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: The Foundation of Love Tree Chase in the Garden of Life inspired by the music of Westlife

Happy Valentines Day and Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone. To celebrate this special day I thought I'd show that 26 page story. It was created using an HB pencil, a metallic ruler and a 0.7 pen. Also I used coloured inks such as black, red, orange and white and combine them together to make different shades of brown.

The concept of this was created back in 2009 when I was waiting at a bus stop. I was listening to a track called 'Reach Out'. As I was listening to this song, this story was visualised in my head. I thought I combine history and contemporary together. There is another version of these two characters. Click here to see how they looked like previously. There are no words in this story so you'll have to look at the images to know what the story is all about. I hope you like it:

 Here are the rest of the images:

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

Fan Art Friday: Arale from Dr.Slump by Akira Toriyama, Sheridan and Jason from Fruit Machine by Mimi-Evelyn, Botan from Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshiro Togashi and Kanjiyama Mime from Nihongo Quick Lesson by NHK

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! I hope you're all having a brilliant week and a brilliant month. As this is the last day of January. I thought I'd show you four fan arts. All of these fan arts were pencil sketches and then colour was added on Photoshop.

The first fan art if of Arale from the manga Dr.Slump by Akira Toriyama. I started reading the first volume this week and it left me laughing a lot. This comic was first published in Japan in 1980, Then published in English in the mid 2000's. I've drawn Arale slightly older but she still looks quite nice. I'm quite impressed of it:

The next fan art is of Jason and Sheridan from the comic Fruit Machine by Mimi-Evelyn. I decided to draw as astronauts. This is the drawing that would have been showed on January 10. This is the second fan art that is based on the christmas drawing that I created in December. I am impressed with what I've done, but I find it quite surprising that I tackled a science theme:

The next fan art is of Botan from Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi. I remember reading this series back in 2007. The series is brilliant and I have a lot of compassion from the main character Yusuke and some of his friends. He goes through a lot of challenges but still shows himself strong. I've already read volume 12, and I'll be hoping to read the next volume so soon. I might even draw my favourite character from the manga soon. I've also watched the anime which is really good. The English dub is really good and I have yet to watch the original:

The fourth and final fan art for today is of Kanjiyama Mime from a segment called 'Feel it, Grab it' in a programme called Nihongo Quick Lesson by NHK. I watched this series back in 2009 on NHK World  I really miss watching this show because when I began studying Japanese, I always watched the show to gather a much more understanding of the language. Kanjiyama Mime, mimes words and says it in Japanese. He does this really well and I'm always impressed and amazed. I salute NHK for creating this series because it proved to make much help when studying. I've drawn him from memory. So it could be slightly wrong:

The will be more fan art next week. Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment. Enjoy your weekend.

Fan Art Friday: Ohayo Sunday Afternoon and BellRingers by Selina Dean

Happy Fan art Friday Everyone! I hope you're all doing okay and have enjoyed the month of the November. I had a good month and I'm very excited about next month. Today I'll be showing two fan arts. Both of them were created with pencil and the colour was added on Photoshop. They are both from a series by the same author. This author is Selina Dean.


The first fan art is of Vitzo who is one of the Bellringers from the comic Bellringers. I thought I'd draw him in this positon because it suited it very well. I read the comic in a collection of short comics that she complied together. It is called Koneko. Regardless how short the story was I was drawn to it. I also questioned myself why I didn't buy the earlier issues sooner. The story was left at a cliffhanger and this left me shocked because I yearned to read more. Also the chapter that I read in this issue was chapter three. I'm now convinced to go back and read the webcomic. I'm really excited about this:

The next fan art is of Kiriko from the webcomic Ohayo Sunday Afternoon. Back in 2009, the comic was released as a webcomic and I kept reading it. It was very funny and made me smile. It's also part of the first issue of Koneko. Kiriko is seen here standing while Sakura petals are flown by. I yearned to create a different atmosphere with this character:

In two days time which is the 1st December I'll post up some pictures which are based on the theme of Christmas. Next week's Fan Art Friday will also follow the same theme. Thank you for visiting my blog! Please leave a comment and enjoy the last few days of November.

Fan Art Friday: Captain Lucas Blackstone and Annabelle Haveham from Bought for Revenge by Sarah Mallory and Edo no Komori Uta

Hello Everyone and Happy Fan Art Friday! Today I'll be showing two fan arts today. One of them is a new drawing created by hand then changed on Photoshop. The second drawing was created during my university days. It was done by hand using coloured and black ink.


The first fan art is of Lucas Blackstone and Annabelle Hanveham from the novel 'Bought for Revenge' by Sarah Mallory. I was really excited to read this book and I really enjoyed it. I adored the female protagonist Annabelle. I felt she was a very strong character in the book and despite her times where she had to distance herself from Blackstone and was also of High Status, she still had compassion for the people that she lived with. Particually those of a very poor background. I also had so much passion for Blackstone, considering what he had been through in the past.


What I did here was I tried to create the characters from the book, but I made a couple of changes:

The second and final fan art for today is of a Japanese Children Song called Edo no Komori Uta. This a  song that I found very interesting when I first heard it I found it quite odd. But as I repeated the song over I grew fond of it. Japanesepod101.com was the website that introduced me to the song, while beginning studying Japanese through audio and video podcasts. These podcasts were found on  I still listen to the podcasts today and it always make me smile. Usually I chose to use a guy holding a baby and I wrote the some of lyrics in lyrics. Lastly this drawing was created on a Saturday night on my way back from youth meeting. Buses were put to a halt because of snow and while listening to a list of music I felt that it would be really awesome to do a drawing based on this song:

There will be more fan art next week. Once again thank you for visiting my blog. Please leave a comment.

A Saturday Drawing from 2009!

Hi every one I thought I'd share a drawing that I did back from 2009. I looked back in my archive art work decided to show you one.
This sketch didn't really take me that long to do. (Roughly 5-10 minutes.) It's two kids eating doughnuts:

© Cherish York 

I might change it into a digital drawing or I might change it into a water colour painting. Who knows.

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! \(^_^)/

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!

Snow Story from Late 2012

Hello Everyone, sorry for the long hiatus. I felt pretty bad for not posting up any work so to make up for lost time I decided to post up what I did throughout late November and December. This is a Short nineteen page story about three characters from a comic that I made up back in 2009. These three girls Rae (frizzy hair), Demi (short hair) and Angie (long hair) decided to do something fun and exciting during the Christmas Period. Although in London it did not snow but in areas of the world were filled with snow, I felt that the least I could do was do a snow story. It is inked in monochromatic blue drawing in and the outline in 0.7 fine blue pen. Here are the first twelve images:

                                                                                  










Here are the remaining nine images:

There will be a continuation of the story. This one will be based on Rae's friend Angie and a particular period of the past. This will be shown hopefully if it snows in London. I assume that it would be in February because it is during this month that it gets much much colder.