New Mirror

You can now read Gesen on gesen.comicdish.com.
Due to the fact that this is the newest mirror, it's not as far into the story as Mangabullet or DrunkDuck, but I will probably try to make all 3 parallel at somepoint.
I hope to have a "Cast" page up soon on comicdish (and probably here too). I'm still unsure whether i should continue updating on deviantart or just reserve that for other kids of art. It can be really tedious having to manually post the links to the next and previous pages for each and every page.
Seeing as there's a new mirror I may make a third version of chapter covers specifically for ComicDish, but with other projects that will be announced soon, I doubt I will have time for making 3 different covers for the same chapter. I would still like to if I could.

You can check out how Gesen looks on Comicdish here, but it's still under construction XD.

The Making of Gesen HD Collection

At long last, the Making of Gesen has been concluded with, admittedly, a rather abrupt conclusion. Because I've changed the method of each oage of chapter 4 so far, I talked about how the pages of chapter 3 were made, which all used the same method. The first page talks about pre-production, the second, the production itself and the final page talks about the post-production (or what little of it there is.)

              
There is also a page where the making of  Gesen can be found.

Details on Chapter 4

It's been a while since the conclusion of Chapter 3, and part of the reason Chapter 4's taken a while to get started is that I had a bit of a writers block, however, I have Chapter 4 written out (mostly) and it has already begun on MangaBullet. Currently on DrunkDuck is the "Making Of Gesen" special, and so chpater 4 won't be beginning for another week or two. (meaning updates should be smoother over there.) The making of will be posted on here and possibly on DeviantArt in time, but for now I want to focus on making some progress.

Each chapter title has two different "versions", a DrunkDuck Version, and a MangaBullet Version, however the main (and only) difference was the colour scheme. The Drunkduck Version used all colours, whereas the MangBullet Version was limited to shades of blue. For the first time, two completely different drawings have been done for the two and here they are.

 

As you can see, the MangaBullet version still uses the limited palette, but the Drunkduck one features a character who will debut in the chapter, and also was drawn in the same style that Chapter 4 is being drawn in.

Yes, once again i'm experimenting with shading and lineart styles to try and see what sort of results I get. I'll probably talk about it more in the near future, but hopefully history won't repeat itself.

Unreleased Chapter 2 Prototype to succeed A Traveller From the North

In the spirit of Non canonical chapters, an unreleased prototype of Chapter 2 (which is untitled, and only has 4 pages) will be next into the Non Canon Vault on DeviantArt. It's quite old, and I have no idea where exactly it was going, but it features the Southern Continent's screaming rooster (which will be appearing in the background of A Traveller From the North soon after Asuna reaches her destination.

Also Wanted Posters will be appearing in ATFTN, but I'll talk more about them when the time comes.

Below I've uploaded the Chapter Title Page and first Page of the never-before-seen Chapter. Remember, you saw it here first!!

A traveller from the North and Cover Archives to be put on DeviantArt

Remember this?

 

It's the now non-canon Chapter 3: A traveller from the North. 
For archiving purposes the "entire" 12 or so pages of A Traveller From The North and the Cover Archives will be uploaded onto DeviantArt.

At least one new Izoku Clan member confirmed

Hey all. It's been a while.

So first off to begin I will say that there will be no update this week, but hopefully (and I hate making promises like this, but I try to keep them) a triple update next Wednesday. Originally it would have been a double, due to the layout of the pages, but seeing as I won't be able to have a page done for this week I decided to merge the two.

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Now, then, about the titular topic. Due to the changing of certain events in the story, the Izoku clan may be gaining a few new memebers - (one is definitely confirmed, but there may be a few more additions depending on certain factors. I don't want to reveal too much about this new Izoku, but what I will say is that he's extremely vicious and violent in nature. His name and weapon are yet unconfirmed, as is whether he has any sons or not.

Revamp Coming Soon

Let's be honest here, this blog hasn't gotten that much love. I originally planned to use it to post up comic pages, but due to not being able to archive it properly that won't be possible.

So, instead I decided this would serve as an "official blog", where I'd be using this as a sort of news site, but to be honest, there really isn't much that can be considered "news" without having spoilers, and this whole draft system isn't really that huge that it should become the main focus of the blog.

This blog will not die. It just needs to find a purpose (much like some of the characters of Gesen who have not been introduced.) All that "drafts" stuff will be merged into one page (because it really isn't that important).
I need to get some proper character pages and make this more of a database, almost a wiki, as it were.

Guess that's all for this update.