Lunar
Legal name: Alexis Lund
Lunar is a digital illustrator based in the USA. She specializes in manga, comics, visual development, and digital portraits. She has created and self published a children's book. Currently, she is illustrating a biblical webcomic and a short graphic novel about the latest discover on Jupiter's moon Io. She likes drawing dynamic, vibrant, anime-inspired illustrations. In her spare time, she likes drinking coffee and listening to theology audiobooks.
manga/graphic novel
The first step is thumbnails when a have a script available. She prefers to offer at least two sketches of the same page to offer variety for clients.
The next step is editing and cleaning up the selected page.
Last step is adding color and text. She prefers to color and add text after finishing all the line work for a chapter or project.
visual development
Interacting with characters, props, and in environments is necessary for storytelling in illustration. It is easier to have some reference of what the main characters, environment, and props look like when illustrating mangas and graphic novels. She likes to present character designs or illustrations for clients for an idea of what the client likes and dislikes.