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I draw stuff when I'm not wasting time merely thinking about drawing stuff. If I'm lucky, it ends up on my computer. I'm also easily distracted by most things moving across a screen. That's just how it goes.

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Yeah so NYCC came and wrecked my schedule entirely, and the week following it was no help either. So I cut my losses for the whole Drawlloween thing. Then I checked in to see the last entry for the month and figured, what the heck, I can manage a dragon. Still dunno where I stand with doing regular art practice, but I’ll just see what the next forced initiative brings.

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Welp

Finally got caught up with all the NYCC planning and ran out of time to draw today’s haunted house. I’m going to attempt doing something during the con, but no promises.

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Today’s Pumpkin. I briefly considered instead drawing one of the many pumpkin-flavored products available currently, but didn’t have a good follow-up joke. Forgive the crappy inaccurate vines, I just felt like spitting out some poor thorny vines.

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A werewolf for today. Had to rush it because I’ve been busy all day and only had this last hour, so the legs are totally funny and the detail is all over the place. I really don’t spend enough time on lower torsos as it is though, it wouldn’t have been *that* much different I suppose.

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A vampire for today. This is actually an idea I had for an older version of a character I previously designed for a friend’s game. I don’t know a whole lot about gothic lolita fashion so I’d have to do some more research before I settle on a particular look for her dress. Busy day today so I was running out of time to detail her anyway. Her overcoat is also totally flowing wrong. It’s all good, it won’t be the last time I revisit her.

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Today’s subject, a Goblin. More inspired than yesterday, but I still could have done more than this. It’s funny, I do like humanoid artwork, but I just have a really hard time doing it myself. I find it more fun to draw more random stuff. Well, until tomorrow.

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Well, here’s today’s subject of a devil. Honestly not feeling it at all today, not sure if it was the busy day at work or this persistent nasal problem I’ve been having or what. Figured I might as well cut my losses and throw something up for the sake of it. I think I’ll have more inspiration in me tomorrow. I’ll only give up on the series for some significant reason, not because this artist’s block bullshit. Tomorrow is another day!

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So yeah, it’s only been forever ago since I posted anything here. Going to try out this little exercise for the season I saw linked somewhere earlier today, and will attempt to draw some spooky stuff every day this month. Quality will vary wildly on days that I’m at NYCC or away from home. That is, if I do intend to keep this up the whole time.

Well, let’s see how this goes. First up is a ghost!

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RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE

After what’s felt like an eternity, I’ve finally gone and tried my hand at another illustration. This time it’s for the Rhythm Zinegoku. If you haven’t played a Rhythm Heaven game before, I highly recommend you do! Even if you don’t play the intensive stuff like Ouendan/EBA, Project Diva, Bemani games, etc. you can still enjoy this fairly easily. Great tracks and some hilarious scenes in every game. 

This one’s from the Samurai Slice level of Rhythm Heaven Fever (for Wii). It’s definitely got a different feel from the GBA version, but I love it just the same. On that note, I really wish the GBA game had been localized here. I bought it on a whim way back in the day and it was a fantastic introduction to the series. It still has a special place in my heart to this day.

Aaaaaaaaanyway, I will try once again to post stuff here during shorter intervals than every ice age.

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Sigh, on the long path to relearning the wacom after spending months away from it again. Uh, how do I art?

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Uh, so where did I go?

Easy, work really kicked into overdrive at the start of the semester, and then I had an additional project, which I finished with just as NYCC rolled around. Been pretty dead since then, but I'm hoping to be enthused toward drawing stuff again by the end of the month.

I'm in pretty good spirits... my body, not so much. Anyway, I've had a lot of ideas cooking in my head, and hope to spill them out as soon as I can. And yes I will definitely figure out a way to finish that last picture.

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Been wasting my time on a little something ever since that Pokken Tournament news this week. Took it as an excuse to do several things:

try out a different style of inking

attempt a full background

draw pokemon for the first time in over a decade

try my hardest to work quicker

Yeah that last part's not working out so well. Hopefully by this weekend.

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I created a good amount of vectors for a friend's Fate/Stay Night presentation at Otakon this past weekend, but unfortunately due to the pitfalls of combining different generations of technology, half of the slides ended up not being seen at all. I thought I'd post some of the unseen ones so my work doesn't go to waste. Obviously, as vectors they aren't completely my work (original art/concepts by Takashi Takeuchi of TYPE-MOON), so take that as you will.

Anyway, now that that's over I can go back to other work and shenanigans.

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More Fsteak for the Birthday Girl!

Well, I totally wanted to do my Animal Crossing thing, but this ended up next in my rotation instead. Being that it’s her character’s birthday and all, and I’ve had this idea sitting in my head for quite some time (during which time I’m sure it’s been done already on several occasions), I wanted to have this ready for it. Of course, as of now it’s no longer the 30th, and I blame it all on that damn skirt. I was actually half-determined to draw the pattern myself… but then I determined that I didn’t actually hate myself today and sought out a premade pattern instead. I found just what I was looking for, courtesy of this kind soul here. But yeah, by then it was too late, and thus I submit this as a belated celebration of the “Spunky Dragon with Deadly Legs” herself, Chie Satonaka.

It took a ton of work, and there’s still a good deal to be desired, but I consider it all further practice in working straight through the wacom. Hopefully the next time I post it’ll be that AC comic I’ve wanted to make for months now.

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Something in the completely opposite direction

So this will seem particularly odd coming after Kirby art, but this is basically going to be the kind of thing that happens with my art flow. I've been working on art assets for an upcoming demo of an RPG, and this area will consist of several risen skeletons and the lich who raised them. I thought I'd take this opportunity to practice sketching directly on the Wacom, and I did not expect things to go as smoothly as they did. Seems I really need to mess around with brush settings some more to get the most out of this thing. You can check the results out after the link because, heck, I don't know if anyone gets offended by skeletons.

Anyway, here we go:

This is your basic armed skeleton, with some stuff he probably lifted off of some unfortunate sucker.

For the caster-type skeleton, I thought I'd mess around and give him some jewelry. Did those belong to his risen brethren or did he pop them off his victims? I don't have answers to these important questions.

This guy will show up larger than the other two, and serve as basically an overgrown brute of sorts. I wanted it to just lumber listlessly towards its victims.

And now on to the bosses of this area, the lich and his bodyguard, The Headhunter:

I've drawn a lich in a previous game with more... fashionable robes, but as this fellow's not at the top of his class like that one, he's got a simpler style going.

I had a lot of fun with this guy. He's basically what happens when one raises a fallen giant. That cleaver sword is a simple idea I'd wanted to use before, and thought this was an appropriate time to do so. What better to lop some heads off with?

As I add more work, you'll quickly learn that I love drawing armor more than most other stuff. But the next thing I post will hopefully be an Animal Crossing comic I'd been batting around in my head for some time. Yep. Like I said, this is just how things are gonna work here.

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I recently got to participate in a fantastic tribute project run by oddlookingbird which is now available in print. It's actually my first legitimate foray into the world of fan art, and I couldn't think of a better subject to bring it about than one of my all-time favorite gaming franchises, Kirby. Here's my submission, one of the fondest memories of my childhood, Butter Building:

You can pick up a copy of Kirby's Dream Zine through Fangamer here:

www.fangamer.net/products/dream-zine

And you can view an online curated gallery of the submitted works that couldn't fit in the magazine over here:

kirbysdreamzine.tumblr.com

The online gallery is accepting submissions, so it's only going to get bigger!

As for me, working on this entry has lit a fire in me to draw up some of the other ideas floating in my head, between my adventures in transitioning to a tablet from drawing by hand, and working on small commercial games with friends (the occasional tired meme will pop up too, apologies in advance). I hope to share at least some of that on here, when I'm not wrapped up in one of my many vices.

I'll also try to limit these walls of text, but no promises.

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I put this off for long enough

It's funny. I found myself deliberating over what on earth I could possibly use as a first post, but then it finally hit me. For maybe over a decade or more, I've gotten into the superstition of not ever drawing in the first page of any sketchbook I get, out of worry that it will set the whole tone for the rest of the book. Now obviously, whatever I do with the second page could just as well accomplish the same, but I just don't feel the same pressure with it.

So what better way to throw into this creative maelstrom than doing what I've always done. It's gotten me this far, right?

Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I have no choice but to keep going. It's up to me to follow through with all the silly stuff I intend to draw. Here's to all the impending good, bad, bizarre, or nonexistent feedback I'm setting myself up for. Woo internet!