4.9.09

Oberon's Garden? OCT? Whut?

Note: If you already know what an OCT (original character tournament) is, or just don't care and want to see the comics, feel free to skip the two or three ridiculously large paragraphs.

So, there's been a few requests (okay, like one, but still) for me to post my comics from the OCT I am competing in on the MOAG blog. For those of you who don't know- an OCT is an original character tournament. The artist (this is mainly an art tournament, but other OCT's can be for writers too) joins the tournament as a competitor and enters their character to fight other artists' characters as opponents. A tournament starts by some storyline being set down to inspire the setting and such, and usually to explain why there is a tournament for the various characters to fight in. Then the competitors submit audition comics that explain how their characters entered this tournament and to show a bit of the personality. If you manage to get through this, then the first round begins. Opponents are chosen at random, and each competitor submits a comic of the two characters fighting, and normally their character winning. A group of judges then study the various comics submitted, then pick the best. The winning comic is considered 'canon' or what actually happened, and the winning competitor moves on.

So I'm currently on the third round of this tournament I'm in. I'll submit the comics below, but I'll give you the background to the tournament that the officiator who runs the OCT gave us (though I'll put it in summary form, of course): Pretty much, there's a world that is cleverly called... The World. There are four opposing nations- that of Human, Elf, Orc, and Dwarves. Each with their respective leaders. The World just went through a... very harsh war, and now there is a certain peace all around. To celebrate this peace, Oberon, Lord of the Elves, is hosting a fighting tournament. But to not put more harm to their own people, the fighters are to be pulled from distant planets and dimensions and brought to the World, with the incentive that if they should win they are rewarded with a Wish. So each nation was given various shards of a mirror to peer into places that contain possible opponents, and pull them here. Yet Oberon is a scheming fiend with his shapeshifting and powerful ally, Puck; both of which have unknown but most likely evil intentions.

So, without further ado; my reference for my character, audition comic, and first and second rounds... As a note for those who haven't used devart- if it seems small, just click on the picture to make it larger. And if you scroll down, just below the picture there's a section labeled 'Artist's Comments'- If you don't want to keep clicking back here, I have links to all the comics in sequential order there. Some of the prologues or such are in written form, but you won't miss that much if you skip them.

Reference for Junus / Further Reference

Audition
Page I
Page II
Page III
Page IV

Round I
Junus' opponent was Abraxas; a half-human, half-lycan being with powers over healing, speed, fire, and psychicness.
Cover
Page I
Page II
Page III
Page IV
Page VI

Round II
Junus' opponent was Emiko. A cat-monkey-human being who was a thief with certain wind and speed powers. Her companion is a small dragon named Ekolai.
Cover
Prologue
Page I
Page II
Page III
Page IV
Epilogue

I might put up my opponents' comics later, if anyone wants. But now I have to go work on Round III, wheeeeee.

1 comment:

Pablo Diablo said...

Wow that's cool.

But then again I can't draw so anything is cool to me...