Fan Art Friday: Chunky Rice and his mouse friend from Goodbye ChunkyRice by Craig Thompson and Puar from Dragonball and Dragonball Z by Akira Toriyama

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone. Today, I'll be showing you two fan arts. Both of these drawing were created using Photoshop.

The first fan art is of a tortoise called Chunky Rice and his mouse friend from the graphic novel Goodbye Chunky Rice.  I loaned this graphic novel from my local library and had some free time to have a read this week to read it. Chunky Rice and his mouse friend got to the beach and share a great moment together. Sadly it was their last meeting. He embarks on adventure. I was quite intrigued by the story and it made me a bit sad. Despite this there was a final quote at the end and that made me happy. I really adored how the story was conveyed through each illustration, I felt drawn to the story. I created this drawing where they would both be sitting down under the stars by the having a conversation.

The second and final fan art for today is of Yamacha's side kick Puar from the series Dragonball and Dragonball Z. She is a shapeshifter cat and was first seen in Dragonball. She is incredibly funny especially when she is fighting with Oolong. She is seen in Dragonball Z within the episodes watching Yamcha battling the super saiyans Vegeta and Nappa. I thought that it would be great to draw her. When I was drawing her it reminded me of the days when I recorded Dragonball. I felt that the purple background suited her very well.  Towards the end of last year I successfully finished reading the entire Dragonball series and it was really awesome. I will be reading the Dragonball Z series very soon and I am very very excited. Here's the drawing:

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

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.:

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

Fan Art Friday: Tien and Chaozu from Dragonball and Dragonball Z by Akira Toriyama, Sailor Uranus from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi, Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma and Kazuya Kujo and Victorique de Blois from Gosick by Kazuki Sakuraba (^_^)

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! I hope you're all enjoying the month of February so far. My apologies if I haven't posted up anything throughout this month. There are things that I'm hoping to show you soon. It will be up. Today I'll be posting four fan arts. All of them were all pencil sketches, the colour was added on Photoshop.


The first fan art is of Tien and Chaozu from Dragonball and also from Dragonball Z. This week I have just finished reading volume 11 of Dragonball and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The arrival of these two characters and how they came into the series intrigued me and I was really amazed how Tien's passion to complete the battle that he's again Goku during the Boudokai Tournament. He yearned to battle his on way with his own strength with no interference. I thought that is cool. Now I've already seen this in the English Dub and this sequence of the story was brilliant too.  These two also appear in DBZ and they are much strong than they are in DB. I felt the need to draw them because they are both amazing characters. Once half of their face is shown here on each side:

The next fan art is of Sailor Uranus from the manga Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi. She is one of the other Sailor guardians of whom I wanted to draw. I finished reading the 7th volume of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and her presence in the volume I felt seemed quite shocking.... well to me though. She seem like a very strong character and she seemed like someone of whom I felt need to be proved that she was one of the good guys. I really don't want to spoil what happens but it is a great volume that I've read so far. The next batch of villains introduces are a lot more stronger than the previous one and I sooooo want Sailor Guardians to beat them. I thought I create a galaxy background because this was what I visualised while drawing it. Also this song came to mind while I was adding colour on Photoshop. This is a cover song, I'm sure most of you will know this song as it was part of 2012 London Olympics Closing ceremony. However it was sung by the musicians who released it first. This band is Elbow. There might be a possibility when I'll draw more Sailor Guardians. This is such an AMAZING series:

Another fan art that I would like to show is of Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma. He created another series which also very popular. That comic is in a form of a yonkoma. This manga is really really good and hilariously funny. I began reading it back in 2011. Yotsuba is a character who is apparently an orphan. Her adoptive father found her and raised her. I've sort of forgotten how she was found. You'll have to read the manga to find out. (;^_^) She is a girl that it full of excitement and I can honestly say if she was real, I would treat her with a whole bunch of cake and chocolate. She also makes hilarious funny expressions that seem to jump out out. I have had some odd moments where I've laughed out loud. Either on the bus or in a car. As you can see here I wanted to create that same happy and esttic feeling when you read the comic:

The fourth and final fan art for today is of Kazuya Kuji and Victorique de Blois from the anime Gosick.    When I came back to watching anime, I decided to watch an historical anime. It was recommended by one of work colleagues who convinced me to watch One Piece again. I spent each day during this month watching the remaining episodes and I was astound of how the plot unfolded. Victorique de Blois is some who would know the solution to a mystery that would need solving. But in order to prove that her solution is accurate, certain situations need to unfold. More things regarding mystries are revealed through Kazuya Kujo.  Kazuya Kujo is definitely someone who sticks by Victorique  especially when they are apart. There were some very creepy moments in the anime but I withheld myself from this and kept watching. The anime itself was brilliant and towards the end I was thinking that there should be another series:

There will be a retrospective view of all the fan art that I've created from July 2013 to February 2014 next week. Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment. (~_^)

Fan Art Friday: AyaTakeo Story by Lloyd Prentice and Illustrated By Sonia Leong and Goku from Dragonball by Akira Toriyama

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! I hope you're all having a brilliant month so far. Since I'll be reaching the final stages of my Manga Jiman Entry, I spared enough time to create at least two fan arts. Both of these are pencil sketches. the type of pencil that I used was a 2H Pencil.


The first fan art is of the webcomic and manga called AyaTakeo. The story was written by Llyod Prentice and Illustrated by Sonia Leong. The story itself it's absolutely incredble. I remember when it was a webcomic and I would wake up very early every Sunday to read the next page of the story. Sonia Leong is a brilliant Mangaka, and she's been doing comics for a long while. I've met her and she's lovely and brilliantly cool! I respect her not only as a person but as an artist. The drawing is of the main characters of the story as chibi and also in their human form in the background. I intentionally covered it up with the chibi characters. When I completed the picture I started to laugh and smiled.:

The next fan art is of Goku's younger self from the manga and anime Dragonball by Akira Toriyama. I thought I'd draw him again as I'll be reading the next volume. I'm very very excited about this. In fact I'm always excited whenever I read and old or new manga.

There will be more fan art! As always thank you so much for visiting my blog and 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!: Dragonball ^_^

Hello Everyone, I thought I would share some fan art with you. I will not only show some new fan art, but I will also show some old fan art that I made. This drawing is based on the series Dragonball. It features Goku in his younger form. I've just gone back to reading the manga and it has made me laugh so much. The anime was shown on TV and I always tuned in whenever I came back from school. It was amazingly funny and surprisingly Goku was my favourite. There were times when he's very mischievous but always done what he thought was right. I was even surprised that he was just 12 years old too:

Drawn by Cherish York

I hope to continue making fan art to show every Friday. It would be a cross over to most of the projects that I'll be working on I might continue this until February 2014. If I get this far, I will post up a review the ones that I done.