air

 

 

Decided to try branding everyday stuff, like air! So this is a really thin typeface to imitate how air almost seems like nothingness. Also very transparent to play to that same note.
Done in illustrator.

Free for anyone to use however they wish. If you do use it, link me to your work if possible. I'd love to see.

Go here to download the full size image.

Honey

Made these logos with the song Honey by Erykah Badu in mind.
Done mostly in Illustrator. I like the honey colours and the sexy sleek typeface. I think it's a sexy piece. I feel like especially the last one has a perfume vibe.

Sailor Moon Logos

If you've seen some of my past posts you probably can tell I enjoy Sailor Moon. Decided to tie a little design work into that passion with the little logos below. Silhouette version done in Illustrator. Bottom version done in Illustrator and Photoshop.

 

Some soft colors

 

 Thought the golden color was very symbolic of Serena

 

 With some type

With color palette similar to the original logo's

If you'd like to download larger versions of them, check out my Sailor Moon gallery on my DeviantArt.

Pulse

I hadn't done a super developed traditional piece in a while so voila! Here is a beautiful woman holding a butterfly daintily in her fingers.

Just an interesting note, studying anatomy from real people, not cartoons or illustrations, is always a good thing. It helps you have a real understanding of joints and proportions. After you have that foundation then you can start distorting to your liking, instead of learning from something that's already distorted.
Often when I'm drawing a female I'll look in Victoria's Secret catalogs for references because when you combine poses you can get interesting stuff, and since they're in underwear you can see the folds in the skin and the muscle.

Prints available here.

Animu Gurl

So a friend and I were trying to draw the most stereotypical anime character we could think of . This is what I came up with.

So my character, let's call her... Poki-Chan, what the hell, why not.
So anyway Poki-Chan is like 12 or 13 or 14, whatever, and she's in space police academy, and this is the official female uniform. Of course the male uniform is legit full coverage but this is the girls'.
And Poki-Chan is an airhead with a good heart, like Sailor Moon, so she trips over herself a lot.
And her earrings are also their communicators. And her boobs are awesome cause she's in space police academy in space. So ain't no gravity to weigh them down! And she's got a headband thing that'll expand down with glass to scan stuff and such. And her little side bag, who knows what's in it. Maybe a stupid furry sidekick. Anyway, so Poki-Chan in in space police school when a space war breaks out, so even trainees have to join in to fight, and Poki-Chan becomes the leader of her group somehow (Starship Troopers style?).
Yeah. Whateva whateva I do what I want.

WHATCHOOSAY??

Lol
fun idea I came up with today. So while they're all in their space base, Superman getting kicked in the crotch by Wonder Woman and Batman giggling in the background XD
Yeah, yeah, man of steel. However Wonder Woman is strong as hell too. She stopped one of those nuke things on that ape planet from exploding with her bare hands and letting it land on herself (Dat ep was so cute! Batman was all like 'Diana! No!' and tried to dig her out of the rubble himself. She was fine. Just pushed the bomb off her and went on her merry way.)

So basically, even though Superman is... well, Superman, a kick in the balls from Wonder Woman, I'm sure he could feel.

You can think of whatever scenario you want for her to be that upset. Hope you lol!

Spill

So umm... When I don't know how to do something in Photoshop, I do it in After Effects Drawn and colored in Photoshop. Imported as a comp into AE, added some effects and lights, trimmed the comp length to 1 frame, then exported as tiff sequence. Brought back into Photoshop for some finishing touches.
I'm trained as a time-based artist so I'm going to use that as my excuse.

Tried a lot of new stuff with this piece so it was good finding out new things. I look at other people's art then if there's something that looks really cool that I find applicable to something I'm working on, I try to figure out how to achieve the look myself.

So subject tilted, have the nice light halo effect, and if you zoomed in really close you could see the lines are shades of the color of that area (kind of like how Spongebob's lines around his face are not just black lines--they're colored to match him). Obscured the lights in the back, added a handful of lights in AE, added that dark blur thing around the edges. I think that really made it actually. Originally I thought the piece was finished without it, but for whatever reason I added it and it looks so much better.

Above is just a small WIP image. Nothing fancy.
I'm happy with how this turned out :) I think I'm improving.

Oh so this piece is titled Spill after the song by Showoff. It's kinda the theme song of my life at the moment.

This is how I feel about choo:
I've suffered everything. You think you feel the same. If you ever want to be with me then think again.
I don't care if you need me. I've questioned everything.
Let me tell you what I say:
Honey, I know it all, still you wonder if I stand or if I fall.
Honey, I. Won't. Take. The. Spill.

Prints available here.

Uranus+Neptune

Trying to see how much I can say without showing full figures. I think this one says a lot for Sailor Moon fans.
Illustrator + Photoshop
Hope you enjoy

Chibi Ryoko!! Yay!

Chibi Ryoko! My favorite Tenchi character. Put the final version + basic color png in case you peeps are grabbing images cause pngs can be nice with their transparencies and all.
Ryoko is the kind of girl I like in media. She, like Tifa (who I also like), and Ken M (Zone of the Enders) is not just a hot chick with nice tits. She's strong, strong willed, independent, and pretty. Yes, her boobs are great, but she's more than that. She's the total package--brains, beauty, and quite a personality.

The Fight

While studying animation and video I learned that the foreground was supposed to be darkest, and things get lighter as you go back in storyboard. This is how you delineate foreground, middle ground and background. Seemed to work here though.
You can use your imagination as to the story behind this.

Ref photos:
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Yoko

Gurren Lagann's Yoko looking cute and feverish on some sheets.
Gainax is great. Though admittedly I've not seen everything they've backed, what I have seen I've really enjoyed. Neon Genesis (the original version) has been my favorite anime since I was in middle school.
Anyway, yeah, so same bathing suit kinda top, but in a more underwear form, with matching panties!

Super Sailor Venus

Mina! Looking cute as usual.
Mina is one of those people who's prettier than she gives herself credit for. Once she's transformed she gets more self confidence. It's nice to see her become more comfortable with herself throughout the series as well (like Lita).
Here's the original sketch I did:

wisp

Photo manip with portrait of Lesya Ukrainka. Grayscale seemed fitting.

See it larger here.
Prints available here.

Unnamed Super Girl

 

Random drawing of a super girl (the idea here is that she's levitating). Getting more into Super Heroes everyday so it seems! Prior to this year I was near exclusively more of an avenger kinda girl. I don't mean Avengers, just people that were driven by vengeance instead of the urge to do and protect what is good and right. I'm big into Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider comics are currently almost the majority of my Western comic collection.

So DC peeps, notice that Cadmus is in the Justice League animated series from the early 2000's as well as Young Justice? Remember that episode with the 'heroes' that were created by Cadmus for the purpose of being heroes the government could control? Yeah.
Then, obviously, Project Cadmus is a big part of the Animated Young Justice series.
Just kindda funny the League encountered Cadmus before... But that's the magic of cartoons. Weee! Just thought I'd mention that. I'm not a big Justice League cartoon fan, but whatevs. 

Anyhow, after drawing the girl above, I was really happy with her and wanted to delve into fleshing her out more. Not a complete character sheet or turn around, but gives a good idea nonetheless.

Just to throw another JY animated series thought out there,
anybody realized that so far whenever the Young Justice team is executing a maneuver, it's always Maneuver 7? If that's the one they usually use, you'd think it would be Maneuver 1... Forgive me if this is addressed in the comics.

If you dig what you see, you can view it larger here.