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:

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

Fan Art Friday: King Rollo and Queen Gwen by David McKee

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! Today I'll be showing only one fan art today. This fan art was created using Photoshop.

Today's fan art is of the cartoon King Rollo by David Mckee. As I've mentioned in my last post he's an Illustrator and is also the creator of Mr Benn. King Rollo is another cartoon that appeared in the 1980's. However I watched the series in the early 2000's. Although the stories were short I quite like them and I also loved the music too. King Rollo is seen here with Queen Gwen. I am aware that his clothes are not the same as it's seen in the cartoon. This is because I drew this from memory:

There will be more fan art next week. Thanks for visiting my blog and 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: Nurse on Call by Edith Cotterill and Laputa Castle in the Sky Fan Art (^_~)

Hi Everyone and Happy Fan Art Friday! Today's fan art were all drawn by hand and then modified on Photoshop CS3. Other than adjusting to the use of traditional Materials I thought that at times I might switch to digital drawing. It has been a while since I've used Photoshop. I will still use traditional materials for my work.

The first fan art is of the novel which I am currently reading called 'Nurse On Call' by Edith Cotterill. So far I'm loving the novel so far and I thought I will create another fan art. This is the third one that I've created. I've chose to draw Edith from the side instead of the centre and also draw different periods of her life quite differently. The last two drawing were in Watercolour paints and I felt that I rushed these pieces. This one is in the form of a digital drawing. I hope you all like it:

The next fan art is of the Studio Ghibli movie 'Laptuta Castle in the Sky'. Strangely, this was the first movie that I saw briefly when I was about eleven or twelve. It came on channel 4. Back then I was a bit put off by some of the first few scenes and immediately changed the channel. It wasn't until 2008 when I watched it  again and realised that I should have remained patient and watched the whole movie. I chose to make this fan art because it was in fact the first Studio Ghibli movie that I watched quite a bit Where as 'Spirited Away' was the movie I probably enjoyed the most. There are in fact more of these movies that I really enjoy and I hope to make a fan art of these films at some point:

There will be more fan art next week. Thank You for stopping by and for reading my blog. Please leave a comment! (^_~)

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.