DXS Machina

Let’s see, I survived AnimeFest by heavily medicating my lingering cold that refused to stop churning out phlegm and by leaving the table to talk to Bigbigtruck, an awesome artist that would totally draw her hot guys for me if I gave her money. Hands money over for hot dudes. Also Chai tea… thank you Startbucks. We bailed on Sunday night due to slow sales and people sitting down in the walkway and screaming next to us. WHY? WHY? WHHHHHYYYYY?

I don’t remember anime cons being this tiring. San Diego wasn’t this bad and it’s a con of a gillion people crowded into a small small space. Oh and yes and I did get the red river of female shame… the tasty apple of cherry koolaid pants… the Aunt Floo… the some horrible sounding euphemism for blood shooting out of some personal part of myself, yada yada ya. =<

So, I got hot dudes drawn for me by Bigbigtruck and hopefully I did not infect her with my horrible snot churning cold… I’mohmygodsorryifso!!! And I um… sat behind Shawnna’s booth a whole bunch selling buttons to people and tried to not stab people in the eyes when they sit down in front of the walkway next to us to watch flash videos and scream. Oh the screaming! And DANCING! AND SCREAMING, I HATE YOU GOD. Cough, yay?

Edit: I also meet some wonderful people who didn’t scream in my ear or dance… I love you guys. Composes a song in your name.

In revenge for anime cons now being like daycare… I’m going to inflict Naruto fanart ala Diana’s horrible brain on you all. Ahem, BELIEVE IT!!!

The picture started as just Naruto’s face and developed Sasuke for easy taunting. I’m planing to color this someday when I’m not a lazy bastard that doesn’t make time to draw things for herself. I have way too many images that need to be finished sort of like this though less in the fanart vein. When finished this will surely be added to my print book of cute animals, girls and dudes that are too manly/gay/naked for the crowd currently going to anime cons…

Also I started posting to Y!Gallery… I predict mostly reposts and frustration. Did you know that they automatically delete people’s comments from your inbox and also delete updates to your watchlist if they are older then 100 or 20 days respectively? Wow! WOW! Lets back slowly and carefully away from the Y!G subject. =[ I’m sure I’ll have more to say when I’ve been posting there a little longer then 3 days.

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So, um yeah there was this image: http://borammy.deviantart.com/art/Bleach-Ichigo-x-Chad-74244146

Here’s how I think this match would really go…

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These were my two favorite characters from Sailor Moon although I alse had a real fondness for Sailor Saturn in the manga. This was a commission and was colored as a hand painted cel.

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Here is another commission picture of Mink from Dragon Half. She’s not wearing a whole lot but I made it very tasteful. I like the tekturized background color fade I added to this. Photoshop for the colors.

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Characters from Battle Royale, the TV series… I think. This was a commision I took at A-kon 2004 and I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to post this. I really like this picture. There be hugging. =D

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Here is another picture that I drew for the one guy who really likes Mink from Dragon Half. I was really happy with this picture. I’ve always really enjoyed the Dragon Half manga and OVA. It’s just such a funny show.

I have a really old picture in this same pose. On some level I know that I’m using the same pose on another level I don’t feel bad because it’s been 10 years since I drew it the first time.

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This is a recent commission that I’ve finished. Don’t ask how long I’ve had it… it’s pretty embarrassed to admit how long it’s been outstanding. ;_;

Anyway this is the main girl from Moldiver, which if you don’t remember was a 6 episode OVA. It also had some of the WORST color design I’d seen until ‘Candidate for Goddess’ or ‘Pilot Candidate’ came to the US. Really. I changed the colors enough to make the outfit work but normally it looks pretty bad. =D

The actual commission does not have the background. But I was playing with Photoshop to get the sky so now it has pretty clouds. I’m proud of those clouds and the fact that this picture is so cute. =^_^=

Inked: Zig Millennium Pens
Colored: Markers
Background: Photoshop 7, brush tool, some dodge

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I finished this for A-kon 15’s art show. Whew. Maybe I needed to get sleep so that I could drive but I think that’s a bit over rated. =D

Anyway, I tried some new coloring things with this picture. Mostly on the insturments and the Microphones. I ran color half tone over the mics to get the texture. I used mostly paths to get the cel shading on the characters. =]

The original 8.5×11 ink drawing is for sale. Comment on this post for information.

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Here are the final inks for this picture. With all of the lines cleaned up and the line wieghts added. Heh, now I go post the color version. Waves at people.

The original 8.5×11 ink drawing is for sale. Comment on this post for information.

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This is the first step when I ink anything. I lay down very simple lines with no line wieghts. Then I go back over the lines to give depth. When I use a brush or nib I tend to not have to go back over the lines as much.

The inking on this was done with a point 1 Zig Millennium. They’re a lot like Microns but the tip is plastic instead of felt and they usualy last a tad longer. You can also find them at lots of places including Kinkos and they tend to be really cheap in the single packs.

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