Fan Art Friday: Black Lady From Sailor Moon and The Hay and Flower Windmill from The RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2013

Hello Everyone and Happy Fan Art Friday! Today I'll be show another two fan arts. Both of them were previously pencil sketches and were then created on Photoshop CS3.

The first one is of Black Lady from the manga and anime Sailor Moon. As I have previously mentioned a few posts before, I'm currently reading and also enjoying thoroughly. I thought I will create another fan art. Although I prefer male villains to female villains, the female villain was quite interesting. For those who are familiar with the manga as well as the anime would know what would happen. I think I was most satisfied what happened to her in the end. *Smiles* I'm quite surprised of how the drawing turned out:

The next drawing is based on a photo that I took at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2013. I did a pencil sketch first then drew it again on Photoshop CS3. So far I'm very impressed with the results. The only changes that I made was the sky. I was not satisfied with the original photo so I chose to change it. This will be given to a work colleague of mine who had asked me to do this Hay and Flower Windmill for her. I hope she likes it:

As always there will be more fan are next week, thanks for visiting my blog and feel free to leave a comment. \(^_~)/

Dark and Light Story 2: Prelude to Mid-Summer Story 3/3

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all well. Here is the Dark and Light Story 2, which is prequel to the Mid-Summer story.

Other than receiving a lot of views from many countries from around the world, the most views seem to be from the UK, USA and surprisingly Russia.

As a result of this I thought that would make the princess wear a 'Duniasha' (dress) and a Kokoshnik (hat). Her intended suitor is wearing clothes which is from Colonial America during the 1700's. The villian of the story is of course from the UK and I thought that I would create the dress that she wears.

Here are the initial sketches for this story. The first is of the Russian Princess and the Colonial Officer and the ring used in the story:

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

For the female Villain I made two character designs. The first one was inspired by Pink's song 'True Love'. featuring Lilly Allen. I likes the hairstyle that Lilly Allen had, but I chose not to use it was too common. So I did the second one and I felt satisfied.:

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

Here are also the facial expressions for all three characters:

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

© Cherish York 17th/09/13

Just like my last Dark and Light story, this story will follow the same procedure, but the colours are different. The colours used in this story and also the Mid-Summer Story are based on the Irish girl band  B*Witched's second album 'Awake and Breathe' I adored the cover so much, that I thought I would follow suit with both stories. The song that inspired me to create this story was the track 'To You I belong':

I will be creating another Dark and Light story. This will be shown hopefully after I find out the short list of the Manga Jiman Competiton that is been held this year. Whenever I am or not part of the short-list I will be showing it around the month of January.

The next to follow is the pencil sketches of the Mid-Summer Story....stay tuned! \(^o^)/

Head Cast Sketches from the National Portrait Gallery 2 \(^_^)/

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all OK! I thought that I would show you some more Head cast sketches that I made last Sunday. It's been a bit of a while since I've did these. Most of the head casts are of women who have made a significance during the early 20th Century and also a few men from the Victorian Era. I hope you like them:

I chose to do the same head cast that you saw in my last post. I will draw her again but most probably from different sides.

I loved drawing the male head casts particularly with beards. I found it quite experimental to draw. The last head cast was quite difficult to to and I felt had to take my time completing it. It took me around 15 minutes to complete.

There will be more Head casts soon. Most probably within the next two weeks. I'm looking forward to doing more. The next batch will be of only men head casts.

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! (^_~)

Fan Art Friday: Goku and Chichi from Dragonball Z

Happy September and Happy Fan Art Friday! I thought I'd show you only one fan art today as it took me a long while to complete. I received my laptop back a week ago and I thought that it would be great to do a fan art on Photoshop CS3.

There were so many mistake that I made while creating this piece that I was willing to give up and move on but I kept going, because who knows it might push me in different ways unknown. So to avoid myself being irritated while drawing I ended up listening to podcasts and my endless selection of music. It helped out a lot.


These two characters are Goku and Chichi from the anime Dragonball Z. I didn't watch this anime until  I was 13 or 14. It was during the Cell games and it was after this saga I adored Goku and became immensely jealous of Chichi. ( Yes, I was an Otaku that loved male character from anime and manga...I'm still am today.)

Other than the suit that's common for what Goku wears. I chose to create a dress for Chichi and create a background for both of them. It was fun making it. (^_^) I hope you like it:

There were more fan art that I created. Two of them are as digitally inked and the other is in pencil form. I will complete these and maybe make more for next Friday. Have a great week and a great month. Thanks for visiting my blog and please leave a comment. (^_~)

Daily Sketches from May to August 2013 (^_~)

Hello Everyone and Happy September! I hope you've all have a fun and exciting year so far and enjoyed the month of August. Since another four months would have gone so I felt that it would be high-time I would show the next four months of daily sketches that I have produced from after April. Most of these sketches were created during visits to the National Portrait Gallery, bus and journeys on the tube. Plus while I was working either at the Cartoon Museum and during my breaks during my stewarding job. Enjoy!:

May:

© Cherish York: 10/09/13

June:

© Cherish York: 10th/09/13

July:

©Cherish York: 10th/09/13

August:

© Cherish York: 10th/09/13

There more daily sketches from this month of September to December. Thank you for taking the time out to read my blog, please leave a comment and have a great month.

Fan Art Friday: Joss Stone, Sky Hunter, Mateo Cardea from Tall, Dark and Disreputable by Deb Marlowe and Nurse on Call by Edith Cotterill (^_~)

Hi everyone, I know this is might a bit a late. Some of you might have already finished Friday, either in the middle of it or about to start it. Either way, Happy Fan Art Friday. Today I’ll be showing you four fan arts. All of them were created by pencil and watercolour paints a 2B pencil.

I thought I’d start of with an old Children’s programme that came out during the 70’s but was re-mastered and shown during the early 90’s. This programme is called SkyHunter and it was part of a production company called Look and Read. The show had a very interesting plot involving a crow, an endless collection of birds’ eggs, bird thieves, an inspector (Who was known as ‘The Bird Man’) and three children within their pre-teens solving a case. I was about four when this series was released, but I didn’t watch it until I was about eight or nine. I watched this show alongside my class back in primary school. My old music teacher Mrs Perry had the videos and she made a habit of watching at least one episode each Thursday morning. The series was really interesting and I what appealed to me the most other than the plot was the songs that took place whenever there was an interval. These songs were useful because it taught English words in every form to a young audience. Most of the songs were really cheesy but very catchy. This picture has the three preteens. It was drawn by memory. Oh and I just wanted to add, in the re-mastered version, you get to see the three pre-teens in the story as adults, but only during the intervals, they looked like they were in their 20’s. This put a huge smile to my face. (^_^):

The next fan art is Mateo Cardea from Tall, Dark and Disreputable by Deb Marlowe. Mateo has been introduced in a previous novel that Deb had written, (I will not say which one; you’ll have to find it. (^_^)

Drawn by Cherish York © Deb Marlowe

The next fan art is of the novel that I’m currently reading, which is called ‘Nurse on Call.’ As I have previously mentioned in my last post, I will be making more fan art on the novel. Here we see the next stage of Edith’s journey of being a nurse:

 

Drawn by Cherish York © Edith Cotterill

The final fan art I thought I’d dedicate to the musician Joss Stone. Last year, I won her album ‘Soul Sessions Vol.2’ on Magic 105.4’s Test of time. I managed to guess the year correctly through the musical clues and the music played within that year. The year that I guess correctly was 2005. After listening to this album numerous times throughout the rest of 2012 until now, I felt that the least I could do is do a watercolour painting of her.:

   






















There will be more fan art next week! Thanks for your patience and for visiting. Please leave a comment!