May/June 2013: Gaia Freebies

Gaia Online freebies for The Yankee Vandal,  

 aaawhyme,

sycophantic courtier, (who didn't seem to like it... Hey, I based the face on Amélie. Boo hoo if it's not generically anime.)

and Sakara_Ayumi. (Who did love it. Generic anime style FTW.)

April 2013: The Cthulhu Tie

Commission: Cthulhu tie for the King in Yellow (ink and acrylic on silk.)

Original costume made by the talented Andrew Mey (pictured).

March 2013: Sketches/Unfinished

May 2013: Gaia Freebs

Gaia Online freebies for users P s y c h o S c h e m e, TtheHero, and Yin Wolvern.

March 2013 Artses: Neopets?!?!??

Sketches of Kacheeks...

Art requests from Neopets...

 I am on Gaia Online, which "is an English-language, anime-themed social networking and forums-based website." I've found it's a community that has a thriving character art marketplace of sorts, thus I've found a lot of inspiration there. (I tend to work on art most when I feel it will have an audience.) 

Before Gaia Online, I was also on Neopets, where art was less of a focus and graphic design (buttons, websites, tables, etc.) were more in demand. More recently, I've revisited Neopets to find that users do have an interest in their characters' art. While Gaia Online users compensate artists for commissions, it would seem that Neopets artists do non-compensated requests that may or may not earn recognition of any kind. Additionally, while Gaia Online users tend to ultimately prefer the anime style of art, Neopets users tend to be more flexible about the art style, though consistently prefer characters that are usually some form of  anthropomorphic character (or "furry"). While both sites have official site-wide art contests, I think I do prefer the requests on Gaia Online over Neopets.

February 2013 Art Dump

February 2013 art dump:

Unfinished Turanga Leela pencil sketch.

 Colored pencil elephants!

 Shoe studies (giving myself an excuse to ogle DSW's website.)

Fashionable hatter-puppeteer.

 Figuring out how to make hats look like they're naturally resting on a character's head.

March 2013: Sailor Andromeda

To try to get back into the groove, I'm checking out my old sketchbooks. Upon doing so, I discovered some fan art I did, involving Sailor Moon-- characters from the show, and my own fan characters inspired by the show. I also discovered my sister's character-- a sailor senshi named Miyako-Jurai, aka Sailor Andromeda. The only references I could find of her character were that which she drew herself over a decade ago:

Thus, working from these references and my cloudy memories, I give you Sailor Andromeda:

Ink.

Digitally colored.

 Details.

Sailor Moon is owned by the beautiful and amazingly talented Naoko Takeuchi, all rights reserved, and all that.