What price the hippogriffs?

the point of no return

2010-01-03T22:13:54Z

ameru what have you done?

Two years of no figure drawing, this is what I get. My old tutor would vomit blood. Every time I look at it I want to correct something. Will correct later

Original scan here.

Nowhere as cool as this =3=

true story:

starstray : Are his manboobs too obvious
chikotori : Well no they're not that obvious
starstray : See cause I needed to shade them but they can't be too obvious, and if I didn't they'd be too obvious
chikotori : If you'd just drawn a line and not shaved them they'd be-
starstray : ALFKFDFHDSIDGLSA SHAVE
chikotori : SHUTUP SHUTUP SHUTUP

evidently, we should stop drinking those mojitos

1/1/2010 two days too late

2010-01-03T18:45:39Z

Whoop whoop it is 2010.

In the spirit of the New Year, have a (picture of a) homemade mojito :D

yes, of course I know my presentation fails. also that Tigger mug does not belong to me =3=

It's saved my sanity more than once while trying to draw backgrounds with no refs and is the only cocktail I ~~like enough~~ know how to make.

Not a few people have been passing in and out of our little spot of brightness during the past two weeks with the result that my output art-wise and online-wise has been severely crippled. I am scraping together a few things (and clawing at the walls because of others) but until then, also in New Year spirit, I shall swipe this from ameru in hopes that it will generate me enough karma for snow to fall in London:

"✿" 5 free sketches!"✿"
to the first 5 people to name five things that make them happy

1. onisaka : HRE/Chibitalia
2. fightingoutside : Lulzynari
3. theotherdenise : Gormenghast-related
4. hakuku : Prussia + Hungary
5. kiku : England + Japan

[fr/uk, fr+uk] wip & fishing for favours

2009-12-30T02:03:08Z

Would like some quick impressions/crit about these o3o

The tail end of a not-all-crack comic. I am sorry for the writing and the chicken-scratching.
Basically, is Arthur too ~~emo~~ OOC? Disregard all the things I make them spout about Harlequins, Columbines and Clowns, is the overall feel in character? My deadline is New Year's Day. I guess some of you will know what this is for, then.

I disconnected myself from the internet to try and finish this in time but I think it's not going to work anyway ahahahahahaaaaa friends coming to stay at last minute and all =3=

This keeps me awake at night: trying not to OOC characters and wrestling with panel layouts.

In my limited experience panel layouts is like doing advanced maths homework. You know you can do it if you concentrate and think hard enough, with a bit of reference and time management, but the sad thing is, you procrastinate it anyway.

That aside I went stalking SW3 cutscenes on Youtube and LOLWTF CHIKAHIDE ~~and iehide lololol~~. And NeneHanzo and a very very srs bzns Hideyoshi what?
I then spoiled myself on FFXIII cutscenes, I, I-I... it looks totally AWESOME but then I-I-I /RAGE
oh Square, you can make manry heroines and still give them love interests you know :( it would be very moe! Very very moe!!
Also did not quite like what happens to the one moe female that I approve of :|
...Who am I kidding except myself, I'm going to eventually end up playing it like one possessed :|

one for sorrow

2009-12-24T16:16:54Z

Man I'm useless I've come back from Berlin and still haven't changed my top pic yet. I'll work on that tonight along with the fruk exchange ~~internet ban till I finish =_=~~ and some ahou manga;; also, since I expect to be drunk tomorrow (sad but true)...

Merry Christmas!

Even though this is not christmassy at all lol

Thanks for watching m(__)m despite the fact that I'm the biggest slacker on earth when it comes to replying and drawing, and am useless at internet correspondence in all forms

And to pre-Hetalia wave people, thanks for putting up with me all this while.

the brain trickles down from the alps with great reluctance

2009-12-20T23:28:06Z

I'm too lazy to edit anything tonight.

drawn at Berlin airport whilst raging with the other few hundred people stranded there lol

request for igiko which turned out yuk so I hope the moe thing at the bottom somewhat mitigates matters >_<

Bavaria [in my headcanon he is a sort of young Ludwig], I can't spell in German...
I want to prettify it as usual but it remains to be seen whether I actually do it.

there is more, but I'm too lazy to edit since I want to polish them as well...

goooshhhh haven't slept for over 24 hours, going through photos and drafting the remainder of the christmas cards and I'm thinking about doing something about Mad King Ludwig and Freistaat Bayern aka. Deutsche Bund/Deutsche Kaiserreich aka. Young Germany ie. Ludwig(II)xLudwig?

btw, if the cards I sent out reached you TELL ME, I don't trust Royal Mail at christmastime.

and I totally kyaa'd myself sore discovering jali_jali's doujin in the mail pile alsadjsjdasl;

this isn't how I expected to visit Liverpool

2009-12-19T10:37:28Z

SO the things I thought only happened to other people happened.

Our flight home to London got cancelled due to heavy snow =_= The man at the sales desk gave a light laugh as if to wash his hands of the whole affair, shaking his head while emphatically specifying that it was the fault of the London airports lol. oh London... why are you so pathetic at such times

I'm currently stranded in Berlin with chikotori and this jkasdlfjhdfgjksjoh european7german keyboard that makes me type / as 7 all the time GAH

Okay,not really stranded since we got our flight changed from London to Liverpool John Lennon(I was not even aware there was an airport in Liverpool... OTL sorry to any Liverpudlians reading this) We wanted to get a flight to Paris and Eurostar it under the Channel, or even train it all the bloody way back from Berlin, but after hearing of the people trapped in the Channel Tunnel... OTL||||

Anyway I will have much fun and money wasted getting a train back from Liverpool, that is if the trains are even running to London.

Germany was very picturesque and freezing cold (normal temperature for Canadians and warm for the Russians probably),it snowed at all the palaces we went to including during the 30-minute climb up a minor foothill of the Alps to Neuschwanstein (aka Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle) Munich in particular was AMAZING. Cleanest public transport ever especially the Sßbahn trains. If I lived in Germany I would want to live there.

I will post pictures and stupid crap I drew when I get home. Hope everyone in the UK who doesn't have to travel is enjoying the snow!

Pip pip.

IT'S BEHIND YOU!

2009-12-13T00:33:45Z

went for a christmas panto @ Shaw Theatre:

the black thing on the floor of the stage is a gorilla o3o
Genderbenders Widow Twankey and Wishy Washey were awesome, special mention to gorilla (above) and evil sorcerer dude, stage decor was not so awesome (looked like a high school play ahahaha).
btw, Pamela Anderson is the genie in the other Aladdin panto @ New Wimbledon theatre, which we didn't go to because it was in Wimbledon.

Got twitter. Pretty much all I do is watch wamyne hyperventilate. Oh, and stalk other people. But because I was really busy with rl stuff I haven't been on in a while;;

I'll be afk again till next weekend because I'll be in Munich in a few hours and IT WILL BE SNOWING *excitement, etc.*

Btw, so far I have only reached the halfway mark in terms of cards sent out, so I'm really sorry if anyone's winds up appearing around the New Year instead of Christmas. fightingoutside I got yours yesterday and your Hideyoshi is really cute <333 asjkdfjfjfdl it almost made me forget about his new costume

11/12/2009

Afk again orz||| rl is keeping me on my toes, I don't have time to even read what_the_fruk what is this fuckery?! I had screenprinting and college and social engagements and errands to run and at night I make cards instead of sleeping because I made the mistake of bringing the original to college to scan so of course the coursemates wanted to swap.

I will probably be drawing something about pantomimes soon since it is good, solid British entertainment and because there is never enough fr/uk (in that order; I wear fandom blinkers even in my own pet fandom).

I thought it would be a 'holiday' week as it was end of term but apparently not, I have 3 new projects (2 have already started and are "compulsory optional") over Christmas and then I spent most of this week inhaling poisonous fumes in the screenprint room. No chairs so legs ache :( I made some textures and stuff for PS and a magpie print. Before I could run away with it the printmaking guy grabbed it to stick up with the rest of the term's work so it'll probably only get scanned in January or something.

Some scattered pieces of junk under next cut, I haven't been drawing anything except cards for the past couple of weeks. I wanna do that 100% meme but I'll save the spam for afterwards

trying out photoshop cs4
Francis was drawn in cs3, Arthur in cs4

my holy trinity in hetalia
Austria is laughing down from lazy eyelids and flicking a speck of blood from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at his wrists... or maybe he is just thinking of how all this is disrupting his piano practice
...I know Austrians don't say "faugh" :( pretend it is a translation

portugal for wamyne
original design by weirdpika

Magpie, was it you who stole the wedding ring?
What other thieving bird would steal such hope away?
sketch for christmas card, the actual thing (I'll post it on 25th) looks fairly different from this :d

I forgot I had this on my hd, I drew it in summer and wanted to finish it but didn't.
...I'll finish St George before the end of the year ngggh

Happy holidays and pip pip.

envelopes + collected ramblings 1/12 - 5/12

2009-12-06T00:18:14Z

Dear all:

s-sorry about the brightness. I have the restraint of a magpie when it comes to buying paper.

Taken when I was about halfway through

and a closeup: yes, yes it looks like angpao packets orz

For the record, I am bad at origami and did not perform very well in mockup class. However I believe those envelopes /should/ last until they arrive at your doors.

and I think I can post these off in time for christmas for people in Europe/US/Canada, but since the last posting date for everywhere else was... yesterday and I obviously haven't started drawing them yet I'M SORRY PLEASE THINK OF IT AS A NEW YEAR'S CARD

other works put on hold till I finish these, sorry to the people who friended me to see art.

Comrade, yours has extra content (and is probably larger because I don't think what I have planned would look good in that small a size) so it's not here and I'll probably be sending it later than the others - but you will get it before your birthday I PROMISE.

dates for my own reference:

US/Canada/Eastern Europe last posting date - 10/12
Western Europe last posting date - 11/12
UK last posting date - 21/12

hnnnnng I feel that I should go online more =3= maybe I can now that I don't have to pull the 24-hour project deadline thing anymore;; the first part of this week was a total fiasco urgh I must try to avoid this deadlines due on consecutive days thing next term *picks classes carefully*

I was talking (okay, whining) to chikotori about how bad I am at cultivating acquaintances online, how lazy/unmotivated/terrified I am to get basic stuff like a dA (not going into twitter territory yet tho that's where everyone seems to be, so I'm tempted but at the same time uncertain because I'm afraid it'll just get created, and I don't want to simply break into cliques or anything, and then in the end it becomes dormant) sometimes I wish we had no internet and everything was done through letters (since I like email and letters are the closest format to an email) etc...
and since she is a very levelheaded person, she said : "shut up and just sign up and worry later." (not in so many words)
Also I'm a consummate lurker so I read/look at people's stuff a lot but don't comment unless I'm familiar with the person... but to gain familiarity one must first establish a point of contact and I guess that's what I should work on.

tl;dr my alone time is my happy time?? but at the same time I'm crying out for attention.

And I have a bunch of unfinished stuff that I don't want to upload till I finish them but what with christmas cards, GARmany trip and college (I still have full day printmaking classes until the end of next week. mmmm delicious smell of ink) ... it'll be a while. I have finally got the seed of an idea for untold_destiny's erstwhile commission so I'll be working on that as well.

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Ate up Kuroshitsuji like it was a bag of kompeito (guilty pleasure). Separate post on it later.

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stuff I typed out during the week and meant to post but didn't want to clutter up flists-

funny superhero website: superman is a dick

French animation tutor's theory on the English obsession with weather: (accompaniment: hand-waggling)

"You English! You cannot just say out loud that 'so and so, you're cool! I like you so and so! Man you're awesome!' no, you must start talking about the weather! What is so interesting about the weather?? You!" *points at hapless British student* "You are English, right? Isn't that true? You always talk about the weather?" "W-well, yes I suppose we do talk about the weather a lot.." "You see? Always the weather!" etc.etc.

so.... "It's such a sunny day today!" would potentially mean "Marry me" ? interestingggg gotta use this in a gag somewhere

He's a cool guy. Talks a lot (not about the weather, haha).

I felt happier about my last-minuteness when I saw about half my class in line to hand in for the essay deadline and it was all "HA HA HA HA I STARTED WRITING IT AT MIDNIGHT!!" and "REALLY?? I STARTED AT 10 BUT THE BIBLIOGRAPHY TOOK ME 2 HOURS SO... AHAHAHAHA!!"

lol art school

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There are a few routes I take to and from college, I usually take the British Museum one but the other day I decided, for a change, to go past St George's Bloomsbury (a church designed by the redoubtable Nicholas Hawksmoor, who also designed among other things Christ Church Spitalfields, better known as "that Jack the Ripper church"). The front bit of St George's Bloomsbury is pretty normal (to my uninitiated eye it looks the same as the facade of St Martin-in-the-Fields) but since this is a Hawksmoor creation this is what he did for the steeple

closer...

Did you see it?? The ~~man in skirt showing off his muscled midsection~~ lion and the unicorn on the steeple?! The steeple itself is unique in shape. Hawksmoor was a pyramid/obelisk otaku so he incorporated them into as many churches as he could get away with.

Another church with a weird steeple (through no fault of the architect) is in Chesterfield.

Edit: Have found out that man in skirt showing off muscled midsection is actually George I of England in "roman costume". Odd, had originally thought it to be Heliogabalus or some such. Am not used to seeing Monarchs of England glorified without clothing. Reason I'm so fascinated with this is that unlike Italy, England does not have all that many statues in the round of partially-nude men lounging around in public view (Arthur prefers naked women), so my radar went !!!!! when I saw old George preening on top of that steeple.

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ameeeeeee where is the best place to stalk ~~you~~ about doujin? I'm toying with a few ideas atm, woman you know I would totally start plurking or tweeting or whatever it is to communicate with you

fail fail fail

2009-11-29T03:28:15Z

doodled in sunnier, happier times (while falling asleep during crit last week, in other words)

Got some more to upload really but I'm saving them for themed dumps/when I do proper writeups.

Comrade I'm sorry I was not of more help for Porty TAT

If anyone sees me replying stuff (actually scratch the replying bit nowadays I'm just this creepy stalker who reads and doesn't reply but refreshes pages about a million times an hour) or bumming on msn, please just tell me to free fall off a cliff or something lol because it'll have a similar effect on my project grades i.e. "fail".

meme - you've probably seen this going around (who starts these things?):

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.

FIRST NAME
儀文 (仪文)
it's the word for JUSTICE with a dan ren pang (at times like these, my engrish fails me orz)
I'm very proud of the traditional version for that reason ~~damn you musou~~
I think the first word means manners; the second word means culture.

AGE
21. People will tell you that my mental age is 5. They are probably correct.

LOCATION
1 minute away from Pollock's Toy Museum, 5 minutes away from the BT Tower/UCL and 8 minutes away from the British Museum

OCCUPATION
Slacking illustration student

PARTNER
None DD:

KIDS
I would like to have 2 . ... and beyond that I have not thought much :x

BROTHERS/SISTERS
One older sister (25) who is not like me at all rofl Her hobbies are clothes shopping and sleeping (<--- ok, this is a similarity). She doesn't like anime/manga, but she can spot BL undertones from a mile away.
I used to fight with her when I was younger (I was a real brat), then she tamed me into an obedient servant who does all her chores. This state of affairs continues, but nowadays since she's started working, she buys me random presents and nice food (and so does her boyfriend) so I guess I'm now a "favoured servant".
...j/k my sister is awesome though it doesn't change the fact that if she tells me to jump, I still ask "how high?"

PETS
I have a Labrador at home. She's large and strong, so if you hit her, she thinks you're playing with her.
When I'm away, no one combs her fur. :(

THREE TO FIVE THINGS GOING ON IN MY LIFE
* Deadlines ha ha ha ha
* Christmas cards
* Trying to get enough balls to set up a deviantart account and lets not even talk about doujin see: below
* I FOUND ANOTHER FANARTIST IN MY CLASS AND WE ARE SWAPPING CONSOLES DURING CHRISTMAS HOLS/MAYBE DOING DOUJIN?! nah we're such slackers, and and and she wants to do russiamerica, i obviously want to do fruk, and she's much better at serious stories, and when I draw serious stories I start to laugh, and we are both totally fucked by our course schedule, the way this is working out it's probably not happening - CONSOLE SWAP IS DEF HAPPENING THOUGH *SWEATY OBSESSIVE GAMER HANDS*

PARENTS
My mum is an architect although she didn't become one because she wanted to be one - she did the course because she thought it was less boring than accounting or economics. She sometimes helps me to sketch backgrounds esp. interiors and she tried very hard to teach me perspective, but I was a fail student (I still remember her "HOW CAN A CHILD OF MINE BE SO STU- *facepalm*" look ahahahah)
Dad works in the Public Works Dept. He's a Thaiphile and Anglophile banana, and puts on a superior British accent when he lectures his kids (who is he trying to impress). Sometimes shows serious signs of master-of-the-house/siu ye mentality

CLOSE FRIENDS
ahaha I'm doing the rl version only cos it's embarrassing otherwise =w=;;
My flatmates. I have never been exposed to nor participated in so much mutual fangirling in my life. Without their, er, ~~threats~~ encouragement, I would not have started obnoxiously posting fanart. panthael_angel is the Boss, chikotori is the Underling. (I'm the Other Underling.)
My horny pet djkiku, who shares the same birthday 8D
Other friends are scattered orz they're mostly from high school. I shall just quote the aspiring architect in Edinburgh on John Soane's Museum: "So there's this dude, he collects awesome junk and arranges it in this awesome house he built specially to put his awesome junk in..."
As for coursemates, edohsama is a Jrock fan and occasional partner in crime, when our timetables don't clash; and there's also a fellow fujoshi :3

ok now I go back to drawing a really skewed angle of buildings in Old Havana -- I AM VERY FRUSTRATED GRRRR I take breaks for the express purpose of hitting my head on the table. jndajafdfska suck so bad at buildings :|
and I would still like very much to do Christmas/New Year's card art trades btw

tis the season to be jolly

2009-11-19T12:53:11Z

Just a quick blip before I have to return to the harrowing business of meeting deadlines, will edit later most probably as well as reply to comments and etc.

H-hi random people who friended me you will soon find out that I have an extremely erratic updating schedule and art of often dubious merit but I am flattered regardless.

This is just the usual christmas card post to see if anyone whom I have not stalked/asked/etc yet wants a card, most likely it will wind up being of hetaria England unless you specify something else or I know what you like.

I will of course be as gay as the proverbial treeful of monkeys on laughing gas if you want to send me anything back. Would be even gayer if anyone wants to card-art-trade >3<

Comments screened etc.

Pip pip.

EDIT: Man you guys, did not expect much response at all, I am going out to check if the local post office has finally got more of the 90p fairy stamps in.

And good luck for exams to people who have got them <33

EDIT2: Ok gaiz, from now on I'm only doing trades because unless I successfully manage to make a pile in printmaking class (plz don't underestimate how fail I am at screenprint) I don't have time to do more ;w;

for that historically accurate touch

2009-11-17T04:43:49Z

Right.

Hetalia characters in wigs.

That's all this post is.

Mix work with pleasure, I always say.

I'd just been to the National Portrait Gallery on another of those illustration dept. field trips and there is nothing quite like the exquisite sameness engendered by a room hung with portrait upon portrait of Whigs in wigs. I recommend the portrait of Handel that's in the next room over to anyone who decides to venture in, it really shows off how terrible dark, thick, Arthurian eyebrows look when you're wearing a white-powdered wig.

By the way, the longer/fuller your wig was, the smarter you were supposed to be. Doctors and lawyers kept on wearing the full-bottomed wig long after other men had moved to to shorter, less cumbersome styles, and the full-bottomed wigs that judges still wear today in court are a legacy of this.

And yes kids wore wigs too (only on the Continent, sneers Arthur).

The infamous "sailing ship" pompadours for women (apparently the coiffures reached 2'6" in height) were an exclusively French fashion, so I didn't inflict them on Hungary.
During Old Fritz's reign, the Prussian army was THE most snappily dressed army on the fields. So of course everyone was wearing wigs. That long ponytail Prussia is sporting is partially artistic license as it was generally braided to the end - but they were really that long.

Technically speaking "that evil man" refers to Old Fritz.

oh no, of course they didn't escape the trend
the first person to tell the difference/identify everyone here gets a request :d

Michael of Poland had an awesome wig. I have no doubt whatsoever that (as written in The Strange Story of False Hair) the equivalent of 10 heads of hair went into that wig.

The wig craze began in France (like most fashion trends); Louis XIV unfortunately went bald in his early thirties so he had to preserve his dignity somehow. Of course soon enough it became wildly fashionable and people were literally shaving their own hair off so their wigs would sit better. (Also: issues about lice in hair due to the washing it once a year thing? Solved.)

Gentlemen wore turbans at home; it was considered a state of undress (or dashingly bohemian, depending on how you choose to look at it).

By the 1770's men (in England at least) had mostly moved away from wigs and wore their own hair, powdered. By the 1800's, influenced by the French Revolution, short hair was de rigueur.

Prinny = George IV's nickname when he was still Prince of Wales (and he was Prince of Wales for a very long time). He was grossly overweight but that didn't stop him from trying to be fashionable.

...

bonus: chonmage (THE samurai hairstyle)

like a bad penny

2009-11-17T04:25:37Z

Apparently if I don't post this tonight I will be flogged with a bolster so please excuse any excess stupidity.

To cut a long story short: internet problems (yes, again), SMT: Devil Survivor, Darker than Black, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, historical novels, piling deadlines, and ~~revelations of my own uselessness~~ histrionics.

I've also been researching BDSM ("the english vice"), the process of Cuban rum-making, wigs, moe anthropomorphism (I think that is how you spell it), domestic violence, breaking my brain in After Effects, all at the same time, for various college projects.

On the side we have made (and consumed) sangria and nutella marble cake.

So, with this, that and the other thing, I've not been active much.

Oh yeh re: steampowers

panthael_angel: So basically it's Hetalia characters, Victorian-ish fashion and then they add cogs
starstray: What cocks what
chikotori: Cogs you fool

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ugh definitely need my ears cleaned.

ok I shut up now

2 x gijinka/original
2 x Musou
19 x APH

some large-ish files (~500kb each)
subject range: Cuba, macaroons, hetaliasean, ++
95% junk

**MISC**

I get bored during lectures even if they are about comics - and my eye, Hideyoshi and Nene's new designs are so boring.

original character that kind of looks like nomnomnim's Dr Syn Arthur; although I swear I came up with his design before she suggested that to me

Another dude witch, this started out as a Misdreavus gijinka and evolved.

**HETALIA**

based on comments some people left on a previous post about macarons; I still read all comments even though I suck at replying =3=

I thought this kind of thing only happened in movies but at approx. 6 pm each day apparently people in Paris do walk their dogs and go to the boulangerie to buy baguettes.

~~the Rt. Hon~~ Arthur Kirkland, Esq.

commission.
By the time I got around to Austria, I ran out of energy.
might revise/reuse pose + add bg

another commission by the same person, panthael_angel said France looked like a sex tourist and now I can't unsee it . . . ... orz||||

done for hetaliasunshine, requested by mcmitters
totally lame but it sounded great at 3 am in the morning.

A prompt from theotherdenise, for her birthday, which I was late for

come to my armmmmms angleterre

A prompt from cleartempest for her birthday, which I was also late for; the quote and setting is from her Fr+UK fic

out of randomosity this is a close up of england (so you can see his eyebrows) and france (so you can see his spindle legs that had not yet filled out to perfection and my shitty brushwork).
Sadly for england, his own spindle legs were never to mature to perfection.

card for djkiku's birthday, probably the only birthday that I actually posted things off in time for

quickie done as a deposit for panthael_angel's birthday present since I didn't think I could finish her proper present in time; I somehow think I'm more comfortable drawing manry men and idiots than cool bishounen

Cuba.
I had to do a lot of research on him recently.
since this project will go on for another month it is very likely that any fanart done in the future will be of this ossan.

More projectwork: ok colour-wise the next picture is kind of blinding

lololol probably the ugliest cuba+canada fanart in existence... well I had to fill the space in the street somehow
ignore the chicken please my brain doesn't work properly late at night.

truly a doodle page

ref: Hetalia 41, France + UK so adorkable
btw, SIS = official name of MI6

l to r: Thai-san, Malaysia, Singapore (do Singaporeans use 'gila'? if not, I'll edit)
The "old newspaper song" is a (sometimes quite annoying) recording played by the vans that collect old newspapers from homes in Malaysia/Singapore. I uploaded a rock cover by Lo here if anyone's curious.
the broom was going to be a penyapu lidi but a penyapu lidi is not long enough to play air guitar with.
Designs based off jali_jali's Hetalia ASEAN OCs <3

and something I drew at London Expo (the leftmost one)
the other two papers there constitute the results of an enlightened and erudite discussion between an illustrator, a graphic designer and a product designer

**AHOU MANGA**

prompt by ~~the person who tells me stupid jokes at 3 am in the morning~~ panthael_angel:

This comic is not historically accurate. Anachronistic Dickens quote is anachronistic :O
Howtowdie. It's Scottish roast chicken.
Enid Blyton asserts (like Arthur, and l'Ecosse) that macaroons (note additional 'o') are scrumptious (see: Five on Finniston Farm). It is all LIES I tell you, LIES.
hikari_datenshi says they are scrumptious too. I think it is her British tastebuds speaking.
I also don't understand the British obsession with coconut. (cf. Bounty; "Malaysian coconut" flavour yoghurt)

another stupid 3 am joke
I need to stop drawing those stupid 3 am jokes

I'm trying to stop slipping back into the whole hiatus/lurker routine. It's hard.

Gotta code the wig thing though so no comments from me today (again), sorry OTL|||

EDIT: Fixed the link for old newspaper song, moral of the story: posting at 5 am you are bound to make some stupid mistake or other

expo expo

2009-10-25T23:08:26Z

For the past few days I think I basically only had free time to bathe and sleep orz;;

I'm soooo tireeddddd (con + multiple weekly deadlines = bad combination)

I want to be a cheese bun.

Anyway, I don't have much to say about London Expo except that (a) I failed to buy myself an ori copy of Persona 3 because it sold out insanely fast and (b) my favourite cosplayer from this Expo is below the cut ~~because he was so awesome I totally stalked him yo~~:

OKAMA WAYYYYYYY

~~needs moar sparkles~~

He had gloriously unshaven leg hair!! Sorry for the horrendous photo that couldn't even manage to show the beautiful leg hair... after trailing the guy around the hall for the best part of 45 minutes my hand was shaking (all the other photos I took of him were blurry as well OTL|||)

without a doubt the best OP cosplayer of Expo - the bad Luffys and atrocious Zoros (ok, ok I understand it's hard to be as buff as Mr. 3-Swords BUT AT LEAST GET THE FREAKING HAIR RIGHT AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO EARRINGS?!) made me want to dig my eyes out...

Aaaaah fightingoutside I totally missed you - although I did see your Mitsuhide (?) up on the Artist's Alley wall ;3;

it is so obvious how my hand is going on strike

2009-10-19T03:35:13Z

This is a very disorganized post but YAY INTERNET ACCESS:

click for to go bigger;
"psst hey magoichi, get a load of that rack"
Aaaahh I want to see the monkey's new design so badly ;w; I have neglected the BFFs for far too long

Also did a fill for musoumeme, where the crack flows like wine:

....

I still need to catch up with pretty much everything except hetaliasunshine, I can see this being an epic endeavour

e-e glasses!
For a friend's design project. I am surprised it turned out as funky as it did. The unintentional blurring probably helped.

Meme pinched from jali_jali, my answers are pretty boring:

What is the character you've drawn the most (Can be original or fanart)?
Uh, probably my bolster (shhhhitiscuteokay). Or various horses; I draw horses to destress.

What colour do you often use?
Black and white :x

Any colour you are bad at using?
Bright, psychedelic colours.

When drawing people, where do you start?
Either the face shape or the nose/forehead line.

What is a character only your eraser will love?
Barret from FFVII, most chunky "mukki mukki" types, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi from Sengoku Musou T_T although Hideyoshi is one of my favourite characters, that damn monkey is freaking hard to render.

Which of your works took the longest time?
EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING TAKES A LONG TIME
So far most hours clocked in was probably that 5-page England's birthday thing though

What techniques do you use when you want to improve in drawing?
Look at other supremely supreme works of art that are of a level that commoners can but aspire to attain, either say "I WANT TO DO THAT TOO" or wallow in self-pity, and then try, try again

What do you think of the art of the person who gave you this picture meme?
I like your clean lines and inking, and your mad sense of humour!
If you make a GakuHeta ASEAN doujin, please please please say you'll ship to the UK ;w;

What art tools/media are you good with?
Pen, brush, ink, pencil. Sometimes I'm satisfied with how my watercolours turn out.

Art tools/media you are bad at?
PHOTOSHOP
OPENCANVAS
DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT ILLUSTRATOR
Digital stuff ^^;; I'm still trying to get better. Please don't run away if I randomly jump anyone for p-chats.

What do you think about your own art?
please draw more backgrounds, please don't procrastinate so much
please be more innovative, please experiment

Do you consult magazines for your drawings?
Architectural Digest (when I'm at home) for "quaint" antique furniture. Sometimes girly mags for coming up with ensembles.

What do you like about your art?
The lines and crosshatching.

What habits do you have while drawing?
Making near-pointless trips to the kitchen to boil water for tea, tapping my feet in time to songs, playing Countries of the World on Sporcle...

Are you good at drawing faces facing right?
NO, it is one of my secret sorrows

How frequently do you draw?
Almost every day, in one way or another, except in exceptional cases

What do you do when you have artist's block?
Read, game, whine about it to my flatmates. Then see some awesome piece of art or another and get fired up again.
It really sucks when I get artist's block but I still have to draw for projects or some kind of deadline - the quality drop is very, very obvious.

What must you have when you draw?
Some kind of drink (usually tea), bright light, clean odourless air, music, motivation (in dire straits, a movie to watch/something to distract my brain will serve in place of motivation)

Do you have a lot of stray lines (messy lineart)?
Yes, but I am trying to get away with calling it *style*.

What is drawing to you?
Sometimes, it's a form of relieving stress. At other times, it makes me want to hit my head on the wall. Generally my feelings oscillate between the two at alarming speed.
Whatever it is, though, I can't live without it.

Your goal from now on?
Mid-term: To make enjoyable fanwork.
Long-term: Produce or collaborate in comic/game/book illustration.
Longest-term: Improve.

Artists you've had influence from?
Arthur Rackham; Kumiko Suekane; charizen; Thelwell; Nobuhiro Watsuki

Artists you like?
All of the above, + Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, Aya Kato, Caravaggio, Hergé, Edgar Degas, Takehiko Inoue, Miwa Shirow, Kazuma Kaneko, Ronald Searle, the graphics of the anime Mononoke, Yoshitaka Amano. + many, many others
This is going off on a tangent, but I really admire Fumi Yoshinaga's storytelling skills.

Which is easier to draw, humans or animals?
Animals.

Please tell us the title(s) of your own comic(s)
"Working title" 8D I don't have any finalized title for my own work yet, let alone finalized designs.

Show us an old picture
btw, I am not telling porky-pie lies in order to get out of showing my god-awful past work (I mean, my human beings used to look like jellyfish), but all the truly ancient stuff is at home in Malaysia so the earliest thing I can dig up is something from high school senior year that I happened to upload on photobucket:

PROPORTIONS, YOUNGER ME, PROPORTIONSSSS!!

i promise to upload uglier things when i go home next june lol

What is the charm-point of your art?
Charm-point? What charm-point?
...I think it's the fact that most of it is done offline. It's refreshing (?)

What is the first thing you would draw if we're talking about fantasy?
Unicorns, or any kind of magical equine (qilin, pegasi, Sleipnir, etc)

Please draw your most beloved character(s):
What, now?! UM HERE

When thinking of characters is it mostly female? male? or androgynous/no sex?
Male and female in equal shares?

What did you draw yesterday?
the dachi (top of post), and thumbnails for a fruk 6koma

What is the funnest part to draw?
Hair. Cravats, too.

What part of other people's drawings do you notice first?
The face and proportions, usually. In large, epic images, the colours.

Regarding backgrounds, what is your method of making it easier to draw?
Agreeing with jali_jali on tracing =3= I try copying structures as well. Alternatively, place drawing in ostentatious spot where mum is bound to see it; mum sees it; mum corrects it - but I consider this method a last resort and even worse than tracing orz|||

What colour coordinations do you like?
Black/white/red; iridiscent gold/red/brown-orange; pink/white/sea-green

What character did you last draw?
Magoichi and Hideyoshi

Does your style change easily?
It changes with my mood. It's a real problem when I draw things that require more than one session to complete.

What part of drawing do you pay most attention to?
Faces, proportions, hair, detailing, particularly in the inking stage (which usually fails anyway).

How do you feel about drawing H pictures?
I'm no good at it :( they turn out like anatomical studies, I think it's because I don't find them moe to begin with

Do you like criticism from others?
Yes, if it's constructive.

How many people do you normally draw per artwork?
One or two, usually.

Btw, is anyone going to London Expo this weekend? I hear they're having some World Hetalia Day thing afterwards as well in the Chinatown area (on Saturday). Personally, I'm going to Expo itself on the Sunday (friend is cosplaying on that day) but might just pop down to stalk people on Saturday depending on circumstances.

next update: fanart backlog by category
lots of ~~crappy~~ stuff people, lots of stuff
still in process of crawling out of hole and relearning to use/abuse 24-hour internet access

effing A

2009-09-28T09:54:09Z

HI ALL another quick, heartless and relatively pointless update:

I'm on the college computers right now, having registered for electives. AMAZING! more than 10 people not counting yours truly signed up for the graphic novel/manga elective, and now all that remains to be seen is as edohsama the optimist says: 'how many of them signed up to do essays on Marvel or DC?'

And I'm supposed to be at the post office buying pixie stamps for christmas cards, because unicorns are just 1st class and I need ~60p stamps to make up values to send cards out of the UK.(some of you will be getting them, if you want them ;3;)

That and the mythical creatures stamps are just plain pretty and I am the sort of fool who goes to the large post office at Charing Cross just to buy pretty stamps that I might not finish using up.

I also live 5 minutes away from the huge Paperchase on Tottenham Court Road now so I expect to port back rolls of gilt-print paper every so often again because they, too, are pretty and not too expensive for me to feel guilty about buying.

Internet is coming in on Friday, apparently, but I'll be in Paris till next Tuesday... so... yes, until next Tuesday. Wednesday, rather.

In the meantime I'll ask my flatmate nicely for the use of her mobile broadband and reply to comments and entries. Slowly. Three at a time, or something.

Pip pip.

now you see me, now you don't

2009-09-20T18:18:25Z

GASP!!! I'M ALIVE.

I need a massage and a lie-down.

quick update:

1. sorry for being an inactive douche (again) ... haven't even had time to sleep much or draw lately orz
2. I'll back in London in about... 20 hours from now; I'll still be an inactive douche until we get an internet connection in the new garret
3. In between... a combination of Starbucks/pub/college internet? if anyone needs to contact me for anything, mail/msn = starstray (at) gmail.com
4. And then maybe business as usual??

p.s. have some Jooster. (complete with sing-along and cute dog at around 0:20)

domestic violence (a girl like you)

2009-09-20T17:54:23Z

I admire Jump artists for getting out 19 pages each week every week. I really do.

Moe!Canada basically took over all of this comic.

Original prompt by panthael_angel
5-page ahou manga for what_the_fruk's challenge cycle theme ("Birthdays"):
Click on the pages to enlarge them.

Another rush job. I didn't have much time to play around with speech bubble placement or experiment with sfx with the net result being: the horror above.
No tones, no blue willow pattern on the Spode tea service, I ran out of patience inking some things, and so many mistakes that I noticed only after scanning OTL|||.
I know, I know, it's not even particularly Fr/UK-y :(

scrapped idea for a panel:

"maybe I will colour this epilogue" :

"My poor, broken teapot..."
"Ma chere Angleterre, I would much prefer it if you had said 'my poor, broken Frenchman'."

There is really a frilly men's nightshirt like the one Arthur is wearing in existence, I saw it on eBay a couple weeks back when I was ref-ing stuff for this comic; but the listing's gone now. D:

I fully intend to explore the screwed-up dynamics of fail!country personification parenting (and yes, Arthur needs to teach the kiddies about how they need to start calling him 'father') when rl is more accommodating ....

proof that my family has orgies when I'm not in the house

2009-09-05T06:41:43Z

I was out for much of the day and got back late last night and the first thing I see on the table:

Never in my life have I seen so many macarons that were not separated from my drooling mouth by a piece of very solid glass and a hefty price tag.

WHAT DO THOSE PEOPLE GET UP TO SERIOUSLY

EDIT: AAAAH I WANT THESE I don't even have an iphone lol

and-the-meat-ration's-been-cut-again soup

2009-08-31T10:50:30Z

Merdeka Day: the most Malaysian thing I have thought of today is wanting to rewatch Kopitiam.

Otherwise, have been living in a fictional English village named St Mary Mead where the most alert and intelligent people in the area are the old spinsters of indeterminate age who are constantly knitting fluffy jumpers for their relations (q.v. "old pussies").

Anyway.

Edward Bear goes bump bump bump down the stairs :D

the original sketch for the last waltzing picture

Charasort results (not cp sort). Being a very indecisive person a lot of my results were doubled up.
If there were SEA nations in Hetalia (besides Thailand and Vietnam(?)) this list might have been quite different :]

all you get from love is a love song

2009-08-29T21:24:56Z

My internet connection seems to be on early hari raya holiday...

Went to karaoke just now with my sister, made each other sing a lot of Carpenters and more modern cheesy songs etc. voulez vous coucher avec moi, also some dumb Miley Cyrus song, oh my god even Taylor Swift orz ahhhh my voice was so terrible that I couldn't sing past the "wooooooooh yume no naka deeeeeeeee hirogae sekai wa RAAST SHIKRET GAAAAADEEEEEN" part in Secret Garden orz orz
I was quite surprised that Red Box even had Gackt songs :O I was looking for Ai Senshi, since it's a Gundam song and I think I can probably sing that without cowering in shame but the only other song of his they had was wasurenaikara.

oh yeah hetalia themed vending machine, Malaysia would be tongkat ali (credit: chikotori)

(click for slightly larger version)
Texture by hibbary
Waltzing again eh, how boring can I get?
Actually I think Hungary has two left feet, but for the sake of romanticism...

I got lazy on the third page, I hate drawing backgrounds (bad, very, very bad) somehow the style also changed halfway...
100% pure sentimental rot :) this is as far as I will go on Hungary's non-homicidal feelings towards Prussia unless Austria ceases to exist

I think I will give up trying to do speed-painting or anything fast... I told myself it would take 2 days max for this simple 3 page thing and ended up taking a week.

Mmm I also need to think up some fruk almost-porn for a commission, it's hard. I'm not in a porny mood.
options:
- pinch an idea and an impression from kameko_87 again and do dancing-molesting.
- Fencing?(fencing where? hur hur hur)
- Unicorn maiden hur hur hur
- fall back on arrrr! pirates

on the whole I might go with unicorn maiden :d

I can see all those wips, hetalia sunshine assignment (something requiring pairings that I have rather awkwardly little experience with) and my fruk challenge entry vanishing into the long grass if I don't start being more efficient soon orz

more things after I get some sleep, too lazy to deal with scanner right now

I am up late reading a blog on Twilight, is the sky falling on our heads?

2009-08-17T19:35:56Z

So apparently it's all about Edward Cullen's eyes and scandalous scenes of face-touching? And how do you even choose between a stalker and a paedophile, anyway?! I must get hold of this book, it sounds too ~~mockable~~ good to be true.

Snarfled from theotherdenise.

...O-oh, how very appalling my taste in music is.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly. Write who got it in brackets beside
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own

I highly doubt that I myself would recognise some of the first lines of those songs, whereas others are all too recognisable, so this is just to serve as a reminder to myself to clear out my playlist. yes, that is Katy Perry in there. OH THE SHAME.

chikotori, can you spot the Gackt(s) :p

1. kimi wa nanimo shirazu ni
2. Embraced in all desires
3. nemuranakute sabishisa ga kesenai yoru ni - chikotori
4. donna ni kane ga attemo hoshii mono wa tsukinai
5. kaze ga yoseta kotoba ni - Xhinny
6. totsuzen kita de-to no sasoi
7. wari to yoku aru hibi no surechigai wo
8. Reading my paper in Ray's cafe
9. hoshii no wa zetsumyou na haamonii
10. Gotta leave town, got another appointment - kameko_87
11. o-ganikku wa suki dakedo
12. Question: tell me what you think about me
13. yoru no yami ni magire
14. Who's in a bunker, who's in a bunker? - theotherdenise
15. You change your mind like a girl changes clothes - igiko
16. Work it make it do it makes us - theotherdenise
17. ii ne kaisei jan kumo hitotsu nai yo
18. This is where I'll be, so heavenly - theotherdenise
19. Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes - kameko_87
20. Des yeux qui font baiser les miens
21. chika ni moguri ana wo horitsuzuketa
22. kaze ni fukare tachidomari furikaette
23. ai, furueru ai, sore wa wakare no uta - chikotori
24. dakara ima ai ni yuku sou kimettanda
25. When I find myself in times of trouble - kameko_87

----

1. Pick 15 10 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

1. Then, on the fourth day, he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, lashed 'em together and made a raft. - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2. Anything to declare? / Yeah. Don't go to England.

3. My glorious prose filtered through the minds of the insane. Who knows, they might improve it.

4. As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

5. Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT... NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY... NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?

6. Just wishing I could do the job for you, sir. I'd give her a HA! And a HI-YA! And then a OUU-WA! And I'd kick her, sir. - Anastasia

7. You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? - Dirty Harry

8. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. - The Silence of the Lambs

9. Are you talking to that squirrel? / I was a junior chipmunk, uh, and I had to be versed in all the woodland creatures. - The Emperor's New Groove

10. Fetch me a priest, girl. I'm minded to die.

9 and 10 were originally Farewell to my Concubine and a Stephen Chow movie (the one where he was Sun Wukong) but they didn't have IMDb quotes.

Here, this is my favourite ~~quote~~ scene from that Stephen Chow movie.

To this day I still don't know wth is with the "ti teng" subtitle LOL

I mite hav known

2009-08-16T15:48:44Z

I have been very, very bad in terms of online reassimilation, I have been tablet-less, I have not even caught up with Hetalia news tsk tsk cluck cluck...

Firstly -

Both Malaysian doubles teams get to the semifinals for once and they lose out to the Chinese and Koreans!!!!(insert more incredulous punctuation here) Sob sob, the armchair badminton enthusiasts shed a silent tear, chew on handkerchiefs etc. Mssrs. Tan and Koo you played quite well, had me on edge of seat admiring smashes and cheering you on against Koreans and things but what was that horrible performance in the second set in aid of?

Never mind lah dapat bronze medal bagus pun...

And, and and men's singles I, I just want to bawww :( Lee Chong Wei how can you tell the papers that Sony bukan masalah and then lose to him howwwwwwww

I think Denmark won something. Mixed doubles, I think. So did Korea, mens doubles?

China won many things.

England pulled their team out of this tournament because of the H1N1(A) scare, what happened to the boys of the bulldog breed, eh, you people invented this game and all, ~~I wanted to see if there would be a matchup with France.~~

And also -

:D :D :D

(to be honest I was not expecting my family to hear me/take me seriously when I said I would like an intuos4 for my birthday. Considering, that for the last few months: "You want a watch right? Just like your sister had right?!")

Hooray for families.

Mitsunari thinks he should grow a ~moustache~ while he's at it ~~...to be continued.~~

Aftereffects of watching the HBO miniseries Elizabeth

Good Queen Bess was probably the one who taught England the art of being tsundere... (among other things e.g. piracy, world-changing literature, etc)

Francois, the duc d'Anjou, was the only one of Queen Elizabeth I's many suitors to come visit her in person... well it didn't work anyway, lol. England do not like frogs he think they are uterly wet and weedy.... WOT AM I SAING CHIZ CHIZ CHIZ

Hmmm I don't know how trying to draw a young Queen Bess degenerated into cherchez la France.

Germany & co.

(I apologize in advance for my handwriting, I understand it is quite sickeningly ugly)

German simulator: you are a German. You wake up at six in the morning because an Austrian in your house is sat on your bed complaining about your Prussian brother...

BAEDEKER ALERT

Working title: O Tragic Love!, or the Great, Awesome, Award-Winning, Chart-Topping Romance Novel by the Great, Awesome, Suave, Handsome G. Weillschmidt

Author's photo.
I was wondering if he should have looked more like a Sensitive, Artistic Soul.

thumbnail for an illustration:

"He had been walking in the gardens alone, feeding the birds as was his wont in the evenings; Elizaveta, who had been his boyhood companion, seemed to be struggling as her skirt was caught by the sly thorns of the briar roses.

Gallantly he assisted her, and was about to bow his leave when the dying sunlight caught her face as she offered him a smile of dazzling sweetness that, from that moment on, enslaved young Captain Weillschmidt as surely as he was chained to her."

it was very, very hard not to laugh while drawing

I've got a long way to go before I have enough to dump with part one of the text intact :| not to mention, for the life of me I fail at drawing Gilly as a lovestruck idiot.

to be continued...

One Coin Figure photos

Since I have got my grubby hands on him at last:

oh you know I just had to take this kind of photo

And now that the situation is plus two tablets instead of minus one I am going to divest one of its outer wrappings and try it out :D

/keyboardsmash

2009-08-04T14:22:03Z

just got back from singapore, left my tablet pen in cousin's place oshit can't finish the million and one wips that I have on photoshop, will catch up soon, go online more often talk more etc

right now ...

Gackt to Perform Ending Song for Sengoku Musou 3

KOEI, YOU WANT ME TO BUY A WII, IS THAT IT

THAT IS IT, ISN'T IT

BRB FANGASMING UNASHAMEDLY

EDIT: HAHA APPARENTLY WE FANGIRLED TOO MUCH ON GCHAT AND chikotori HAD TO POST A TRANSLATION OF THE ORICON ARTICLE - here

WOMAN I INVADE YOUR HOUSE THIS WEEKEND TO ~~KILL A FEW THOUSAND PEON FOOT SOLDIERS~~ CELEBRATE Y/Y

OH MERDE I LEFT SW2 AND EMPIRES IN ARTHURLAND

paper snobbery

2009-07-28T17:19:54Z

Stretching artblock paper apparently doesn't work, look at the bloody warp on that thing

That aside, there is progress on niichan, I had to wait around till no one was home to scan it (more difficult than it sounds). And now I have to do anatomy correction orz.

oh, random photo of my dog since I was uploading pics. She doesn't usually look that intelligent.

I liked England's non-pub song; I sincerely hope he was drunk when singing the pub one. ~~except for the "waratte, waratte" part in the non-pub one which reminds me of V6 and Honey Beat. wtf~~

Also, have just found out that I am going to Singapore this weekend, and Paris on the 1st to 6th of October.

...Singapore is fine in terms of accommodation since I've been there before, but Paris is different, I've heard horror stories about Parisian hotels lol... does anyone know what it's like? o3o

soba evolves into yakisoba

2009-07-26T19:35:16Z

I was looking at Skip Beat!... and Sho Fuwa = Prussia. Especially when he went for the silver hair/red eyes colour scheme in that cheesy PV with the laughable engrish.

Was going to post this last night but I got sucked into reading and finishing Arthur & George. It was rather good. I'm probably getting Cross Channel when it's reissued this September.

Oh well, at least the cause of procrastination wasn't Pokémon (for the first time this week)?

P-chats:

with djkiku : ummm ahahaha I only have the cap of the screwed-up version. Second p-chat ever, first p-chat on Takamin.

The others were all done with tdei who was very patient in dealing with my panicking. thank you m(___)m

the logical next progression of this is not drawn sadly because I was so slow. I FEEL LOST AND CLUELESS WHEN I LOOK AT P-CHAT OR THINGS RESEMBLING P-CHAT LIKE TEGAKI AND SOMETIMES IN MY WORST MOODS, PHOTOSHOP /epic hand flailing, god I fail so much

+ pandarosi
this p-chat is when I actually learned the use of the mask tool and the fact that Takamin has an eyedropper function. ~~shhh I know I need to get better at this kind of thing.~~

it was a long session, we were both tired 8D;;

english heraldry

"Now, now, young England, put on the nice dress..."
"Don't want to."
"If you're not careful, mon chou, when the wind changes your face will stay like that."
"THAT'S MY LINE, YOU NANCE! And why are you calling me a cabbage?"
...Yes, why is he calling him a cabbage? My knowledge of French is about as good as my Italian, which is to say: non-existent.

Oh yessss Arthur would breed his Bunearys and Lopunnys like this

CRASH CRASH CRASHER WAKE

OH THOSE BFFS. They would totally paint each other's toenails or something.

...Or it might just be a wig, I suppose.

Platinum team.
(The playboy bunny is male.)
I also have a Gallade but I didn't feel like drawing something that was clearly inspired by a cubist painting.

Ponyta, Rapidash (...and France)

continuing with the creature theme...

I found this while leafing through old sketchbooks looking for empty pages

Pierrot
I would like to see Pagliacci one day.

teaser France

Things happen, I go to mamak stalls with old school friends and to comic shops with otakus, I watch Transformers 2 a whole bloody month after its release, I play mahjong, I win ~~a couple of bucks~~ money, I get my amazingly large wisdom tooth pulled, I play too much Pokémon, all the usual things you do during summer break yadda yadda etc.

Time to get back to work and the internet, I hope you are all keeping well.

P.S. I think I nearly died of laughter at America's maru kaite chikyuu but it still doesn't beat four stunt actors in Imagin suits doing a poser pop/rock band PV.

...I can't wait for Gackt's stint as Riderman ~~it will be so unintentionally hilarious I was already laughing at the footage of him changing his arm~~. And all that Cho: Den-O stuff?? I MUST CATCH UP.