Title: "Seeking"
Characters: Zoro + Sanji (?)
Using: Corel Painter

Why?! I recently discovered the joys of using textures and wanted to inflict my enthusiasm upon the world. I apologise for their gratuitous use here.

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( Zoro + Sanji (?) )

A few experimental sketch pieces as I try out yet more functions in Corel painter.

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( Tseng x many )

Title: Compass
Fandom: One Piece
Characters: Zoro, Sanji
Tools of the trade: Corel Painter

Other information: The title relates to the compass in the background, but yes, it is also meant to be an ironic jab at a certain directionally challenged swordsman.

In other new: Happy New Year! Where I am it will be 2009 in about 2 hours. It strikes me that the ( Read more... )

FFVII Sketch Post 1

Who? Tseng, Rufus
What? Speedy sketches: Noir, Shinra Style.
Why? Because these boys are badass, and thus deserving of a similarly badass stylistic rendering. Again, I blame ( Read more... )

Characters: Sanji, Zoro
Rating: Worksafe

A couple more quick sketches to counteract the stress of another piece I'm working on. These two are so much fun to draw *smiles*

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( Zoro )

Characters: Zoro & Sanji
Rating: worksafe

Just a couple of preliminary sketches to familiarise myself with these characters (and Corel Painter). Proper works are forthcoming, hopefully in the near future.

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( Sanji )

Title: "Shinra: It Ain't Black or White"*
Fandom: FFVII/Advent Children
Excuse: Inspired by the inimitable karanguni, who writes the most wonderful Tseng I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I haven't done fanart before, so this was a novel experience. Consider it a belated Christmas offering, if you will.
Perpetrated using: Corel Painter (this is the ( Read more... )

Traditional media artworks up till and including 2007. Will post more info later.

Mise-en-abyme

(photos forthcoming)

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Pygmalion


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Posting of old works begins now. Time to start exercising the cringe reflex.

( ~Autumn~ )

Sunrise. Tanda has been up for several hours. There is the day’s water by the stove, the open preparations of herbs up on the tatami mat, and beside that, the pile of orders he has let grow like an unkempt house vine.

Predawn hours are always like this, a motif sprawling from a single brush dipped in a single inkpot containing a single colour. ( Read more... )