Fun_LikeIDo

G-Pen and minimal Copics to round this off. Keep trying for the two-tone motif, but never quite gels.

Fun Facts: Wanted to test out using a ruler with a G-Pen, which is scary, but I think I'm getting the hang of it, though I keep smearing the lines unless I am paying intense attention.

Easter Eggs: Kanji is To minus the Sai.

1/7/16

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Fun_LikeIDo_Lines

Drawing these guys for Inktober 15.

I wanted to draw something with backgrounds, because love the way they can suggest a story in an image, as if you're just visiting, poking in to something in progress.

I was thinking of those lonely times in Japanese restaurants during crowded company parties.
And also Yorkside Pizza.

I love cameras for how quickly they can establish a world. Studied a pic of Mat and Kim.

1/7/16

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Fun_ItGetsWorser

One of my favorite drawings of 2015 here.
I had just finished Inktober, and wanted to go heavy into pencils, couldn't bring myself to ink him.

And hey, the old counter thing says this is my 1,000th post! WOW!
But that's inaccurate because I'm still behind and missed a post a few summers ago, etc.

It's the naught that counts.

1/6/16

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Fun_Sworda

Practicing PhotoJamz and cheesy processing with an old Yale photo.

Back to the mouse...

1/6/16

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Fun_Sworda_Inks

Continuing on with G-Pen inking practice, this time mixing in Microns.

1/6/16

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Fun_Sworda_Pencils

I found some blank, heavy postcards at the art store that looked so great for drawing so I set out to figure out what to do with them.

I haven't drawn many swords so thought I'd try something like that out here. Only tangentially inspired by Jake Wyatt here.

1/6/16

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Fun_YellowGreenRobotixz

I rarely draw robots, and feel this is anomalous.

1/6/15

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Fun_HelmetHat

Continuing a study session of some photos.

1/6/16

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Fun_HeadHolda

With visitations from the underwhelmed,
She fears to hold my broken head,
Why were you gone, why were you gone so long?
She is the reason why I still believe.

A study.

1/6/16

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Fun_BusinessLady

Messing with my pointless business card using a photo study.

1/5/16

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Fun_BusinessZero

Messing with my pointless business card using Zero.

1/5/16

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Fun_BusinessNyao

Messing with my pointless business card using Nyao.

1/5/16

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Fun_SpaceIsThePlace

I love purple a great deal.

Talented people are capable of understanding us.

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Fun_TheCity

Drawing and thinking about the city.

Study from a photo.

1/4/16

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Fun_TheCity_Lines

Studying a photo.

1/4/16

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Fun_TakeALookAtMe

An Inktober 2015 piece I decided to color.

なぜ？

1/3/16

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Fun_YalvardBoourns

Don't need to be from the future to know how the Yale-Harvard Game goes in 2015...

1/3/16

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Fun_SmokersChoice

Never outgrow these guys. A desire, statement, and imperative.

1/3/16

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Fun_Pikz4Rill

Drawing Pikachu cuz it's the only pika one could chu. Also wanted to give some rarely used Copics a chance.

1/3/16

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Fun_Stupidですか?

I wanted to mess with random Japanese and a dumb sketch on a piece of cardboard I had laying around.

Mission ayawnplished.

1/3/16

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Fun_ShoulderznStripez

A little Inktober 15 piece. The past future and further future collide into mediocrity.

1/3/16

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Fun_NPR

Studying a piece by kr0npr1nz...

1/3/16

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Fun_Toxicity

Celebrating the cap for GP Chiba 2015...

1/3/16

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Fun_Resto

My favorite cafe. I used to spend hours and hours and hours here drawing.

I got to talk to one of my art heroes here, too. Did that really happen?

1/3/16

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Hare_Tok.Sunshine

This was one of three commissions I received to design Hareruya player cards. This is the head honcho himself, Tomoharu Saito. You can win this series of player cards from their lucky pack dealio by scoring a B (or higher, I imagine).

Here's what the background looks like. I always think its neat to see the stuff all out of context. I really had fun with the front branch, oddly enough. The trees were tedious but fun, too.

Easter Eggs: My favorite mana symbol in the clouds.

And here are our pencils. The brief was to reference his old Stompy days, so we were to reference the old Might of Oaks of that era. I even worked the squirrel in there.

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Fun_Zombiez

I tried randomly mixing some sketches with photos I've taken one day and they came out pretty neat, certainly a change of pace. This one was from a photo of a station I hit after FNM sometimes.

As I noodled with the photo, it felt definitely horror-capable, so I tried to see if I could turn the image into something out of like a horror-survival game or something.

Fun experiment.

Easter Eggs: Ghosts!

The drawing was the lingering first sketch from my current sketchbook. Or I guess the one before the current one, I'm working on like three simultaneously.

4/7/15

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Fun_Megz

A quick drawing of one of the best, most engaging youtube personalities out there, Megan from Card Shop Life.

Someone I know is trying to do a painfully weak impression of her and it is quite irritating. Send help.

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Hare_Fear.Tragedy

This was our third Hareruya comic for our Fear series. This was in the grey audition piece area. It's been so long, I don't exactly remember what the situation was, but I believe I wanted to see if we could churn one out on a timely theme again, this time about the impending retirement of MTGO V3 and the horrific status the website was in and still is in now as of this writing (4/7/15).

This is what the raw inks looked like.
Fun Facts: The game state is actually taken from the match in question. Some obnoxious guy was playing all his cards upside down in an exceedingly cute way that assumes his opponent has no knowledge of the game to meet him in a feature match, so he is helpfully letting the opponent so freely access the information his cards coyly protect when viewed from traditional angles.

Here are the pencils.
Not to give his opponent a pass, she was playing with lands in front as well, though with the traditional degree of dirtbaggery that doesn't involve 180 degree card flips of help to no one and which no one asked for. So they should all be DCI-banned, is what I'm saying.

Easter Eggs:Tragic Slip.

Anyway, this one also didn't end up making print as they were still pondering how to implement comics, I believe...wasn't kept entirely in the loop.

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Fun_HeraldGirl

This is the thrilling pen I was using for Inktober 2014. This was also one of the first pieces I did with it. I'm not entirely sold on them, but I do love the feel of the G-Pen, and I imagine it could be a main weapon given more practice and comfort. For now, I feel a little shaky or just like I'm forced into uncomfortable or unnatural strokes, but that might be due to not having much space to maneuver my drawing surface. I also have that constant nagging worry I'm going to smear the just-dropped ink (no nightmare scenarios yet, though).

I drew this in my smaller "mobile" sketchbook and the ink works well with such sturdy paper, but as I would later learn, it would be a bit harsher on my softer desk-sketchpad paper.

This girl looks like someone who'd be working at the Yale Herald, hence the name.

4/6/15

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Fun_Cowabunga

Drew this to mess around with my new copic sketches in concert with my new fuda-pen, I guess they call it? Was thrilled to see the ink didn't smear. I inked the entire thing with that pen, no fine-touch copic inks. So all and all a successful experiment.

Also it's called Cowabunga cuz I was listening to this a lot while drawing it.

Kinda reminds me of Jhonen Vasquez.

4/6/15

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