CGs

My first CG ever, complete with graphite smudges, horrible shading, and psychedelic background. Doesn’t it just make you want to poke your eyes out with a pencil? This was made with Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0, my first graphic program, and a mouse.

This one was also done with Adobe PhotoDeluxe. I think this was either my fourth or fifth CG. Notice the inhumanly pink hue of Seung Mi Na’s skin. Did I mention that version of PhotoDeluxe had no layer option?

Okay, this one’s a bit more recent: I drew this for Echelon’s very excellent and addicting DBZ fanfic “The Kakarotte Factor” (which, unfortunately, has not been updated for a year or so, which is a shame; what could’ve been a random silly Goku-gender-switch fic turns out to be a deep-rooted study of the cast’s inter-relationships, the Saiyan race, and the impact of a single person on an entire universe). This one was one of the first, if not the first CG I made using Adobe Photoshop 7.0, about a little more than a year ago.

Sketches

My first anime pic...ever. Good thing I have a grand total of three sketchbooks, and was able to locate this easily (I draw mostly on bond paper I filch from the printer). For some reason, I chose a female Ryouga. Yes, I’m twisted. I used an old Ranma ½ manga of my sister’s for reference. Oh, my God, I can’t stop laughing. Go ahead, laugh with me.

This one contains my first Ranma and Akane, my third Ranko, and my fifth Ryouga. I actually colored this one in Adobe PhotoDeluxe, but at the moment I can’t find the location of the CG. All the better, I guess, since it’s not as if the colored version improved the drawing any.

I actually kinda like this one. When I first started drawing anime, I took a sheet of sketchbook paper and doodled Ryouga’s face on it every time my drawing style changed. The oldest Ryouga is at the topmost left corner, and the newest down at the bottom right corner.

I’ve had this Dragonball doujinshi idea roiling my head for a long time, and even now I’m still tempted to get started on it. The above were some of the panels I planned to add. I adored the next generation of Saiyans, and thought it reprehensible that none of them were ever really used to their full potential in GT.

The above is actually a more recent version of my “real” drawing style; I couldn’t find my older, more horrible ones, but I’ll keep trying. Just in case you wanted to know, the one on the left is Resident Evil 2’s Leon Kennedy, and the girl on the right is Soul Calibur’s Seung Mi Na.

I was an X-Men fan long before the movie; I think it started when the first cartoon came out (‘cause I vaguely remember running around and jumping off of sofas trying to fly like Rogue). I hold that series responsible for my somewhat tolerable skills at drawing human beings.

Ah, now we’re onto the IY stuff. Behold—the first Miroku I ever drew! The one beside him is my second Sango—she was much easier to draw than the former (actually, she still is). Notice that I still have shades of my old Ranma ½ drawing style in there.

I don’t remember when I drew this one, except that it was really, really, really early in my IY drawing days (I found it sandwiched between two Ranma ½ doodles). It might be the actual first M/S pic I drew, for all I know, and it looks like it is.

Here’s the second—actually, no, it’s the third—pair pic I ever did of Miroku and Sango. Gee, looking at this, you’d think that I’d stop drawing them right then and there. Hm. As you can see, I had a long, long way to go still.

Hyarrr...this one’s funny, and not even in the the good way. Then again, it’s probably the fourth or fifth pic I ever did of the dynamic duo. Ick. I’d been mulling this particular hot springs-related scene almost from the time I first started drawing these two. Sort of a turnaround on all those same old Peeping Tom scenarios.

I used to draw Sonic the Hedgehog characters when I was really little, back during my anthropomorph phase. But a while ago someone lent me the Sonic Heroes and Sonic Adventure 2 video games, and playing them was utter nostalgia. There’s nothing cooler than playing as Knuckles in the latter and saving yourself during falls by grabbing onto cliffs while your opponents plummet to their death. There’re a lot of Japanese sites that draw the Sonic characters in human form, so I thought: why not? There’s something inherently fun about converting anthropomorphs into humans, and the above is my interpretation of my two favorites, Knuckles and Rouge.

My first ever fumbling attempts at Naruto characters! These were done by memory—I don’t even remember exactly how the Konoha headband emblem looks like—so they’re not accurate. Clockwise, starting from the top center: my trial doodles of Kakashi, Hinata, Sakura, Naruto, and Rock Lee. Seriously, words cannot express just how phenomenal and utterly addicting this series is. This is an anime that takes the most unexpected, unattractive, uninteresting characters and turns them, over the span of two or three episodes, into people worth admiring and cheering for (and yes, drawing on paper). Kakashi is just the epitome of coolness, Naruto you can’t help but root for, and Rock Lee...dude, at first I couldn’t stop laughing every time this guy went on the screen, but now he’s become firmly entrenched in the pantheon of my favorite characters of all time. It’s a series of underdogs, the title character being the biggest one of all (when was the last time you watched a series where the protagonist is far from the strongest among his peers and all but ignored by the major baddies?), and their fight to show the geniuses, the elite, and the naturally gifted that with sheer determination and hard work, they’re just as worthy as they are, if not more.

Doujinshi

     
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This one was a self-described “therapy manga” I did a year or so ago. Basically, it was the result of an explosion of furious creativity I experienced when I stumbled across an online RPG that was set nearly twenty years down the Ranma ½ timeline. I don’t really remember the title of it now, but I do remember being supremely pissed after I read a certain next-generation character’s profile. It galled me so much that before I knew it, I was sketching out my own version of the Ranmaverse's future. It’s done in the sloppy, non-screentoned style that I might use for that continuous IY doujinshi I want to do.