Yaoi Art: “Artifice” Pencils
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Please note: I’m now posting up the finished, full-color pages of Artifice as a webcomic! If you don’t want any spoilers, you should stop reading here and go start reading it over at my webcomic site. See you there!
Hoping to see more guys in their underwear from Yaoi 911â„¢? Then wait no longer! The pencils for the second comic — the 90-page sci-fi action-romance “Artifice ” from our upcoming book Yaoi 911â„¢: Firsts — are finally complete. So we can now give everyone a taste of what’s to come — something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time! ��
(Oh, and I should say that one of these preview pages is even without the underwear — so read no further unless you are over 18, please!)
First off, a description of what this comic is about:
It was supposed to be a routine search-and-kill mission but Deacon, a prototype android assassin, has failed spectacularly — not only did he disobey orders, letting a 19-year-old business liability named Jeff survive, he attacked and killed those who were sent to help him. Now, the brilliant and uncompromising robopsychologist Clarice Maven has been summoned by the Corporation to determine why .
Of course, it’s a yaoi story so perhaps you can guess at least one potential reason he let the boy live. But there is much more than meets the eye in this corporate-ruled dystopian future where every motive is suspect and everyone has dark secrets. With Deacon at her absolute mercy, Dr. Maven will not rest until she has all the answers — and has made sure that this malfunctioning robot will never fail the Corporation ever again!
A Work In Progress
So, there are several stages in making a full-color comic: character designs. thumbnails. pencils, inks. coloring and then, finally, lettering. But it’s at the pencils stage that you can really begin to get a feel for what the final comic will look like — and, in my humble opinion, artist Winona Nelson has done an amazing job with the pencils for “Artifice”.
They’ll, of course, be refined a great deal before the linework is finished, but by sharing a few right now, I can begin to give you an idea of what to expect from the final, full-color and super-sized comic.
On the surface, the story is about solving a mystery — what exactly happened on the renegade colony of Da Vinci 4 that caused this corporate killing machine to disobey orders and turn against his masters? But finding out the answer to that question is far from simple: because Deacon is so advanced, they can’t simply download the information from his CPU — subtler tools are required. Thus, they have brought in the brilliant Dr. Maven, a psychologist specializing in artificial intelligence, to probe the defiant android’s subconscious and, ideally, convince him to come clean so they can fix him.
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Dr. Maven begins with a simple debriefing:
Robopsychologist Dr. Clarice Maven begins debriefing Deacon
But, of course, even the subtle tool of psychotherapy can occasionally get a little intense:
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