008 - Origins - The Elle Story

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Here it is! A small homage to my own art history, and how the character of Elle came to be. Each panel lists a different character / idea that ultimately influenced / helped in Elle's current incarnation (Which can also be called the Ultimate Elle).
1. A dream I had when I was a kid. The girl's parents couldn't conceive, so they went to a scientific institute, where they were handed a newborn baby, that grew 10 years in a matter of days. Bizarre, but the girl became my best friend in that dream.
2. Oh man, prepubescent story ideas are totally not cool. She was generally an ass. And killed a lot of people. Heheh.
3. Two characters in the same frame, mainly because they come from the same period. Vampire girl has no story, but she had some kind of annoying attitude in her drawings (Which is a quality the current Elle sometimes has). The Mage girl, though, had one of the most complex stories I had ever created, but it was still pretty, well, black and white. And dragging, and boring.
4. A byproduct of Mage girl, silent girl barely influenced Elle, but she did influence some of her current designs.
5. The First Elle. I did dream her. And made, like, HUNDREDS of drawings of her. I'm not kidding. She originally had no wings, but they were later included for the added metaphor... The dreams she appeared at always had an extra significance... Sometimes, something deep that I had yet to understand. In fact, the original dream in which she appeared has just began to make TOTAL COMPLETE SENSE. Awesome, isn't it?
6. A character that went through many changes, and remained nameless for a long, long time. First, she was just possessed by an Evil Spirit, which granted her the ability to manifest tridimensional shadows under her complete command... Then she was a manifestation of another character's psyche (Still controlling shadows). The final version depicted here, she's the Shadow (By Carl Jung's definition) inside someone else's brain, where another Elle (The first one, actually) becomes trapped during a particularly nasty period of my life.
7. An offshoot of the actual Elle, this one hunted demons. She was actually an Angel of Death. Oh, and someone was supposed to fall for her. Geez, what a corny story.
8. The biggest influence on the current Elle, Penny is one of the few characters that was born with a name, and evolved A LOT throughout the years. She began as a painter, not a musician, with much shorter hair and name (She was just "Pen"). She was never part of any story idea... She was always kind of independent from all that, so at one point, became a musician and her own story began to form. Until it died like all good ideas. Her visual style and personality are Elle's biggest influences.
9. The reason why, in the comic, Elle can be so mean to Angel. He did some rather nasty things to her, like locking her inside a twisted mansion filled with archetypes (See character 6). She was given the choice of being forgotten or living as part of something else. The problem is that this something else became an amalgam of a rejected character concept and a very spiteful Elle. She was, literally, the one under control when I drew some rather BAD comics I made last year (Around 20 or so pages). By the end of it, she was getting over it, so no bigger harm done.
The current Elle will return next week, where she gets chased through a dark alley by a man with a lethal weapon. And I'm totally serious about that.

More Other News: First 3 pages of DREAM(LESS) (Another Comic idea I'm working on) are finally scripted. I expect to have 20-23 by next week, which means that, if I manage to get ahead with Yet Untitled, I will also start working on DREAM(LESS). It's big... And scary. But just as personal. Stay tuned.