Art Rambles

I've done a lot of exploration of my manga drawings since I started college. I look back at the doodles I saved up since last September and realized just how coming here has released me of my inhibitions to draw certain things. And all of this is to blame on Anime Club. (40% excuse, 60% truth) Meeting talented artists in Anime Club has really motivated me to improve, and little by little, I see myself just finding drawing more easy and more enjoyable. Though my improvement rates might just as well be as fast as Sakura deciding which order to take whilst reading from a dessert menu (which, believe me, will take a while). 

Fanart has been easier for me to draw, I find. It used to take me twice or three times the effort to draw fanart instead of original art. Which is quite strange, because people usually find it easier to just reference off an existing character than to think up their own. It's probably because my original characters are so simple it's painful, but I make up for that with a long background story, which only a select people know. 

Avatar the Last Airbender

This is probably by far the most satisfying fanart I did since fall, and it's not even to do with the glowy things. It's also kind of ironic that this isn't even a fanart of an anime, but a Nickelodeon cartoon...but it is my kind of show, Avatar is; a bunch of kids with super awesome martial arts/elemental skills. I'm just too much of a sucker for good action scenes...

Though I hate to say it, meeting all these different inspirational artists has made me draw things I would rather be caught dead drawing from some people. So for the sake of making my blog interesting, I shall be brave and show a few examples that hopefully won't come back and haunt me.

Some Shounen-ai or BL ahead:

(Avatar the Last Airbender: we call this ZUKAANG.)

This is part of a long and winding doodle page for one of my friend's birthday in November. It's a good thing I don't bother with details...

(Original)

This one was done on a whim to freak out a friend (male). It served its purpose...

(Gerard Way from MCR) 

This was another birthday present for a friend. Ok, I can't believe I actually went and drew a guy from an emo band. NAKED, no less. But oh boy, the nosebleeds this caused. I've never seen my non-otaku friend fangirl so much over a drawing.

(Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Yoko) I don't think I've drawn so much skin on anything other than from live models...and her PROPORTIONS are just too much to bear...

-cringes-

But at the end of the day, I still like drawing my own characters. It seems a bit boring to most, because I reuse the same characters over and over again with similar outfits, but in the end I still like drawing scenes with a hint of action, but not so much aggression or passion. Something like cool-action? (doesn't make sense...)

Yeah. It feels the best when I draw something like this. =D

-sighs in satisfaction-