Category Archives: Fan Art

Oct2

Working on My Muse… and the Jem logo

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Working on My Muse… and the Jem logo

Wheeee, I’ve started back up on “My Muse” though right now it’s mostly cleaning house. Which means I’m inking the 8-10 pages of pencils that I have. That’s going well so far, I’m about 3 pages in with the inking. I’m suppose to do roughly 2 pages a week but I’m going to try to work in some actual penciling if I can. That is if I don’t keep drawing INCREDIBLY COMPLEX fanart…

Of Jem even… well it’s mostly fanart of Jem, sort of. Kind of, it’s an odd image. I don’t think I’ve colored an image of 5 characters quite that fast before. I’ll post it up in a bit. When I’ve convinced myself it’s a good idea. =/ Or maybe after I’ve drawn some more images of them.

I made a version of the Jem logo for the image since there’s no good large version of the damn thing on the internets. Thankfully there are at least fairly clear versions of it but still. I had to trace the thing using paths in Photoshop. And why does that stupid star just HAVE to go under and over the damn letters. Meh, so yeah if anyone ever needed a small net version of the logo with bonus transparency for extra fun web page designing here’s it is:

A retraced logo for Jem. Good for Jem fansites and webdesigns.

Or a slightly more flattering PNG version: Jem Logo

And while I’m bitching, the screen caps that people have made for Jem suck balls. I know it came out originally back before DVDs existed but there’s been a DVD collection of the thing for a good 2 years already. I’m tempted to borrow the DVD’s from Shawnna and screen cap a bunch of episodes. Just to get the color palettes correct and have a few nice quality shots from the show.

Sep4

Animefest 2008! And Naruto fanart…

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Animefest 2008! And Naruto fanart…

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!!!

Believe it! Naruto and Sasuke are such girls. Also why did I draw this? Why?

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.

Jun19

King City Fanart

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King City Fanart

Looks like the reshuffling of Tokyopop is starting and it appears that the reality of book cancelings and online versions is happening for many of the people I know/follow online. I keep poking around and looking at these goings on with interest. I had expected something like this and yet never ever expect it to actually happen. I’m use to the comic company that just lingers on and on and on slowly withering but gripping to life with brittle crusted fingers never gracefully exiting the stage until the final moments… sometimes becoming a zombie and lurching back to life type thing. This sudden shifting fast paced Tokyopop news relay has me a bit taken aback. Then again TP use to be Mixxzine until suddenly it wasn’t so I don’t know why I’m so surprised.

Fear Comics!

Before all this stuff started happening, I made some random “King City” fanart. “King City” is an awesome comic put out by Brandon Graham through Tokyopop. This was drawn last week. I don’t know why I doodled it or what the Owl is doing in that top hat or the tiny whale… but there it is. Originally I had the guy, Joe, holding the cat in an impossible way but then I punched me in the face and told myself to fix it, so now he might actually be holding that cat.

King City! I love this comic. I also drew this last week back when Tokyopop had planned to print volume 2.

Dec18

Christmas card inked

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Christmas card inked

Oh boy, so I asked for help on ideas for the Christmas card thing and then end up getting an idea from Mom for one that I drew… Sorry guys, thanks for helping though. I will probably draw some of them for other years. Most of them were awesome suggestions. Thank you so much, you all are really the best. As for the card I did draw…

Thing that I should never do again:

–Art Nouveau
–Complex hair bits
–Complex shit in the backgrounds
–Art that has to be blown up to 11 x 15 to be inked
–Jingle bells
–Art nouveau (hiss)
–Sneaking in things like the fact that picture is based off of a Harry Potter fanfic where Draco is a Ravenclaw and dates Cho… Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone.
–Nagging idea to color this one in as time consumingly neat new coloring style as I can think of

Why do I make things hard for myself? Anyway picture!

Christmas Card!

Yay, now I think I should color it… hmm, ponders if I could get away with the Christmassy gradient instead of real colors… May show family and see if I can. Then I can take all the time I want coloring it up instead of worrying if it’ll be done before Christmas. =D

Apr5

Friends of Lulu SD #1

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Friends of Lulu SD #1

I did a set of cute SD pictures for the “Friends of Lulu” organization. These may or may not be used for a new site design. Having just made a new site design myself I can understand if these pictures might not work out.

I think they’re cute. There are 5 in total.

Friends of Lulu Sd #1

I think I can make stickers and prints of these. Also the tiny ink original is for sale. Please leave a comment if interested. =]

Mar6

Harry and Draco sit for photo

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Harry and Draco sit for photo

Yeah, now this picture took forever. Here we have Harry and Draco looking rather like male models posing for a photo or something. Whaa, backgrounds of pain… but I love the Persian carpet. I’m also very pleased about the shading on their faces.

And yes I used reference.

Harry and Draco

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

Feb21

Ginny

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Ginny

I drew this because I was tired of drawing tiny head shots. I’m finding that while this new look is different there’s a bunch of things about it that I recognize from earlier pictures of mine. Anyway here’s Ginny with her Jacob’s ladder wand. She’s smiling while sitting on a chair. =D

(Did you know that Jacob ladder’s have a purpose? I swear, I always thought they were just used as props in horror movies. Snicker.)

Ginny

It’s mostly cellshaded in Photoshop CS but I’ve added a slight blur to each of the separated color areas like the chair to make the shading softer. I used Preserve Transparency on the layers so the blur filter doesn’t spread outside the areas I wanted. Pretty interesting but it needs quite a few layers and some other cheating so it’s not a mess. Heh, the smooth lines are really not THAT smooth I just colorize the lines and it looks neater than it is…

The original ink drawing has been sold for this picture.