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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.

I kind of like how this turned out, but looking at it now I may just go ahead and re-draw it.

I have no idea when I’m going to colour this. Probably soon, though. I’m experimenting with defining various background elements in pencil, rather than drawing the whole background on the computer later. I feel it might make the picture seem more unified, or something. Going to go for a “painted” look here. Colouring would probably be easier with a tablet, but I’ll make due with my mouse… I really need a tablet. I should set up a PayPal donation thing, or something.

“OOC FANART BANZAI”, by the way.

Anime directors, producers, character designers…

Bad drawing of Nagi

Dumb Yamato rip-off and giant robot demon thing grabbing a planet

Stupid looking robot that is bigger that multiple galaxies fighting a giant head (which has a very giant body)

Plan for new site header 

Plan for the first panel of a comic. Those random scribbles are meant to be bare trees.

This man haunts my dreams…

NSFW after the jump.

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Some sketch I did of a park because I was bored. Somewhat inspired by a shot from Love & Pop, which I saw again last night. Linked because the image is annoyingly 50 pixels over 450.

As you can see the main problem is the fence. I took a pattern I had made already and skewed it, and it turned out kind of bad. Should fix that in future. The colours were real washed out before, then I hit it with the auto-levels and it was like whoa. Now I know how they restored all of Evangelion

Yeah, I don’t know how exactly this happened. All this morning I couldn’t stop drawing little girls. First it was Kyon’s sister in a bikini, then it was random girlish parts (arms, legs faces), then it was another random loli in little clothing, then I started to draw one laying down, and it turned into Hazuki. She was supposed to be naked at first, then I remembered I was around people, so I figured I had to cover her in some way so I don’t look like a total perv. I think the stuff I gave her just makes this picture more perverted though…

This was just meant to be a doodle, but I wholly intend on colouring this now. But first, I need to do the second OTAKU USA comic and the next comic for the site.

Hmm, speaking of Tsukuyomi, do you reckon the volumes 2 out there still have the postcards? I got one used, and of course it didn’t come with any, but I kind of want them now, and I do have 20 dollars left on this Best Buy gift card…

I was bored and spent 2 hours doodling this stupid thing in Photoshop with my laptop mouse. I was inpired by a certain shot in Manabi Straight, along with various other examples of beautiful background art. I am no where near that level, but I try. Anyway…

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That’s it. Leaving tomorrow. School. Ugh.

I was bored during my 3D Design class today (it was basically a class-long crit), so I decided to draw things. I drew things far more serious, and in some cases, sexier than this, but this is the only page you guys get to see, for now.

Yes, I do very much like Motsu.