Hey~ Sorry for not posting much here. "Failed attempts" is probably the most appropriate description of the past 1,5 months regarding my art. Let me show you some sketches...
This is a really crappy quick doodle of Vincent from PH. I was trying to draw in a different style, but I didn't like how this sketch was turning out, so I stopped working on it.
Scribble of young Rufus Barma inspired by the latest PH chapter. This is pretty ugly too...
Two drawings of my character, Alec. You can tell I have a really bad art block when I keep doing small doodles of this guy. The first one on the left is ugly, the newer one is better.
More quick OC doodles. Self-explanatory, lol~
Random background attempt. This is just an initial sketch, I ended up using a part of it as the background of this picture.
Djinn equip Alibaba from Magi. I have NO CLUE how his design works because it's so hard to make out from the manga panels plus Ohtaka's art can be pretty inconsistent anyway, but I tried to draw my interpretation of it. I think he's similar to Focalor, except that he has flames instead of feathers and no body markings. I made his waist a bit shorter on the lineart because I tend to make people's bodies too long. I'm doing the colouring in a different way and I kinda like how his hair turned out. 8D Anatomy is wonky as always, but I can't do better.
Saving the best for last - here's a Sinbad again. I started pointlessly doodling 2 days ago while I was waiting for Kasia's reply on Facebook and then it turned into this. I don't have much to say about this, except that I clearly enjoy drawing this dude way more than I should. Though I haven't drawn his metal vessels properly because I was too lazy to look up decent references of them.
Ok, that's it for now. I'll try to finish that Alibaba one and maybe Sinbad as well, but I posted the others just to show you I've been trying to draw things, I just have an attention span that probably equals the memory of a goldfish in capacity...
Btw, I was listening to the first Shingeki no Kyojin OST in the past few days and it's pretty good, but in my opinion, the Guilty Crown OST was a lot better.
Magi Tarot - I want to do something like this with Pandora Hearts characters. I'm not kidding. I had this idea for a Tarot fanart series like... a year ago. I don't think I'll ever be good, patient and persistent enough to realize it, but maybe I'll try one day.
Ideas for stupid crossovers: Neon Genesis Evangelion x Pandora Hearts Ouran High School Host Club x Pandora Hearts Magi x Fullmetal Alchemist Pandora Hearts x Fullmetal Alchemist x Magi
Do a short comic thing of Vincent and Gil from Pandora Hearts. I have an idea for a pretty cute (?) short story of them and my dream is to turn it into a short doujinshi one day, but I need to learn how to draw comic pages first.
I just wrote this down as a reminder to myself. All of these would be pretty big challenging projects and knowing myself, I won't even attempt working on them. Though some of the crossover fanarts would be relatively easy.
I did a quick sketch of an old girl character of mine a couple of days ago. Holy crap... I've improved. My style changed so much and my anatomy is better, though it still needs work. But making things like these help me feel that I'm getting somewhere. Really slowly, but steadily. Lately I draw other ppl's characters a lot and I'm beginning to miss drawing my own characters. I created this character many years ago after having a strange dream. She is a pretty girl with dark skin, but she has a boyish attitude. She likes to fight and compete with others and she's very outgoing and friendly. She is the only daughter of a rich merchant family. I thought of naming her Darya or making it more masculine and name her Daryl, but then I found this Indian name Darshana which would also fit her somehow. :B
I just made up another character, her attendant. He is a couple of years younger than her. He is a good-natured but slightly wimpy guy. He truly admires his lady and would do anything for her, though he constantly worries about her and has a hard time having to put up with her antics. She likes to tease him.
And now I have a bunch of stories about them in my head... O___o
I drew this unfinished portrait thing in March and thought it was bad. I was experimenting with stuff. Like mixing my sketchy sketch style with semi-realism and pastel colours. Now I think it didn't turn out that bad after all. Also, is it just me or does he really look kinda like Jack Vessalius??
Here's a random doodle of waka!Sinbad. When I'm feeling uninspired, I do a quick sketch of Sinbad. :B Actually, this "version" of Sinbad doesn't even exist in the canon Magi story aside from a few flashback panels and I'm not sure if there is a detailed official design for him. But I really love this outfit because it totally looks like something I would design. I'm a little obsessed with short jacket-things and all. XD;
Fast scribble of Alibaba and Morgiana. HOW DO HANDS WORK??! JESUS CHRIST. I think this is one of those scribbles that will never be finished because I just can't get the poses/expressions right. Too bad because I love these two. :(
And another waka!Sinbad just because. I even slapped some colours on this. I guess waka!Sin can be any age between 14 and 28 (though it probably took him a couple of years to establish Sindria and get it work as a country). I usually try to make waka!Sin appear more like a teen because he's cuter than that dirty lewd old guy he is in Magi (XD), but I don't really like how he turned out here. I know I draw him too much lately, but there's something in him I love. To tell the truth, he reminds me of an old OC very much.
Oh yeah, and apparently, we're gonna get a new manga series featuring shota Sinbad as protagonist starting in May. I'm a little skeptical and afraid the young Sinbad will be kinda like "Alibaba 2.0" since there are so many parallels between them, but I'm looking forward to it.
AAAH I'VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH MAGI FOR ALMOST HALF A YEAR NOW AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH IT. DX I was hoping it would be like my random Tiger & Bunny obsession which pretty much faded away when the anime ended and I didn't end up drawing any T&B fanart, but I think my Magi obsession is just getting worse. I've been sketching the characters quite a lot. I don't know what the heck is in that series that turns me into a pile of fangirling mush, because it isn't even good. It's mediocre at best. I blame the fandom. Yes, it's because of the fandom, I guess.
Magi fandom > actual series.
I actually got into Magi last November when there were only 3-4 episodes of the anime. I started watching it and I was hooked right after the first episode. This rarely happens to me, almost never. I just found the characters adorable, it was funny, it was silly, it had adventure and action and the magical world of Arabian Nights was very enticing too. In fact, I found the beginning of the series very good and compared to the good start, it can get a little boring later on.
Here's a video with scenes of the first episode + opening:
Magi will disappoint you if you expect random adventures and adorable silliness. While it continues to provide a few humourous and random bits here and there, Magi turns into something more serious pretty soon with long story arcs, political debates, economic, moral and ethnic issues and wars. However, despite trying to bring up more serious themes, Magi is still a mainstream battle shounen at its core, which means we get plenty of battles, power-ups, friendship speeches and the main characters wanting to get stronger. And despite the good build-up, conflicts tend to get solved ridiculously easily. Good guys are good, bad guys are bad. Though there are a few characters with some pleasant moral ambiguity to them. (No, not Sinbad, though he does look deliciously evil at times.)
All in all, Magi isn't something I'd definitely recommend because it's just another battle shounen with plenty of flaws. :B
Some awesome sketch logs by awesome people:
http://drawr.net/syobobobon - Mostly Kuroko no Basuke, but plenty of Magi stuff too along with fanarts of other series.
http://drawr.net/moratorian81 - This artist draws mostly Fate/Zero and Magi. I actually love Fate/Zero too, though F/Z yaoi is not really to my liking. :I
http://microcrack.blog99.fc2.com/ - AAAAA THIS ARTIIIST. I've seen so many of her (I assume it's a she?) drawings on tumblr, but she was never credited, but then I finally managed to find a post where they linked to her blog. I'm so happy now. I looove that little sketch series where everybody is kissing Sinbad. XDD
http://dan.er.ro/ - I don't even know what language this blog is (Korean??), but adorable little Magi doodles everywhere~ Yes, it's Korean. I copypasted the 2nd row into Google translate and got this: "Sinbad the center of all the logs. Sometimes comes up in other genres." XD
MAKE ME STOP FINDING THESE, lol... Btw, I did a search on some Japanese site some time ago and got these results for fan sites about Magi characters: Aladdin - 78 Alibaba - 168 Morgiana - 51 Sinbad - 289 Ja'far - 225 Judal - 143 Masrur - 44 Ren Hakuryuu - 44 Ren Kougyoku - 20 Kassim - 24 XDDD I guess this sort of proves the theory that Magi fandom = SinJa fandom.
Ok, I'll stop now. Here, have a Code Geass song because I finally got the OST today. Despite being a Code Geass fan for about 4 years now, I never listened to the OST until today. It's not the best ever, but pretty good with classic tunes and some calming songs featuring vocals.
Yeah. I'm so creative with blog entry titles. Also, stupid weather. Now it's all sunny and spring-like again and all the snow that kept falling non-stop yesterday melted last night when the snow turned into rain.
First of all, Kasia, if you are reading this (I know you're stalking my blog lol), I wanna let you know that our Lotti/Gil drawing inspired some cool smutty roleplays on Tumblr. 8)))
Drawings.
Unfinished version of this. I think it looks SO MUCH BETTER with the textures.
Looong overdue request of someone's characters. This is the 4th version and I'm finally uploading a wip, cuz I think I'll go with this version. I hate how the guy looks here, though. OTL
Very fast sketch of my cute little girl character, Amarevia. This name almost became my own second name through the years I spent using it doing stuff online, but it originally belonged to this character. I have to admit, now I think she's a little bit like Alice from PH, lol.
Sketch versus lineart. The pic really does change a lot in the process, doesn't it? 8D
Aaand here's something I started sketching today. Can you guess who this is? 8)
My rants about Pandora Hearts Retrace 70.
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Long time no post again, ugh... I've been drawing. Slowly and not that much. Let's see some sketches...
XD This is a "parody" of my own drawing of Glen, lolz. The original is in my deviantART gallery. I started this as a quick random scribble and when I posted it on DA, I somehow got lucky and it ended up in the most popular pics in the 8 hours interval, it had over 400 faves in a week. O___O
Jack and Glen. I drew this because of Kasia's comment on my previous Glen drawing. She said she wanted to do this to Glen. XD It's super quick (I drew it in about 1-2 minutes, I guess) and crappy, but I wanted to upload it here anyway, hehe.
Grumpy Alice is grumpy (or tsundere?). This is part of a bigger pic I plan on finishing soon. I still don't really like how her face turned out here. D:
Jack based on a panel from chapter 67. I just loved his expressions in this chapter so much I had to draw him. Maybe I'm finally starting to learn how to draw him. I really want to do a picture of him later, he's so cute. 8D
I revamped an old OC. It's a bit disappointing how little my style changed in 6 years, isn't it? D: I mean I've always been relatively good at drawing. Other people improve more in just half a year or so... OTL
This is a quick sketch of MauAcheron-the-crazy's character, Olivia. I don't like how her face came out and she looks too girly in my style. DX I drew her because she's one of the 3 characters I have to draw for a kiriban prize art. I've done 2 sketches for that pic already, but I just couldn't get them right for some reason. I feel guilty for not completing this request yet, because I've been sitting on that pic for about 2 months now... OTL
OH MY GOD!! Can you believe I drew VincentxAda smut?! Early in the morning I get fanart ideas like this. What the hell is wrong with me? -___- Vincent probably told her he'd show her some awesome magic spell which involves getting her undressed. 8DDD *shot* Uncle Oscaaaarrrr, your precious niece is about to get tainted!! D: I like this pairing even if Vincent is a "brother-obsessed creeper who buries his desires into vulnerable women". 8) And I actually like how this sketch came out, but I don't intend finishing it.
Woo~ That was a lot of... stuff. Pandora Hearts ate my brain a while ago, so most of it was PH again. I've been listening to a lot of Akiko Shikata songs while drawing lately. I'm also into Yuki Kajiura music again. Many of her songs remind me of winter, maybe because I watched PH in December 2 years ago, lol.
Anyway, here's a song by her I discovered just recently:
American edition of Fiction, WHY U NO HAVE THIS AWESOME TRACK?! FFFFUUUU
I've never had too many original drawings and lately, I draw my original characters less and less. I realized they aren't interesting. I'm not a very creative person, I can't create good characters and stories. And I also lost contact with a very dear friend of mine, who used to inspire me and give me ideas. Our friendship was the strongest in 2009, we had fun talking about anything and I was looking forward for these good times to return, but I guess they never will return now. Anyway, it's still fun to draw some of these old characters we used to "shape" together and I always draw some random characters as well.
So, this is a random guy I drew just because. I like how my style is changing~
I tried to draw two of my old OCs in some fancy Victorian / Pandora Hearts-y outfit, haha! Alec doesn't like too fancy outfits if he's the one who has to wear them. :P The whole thing is extra sketchy, but you can tell I got super lazy by the time I drew the girl's dress... OTL
Bitty Gil and Vincent from PH. I actually sketched this in August, but never posted it here. I made a few changes on it recently. I guess these are not the pre-Sablier Gil and Vince, they turned out looking more like their 13 and 14 years old selves.
Yanderepozu of ecstasy!! XDD This is a very popular meme thing on Pixiv lately. I don't know where it came from originally, but after seeing Gil and Echo/Noise , I had to do a quick scribble of Vincent, this expression is just so damn fitting for him. 8D
And this is a huge-ass sketch I did in September. It's Vincent (WHO ELSE?! XD) with Echo and Noise, a bit of a spoiler. Believe it or not, this was inspired by Kasia's drawing. <- When I saw this, I got the urge to draw Vincent spilling some drink, lol.
In this past one year, Vincent seems to have taken most of my attention I spend on fanart. I can imagine Vincent, Gil and Break fighting for the first place in my mind with Vincent winning and clinging to Gil while he's also trying to kick Break out of the picture at the same time. XD I must admit that Vincent is really fun for me to draw and I have the most and probably best fanart ideas with him.Gaaah!!
Today, I decided to marathon Gintama and watched like 10 episodes straight since I'm pretty behind with the 2nd season (and I still have like 6-7 episodes to catch up). Has this series always had such crude humour? I mean what's up with all the dick and shit jokes? Anyway, sometimes I find it very tiring, but hysterically funny at other times. In my opinion, the cursed Blu-ray episode has got to be one of the dullest episodes in the 2nd season so far and I also don't like the episodes where they are fighting over food, but I really liked the story about the warden. These prison episodes tend to be pretty good in Gintama, I guess.
I also started watching Black Jack. I haven't watched much of it yet, but this cartoony "old manga" style is kinda fun, lol.
There are a couple of birds in our park that sing at dawn and dusk every day. I have no idea what kind of birds they are and I don't even remember hearing them before, but they are really sweet. ^___^ And they sing almost every day, even though the real autumn has begun a few days ago.
Also, ham flavored crackers are the tastiest things I've eaten in a while. Even better than the cheese flavored one. 8D
Anyone remembers that random guy I doodled back in March? Well, I found it again and decided to work on it a bit, but got bored of it again...
And then I started another one today. I just did the skin, it was without eyes and hair when my mother saw it and she said it looked like Gil from PH or his brother. o___o So, I made it look like Vincent, heheh~ I don't think it looks that much like him, though:
Ah, well, I knew that as soon as I start doing requests on DA, I'd suddenly want to work on 5000 other things. I guess I'll be hyperactive artistically this week. Should I refine/finish that Vincent one? 8D
I was too lazy to post more stuff in August. D: But I did do a bunch of doodles. Here are some quick sketches:
This is the very first WIP I did for a commissioned piece. I did 2 rough sketch layers for the characters, this is already the 3rd lineart layer. Actually, I think this is the first time I succeeded at drawing 3 sitting characters next to each other without using references. XD;
Little Vincent from Pandora Hearts. I dunno where this style came from, hahaha. Just wanted to upload this, cuz I think it's funny for some reason.
Quick sketch of Jizabel/Jezebel Disraeli from Hakushaku Cain + Godchild. I'd like to do some good fanart of him one day, he's my fave character from that series.
Just having fun with random expressions and faces and stuff. Random characters.
This one sucks, haha. It's supposed to be Break from Pandora Hearts. I once saw a fanart of an anime character tied to a bed like this and I've been wanting to draw something similar since then. XD I didn't draw his seal, cuz I was too lazy to look up references and it's just a doodle anyway. I wanted to put Sharon's shadow or something there, but it sucked. XD;
Xerxes Break again. Very fast sketch, that turned out relatively well.
Gil: *so drunk he can barely walk* Vincent: Come on nii-san, I'll take you to your bedroom. <3 Lol. I found the translation of "Vincent's Gilbert observation diary" (an extra thingy from the manga guidebook) a while ago and the first entry started like this: "Gilbert drank a lot again tonight..." I had to draw something, ahaha. XDD Their arms are probably weird, but I kinda like this sketch anyway.
Ok, that was quite a lot. Maybe I should update this blog more often~
After the super hot weather, rain finally came on Monday evening. There was a HUGE storm at midnight and since Tuesday, it's been much colder. It rained all day today and yesterday too. And today was the first day in this year when the birds didn't come to my window at all aside from a few sparrows. They seem to have moved from our park since it became awfully quiet too. I actually got a little sad because I got so used to them. XD But they will probably come back in September.
Drawingz.
ZOMG a pencil sketch!! I drew this in last October, though. Just wanted to scan it to test some settings in Photoshop. Random OC guy.
I posted this to my DA journal, just thought I'd post it here too. Break. I wanted to draw him in his sexy rainbow-coloured swimsuit he's wearing in one of the specials. XD
This is one of a bunch of retarded doodles I did on Monday. Chibi Vincent with a severed head. Lovely.
I posted the sketch of this a while ago. Well, I got bored of it at this stage. I thought the sketch was pretty good, but I don't like this drawing any longer.
Part of my huge PH group pic. I worked a lot on this today. I still have to fix some things on the lineart, but as you can see I've already started colouring it. Also, I really love to draw roses. :O
Ok, that's all for now. I'd like to draw something quick now~~ 8D
