Leia armour?

No relation to the Star Wars princess.

In the Japanese games, Rathian is called Rioreia, which is further shortened to just Reia.

Another old drawing that I was finishing up...

Lets doooo this!

Whoops... looks like I've been away for a bit too long. But I can't let the new guy revive the blog all by himself, so here's something I've been working on.

.... Actually this is a pretty old drawing. I cropped it because the bottom part is so sad I stopped working on it for a year and a half.

Well, the time for excuses has come to an end... now its time to get drawing!

Happy New 2011!

It's a bit late, but here's my new years greeting art!

The latest Monster Hunter game made it a bit too easy by including a rabbit-like monster in the game.

Happy New Year!

Chivalry isn't completely dead

Sometimes, it is the responsibility of artists to convey the truth that cannot be spoken.

But in this case I just like making fun of people.

Click to see the stunning conclusion.

Legends Heroine Roulette!

Well the contest to select a new heroine for MML3 is over, and it ended pretty much how I expected--although I felt the selection was influenced by the polished-ness of the art, with the winning design also being the shiniest piece in the lineup.
So I decided to draw all of the different designs with the same style... this is the result.

And after producing 9 sets of drawings with the same dimentions/face lineart, there was only one logical next step: ANIMATED GIF!

Megaman Goes West

Continuing with the western theme, here's one of Megaman and all of the main heroines of the game.

I started off doing heavy outlines for the rough sketch, but then I liked how it looked and ended up keeping the style. Also, I tried to draw some kind of techno-stage coach; some people thought it was actually a tank!

Not sure how I'm going to approach coloring this... full on rendering might be a waste of the shadowy lineart.

Megaboy? Cowman?

Another Megaman Legends piece... this time of Megaman himself.

The reason for the western themed bits is because one of the leading heroine choices is heavily cowboy/native american styled... If she wins, I can picture the plot/design of MML3 possibly taking a western influenced direction.

Which I wouldn't mind one bit.

Megaman Legends 3!!!

After a long 10 years, they've finally announced Megaman Legends 3. I totally loved the first two games, so I'm really looking forward to this one!

This time, they've decided to actively include the fans in the design process... so far in the form of polls, the first of which is to decide on the design for a new heroine who appears in the new game.
When the poll went up, they didn't have any information about the role of the character, so I voted on one purely based on the design. But later they revealed that rather than a player character she would be an "operator", a support character for a "digger" (which is what the player usually plays as).

Anyways, the character I chose isn't faring too well in the polls, so I decided to do a piece of fan art for her as a sort of consolation prize.

Heart Warming vs Global Warming

For some reason, as soon as the idea popped into my head, I was immediately compelled to draw it to completetion. Unfortunately the idea came to me at 1:40am.

Well I completed it. And then I fell asleep. Now that I'm awake, it's going up :)

Enjoy! ...And don't be afraid to turn off your car if you're going be idling for more than a minute or so!

Click the thumbnail to see the whole story.

Happy New Year 2010!

Hello again after a year :)

It's the year of the tiger or something like that, right? Apparently it's also the year of biodiversity...

Geometric Shmup characters

Three characters for a scrolling shooter style game.

Their designs are simply based on circle, triangle, and square. Even their personalities are based on those shapes. Blue is pretty bubbley and happy, and not particularly sharp. Red is very forceful and pierces everything with both her words and her attacks. And Pink is pretty nice, but is straight edge and a perfectionist.

The three characters are to be controlled simultaneously by the player. Depending on which one is "active", the other two will fly in different formations behind her. Not much else is decided yet.

Winter Cold... touche

Ugh.

Winter Cold

It's suddenly become much more winter-like around here, and some people are getting sick.

Get well soon, you guys!

Not Touhou

It's not Touhou related! So what is it?

How should I know? I only drew it...

Yuyuko!!!!!!

Since yesterday's one was a bit too cute, I needed to do one like this to balance it out. The pose is somewhat influenced by the Card Crusher.

Yuyuko!!!!!

Yes that's 5 exclamation marks!

The thumbnail is a close-up of the Youmu that turned out exceptionally cute, but there is actually a Yuyuko in the full-size image!

And also Ran and Chen. They've been featured in an earlier post.

Yuyuko!!!!

Yuyuko is a ghost, but she hasn't passed on to the afterlife. Probably has something to do with the fact that her body was used to seal away a monster life-force sucking tree.

The blue haired character is supposedly the creator and lord of Makai (aka Hell).

Yuyuko doesn't want to go.

The Sword That Cuts Anything

Another Touhou/MH crossover.

In Monster Hunter, parts of monster can be broken or cut off. But annoyingly, only a few predetermined parts can be damaged, in the interest of maintaining gameplay.

In Touhou, Youmu's blade can apparently cut anything.

No doubt there will be trouble if the two are brought together.

Phantom Backround

Updated with a lazy background! Actually I guess it doesn't look THAAAAT bad...

Supply and Demand

Some items that are rare in Monster Hunter, don't seem to be as rare in Touhou.

In Monster Hunter there's a somewhat rare high-level item called "Phantom Butterfly" that you need at the end of the game for crafting equipment. I'm pretty high-level I've actually never even seen one yet.

But in Touhou, a character will shoot out hundreds of them during one of her attacks!