Chinese New Year Begins

Chinese New Year Begins; 2008 February 7 and the animal is the Rat.
(so I am in good time)

sorry

After being offline so long and this is all I can do ...?
yeah - sorry for that - better things will come, but ... #looks around#
... the Mosskat demands .... #worships the Mosskat#

Blah blah sketch and last voting.

Christmas in a week! =D Happy holidays folks to those who celebrate it :B Mine has been pretty nifty so far!

So this is a sketch for a graphic I intended to include in my website design but ended up scrapping - Mopil wandering around some old books and parchments. Was playing with the idea of shadows :3.

Oh! please go see the website! It's called Just a Glimpse. It's still under construction so try not to trip! Oh man, I'm still gushing over my own domain name X3. Thank you Ms Noniiiii!!

Tie so far between Weekly Sketch and Seven Sketch. Here's the last chance to choose! Please don't vote again if you voted for one of these two already.

Koons! KOONS!

Ur... more or less got the body down for the Koon (Mossie's species) down. Made her more furry less humanesque (is that a word 9_9?) :3 Tried blue this time :3 How's everyone? =D Been busy busy busy :3 hope to see some more uploads from folks this x-mas :3

Sarah Cottongirl

Nothing to do with the actual cotton... well maybe just a lil. Here's some random sketches of Sarah, from Las Lindas. :3

Voting!

Sorry folks, no sketch from me this week. Got a job to finish and a bunch of stress just crashed down on me. Instead let's vote on the name of the blog shall we? :3

1) Weekly Blot
2) Seven Sketch
3) Graphite Knights
4) Blot o'clock
5) Was suggested we keep Weekly Sketch
6) Sketchophrenics
7) Sketophrenia

Rum Truffles are Yummy

Sorry, this has nothing to do with my pictures. XD Just felt like sharing.

I somehow missed an upload week 'cause of Turkey Day... :x I fail, haha. To make up for this oops I shall post two pics! Woo!...Woo?

Anyway~


A very rough sketch of an art trade I've owed for a while. Gah, so busy. x_x I hope I finish it soon.



And here are some faces of characters/species I've had in my mind for a while. The bottom two are siblings and the top guy is a big flamboyant meanie. XD

Random Faces

Just something that was lying around, hehe.

I practiced some manga-like faces and then adding some of that to some of my characters. You can see the two Mora heads in the center. The right one is the usual way I draw her and to the left the new one Im trying. ;)

Manga Synopsis

I was checking out some mangas being sold in the local bookshop, and I noticed a trend with the summaries. You know, the synopsis of the story written on the back cover of the manga?

Manga synopsises are terrible. First of all, there're way too many mangas in the market right now, and not many of them are of good quality. (Then again, I'm picky. Which brings me to...) Second, people tend to have different tastes in what they like and what they don't like. As someone who wants to buy a manga or comic book or whatever, I want to know exactly what kind of manga/book I'm getting without having to do research on the Internet.

Some manga synopsises are just too damn generic, ambiguous or nebulous.

"Join the hilarious adventures of an ordinary schoolboy who turns into a magical girl! Takoyaki-kun must protect his secret as he tries to live a normal life with his fun friends."

Okay, so I get the gist of the story, but there are about three other series on the other shelf with a similar magical girl comedy theme. What kind of adventures is Takoyaki-kun having? How is it any more hilariouser than the other (apparently) funny stories I want to buy?

Synopsises with question marks just annoy me.

"Ebiko is a giant robot who battles the evil forces of the Gyudon Empire, but when she's not keeping the earth safe she's disguised as a clumsy schoolgirl! Will she stop the great Gyudon Empire and pass her exams? Will she ever unleash the true power of her Sushibot creator? Will she ever find the meaning of love?"

Stop teasing me, you teasing tease! Besides, the only people who'd ever care about the answers would be people who are already following the story.

And then there're these...

"The manga that spawned the hit anime series is here! Follow the hilarious adventures of the shy ninja boy, Tempura-kun, who has to cope with living with a dozen sexy pirates!"

Manga summaries that capitalise on the existing popularity of an anime series are okay, I guess, but if it's really the manga from a 'hit' anime series, then you don't have to be told which anime it came from. And if you didn't realise that the manga was from the 'hit' anime series, then perhaps the anime wasn't that famous to begin with. Besides, I wouldn't want to buy a series solely because the anime has a million fans or something.

(As an example, maybe the million fans like the hit anime because they like the hot ninja-on-pirate or ninja-on-pirate-on-pirate-on-pirate ecchi, but I'm more into the sexy giant robot-on-giant robot action genre.)

Anyway, as much as I rant, there was something I liked during my bookshop raid earlier today. Check out the cover of Koromo-chan:

http://www.troubleseekers.com/images/copyright/cosplay_koromo-chan_cover1.gif
http://www.troubleseekers.com/images/copyright/cosplay_koromo-chan_cover2.gif

I really like the synopsis - it's eye-catching, creative and more importantly it tells the potential buyer what kind of style or flavour of manga he/she/it can expect. I'm sure Koromo-chan isn't the first manga/comic book to have an illustrated synopsis, but I think it was well done. In any case, it convinced me to buy the book, since it looked precisely like the kind of manga I'd like. It was a good purchase. :D

Well, that's my rant. I know one particular person on this blog plans to publish some mangas of her own, and I wanted to tell her that I think illustrated summaries trump boring text synopsises any day of the week.

On a side note, I think I should make a manga starring a giant robot ninja who transforms into a clumsy school girl and has to hide her secret from her housemates, who are all sexy magical pirates. They will all be named after food because it's 3am, and I'm as hungry as I am delirious.

Will she ever find the meaning of love? That's an obvious yes, because there'll be plenty of hot, sexy giant robot-on-giant robot action.

New Blog Name Suggestion (Part 2)!

Suggestions so far!!

1) Weekly Blot
2) Seven Sketch
3) Graphite Knights
4) Blot o'clock
5) Was suggested we keep Weekly Sketch
6) Sketchophrenics
7) Sketophrenia

C'mon guys! Keep em coming! And stop giving me that crap about not being good at names!!

*yawn* It's the crack o dawn....so I decided to scan and post a few pics first up.

Angel.
I drew this a few months back and
I keep coming back to it but I havent been able to finish it. I plan to CG it eventually and all that jazz but....lets jus say PS and I dont mix too well.


Tar found this when she came to visit in Feb x_x I drew it last year!! She told me to upload it but I just found it again last night! lol I like the style ^^



Lastly a totally incomplete fanart thingie of Noodle and 2D...o_o yea...I like em... so? ;__;
Anyone on here know of or are into dolfies?
Is it ok if I post some dolfie shaaa next post Kat-sama?

Peace and all that jazz
~Ren

Technique link!

A useful link for folks who want to know how edges on objects appear in various light forms, near, far etc. Take a look! =D

SUGGEST THE OFFICAL NAME OF WEEKLY SKETCH!

We can always go with Weekly Sketchif you all have gotten comfortable with it but it doesn't hurt to come up with some other names that we can vote on =D I want to design the banner and such so I need to know our theme and such.

My suggestion!

Weekly Blot!

Throw em out guys! let's hear your discussions =D

Oh man late post

Sorry sorry! I'm really late with this one but i've been up to my neck in a bunch of commissions. No real private work of my own to show today.

Here's a commission i'm currently working on for Deathnite ^_^ His grey fox character Brian.
Brr it's so cold right now in Jamaica. *hugs self*
I'll be sending out another letter about some changes I got in mind for the weekly sketch including some design layouts etc. I think it's safe to say everyone's been damn busy? God knows I am. Oh posting another entry after this to vote on the official name of the blog :3

Give Chalosan a cheer! he's been promoting our little blog already in his journal XD!! ( I was waiting till we looked more nifty but hey! I love the love! )

"I surrender!" cried the little red radish.

Haha, oh man. My odd sense of humor got the better of me this week. I hope this doesn't scare anyone. XD

No pencil

I was drawing all day yesterday and I kill my lead sooo....I just used a pen XD. I was bored and after watching a movie called tombstone I sketched her on a little note pad >_>. I wish I could fix a few things. I haven't posted in awhile so.. here!

Scanner-rific

YES. My scanner is back in business. Let the ridiculousness begin.

Naschie

This is another character i was working on just trying to flesh em out.

Nursing for Youth Link

A sketch for an illustration to go with YL's article on nursing. I have a lot to fix up before this things ready for its close up. T_T

Modern girl Vixy

Just like the Hope pic. I updated Vixy's look a bit. And gave her Etna's pigtails! XD

Ayla Portrait...sorta

Phew!! First of all, sorry for not being active in the blog for the past week, I took a trip outta state and didnt have access to much interweb! I had another sketch in mind but I did this one last night and kinda liked it enough to post first. It's Ayla (sorry TJ I dont think I'm gonna finish it so it goes here)
As I said before she looks diff everytime I draw her.

Now that I think about it....this is pretty lame compared to all the awesome that has popped up on the blog...*pout*

Amano-y

I've been experimenting with ink sketches for the past week. These two were made with a .o5 mm copic pen (they're so much fun D:). Anyway, these sketches in particular came out kinda Amano-esque. XD Just felt like sharing 'em, hehe.

No name

I haven't named this girl yet >_<. Any way I made this sketch just for the blog. I see alot of mistakes in it x_x. buuut yea I just like the way the sketch looks in general. I'm sorry it took so long for me to post. I'll be posting more not that my i got the chord to my scanner. Enjoy!

Rothqueves Groupie XD

Ayla, Tayten and Wescott! As adults! =D

Katinka Katze

working on a story besides the children of O thingy, and this is one of the characters.

The Panda by ... a panda

Kate new look

Just reworked my very first anthro char, kate.
Also. Im very happy how her sword looks. I actualy used a ruler there. YAY!

(btw, Kat told me how to give my pics that look and now I can't stop using it! hehe)

Artsy - concept stage

Just trying to sketch out a character that's been bouncing around my mind for a while. I'll explain more about her once I've drawn a full body shot. XD

Esroh - drawing her again finally! =D

Welp I'm drawing her in her old style :3 (redesigning everyone did I mention X3 ? )

Shard

This was an early draft of shard, we altered here a bit later down the line too.

Vasilly and Ash

these are some rough run throughs i took off vasilly an ash, we liked the ideas i had for vasilly so we kept em but ash underwent some changes.

The Children of O

This is a character i was helping to design the look for for a comic me and some friends are trying to put together. i'm not the one drawing it though just writing, it's coming along slowly but surely and with fingers crossed we hope to have it published in 2007. the characters name is teflon and he can manipulate metals so i tried to draw him wearing alot of "bing bling"as they term it nowadays.

Hope Ravenhurst

Just recently I been practicing a new look for my characters. Not like what Kat is doing, because Im not totaly redesigning them.

Lets say... just trying to update and improve my art a lil bit, paying more attention to details and stuff. For this pic. I used a set of clothes I saw on a girl the other day and liked it. :)

Hey Ren! Look, Ayla!

Oh man, Ren just uploaded the coolest pic of Ayla o_o! I just had to rummage through my sketchbook and scan this baby to show her. I promised a long time ago and completely forgot. Hope you like Ren XD! *snoog*

Ayla 1

*tilts head* I'ma lil late in arriving ^^; I been running around with a friend that was visiting and hadn't much time to be online and stuff.

So! After I have hooked up the scanner and reinstalled stuftz I can post! Tis Ayla looking a bit dif (;o; She never looks the same twice!) I'm not good wid nipples so I leave em out x_x



Drawn in my sketch journal that TJ bought me.

Voodoo - indi girl

Got this idea about a medicin girl - but I figured voodoo in the titel wut make you all look more ;)

There is gonna be a fireplace infront of her, so you wont see her one leg is drawn to short :P

Drimi's Panda

Drimi asked me to design a panda anthro for his avatar.  
I think I did these up during the commercial breaks for Cold Case.

Ignore the cat girl and the failed bunny.  Those were still-births of my still rusty art brain.



I know it's not much, but the only other form of work I've done were the 
objects I did in Mrs. Wheeler's class and who wants to see how I managed
to f*ck up a tea pot in 5 seconds? :D 

About cows and girls

I see that redesigning characters is the thing now, so I did some makeup treatment to my lil cowgirl, Mora.
The one in her underware was just for fun.

Let's get this Party started!

Hey folks! Just redesigning an old character.

Here's an idea

Here's an idea for a comic: The Mighty Caffein' Powerpoint Rangers.

It's the story of five zany office workers (wearing ties) who, when danger or giant monsters strike, transform into the MIGHTY CAFFEIN' POWERPOINT RANGERS (wearing five different coloured ties). They use their awesome powers to...

Well, mostly, sit around and have a meeting to discuss what strategies should be implemented, who should take the blame, making powerpoint slides to showcase what the monster of the week can do, cost-justifying the use of superweapons to destroy the enemy, and etc.

When they eventually get around to actually doing something (and after a lunch break), they'll summon their Officesupplyzords (Staplerzord, Paperclipzord, Ballpointpenzord, etc) which can combine to form the giant robot, RegionalDistrictManagerZord. It will proceed to lay the smackdown on the rampaging enemy by crushing it with an excessive amount of paperwork.

Sure, by the time the powerpoint rangers get around to actually agreeing to do anything, the monster of the week would've annihilated half the city already. (Assuming it was rampaging at a casual pace.) But that's cool, because the company the powerpoint rangers work for are the ones who get paid to rebuild the city everytime it gets blown up. HA!

Feel free to to pick up this idea and run with it. It's like a memetic pair of scissors.