"A Hopeless Dream Chaser"
It’s Reina Tanaka’s birthday! I’ve been a fan of hers since 2009. Here’s to hoping she has a great year. To commemorate her birthday I decided to go back to the past when she sang Memory Seishun no Hikari. I really love her rendition, and the accompanying music videos are great.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
After being left in my upload folder for a couple of weeks, it is finally time to upload this painting. Although I’m glad it took this long because as I was getting ready to upload I noticed that the cup was a bit wonky in the opening. After fixing that I felt it was a good enough time to add some steam to the cup. After a long while, this time I decided to paint it in an 80s anime style.
Here is the process,
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
You know, it’s funny. I just learned that the English name for a marigold is cempasuchil. On top of that after watching the play Marigold where Meimi stars in, I learned that in the language of flowers it means despair. But that seems to be in the Victorian meaning, because for us Mexicans it means purity, divinity, and the connection between life and death. It is said to be a gift by the Sun God and helps lead the dead with it’s scent.
In any case, another year has passed. It’s been a tough one but I hope that things will finally start getting better in this coming year. Either way, there’s no other option than to keep going at it.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
We made it, Today is the last day of Inktober 2023. And I have decide to finish it off with Marin Kitagawa cosplaying as Haniel the Archangel. The lore and aesthetics of Haniel are quite beautiful and also spooky for lack of a better word. The artist made a good job to convey that.
I was unsure how the hands and claws look, so I had to go with just long nails. My first plan was just to darken the background around Marin but that just looked too plain. And I wanted to extend beyond her ankles so I edited the bottom part and add to it. Marin was inked and hatched traditionally and everything else was done digitally.
Happy Halloween! May next year also allow me to participate again in Inktober.
Hasta el proximo año,
-NUBE
Happy Birthday Meimi Tamura! Hope you have a great year.
This piece is based on the play Marigold in which Meimi Tamura plays the main role of Gerbera a Dhampir (a being born from a human and a vampire). It is quite a tragic and beautiful tale about a mother’s love. Meimi’s solo is absolutely beautiful and my favorite part of the play. If you get a chance do check it out. Luckily it was recorded and released in both dvd and blue ray. And some fans have created subtitles for the whole series it seems which is awesome for us international fans.
The whole drawing has been done both traditionally (the line art) and digitally (inking, hatching and combining two separate drawings). Meimi was drawn on one paper and the window on another. With the amount of details I wanted to add, I decided to do the inking digitally since I probably wouldn’t have finished it in time.
Planning, sketching, inking, hatching and everything else in one day was crazy. But, I got it done. With this, I only have one more day and Inktober is finished!
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
I recently remembered the original Pokemon anime episode where Natsume (Sabrina for the English Dub) fought using esper powers. I remember it being creepy when I was a kid, but was surprised by how tame the mini arc was when I saw it in preparation for this drawing. Even the way they defeated her was not what I remembered. Having said that, a esper battling with psychic and ghost Pokemons is a pretty cool idea. While looking for reference photos, i quite liked all her outfits, but to fit her having Haunter I decided to go with her anime clothes. I tried to make it as though they have psychic aura around them, but I wonder if that was conveyed.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
I wanted a fun and cute drawing today. Having a solid black background really helps it all pop out. Now because the night sky is solid black, I decided to hatch Marisa’s hat and clothes in order to fill them in but also have them contrast against the solid background.
Three more days to go…
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
This has been waiting to be uploaded for about a month. I was hoping to paint some more Halloween inspired painting over this month but I have been too busy. But on the plus side it let me see this painting in a fresh light so that I could add a few more details. I love Morrigan’s character design, and yet I have never played any Darkstalker games. Though I guess that will be true for a lot of people.
Happy Halloween!
Hopefully I can cram a few movies before this month ends, it would be a shame if I didn’t.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Today is a simple drawing of Guts in his Berserker Armor. It’s seriously one of my favorite power ups that has it’s repercussions in order to make it more interesting.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
I chose to make a Frakenstein parody with Kuriba Ryouko’s story arc. I really enjoyed it. Today was a busy day so I wasn’t able to play with the details i would have liked this time. But I can always come back to it at a later date.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
I really like the concept and costumes of Peach’s new game. The game also taking place in a play also gives it a cool aesthetic. I’m not to happy with the hills/mountains hatching but that can be fixed at a later date.
Other than that though, I quite like her martial arts outfit. It will be cool to see her new moves being used in later games such as Smash Bros. I was really tempted to draw her swordsman outfit as well, but I can just do a painting at a later date.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
I’ve really liked Ano’s aesthetics for quite a while. I’ve been wanting to make a drawing of her for quite a couple of years now. With Inktober having me draw daily and her recent music video for “Smile Agenai”. There were so many scenes that are just plain interesting, fun and cute that I wanted to draw but I quite liked her playing with the idea of smiling with her dance choreography.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
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