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young Bellatrix

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:00:40 PDT

Only recently saw the last HP movie, Order of the Phoenix. Helena Bonham-Carter is so awesome in her roles of psychotic women, couldn't resist drawing a younger pre-Azkaban version of Bellatrix. All done in Photoshop, I need to keep sitting my ass down and continue to learn to draw with a stylus for change.

Riza and Roy

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:52:26 PST

Coloured version of the sketch I did few days ago, Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist.

Just finished reading the manga up-to-date. I'm very picky about comics I read just because world is full of really good comics and there's not enough time to read them all. I nearly made a pass on FMA because 75% of it is the usual manga bollocks of massive fights that go on for pages and omg bad guys that nobody can kill except our heroes who at the last second when all hope is lost come through for us. Yadda yadda blaaaagh. But 25% is delightful dialogue and genuine characters that will make you laugh and cry (no spoilers but I wept absolute buckets when a certain character died) and so far the story has been holding it all together. Plus it's very nicely drawn and 25min episodes of the anime are perfect to have play on the background while feeding baby. Highly recommended, if you don't have time to read go torrent the anime.

character (c) Hiromu Arakawa

Team Rocket

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:54:13 PDT

The worst villains ever but perhaps that's why they're so endearing... the legendary Jessie and James. <3

Medieval Witchblade

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:26:49 PDT

This is an old-ish drawing from about four years ago in college, I used to read Witchblade quite a bit back then and out of the many fan drawings from that time this is one that I can still kind of stand looking at.

sleek Hyakurin

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:18:58 PDT

Stylized picture of Hyakurin in her Mugai-Ryu days.

leading ladies

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:24:02 PDT

The three "leading ladies", Hyakurin, Rin and Makie, from Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal manga.

Littlest Angry Birds

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:56:37 PST

My 2-year old son's addicted to Angry Birds but alas some of the levels are still too difficult for small fingers. They should make a toddler version. /hint!

Angry Birds belong to Rovio

BOTI's Mugai-Ryu assassins

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:17:13 PDT

Little stylized picture of the mugai-ryu assassins from Blade of the Immortal manga.

Lumi seated

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:17:57 PST

Princess Lumi, heroine of my college film makes a comeback from 10 years ago. I feel old... Coloured pencils, fine marker and watercolour.

California Gurl II

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:45:14 PST

Second half of this year's Valentine's day card.

California Gurl I

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:21:31 PST

Happy Valentine's Day! <3

Katy Perry-style Valentine's card drawing for my husband, first of two.

Letraset markers.

Applejack

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:55:15 PST

I was browsing internets for Thundercats and He-man the other day and got all nostalgic about 80s TV and toys. Here's the one and only My Little Pony I ever had as a kid, which is weird considering how much of a nutter I was for everything horse-related until I turned 14 and became an animation nutcase instead. Don't misunderstand me though, I had about thirty generic brand/fake my little ponies but she was the only genuine one. She was called Applejack and I got her for my 7th birthday. By the time I was in secondary school and boxed up my toys to put in the attic she had gone through multiple haircuts.

pencil & watercolour

costume ball dresses

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:21:55 PST

There's no short way to explain this so here goes... instead of a High school prom what high schools in Finland do is a show of old ballroom dances from viennese waltz to polonaise. The 12th year students leave school at the end of February to have time to prepare for their final exams and the day after they have left the 11th year students celebrate being the oldest kids in school. There are no normal classes, you show up in the morning wearing your chosen costume/suit/dress and spend the day roaming around classrooms, giving candy to "little kids" and just generally having a laugh. It's called day of the "Wanhat" which literally means "Ye olde".

In the afternoon you dance for the entire school and in some places also nearby elementary/grade schools come to watch if it's convenient to do so. In the evening there's the ball for you and all parents/close family. When it was my turn I went for a medieval style blue dress (I was going through a major medieval period fandom at the time.. mostly thanks to Kaari Utrio's totally awesome historical adventure romance books), year later my little sister went for a green rococo dress. Our aunt made them both and went a little crazy at times but got there in the end. We didn't look quite as good as my drawing but this is pretty much what we wore.

Pencil drawing, colours in photoshop.

Hyakurin

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:52:20 PDT

Hyakurin, good girl gone bad-assassin girl from the superb Blade of the Immortal manga.
Letraset markers.

character (c) Hiroaki Samura

Oscar and Andre

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:02:05 PDT

Andre and Oscar from the anime/manga Rose of Versailles.

ink on paper, coloured in photoshop.

Three Muskehounds

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:33:42 PDT

Few weeks (couple of months?) ago there was a forum conversation where someone brought up childhood cartoons. Around the same time Tanya drew this awesome re-working of the Three Muskehounds which happened to be my childhood cartoon #1:
[link]

Inspired by all the muskehounds talk I drew my version, it's not a reworking or anything, I'm far too conventional for that and it's very loosely based on the cover of a copy of The Three Musketeers I had as a kid. When I say loosely based, I really mean it, I've not seen the book cover in well over fifteen years now and all I remember is a bunch of musketeers sitting around campfire or candle or something looking at a map or maybe a letter. Like said, loosely based. Taken me a while to scan in and do any colours, life has been pretty hectic lately. I'm not particularly happy with the colours either but don't really have the time for anything better right now. The gloominess I suppose reflects the last couple of weeks.

Inkpen on paper, colours in photoshop.

Uhura

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:58:25 PDT

"Aye aye captain".

Lieutenant Uhura from USS Enterprise, does she really need an introduction?
I'm not exactly a hardcore Trekkie but the original series was one of my favourites on telly when I was about 10 years old. Finally saw the recent movie today and based this off the young Uhura.