Poser

Did this mostly for the pose and outfit - I have been looking at the arms more now since I got the comment on my "Chinese New Year Begins " http://weeklysketch.blogspot.com/2006/12/chinese-new-year-begins.html#links

Thank you Ren - I will make her look more real now ^_^

Lux Va'mina

Long time I haven't post I know... I just didnt have any sketches at all, if you can believe it.

Year of the Piggies

2007 is the Year of the Pig/Boar! :D This is a sketch of one of the pictures I'll be doing to mark the event. I haven't found any reference photos of pigs sitting on their asses, so the hind leg position (so far) is partly my invention. No idea if pigs can evem sit fully upright on their rumps....anyway.

So....due to some great act of god I got internet access on my computer for a short while....so before the parents come back I'ma post these 2 pics right quick.

First up is a chick I drew while I was bored at work a few weeks ago. I liked it a lot ^^ I might redo it if I can stop trashing everything I been drawing lately.

Second is some fanart.....Hinata and Temari from Naruto, I think they make a hot yuri couple.

Anyway gotta run. Mom needs back the connection. Peace!

Hey guys! Happy New Year!

Hey folks! just wanted to give you a little preview of a book commission I'm working on right now, which would explain why I'm about dead as roadkill, artwise and weekly sketch management-wise.

I'm not entirely sure when all the rush will ease up - I foresee even more hell in the upcoming month. So yah :3 see you when the dust settles a bit, k?

I want to thank everyone who has been steadily contributing to weekly sketch. I figure a lot of folks are having stress (like me XD ) and I really appreciate the effort! :3

I like the idea that Weekly Sketch is a sort of comfortable nook you can always come back to and just show whatever scribbles you churning out without worry of criticism etc.

So Happy New Year guys, I hope we'll keep going strong X3!

long time no post

I ment to post earlier but I had to go to philidelphia for a week, i'm back now so enjoy my craptasticness XP

Haven't been here in a while....

Eureka

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