Gundam MkII

So, I started watching Zeta Gundam ages ago. "Awesome!", I thought, "this will inspire me to do some mecha fanart practice type stuff. I'll just draw the ones I like as they turn up in the series."

So, now that I've finished watching the entire series, here's one from the first episode!

The MkII is probably my favourite Gundam design. Even though it's the oldest after the original one, the detail still stands up now, and doesn't bother with weird gimmicks (ignoring the daft G-Defenser). Plus, I'm a sucker for underdog mecha, and the MkII is outclassed by everything other than grunt mecha from the moment it starts being used, yet still survives the series (and ZZ too!). And so on.

I think I've gotten the hang of layout out mecha parts now - previously I was having trouble turning bones into individual parts, but rendering each jointed part as boxes and then sketching in the details seems to work better (although it's somewhat time consuming).

So far this took:
2 hours for the layout (could have been faster, I got caught up in the details as usual, plus i couldn't settle on a pose)
3-4 hours for the rough sketch (which looks much like the lineart here, but with piles of corrections and random line widths)
4-5 hours for the lineart (2x resolution of the rough, otherwise it would have been faster).

I'm not actually sure about the times, since I kept doing it while tired and was getting distracted, but it was way too long... still, at least it looks like a good chunk of time went into it.

STILL NOT DEAD

Angry Reimu and her "gohei", following a vigorous session of removing negative energies.

It's a different style for me. I thought of the gohei-bat a while ago, and last week the image of her expression came to me, so I wound up with this. Its pretty close to what I had in mind from the start - its not often that I manage to express things as I imagined them, so whether that's a sign that I'm improving or its just a fluke, I'm fairly happy with it.

I also used a bunch of colouring techniques I read somewhere - I don't think they came out awesomely here, but they're much faster than what I was using for the same thing before, so it's all good.

TsuChan parody

From this comic on Tsunami Channel. As the comment says, the first panel originally said "Takumi love me...", which made me think she was doing some spontaneous acting / mind control... which has happened before.

tl;dr I have too much free time.

I like how a lot of the lines came out. The hand is passable, but I still need to study them properly sometime. Not sure about the style of the eyes, they look ok but its kind of a generic style. I think they would look better coloured, but I realised at the end that I don't know what colour the characters are supposed to be...

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...