cherishyork: July 2013

Monday 29 July 2013

More Daily Sketches from January to April 2013

I thought I'd show you some more sketches that I created throughout January to the month of April. These were random sketches from, bus rides, train rides gallery portraits and objects at home.

Here are January's Sketches:

Here are February's Sketches:

Here are sketches from the month of March:

Here are sketches from the month of April:

There will be more sketches to follow up. I will be making as many as I can from now until the end of the year.

Friday 26 July 2013

Fan Art Friday: Zippy from Rainbow, Kawachi and the Bread Jugde from Yakitate Japan, Luna, Artemis, Usagi and Mamoru-chan from Sailor Moon, Kamizake Kaitou Jeanne and Mr. Lion's Girl, Mr. Lion and Asumi from Twin Spica

Happy Friday Everyone! It's now time for another batch of fan art. All of these fan arts were made from colouring pencils, 2B pencils and watercolour paints. The first one is Zippy form the children's tevevsion series Rainbow which was created by Pamela Lonsdale. I remeber waiching the series when I a kid and this was back in the early 90's. The series began during the early 70's and continued until the 90's During the mid-noughties, Nick jr. showed most of the episodes. I thought that this was pretty awesome because it showed a new generation of kids about old shows from the past. My favourite character was in fact Zippy. Althought there were times where he was cheeky he always seemed to learn his lesson somewhere towards the end of the show:

Drawn by Cherish York © Pamela Lonsdale

The next two fan arts are about the manga Yakitate Japan by Takashi Hashiguchi. It's all about a young bread artisan called Azuma, who embarks on a journed to create a bread for Japan. I chose to create two secondary characters of whom I felt were pretty awesome. The first one was of Ken Matsushiro who seems to be pretty hip, wearing sunglasess and also having a huge Afro. His past life on how he becamea bread artisan seemed to interst me alot. He's incredbly funny and very knowledgeable too, he so was amazingly awesome that I felt that the least I could do is drawn him. Looking back on what I've done I am impressed:

Drawn by Cherish York © Takashi Hashiguchi

The next character from this manga is of Ryou Kuroyanagi. He is one of the judges of the RookieBread Artistan Tournament. At the start of the manga he seemed to be a bit irritaing. But over time he seemed to grow on me. With his good looks and amusing brown eyes he has a very hard temper or very strict. Azuma seems to prove of a bit of a challenge with him but I began to admire him because he saw Azuma more than just an ameteur. I chose to draw him as a trst to seeif I could still draw men in manga form. I seemed to have done pretty well:

Drawn by Cherish York © Takashi Hashiguchi

The next fan art that I will be shown is of an anime and manga called Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. I started watching the series when I was in my foundation year of uni. I would always watch it during my lunch break. It was pretty awesome and it about a huge smile to my face. It was about a girl called Marron who had to destroy demons with a pin which then transforms to a chess piece. She uses a rosary to transform and is the reincarnation of Joan of Arc. Marron has some competion while destroying demons. I'll do a fan art of this character sometime in the future. She also has a best friend too. When I finished the anime, I then read the manga and it has an whole bunch of surprises as well as secret stories never being revealed in the anime. While reading the manga, this song came to mind. This is Marron in her transformed self Jeanne:

Drawn by Cherish York © Arina Tanemura

The next two fan art from the anime and manga Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi. In my pre-teens my cousin introduced me to the series and I absolultley loved it. I kept watching the series and seeing how the characters progress over time and I adore the main protagonist Usagi and Mamoru-chan. Seeing how they both grow was really inspiring. Earlier this year I began to read the manga and this made me really pleased because I finally got to see the story again but in it's orginal form. This was translated into English. So what I've done here is Usagi and Mamoru-chan. I'm a bit iffy about how I painted this. But I chose to put it up because Usagi was done really well:

Drawn by Cherish York © Naoko Takeuchi

The other two characters are two animal characters called Luna and Artemis. They are portrayed as cats and art the side characters to all of the sailor scouts:

Drawn by Cherish York © Naoko Takeuchi

Lastly the final two fanarts are from the manga Twin Spica by Kou Yaginuma. This manga was reccomended to me by Goodreads. This manga is about Asumi and her aspirations to be a space rocket driver. My local library consortium had copies so I thought I would give it a go and read it. I found it very heart warming, funny, exciting and also at times lost for words. There were times where I almost cried, almost. The first fan art is of the main protagonist Asumi and her friend Mr. Lion. I haven't figured out his real name as of yet, but he is incredibly funny:

Drawn by Cherish York © Kou Yaginuma

This character is Mr.Lion's love interest. I can't say what her name is and what link she does. I think it's best if you read the manga and to find out:

Drawn by Cherish York © Kou Yaginuma

As always, there will be more fan art next friday, I hope you like what i've done so far. Please leave a comment and thank you for visiting my blog.

Monday 22 July 2013

Summer Story: Angie's Forward Flip 3/3

Hello Everyone, I have now completed the summer story and it can now be shown in it's whole glory on my blog today. This is the continuation of the Winter story, that I created during Christmas time and posted up in January. I chose to do a Summer story as I could not think of a decent Winter story that could continue with the one I shown in January. All three friends of the winter story are present but the main protagonist is Angie who was seen in the previous story drawing her two friends. She a lot younger than she was then as it is a tale of her past. Part of this story is true, where I made and earned a great friend played games with her and also I did a forward flip.

Before I show these images, I thought I show the picture that inspired me to create the story. The concept was conceived during the spring time. With the idea that at some point during the year, the temperature will go sky high, I thought that it was necessary to create the story:

I used orange in different tones since the outline was in orange and scanned each picture. I was a bit iffy about how each page was scanned so I chose to change the brightness and contrast of some of the images. There are no words in these images, so you'll have to look at the images to find out what is happening:

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With the success of completing this story, I've decided to create a Mid-Summer Story. It will be based on another one of the three friends which is Demi. (She is seen in the fourth picture with Angie.) It has already been planned out through thumb-nailed sketches. Now, I will need to create the characters as well as find a couple of references. There will also be a prequel before the Mid-Summer Story which is in fact a Dark and Light Story. It will be as similar as the previous Dark and Light Story, but with an huge difference, within the plot as well as the colour scheme. Thanks for visiting my blog and please feel free to leave a comment. \(^o^)/

Friday 19 July 2013

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.):

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.:

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. ^_^ :

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

Thursday 18 July 2013

Mascot Characters for Memenda -Seven 2

On Monday morning while working at the cartoon museum, I created some more character mascots for my company Memenda-Seven:

These are the first two that I made, I wanted to add a bit of a Regency feel for the first character. As for the second mascot I thought I make her a bit contemporary.

For these two mascots, I thought I would create a medieval dress, but still include the spectacles. As for the next mascot character I thought I start drawing guys. This is the first one that I thought of. He looks pretty cool and I love the clothes that I created for him.

Here are another two guys. Still using the Regency clothes, and similar body positions. I've made one characters hair long and the other short.

These are another two guys, where one of them looks a bit like a police officer...well slightly, as for the other character I thought I'd put a sailor clothes on him. It sort of came to mind, since at first I wanted to create some contemporary clothes for him.

These are the last two mascot characters that I created, where I chose to do another girl in a suit and another guy. I'm quite impressed with these two. I still have to make a couple more decisions before I decide the two mascots for my company Memenda-Seven. I'll also have a look at the Previous Ones too.

Wednesday 17 July 2013

Sketches from Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2013

Once again, I worked at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. From Monday the 8th to the 13th July. Although I was meant to begin work on a Tuesday, I came on a Monday for training as well as the Gala night. It was pretty cool and I actually quite enjoyed it.

On the 8th I did a a few sketches, the first one was of a maple tree. While me and my supervisor was waiting for the ticket staff, I leaned back on this tree.The moment I stood by up, I realized that the back of my work shirt was sticky. When I checked to see where it came from, I realized that it smelt like maple syrup. I didn't bother tasting it though. ^_^;:

Here is another page of sketches that I did on Tuesday, I yearned to do another tree after doing the first one the day before but it didn't seem to work out. As a result of this I randomly drew objects that were place in the crew room. As well as one of the marquee tents in the show. There are a couple of faces seen here. The one one the top right and the bottom left were work colleagues. The person in the middle was a visitor of the show:

Two to three days before as well as my last day at work, I made more sketches. I made about five pages of sketches of people's head. I randomly did some of the stewards of whom I was taking care of at Long Water Gate, But unfortunately, I managed to lose it. As a result of this I created some sketches of random members of the public:

The drawing on the right of a woman with her eyes closes was an emotional response to a problem that was caused at work. On the national rain train back to London Waterloo, I felt quite sad. So I chose to draw what my feelings expressed on that ride. The difficult part of the drawing was the hair because it was very time consuming. As I left the train and got on the bus 76 home, I continued on this part of the drawing never really bothering who was on my left or right. When I reached the end of my journey the picture was still incomplete. So I continued on my way to work the next day. This was a Friday. Looking back on the drawing now I realized how a lot of strong emotion the picture conveyed. There might be a possibility that I might make a story out of what had happened.... I might! ^_^

Lastly, this is a response to the woman with her eyes closed on the top. I'm quite pleased with the result and it's also because I was really happy, when I was drawing this. At first I yearned to create the same woman smiling and happy, image came to mind. But then I realized that it would be a lot more interesting if I can express it in a different form. Although it's a happy response, I felt that it could be a little bit similar as the previous one.:

There are more sketches things that made to follow up so stay tuned! Please leave a comment and thanks for reading! \ (^0^) /