I wasn’t originally intending to put so much effort into this but here we are
Mink is my favorite love interest from dmmd (tied with Clear, anyway). I’ll spare you the long-winded explanation of why I’m drawn to such a garbage controversial character and instead say that I like his design/storyline in dmmd re:connect a lot better, but I decided to draw his original design on a whim. The dreds were hard to get the hang of at first but I like how they came out.
I think the most fun part of this was making the background actually
Textures used: Concrete Wall 3 by mdpratt ; Concrete Basement Wall Texture by FantasyStock. The “scratch” logo in the background is from the game
Completed 11/9/14
November 9th, 2014 in
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Lately my interests have been Pokemon ORAS and Dramatical Murder, and there is no inbetween
I’ve actually been drawing a whole lot of DMMD fanart over the past month but nothing quite portfolio-quality (or portfolio-appropriate, given the source material ehehe…). I have a mostly-ironic-but-also-completely-serious love for this franchise, even though I’ve only seen the anime adaptation and a Mink route playthrough on youtube. One day I’ll get around to playing the game myself…
For this piece I tried to imitate the sort of airy feel of the DMMD official art, with light colors and use of gradients. I’m pleased with the end result, even though for most of it I was making up the shading as I went.
Completed 11.2.14
November 2nd, 2014 in
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Decided to give some old characters new designs yet again! I used the new Ace Trainer designs from Pokemon ORAS as a jumping-off point and tried to design my own outfits from there.
These two are age 26-27 by now. Will I ever stop designing older and older versions of these characters? probably never
Completed 10/26/14
This isn’t normally something I would post here, but I wanted to put it up to sort of show how far my art has come in seven years. I came up with this character in 2007, and recently I decided to pick up his story again–which came with a huge design overhaul for him as well.
Here’s a side by side comparison with my first (and only extant) drawing of Ross:
The me who drew the first one would be cowed by what I’m capable of now (though my lazy background-making skills remain about the same). I realize it would be a more interesting recreation if I’d tried to redraw his original hair and outfit exactly, but I was never entirely pleased with his old design, so I decided to change things up for the new one.
Aspiring artists: Don’t give up! Draw a lot, and practice your heart out!
Newer drawing completed 10/17/14
Something simple, but I’m pleased with how it came out. I’d done the sketch in July and forgotten about it, but recently decided to clean it up a bit and add color. Brawly was one of my favorite characters in the original Ruby and Sapphire games. Still excited for the remakes!!!
Completed 10/14/14
October 28th, 2014 in
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I signed up to participate in the Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Countdown on tumblr! Every participant was assigned a day between 1 and 50, and their task was to draw something related to ORAS with text saying “___ days until ORAS/etc”. My assigned day was Day 41–today. (The game comes out on November 21st). Please check out the other submissions as well; with over 600 artists participating, it’s an incredibly diverse group of talents and styles.
I’ve already gushed a little about how much Ruby and Sapphire meant to me as a kid, so I’m so happy that I was able to participate in the countdown to the remakes. Steven Stone was always my favorite character (and my first anime crush) so I knew I had to draw something with him for my day.
For the background/text box I tried to incorporate the feel of the original games with the background used in cave battles and the NPC speech text bubble. I even went to the trouble of tracking down the font used in the games! I also wanted to incorporate things we know about the new games, such as the importance of mega stones (the four marble-like mega stones pictured here are all for Pokemon found in Ruby and Sapphire), the silver Beldum which will be given away when the game is released, and a Sableye, which is going to get a new mega evolution in ORAS. And of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to draw Steven as the rock-loving nerd he is.
I actually drew this back in September, but was not allowed to post it anywhere before the countdown blog put it up.
Completed 9.8.14
October 11th, 2014 in
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It’s been a while since I last drew something for the Modern Strange Cowboy series. Maybe one day I’ll update the other three of them to reflect my current style (though at this rate I’ll have to do that every couple of years)
I’ve been struggling to get together a solid design for Engine for several years. This is actually the second time I’ve drawn him; after deciding I hated my first attempt I swept it under the rug for a bit. I’m glad I did, because I’m really really happy with this design. Over the years I had started compiling a bunch of characters whom I wanted to draw from while designing him (Tarrlok from The Legend of Korra, Silva from Shaman King, and most recently Mink from Dramatical Murder: re:connect) and though you can tell I drew a ton from Mink, I think I managed to make Engine stand apart from his influences.
Completed 9.3.14
Lately I’ve been revisiting characters I haven’t drawn in a while; it’s a fun exercise for seeing how my style has evolved over the years or how I would tweak existing designs. These two are characters from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time: my hero, Hamlet; and one of the game’s antagonists, Dusknoir. They’ve both come a long way from the first time I drew them in 2008, and I decided to use their more recent (2010) designs for this.
Star brushes by Kabocha on dA @ here
Sparkle brushes by Kavaeka on dA @ here
Swirl brushes by Redheadstock on dA @ here (I think this is the right one anyway)
Completed 8.26.14
September 19th, 2014 in
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I got the idea for this character while traveling in Israel. He’s part of a story that I may never get around to expanding, but I’m very fond of his design.
Completed 7.26.14
Laura is an original character I came up with for the Pokemon universe. I’ve had this character for a long time, and have periodically added and changed her designs for the various stages of her life. I’ve been meaning to do one of these for a while, and I feel like I learned a lot about the character while doing it. I put some thought into each design, so I put those thoughts under a read more to conserve space.
Additionally, I put each of these designs side by side with the “original” designs for comparison purposes, which you can see here.
Completed 8.7.14
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