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[OC Sketch] Jackie O'Hattrick - Soul Striker

One of my oldest ideas was a female OC who would be a magical soccer player with a skull-themed design. The idea was around when I was in school and originally came from a skeleton enemy in the old Castlevania Nintendo DS series called "Hattrick" who used his skull head as a soccer ball, which I thought was very creative. I also liked the sound of that soccer term, which was perfect for a chara...

[Full-size Sketch / Sepia Illustration] Nayru (The Legend of Zelda - Oracle of Ages)

A garden scenery with Nayru from the GBC Zelda game "Oracle of Ages", painting an owl sculpture.

Work in progress. I used my manga drawing tool to turn my own created collage of photo references into a simple rasterized gradient background. I already like the manga look here already. It's an interesting result for me, since I came up with this technique long after I put my main...

[OC] Bounty Hunter - Tricera Cazadora

Color version of my prehistoric wild bounty hunter Tricera. It was also planned to include a gun, but I decided to go without it for now since I still need to come up with a unique design for it.

You can see in the sketch version that her sombrero wasn't that big as it is now.

2022-11-15 12:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post

[Sepia Sketch] Neko Tsukahara (Tasokare Hotel)

Neko Tsukahara, the main character from the mobile visual novel Tasokare Hotel.

Another ongoing commission.

Kimono sleeves can be still challenging to draw. ._.

I offered multiple poses for the client, and that design was the one he preferred for her character the most.

Patreon | 2022-11-14 16:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post

[Color WIP] Lenna (Final Fantasy V)

Lenna from Final Fantasy V. Ongoing commission. 

I'm currently working on a few new concept designs for some upcoming mini manga projects and try to practice with different drawing and coloration styles for that. I try to keep my works more rough recently, since I think it makes the textures  more interesting in some cases, but at the moment it is more a hit and miss, I still ne...

[Full size - Sketch] Bankotsu (Inu Yasha)

The Leader of the Seven Warriors in Inu Yasha, one of my favorite arcs in the whole series. I wanted to draw him for a long time. He was one of the coolest antagonists and I remember how we fans in our forum where all crazy for him so much that we even did a collaboration doujinshi together that expanded the story arc around those mercenaries. Some day, I would like to draw his whole team. &nbs...

[HD Artwork] The Legend of Zelda - Swimsuit Anju

Watermark-free HD version of Anju in her summer swimsuit design. Not sure about it yet, but I maybe create some alternative designs and color schemes of her some time.

Still testing the links and views for the drive connection, please bear with me here and let me know if something doesn't work.

2022-11-09 03:45:29 +0000 UTC View Post

[Sepia Work] Tricera Cazadora - Wild Hunter (OC)

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Tricera the Wild Hunter. A passionate big-game hunter and a Ricochet Master  who sees Leroy as her big rival.

She is another one of my oldest OCs I created since my school days, but she just recently received her re-design with a "prehistoric hunter" related theme. She went through a lot of iterations over the years, but I end up keeping most el...

Feelings About the Leaked Content From My Patreon

So currently, my love and belief in my artistic vision and profession is being put to the acid test again, and it is not easy to put my thoughts into clear words.

Out of curiosity, I just wanted to see what the search engines would show when I searched for my pictures and artist name and stumbled across an entry that caught my eye right away because it used metadata and Patreon-intern ima...

[HD Artwork] Fie Claussell (v. 1.0) (Trails of Cold Steel)

Thors Military Academy Class VII member Fie Claussell. Finalized after my recent recording session.

It's rather unusual but since Fie had many complicated details that need to be drawn, like her hair and all the components of her school uniform I decided to draw her also on one layer, which worked out pretty well for the recording session. The most important aspect was to get her emotionl...

[Real Time Video] Darkness | 36 min. (Konosuba)

Darkness, one of the main characters from the Light Novel and anime Konosuba.

Recording time: 36 minutes. 328 MB.

Work in progress of an on-going commission. The hardest part was getting the front view of her straight, since I am really not good at drawing symmetrical front views of characters. But it was a good practice and my client was very kind in letting me decide, if I feel co...

[Speedpaint] Kebap Girl Becky | 24 min. (Trails of Cold Steel) (updated)

Time lapse version of the draft video recording of NPC Becky from Trails of Cold Steel.
Damped 1.36 hours down to 24 minutes. File size: 190 MB. Not bad...

Not gonna lie, it's really fun and interesting to see myself drawing, giving me slowly an understanding of my own drawing quirks and my thought process during the drawing session. In this speed-up version it is even more visible how...

[Real Time Video] Kebap Girl Becky | 96 min. (Trails of Cold Steel)

Real time process of the first draft stage of NPC Becky from the game Trails of Cold Steel. Converted and compressed to 687 MB.

I slowly get used to my new video editor and start to compress and merge all my split video files that belong together, now that I found a tool which doesn't need to buffer and convert to infinity. The end goal is to create a clean archive with merged and small f...

[Real Time Video] Charlotte Aulin Pop-Up Castle | 76 min. (Castlevania) (WIP)

2 videos for the draft stage of my Charlotte Aulin artwork.

Shaping out the castle's silhouette was the most fun part during the early stage. I made a speed paint test video and hope I can refine it soon, since watching particularly that part can be really fun. Still thinking about whether I want to use music or not. For the latter, I need an alternative solution for my computer since the...

[Creature Design][Draft] Chainsaw Dragon (OC)

A metallic dragon with a chainsaw themed design. Obviously inspired by the recent Chainsaw Man anime.

I dig this aggressive-looking design and thought this would fit pretty well into my portfolio of dark monster designs. The design isn't final yet, I think I still want to add the one or other detail later.

[Real Time Video] Ephraim (The Sacred Stones)

The raw unedited videos are finally uploaded into my drive folder. When I drew Eirika, I wasn't familiar with the settings of the recording software yet. So you will notice that the videos are split in multiple parts.  Ephraim's session was more focused and therefore I took only one single video for his creation process. Both sessions of Eirika and Ephraim took around 2 hours each, which i...

[Sepia sketch] Kebap Girl Becky (Trails of Cold Steel)

A sketch that I also recorded earlier. Work in progress.

She is one of the NPCs in the game Trails of Cold Steel. A high school merchant girl with a natural sense for marketing and selling business. I want to draw her with her food stall that she manages during the school festival in chapter 7 of the game.

I like her and was really invested in all her scenes despite the fact that sh...

[Grayscale] Eirika (The Sacred Stones) (Main Body Full View)

Work in progress.

Princess Eirika from Fire Emblem - The Sacred Stones. Next update of the Fire Emblem character group artwork.

I did a successful recording of the creation process after such a long time. I'm going to upload the videos into my Patreon download drive for the higher tiers.

I struggled with her left arm the most. Her body is slightly tilted, so I drew the arm wit...

[Sepia Sketch] Bread Shop Employer Polly Seedroll (OC)

I had an idea for a little comic strip and for that I had to come up with a character who is a bread seller, so I designed a new character that suits the role. I'm not sure if I want to go with these buns yet. I think I will tweak a bit around with their position on her head. Apart from that, I'm fine with the rough design for now.

[Sepia Sketch] Pirate Lady Faris (Final Fantasy V)

Ongoing commission.

I used the opportunity to practice with my new style during my process for my recent commissions. One involves Faris and Lenna from Final Fantasy V.

While I think coloration corrections will be a bit more challenging with this new style I can already feel that the grayscale work is way more sufficient and cost less time to correct this way. I really enjoy drawing...

[Color Draft] Demon Butler Ronove (UMINEKO)

A test drawing and illustration of Ronove, the demon butler from the Visual Novel "Umineko no naku koro ni", one of my all-time favorite VN series.

He was one of the coolest dudes around the time of episode 3 and 4 in the VN community and I remember how many guys wanted to cosplay him.

I wanted to experiment a bit more with my brushes for color drafts and get more loosen up to speed...

[Roughs] General Selena the Fluorspar (FIRE EMBLEM)

One of the Six Generals of Grado. I am very satisfied with how the line work turned out. I wanted to give her a sad look to convey her faith and lost hope. Although I think her facial expression needs some tweaks later.

I also used the drawing session for a recording test, using the internal recording function of my drawing program. It's been a while since I've drawn with a recording tool...

[Panel Preview] Eunie & Sena - Is this fire? - Part 2 (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) (Work in Progress)

Actually panel number 3 which I drew before panel 2 for specific workflow reasons.

The biggest challenge of a colored comic strip is the consistency between all the panels when it comes to the character depiction. The sizes and proportions needs to be the same, and that can be quite tough to manage with different poses.

It sure takes a while to draw them, but I slowly get a hang of ...

[Sketch] Imperator Vigarde (FIRE EMBLEM)

You may have noticed that I seem to enjoy drawing old men, lol.

[FE 8 Spoilers] Since King Vigarde in the course of the story of Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones turns out to be undead, who was in this enchanted state on a campaign of conquest, I wanted to give him as emotionless a blank facial expression as possible, which then obviously looks at the opponents on the overal...

[Sketch] Witch Saria (ZELDA)

I have so many ideas for Halloween themed doodles, way too many for just this one single month.

I want to get more used to my sketch brush which helps me to loosen up with my stiff drawing strokes lately. It looks more rough and maybe also more "dirty", but I want to see how it will turn out as soon as I also add some colors to it.

The emblem on Saria's chest is the seal of the wise...

[HD Artwork] Mia and Ilyana - Halloween Cosplay (2.0) (FIRE EMBLEM) (Watermark-Free)

I planned to redraw my old Halloween artwork from last year for my new merchandise.

I merged both characters down to one single layer so that I could correct the lines easier (color correction will be a bit harder though) and set my focus on clear and bright colors. Ilyana's face got rounder than in the previous version to make her appear cuter. I somehow didn't like Mia's expression in m...

[Roughs] Duessel / Duenell the Obsidian (FIRE EMBLEM)

I realized that I completely forgot to add another ally character in my Fire Emblem character group sketch as a mirroring part for Selena. I already drew Duessel (I prefer his German name, Duenell, by the way) and somehow left out his layer, when I made the sketch thumbnail.

He is one of my favorite characters in The Sacred Stones. In fact, as a part of your player character r...

[Roughs] Riev the Blood Beryl (FIRE EMBLEM)

Riev was the first character I had in mind when I spontaneously decided to contribute a character group illustration for the upcoming anniversary of The Sacred Stones. I eventually concluded that it might be easier to focus on a few characters, and for some reason I had the urge to draw the villain generals versus their respective rival characters. While not officially declared as rivals, I oft...

[Lineart] Munou na Nana / Talentless Nana x Among Us

A draft for a fanart illustration I had on my mind for a long time since I saw the anime.

This series is technically Impostor the Anime. I really enjoyed this show and made a very rough lineart doodle years ago. Pretty much regretted it that I haven't continued working on it. Now I have decided to redraw it and eventually added the Amogus as a nice little upgrade. The anime deserves a bit...

[Lineart] Ryou and Amane Bakura (YU-GI-OH!)

Amane was a character who never made an appearance in the whole Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime series and was only mentioned a couple of times. She was Bakura's deceased sister, to whom he continued to write letters years after their mother's and her own death.

I and other fans have speculated on what she might have looked like, and somehow I always just imagined her as a female version of Bak...