Based on The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly's movie poster, here is some Avatar fanart for lackshmana's birthday! ...Oh my god his birthday was in February. We moved right when I wanted to draw him this and after moving it took half a year for me to catch up (SO MANY EXCUSES WERE MADE) but it's dooone at last. 8D Anyway, he's the one who introduced me to Clint Eastwood Films, TGTB&TU included, and he digs Avatar so there it is!

The inspiration for this pic is based on the episode "Zuko Alone" where Zuko's got the whole "Man With No Name" thing going on. BTW, I found out that the Chinese characters I used are totally wrong XD. Thanks a lot Chinese dictionary, remind me to never get any kanji tattoos.



Just an original character of sorts! It's not pictured here, but she makes her travels with a seeing-eye dachshund.



Fanart of space_coyote's comic, Yokaiden! I drew fanart earlier this year but mixed up the name of the creature, a Kappa, with something else called a Tengu. Since the meaning behind it was then sort of lost this was a bit of a make-up. XD Hamachi is an adorable character!



And because giving everyone art is fun, here's a sketch fanart for mercury_hat, of her minicomic. :D

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I've been bad at working during this month and will definitely have to work during Thanksgiving Break, but this is the first time I've fanarted people in a long while, it's totally worth it. x_x

This little girl is yet another random character I would doodle in my high school notebooks. IIRC she was a homeless girl who pretended to be a fairy with using patched together junk, and I had been watching too much Cardcaptors (ROLLERBLADES). I've little interest in drawing her or anything like her today, but it seemed like a design worth making sense of!



Tools used:
[Old version = ball point pen + back of a bowling advertisement]
[New version = micron pen + card stock]

BONUS Copic-Colored version (a bit messy...)



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Eggghhh been feeling sick lately; awesomely enough it's usually when I sit down at the computer, but if I'm kicked back on the couch drawing throwaway stuff in my sketchbook, I'm fine. Too bad doodles don't pay the rent!

Oh my god so like

I found a random pile of old art from 2002-2003, my senior year of HS. SO HERE IS THE FIRST IN A SMALL SERIES OF REDRAWS.



In the old version I majorly skimped on her hands and feet, because I was so wrapped up in giving her pretty eyes and hair (THANKS, WATASE *_*). It wasn't long after then that I learned anatomy matters.

Tools used:
[Old version = ball point pen + back of a school flyer]
[New version = blue micron pen + blue Copics + back of abandoned old Death Note fanart]

Anyway, I'm going to try posting art weekly from now on~ :D After staying in the grind of job-art for so long, I've forgotten to make drawing personal and fun. Also, I'm a little afraid of LJ dying off since people don't update like they used to (myself included). LJ has been in my life since 2001, I can't let it go just yet!


THIS IS POST #1001, YAY

DEAR ARTISTS: There are some swell people that I've been drawing for over the past two years who need just a little bit of final art...that I sadly can't deliver because I'm overscheduled. What they need are:

-20 small graphical icons
-6 sketches to go along with a story-type thing, featuring random scenes and figures and such.

These will have a ninja-ish theme to em. If you're interested, his name is Mark and you can reach him at [naruto-arena at hotmail dot com].

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A lot of the projects I've worked for in recent months can't be shared yet, but here's what I can post! :D




[^^^Drawn for superheronation.com], probably more to follow in the new year]





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If you've wanted to order the book I drew for but were put off by the shipping costs, through the 25th Lulu is offering a 15% discount. Just type in the coupon code "TRICK".

Who has used Lulu to print a comic? I've formatted everything to fit at 6x9 (+ bleed), but I don't know how to get all the images into a single PDF to their guidelines. They have instructions, very specific instructions, but everything I've read is geared towards manuscripts and not comics.

Printing is kinda hard man

[edit] OH UH, NVM ...But if any of y'all have helpful tips I'll be happy to hear them.



Commission for the lovely California gal, jadedshard - go read her story!

Gail Simone very quickly became one of my favorite writers after Birds of Prey and Secret 6 (ohhh how I want to read her run on Deadpool and eventually Wonder Woman), but this just reveals her to be such a ridiculously good person as well. I'm not familiar with much of John Ostrander's work, but that is a sad and difficult situation and I donated what I could.

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A week or so ago I sketched some quickies from a bunch of stuff, it's all on DA already so this is a bit of a repost.

( Doodle Stuff )
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This was drawn for Kyt Dotson, for her new story Black Hat Magick. As you can see on her other website, Mill Avenue Vexations, she's a huge supporter of artists of all different styles. I totally must return the favor and pimp her work often!

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Slowly catching up! For those awaiting emails and preliminaries/preliminary revisions, I hope to resolve all of this tomorrow (today, I work on bonus material for the print version of Anathema 8D ).

Went out for a frappucino yesterday~ \o/

Took a work-break to sketch Truffles the pixie sprite from Chowder! ...Only younger and less terrifying. I don't know what it is, if it's some shallow fixation I have or what, but I enjoy drawing younger versions of old characters.

Old School lesbians yeeeehaw



I actually did most of this...a year ago, but saw it today and realized it could get away without being totally refined.

Haven't posted art publicly in a while because I always feel like customers are watching this thing and wondering why I have time to post fun-art and not to draw their stuff. This a foolish thing to worry about and it means I barely end up drawing anything for personal improvement or fun.

1) Saw Watchmen! I've read the comic twice before so I know how it goes down, and this interpretation was fine by me. Maybe I have no taste, but the internet NERD RAGE says I should examine each line and report on how it offended me and every single thing the comic stood for.
...Okay yes, the sex scenes were long and stupid but in a funny way. ...And okay, the soundtrack was awkward, but whatever man, the comic is still there and still good on its own. JUST ENJOY THINGS YOU...YOU INTERNET

2) My tablet (...AJ's tablet) is skipping around. I bought a new cover for it and everything, but the cursor will jump around in the middle of my brush strokes. UUUURGFFGGF Oh nevermind it was electrical interference from working so close to the screen. ...No wonder I'm blind

3) Downloaded the Painter 11 trial! This whole thing is irrelevant if you don't digitally draw, but these are the improvements so far (ie: things that make it more like Photoshop so I don't have to switch to that in the middle of drawing):

• The transform tool is now under the edit bar instead of the filter section.
• You can ctrl+click layers to select them as a whole, and there is a polygonal select tool. FINALLY
• You can finally work in pngs. This is probably the biggest benefit to me since half my projects required them to be pngs, it sucked jumping to PS just to re-save a file as something else.

But is it less crashy? Who knows! Random experimental thing:

I'M SORRY

A few of you guys are expecting finished work and email replies, but ever since Thursday night my computer has been shutting off at random (in the middle of work, in the middle of answering emails or DA/LJ comments, FFFFFFFFFFFF).

I'll get back to you when this thing is fixed (didn't know that my computer had an in-home warranty! :o rock). In the meantime, happy V-Day and here is a finished commission:



(MS YOUNGBAG BONUS. I think she would still look mean as a younger woman.) The first picture was commissioned by MihoshiK for Kiraxlee. I love drawing OCs, because you get a more personal level of creativity from the customer (or in this case, the customer's friend). Thank you to deathchalupa, yuugi, tl__dr, astorauth, digitalwar, and jadedshard for your help on the lighting, based on your input I went with a nice middle ground! :B

BELATED but here is a post to show all the drawings I included with Christmas cards this year.

( Christmas love without any holiday themes whatsoever )

There were a few acquaintances I wanted to ask to send cards to, but F-listers and a few old friends ended up being all I had the time to draw for (and I'm bad at being outgoingly online-social). Next time I will plan this sort of thing better - I'm sorry! Bwahhhh okay whatever anyway

The drive home was hell and I spent two days fixing my office, but I'm back from holiday vacation! How are you? ♥

Sketched this before Thanksgiving, after which...my computer failed. Every day this week was spent with tech support. I just want my work schedule back again, y'know? Also behind on emails.



The result of a mini-Tegaki binge! I have no interest in One Piece, but why not draw a Flapjack-style Luffy? I messed up something on Tegaki so the picture didn't post there. :/

Heeeey cool.

Philip posted Anathema on Drunkduck, and it got featured within a couple of days. I don't know how common this is but I'm so happy people are reading it and offering comments/support for Philip! He is swell.

"Manga like art + vampires + maids + funny story = why the hell wouldn't it be featured? this is Tokyopop material..." Ah, I should never have doubted!

"...Miss Maid needs to get ready for much more than this, have a feeling this is just the beginning." Oh ho ho...HO HO HO HO.....

"The nudity was tastefully done. (Thank you)" You are welcome, good reader!

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LL, lackshmana and I declare that Blade hates Twighlight. This was the reference used.

Trying out some semi-loish style. Trying.

It's occasionally fun to trawl through artists I admire and totally rip them off - does anyone else do this? I feel like a total hack...but it's educational!

this is why I have no consistent style

Behind on emails, work, and pictures for friends long overdue. D:

For over a year now I've been hired to draw a comic called Anathema, a lighthearted tale about an awkward maid who gets essentially adopted by a 10 year old vampire. I find the characters very charming and look forward to drawing what happens next! Here's the cover for chapter 3, drawn and colored by hand which is a rarity for me now. Must...do traditional...more~~



The writer/creator/financier is Philip Bourque [2]. He is the one who maintains the site and uploads the pages, right now uploading a new page every day. The current pages were drawn around half a year ago I think (this is a subtle hint to say that newer pages won't be as ...rough). Anyway, it feels great to at last link this comic publicly!

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Also, have some appalling Monster fanart; I hopped on a hilariously wrong bandwagon within a Monster LJ Community thread and ohhh the fun.

It's almost Halloween and I suddenly want to play Ecco the Dolphin, because those games ARE SURVIVAL HORROR. Well...the first one and the DC one are, but they're all fun if not stupid difficult.



Mini-commissions for the customer's character, Christine: A vampire-version where I really like her figure, and an I-WANT-YOU-poster pose. Gotta get better at crazy-hair-border-compositions.



Old characters from a distant past! Familiar to anyone here?



She shall be called Swan-girlie. Her hands suuuck and her shoulders suuuck but I like the feet [EXCEPT LOL THEY'RE THE SAME STUPID FOOT GOD I FAIL]. It mostly exists for funky-pose-drawing exercise...though I should be sketching experimental stuff like this every day. :/ [EDIT FOR HILARITY] ryclaude did amazing things.

Gift Art, Portfolio Work, Comic Tourney Pages and an Art Trade to follow!

A Star Wars special was on the History Channel so I put it on while working. They talked about how brilliant Lucas was for making Darth Vader a whiner and how he totally would've been an emo-kid like that (they actually said "emo") and then psychoanalyzed the movies for an hour. I left it on even though it's annoying to me when people Dr-Phil on about a movie or a story, but then they said "When someone thinks of Star Wars, they think of epic space battles IN DIGITAL SURROUND SOUND."

...Yes, yes I do.


[EDIT EDIT] .......

[EDIT]I know what happened thanks to kisai. Just uh, note that this entry is a five-day-old repost. [/EDIT]




On a private site (LL) I go by ssjusako75, an ancient name of AOL birth; because of the weeaboo absurdity I do not wish to let it go.

Anyway, let's start a meme: Draw your silliest internet handle/user name! If you do this, let me know and I'll add you to this-here list.

1. soap_committee: "SSJUsako75"
2. loyal_one: "HavokBurn"
3. jadedshard: "Sakurafox666"
4. THIS COULD BE YOU

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( Mimes and A week from Hell )

( Some Commission Results! )