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(WIP) Sylia of the Knight-Sabers (BGC)

As voted by you guys, get to indulge in drawing Knight-Sabers, mainly Sylia. Just throwing down ideas which I could make into a full illustration. (Actually, if I did a proper fourth one and swapped out with the other Knight-Sabers, I could fill out the entire roster, hmmm...)

Also a bonus Priss, because I am about 97% certain this one shot of Priss in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 has per...

Another Character Poll time!

Another character art poll. Have various ideas, we'll see who gets to be lucky. I've put up BGC so many times now that one of these days its gotta get lucky, right?

The options are as follows.

Taie civilian and legionary designs (Legionary Extraordinary)

Had some fashion ideas on how the Imperial Republic of Taie from my Legionary Extraordinary setting. I once had toyed with the idea of a small tactics game featuring various legionary units in the 2nd pic, but making games is a massive undertaking so for now its just various character designs.

I prob could go wilder with these but I like keeping things grounded for now. Plu...

Request: Tetsuya Tsurugi of Great Mazinger

As requested by my Tier 3 Patrons! This time just the one.

I've never watched too much Mazinger actually, but am familiar enough with some of its ideas. From what I gather Tetsuya apparently is the prototype for Asuka Langley, which is pretty funny. I wonder what instigated some of those Showa era scifi helmets having funky shapes to them. Mazingers, Ultraman's Defense Teams post-Return o...

a couple of howling banshee drawings

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LE3 BEGIIN

Finally formally starting to work on Legionary Extraordinary episode 3!

I feel like I do wanna kinda start sharing some of my comics making process a bit. I've heard a lot of mixed opinions on whether or not sharing any info is actually better for creative work motivation, but since I've usually kept my comics on the down low, I think sharing it here might be a good exercise.

I hope...

NEW REQUEST THREAD

Time for a new Request Thread! where you get to make an art request by commenting below! My apologies for not putting these up in a long while.

This time I will be accepting Two of my choosing! I liked the last time when we did some simple situations like characters doing stuff, so I'm gonna do one of those again

Please comment below!...

Yue Ying again again

Finally finished that WIP. This was based on the promo art by Yasushi Yamaguchi AKA. Judy Totoya. Its pretty cool, that reminds me I should prob play Sonic Mania at some point.
Been thinking whether I should start doing some more elaborate drawings with Shanghai Combat Revue, but still ...

Banshee on the throne

As you can see my conception of elves is still greatly informed by Morrowind.
Its a shame they removed the detail of elves having a weird fucky ribcage structure different from humans after Morrowind.

guan and qin + shanghai combat revue Wind Division rkgk

(am I using it right? Is this what rkgk means?)

Guan Qinglang and Qin Bailing drawings again, as you do. Getting a bit indulgent with Qinglang there but I like that shirt I came up with.
Also sketches of the Shanghai Combat Revue's equivalent of the Wind Division: The "双重二童" (or their english localized title; Doppelgänger Double Gang); two gir...

Hail and Kill, Howling Banshee

This one was fun. Maybe I should draw more Eldar stuff. I mean someone's gotta, there's enough Space Marine drawings already in the world to formulate its own art movement.

Howling Banshee masks really have that Tahu from Bionicle-like feel to them, don't they (its the "mouth" area, really).

Birthday poem (Shanghai Combat Revue short-comic)

This took way longer than I'd like aw man

Oh well, at least I did it. I've noticed though that I've gotten to that point in drawing these characters that it almost feels like second nature now, so that's cool.

I do wanna draw more stuff with only Yue Ying and Wu Shuang. I kinda like what they have going, probably 'cause I think I definitely subconsciously injected some of the old Go...

howling banshees but they rock (WIP)

this was going to be just a group pic (no. 2) but then I thought about glam & power metal today and "wait, Howling Banshees AS heavy metal singers, someone's GOT TO have done that right?! Right?!!"

I mean, Warhammer 40k is pre-built for that Battle of the Bands, prog vs. death metal aesthetic! God I have become weird media-boomer...

Ρωμανία & العباسيّة & 大唐

Wasn't it funny how, at the same time in this particular part of Eurasia, all three of these empires decided those Sogdians/Turkic peoples were the height of fashion?

Also learning that apparently turbans were also popular in the Byzantines, and the futou were arguably inspired by similar head-coverings... maybe that superweirdo whatifalthist is onto something (heavens, that felt...

Wu Shuang's writing (Comic WIP2)

Wu Shuang's headscarf just keeps changing everytime I draw him lol

Its what happens when the reference I'm working from is that very specific headscarf specific Chinese generals used in 2024-03-25 22:29:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Moumou in different fashions... 2!

Once again got a little too much into drawing Moumou in different fits for fun, mostly from late 80s-early 90s sitcoms (see if you can recognize some of them!).

I thought for a moment "should Moumou wear a skirt?" before I decided against it and so it made for an extra drawing.

Ms. Guan's birthday gift (comic WIP)

OK so I didn't quite break my promise this time, since its mostly about someone other than Guan Qinglang.
Was overtook by the need to sketch this out as a comic, because the allure of kokuji and arcanely done historical gags is irresistible, which meant I didn't sleep very well last night (<- NOT GOOD; DO NOT IMITATE). 

Guan Qinglang writer's block

Originally drawn as a gift for my roommate who helped me out with translating my comics. I haven't still decided whether I will colour these or not, would prob try to do it in the style of Hua Sanchuan, who was an inspiration for this one too. We shall see.

I promise the next time I draw anything Shanghai Combat Revue related (after the Guan Qinglang splash art one), it'll be a Qin Bailin...

Eldar/Aeldari Aspects

Have I ever talked about that I like the Aesthetic of the Aeldar? It does make sense, doesn't it? When one is both a tokusatsu fan and a Morrowind fan, who also holds remnants of that bygone avid Bionicle enthusiasm, of course this is what happens.

Although, I've never really read any actual Eldar narrative story that 40k has produced.
Based on every hearsay and popular 40k thought, I ...

All new Space Cassette Moumou VHS cover

Man this one really expanded in scope this time, but its fun!

This ended up looking more like a Finnish style clamshell VHS than anything, but hey that is the look of hokey VHS releases hahahaha. Thus I imagine it sitting next to Finnish VHS releases of Patlabor and Plastic Little (yes, they got released in Finland, apparently, amazingly enough)

These screenshots are honestly not re...

new Moumou poster WIP2

Time for another update on the Moumou Moment, slowly but surely.

I decided I do wanna make a back-cover for this faux-OVA anyway. She is the Moment after all. I really like drawing her shoes (Air Jordan V 1990 White Fire Red) and camera (JVC GR-60), invoking those good ol' madmen animators who lovingly rendered every technical detail on celluloid back in the day.
It'...

Some Guan sketches

Also in the mean time I remebered I had these sketches I had lying around actually for a while now. I quite like those splash arts a lot of the miHoyo/gacha games have, so tried to see if I can try drawing something like that of my own. The exact pose & BG. are still up in the air, partially because not too long after I got done with this a character called Dr. Ratio dropped on Honkai Star ...

A new Space Cassette Moumou poster (WIP)

As voted by the patrons, here's the WIP for a new Moumou poster! I guess Space Cassette Moumou is set, since there's a fun pun there that I like. 

Speaking of cassettes, had to cheat a bit since VHS tapes don't actually show pictures like film-reels do, so its a bit of multimedia approach here this time.

I was also thinking of making a "back-cover" to this, or maybe expand it t...

1st Poll of 2024!

Oh man haven't done one of these in a while. 

The drill is the same as before; I have plenty of ideas for bigger and elaborate illustrations, but can't decide what I wanna do specifically. 

Kinda fear I will end up being very tunnel-visioned with what I draw ("wow Aleksis  another Shanghai Combat Revue thing?"), so next time I shall open up to drawing more fa...

Legend of the Eight Immortals fan-poster

(Based on the film I've recently subbed!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJk7-Cm72xo)

I was actually supposed to post a colour-rough WIP before, but it didn't go through and by the time I've noticed I've already finished so might as well post the full piece now.
I've learned to find something relaxing...

Qi Dandan being blue

I saw this fun wall deco that was in New Women 1935, hence this drawing.

Legend of Eight Immortals WIP + FILM ENGLISH FANSUBS

So, people who follow me on social medias for a while would know I also like to do fansubbing for various older Chinese historical media, namely films. 

Over the Christmas, I've subbed yet another film for fun, this time a movie called "Legend of the Eight Immortals" or 八仙的传说, about the titular Eight Immortals, or Xian.

LINK: 2024-01-10 23:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy birthday Kanzaki Sumire

It is Sumire's time, or as she likes it, all the time.

Smoking Dandan

Finished one of the WIPs by continuing my Ruan Lingyu agenda, it seems.

I need to watch more black & white movies in the future. Maybe something with Lauren Bacall or Greta Garbo in them. Y'know, to continue the bit.

Legionary Extraordinary short - "Right Music"

A very specific joke that I came up with when reading 中国古代礼仪文明 by Peng Lin. It was a good read, though unfortunately has no English translation that I know of.

Zhou ritual culture (AKA traditional Confucianist) had a very particularly let's say interesting understanding of music, which is kinda funny when you think about it but also hmmm kinda cop behaviour ain't it? Then ...