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Unroyal follows our main character, Harlynn Sauna, through her early life. Harlynn's early life is filled with trouble, mysteries and survival.
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By the end of Unroyal, Harlynn is crowned the Next Monarch, aka the Iron Moth of New Nyx, and she begins the next phase of her life as Khasis' new ruler.​
The struggle of making Mechionic: Unroyal was not only that this was my first attempt at a comic, but it was also only the second story I had planned for the world of Khasis. It proved to be much harder to write, plan, design, and draw the artwork and panels for this 24-pager than I had imagined it to be.
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The first iteration of Unroyal was made the good ol' fashioned way of pencil and paper, in a sketchbook. What I didn't realize at the time, is that doing it this way was far more time consuming than sketching digitally would have been.
When I had finished the first pass of Unroyal, I realized that I had taken nearly double the time I had wanted to get it to a point I was comfortable with inking. The problem was, though, that now I had to work overtime to get the inking done.
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Luckily for me, and unluckily for my ipad, I was able to scan each of the pages into Procreate in order to trace right over top the initial sketches, adjust as I traced them, and easily fill in the pages with a simple graywash.
When I finished Unroyal Volume 1, I was proud of what I'd created within the limited timeframe. In the end, my 8 week timeline had shortened to about 6 weeks for the entire thing.
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even through everything, though, I am extremely grateful and proud of this iteration of Unroyal. It taught me a lot of skills in environmental design, character design as well as the basics of color contrast and grayscale artworks!