Here is my latest project, posted at HitRECord.org. Based on Midori’s “Phenomenon” strip.

based on hitRECorder midori's comic strip

Approximately 20 hours of effort and headbanging I think.

Wanted to play with the pen brush again. So here.

This was done when I was sick- about 2 days ago? In other news, I finished Starcraft 2 yesterday!

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The girl ended up having longer legs than desired. I had fun working with the different tree patterns.

Second last page! I won’t be posting the absolute last page at all but you are free to see it in person if I have it on me.

veiled girl and guy from dragon age II trailer

Dragon Age II trailer looks epic! <3

This page was done before I left for LA. Guy was kind of supposed to be on a horse but I thought it was too boring and he didn’t look particularly heroic in an old spice way. I wanted to also draw Nimue looking cold, then decided I haven’t drawn faeries for a bit, so here be faeries. I really love drawing pixies/faerie in a woodland/natural environment… maybe I should draw more of them again.

adventurerider, nimue, amusedfaerie, boastfulfaerie

I drew the 50s woman in LA and completed it on the plane home. I didn’t really get a chance to draw much in LA/SD. I was a little bored on the plane anyway. There was a family man next to me who started a conversation with me because his daughter drew too. I talked to her towards the end of the trip when he swapped seats with his daughter. I passed her a postcard to SMASH! (haha) but am not sure if she came, and if she did, whether she could have entered, because SMASH! was sold out of tickets at the door by noonish I think. Anyway, I really like the coiffed hairstyles from the 50s, though I was without reference, I tried to get it to look… right from memory. I got fed up halfway through and drew scifi guy or something. IDK. Oh yeah that palm tree there- was drawn from life when I was waiting for the bus at Burbank to Downtown LA. The SC2 insignias where drawn when I got back and had the artbook from the collector’s edition. Idk what to make of that random birdie thing. Eh. And then there’s a farmer-peasant girl?

NOW ON THE RIGHT. See I have this friend I met like 8 years ago and she draws awesome stuff but she kept erasing and redrawing and what I have left is that tiny head. Well considering I didn’t draw her anything… I’ll be back next year to get this completed, you hear me, Mina?

uninspired phase; starcraft 2 excitement; on the right we have Mina's unfinished entry

A few train sketches here. Not much to say really. I quite like Jim Raynor. That is all.

LEFT: non-referenced starcraft2 art, self-created zerg-inspired failcreatures; medic!, iguesshelooksindian then he picks up a phone? RIGHT: bjd prize designs, random horned dude, ilikethiskidontrain'sshair; squishedcateyedgirl, swimsuitmodel, mangaschoolgirl, malegotback, malepantsmodel

This is the second last page of my moleskine. I decided to do my characters/Chaos characters to celebrate the end of all things this book. I envisioned War to take on a matured look. His hair may not be as excellent as Death’s but he presents himself in neat attire as well. Like Death he has seen a lot of things, so his eyes are pretty broody. He still has his scars of course.

Mayhem with pincers, angry!Mayhem, Death, modern-day War

And here ends my dump.

I was at San Diego Comic Con, then at SMASH! in the following week I returned. In both cons I had the opportunity to meet many wonderful artists, plus one who I’ve known for a long time and had a roof for me to sleep under while I was in LA. Well there’s one more but she didn’t complete a drawing and was with my other art so that will be coming up soon.

The pages are kind of jumpy and not in any chronological order because I had so little pages left the artists had to make do.

So first up, I was lucky to be able to make it to Tessa‘s signing session. Remember all that Hinabn fanart? Well this is pure art from the artist herself. Lamooont <3.

Then there’s Arthur because Grace can’t keep JGL off her mind. She did this in like an hour or less. Totally love this set of pagessss. <3 Thanks Grace!

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And because I was hanging around the 4DE booth not knowing when Tessa would be there (Ihadnonettocheck), The Meek caught my eye so I purchased a volume of her comic and got her to draw in my moleskine too. <3

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Last but not least is Shaun Healey and Stanley Lau. Shaun was awesome; he looked tired but was all SURE when I asked to take a photo (I wasn’t sure if he’d let me take a photo with him but ). He was at SMASH! where I was working kind of next to his booth- though he was hardly there because of the panels and all his fans. Until towards the end of the day.

Stanley, I met at SDCC. ’twas awesome. I’m not sure what he thought when I passed a SMASH! 2010 postcard to him there. XD Anyway he said he’d draw if I got something. I ended up picking a Pepper poster because I like his Pepper characterisations.

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In the essence of Kate Beaton’s Ooh Mister Darcy… here’s one for Assassin’s Creed 2.

It didn’t seem as funny if I used Rosa.

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Since my last train sketch was mostly male, I thought I’d fill the opposite page with females. Meet waiting!girl, punkrock!girl, girl silhouettes, imagined self-portrait that made me miss my train stop, and Nimue. No refs. I’m not happy with this Nimue though (I drew this before that last speedpaint).

girl power

I’m not happy with this page at all. I wanted to draw swirly monsters but it’s going to take more practice. The botanical sketches were ref’d out of the window- committed a tree to memory and tried redrawing it. Then there’s turban man (no refs). I think I like him- his facial features look ethnically different to all the white guys I’ve been drawing.

hitting a snag

I wanted to draw someone and Ann suggested Nimue.

I’ve had a few sketches of her from my train sketches but not scanned as of yet.

No references were used in the making of this artwork. D: Had to remember her outfit from memory! I think I got some parts wrong.

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Decided to do a whole page of men. Or males, at least. Wanted to do something different, so here’s a guy with a mechanical arm, one-of-them-century-guy next to a Grandfather’s clock (drawn from my memory of one that used to sit in my aunt’s place, and I am only there once a year), and something I rarely see – kids becoming zombies, and Faun! <3

I had his horns grow out a little more, and had much fun with his hair. <3 My OCs are so baseless though, often borne out of art and not of interesting backgrounds.

who says I don't draw men?

If I could say of my own work: I really like how Faun turned out. Although he seems perplexed by his neighbour.

Thanks to Arrch and Paul of Mainly Medieval and their joint venture Aetherworks, I now have my Artist Trading Cards ready to pass on to the organiser.

The cards are laser-cut onto MDF.

Here’s a photo of the 4 cards. (I’m supposed to make 5, and I drew 6 – but I can always make my own later… I didn’t think anyone would want a hellhoundish-looking Cerberus staring back at them…)

L-R: Pegasus, World Turtle, Faun, Djinn; click to enlarge

Here’s the close ups.

ATC Pegasus and World Turtle; click to enlarge

ATC Faun and Djinn; click to enlarge

And bonus first cut I can keep for meself. It looks darker because the laser strength was more powerful, and the speed was slower. I do love the burn effects creating a smoky look to the card.

ATC First Djinn

Thanks again to Arrch and Paul for letting me use their laser-cut machine. Thanks to Arrch for vectorising the lineart. I had a great time that night too, then playing games (“Man Bites Dog”, “Carcassone”) with the bf, Arrch, Paul and Loreena. And the food was fabulous.