I drew some chibis to make into stickers for a few conventions I attended a couple of weeks back. I don't usually like to draw chibis, but they're pretty easy to draw, overall. I did them mostly for shows I've watched, since... I didn't want to do them for shows I don't watch, I suppose?

Well, enough rambling!


( LET'S PLAY ROCK BAND GUISE. CAPTAIN'S ORDERS. )

I watched Victor Victoria yesterday. Julie Andrews looks good in a suit, but doesn't really pass for a man. :I

I had a pretty crap day, so I drew some Star Trek fanart to cheer myself up.

The first is a fanart for this story.


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And McCoy, because he's my favorite.


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Was working on Two Keys again. I tend to do things like hunker down and draw 6 or 7 pages, and then stop drawing it for 3 or 4 months, forget how to draw the characters, and come back, relearn how to draw the characters, and draw 6 or 7 pages. I should probably not go over a week without drawing them, since I'm bound to forget. :/

Anyway, the story still isn't very exciting yet. They just sit around and talk a lot, but that's what they'll be doing for most of the story, so I guess this is as exciting as it'll get. I'm finished chapter 1, and the next chapter will have sniper rifles and motorcycles (maybe), so maybe it'll be more exciting after all.

Some random panelssss


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Neat!

Anyway. Star Trek fanart. :I
Anyone not see this coming?

Pre-apologies for suckage since it usually takes a while for me to get the hang of drawing anything.


( power trio )

In any case, I've announced this about 15 times, but I guess I'll just do so again.

I'll be at the Mariott-Pinnacle Hotel this weekend for VCON!!

So if you're in the area, please come say hi! I'll probably be taking commissions and such to try and break even, since things aren't looking good for me.

I drew a submission for the magazine Crossed Genres, the current theme being LGBTQ. I thought that in itself was a little vague, but I gave it my best, I guess mostly because I've wanted to draw a picture in this pose for a while now.


( To You I Give )

( Here is some stuff about Star Trek )

TL;DR, I now ship Kirk/Spock and Kirk/Bones.

A few promo post cards for Two Keys I whipped up while watching Desperaux. Did anyone else see that movie? It wasn't as good or as epic as I hoped it would be, and I thought it took itself a bit too seriously for a story about a kingdom that banned soup.

Since I'll be attending Vcon soon, I thought I'd get together some post cards to hand out. I ended up doing two because of the following reasons:

1. If I draw Colin and Audrey together, it seems to imply that they're a couple.
2. I could just draw Colin, but who wants to look at an ugly old dude?
3. I could just draw Audrey, but I always do that.

So in the end I gave them each their own card.




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A CG of a clown I did, potentially for a client?
I'm not too sure what's going on with that, actually, since they haven't gotten back to me yet. I hope it's okay to put the picture up though.


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Still stoked for Season 2 of Merlin, as nenadi and hiphopelephant will testify, since I spent more time than either would prefer telling them exactly how stoked I was. Neither of them really give a crap either, but I don't know anyone else who likes the show.

Anyway, since I was stoked, and I was upset about not being able to learn how to use Painter adequately (I think that the learning curve is not so much a learning curve as a learning wall. The concrete types with barbed wire at the top and strobe lights to keep you from getting over it.), I was fiddling around with photoshop and trying out a technique I saw somewhere online with some Merlin fanart.

Which didn't work at all, and it was generally an upsetting experience, so I don't think I'll be experimenting with that again anytime soon.

But, the fanart anyway. I actually hate it a lot, and I'd rather not look at it if I don't have to. Part of me is wondering if I should post it at all. I'm not happy with it, but I don't think I can stand working on it any longer. (Not to mention I lost my saved file. :/)




( disclaimer: major suckage. They look nothing like the actors. Some blood. )


And another pic, because I actually like Gwen/Merlin. I think they're really cute. I like Arthur/Morgana too, and Merlin/Morgana, just for the heck of it.

I don't really like Gwen/Arthur yet, but I hope I do. I hope they start bickering or something, because I know that'll get me to like them.


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I felt the need to draw Prince Ivan in his royal garb, even though it's really of the wrong era. I haven't really decided what colour Ivan's clothes are yet though, but blue seems to contrast nicely with his hair. Red and green still looks a bit too much like Christmas to me.


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Anyway, it looks like I'll be attending these conventions in Oct:

VCon - Vancouver, Oct 2-4
APE - San Fran, Oct 17-18

So if you're in the area for either of those cons, please drop by and say hi! I'd really love that. I think I'll be putting together some new posters and smallpress books as well, but I'm not too positive how well that would work out.

It's been so long since I've drawn anything that isn't directly related to the few comics I'm working on that I just wanted to draw something for the hell of it.

And for some reason or another, I started to read Merlin fanfics again (probably stoked for season 2), so I thought I may as well! As I've previously mentioned, I'm really bad at capturing the likeness of people, so if you have any pointers for me, please let me know.


( Merlin... and a merlin. I guess. )


( fabulously fabulous )

edit: *scratches head* I thought I read somewhere on the merlin/arthur comm that it's okay if one of them is in the post, but apparently I remembered wrong. Sorry, guys.

My sister sent me 40 or so chapters of Kekkaishi and demanded that I read them all. So I did.

...And then I drew fanart. I couldn't help it! Yoshimori got all badass-like, and I'm a complete sucker for things like that! Not to mention Yoshimori is the type of main character I like.


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Finished reading Dragon Eye up to around volume 9 the other day. I heard that it's on hiatus, which sucks becuase for some reason vol 10 hasn't been released yet, so the story is hanging right in the middle of a battle and before a climatic event.

In any case, my favorite character is still Sakuraba, for some reason. I even remember his birthday, sinice it's on Pi Day. And he wasn't in the tournament, but he still got plenty 'o airtime, so I was happy.


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A picture I drew, because I realized I actually had no coloured pictures for Two Keys. So I drew this so that I'd have at least one thing to make banners and so on out of.


( If we ever were monsters )

nenadi is gonna be a guest at TOKYO IN TULSA, and she will also have a table there.
So go check her out! *Checkin Nena out*

She'll be in Exhibit Hall A, where the dealer room also is, AND, she will have copies of Honeysyn with her. So if you're in the area, and you'd like to waive the shipping charges, drop by and pick up a copy!

Anyway, I haven't really drawn much lately, but I was workin on a few odd pages of the Firebird story, so here are a few random pages.

Yeeeyyy, Ivan!


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I'm enjoying Dragon Eye waaaayyy too much. heart_mint couldn't find scans of volumes 7-9 online, so we ended up purchasing it on Yesasia.

Personally, I blame the library. If I hadn't found that first volume, I wouldn't have given another 40 bucks to yesasia. And now that we have volumes 7, 8 and 9, this means that eventually we'll have to get the first 6 volumes too, because that's the way it works. (I'm still trying to complete my Banana Fish set...)

Anyway, Dragon Eye was just fun and exciting to read, and my favorite character is... surprise!! Sakuraba!



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Anyway, then I drew Ivan a little. Just for kicks.


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Sometimes, I think it totally blows that I'm just a complete fan at heart. Nothing propels me like liking something. Enjoying a new series cheers me up completely like nothing else really does, and when I don't have a fandom to obsess over, I get pretty bored and down.

Is anyone else like that?

I was reading Black Jack again yesterday. Since the last time I read it, I was 6 or 7, I barely remember anything about him except that he's a doctor and he had black and white hair. I also remember a few vague things, like Pinoko and how he got the different coloured face, but overall my impression of him was pretty blurry.

So when I read it again, I definately didn't remember him being such a woobie. Good god, he's a woobie!

Anyway, it was pretty good, as usual, as all of Tezuka's stuff is. I was looking for fanart on Pixiv, and I kept seeing a character named Dr. K, who hasn't shown up yet, and for some reason I remember nothing about him. Well, waiting for him to show up...


( This operation will cost you... 50000 MILLION YEN! )

I also started to read Dragon Eye, because I found the first volume in the library. I didn't expect it to be very good, because... honestly, it's mostly because the cover isn't very attractive. But I'm glad I read it, because it was actually very enjoyable. The art's nice (it's better on the inside, honestly), the story's decent, the action's good, and I like the main character. Overall it was fun to read.

...Downloading the next 6 volumes now.

I was practicing painting a little bit recently, because I realized how long it's been since I last painted. I thought, perhaps, that the reason the colours in my painting always comes out so grey and muddy might have to do with the fact that I paint everything with 3 colours, and sometimes it's a little hard to mix the right skin tone. Maybe it's an excuse, but blue always seems to get into everything no matter how hard I try to avoid it.

Anyway, so a little bit of painting practice. Also, the painting I finished previously for the Vancouver Art Box Show, which, of course it didn't get sold, so now it's lying around at home.




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Also: Am I the only one who is less than fond of the art direction of Devil Survivor? I hear it's a good game nonetheless, so I'll probably buy it. Also... I buy everything megaten, regardless of whether I actually like it or not...

As I previously though, I have oodles and oodles of post cards left from the convention. So... I'll be trying to get rid of selling them!

These are Persona 4 Postcards.
The P4 gang! In hipster clothes!


( Click me! )

Thanks!

Drawing up some new stuff for Anime Evolution so I have something new to sell....

I don't think I'll have any new posters this year. Maybe I'll still have time to draw one more.
Anyway, instead, I have a bunch of P4 post cards.

Behold! P4 cast, hipster styled! So. Hipster. These are the dudes who are swinging at the clubs and taking all the good clothes at the vintage stores, all while holding a digital camera and taking photos of every other second and texting their friends with the other hand.


( SO. HIPSTER. )

I am currently waiting for TF2 to finish updating so I can force nenadi to play with me.

The kicker with that was that last night, I was trying to design some new characters, and for some reason one of the characters looked like Heavy, so I was looking into that. I quickly got sucked into the vortex that I had previously tried to avoid, if only because I'm abysmal at all FPS games. One time I was playing Halo, and my friend's boyfriend said "Wow. I didn't know it could be that difficult to walk up the stairs."

But... well, I'll try anyway. :I

So, a cover, for the new webcomic, which is to be named "Two Keys". Not ripping off Alice's Two Rooks, I swear! I was gonna name it "Five Keys", but then realize that there actually aren't five keys, only two, so... yeah. :I

Right, cover.


( Chapter 1 cover )

Also, the huuuge pic that I did for my grad show booth. I now have the printed version on foamcore (dents and all) mounted on a wall in my room. heart_mint, who came in and had to help me put it up said "this is so narcassistic."

OH YEAH, heart_mint? WELL, SO'S YOUR FACE.


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