Cubey

No real point to this, his name just annoys me.

I watched a little of Madoka, but despite the amount of raving about it, I don't really feel like continuing with it. Seems fairly likely that
-all the wishes will make things worse
-all the other girls will die or meet some kind of non-dying bad end
-QB will be the bad guy
-Madoka will either sacrifice herself to end things or find a way to fix everything and not die... from the message of the show, probably the latter.

I mostly wrote all that out so I can see if I'm right later, heh.

It probably won't follow that formula exactly but it mostly seems to be heading this way, and I'm not terribly interested in whether or not those things happen, which doesn't seem to leave a lot. Am I misreading it?

Waga na wa Sänger Zonvolt

Sanger's Grungust Sanshiki. Started this way back before it actually got busted... The Type 3 is way better than the Type 1 and 2, so I was hoping I would be given one of the two available, but nooo, they both get murdered by the plot.

I was kind of happy with how it came out, until I realised that I couldn't find good reference for the details like the shoulders and head spikes, spent ages trying to make stuff up and fixing minor issues until I got bored, spent ages more doing some pretty lazy shading, and then spent an hour or so doing some decent lighting on top. Looks a bit funky in the end...

Anri

Anri from Durarara. I really liked this scene, and decided to try drawing it with some more realistic-looking cuts to her clothes. Not sure about the blood though... I thought it would look cool but its a little nasty looking.

I started this last year, but wasn't happy with some parts of it and finally came back to it yesterday. The hair shine looks nice for the time it took, I might use that again. Also I was using a different technique for shading, where I do the gradient in B&W and the colour as a flat tone, and combine the two. Its nice for colour adjustment and low-effort revisions.

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!

10-year progression summary

I noticed these were appearing on pixiv, and since I'd always wanted to do some kind of progression thing I put one together.

I didn't really put much effort in until 2007 - until then I spent a lot of time on cleaning things up but not a lot on learning techniques.

Comparing 2002 and 2010 is hilarious. The quality went up in places but the style/skill is much the same. And I still can't do hair or faces.

There's also a 12-month version but I don't have enough images for that... :( Actually looking at my neatly-organised files, I only drew about 3-4 pictures per year until 2008, and now its still only about 10. How rubbish. Gotta knuckle down and put some more out.

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!