Art: Draco Malfoy Portrait

I got really bored of doing so many shading pictures, and with the new Harry Potter Film coming out (Half Blood Prince, nonetheless, where he's actually somewhat less cardboard-like!), I decided to paint Draco Malfoy. Final decision was influenced by hearing Melinda gush over Tom Felton at Anime Expo. She helped me out so many times, but I didn't want to jsut draw Sasunaru for her.


It was good practice for me to work entirely in color and eye structure, even if it meant re-starting several times. Also, the PS file ended up being 380 MB! Egads! I'm worried over how he'll appeal as a print, but my style lends itself better to Harry Potter than to anime. So, we shall see. Then again, Draco's just a guy in a suit with white-blond hair. I can bet a lot of people will buy it thinking he's someone else.

I friggin' love HP. Midnight showing, here we gooo~!

Art: Tekkoshocon 2009

Tekkoshocon was very slow, so I really had time to put effort into my commission pieces. It makes me wish I charged a little higher, but what can you do? Tipping isn't common convention practice. Sorry, no scanner, so we will make do with photos.

YunaHellsing, a fan from deviantART, wanted a picture of Yuna, but in a different outfit. One of my specialties being pirates, she asked me to do an 18th-century gunner outfit for her that referenced her X-2 outfit. This ended up being my favorite piece. You can see I went pretty far with the colors.


For my second favorite piece, someone asked me to draw their two original characters, both of whom like guns. I noticed some design similarities between them and played off of the duality. The engraving on the silver gun is my signature, hohoho.


Someone commissioned a portrait of herself, and I turned it into a color experiment, trying to mix purple and yellow for lighting.


Sometimes, at cons, you get pretty weird requests. The strangest this time around was Alexander the Great. I drew him in profile because Greek noses are so characteristic. The girl said he was her hero. Honestly, she has taste. I mean, someone else came up to me and said Dante from Devil May Cry was her hero.


The same girl who got the previous commission also asked for a bird-beaked man. Again, very fun because I kind of like ugly things.


Not much to say here... it's a chibi of Bakura from YuGiOh.


This was my first commission all con and pretty much brought me out of the red. A girl asked for herself to be draw with L from Death Note and Kakashi from Naruto, both of whom are awesome. This is when I decided I would actually go back to inking. It's easier on my poor markers.

There are some I forgot to archive, specifically a waiter-like character, a jackalope girl, a topless Wolverine, a cleric original character, and some chibi portraits. But, oh well. If you commissioned me and would like to send me the work I did for you, please do.

Sketches: Dominance War 2009 I

Some portrait sketches for Dominance War IV. Argh, the portrait is due Monday, and I can't decide which character to actually go and paint (not that I have time this weekend, anyway... :( ). From top to bottom:


Medic - A prodigy in his own time, this young doctor would travel from battlefield, aiding his country. Of course, being a medic causes contact with sick people, and he contracts a disease which causes white spots on his skin, which flake off in moist-yet-chalky, moldlike, bits (think ick, that disease that goldfish get). Since it's contagious, people avoid him, but there are still those who require and purposely search him out for advice. He has retreated underground, and is loyally followed by the other infected because he can, if anything, lessen the pain from their condition.

A free-runner in the drug business who makes the bulk of his money from the horse-racing business. Unafraid of underhanded action, he uses drugs to rig the outcomes of these races (think steroids). This is harder to track than selling drugs to people. On the outside, his business looks like a messenger service. Once an urchin himself, he killed a drug dealer and took his wares as start-up funds. With his money, he makes mechanical alterations to his body and hires a mob of teenagers to do his dirty work for him.

A Bedouin trader, who sells weapons to the highest bidder. The higher the bid, the bigger the weapon. However, he is underhanded and will never let anyone get an advantage over him. He modifies his personal weaponry so that it would outclass anything he sold. His army is a ragtag group of plainclothes spies and merchants which serve to protect him, only a few in each town - a combination of fear and desire for payment. If any actual client saw his face, their eyes and tongue would be taken out.

Here are the failed progresses: