Request: OC Refs Numero Trois

Another character ref I made for a friend.

Guess who's style I based off this character off this time!

Yet another ref I made for a friend for her RP OC. Her outfit is based off D-Gray man this time... or at least, the one on the left is. The one on the right was just a picture she pulled off.

The one on the right also is supposed to have a long braid, but I thought it would look more like a tail or something so I opted to leave it it out... but it's there.

Hopefully she'll be okay with that.

Other refs I made for her: one and two.


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Request: OC Refs Parte Du

Another one of my friend's RPG OCs.

The same friend who requested the previous refs asked for another.

This time, the character is for a Kingdom Hearts themed RP, hence the coat, which was referenced off Axel.
Cookie for the person who can guess who the character design is based off of. The hair's a big giveaway, I think.

Anyways, I haven't gotten the approval yet with the eye colours nor the design, as I didn't get the hex codes for reference this time. Hopefully, once I get this bad boy to recipient, she'll approve and I wouldn't need to edit and re-upload it, as well as write a comment about how I had to fix it.


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Even when I'm not there, I'm still there

Killarney Anime Club Banner

Well, howdy there. Welcome to my first post of October.
...and that's all I have to say about that, really.

I'm pretty sure that most of you already knew that I was part of my high school's anime club as an executive last year. For those of you who didn't, well, are you really surprised? Obviously, I'm not in it now because I don't even attend high school anymore, but that's not the point. The point is is that I was asked to do the banner for club's day and I agreed, even though anime club is just one of those clubs which really doesn't need the publicity because we get a bunch of members on clubs day (it's the staying part which we have an issue).

Most time was spent on the girl and the boy. I used them as a guinea pig, in a sense, to find a simple, but sell-able, colouring style I could use for my prints as I know not everyone is into my painterly, messy style. I know I'm bending my uniqueness to suit other's taste, but that's how these kind of things works... until you get famous and everyone is pining for your stuff, anyways.
I found out that playing with filters is very useful.

As for the rest of it... yeah, it's as lazy as it looks. Just a whole bunch of splatter brushes in different colours, tweaks here and there, and voila! At least it's predominantly white, yet colourful, as instructed. Probably pretty eye catching, though it's not the couple which makes it so.

I drew another girl I was planning to add onto the banner, but scrapped it because I fell out of favour for her once I starting doing the lineart.

She was supposed to sit on the letters.

As a side note, I find it depressing how I'm having so much difficulty doing my homework right now. It's depressing because all we're doing is drawing, and school has managed to give me headache. Why, IAT 106? Why are you tearing me away from my love?
(Well, at least this is technical drawing and not creative, artistic drawing, otherwise that really would've been depressing.)


Drawn in SAI.
Edited it in Photoshop.

(Insert Synonym for "CG Dump" Here)

Let's start off with something from today.

Bleh. Nothing about this picture leaves me proud enough to keep on opening the picture to look at it.

The filename is "Maya" but I don't really have a name for her. She's an OC from the good ol days, but one I never really expanded on because her only purpose was to suddenly appear and cause drama in the protags' lives. She's not really an angel either, she's just dead. The dress she's wearing also looks very familiar, like I've seen it from somewhere.

I think the whole purpose of making this was to find a quick, "sellable" style that would be appropriate for commissions and prints and the like. Something a bit neater than my freehand painterly one I have already. Haven't found it yet. Back to surfing through the internet, stealing finding inspiration from other people.

...and now for things I didn't do today.

Another enviro study. Haven't done these in a while. The clouds/sky actually don't look so bad, especially the big one in the left-hand corner. But then it gets all crappy once you look down from there so just pretend that part doesn't exist.

If I were to explain the inspiration for this, I could probably pass it off as something artistic or that I knew what I was doing and generally leave you all impressed by my knowledge of fine art. But since it turned out so "wtf" that even slapping on the label of abstract wouldn't save it, I won't. Frankly, I don't even know what the heck that's supposed to be anymore.

My tablet wouldn't respond to pressure sensitivity. It was awful.


First and last picture made in SAI.
Second picture made in Photoshop.
Third picture made in openCanvas.

Con Updates

The Cos & Effect Artist Alley deadline as last Friday. I did make it in time, but I really don't think I stand a chance, especially with the stuff I submitted for them to see. Oh well, no matter. I did make some new stuff for it, though so here you go.

Ignis chibi

Well, no shit there was going to be Ignis. A big improvement to my old chibi of her, no? I think I should redo all my chibis in the chance I do get invited to AA again. I like how she turned out, though. No cheap-ass colouring this year. Just all cell-shading this time (minus the sword).

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Who is this? You tell me. No, seriously, go tell me who you think he looks like so I can sell him off as part of that fandom. This is what happens when you don't properly read the rules and thus didn't see the part where the things you submit have to have the intention of being sold. Too bad I already drew this dude out, and spent a long time doing it!
Actually brought my sketchbook along to "work" (or really, career prep) as we hardly get any customers anyway. Whipped this up in one day and still tended to the people who were there. Got a lot of compliments for him, too.
I don't really like him, though. I need a reference desperately because I bullshitted my way through his muscles. Ugh.

 

This is actually a really old-ass picture I probably drew around summer. Even though it has nothing to do with anime at all, I figured it looked fantasy enough for someone to think it was from small, unknown game.
Actually, technically, this is based off a game. It's the game I was one of the concept artists in back two or three summers ago, I think. So I guess, in a sense, it could be considered fanart, except I'm one of the artists for it, so does that make it official art?
Would love to one day colour this bad boy in.


Drawn With Pencil

When you don't want to photograph your haul...

When you have zero inspiration, draw the things you wore, I suppose.

All clothes featured totally bought from Hong Kong. Drew them back when I just came back from Hong Kong, too, which is like a week ago.

...except I cheated with this picture because I don't have a shirt like that. I tried to look for one, though, but you know how hard it is find clothes in Hong Kong which actually fits?

Yup, no more outfits for now. However, enjoy a creeper heard instead:

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Con news and what not

Before I start on the more important stuff, here, have some art.

Moon-goddess form (wow, that's lame) of Anaria

I drew for the sake of me always drawing a revision of her every couple 'o years.
Mhm, rainbows.

Old-ass sketch I never got around to uploading.

Another sketch of a person.

Made in SAI.


Alright, as you may or may not know, last year I was fortunate enough to be part of Artist Alley in our city's annual con, Anime Evolution. This year, there wouldn't be one, but there are some smaller events happening, all of which offer an Artist Alley type thing.

Cos & Effect
August 13 - 14
Our current replacement for Anime Evolution. Since I don't have Facebook, and it doesn't have a proper website, I don't have much information on this. All I know is that there's going to be an Artist Alley consisting of 25 tables. They'll be accepting applicants on a skill level basis, which means lulzy crappy artists would be weeded out. I don't know if I'll be one of those rejected, however. In any case, deadline for applications are soon so I'll need to start working on some impressive stuff.

MiniComi
July 23rd
From the description, this is more artist market oriented. I think you'll also need to submit work for them to judge, but I think it'll be more lenient, and perhaps leaning more on the "first come first serve" basis. Not sure if I should register, but it's a lot cheaper than Cos & Effect. Plus, it's free if you just want to check it out, which I just might do since it's a one day event anyways.

Coincidentally, both events are held in the same university as last year's Anime Evolution was held.

Alright so that's enough posting for me at one go. I'm missing my Dragonball Z Kai right now. kthxbye.

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 3 - Ze Actual Thing

...and, without furthur ado, here's actual comic.

The pages are black and white because I sent the pages to another guy who printed them out and coloured it like that. That's why only the cover has colour because I was in charge of printing that out (and I was shit scared that my colour printer, which was already running out of yellow ink, wouldn't make it).
Also, over half of them have words because at first, I was putting the text in myself. For the rest of it, I got another guy to do it. Like you'll understand it with or without text, though.

And yes, I found the Looney Toons part kind of... just thrown in for the hell of it. I do have to say that I did a good job (at least in some parts) of making them look like who they're supposed to be.

Oh yeah, I forgot that people read left to right in America. Woops.

Unfortunately, the rest of the colouring was not as kick ass as this.

Copyright infringement.

I actually like how Sylvestor looks here, standing there all stupid like.

Because they totally don't resemble who they're supposed to be.

...troll face.

"You realize, this means war!"

Bet you'll never guess who those three Daniels are (though you already wouldn't if you didn't go to school with me).

Pepe's got a gay crush on Bugs.

D'aw.

And this is exactly why I chose Pepe: he always ends up alone in his shorts.

Should've ended it with "That's All, Folks!" instead of a sad picture of (supposedly) Shylock.

While I was doing my individual evaluation of how the marks should be distributed around the group, when it came to one member, I wrote down "I honestly don't know" in the part where it says to list what they did. Though it's not entirely true, because I heard he coloured in two backgrounds.
Granted, I did hog a lot of work, lol. But that's because drawing's my forte.

Outlined in SAI,
Edited in Photoshop.
Cover made in openCanvas,
Edited in Photoshop.

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 2 - Character Concepts

So, I think I may have just over planned my graphic novel here. I knew I wanted to stray away from my usual anime style, and since - predictably - finding out that it's going to be a funny comic, found it not very befitting either. Thus, I tried to make up a style that's more American cartoon-ny, and here are the results.

P.S. Mainly these pictures are of Portia because I'm sexist like that.

Portia, Bassanio, and a Disney-ish head.

First initial sketch to just get me in the mood for it. I kept a lot of the features on Portia more or less the same, though (the slanted eyes, for example).

Portia

The rest were drawn during the wee hours of a school night. I think the most important thing I wanted to accomplish then was to draw peoples who looked different, and not just "different hair and eye colour" different.

Bassanio and Portia.

Portia and Nerissa/Jessica.

A stoned Antonio and a Bassanio.

HOLY SHIT, WHAT'S THIS?
It's pretty much me playing around with different styles but with the same head. Kind of like the style meme I did a while ago, except less messy, and there's a realistic girl and a furry version. Can you guess which each style tries to emulate?

Don't bother, because I didn't try to copy anything.

In the end, it didn't really matter how long I spent planning how the characters would look...


Drawn in SAI.
First pic drawn on printer paper with mechanical pencil.

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 1 - Drafts

Title speaks for itself.

It's pretty much gibberish to the average reader as I shortened the script to fit the speech bubbles. That script is also the same script I will not be providing.
I also made it so that the characters are represented by the letters on their foreheads. This is the basic run down of who these characters are (or the important ones anyways):

• Jessica
• Lorenzo
• Portia
• Nerissa
• Gratiano
• Bassanio
• Antonio

 If these names don't ring a bell, then that's because you've never read the Merchant of Venice. And if you haven't done that, then you're even going to be left more clueless. I say you just stop trying to make sense of it and just gawk at the art stickmen.

The end peoples!
I know you can't wait for the real one to come out, right?


Drawn in SAI.