ゼノギアス：ビリー・リー・ブラック (11-year improvement?)

Xenogears' Billy Lee Black 

I doubt anyone remembers this videogame from the PS1 days, but I remember watching my brother playing it, and my cousin in Japan getting obsessed with it. I still have the soundtrack and the 'Perfect Works' artbook of it. 

Haaa... Recently I was kind of cleaning up my 'art studio' (aka my former bedroom), and happened to find a small, blank page journal that housed... my earlier, beginning days of drawing the anime/manga-style in High School. ><;

The rest of the pages were blank (I used only about 5 or 10 pages to draw...). I cringed when I saw that, so I avoided those pages like the plague, until I decided to use the opportunity to just re-draw those awful  things and see if I've improved. I can't tell if I have or not... Well, okay. Lineart-sketch-wise, yeah.

See, unlike in Japan, where kids are drawing anime-styled stuff since they were kids, I started when I was 16-17 years old... no, wait... maybe slightly younger then that. When Sailor Moon got re-aired again in the US, and when Tokyopop (formerly Mixx Magazines) brought CLAMP's "Magic Knight Rayearth" over...

Here's to 10 more years and further of improvement.

豪快下絵 (Gokai Rough Sketch): 久しぶりだマベちゃん♥

Basco Ta Jolokia

バスコ·タ·ジョロキア

"It's been a long time, Mabe-chan ♥"

Sorry about the watermark, but... never know when someone yanks it. 

After watching ep. 15... God, Basco you cheap bastard...

Not only that, but when I decided to draw him a bit before the aired episode, I found him kind of difficult to draw, due to not having a good amount of reference material to rely on... *sweatdrops*

Relying on his actor (Hosogai Kei)'s photos didn't help either... OTL

Used 0.5 mechanical pencil, a bit of 0.7 pencil, and Draft pencil to roughly get a 'fat' line variation.

豪快スケッチ！(Gokai Sketches!)

Might as well start with something that I did... some months ago as just practice... (sweatdrop)

 Luka Millfy and Don Dogoier portraits done in Ink Brush pen. 

ルカ·ミルフィー＆ドン·ドッゴイヤーで絵筆ペンを描いてみた。

Drew these during I was stressed out on an art school assignment. 

In reality, I used a Light Cerulean Blue Prismacolor marker and just roughly scribbled the portraits like how people would use the non-photo blue pencil. Then inked it while using the cast's photos as reference points (I'm not good enough to do everything from memory...). I used Photoshop to get rid of the lines afterwards. I had Ahim sketched out roughly, but it didn't look as good as those two so I didn't ink her in (sorry Ahim!). 

Rough pencil sketch of Joe Gibken

ジョー·ギブケンで落書き

I was practicing drawing some portraits of Goseiger characters (both in semi-realistic and anime counterparts in styles), so I took a break and drew this.

Working on a colored version for this in Photoshop at the moment... actually, I was using this sketch as a base to practice some Photoshop work. I need to finish it up... (sweatdrops)