| Live action Dragon Ball |
[14 May 2008|09:49am] |
I'm sorry, I just have break my long silence to comment on the Live Action Dragon Ball!
And yes, my pressing question really is, "how are they going to do his hair!?"
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| Colour! |
[04 Jan 2008|09:54pm] |
My first image of 2008. As I said, I'm falling in love with colour. I couldn't stand it in the past, I thought it ruined a good image.
Right now, I'm basically experimenting with different colour styles. From browsing my paintings on Deviant Art in 2007, I see that I basically stuck to cel style painting.
From that experience, my eyes have noticed the various styles that are out there and are itching to try them. So far, I notice that I'm leaning towards bright colours, and an incomplete sketchy style of painting that doesn't cover up the pencil lines like in the images below.
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| Happy New Year |
[31 Dec 2007|11:04pm] |
speed paint image, to mark the new year.
I must say that I've never been a fan of colour. Give me a clean black and white image, manga style, and i'll drool over it.
But, I think i've started to fall in love with colour, just a little bit.
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| Rebooted! |
[14 Oct 2007|04:54pm] |
Click to view the image in it's full glory!
Last week, I posted the pencils here for this piece of art based on the old show Reboot!
When I heard that there was a contest to procure artists, writers and other production staff for the re-imagined show here in Vancouver, I was really excited. But didn't get my act together in time to submit art. Plus I heard about it only 4 days before. ;P
A month later, I couldn't get these guys out of my head. So here they are!
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| Heroes S2! |
[26 Sep 2007|05:25pm] |
wow. I've not posted for awhile. Been meaning to post an article on the Yaoi Hero, some paintings and line art that I've been working on.
But the thing that dragged me back was the Heroes Season premiere! Poor Hiro! His hero, Takezo Sensei, was a gaijin!!!?? and an uncouth one at that. *lol* that was well worth the crappy season ending.
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| AE 2007 Begins |
[14 Aug 2007|11:31pm] |
It's my first year attending a convention as an active participant in selling my works...Made bookmarks, postards and 8x11 prints...Skipped on the buttons as I didn't get my act together in time.
I had fun last year just talking to people, I know this year will be a blast as well. Here are some sample images from my gallery...Will upload more soon.
http://akemiart.deviantart.com/gallery/
I was hoping to print and bind the short-story manga I finished this year and promote it...But I'm just too tired. So enjoy it online before I print it off.
http://www.comicspace.com/commondays/comics.php?action=gallery&comic_id=8919
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| Good bye Harry! |
[25 Jul 2007|09:01pm] |
So after reading the last Harry Potter book over the weekend, I couldn't resist creating this fan art for it. Hand inked! Lord it's so much easier than doing it digitally.
My thoughts on the final book that though it's fast paced and full of action, it's bascially a book about the final showdown with old Voldemort. The least interesting character in the series.
What drew me to Harry Potter, other that the magnificent world that she created, where her wild and wacky cast of characters: Mad Eye Moody, Snape, Ron, the twins Fred & George, Rita Skeeter...Besides them, no matter his tragic past, Voldemort seems the sterotype of 'evil bad guy' to me. Which means that he suddenly gets dumber and more one dimensional as the story nears its end.
All in all, a great series by JK Rowling. I've really enjoyed the visual feast that movies brought to life.
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| Naruto - Concept, Ink & Paint |
[15 Jul 2007|10:16am] |
Every image that I've worked on for the past few months, i've forced myself to make it full colour and as detailed that I can make it. This image is done for the AE 2007 Artist Alley. I'm going for a total of 6 full-colour images to sell. Plus a couple of buttons...
I've been trying digitally inking in photoshop and that's painfully slow. I need to get back to hand inking. It's messy but I've got utter control and I'll save my hands from Carpal Tunnel.
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| Online manga award Anime Evolution 2006 |
[06 Jul 2007|09:32pm] |
So my prize finally got sent to me for winning at AE last year. It's a book on Illustrating with Copic markers. It's quite a neat book, I didn't realise that it was possible to get all that variation in the colour.
I currently prefer to do my painting with Photoshop, and a glance at the price of the markers make me wince. But eventually I'll be forced to get some as working digitally is hard on the hands, even with the Wacom tablet.
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| Zazzle |
[04 Jul 2007|11:58pm] |
Cool. Testing out the online Zazzle service to see if it'd be worth it to order postcards, stickers and pins online and then sell it at the Anime Evolution convention coming up. The prices, even with shipping, seem good but I've not compared them to Staples or Kinko's here yet.
It's also awesome that while testing the service out, two of my images won awards on Zazzle. The first award was for the Top 10 Postcards views and the second award was a Today's Best Award. Both awards were won for the two Fairy images.
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| Inuyasha |
[19 Jun 2007|09:46pm] |
just trying out different styles of painting and trying to always include backgrounds.
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| deer light |
[12 Jun 2007|12:01pm] |
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| Scott McCloud |
[09 Jun 2007|09:25am] |
 Scott McCloud stopped by in Vancouver on the way to Alaska. I managed to get my book Understanding Comics signed and chat with him for a few moments.
My overall impression of him was of a very passionate and jovial guy that looked nothing like the cartoon version of himself. *lol*
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| Concept - Tea |
[29 May 2007|06:05pm] |
A review of the work i've produced recently reveals something interesting. How much I don't draw in the initial concept.
With this picture, I have a full visual in my head without bothering to draw in all the details. Detail is the easy part I've come to realize.
Next is the cleaned up line art then on to colour.
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| Heroes Ending --- Wtf? |
[22 May 2007|10:15am] |
There're just 2 questions I have and corect me if I'm wrong.
**SPOLIER WARNING**
1) Why was Claire crying?
She could have shot Peter. Bomb gets diffused. Nathan wouldn't have had to die. Peter comes back to life because HELLO he can use Claire's healing powers.
2) After all that, no one noticed that Cylar disappeared?
NOTE: Someone pointed out to me the most interesting thing that I missed. Peter has Nathan's powers...therefore he could have flown off into the sky by himself, blown up, fell back to earth, healed & no one gets hurts. 0_o
*shakes head* sloppy for such a good show.
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| Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End |
[12 Apr 2007|09:52am] |
When I was in highschool. I remember rendering heads in pencil. Xena, Tom Cruise, Oprah...that's all i ever drew. Thinking back, it's probably why I never learned to draw the whole body until I started drawing manga.
I'll be trying my hand at digital paintings in the coming months. Trying out different styles. This came out a bit to realistic for me, but I like it. It's from a photograph of the new Pirates movie that I found floating around on the net. This took me about 8-10 hours to do.
All my paintings can be found on my deviant art account....which is currently down. :(
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| Newsarama! |
[01 Apr 2007|09:02am] |
hahah.. very cool. Found my article on Anime Archetypes posted on the Newsarama Blog. Newsarama is a popular online publication that covers the comic book industry.
I wish they'd have let me know though and linked directly to the Myth and Manga blog. Posted there are articles that come out of my need to understand story structure of Manga. It'd have been cool to have the rest of the articles on display.
17 pages of a New Manga has been finished. The preview is below. Right now I'm preparing it for posting and critique on an online forum. If I'd been American, I'd have submitted it into the Rising Stars of Manga contest. Too bad they don't have a canadian arm.
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| 10 manga pages |
[29 Mar 2007|08:38am] |
So you know that feeling you have when you've stretched yourself to the limit (gritty eyes, brain flatlining, the sunlight hurts) and you still have 5-6 more pages to get out before the end of the month? I'm way past that.
Here's a preview of 10 manga pages of Skinships. It'll be a total of 17 pages when finished (and it will be by the end of the month dammit!). 17 pages in one month and i'm dead...I wonder what the page rate is per month for comic artists....
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| Anime Archetypes |
[23 Mar 2007|06:31pm] |
I wrote this awhile back..I don't believe that I've ever posted it...
Ever wonder why you see the same anime characters popping up over and over again? No…it’s not stealing. They are just archetypal characters: generic personalities that pop up in every culture.
Dowload the pdf for write-ups of 19 male and female archetypes like the Sullen Bishonen, Perverted Old Man, the Female Prince and others.
It'll be up on my blog Myth and Manga as soon as I figure out my password. *doh*
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| New Comic |
[10 Mar 2007|04:35pm] |
I'm aliiive! Barely.
I've started a new 17 page comic...since the last blow I received from my other concept with Cupid, I've decided against full-length mangas for now.
This new comic should be done by the end of March. I'm really exicted about it. It shows a great leap in my art work. Here's a sneak peek.
In other exciting news, I finally graduated to my next belt in Capoeira. In a weekend of classes, shows & battle reminiscent of the Chuunin exam in Naruto, I exchanged my old cord for an Azure belt that proclaims me an intermediate student of the art.
After being stuck for so long as a beginner in all levels of my life...I'm happy to see that my only shining quality, perservance, has won the battle against the self that wanted to give up.
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