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I’m getting myself to read an hour a day as part of my regular schedule, so I nabbed Spera vol. 1 as my first read.
So, obviously, I had to doodle a quick Pira and Lono.
Want to do a bigger piece later on.
Here’s a badass Pira sketch that Giannis Milonogiannis put together for a Spera TCAF zine a couple years ago.
Giannis is one of the main artists of Spera: Vol. 2, which is now available in comic stores and from online retailers such as Amazon.
My pages for Spera went up today, check it out! It was so fun to work on something like this again where I really got to let loose on background work which is my absolute favorite thing, I really enjoyed it. I hope you will too!
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The latest chapter of Spera: Glass Flowers is now online! Part 10 is illustrated by Irene Koh (who also designed Pira’s amazing pyjamas), and features the first real fight scene in GF — a battle against the steam-powered robots designed by Olivier Pichard.
Click the page above for the full comic.
Spera Vol. 2 #2 is now available online. This issue will feature art by Kyla Vanderklugt and cover (above art) by me. Monster and maid designs done by Kyla. Check it out!
Afu Chan’s covers are absolutely gorgeous. We can’t get enough of them!
The second digital issue of Spera: Volume II is now available on comiXology!
This issue features interior art by Kyla Vanderklugt (above, with more samples at the link) and cover art by Afu Chan.
From Archaia:
In this next installment of Spera Vol. 2, Pira and Lono have lost the monster but that doesn’t mean they can’t have a normal relaxing day in the city…right? Lono and Pira are going to have a harder time than they thought with monsters showing up behind every corner, not that Pira minds. Will Lono ever get her day of relaxation?
Read Spera! Volume 2, part 3, is hitting comiXology tomorrow, so check it out!
In their quest for adventure, Princesses Pira and Lono — along with their companions, the fire spirit Yonder and warrior cat Chobo — have made their way to the big city. There they must contend with strange laws, stranger men and the strangest monsters if they wish to join the city’s prestigious Adventurer’s Guild — and then, only if the enigmatic Rale will let them!
The second Spera book from Archaia will be out in autumn, and features main story art by Giannis Milonogiannis, Kyla Vanderklugt, Afu Chan and Timothy Weaver.
Shorts are by Michael Dialynas, Mikkel Sommer, Paul Maybury, Kris Mukai, Zac Gorman, Louis Roskosch, Rachel S. (Baru), Julia Scott, Anna Wieszczyk (lettered by Ed Brisson), Roman Muradov and Polly Guo.
Also included are pin-ups by Afu Chan, Roxie Vizcarra, Nick Edwards, Jake Wyatt and Joanna Krótka.
Above is the front of the Vol. II postcard, designed by Kyla and featuring snippets of art from Afu’s chapter.
The second chapter of Spera: Volume I is now available digitally on comiXology! This chapter features the art of Hwei, aka lalage.
And here’s Kyla with the absolute best part of TCAF: Little Pira!
