Ponytail

Photoshop and Illustrator CS 5.1

Someone asked if it was zero suit Samus. Lol! Nope. Just nice colours that pop well.
Larger here.

Nude

Charcoal
Larger here.

Some line drawings

Untitled (Reach)

Drape

These are a couple drawings I did based on gesture drawings done in a session a while back. Done in Photoshop CS 5.1

Trixie Sting

 

Trixie Sting from Slugterra. So Slugterra is this awesome animation done by Nerd Corps Entertainment in Canada (also made Storm Hawks and Dragon Booster). Trixie is the fierce woman in the Shane Gang. She fights for justice, is loyal to leader Eli Shane to a fault, and always gets the shot.

I really like this show. It's colourful, the writing is good (not great, but good), the animation is awesome, and the plot has been developing and the characters deepening over the 2 seasons so far. I really hope the show doesn't get dropped by Disney XD. I love it too much!

Nerd Corps, if you read this I want you to know I love your work!

Drawing done in Photoshop CS 5.1 As usual, see it larger here.

Madison basic colors

 

Here's Madison from Cardcaptors. Check it out larger here. I really like the series. I have fond memories of it and nearly every time I go to a Half Price Books I look for the manga. My collection is small but growing!
Yes, I've drawn Tomoyo (called Madison in the English version), but I think Toya is my favourite character. Growing up it used to be Yuki (Yukito/Julian), but as I grew older in my periodic returns to the series I really began to respect and love how great of an older brother Toya is.
I love how much he loves Sakura, especially in his encounter with The Mirror. That story is probably the one within the series that sticks out most to me, just because pain can't keep Toya from his sister.
I also like the underlying romantic implications Clamp is great at slipping in to their stories, the relationship between Yuki and Toya being no exception.
Anyway, yeah so here's Tomoyo, a great best friend to Sakura, super cute, super creative, loyal, ect. A bunch of the attributes that the best of friends should have.
Done in Photoshop CS 5.2
Based on the traditional drawing shown below.

80s Hair

Random chick with crazay hair. Drew her in a NGE plug suit kind of thing, though I'm not sure that I consider her an OC or anything like that.

As usual, see it larger here.

Gray Girl

Hmm. Dunno what to say.
I see a lot of cool digital paintings every day online, and I wanted to give it another go I guess.
Amputee girl.
Photoshop 5.1

Prints available here.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Reach

Yo. So as you probably don't know, I have not drawn anything like this for a while. It had been, well, years (check my deviant art if you're interested in seeing similar stuff from da past).
Anyhow, so I drew this. Twas a good way to spend my time I think.
30 days of Halloween why must you draw to an end...
Anyway, as usual, if you'd like to see it larger click here.

Random Girl Bust

Drawing of random cute girl. Yup. Top one done with .7 and .5 mechanical pencil. Bottom done with .7 mechanical pencil, acrylic, and color pencil. Twas fun to try not drawing the whole figure for a change. Very calm compared to what I usually make...

Prints available here.

Queen B

Part of my Project Playlist, art inspired by and created while listening to only 1 chosen song repeatedly. This drawing was done for the song Queen B by Puscifer. Done in Photoshop CS 5.1

See it larger here.

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3 Libras

Part of my Project Playlist, art inspired by and created while listening to only 1 chosen song repeatedly. This drawing was done for the song 3 Libras by A Perfect Circle and Photek. Whole work and tight shot. See them larger here.
Done in Photoshop.

Prints available here.