Fan Art Friday: Joss Stone, Sky Hunter, Mateo Cardea from Tall, Dark and Disreputable by Deb Marlowe and Nurse on Call by Edith Cotterill (^_~)

Hi everyone, I know this is might a bit a late. Some of you might have already finished Friday, either in the middle of it or about to start it. Either way, Happy Fan Art Friday. Today I’ll be showing you four fan arts. All of them were created by pencil and watercolour paints a 2B pencil.

I thought I’d start of with an old Children’s programme that came out during the 70’s but was re-mastered and shown during the early 90’s. This programme is called SkyHunter and it was part of a production company called Look and Read. The show had a very interesting plot involving a crow, an endless collection of birds’ eggs, bird thieves, an inspector (Who was known as ‘The Bird Man’) and three children within their pre-teens solving a case. I was about four when this series was released, but I didn’t watch it until I was about eight or nine. I watched this show alongside my class back in primary school. My old music teacher Mrs Perry had the videos and she made a habit of watching at least one episode each Thursday morning. The series was really interesting and I what appealed to me the most other than the plot was the songs that took place whenever there was an interval. These songs were useful because it taught English words in every form to a young audience. Most of the songs were really cheesy but very catchy. This picture has the three preteens. It was drawn by memory. Oh and I just wanted to add, in the re-mastered version, you get to see the three pre-teens in the story as adults, but only during the intervals, they looked like they were in their 20’s. This put a huge smile to my face. (^_^):

The next fan art is Mateo Cardea from Tall, Dark and Disreputable by Deb Marlowe. Mateo has been introduced in a previous novel that Deb had written, (I will not say which one; you’ll have to find it. (^_^)

Drawn by Cherish York © Deb Marlowe

The next fan art is of the novel that I’m currently reading, which is called ‘Nurse on Call.’ As I have previously mentioned in my last post, I will be making more fan art on the novel. Here we see the next stage of Edith’s journey of being a nurse:

 

Drawn by Cherish York © Edith Cotterill

The final fan art I thought I’d dedicate to the musician Joss Stone. Last year, I won her album ‘Soul Sessions Vol.2’ on Magic 105.4’s Test of time. I managed to guess the year correctly through the musical clues and the music played within that year. The year that I guess correctly was 2005. After listening to this album numerous times throughout the rest of 2012 until now, I felt that the least I could do is do a watercolour painting of her.:

   






















There will be more fan art next week! Thanks for your patience and for visiting. Please leave a comment!

Head Casts Sketches from the National Portrait Gallery (^_~)

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all having a great week so far. Today I thought I'd show you some Human Head Cast sketches that I drew at the National Portrait Gallery two Sundays ago. I've made it a habit of mine that every time whenever I finish church, I would visit this gallery to do sketches of some of the portraits, that I find quite appealing. Also whenever I sketch, I listen to Classic FM. I was inspired to draw head casts because while I was drawing portraits I noticed an art student who was drawing casts. I thought I'll give it a go as it has been a while since I have drawn casts.

I yearned to make a post of these casts as I didn't want to add it to the usual Daily Sketches that I do each month.

What you will see here are about thirteen sketches of human head casts, four of them are in blue ink and the rest of them are in blue. By the way these sketches are of people who are from the Stuarts, Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods. I decided to start with Queen Victoria at the beginning, because it was the first cast that I drew and it turn out to look really good. Also she is featured at the end:

This sketch here will be used for a future project that I'll be starting very soon. I love the look of this head cast a lot so I decided that I would take my time in drawing it. This one was successful out of all the sketches that I done. I will also try and draw this head cast again, in full view because it wasn't just the features that seemed to create a spark, but it was also the bottom part of the cast which made me decide to use  it for future projects.

There will be some more head casts that I be sketching from this gallery. You'll get to see them hopefully during the month of September.

Fan Art Friday: Megumi and Suzuka From Captive Hearts, Io Ayase from Real Storm, Mey-Rin from Black Butler and Edith Cotterill from Nurse on Call. (^_~)

Happy Friday Everyone! Here is another four fan arts that I'll be showing you today. Three of them are from manga which are volumes. The fourth fan art is from a memoir that I am currently reading. All of these works were created with a 2B Pencil and Watercolour Paints.

Before I begin, I have to admit something, I've been trying to avoid reading Shoujo comics for the past two years. These types of comics were the reason why I got in to manga in the first place. The reason why I chose to stop was that I felt that I was growing old and I tried to find some Josei manga to even out the odds. Ultimately I gave in and decided to continue reading them. I realized how amazing funny this type of genre is and I have now chosen to continue reading this genre from now on.


The first fan art is from the manga Captive Hearts by Matsuri Hino. I think most of you would know that she is the creator of the manga Vampire Knight. Over the years, I have seen people dress up as some of the characters from this manga. Although I was was aware that she created the series I chose to read Captive Hearts, just to get a feel of the stories that she creates. This week, I read the first volume and I found it really difficult to put down. I read the volume about 30 times. Here are the two protagonists of the story Megumi and Suzuka. I was quite surprised that Megumi is a guy. I assumed that this name was suitable for a girl. (^_^;)

In addition to this story, there is also two short stories, I thought I'd do a fan art about one of them. This is Io Ayase who is the main protagonist of the short story called 'Real Storm' This was another short manga that I could not stop reading. I admired how Io changed from being a shy and quiet girl to a strong and confident girl:

The next fan art is of Mey-Rin from the manga Black Butler by Yana Toboso. She became my second favourite character after reading volume 8. When I finished this particular volume, I realized that a few questions that I had regarding the servants were answered. I was aware of this series back in 2010 I think when the anime was released, but I chose to wait and read the manga. I'm glad I did. I think I made Mey-Rin amazingly sweet here. I think next time I'll draw a better version of her:

The final Fan art for today, is of Edith Cotterill from the memoir, 'Nurse on Call'. I chose to read this book as part of my research of a comic entry that I'll be starting next month. (I'll be showing the process of the comic entry, throughout the month of September so stay tuned.) I began reading this memoir this week and I loving it so far. I decided to do a recollection of what I've read so far. There might be a possibility that I'll do more fan art of this novel, as I am currently reading it:

There will be more fan art next week. Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment. (^_~)

Fan Art Friday: Arale from Dr.Slump, Sanji from One Piece, Who You Were by OperaSinger96, and Dragon Heir by Emma Vieceli

Happy Friday everyone, here is another batch of fan art that I will be sharing with you. Three of the fan arts were created using Watercolour Paints with coloured pencils and a 2B pencil. The fourth one was created using pencil, ink, with screentones and text from Photoshop CS3.


The first fan art is of Arale who is from the manga Dr.Slump by Akira Toriyama. She makes a cameo appearance in the manga Dragonball.  Alongside her, Dr.Slump is present as well as other characters too. I was reading Dragonball this week and I marvel at how she managed things. I will not reveal which volume she's in but she seems to be a very very interesting character. The outcome of this fan art is pretty cool.

Drawn by Cherish York © Akira Toriyama

Next, is of Sanji from the manga and anime One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. Sanji is my favourite character. I love his for his adventurous character as well as his fight moves. (His incredible high kicks) Most of all it is because of the fact that he's a cook. I was turned on about this. I wasn't that keen on how his voice was like in the English dub, but when I began to watch the series again the Japanese, my love for this character came back and I adored his voice. As a result of this I felt that it was necessary to draw him. I seemed to have done OK, I think I shall continue to try and draw more male characters in the future. \ (^o^) /:

Drawn by Cherish York © Eiichiro Oda

  






















The third fan art, is based on a poem called 'Who You Were' by Deviantart member OperaSinger96. I was quite fascinated by this poem so I felt the need to draw some fan art. The author also created stories other and poetry and she a singer too. I'm quite surprised of how this fan art has turned out. By looking at it with fresh eyes I can see how the water colours blend really well. I even you a light brown coloured pencil to sketch out the scenes:

Drawn by Cherish York © OperaSinger96

Lastly, this fan art is of the manga Dragon Heir by Emma Vieceli. I read comic a couple of years back and during the month of May this year, I bought the volume. It was brilliant to meeting her in person and I think she is a wonderful person. Here are the main characters in a little fued over food. I thought of this concept during the late hours of the night after completing some uni art work. My brain could not go to sleep and all I kept thinking about was of small story plots. Since my favourite character of the manga was Lyntra, I thought this would be interesting to convey him in this way. Just in case you cannot see the fan art properly here, have a look at it in this link:

More fan art next week!
Have a great week and month!
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Fan Art Friday: Chiaki From Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Elda Marker and Alfred Sinclair from Chibi Vampire and Nami From One Piece

Happy Friday Everyone! Here are some more fan art that I would like to share with you. All of these art works were created using water-colour paints and a 2B Pencils. All of these works were left as pencil sketches last week and are now shown today fully coloured in.

The first one is of Chikai from the anime and manga Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne by Arina Tanemura. As I previously mentioned in another post, Marron had some competition catching demons and turning them into chess pieces. Chiaki is the competition. I'm quite impressed with outcome of this painting. I hope you like it too. \(^o^)/:

Drawn By Cherish York © Arina Tanemura

This fan art is of two minor characters from the manga Chibi Vampire by Yuna Kagesaki This manga is also an anime too and it's called Karin and I've managed to watch it, back in uni, during my lunchbreaks. These characters are the Karin's Grandmother Elder Marker and her first love Alfred Sinclair. There's an interesting story behind these two characters. It made me feel a huge wave of emotions, but it fit the main plot really well. A lot of  'Whys?' were answered too. I have yet to read the manga, but I have a feeling that it going to be really good:

Drawn by Cherish York © Yuna Kagesaki

Lastly, this is Nami from the anime and manga series One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. I thought I'd draw her in a Yukata, since it's summer and it's the summer clothes of Japan. She was quite easy to draw and the original pencil sketch seemed to do justice. The outcome of this fan art is really good as well:

Drawn by Cherish York © Eiichiro Oda

There will be more Fan art next week. Thanks for visiting and please leave a comment. \(^_^)/

Dark and Light Project 2: Prelude to Mid-Summer Story 2/3

Hello Everyone! I thought I share another two inked pages from the second Dark and Light story. As I previously mentioned this is a link to the main Mid-Summer Story which will be shown very very soon. Here are the two scenes:

© Cherish York 09th/08/13

© Cherish York 09th/08/13

The final stage is when each scene will be coloured in. It will be completed very soon. So please look forward to it. I will also explain background information to the story, the characters as well as how the Mid-Summer story links with it. Thanks for visiting and please leave a comment.

Dark and Light Project 2: Prelude to Mid-Summer Story 1/3

Hello everyone, here are the two pencil sketches of the Second Dark and Light story. These are different scenes from the story. I quite enjoyed starting off this project because I ended up working a lot quicker and each page has a sense of beauty. There will be more information regarding the characters as well as the plot once I've completed it:

© Cherish York 5th/08/13

© Cherish York 5th/08/13

There will be inked pages that will be shown before the end of this week. (^_^) Thanks for visiting and please leave a comment. (^_~)

Fan Art Friday: Shizuku from Bara Nai No Hanaya, Sailor V and Luffy from One Piece! (^_^)

Happy August and Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! Today I will be showing three fan arts. Two of them are a both an anime and a manga the other is a Japanese drama. The materials used were pencil and water-colour paints. I intend on using these materials because these are one of the materials that I would like to improve on.

The first fan art is of the manga  Codename: Sailor V who is also known as Sailor Venus in the manga Sailor Moon. It's by the same author of the Sailor Moon Series. I drew this as a response to the Usagi and Mamoru-chan and Artemis and Luna fan art that I created. Currently I'm reading the manga and I find it very very funny. There were times when I laughed hysterically on buses and also on the tube thanks to this manga. The water-colours turned out to become amazingly brilliant when I completed it \(^_~)/ :

Drawn by Cherish York © Naoko Takeuchi 

Next is the anime and manga series One Piece. I started watching this anime during my late-teens, but stopped watching it at some point. In March, when I was working at my stewarding job. I was talking with a work colleuge of mine who was an Otaku. She convinced my to watch the anime and ultimately I gave in and watched it after work. I continued watching the anime from where I stopped and realized what I was missing out on. The next day, I spoke to her and I couldn't keep my mouth shut about it. She felt that her mission was complete after spending the previous day convincing me to watch. It was thanks to her that I'm now a fan and it is now added to my list of favourites. I've drawn the main protagonist Monkey D. Luffy:

Drawn by Cherish York © Eiichiro Oda

The final fan art for today is of a Japanese Drama that I watched back in 2009. It is called 'Bara No Nai Hanaya' which translates to 'A Florist Shop with no Roses' It tells the story about a man called Eiji and his florist shop. This was the second Japanese Drama that I watched and I absolutely LOVED it. \(^0^)/ I loved it so much that I kept watching the episodes over and over. I would love to by the series on DVD. The girl in the drawing is Shizuku. She plays a very significant role in the series and is really awesome. There are flowers in the background which I chose to use to convey what I tried to express. In fact there are a lot of characters that I really like in this:

Drawn by Cherish York © Screen Writer: Nojima Shinji 

Surprisingly, I created a lot of fan art this week but since I was very busy, I haven't been able to complete it. So, some of the fan art will be posted up next Friday. Thanks for visiting! Please leave a comment! Have a great month! \(^_^)/