PH Valentine's day pic + Manga rant

So, this is something that was drawn by my dear friend, KGX347 at deviantART. Her original.
I just asked her if I could colour it and she said yes. Then I decided to redo the ENTIRE lineart digitally to practice digital inking (cuz I suck at it). It took me a few days, but I'm finally done with the inking. Hopefully, I'll start colouring it tomorrow. 8D

I heard today that xxxHolic was finished, so I went to read the last 3 chapters. The ending was kind of unsatisfying, though I kinda stopped liking this series when TRC ended. I think they should have ended it just with Watanuki inheriting the store and waiting for Yuuko. This last part was totally boring in my opinion. It made me like the whole series less. :\
I also finished Vampire Game a few days ago. It was a pretty good series. Nothing too epic, but it was pretty cute.
I didn't like:
- Illsaide. Seriously, that kid totally annoyed me. He was more powerful than almost everyone else, yet he was a stupid brainless douchebag, who never knew what he really wanted and kept hesitating and tinkering away throughout the whole story. Still, a lot of people loved him for some reason. I rarely dislike characters, but I really didn't like him. >:[
- My favourite character died. (Although this can be a positive thing as well, I love drama.)
- However, Illsaide didn't die. XD;;;;;
- The art. It was okay and shoujo-y, but I didn't like the proportions and the way the characters' mouths were drawn on their faces. When their mouths were open, I kept thinking that it looked off, I don't know why.
- Duzell was a vampire, right? Then why didn't he need to suck blood? (Or maybe he did, but the author thought that mentioning it wasn't important.)
- Everyone fell in love with everyone. That's why I don't like shoujo...
- Even the fairly intelligent characters did some really stupid things sometimes. Also, Duzell was ridiculously weak and stupid for a vampire king. Although they do mention this a couple of times. XD
- I kept thinking that the author was trying really hard to force some shounen-ai into the story, but it came out awkward at times.
I liked:
- The story was enjoyable and had some relatively good twists.
- I liked the humorous stuff most of the time.
- The characters were quite likeable, I guess. Although I wasn't crazy about anyone.
- The ending was pretty good, although I did feel like the author was rushing a bit and didn't explain some things in the last two volumes. Plus you could see it coming after reading the very first volume (or maybe first two volumes).

Oh, and today, I searched for some more Sound Horizon things and found this Dream Port single (?), that is a collaboration work between Revo and one of my fave Japanese "anime composers", Yuki Kajiura. 8D I'm currently obsessed with the 2nd song from it, it has practically the same melody as the first song, but this one is typically Yuki Kajiura-ish, it could be a song from the Pandora Hearts or Tsubasa Chronicles OSTs.

More poses + Older stuff

I doodled this today. Just some more dynamic pose practice. The one on the left sucks... D:

SOME OLDER UNFINISHED PICS

My character, Zach. I drew this in last October. I didn't like how his face turned out, so I didn't finish this.

Abarai Renji from Bleach. Some studies for a commission I did last year. This is also from the end of last October.

The Pandora Hearts sketch from the beginning of last October that doesn't want to be finished... ^^; (I'm still working on this, though.) I think Oz's hair seems "too big" and his and Gil's pose is somewhat off. Oz's arms are still a bit short. Also, Gil should be a bit taller than that, but he already looks tall enough compared to Oz and Alice, LOL! XD

A random character sketch from last September. I think I wanted him to be a loser knight or something, but I'm not sure he looks loser-y enough. His name is Edward. XD Or maybe I'll be more original and name him Archibald, lol.

Munsu from the manhwa series Shin Angyo Onshi (one of my faves <3). This one is almost one year old, I drew it in the beginning of last March. I didn't like how it was turning out, so I didn't finish it. (I did finish the Aji Tae I also did at that time, though.) Now I think it isn't that bad after all, I should fix and finish this...

Yay! I have a lot of stuff I should be working on! I downloaded some Sound Horizon albums a while ago and I've been listening to them a lot. It helps me concentrate on drawing. My favourite is the Elysion album right now. It has catchy tunes. Yield was the first song from this album I really liked. Lalalalala la la~ la lalalalala lalala~~

Fighting poses practice

Super quick doodles. I keep hearing that I should use photos as references, but it's really hard to find good photos of people in dynamic poses like these. However, I read mangas. 8D And series like the korean manga (manhwa) Threads of Time are full of awesome dynamic fight scenes. I think the proportions are really good in this series and the style is nice. So yeah, these were all referenced on panels from this manhwa. I drew them all in a few seconds/minutes. (Btw, I really like those thick eyebrows manhwakas tend to draw in some Korean series. XDD)
Not many people would think, but I'm actually quite a fan of seinen mangas. Threads of Time is the first historical seinen I've read by a female mangaka. For some reason, I had a feeling the author was female. Maybe because of the main guy's cuteness or because of the bare-chested bad guy. XD Unfortunately, the story is not that breathtakingly interesting or epic, but still pretty good. The big plot twist was pretty cool, although it didn't make much sense if you ask me. ^^;;; Anyway, I recommend this series if you aren't afraid of some cruel things like beheading innocent women and children or gang-raping a comatose woman.

OH VINCENT + Couples

I doodled a lot today and yesterday. It's not that I don't have ideas. The problem with me is that I have about thirty billion ideas and as soon as I start drawing something, I get a new idea and get bored of the pic I'm working on. -___-

I have a blonde fetish lately, so my current top favourite of my 3 favourite Pandora Hearts characters is Vincent.

Yeah, another VincentXLotti sketch. For some reason, I like these two as a couple. Even though I've seen only one fanart of them so far. Definitely not a very popular pairing. Vincent's pose was inspired by a VincentXGil pic I saw somewhere on the internet.

 Bwahaha! Vincent and Gil. Vincent is obsessed with Gil. I'm obsessed with both of them. NOT GOOD. I didn't use refs for this, so some details are off.

 Sleeping Vincent. I randomly rewatched some parts of the anime and I thought he was so cute when he fell asleep on the floor of some hallway and Oscar almost stepped on him. XDD

RANDOM COUPLES

This was drawn yesterday. I wanted to draw something lovey-dovey. I used a photo reference for this, but it still seems to be too complicated for me. OTL

I actually kinda like this. O___o But I don't like the girl's face... T___T

Oh well, that was my longest entry so far. I ended up drawing nothing for Valentine's day wheee~~ XD;;;;;

Quick sketch - Winter

The result of today's desperate doodling. Actually, I like how his face came out. O___o (I rarely say something like this.) Not my character, though. I'm posting this, so maybe I'll be motivated enough to finish it. I'm gonna start linearting it now!

Random sketches

 Some stuff I doodled mostly in the past 4 days. The girl and the face on the bottom left were drawn in January and December. Just very quick sketches. My sketches are so boring. Seriously, some people have AMAZING unique, amusing, beautiful sketches. Mine fail. OTL
I've been trying to draw a picture for a contest but all of my ideas suck. TT___TT

The grumpy princess

I drew this yesterday. I should be working on a contest entry, but I haven't got any good ideas aaaaah...
Anyway, this is one of my oldest human characters, Amarevia. (I've been using her name as an alias since 2006, because it's my original creation and nobody else uses it. 8D)
She's from a rich family, but has a strange personality (I guess you can call her a 'tsundere') and she's more interested in horses than pretty dresses. However, I've always wanted to draw her in a pretty dress. XD Last week, I did a lot of Pandora Hearts sketches, so I tried drawing her in a dress similar to the ones the PH girls wear at parties.

I don't think I'll finish this one. Her left arm is awkward... :B

PH sketch week

I haven't been posting sketches here, because last week, my Pandora Hearts obsession got renewed again and I did a little daily sketch series that I posted on my deviantART account. I really enjoyed doing it and I realized I didn't draw Gil, so I made a bonus sketch yesterday. I'm not sure whether to post it or not, though. I think his arms look strange. I recorded the drawing process, though. I might make a new drawing video...

By the way, I've been into Era music lately. I discovered this group when I was searching for some Vangelis songs. I have heard the song "Ameno" before, but I didn't like it back then. Now I do. 8D I also love Enigma and Era's songs are somewhat similar.

I'm reading the manga series "Vampire Game". I still don't like the art and the story seems somewhat silly so far. Nothing can come close to Pandora Hearts right now, hehe...