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I only post my doodles when they’re of anime directors.

Shinbo looks too dashing and almost looks like my dad circa 10 years ago. I tried to draw Sadamoto at the end, but I forgot what he looked like.

Fixed the face. Hopefully I won’t screw up cleaning it up!

I like where this is going, but I need to fix up some things. I’ll do that tomorrow between copying down every kanji I know 50 times, reviewing Japanese grammar and looking up various bits of vocab.

I think I told you guys I’m doing a comic project for a friend of mine. I’m not sure if I mentioned that it’s a Nogizaka Haruka doujin, but it is. Here’s the penultimate panel. I wrote 目が!! next to Yuuto’s face because he reminded me of the guy from Laputa, a movie I really should see, but only because Nico Nico Douga loves it so much.

I just got the main sketches finished. Next thing to do is to go back through and fix all the dumb looking panels, of which there are six or seven of. I don’t want any QUALITY in a project I’m getting paid for. Made that mistake with Otaku USA! The last panel in the entire comic looks really bad, because at that point I was just sick of drawing and just wanted to be done, so that’ll need some real fixing up. It probably needs a background, too.

After I’m done with that, it should be smooth sailing. Cleaning the lineart won’t be hard, since that’s just tracing over the sketches on the lightbox, then I have to add some shades and stuff, which should take a good week if I’m focused. When that’s all done, all I have to do is make cool back and front covers, then print the sucker off and mail it.

It’ll look less crappy eventually.

Finished the background. Will complete later today or tomorrow.

The loli catgirl who leapt through time!

I swear to god this is not Tina. I were to colour this I’d make her hair like… brown.

Lately I’ve been drawing daily for a number of reasons: to generally improve, to come up with different cute hair styles, to refine my drawing style and to attempt poses I’m unsure of.

I’ve felt my drawing style is a bit too stuck in the 1990s, so I’ve been trying to make it look more like the designs of today while still keeping the qualities that I think make my style mine. Of course, my style is still pretty generic, but whatever– I think it’s going good places.

One and two

Because real men draw their own characters having sex with random people.

The dude in picture one is pretty effed up. Oh wells.

Also still working on some Nagi ero that I started back in June.