"A Hopeless Dream Chaser"
October is finally here, and with that also comes Inktober. For the first day I decided to draw Momochi. There is a picture of her in hiking gear.
Here is the reference picture used:
I want to also work with hatching and cross hatching, but that may be done on Monday’s drawing.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
WordPress was not working yesterday so this post is a day late.
I saw a video of Reina showing some behind the scenes of a photoshoot where she was firing a bazooka with confetti that I thought looked fun. I had started drawing this quite a while ago but I got a bit busy and was left unfinished. By the time I got back to it, we had already entered Autumn. Maybe that was for the best, because that gave me the idea to make it a leave bazooka. Helping bring in the Fall season. From what I had before I resumed working on it, I still hadn’t started working on the outfit that Reina was wearing. Which has more summer vibes. Again, I preferred the way the outfit looked like it was a black dress that I felt fit the fall season more.
Here is a screengrab of the references I used:
Here is the link to the original video:
It’s for LoVendoЯ’s music video Shoot! Baby, I love ya!
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I’m finally uploading the inked version of the third Michiko Nishiwaki drawing. Looking at it now I feel the hatching looks a bit messy. I’ll have to study why that is before October starts.
Hasta la proxima,
-Nube
We are now officially in the Autumn season! To commemorate this, I decided to paint Fukuda Kanon. I really like her current Aesthetics. Her eyes are seriously beautiful. So I really wanted to convey that. I was contemplating whether to use the dress I painted or use a different outfit. But I seriously liked the design so ended up using it. If I could redo it again, I would have mismatched the segments like the real one. I think it has more character that way. For the compositiion of this painting I remembered I could make my life easier by photoshoping ideas together. This made it so much easier to have an idea of what I wanted.
These are some of the references I used for the dress:
I wonder if her collaboration group with Tamura Meimi will actually ever happen? It’s been a bit over a year since it was announced.
I will obviously paint Kanon again, there is this t shirt that Metamuse has recently released and Kanon looks so beautiful in it.
I have so many ideas I want to paint… I might have to upload three times a week. We’ll see.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Finally, we are in the tail end of the summer, there’s only three more days before we finally enter the fall season! Heck yeah! I like this outfit that Momochi used in her “Off Momochi in Okinawa” blu ray. I think it really fits the lowering temps. I made two versions, a more realistic version and an anime version where I simplified certain aspects of the face and enlarging the eyes. Using outlines helps make people pop out, but I wanted to see if I could make it look good without them.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Un dibujo rapido pa la Independencia. Viva Mexico!
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
We’re finally getting close to the end of the summer. The mornings are no longer freakin hot, now it’s usually cool before it begins to heat up. This drawing was a quick one i did when the heat was almost unbearable throughout the day and even night. I wanted to do a quick and simple drawing with a simple coloring scheme that I’ve seen from other artists.
I have one last summer painting for this year and will now begin doing some autumn artwork. October is also almost here, which means Inktober. This year I plan on making more finished drawings instead of just line art.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 2 bring me a lot of nostalgia. I used to play them a lot when I was a kid. Nowadays I really like listening to the soundtracks when I’m painting. Seriously, everyone involved in these games were geniuses. The atmosphere really captures my imagination and is a mood. I want to do some more Donkey Kong paintings but for some reason I wanted to paing King K. Rool. His pirate attire is really cool. I’d say that it was because of this game that I even grew up liking pirates.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Assuming I understood what was being said, Mai Hagiwara just got married on ℃-ute day and for the event after the ceremony all the members sang. How cute is that. It would be so amazing if they released that performance. Congratulations Mai and ℃-ute. Wishing you the best.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Yeah, it’s no wonder Vegeta became a good guy and hasn’t gone back.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I’m surprised I haven’t painted Meimi before. I had seen glimpses of her in Haro Pro shows when she was still a new member. But it wasn’t till I stumbled upon this music video that I became a fan:
Although at the time it was only the short edit version.
At first I was surprised to find out that she was no longer in S/mileage which I then found out was called Angerme. Then it was her voice. It’s much deeper and really strong. Seriously, her singing is amazing. Because of her I went back to check out S/mileage and Angerme’s discography. I’ve been missing out. But more about that at some later date.
Lately she’s been doing stage plays which I remember she said she loved and preferred doing. Hopefully she will continue her singing career because she’s definitely great at it, and I just want to hear new songs from her (selfish, I know).
Pictures are from her instagram, fromfrom the Rurouni Kenshin stage play. She portrays Sanjo Tsubame, the Akabeko errand girl.
I would link them to her account, but they have been erased (she seems to like deleting old content every once in a while).
But there is video of the performance (she appears at minute 1:19):
I don’t know which version I should go with, the more muted colors version which is the original or the more saturated version which I edited afterwards.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Quite liked the movie. I was weary of the cg animation, but it translated quite well. Aside from the opening animation of the Bee cam, that looked janky.
The connection between Piccolo and Pan was so adorable. I guess Piccolo is now a surrogate grandfather. Seriously, one would think that Gohan would have ended Goku’s absent father streak. But both have such tunnel vision trying to reach the pinnacle of their respective disciplines. Lucky for them they have Piccolo. I wonder if they have any other future adventures in whatever the follow up happens to be. If I remember correctly, at the end of Z Pan was rather attached to Goku. I wonder how that will happen seeing as Piccolo is acting more like a doting grandfather that is also training her.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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