My 26th Birthday!

Today I celebrate my 26th birthday! So I thought I share a self-portrait of myself. This picture was done as a pencil sketch then colour was added on Photoshop.
The plushies that I've drawn in the picture are:

Kimihiro Watanuki form XXXhoLic
G-Dragon from the video 'Butterfly'. He's my favourite member from the band BIGBANG.
Tuxedo Mask or Mamoru-Chan from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Seishirou Sakurazuka from Tokyo Babylom
Suga Shikao who sings the theme songs to all of the xxxHoLic series.

Tomorrow will be Fan Art Friday and I'll be looking forward to showing you more fan art. See you then! (^o^)

Fan Art Friday: Starfire From Teen Titans Go!, Mokona Larg and Soeul from Tsubasa Resevior Chronicle and xxxHoLic and Luffy from One Piece

Happy Friday Everyone! I hope you're all having a brilliant day and also have a great month. As it is the last Friday of the month, here are three fan arts for today. All of these were created on Photoshop CS3. They all were pen sketches and were transformed into digital works. 

The first fan art is Luffy from One Piece. I thought I’d do him as chibi for a friend of mine. He’s celebrating his birthday today. I have to say it is quite interesting in digital form:

 

   
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 











The next fanart is of the the two Mokona’s from Tsubasa Resevior Chronicle and xxxHoLic. Larg is from xxxHoLic and Soeul is from Tsubasa. This was previously a pen sketch and modified and improved on Photoshop CS3:  

         






The final fan art is of Starfire from Teen Titans. This was another cartoon that I watched when in my teens. PuffyAmiYumi sang the theme song. There were times when the theme song was sang in Japanese and of course back then I was aware of the language but did not understand what it meant. Over time as I while watching the series, I stumbled upon this song when the Teen Titans was going after a villain from the UK. I forgot the villains name. Sorry! (^_^;):

      
                                     
                                       

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.

(^o^)14th Day Christmas Pictures!(^_^)

As a lead-up to my 25th birthday, I decided that every month on the 14th, I will create and post an image on my blog, this will be based on what comes to mind, what I have seen from the first week, on TV, DVD's or places that I have been around London. This month I have chosen to create a Christmas drawing since it will be next week where Christmas will finally arrive. It's of a drawing of an angel that lives on top of the tree and meets another ornament which has floated around the house. (You'll probably realise this already or not but the ornament or the right reminds me of Steve Jobs in his younger days.... He didn't really come to mind while I was drawing this picture but as I coloured the image, I saw a bit of a resemblance.) This image is in water-colour paints and inked in black ink:

The next drawing is a Secret Santa for a particular forum member on a website called Sweatdrop. This forum member has a web comic called FanDanGo that begun in 2009 and is still going today. She is part of a group called Indie Manga and has created some great comics so far. Since she is a fan of Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle, I decided to do a fan art of this series. It's written by a five female manga artists called CLAMP, where each of them create various fragments for one series. They are also the artist who create one of my favourite manga, called xxxholic. It's a different story however it's a cross-over of Tsubasa and the same scenes in Tsubasa are portrayed quite differently in this comic. The main characters are drawn in Christmas clothes:

The final drawing, is a another fan-art for Deb Marlowe. This is another retrospective picture of two brothers (Charles and Jack) who have found their love (Sophie and Lily) in two of the authour's books. (Scandelous Lord, Rebellious Miss and Her Cinderella Season) It's has a Christmas theme and I was inspired by visiting The Museum of London. As usual I visited the Pleasure Garden's section of the Museum and sketched the clothes with an orange coloured pencil. When I got home I inked and used water colour paints the drawing. Towards the end of this week, the image will be sent to Deb:

On a side note, I created this impressionist drawing of myself to celebrate my 24th birthday last month, I've abandoned black in this drawing and used blue. Also I portrayed myself wearing my Front of House uniform that I wear at work: