Of course, you can take a look on there ahead of time. MIND THE 7 YR OLD CRINGE. I'm cringing at the glorifying callout below lmao.

Now please enjoy what's supposed to have been October 1's entry! edit: never mind, past me was smart, this counts for today too lol

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:ai_wave: Jana Anken and Jakob Dieter from "Love’s Future" :ai_wave:

Oh maaannn. This is the short story that I’d love to go back and redo it again with more page counts, but also the only one that currently makes me cringe. I had bought Manga Studio for the first time when I was drawing it for TOKYOPOP’s Rising Stars of Manga contest (before I knew better, yikes!) and well, it’s where you can tell I was still trying to figure out how to draw in the dang program 8| Look at those faces, yee…

The story’s a bit “oh” in that embarrassing way, since it’s about an interfaith couple in World War II Germany. Hah. Hahahahahaha. I’m a sucker for those kinds of stories but in hindsight, even with all the research I did, it still reads weird and possibly preachy. At least I didn’t glorify anything like most romances in this setting do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But yes, they met and got interested in each other because of books. They have the same tastes in common :) That’s partially why I’d like to come back to it; I’d like to build up on that a lot more.

#OC #OC_tober #OCs #OriginalCharacter #art #comics #comic #NAANcomics

Decided to do an #OCtober thread myself, except it's all old art from 7 years ago, because I have no time (didn't even edit out the old urls!) and hey, a lot of the art I did? I still like!

Plus, I will take any opportunity to talk OCs :zerotwopeaceout:

All of the captions for these posts will be copy/pasted from my tumblr: https://jadinerhine.tumblr.com/tagged/OCtober/chrono Of course, you can take a look on there ahead of time. MIND THE 7 YR OLD CRINGE. I'm cringing at the glorifying callout below lmao.

Now please enjoy what's supposed to have been October 1's entry! edit: never mind, past me was smart, this counts for today too lol

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:ai_wave: Jana Anken and Jakob Dieter from "Love’s Future" :ai_wave:

Oh maaannn. This is the short story that I’d love to go back and redo it again with more page counts, but also the only one that currently makes me cringe. I had bought Manga Studio for the first time when I was drawing it for TOKYOPOP’s Rising Stars of Manga contest (before I knew better, yikes!) and well, it’s where you can tell I was still trying to figure out how to draw in the dang program 8| Look at those faces, yee…

The story’s a bit “oh” in that embarrassing way, since it’s about an interfaith couple in World War II Germany. Hah. Hahahahahaha. I’m a sucker for those kinds of stories but in hindsight, even with all the research I did, it still reads weird and possibly preachy. At least I didn’t glorify anything like most romances in this setting do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But yes, they met and got interested in each other because of books. They have the same tastes in common :) That’s partially why I’d like to come back to it; I’d like to build up on that a lot more.

#OC #OC_tober #OCs #OriginalCharacter #art #comics #comic #NAANcomics