Hare_Fear.Charmy

Here is a comic I did for Hareruya, from our little Fear and Removal series, themed on the Khans of Tarkir charms. The concept was just what each clan's kind of pick-up line would be.

The punchline voice was inspired by Boogie, using his turtley voice.

Easter Eggs: Handsome mugshot guy. Do you like luxury skit. Plus all the backgrounds are for the appropriate Khans trilands. Glasses on the Jeskai guy.

Posted from the future for Valentine's Day 2015.

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Fun_ZeroJourno

A sketch of an idiot I used to know.

Posted 2/16/15

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Fun_HareNariKun

This is a personified version of the Hareruya mascot.
His official name is Hareruya-kun, but I call him Harekun. This was to commemorate the launch of the second shop opening Hareruya-Narita, and to kick off Inktober 2014. I never really used a G-Pen before, so this month was dedicated to using it every day to see if I could get a feel for what the jazz was all about. It certainly started fun and enlightening...but how did it end?

Posted 2/15/15.

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Fun_CommanderShiko

Missed my train back home from FNM so I camped out at a Sukiya and played some Magic and drew and came back and tried coloring it a little.
I used a picture of the pencils since my camera captured with with an interesting reddish tint I wanted to use. I was thinking of stories as I drew it, and it first I just wanted to draw an arrogant Commander player. But maybe she has to challenge the Seven Warlords of the Sea--but for Commander--and if she can't beat them, she dies. Of course when she gets to the last one, she discovers there's actually one more...the one behind it all. Even a prodigy like her surely doesn't stand a chance.

The name Shiko comes from how Japanese people pronounce "C" and a common suffix "ko" for girls. The kanji in the final means unsanctioned, which is how Commander events usually go, and since this would be games with actual lives on the line and stuff, surely these battles would be off the books.

Also, it's actually 2/7/15 today!

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Fun_Pizzabbit

More from last homework sketches' session, on the same "what were you doing last Saturday?" prompt.
This time, we've got jKids who went to the moon, raced a bear, and talked with cat.  Plus a coupla jKids talking about eating delicious food, too.

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Fun_Maku

I literally have to see if I remember how to do this.
Exhausted after losing horrifically at FNM, I missed my stop coming home because I fell asleep on the train. My options were to wait in the open-air station with the bums and bees until the first train at 6am, grab a six minute and 4,000 yen cab, or camp out at a 24 hour McDonald's until train time. Fortunately I had my art kit with me as always, so I chowed down to some long-lost McCheeseburgers and McFly's, hoped I wouldn't have to pee or poo for the next several hours, and camped out while coloring this and listening to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu on my dying phone.

Made it back in One Piece.

(Today is 8/16/14)

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AV_anp.iScream_Preview

I try and try, but the only thing I do? I scream.

We've got a rough patch...will update when we can.

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Fun_Pikajuice

On an elementary visit day, some chibi jKids handed me stationary and asked me to draw them things. 
 And things I did draw.

Thingachus, actually.

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Fun_hws.Moonproof

Some homework sketches for the jKids. The prompt was, "What were you doing last Saturday?" 

I encouraged them to be creative, and they came out with some nice lines. For example, "I was contacting to space," and "I was eating people," "I was talking with dog." Beautiful stuff!

Side note: when given total creative freedom, jFolk love talking about eating other people, I've noticed.

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AV_anp.BurgerFool_Doods

Here are some dudely doodads for our main May ALT poster after our first wave here.

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Fun_BreakYou

I bought some ¥440 sketch cards and thought I'd give them a try, with the only goal being bombastic sloganism contrasting with an unlikely source.

The durable kentboard sketchcard paper is really thick, so I can't sleeve them (I wanted to start making custom creature tokens) and the surface is tough, but I'm happy enough with them.

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Fun_hws.Bugorilla

Playing with language and what it looks like to me in these homework sketches.

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AV_anp.BurgerFool_Doodads

Some more doodads from our main May ALT poster and our second wave's here.   Note the One Piece Shanks Tanks from the tongue-twister section.
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Fun_hws.CoCoz

Here's a Coco Lupia homework sketch for a Duel Masters fan.

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Fun_OneGoku

I drew a quick little Goku for a jKid, coloring only with Staedtler and Zebra pens. It's Goku, but with a twist.  The twist is that he's about to don Luffy's hat.Clever, I know.  Reuxben

AV_anp.KappasLock

Here is our secondary ALT poster anchor.

The primary poster is here.

I didn't have any pics of the final board, but this is the only joosy part, really.

You can see the featured segment here.

This month's anchor is my favorite jCreature, the Kappa.

Here's
a
process
of
Copicking
this
guy
up.




I
got
to
really
get
in
there
with
the
greens.




And
contrasting
this
with
earlier
Kappa,
I
feel
I
got
better
with
the
stripes.

Here's
a
making-of
the
piece
at
large.

















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AV_anp.KappasLock_Doodads

Here are doodads for our secondary April ALT poster, the main being here. I had decided to try to do a main doodad each poster, time permitting, as a sub-anchor to extend the interest of the piece across the full extent of the page, so here are the pencils for this poster's sub-anchor.

These are the inks on it. The design was inspired by Monster Hunter Epic, a manga I picked up a while ago and whose style is incredible. I love the Wayne Reynolds-esque, bulky armor style Monster Hunter seems to have, where the armor on characters seems to be a tad bit unrealistically cumbersome, such that you wonder how they can actually fight effectively in their gear. It's not terribly practical the more you think about it, but it looks so cool. So this was me trying to emulate that, plus Monster Hunter's tendency to have fur puff out of armor at every possible chance.

Here a section on goofs. It's a lighter version than the main poster since we simply have less space to work with on the secondary posters.

This is a little, literal Easter Egg I left on the back of the poster. If you find it, you get a fabulous prize. Nobody found it.

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Fun_hws.DotToPlot

More art alters to that dot to dot sheet, this time riffing off the shapes they made.

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AV_PamyuChu

Some color alters to worksheet I made on the passive voice were made by me.
Nintendo characters, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and DC characters were drawn.

Inks were drawn.

But pencils were put down first.

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Fun_DinoJam

Some art alters to a worksheet I made. I guess these are technically homework sketches, too?

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Fun_hws.Ato

This homework sketch made me smile. Not only is it cuz it's a delightful typo, but because it's regarding one of the uniquest topics I ever encountered, being a Walking Dead fan in Japan.

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AV_anp.Foolie

Here is the final main April ALT poster, including a spotlight on traditional US gags, Groucho, US comedy styles, a simple joke, a Truth or Dare demo, and an Easter corner.  For a breakdown of the incidental doodads of the poster, go here.

This is a walkthrough of coloring our anchor image. 

The walkthrough of the facial area is here.

I am not sure how the gag flower would work in this case, but just go with it.

The pose, if you caught it, is modeled after Groucho's famous cigar-twiddling one, like the pelican and the pickles, but with the Shyamalaian twist that it's not a cigar but a bill on a string that's being twiddled.

Also, the Joker thing was a reference to the use of that word in Japanese society for seemingly arbitrary reasons.

You'll find the word "Joker" on things that have nothing to do with comedy or light-hearted things, like there's a men's fashion magazine called "Joker," when it should be rather be called, "Expensive Things Nobody is Ever Going to Buy-er."

Of this one cooking manga called "Hungry Joker."

Nothing to do with the concept of the joker as we know it.

I think it just means a "cool guy."

Anyway, here it doubles as actually applying to comedy, too, so hopefully Japanese people learn something about the proper usage of the word.

Or not.

I get paid either way, all the same.
 

*Rimshot* 

And here is the "staff" photo for this anchor.  Fun stuff.
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AV_anp.Foolie_Facer

Here's more from the main April ALT poster. 

 

This is a process of the anchor image's face.

 

It was fun drawing a girl with a mustache.  

 

I drew groucho glasses before, once, and I remember it was fun then, too. 

Anyway, now we have copic technology.

Here's a breakdown of coloring in the head.

I tried stacking these images vertically so that they can appear larger here by default.

But it leaves a lot of space to fill here.

So I'll say that I just got some new yellows for this one, and I was pumped to use them.

The other thing was, like I mentioned, I was excited to use the Groucho glasses symbology.

And one of the coolest thing is when a girl is unafraid to be goofy.

So that's why we drew her being goofy.

Does that make sense?

Anyway, the styling was inspired by Harley Quinn, which is why the shoulders--well, we'll get to that next time.

I did spend a lot of time pondering coloring half her hair black, half red.  

 

But I couldn't convince myself beyond reasonable doubt that such a color choice was wise. 

 

So I backed out of it and went on a purely Harley Quinn route.

This was also fun--drawing money. Luckily I still have a US one, five, and ten in my wallet, which I was able to use as a model.

 

I didn't go as detailed as I would have liked for time limits, but it was still fun.  I kinda wish I hadn't used such a bright green, though--even though a real ten is more pink than anything.

 

And the whoopee cushion! That was really fun coloring, perhaps because red is such a bold, dangerous color; it's really hard to mask red errors. 

 

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AV_anp.Foolie_Doodads

Here are some doodads from our main April ALT News poster.

The theme was comedy, so I was excited to share some light information on comedy. When people say "comedian," I feel like they mostly mean a "humor-based TV personality," rather than somebody who stands in front of a crowd and tries to make them laugh via monologue. 

As it was April Fools, I also showed them how to do traditional US pranks.  I did a mime demo for elemkids and they really enjoyed it.

 

I also added an interactive part of the poster, where you can spin the Pocari Sweat to learn how to play Truth or Dare.

Here are some headings that I thought came out pretty neat.

Plus there's a simple little joke, illustrated to boot, for easy Japanese consumption. I was pumped to learn from a jKid that he actually got and laughed at the joke!

Success!

Something neat I learned was that Japanese people think "Punchline" is Japanese-English, rather than English-English. That was kinda funny, itself.

I wonder if anyone understood the Groucho part, though.

Anyhoo.

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AV_DontPlay_Cowboy_Preview

Fade to etc.

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AV_DontPlay_Bang_Preview

That's what he said.

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AV_DontPlay_DontLook_Prev

Don't be a fool.

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AV_anp.EmoKidz

Here's the second half of our second March ALT poster, first half here.

I finished this right around closing time, hence the nightshot photo. Consequently, I can't remember what doodads I had here.

This was kinda inspired by last year's finale poster, in that I wanted to capture a slice of possible reality. More on that here.

I can't remember why, but I decided not to track the process as closely on this one, so not too many process shots, unfortunately.

For example, here's the process of the dude character. His hair ended up a bit too Final Fantasy...

The girl character ended up looking a little too ice-queen.

I wanted here to look sort of like Terra in that final episode of Teen Titans, aloof and oblivious to the guy, but she's just too distant.

The uniform swirl into mist was ok. Wish I had a deeper black-substitute. I try not to use pure black, so I have to make due with C-7 and maybe mix in a super dark blue or purple, but need something better...

Here's how our two characters meet.  To help these two pop, I had the background reduced to basically cutouts, silhouettes.  I liked the effect, but wish I could faded them out a bit more. I was right up on the deadline on this one, so I just had to tear in with pure black markers and pens, but if I could do it over, I'd try a light gray wash or something, with a light blue to push the background itself further back.

This  is what I call the "staff photo," and I love that feeling of finishing a piece and looking back at all my team who helped me to the finish line.  The paper I use to test colors is now packed with colors from future posters, and it itself looks kinda like an abstract piece.

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AV_anp.EmoKidz_Pencils

These are the pencils to the anchor image of our secondary March ALT poster.

The main school's poster is here and here.

This poster's kind of inspired partly by the final episode of Teen Titans between Terra and Beast Boy, but a lot by that Tenchi in Tokyo opening bit when Tenchi meets Sakuya in passing and neither realize who the other is/will be.

That scene has stuck with me since middle school and is perhaps one of the main reasons I love trains so much: they represent that sort of fateful/unwitting meeting of future ties.

I love that stuff.

Anyway here's a close up of our female lead character.

For this one I wanted to end the school year with a more realistic take since I usually don't draw people too realistically.

The previous year I had done riffs on students, but it was just for that one school, so to get some balance this year, I just went with realistic possible-students.

So this is not a real student, but I was using photo reference to get the uniform and hair style.

Here's a process of coloring the girl's face. I had just picked up some new skin colors and was pumped to give them a try here.  Mainly super light E's, but I believe I had just read something about using light reds for more blood-rich areas like the ears and most noticeably the nose, so I was eager to try that here, but the red I had was still just too strong for my taste.

Here's the second part of the process I had also got a lighter brown since my browns were too intense for agreeable brown hair, so I anchored this on a brown called Campaign. I would go on pick up some more browns.  The glasses were also a bit curious. I need some more black-ish colors.  I heard a while ago never to color anything pure black, and I've stuck with that pretty well, but I'm not convinced I've cracked this.

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