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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Fan Art Friday: Big Bird from Seasame Street by Sesame Workshop

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone! Today I will be showing one fan art. This is very old but still remembered and also a favourite.

This fan art is of Big Bird from the programme Sesame Street which is produced by Sesame Workshop. This drawing is a response to the Sesame Street character Elmo. Big Bird is another character that I really like and enjoyed when watching the series when I was young. He was another character that surly have and will always make me smile. Two weeks ago I watched a movie that was about Big Bird in Japan. This movie was recommended by a friend of mine. When I watched it, I was very intrigued and also quite excited. The programme was made back in the 80's and it is really obvious as you can see the dress sense of most of the people. Although it has been a fortnight that I have seen it a thought came to mind and I felt inspired to do a drawing. I'm very pleased with the results.

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Fan Art Friday: Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin by A.A Mile and Disney & Fabian and Iselle from A Pocketful of Clouds by Morag Lewis

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! Today I'll be posting two Fan arts. Both of them were pencil sketches then changed on Photoshop. Both drawings have the theme of blue sky and clouds.

The first fan art is of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. I grew up watching the series when I was very young and it is another childhood favourite. The series of when I first saw them both was called 'The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'. The series was fun to watched and I loved theme song. I came across the books much later in my childhood. Also I had a video tape that included not only these two characters but also some of the other characters. The name of the cartoon was called "Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day'. What was awesome about this cartoon was because in the beginning where the credits were shown, Christopher Robin's room was created into reality. Of course it was just for the video but. It did spark my imagination back then and I remember as if I saw it yesterday.  There was a book version of the cartoon too.:

The second and final art work for today is of Fabian and Iselle from the webcomic 'A Pocketful of Clouds' by Morag Lewis. I have been reading the webcomic for quite a while and I thought that it would be great to create another fan art of this comic. I don't want to give to much away of these two characters but these two are siblings. If you would like to have a look at the webcomic click here. The drawing is portrayed differently to what I thought of. But either way I'm happy.:

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Fan Art Friday: Pokemon by Satoshi Tajari & Nintendo

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone! I hope you've had a brilliant week. Today's drawings will be about some new and old drawings of the anime and game Pokemon. I'm sure a lot of you are aware of how much it has expanded since it has first began back in the mid-90's. Both the anime and game are really good.

I came across the anime first back in 1999. It was shown on SM:TV Live and the plot always excited me. What appealed to me was not only the art but the stories that were revealed in every episode. I remember the arrival of Ash Kechum and Pikachu as well as the arrival of his competitor who was always a step ahead of him Gary. 

This was the second anime that I spotted after the Tenchi Muyo/Universe series. Since I already enjoyed the Tenchi series and Pokemon had similar features as in look. I thought that it would be wonderful to watch. Since the programme was broadcasted in the UK, I watched the English dub. I really loved the voice actors and actresses who played the main characters. They made the series very fun, exciting and emotional.

Due to the fact that I really enjoy the series I began buying some of the merchandise and also drew some of the Pokemon. Also some of the characters. The drawings that I drew went on to the extent that I included it in most of my work in school. I even made a fan fiction of some of the characters and included a new character. I always took reference to the person who created the series. However I did not play the game until the early 2000's. The game was very appealing.

The first drawing that you see below is the a colour drawing of Pikachu that I created a couple of weeks back. It looks pretty good.:

The following drawings are some of the Pokemon that I drew when I was 12. Most of its references were from a 2000 year calendar that I had. I used it to remember all (back then) 150 Pokemon. This was a huge success for me:

There will be something that I'll be showing not only on my blog but somewhere else on Wednesday so please look forward to it.

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Fan Art Friday: Woody and Little Bo Peep from Toy Story 1, 2 & 3 by Pixar, Rosie and Jim by Ragdoll Productions, Sooty by Harry Corbet and BBC Proms 2014

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone, today I'll be showing you four drawings. These are all created usuing pencil the inked in orange ink. It's sort of like the other drawings that I created in blue. I hope you'll like them.


The first drawing is of Woody and little Bo Peep from Toy Story 1, 2, and 3 by Pixar. The movies that they have created so far has always been brilliant and I think the one that stands so far for me is the very first one. I was seven years old when this movie came out. Although I never watched it in the cinema, my father bought it for myself and my brothers when it was released on video. There was a lot of merchandise of Toy Story back then. Other than Woody I've always love Bo Peep. She was his girlfriend. There were small snippets of the love appearing from time to time. The music to the film has always made me smile. The theme song to the film was some brilliant. Now it'll be probably be weird of me saying this but I have yet to watch the third movie. I still haven't watched it. ^_^; However the reason as to why I wanted to draw these two was because some time this year I hope to read a new book that was written by someone from Pixar. Also it seemed necessary to pay homage to Toy Story movies. There were a couple of documentaries back in the early 2000's of how a the movie came together and I always find this fascinating. So here's the drawing. It was drawing from memory:

The next fan art is of Rosie and Jim by Ragdoll Productions. This was another programme that I watched during my primary school days. It was very interesting to watch and I guess it was probably one of the shows that I really enjoyed from Ragdoll Productions. From what I can remember from my child hood there were two boat narrators. There was a catch. Both of them were children's Illustrators. The first one communicated with the audience and told stories about where he was going as well as making stories involving Rosie and Jim. The second narrator had left me quite astounded back then. This boat narrator was in fact a female. She created an illustration before she left the boat and when she returned. Rosie and Jim seemed to be present within the drawings but the illustrator had a great habit of hiding the other character Duck. From there it was up to us to find where he was. I admired her for the was she illustrated both of them. She was one of the earliest Illustrators of my childhood to appear on TV and draw. The troubled thing about this was that I'd forgotten her name. So here's Rosie and Jim in monochromatic orange:

The next fan art is of Sooty, Sweep and Soo from the series Sooty. The character Sooty was created by Harry Corbet. This was another great show to watch when I was young and it was always exciting. This series has stood out from many generations because the younger generation of to day now know who Sooty is. There were always things he and Sweep get into that seemed to be very funny. Soo also played a part in this too. The programme that I saw that featured Sooty, Sweep and Soo was Matthew Corbet and he was the one that I can remember really well in most of the shows. Today there's a recent show with the same name but with someone else. He's name is Richard. This drawing includes Sweep, Soo and Sooty himself.:

The fourth and final fan art for today is of BBC Proms 2014. It begins today and I thought that it would be great to draw a very young conductor trying to  draw the orchestra within the music. Today I was listening to Woman's Hour and involved some violinists and cellists from the Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra who will be taking part in BBC Proms. I felt inspired to draw this even thought there's a small link to it.:

Next week will mark a year since I've started Fan Art Friday. Hopefully by then I'll reveal where or not I will continue. Thanks for visiting my blog and please leave a comment.

Fan Art Friday: Bungle and George from Rainbow by Pamela Lonsdale

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! Today I'll be posting two fan arts from a children's programme. Both of these sketches were pen sketches and then changed during Photoshop.

These two characters are Bungle and George from the children's programme Rainbow by Pamela Lonsdale. This is an response to the drawing of Zippy that I created last year during this month. After drawing of Zippy, I felt that it would be great to draw the other characters. Both turned out to be really good but I think I've made Bungle very creepy. He was drawn from memory. I'm quite impressed with George. He looks likes he's sparkling.:

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Fan Art Friday: Elmo from Sesame Street by Seasme Workshop, Sasha from The Summer of Blake Sinclair by Sarah Burgess, Piccolo from Dragonball & Dragonball Z and A Self-Portrait by ULP

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone. Today I'll be showing four fan arts. Three of them were all pen sketches, two of them were changed and modified on Photoshop.


The first fan art is of Elmo which is from the children's show Sesame Street.  It's a production of the Sesame Workshop. The are a couple of characters that I love in this show. Elmo is one of them. This show has been around since the late 60's and has made an impact on many generations including mine. There were a couple of things that I enjoyed while watching the show. There will be moments where there will be mini-videos of songs about putting you litter in the bin as well as the song about the 'Library'. This song has stuck in my head for many years...well the chorus still remains in my head. It went like this:

"Yes, in the library,
You will find
Books of every
shape and kind
In the library
the li-li-li-library"

It did force me to go to the library, but it revealed how libraries can be exciting. Another thing that I quite liked was that one of the actress of the show spoke Sign Language. In this case it was American sign language. I thought that this was incredible because it gave insight to those who were deaf. The third thing that I quite like was the ending theme of the show. It was an interesting up-tempo version of the main theme. I remember when I was a child my brothers and I would dance to it.
I'm not sure if the theme song is still used, since it has been a while since I've watched it. Elmo is seen here waving. It didn't take me that long to make this drawing but I do love what I've done.:

The next fan art is of Sasha from the web-comic "The Summer of Blake Sinclair" by Sarah Burgess. I began reading the comic sometime last year during the winter on a Sunday afternoon. It's all about a guy called Blake and how he spends his summer. Through him you see a whole range of characters. I went through a lot of the comic but stopped at some point. Sasha is character that I quite like. He seems pretty cool. While creating a couple of sketches on Monday decided to draw him. He looks slightly different in the comic. I've drawn him from memory.:

The next fan art is of Piccolo from Dragonball and Dragonball Z. Although he is isn't seen within the point of when I'm reading the manga, but he will appear at some point. His appearance in DragoballZ is much more significant. I thought that it will be good to draw him. Not only because he is a great and awesome character but also because while I was at the London Comic Con last year, I saw someone cosplaying as piccolo. This person created the ears and the clothes too. The background was created by using a pattern stamp:

The fourth fan art is a self-portait of myself by an artist friend of mine called Ulises. P Lopez . He's one of the volunteers of the cartoon museum just like myself. We talked about comics in general as well as the the current projects that we are doing. He creates comic strips called Shoyu comims which are in English. If you look on the website you'll see the same comic in four other languages. He also has a main website but it is in Spanish. If you like what you see and would like to join his face book page by click here. He used pencil to create this drawing and it didn't take long at all. I also did a sketch of him too. But I have no idea when this will be shown on his blog. I'm not so sure. Either way I'm happy.:

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Fan Art Friday: Hey Arnold by Craig Bartlett and Elenor the Easter Maiden

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! I hope you've had a brilliant week and an awesome month so far. I'll be posting up two fan arts that I done a very long time ago.

The first fan art is of the series Hey Arnold by Craig Barlett. It was a great and fantastic series from the 1990's and it was a particular series that I watched with my brothers and sister when I was young. It was about a pre-teen called Arnold who lived in a flat alongside his granddad and grandmother. Also he had a best friend called Gerald who was black. Most of the stories that take place in the cartoon, tends to be either about him, his best friend Gerald and some of his friends from school. One of his friends who seems to hate him but actually likes him is a girl called Helga. She too has a family as well. From what I can remember there were moments in the cartoon where she would break into poetry describing her love for Arnold. But this would be done secretly as the audience we get to see her do this. This very old drawing that I've created here shows Arnold and Helga together. HOWEVER, this never happened in the series. I don't think I even knew if they be together in the end. I really don't know. But it would be cool if they did:

The second and final fan art for today, is of the Easter Maiden Elenor. I wanted to create something that is linked to spring and also to Easter. This was created back in 2009, when I continue using Photoshop. The reasons as to why this is a fan art is that I hope to create a Spring Story at some point this year about her alongside the previous characters Angie. I will also include Rae and Demi too:

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Fan Art Friday: Popeye the Sailor by E.C Segar, Count Duckula by Cosgrove Hall, Dangermouse by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall and Felix the Cat by Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! I hope you're all having or had a great Friday wherever you are. Today I'll be showing four fan arts. All of these were pencils sketches then colour was added on Photoshop.

The first one for today is Popeye and Olive by E.C Segar. This is another childhood cartoon that I watched and I absolutely adored it. He's amazingly cool and I loved that when he was stuck in a dark situation he would have his can of Spinach. He has a love interest which was Olive. She's pretty awesome too. The cartoons were amazingly funny and it certainly put a smile of my face. Earlier this year, I read the comic and it just as hilarious as the cartoon. I'm really impressed with this drawing that I've done and since they are love hearts present in this drawing, I thought I'd create something linking to  Valentine's Day:

The next fan art is of Count Duckula by Cosgrove Hall. It's another cartoon that I watch during the 90's and it was amazingly funny too. Count was in fact a duck that never drank blood, but loved food. He had a butler called Igor and a maid called Nanny. There were great moments where Nanny would say quotes like 'Ducky-Boos'. There was another quote that I quite adored, which made me laugh from time to time. I won't reveal what it is. If you ever get the chance to what it is you'll probably know what it is.  There have been an array of characters that appear and were really cool. There was even an narrator who was really really scary....well it was scary for me back in when I was kid. The narrator wasn't quite scary at the beginning as he introduced the story by towards the end he creates an evil laughter that shook me to the core, it even gave me nightmares. Over time I got over it:

The third fan art is of Felix the Cat by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. It was another cartoon that I watched as a child back then I had huge fascination about cats, I still do today. I thought I'd draw him reading. From watching this cartoon, I really wanted a black cat.... I never did get one. Aw, well. LOL:

The fourth and final fan art for today, is of Dangermouse by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall . I didn't watch this until I was 14. But it was really awesome. It's a parody of a mouse who is a British Spy. He has a sidekick called Penfold. He's quite cool. The theme song was cool and it's something that stuck it my head for ages:

As it is Valentine's day next week, I will be approaching a different view of fan art. I can't say what it is. I really don't want to spoil it. Thanks for visiting my blog and please leave a comment.

Fan Art Friday: Dennis the Menace and Nasher from Beano, Melfina and Gene Starwind from Outlaw Star by Takehiko Ito , Ryoko and Tenchi from Tenchi Muyo/Universe by Hitoshi Okuda, Masaki Kajishima and Jason and Sheridan from Fruit Machine by Mimi-Evelyn

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone I hope you've all had a great and marvellous week so far.  Today I'll be showing four fan arts. All of them were created as pencil sketches then modified and changed on Photoshop. Three of the fans art drawings took me under an hour to complete. Roughly around 45 to 60 mins. I might be working a lot quicker than usual. Three of them are in a snow theme. Mostly because I love snow. These drawings were also created during the week. I yearned to finish these images earlier than later because there are a few other posts that I would love to show on this blog. Which will be either around Christmas Day and during the new year. ^_^


The first Fan art is of Dennis the Menace which is part of a comic called Beano and published by DC Thompson. These comics were one of the first few that I've read back in my childhood years. I'm very very surprised that it is still going. It has touched many generation since it first began and it is still ongoing. The Beano annuals that are available. I can honestly say it feel weird reading these comics again after all these year. I'm not sure when I came out of it. Also in the Cartoon Museum there many Beano comics for visitors to read. There's also a past history section of Dennis the Menace and of other Beano comics in the museum too:

The  next fan art is of Gene Starwind and Melfina from the manga  Outlaw Star by Takehito Ito. The anime was created by Sunrise. I've only watched the anime and I thought that it was good. I first watched this within my mid-teens. There were a couple of favourite episodes that I like as well as other episodes that have made me very laugh. What you can see here is both of these characters walking in the snow:

This fan art is of Ryoko and Tenchi from the Tenchi Muyo/Universe series. As I've mentioned in a couple of other posts, the Tenchi anime series was what bought me into anime within my late childhood years. Here you'll see Ryoko chasing Tenchi who would really like a kiss from him. Tenchi avoids this by running away from her. LOOOL!:

The last fan art for today is of Jason and Sheridan from the web-comic Fruit Machine by Mimi -Evelyn. I read the web-comic in one day which was on Tuesday this week. It made me laugh a lot. So I thought I'd create a fan art for this series. I've met Mimi at the London Comic Con a couple of years ago. I bought some prints and postcards so I thought that it would be cool if I read her latest stuff. ^_^  As you can see here both of these characters are staring right back at the viewer. The question is what are they looking at? There is another picture that I'll be creating to go with this image. It will be post up on the 10th of January so stay tuned:

There will be more fan art next week, the next drawings will be based towards the new year. Thank you for visiting my blog and as always 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.:

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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.:

   






















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Second Manga Jiman Entry!

With the first Manga Jiman entry completed, I will now proceed to the second entry, with the story and building sketches completed. The only tasks that need to be fulfilled are the character designs. Still using the theme waves, there is a drawing that I have created on Photoshop. (But this will not be seen since it will be used in the comic entry.)

The first two protagonists are Tanisha and Aiden. Here is how they are visualised:

Tanisha's hairstyle was something I drawn quite quickly, this was just a quick sketch and I somehow seemed to be quite satisfied when I finished her characteristic faces.

Aiden's hair style is similar to Mick Hucknall's hairstyle from the 1990's. (T

he front man of the band Simply Red) The sooner I realised this I decided to leave it as it is. I was a fan of their music ever since I was a child and it quite surprising that their music still sounds as brilliant as it did ages ago. The last two characteristic faces on the bottom will indicate how his hairstyle will be revealed in the comic.

I have chosen to use my secondary school teacher Ms Debbie Brown again (she was previously used in the Obsession Project) in this story because during the time of when I was studying art in school she was very influencial and inspiring. I admired the way she would always give me advice to create new ideas in the projects that I was creating. This comic entry is dedicated to her because I feel that she has indeed been a huge influence on how I continued to pursue art from school to university.

Originally she was going to be depicted on how I have seen her i

n the past. But since I was unable to depict how her hairstyle in my thoughts I decided to look on the net and find something suitable. On the other hand, I have chosen to make her wear the same thick black lenses she wore from my school days.

This is how she will be seen in the comic:

Now that the main characters have been completed I will now proceed to thumbnailing a rough draft of the comic entry.