This is for Deviant art + Wacom Contest, the topic is Good vs. Evil. The deadline was yesterday, I submitted two hours before deadline. Living on the edge! haha.

Evil is easy. Evil is plenty. Evil is comfortable. Humans spend all their lives choosing between what is easy and what [...]]]>

This is for Deviant art + Wacom Contest, the topic is Good vs. Evil. The deadline was yesterday, I submitted two hours before deadline. Living on the edge! haha.

Evil is easy. Evil is plenty. Evil is comfortable. Humans spend all their lives choosing between what is easy and what is right. What you chose is what made you.

Please check it on Devianart → shariot.deviantart.com/art/Mortal-Struggle-123090011

And if you have account there, and you like it, fav it! Thanks!

Here’s WIP:
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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, [...]]]>

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

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 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 [...]]]> 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.

WIP~

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!

First one is not quite photoshop, I did the ink with copic brush pen ‘BS’ [...]]]> 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!

a photoshop quicky, trying to find a way to do quicker cg. I used only one brush on this and tried not to over rendering, need more practice.

Eros and Anteros, you might not be familiar with Anteros (spellchecker ain’t, haha). He was given to Eros as a playmate *snigger* and basically a copy of Eros himself. I haven’t done full-blown CG for a while. The reason? I’m very slow when it comes to CG, and often not happy [...]]]>

Eros and Anteros, you might not be familiar with Anteros (spellchecker ain’t, haha). He was given to Eros as a playmate *snigger* and basically a copy of Eros himself. I haven’t done full-blown CG for a while. The reason? I’m very slow when it comes to CG, and often not happy enough with the result. Perhaps I just need more practice, but I also want to finish a lot of comics. So I’d be happy if I can finish one cg every couple of months T_T

A bunch of WIPs
It started with this:

It just sat there for ages and I can’t bring myself to finish it.

I was coerced (read: kicked in the butt) by my friend to finish this piece, because it was nice concept, so I decided to give it another try, might as well give it a new go, from the start:

a few hours later, getting there:

Started on the faces, probably what took most of the times *polish polish polish* :


Time for the rest of the bodies:

Wings details (day 3):

Various other details that I really dreaded doing:

I almost called this done at one point, but figured since I have come this far…:

It was pretty hard to decide when to call it done, I kept going on and on and on with wings and the ground until I realized it looked quite the same zoomed out, I had a tendency to over-polishing the unseen details, need to work off that habit.

Then I realized, hey, I can do this pretty fast, each one take less than 5 mins. Why not do more for fun?

and more I did.

I’m hooked, I have to wonder [...]]]> It started with helping a friend with some quick graphic.

Then I realized, hey, I can do this pretty fast, each one take less than 5 mins. Why not do more for fun?

and more I did.

I’m hooked, I have to wonder why didn’t I do this sooner? it’s fast, it’s fun. I’ll totally do more of this kinda sketch in the future.