Fan Art Friday: Saint DragonGirl by Natsumi Matsumoto and Vows by Tamaria Sona

Happy Fan Art Friday everyone! Today I'll be posting two drawings one of them is based on a manga and the other is a short e-book. Also both of them are in watercolour paints.

The first fan art is of Momoka Sendou from St DragonGirl by Natsumi Matsumoto. This manga was recommended by a website called Goodreads. I was intrigued by the front cover as well as the blurb behind the first volume. So I found the volume on at the library consortium and read it and surprisingly it was really good. 

I quite like Momoka a lot and I thought that it was really awesome that there were moments where she would fight back. At some moment in this volume she ends up posesssing a dragon spirit. With the help of her best friend Ryuga, they both end up fighting evil spirits. I was very intrigued and surprised of how this first volume ended so I'll be reading the rest to find out what happens next.

I thought that it would be great to draw Momoka in in the traditional Chinese clothes that she is usually seen in the volume. Also I decided to use violet and white too. Since this is a Shoujo Luanda I thought I'd draw flowers in the background.

At some point I will draw Ryuga. Here's the drawing:

The second and final fan art for today is of Addison and Peyton from the novel Vows by Tamaria Sona. Two weeks ago I was bound to my bed and decided to read some ebooks to pass the time. This was one of them that I read and read enjoyed. Also it is one of the ebooks that I keep going back to and keep reading. 

The novel is about Addison who goes through a dramatic period when she looses her best friend Peyton as a result of a car crash. Addison and Peyton's husband Colin go through a mourning period. Addison is the main narrator of the novel and she decides to go through a stage of healing that not only benefit herself but her family too. This book was very heavy on drama but on how a relationship can be solved with a hear to heart conversations. Also Addison had moments where she would feel Peyton's presence advising and helping her to keep going. I thought they was really lovely so I wanted to convey them in a drawing. There were two versions of this drawing but since the first drawing was used on thin paper I felt that it was necessary to redraw these characters again. Addison's dress is in monochromatic blue since I love the colour blue and Peyton is in a form where we as the audience can see her but Addison can only feel her presence and hear her but cannot see her.:

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

New Webcomic: Auntie Rebecca's Triple Sons

Greetings everyone!

Today I'll be introducing the Webcomic that I informed you all about back in January. It took a while to make it but it was worth every moment and I can't wait to show you.

I've decided to post it this month as a celebration of Black History Month in the UK. The first part of the Web-comic will be about Leticia and Derek.

Here are two drawings that I did of these two characters a couple of months ago:

It will be updated every Monday, starting from today:


http://aunt-rebecca-triplets-sons.smackjeeves.com/ (simply click on first comic and follow the next page link.)

You can also follow on Inkblazers too.

Have a brilliant week everyone! :)

Manga Jiman 2014 (Part 2): Violinist Amethyst

Happy October Everyone! I hope you'll all have a brilliant month. Today I'll be posting some sketches of the second Manga Jiman Entry that I'll be working on after the first one.

This story will be about a twelve year old boy called Amethyst, who has a keen interest in playing the violin. The reason as to why I decided to make a comic about a violinist is because at the age of twelve I began playing the violin. I played for much of the school year but stopped when I reached year 11. The reason....well the violin that I used to play did not belong to me but it belonged to the school. Do miss playing this instrument. I felt that I need to pay homage to this wonderful instrument as well as my old violin teachers Miss Hockridge and Anda. It's also dedicated to anyone who is playing an instrument to the best of their ability and having great enjoyment. There will be several reasons as to why he plays this instrument but the main reason will be revealed in the comic. Here are the sketches of Amethyst:

In case, if you are wondering Amethyst has appeared in another story click here to see. He may look slightly different as to how he originally looked but I felt that it would be interesting to put him in comic form. Here are two other sketches of him playing the violin. The first drawing makes the character look a lot older. However the next drawing looks nice:

Another character that will be introduced will be his violin teacher. She is a huge help for him. Here are the first and final sketches of this character:

Although I did say in my last post that I'll be entering both. I've now decided that when I've finished both entries I will pick either this one or the other to enter into the competition. Both of them are very significant as they represent the fact that I began being a steward and began playing the violin during this month several years ago.

There will be Fan Art Friday this Friday. Please look forward to it.

Manga Jiman 2014 (Part 1): Stacey's Crush

Greetings everyone! Today, I'll be showing you my latest project that I'm working on other than my web-comic. This is post will be about the comic that I'll be entering for this year's Manga Jiman Competition. It is held by the Japanese Embassy in London. This year's theme is "Once in a lifetime meeting" or "Once in a life-time encounter". In Japanese it is "一期一会" .  On the day I found out about this year's theme I got started on working on the story. Surprisingly, I wrote two stories based on this theme and hopefully if I have time to complete them in comic form I might enter them for the competition. 

The first comic is about a girl in her late twenties called Stacey and her ordeals during her job. The story is based on something that I went through sometime last year during the month of July. I have been hoping to write this story since last year. Some part of it is real and the rest is is fiction. When I began the initial sketches of Stacey, I thought of what she could wear in the comic as well as her hairstyle. The chosen hairstyle is based on the 80's musician Bette Midler. I really liked her hair style in this video and I thought I'd pay hommage to her by using it. :):

This next page is of Stacey's facial expressions.:

The next character designs are based on her friend Leanne. I decided to go for the fouth character sketch because. I yearned for something simple. The clothes that she is wearing will be what she and Stacey will be wear in the comic:

Here are the facial expressions of Leanne. The middle facial expresssion was the one I found very appealing:

The final character to this story is of Stacey's Crush. Unfortunatley he doesn't have a name. I chose to leave him anonymous. This is because I felt that only this is necessary since the comic will be only way of how he would be visualised. These are the sketches of how he is visualised. For hairstyles depicted in this drawing I looked at current hairstyles for men of this year.:

For the facial expressions, I decided to make him a older. So far it look pretty good. I'm quite impressed with the chibi character on the bottom right.:

Currently, I've finished the comic in pencil and in ink. I will be working on adding screen-tones from today and the rest of the week. There will be another post about the second Manga Jiman entry that I'll be entering too. For anyone who is living in the UK, you can also enter this competition too. Have a look at the website by clicking here. Give it a go! Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment. :)

Fan Art Friday: Yu-gi-oh by Kazuki Takahashi and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show by Sam Register

Happy Fan art Friday everyone! Today I'll be showing two fan arts. One of the drawings was as a green pencil sketch the other was inked in 0.5 black pen then it evolved to a digital drawings on Photoshop.

The first Fan Art is of the cartoon Hi Hi PuffyAmiYumi Show by Sam Register. It was shown on Cartoon Network. This was an awesome series that I watched back in my mid teens. it was a brilliant series and I found it fascinating that there was a cartoon based on a famous Japanese group duo. Another thing that I found great was the songs that were played by the duo. It was really awesome and I was left engaged. Lastly they were mini scenes where you would see PuffyAmiYumi on tour, that was cool.  Within the end of each episode the Cartoon network sign was written in katakana before it quickly translated into English. This was another part of the show that I thought was really impressive:

The second and final fan art for today is of Yu-Gi-OH by Kazuki Takahashi. There was a previous drawing that I did of Yugi Motou and the pharaoh which is view in split form. I thought that it would be awesome to create a digital drawing on Photoshop. I'm still waiting to read the next volume of Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist. It's taking a bit long but it's okay. I'll keep on waiting:

There will be more Fan Art next week. Have a great week and make the most of it. Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment! (^_^)

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: 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.

Three Year Anniversary in Job and Initial Sketches for Manga Jiman Competition 2013

Hello Everyone! Today marks three years since I have been working as an Event Steward. To celebrate I created this digital drawing. This sketch was created during the second to last week of September, then edited on Photoshop:

Along side this drawing there was going to be a short silent story about one of the experiences that I had while in this job. But I couldn't do it since I have my Manga Jiman competition entry complete. So I felt that it would be better to show you the initial skteches for each of the characters that will be in the comic:

Here are the first initial sketches of the main character Laeticia:

* This is the chosen character design for the main protagonist Laeticia. Here are the facial expressions of this sketch:

The next main protagonist was the senior doctor Derek. This character I felt was very very difficult to do, the facial features were OK, but what I felt that was difficult was to find a suitable hairstyle for him. I did a couple while standing at the bus stop on the way home from church, the remainder of these sketches took place while I was at my lunch break at work and also during the train ride home. 

In total I made about twelve sketches, here it is:

From the sixth character design I created facial expression for each of them:

* The chosen character and facial design indicated here was at first going to be the chosen image. It was heavily influenced after I watched this cologne advertisement, while waiting for some music videos to appear. I was mesmerised on how this guy looked and  I felt he looked quite sleek. When I completing the sketches I decided to say 'No' because I felt the hairstyle was commonly used. I was left gutted decided to choose the last character design.

**After completing each character and facial expression, this chosen image which will be how Derek will be depicted I felt was the right one.

Only one character and facial expression design for one of the character Cain is shown here:

The final character for this Manga Jiman entry is the character SelenaMay:

*The initial sketch here is the chosen character for the manga. Here is the facial expressions:

I'm currently nearly finishing the comic in pencil. By the end of this week the pages will be inked and imported to photoshop for the next stages. 

Fan Art Friday: Reliving the Teenage Otaku: Yu-Gi-Oh, Tenchi and Pokemon

Helloo! Every One As it is Fan Art Friday today, I thought I'd show a couple that I did during the week during bus and train journeys to work. These drawing are based on the anime and manga that I read and watch in my teens towards early twenties. It was pretty much when I became an Otaku.

The first one is Yu-Gi-Oh. I absolutely adore the first sires involving Yugi Moutou, Over time when I got to find out how the story changes when he meets a range of friends and enemies, I was awed. In my late teen to early 20's I began to read the manga, I'm half way through 6 volumes through Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist (Which was of translated in to English) and I was even more amazed. Reading the story in comic form was inspiring. There were even some parts that left me really scared. (Seriously ^_^!) I encourage you to read the manga. If you can find it, please read it you'll love for sure. I had you use real cartoon images to get it into proportion. The image is split so you'll see Yami Yugi and Yugi Moto:

Drawn By Cherish York © Kazuki Takahashi

The next is Pokemon. It was a huge big deal when I was 12. I watched it every Saturday when it was on SM:TV Live and also on Sky One. This was of course the first series. Overtime there were movies and more series to add on to the segment. It's was inspired by the  Nintendo game too. Oh and I drew this from memory.  Here is as Ash:

Drawn by Cherish York

Lastly there was the anime series Tenchi: Muyo. This was shown on cartoon network, from the late 90's to mid 00's. It was main about a teenage bout called Tenchi who goes into his family shrine and some how revives Ryoko the space pirate. Over time new characters are introduced into the story and also of shenanigans happen between him and these characters. It was split into three series with different stories. These are Tenchi: Universe, Tenchi in Tokyo and another Tenchi GXP. There was also a spin-off called Pretty Sammy. Once of my favourite characters was called Washu, she a scientist and can create a lot thing. She can even create computer viruses too. I did use reference but this was after I tried drew most of if from memory:

Drawn by Cherish York: ©Hitoshi Okuda

There will be more fan art next week. Also Summer Story will be finished very soon. It is reaching in final stages, so please bear with me. Please leave a comment and thanks for reading! ^_^

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.