.: There have been
many people who have asked about the inspiration
of my Precious Miseries series and character designs.
I answer a lot of questions in my 'About
the Artist' section, but I also want to include
some insight to the characters who I have worked
with before. And so this page is born!
.: Not all the Precious
Miseries orphans were originally created for the
Precious Miseries Manor. A few of them have been
ongoing characters in my stories and more serious
art.
Lil' Gothica is a fairly new design,
however, I loosely based her off my Eternity V
Death character. I designed Death's appearance
in 2004 for a college project and liked her hair
so much, I reused the style when lil' Gothica
was born a year later (when I began the Precious
Miseries Series). Although Death has two heads
and can use semi transformational powers, lil'
Gothica has not and does not. (Sorry, but no.)
Lil' Dapper's outfit is the only
part of her character that is not exclusive to
her. While trying to design possible costumes
for Alannah, aka Lilith, I created a rather enjoyable
outfit. I liked it so much that I felt I needed
to use it someplace other than for Lilith's particular
story arc.
I actually based lil' Dapper on
the outfit created for Alannah.
Lilith is a character I created
recently, in 2005. Her story is more light hearted
and whimsical than the rest of my stories tend
to be. Her adventure starts when Wizard Varial
whisks her away into a fantastical land. She is
forced through trails and obstacles in order to
secure her passage home, however, Varial has other
devious plans. Through many twist and turns, Lilith,
aka Alannah, finds that her involvement in this
story is more than meets the eye.
It took me many sketches to come
to this character design. I named her Lilith because
of the myth of Adam's first wife, the evil one
before Eve. Although I do not believe that Adam
had two wives, I felt the name would be appropriate.
I felt that Lilith would make an
excellent addition into the Precious Miseries
Manor, so I used her signature outfit and simplified
her design. The lil' Lilith in the Precious Miseries
Manor is very similar to the Lilith in Eternity
VI.
*Wizard Varial is pictured in the
last image with Alannah. (Lilith)
My name means honeybee, so over
the years I have been trying to design a suitable
honeybee character for myself, more specifically
a Neoqueenhoneybee character. While trying to
create an appropriate Neoqueenhoneybee, I have
created a number of other honeybee characters
as well.
Above are a small number of sketches/drawings
of how my character designs progressed. The first
two were part of a much larger series of different
honeybee designs, while the middle three colored
ones were the beginnings of "Neoqueenhoneybee"
aka Fiorie. The last colored image is of BB aka
Kylie, who remains my favorite bee-girl design.
I liked her so much that I actually conceptualized
a story for her. (Sorry, not giving out the stories.)
For lil' Honeybee, I wanted to
continue with a honeybee design, but one that
was not supposed to "be" me. I chose
to use one of the outfits I created earlier for
the Precious Miseries version of a honeybee girl.
(The first image.)
Envirion has been a good friend
of mine ever since high school and we both enjoy
hobbies such as manga and cosplay. Envirion, envi
for short, and I also like to brainstorm story
concepts together, always looking for new and
exciting projects to begin. Because we have been
working together for so long, I know a lot of
her interests, which I incorporated in the Precious
Miseries version of her, lil' Envirion. Envi loves
phoenixes, Super Dollfies and is in fact Korean.
While in high school, she made a collaged sketch
of her interests, whiich I still have. When I
re-found it, I noticed a sketch of a hairstyle
she made, which she titled "my dream hair."
So, naturally, I took the concept of her dream
hair, combined it with an altered version of a
Hanbok, added a phoenix, made her a ball jointed
doll and Lil' Envirion was born! (A Hanbok is
a traditional Korean dress.)
The first image is of envi, alise
and me dressed up as the cast from DigiCharat!
This was the first time envi and I ever cosplayed!
The next image is for a 'secret' project we are
working on together. The third is envi's most
recent cosplay as Toshiya from Dir en Grey. (It's
really accurate!) The fourth and fifth images
are of envi cosplaying her character, lil' Envirion.
She also dressed up her dollfie, Alpha, as lil
Envirion's Phoenix. (Alpha's full name means
dark phoenix, by the way.) Finally, the last image
is a lil' Envirion illustration I drew. Envi gave
me the idea for it.
Envirion is an online alias, like
Neoqueenhoneybee is my online alias. I asked envirion
how she came up with her name...and she basically
said that she had a reason for it, but somehow
forgot it. ^^;; We think that it had something
to do with the environment though. If you figure
it out, we'd love to know!
I am currently working on another
Precious Miseries character based off of envi,
so keep an eye out. You can view her website at
http://www.envirion.net/.
Lil' Lolita is based on a character
that I am still developing. She is so new that
she is mostly in sketches. The original Lolita
is a very sarcastic, sharp, serious, and bitter
woman. I used Lolita's design as a Precious Miseries
orphan because I loved her long hair (like Glaive's).
Lil' Lolita and original Lolita, aside from the
hair, share nothing in common. I have grown very
fond of most of my PM versions of the original
characters, but I have to admit that there is
only one real Lolita in my mind. (It's the original,
just in case you were wondering)
When entering the Precious Miseries
Manor, I felt that there would be an interesting
dynamic by making lil' Lolita lil' Gothica’s
older sister. Now, I am actually planning on making
the original Lolita have a sister named Gothica,
only that this Gothica would be different from
lil' Gothica.
Like many characters before her,
Lolita's design was based on a random character
sketch that I really liked. Through much thought,
Lolita was born. Although she is not wearing an
eye-patch in these images, Lolita's signature
look is with an eye-patch because she is loosing
color sight in one eye.
Glaive is a character
that I have been working with since 1999. She
is a part of the very first 'real' story I wrote.
(Um, no, you can't read it, not until its published...
whenever that'll be!) There is a whole long epic
that follows this character, but in a nutshell,
her destiny is for destruction. Eternity I is
broken up into three parts and Glaive serves as
Melaena's foil in the second part and the main
attraction in the third part. Some people who
are less familiar with my work of Melaena and
Glaive usually misinterpret their relationship.
I'm not going to give anything away, but think
of them as opposing forces who once shared a sisterly
like bond. There is nothing impure about their
relationship.
As you see, Glaive
has short hair when she is a little girl, and
amazingly long hair when she becomes older. I
chose to portray her with long hair as a Precious
Miseries character because my favorite part about
the character as a visual is her hair. Also, as
you see here, she may don her wings as a PM character.
As I stated before, my name means
honeybee. The name Neoqueenhoneybee began by me
trying to come up with an online alias. I knew
that I wanted to use 'honeybee', but I didn't
want to sign up for email addresses and message
boards with a name like, 'honeybee229983'. I used
the name 'Neoqueen Serenity' as the basis because,
at the time, I was the biggest Sailor Moon manga
fan.
The first image happens to be the
very first attempt at drawing 'Neoqueenhoneybee'.
I was pleased with my first rendition, but I didn't
feel a connection with her. Two years later I
created the second image. although she looked
like me, she took on a personality of her own,
which was not mine. However, I used her concept
to create a 'chibi' version, which was inspired
by Junko Mizuno's work. (3rd image) The chibi
version became my signature character for a while.
Recently, I decided that I needed
something a little edgier and threw pieces of
different outfits together for a con, and the
new Neoqueenhoneybee was born. I like the ensemble
so much, I turned it into a Precious Miseries
character.
StiTcheS is a character I created
in 2001. He originally started as an alien, but
with the release of Lilo and Stitch and the booming
popularity of Invader Zim, I transformed his story
into something a bit more Pinocchio-ish. I think
the original concept for StiTcheS was very similar
to my concept for Precious Miseries. I wanted
to create something cute, kind of creepy but extremely
simple in design. (Precious Miseries are a bit
more complex than StiTcheS.) Although StiTcheS
had been with me for 5 years, he never really
had a home until an entertainment company expressed
an interest in hearing an animation pitch in 2005.
It was then I pooled all my resources to create
the StiTcheS of today; a toy brought to life.
There are still many things that I would like
to work out in the StiTcheS world. I see the show
as being enjoyed by all ages, from children to
adults. I am trying to keep the humor witty as
opposed to slapstick. Currently I am working on
a silly story to publish in book form. Take a
look at some images from the book at the StiTcheS
gallery page.
