A picture!

Why not. It's been a long time since I've drawn something that I liked enough to use as a desktop image. ;p (Although there were some LoL comics and such that I drew in 2012-2013 which I liked, but never posted here, and weren't desktop dimensions..)

In League of Legends, one of my favourite characters, Janna, has a skin named Tempest Janna. In Heroes of the Storm, which came out much more recently, Jaina Proudmoore has a skin based on the Tempest Regalia set in World of Warcraft, named Tempest Regalia Jaina, which I'd frequently call Tempest Jaina. Jaina was my best character in HotS too, so it's a wonderful coincidence.

League of Legends

I haven't posted here in so long! Even though I've actually been drawing again in 2012 and 2013... mostly after I started playing League of Legends at the beginning of 2012. I'm not sure why but frequently when I see an art contest in the forums or Riot (the game's developers) holds a comic contest, I've been tempted to enter...

I kinda find it odd that I got so into the game. I've been playing WoW since it was released in 2004 and I think I've drawn fewer pieces of finished fanart of that than in one year of playing LoL.

Oh well. Hrm. Come to think of it, as the majority of my pictures try to be humourous, they probably won't make sense to people who don't play the game... so does anyone still read this blog and play LoL? =p

Non-default Mikus

Its been a while! I'm still drawing sometimes, but recently I haven't liked anything enough to finish or post it. This is another one of those, but I felt like posting something for once. I did them standalone to see if I could do left- and right-facing poses without mirroring... I did ok from that perspective but you can see that the face style kept changing, and it put me off colouring it. Its fun to just doodle Miku though.

Evil Mirakurun

Been busy coding a flash game, so I haven't had time to draw much.  But if I don't draw I won't improve, so here's a quick random sketch of evil Mirakurun (Chinatsu-chan) from Yura Yuri I did for practice.  I still can't draw straight lines on the tablet very well.. I might clean it up and color it later, but I should really finish my MHP3 lancer first >.>

MHP3 Lancer

Continuing with my MHP3 binge.  I'll probably do at least one sketch for each weapon type.  Here's the one minute rough sketch with a mouse in paint.  She looks kinda SD, maybe I'll do her in SD style for fun.  Although I should probably try to keep my style consistent if I want to improve.. Better version after dinner!

Trying to swap to Gimp since apparently Paint Tool Sai isn't free and shuts down in 31 days (29 now!).  Having to learn the new interface sucked but I think I understand it now.  Took a while thou =p.  Also lance armor is pretty complicated so it took me a bit to get it sketched out in a way that I liked.  The Alateron lance itself was also annoying, trying to get those spikes to look right.  But anyway heres the completed rough sketch.  

Well it took a while but I finished coloring the armor.  Now its just the lance itself.  I also changed a bunch of the proportions around and cleaned it up some more.  Almost done now!

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...

MHP3 Jhen Bow Set

"Rough" version of my Jhen Bow Set lol.  MS Paint with a crappy mouse and 2 minutes during lunch break.  I'll clean it up and do a real version after dinner.

Cleaned version with armor details.  Wow Jhen armor is more complicated than I remember..

 

Decided to go with the gold ian bow cause I think it looks the best/most bow-like, and ditched the cat.

Here's the finished drawing!  Might add the cat back in later.  I know you are all in awe of how awesome that cat is. 

Huzzah for the Air Brush Tool!  Definitely gonna be using that more often. XD  Reposted as a png instead of a jpeg so less blurry this time. Background info: Helm is Load Up Piercing, chest, gloves, legs, and waste are all high rank Jhen.  I drew it with the Gold Rathian Bow.  Gives Focus, Load Up, Pierce Shot Up, and Reckless Abandon +3 (with a + RA charm).

MHP3 Magical HH v2

Cleaned it up a bit and redid the proportions.  Looks much better than the old version imo =p.  It's alot easier to draw when you're not half asleep and can erase stuff.   I'll do the wings in more detail and maybe add color tomorrow.

And heres the completed drawing! 

Done in Paint Tool Sai as per Hawk's suggestion.  I colored the "rainbow" parts on separate layers and applied varying hue changes to get the frames for the animation (compiled in Gale).   Now in delicious magical rainbowy goodness!  This is basically what my MHP3 char looks like in this setup. :D  

Background info: High Rank Bug Helm, Butterfly Chest, Naru U Gloves, Guild Waist, and Guild Boots  (All full rainbow effect) with the Magical Wand HH (I forget what its really called, but its Dragon element and basically only has Healing Songs =p).  Gemmed for Flute, Force Out (shiny blue fist for extra magicaliness), and Perception.  So its a cool looking joke set. XD

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!

Random MHP3 sketch and fail @ using Corel Painter

I don't understand Corel Painter at all.  Why does the eraser function not work...  shouldn't it just be select it then left click to erase?  Obviously I'm doing something wrong, or the user interface is all sorts of stupid, or I need sleep.  Or all three.  I also made the mistake of drawing using the Pencil function so the lines turned out too fat and without a working eraser I pretty much gave up in frustration halfway.  I think its time to swap to Gimp or Photoshop or back to Paint/Gale =p.  Or get some sleep.

My attempt at sketching my Magical Girl Hunting Horn set from MHP3.  All the armor pieces get full rainbow effect for maximum magical sparkliness!  And the HH itself does dragon damage and pretty much only has healing songs. =p  Gave up half way due to technical difficulties so I gave up on details and just did a really rough outline.  I'll export it to some other drawing program and finish/clean it up tomorrow I guess.  At least the tablet seems to work well.

Random Sprite #2!

Another sprite, drawn in MS Paint.  I saved it as a bmp by accident and it did some weird coloring effect on the random details I had on the dress.  Oh well.  Female melee character this time.  I'll probably make a bigger/more detailed version later once I decide on the clothing. Chinese dress is nice but it could be annoying to animate later.  Also I think her butt looks too big and her hair is too spiky.. I should also probably learn how to use this Corel Painter thing instead of just working from MS Paint.  =p  Layers and the ability to undo more than 10 steps sounds nice...

Random Sprite #1

Time to get some use out of this new Bamboo tablet now that Hawk configured it properly for me =p.

Haven't done anything art-y in years but I guess its as good as time as any to start practicing again. 

I've been playing around on Gale making sprites recently so I guess I'll post some of those first. 

Still working on the animation (hair/face) and details.  Also I can't tell if this will let me upload animated gifs... Ok apparently you can but you have to click on them.  ..Or not! (reposted with "original size" option)

Anyway this was a character in a game I was making before I got distracted.  I kept the clothes simple cause I wanted to work more on animation and less on details, and because I suck at clothes designs =p.  Made this before I got the tablet so hopefully things will be quicker now.  I wanted to do a male character because a) I generally don't draw people and b) when I do I rarely draw male characters.  So good practice all around.

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!

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.