Fan Art Friday: Jiro and Nahoko from The Wind Rises directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone! Today's drawing will be about Jiro and Nahoko from the Studio Ghibli movie 'The Wind Rises'. It was directed by Hayao Miyazaki. This was the final movie that Miyazaki created. He then retired from making animation.

I was quite saddened by the news that this was the last movie. So I made an extra effort to buy my copy of this movie. I first watched this movie in Japanese first and for the first in a long while, I can understand some of what the the characters are saying. I felt quite happy about this because I have been studying for quite a while now. A week later I decided to watch the English dub and I was very very VERY impressive. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt played these characters really well. Above all I found the movie to be really good and also great insight to the making of aeroplanes. 

Also the movie was at a pivotal point in time. It was during the the 1920's onwards.

When this movie was out in the cinemas in the UK, the art book of the movie was released. I managed find it in my local library and read only halfway. This was mainly because it revealed a lot of spoilers for me since I didn't watch the movie. Also there was a lot of the information about how the movie began as well as the background storyline. I was was quite intrigued by this as I was able to find out a lot more.

For this drawing, I made the main characters in watercolour paints and made some blue spirals in a green background.

There will be more fan art next week. Thanks for visiting and please write a comment.

Fan Art Friday: Yusuke and Keiko from Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi and Kenshin and Yahiko from Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone! Today's drawings are about two manga. I have read them both when I was 17. I'm still reading them today. These drawings were created using watercolour paints and 0.9 red mechanical pen.

The first drawing is of Keiko and Yusuke from the manga Yu Yu Hakusho. I really like this manga a lot.   It tells the story of Yusuke and also Keiko who is his old school friend but very soon will be his love interest. There is some rivalry in this manga too but it is portrayed in a very humorous way. Yusuke's rival is a guy called Kuwubara. There is also a anime of the series and it is just as good as the manga. I'll be reading volume 14 of this series very soon.
In this drawing, I drew both Yusuke and Keiko in mid air.

The second and final fan art for today is of Kenshin and Yahiko from the manga Rurouni Kenshin. It's probably one of the most awesome manga that I have seen and I'm very pleased to have read it. Kenshin is seen wandering the streets of Japan in the Meiji restoration period. At some point he meets a girl called Kaoru. Much later he meets Yahiko who is becomes a student at a dojo that Kaoru teaches. I drew both of these characters because I felt that Yahiko was someone who had looked up to Kenshin. Kenshin is a bit of a father figure to him. There's a lot of action and romance in this manga and I'm very impressed with the anime too. I watched the anime up to a certain point as there were some episodes that were not part of the manga. I wasn't quite satisfied with this at all. I'm currently on volume 19 of the manga and I'm really looking forward to reading it. This drawing, I wanted to them to stand with their back against each of other with the awareness knowing that both of them are near.

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Fan Art Friday: Tempo Lush Tales: Vincent from Two Sons by Richy K. Chandler and illustrated by Inko and Chie Kustsuwada and Presidentof West Tibia, Jackson and Suzie from President of West Tibia by Richy K. Chandler and Illustrated by Paul Shin

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone! Today's drawings will once again be based on Tempo Lush Tales. The stories that were based on these two drawings were really amazing and quite interesting too. (All of the stories in the volume were great. :D) These drawings were made using watercolour paints and a 0.5 mechanical pen.

The first drawing is Vincent from the short story Two sons written by Richy K. Chandler and illustrated by Inko and Chie Kustsuwada. I really enjoy this story as it gave an immense example of both brothers are like. I really liked Vincent because he seemed to be very secretive and I felt the smartest of the two brothers. I smiled at the way he handled a certain situation that involved both him and Sam. Plus he also seemed quite calm too. There were two drawings that I made that were based on Vincent but I felt that this one was better. It is of him wearing a waistcoat and a bow. I'm quite happy with this drawing.

The second and final drawing is of the President of West Tibia, Jackson and Suzie from the short story The president of West Tibia also by Richy K. Chandler and illustrated by Paul Shin. This was also another great story too.  It's also quite funny too.There was something that the president did that made Suzie return and try and put something right. He also was quite saddened of something too. Jackson tried to calm him too. For this drawing I found it quite complex to choose the appropriate colours for each character but I did what I can.

There will be more fan art next week. Thank you for visiting and please write a comment. 

Fan Art Friday: Merida and Queen Elinor from Brave by Disney Pixar

Hello everyone and Happy Fan Art Friday! Today I will be revealing one fan art for today. This drawing was created using watercolour paints and a mechanic 0.5 pen. 

Today's fan art is of Merida and Queen Elinor from the Disney Pixar movie Brave. The movie tells the story about a teen called Merida, who is going the procedures of being a princess. I found out about this movie on the radio. Next I did a bit of research and found out that it was yet to be released in the UK. I was immensely excited about this. I spent most of my time back then watching a lot of historical documentaries as well as the programmes like Horrible Histories. Since the movie was first released in Scotland because the movie was set there. This was one movie that I really enjoyed a lot. The story really interesting too. There was a immense sense of a heart to heart with both of these characters and I thought that that was awesome.  Another thing that I really enjoyed a lot was the music. It made me feel drawn into the story. I loved the film music so much that three days after watching this movie, I bought the soundtrack. While listening to the album, I felt I was re-living the moment where I was in the cinema with my older brother watching this movie.

 There was a lot of humour too and it left me laughing for hours. I really wanted to draw this movie  ever since I had watched it. Sadly I was unable to figure out how I was able to portray them. The drawing that is portrayed here is similar to what I thought of. When I completed this drawing I realised one thing. Queen Elinor is kneeling before Merida. I was quite surprised at this. But this was in a good. way.

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Fan Art Friday: The Powerpuff Girls by Craig McCracken

Happy February and Happy Fan Art Friday. Today I will be showing only one fan art today. This fan art was made using watercolour paints and a mechanical pen with 0.9 red lead.

Today's fan art is about a cartoon network programme called The Powepuff Girls by Craig McCracken. This programme came around during the years of my preteens and around the time it was on TV it was part of a segment called 'Cartoon Cartoon'. The show is about three girls called Buttercup, Blossom and Bubbles who were created using a children's nursery rhyme called 'What are little girls made of'. The person who made these girls were called 'Professor'. I don't think I can remember him having a name. After adding the ingredients into the mixture he accidentally adds one more ingredient. This is called "Chemical X".  The mixture then explodes and then the girls are then created. It's still one of the programmes that I can still remember that made me laugh and also dance. There was also a narrator who was absolutely hilarious. He would always made me laugh. Each cartoon were incredibly short, I assume around 15 minutes, but it was still incredibly awesome. I still kept watching the series even in my teens. I also adored the ending theme song. There was one episode that I can remember that had a song that had the phrase 'A signal in the sky'. The song was pretty awesome and it was a similar to music from the sixties. The episode that had this song involved a new neighbour that was going to live next to where the girls lived.

The drawing that I have made uses the colours that the girls wear and also a green background with spirals.

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February First of the Month Drawing!

Happy Feburary everyone! Today and every sunday of this month, I will be posting new drawings. This week I made a couple of drawings. Some of them took a while to complete hence there will be only one drawing today.  I decided that it would be great to improve on my skills on traditional materials so most of the drawing that will be shown this month will be in watercolours. In this drawing I have drawn a couple in medieval clothes. I'm not only please with the clothes but also with the creation of the clouds. Although it looks very abstract I decided that I will leave it to you to think about what the drawing is about.

Enjoy your weekend. Thank you for visiting and please write a comment.

Fan Art Friday: Rupert Bear by Mary Tourtel and Alfred Bestall, Birthday Picture for Japanezejusu, Charlotte from Wild and West and Raine and Len from DNA (DeoxyRiboNuclearAnarchy) by CowgirlEm

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! (Apologises for not posting last week. I've been very busy at work.) Today I'll be posting up four fan arts today.  Two of them were pencil sketches and then inked in blue ink and water-colour paints.  The other two were created using Photoshop.

This is another series that I found in my childhood and sometime this year I bought a very old annual from the 50's of Rupert Bear. I remember watching the series and it always bought a smile to my face. Rupert faced some very tough challenges but he prevailed with his friends by his side.

This drawing is in the same form as the blue drawings that I previously created. When I completed this drawing, it really wasn't what I expected. I left it for a couple of days and looked at the drawing with fresh eyes I really liked it:

The next fan art is of a drawing that I used for a birthday card. The birthday card was for my friend Destiny. We met at one of the J-Melo fan meetings that took place four years ago here in the UK. She has her own blog where she talks about Japanese culture and Korean culure. As well as the UK culture. Also she writes in English and Japanese. If you would like to have a look at her blog, click here:

The third fan art is of another friend of mine that I managed to meet on the way to work at Highbury and Islington station. She is a professional dancer and she was on her way to Dubai for work too. I was surprised and gobsmacked. She talked about a bit of her career of how she became to where she was now and she informed me and also herself that she will never give up. We exchanged blog addresses and hopefully at some point she will check out this post to see this drawing of her. I used water-colour paints and created the outline on Photoshop. If you would like to have a look at her blog click here.:

The fourth and fan art for today is of DNA (DeoxyRiboNuclearAnarchy) by CowgirlEm. This is a continuation of the previous fan arts that I created last year in November. I saw CowgirlEm at the London Comic Con last weekend and I bought the second volume of the series. She is currently working on volume three and it will be out very soon. I have yet to read the second volume  but I have a great feeling that it is going to be really good. You can look at her Deviant page by clicking here. If you would like the read the web-comic the click here.:

There will be one fan art I'll be creating and it will be posted next Tuesday. The reason...well you'll have to wait until then. There will be the usual fan art drawings and they will be posted on Friday. Thank you for visiting and please leave a comment.

Happy December! First Xmas Pics!

Hi everyone and happy December! Today as promised I'll be showing you some Christmas pictures. Today I'll show three. These pictures were created about three years ago. All of these were created using watercolour paints orange pencils and Photoshop. The reasons as to why I chose to create these drawings is because I yearned to be in the xmas spirit.:

The last image that is seen here will be part of a Christmas Card. It's part of the Holiday Card Project that Deviantart are currently doing. I'll be sending it on Monday. It took a while to finish but it seems to be a success. Two of the people in this drawing are based on random people of whom I saw on the street and on the bus. The woman on the right was the person that I saw on the bus with her daughter. The guy on the lower right was someone I saw on the way home from work:

I did create some pastel drawings that are based on the Christmas theme a couple of years ago. If you would like to have a look then please click here. Thank you for visiting my blog. Please leave a comment.

Fan Art Friday: Wally from Where's Wally by Martin Hanford, Tintin from The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! Today I'll be showing only one fan art. It's actually an old fan art that I created back in 2010. The original drawing has gone but luckily I took precautions and scanned the picture. Back then, I posted it up on the Sweatdrop Forums. The picture isn't seen on the forum so I thought I'd show it here. This Fan art was created using water-colour paints.

The fan art is based on two characters, both of them well-known. One of them is Tintin by Hergé and the other is Wally from the book and cartoon series Where's Wally by Martin Hanford. Both of these series are quite significant because I have watched both of them during my childhood, Where's Wally was probably the first one I watched. I adored the cartoon series and whenever it was time to find him, it was very very difficult. I admired the fact that the people who created the animation when into a huge way of creating scenes where it would be exactly like the book. The books were quite good as well and I can honestly say Martion Hanford has indeed astounded me. Lastly, there were also cards where you also had to find Wally too. At this age now, it's easy to find him as it was back then.
Tintin was indeed another great series. The cartoon was brilliant and the music was a true gem and by the time I reached towards my pre-teens I found a whole range of comic of Tintin at my local library. I read some of them. They were good too. At some point I'll re-draw these characters again. I feel they need a bit of a revival.:

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

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!

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. \(^_^)/

Fan Art Friday: Tenchi: Sasami, Ryo-ohki & Ken-ohki, Murphy's Law: Rai & Mary & Nurarihyon no Mago (^_~)

Hello Everyone! Once again it's a friday and it's time to show some fan art! Hooray! (^_^) So to start off I thought I'd show some more Tenchi drawing that I did last week and this week. The first one is of one of the main characters called Sasami. She is the sister of the Jurai princess Ayaka. This was drawn in pencil and inked on the way to work. One the plus side, since I'm learning Japanese, I thought I'd write her name in hiragana:



The next one is of two animal characters of the Tenchi Universe series, Ryo-Ohki and Ken-Ohki. I think these characters are really awesome and what's awesome about these two is that they can change into spaceships. Ryo-Ohki usually is with the space pirate Ryoko and Ken-Ohki is with the bounty Hunter Nagi. This was done in watercolour paints. (There will definatley more fan art of Tenchi series too.):


Drawn by Cherish York © Masaki Kajishima



















The next one is of the a manga that I read back in 2009, called Murphy's Law. It was written and drawn by the artist Faye Yong. It's all about the story about Mary and how she hope to be in a relationship with a rich guy. Rai comes into the story at some point but you'll have to read the manga to find out where. What I love about this manga is that there are a lot of surprises and a lot of humour, plus it's heavy on the romance. I drew this using Photoshop CS3, and made the characters wear historical clothes. Back then I was new into historical fiction and I made a habit of making characters that I've read, dress up in either Regency or Victorian clothes. Here's what I came up with.:



Drawn by Cherish York © Faye Yong



Lastly, I yearned to create a fana art about Nurarihyon no Mago. The series came out when I was in the final stages of my university years. I managaed to watch half of the first series and one episode of series 2. It's quite an interesting series and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The series has my favourite anime actor Jun Fukuyama. He plays the lead role Nura in his human and yokai form. He's also the voice behind Kimihiro Watanuki in all of the anime series of XXXHolic. (Even the OVAS. ^_^) When I reconised his voice in this series I bagan to watch the series. When the time comes I will watch the rest of the series as well as do more fan art. I'll also try and find the manga too. ^_^ :


Drawn by Cherish York © Hiroshi Shiibashi



There will be more fan art next Friday.  Please leave a comment! Thanks for reading and visiting my blog!

XXXholic Fan Art

Hello again, since I have a huge habit of creating fan art I thought I'd show you a fan art based on a Manga called XXXholic. It was created using pencils and watercolour paints. This is based on the last Tsubasa Resevior Chronicle fan art that I created in 2011 for a UK comic book artist. It has been an anime and also a drama, which was shown in Japan within the beginning of this year. ( I think?) I have been reading the manga since 2008 and I have loved it since. My favourite character is the main protagonist Kimihiro Watanuki. I have to admit I was a bit iffy about it at first but realizing that it was created by favourite Mangaka CLAMP, I gave in and read it. I was surprised by the mass amount of humour in the first volume that I decided read the rest. So far I need to read volumes 16 and 19 which is the last volume. I have heard that the series has continued this year but I chosen to wait until I've finished these two. It will indeed take a while but it will be worth it.

I hope you like it:

This fan art will be a gift to a friend of mine who is abroad right now and I hope to give this to her when she gets back. She has done a blog of her trip around south-east Asia and more.