For anyone who wanted stickers, they are shipped! with pocky cat! (you’ll know what I mean when you got them XD). Hopefully I can draw a couple more within this month.
Here’s some quicky. I need to draw more zombies, I think, zombies are hot.
These little chibi (or SD, whichever term you prefered) are something I did for fun awhile ago. The feedback I got for them was encouragingly positive and I enjoyed doing them. I called them collectively as 「いろいろ怖い物」(iroirokowaimono = various scary things?). It will be a collection of my takes on various mythology figures, ghosts, folklore, or even urban legends.
Here are first installments. There’s (from left to right, top to bottom)
Koame – literally, small rain, light rain, not exactly a real myth figure, but :D
Waruineko – literally ‘bad cat’, no, it’s not really myth figure either.
Ushiwakamaru – If you read enough manga, you’ll know him, he defeated Benkei on the bridge while looking like a girl and grow up to be Minamoto no Yoshitsune, haha.
Kappa – sorta like water ghost, he likes water.
Rounin – ..ok, if we are gonna play game ‘what doesn’t belong to the group’ this would be the answer. but it’s the first one I did that inspired me to do other designs. So give him some props.
Okiku – She’s famous ghost of maid girl who was killed (somehow, by, in or with the well) as a punishment for losing a precious dish. There’s various version of the story.
My friend, who preferred to remain unnamed (because it was cool!) had made a bunch of stickers from these designs to give away at ECCC and NORWESCON. If you were those lucky people, congrats! I still didn’t have them yet XD
While supplies last, if anyone wants a pack of six stickers, let me know. Email me your address at shari.hes at gmail dot com.
If you have some suggestion what I should do with these little ones, let me know! XD
Q: Will this last me a month?
A: probably not. I really need to learn to drink something else besides coke.
Finished this yesterday, long time coming.
I haven’t got time to doodle anything new yet, maybe this weekend, while everyone else is at ECCC. *weep*
I’m pretty happy that everything is still sorta on schedule so far. Time flies this year.
some quicky I did for fun in between work.
probably work more on this later
done in painter, have done anything in painter for awhile.
something different, total time under 1 hour.
I have been neglecting comic, in favor of spending my time trying to find out the way to do color illustration that I most enjoy.
I have always like rougher style but it is hard to achieve for me, how can you leave it rough but also looked finish? I envy anyone who able to pull that off with ease. To me, it was a conscious struggling effort, but I tried.
Click for bigger view on Da.
started with doodle, I actually didn’t know what I was going to draw at this point, bad practice!
I think Ducks made everything better.
how about some dessert?
and maybe flowers, PINK flowers.
and Geta, can’t do without that.
Now finishing up.
I like this workflow quite alot, it’s like a combination of painting and drawing, before, I either paint without lineart, or do lineart and ‘coloring’, this is sorta inbetween. I’m started to get the hang of it, expect more like this later!
Josou Paradise (女装パラダイス） is a Japanese tv show that take highschool boys, put them in woman’s clothes and make up, and (later) going around fooling people. It’s fun, it’s wacky (like most Japanese tv shows wont to be) and addictive, I watched all I could find on youtube, which wasn’t many, but still manage to steal half a day from me…
… and inspired me to draw this. 
(check it on DA for bigger size and also stroke my bruised DA ego, thanks!)
I’m bouncing back and forth between traditional and digital media, there’s no law saying that you have to stick to one right? I like being versatile, even at the cost of mastering either of them slower than usual :)
First one is not quite photoshop, I did the ink with copic brush pen ‘BS’ (which I refer to lovingly as bullshit pen XD) and screentone and lettering with manga studio, yes, I still have that thing. I barely use it anymore tho.
Text inspired by David Malki of Wondermark fame. It was spontaneously sprung up in his live drawing session on ustream. David Malki fast became someone I admire. When I first reading Wondermark, I had wondered (no pun) what set this apart from other cut and paste sprite webcomic? The answer? The brain behind it.
Now on to photoshop fest!
(don’t mind the text, I was just goofing around. yes, I started studying japanese seriously, after years of just thinking about it)
One thing I was thinking about a lot, Quality VS. Speed. Yes there’s people who can do high quality comic page with shortest amount of time, but the true is, even pro of a pro themselves need to sacrifice some quality for quantity. (looking at Sincity family values) The question is, how much can you sacrifice, how much can you get away with it and not wanting to burn them all later when you look at them again. I doubt I will find answer until I just do it.
also, from the out-of-no-where department: My loot this week
Zouichi, I love you, please marry me, let’s make synthetic baby together!
ok, I have been up for about 20 hours now, bahahahahhaa. I’ve been testing Dr. ph. Martin’s color inks, I really like working with it, probably more than cg now. This was first time I did ‘proper’ coloring this way, they are still just (not so) quicky tests tho.
Tried with black solid line.
With brown line, looks like old school shoujo illustrations @_@
I like this one the best, I started with very faint brown line, which eventually got covered and become as if there is no line, yum.
need more practice!
(if you are wondering why there’s papermark on these, I used scrap papers I’ve been hoarding keeping, gotta use them up!)
got tired of inking, so I played with colors.
I want to do proper color piece using this style, but it would probably take all day *sigh*, plus I only have two brushes, had to clean them thoroughly after using it to ink, otherwise, you know, arrgh.
Speedball ink, I like it so far, need to try some more tho, before I decide if I like it better than higgins.
I also got proper brush cleaner, and this is my poorman brush soaking unit: 
Random find, Utada Hikaru reading Biomega. 
I went to dentist, therefore: comic.
Some commissions I’ve done a while ago. Finally able to show them.
Google+ inspired some doodles. Made with Manga Studio.
