Lunar
Legal name: Alexis LundLunar is a North Carolina-based 2D Digital Illustrator known for bold, anime-stylized visuals that blend vibrant color palettes with crisp, expressive linework. With a deep love for manga and visual storytelling, Lunar creates comics for young adults, digital portraits, and hand-drawn garment designs that fuse fashion with narrative flair.Her work draws heavy inspiration from the iconic anime and manga aesthetics of the 1990s to early 2010s—titles like Yu Yu Hakusho, Black Butler, Maximum Ride adaptation, and Moriarty the Patriot have fueled her passion for shonen action, mystery, and dark romance. Lunar has illustrated and self-published a children’s book on Amazon Prime and is currently working on an educational astronomy comic set for print publication.By day, Lunar brings her visual skill to life as a design artist at Lakeshirts, a commercial t-shirt company, while continuously pushing creative boundaries across genres. On weekends, she sells her artwork at local art events.Whether through comics, fashion, or visual development, Lunar’s work is a celebration of story, style, and the power of beautiful art.
Manga/graphic novels
See the process of manga/graphic novels.
visual development
The early stages of what goes into mangas and illustrations.
digital portraits
Hand-drawn, stylized portraits for people and pets.
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.
digital portraits
Fanart & Original characters (oc)
