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.


Made in SAI.

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.


Made in SAI.

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.

Request: OC Refs

You know I'm always down with requests from friends, right? So long as they're not exploiting me, claiming it's their artwork, or anything else despicable, I have no problems cranking out a picture or two. In fact, if I know you, dear reader, enough and you asked, I'd probably say yes.

But anyways, a friend asked me for a picture not too long ago for her OC. All I had was a description to work off of. That's good for the artistic freedom, bad because it's always easier to look at an arm than be told how it looks like. It helps than her ghost form was pretty much a tweaked version of Miku Append (who can be thought of as Miku ver. 2).

My initial sketches of the characters:

Human form.

Ghost form.

But when I showed it to my friend, I found out that the character is supposed to be 14. Obviously, what I drew didn't resemble a 14 year old so after some convincing that I was fine with redoing it (the sketch didn't take that long to do anyways), it was back to the drawing board.

Luckily, my friend wasn't some assholey-client and I got the okay for the second sketch. And it was smooth sailing from there.

Human form on the left, and ghost form on the right.

No shading because I figured it was a ref and in refs, usually just solid colours are used. I think I only highlighted the hair, eyes, and the lips. Fine with me. Probably easiest colouring job I've done because my lineart was nice enough for once just to use the magic wand tool to do all the work for me. That and my friend gave me the hex codes for her eyes and hair.

Such a shame that a lot of detail I put into the ghost girl's outfit is lost either due to shrinking the picture to half its size after I was done (a little tip if you want to make smooth and thin lineart easily) or the grey being too dark for the lines to appear properly (since most of it was focused on the belt).


Lineart in openCanvas.
Coloured in Photoshop.