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K’ Copic

Posted by Nube Obscura on May 7, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Update. Tagged: ケイ・ダッシュ, copic markers, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, He who surpasses K, ink, K を超えるもの, K', King of Fighters, KOF, maru pen, pen, SNK, The King of Fighters '99. Leave a comment

For todays’s piece I decided to color K’ with Copics, but this time with a background. I really wanted to make a piece with the raining stage in King of Fighters 99. As I was working on it I decided to have some empty spaces so that the piece would look a bit more interesting. The drawing of K’ was originally done for Inktober 2018 day 10. But I didn’t use the same piece. I transferred the original drawing to a new watercolor paper by using my lightbox. As for the background I wanted to give just painting it a try without any lineart. It worked alright but I think I would be able to have a better color selection using watercolors. Copics are cool but they are really limited by the colors one owns and the ink that one has.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Suiryu Cat’s Claw Copic

Posted by Nube Obscura on May 6, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Update. Tagged: スイリュー, ワンパンマン, Cat's Claw, copic markers, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, fighting stance, ink, Jackie Chan, Kung Fu, martial arts, maru pen, One Punch Man, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Suiryu. Leave a comment

I wanted to do another copic piece, but this time I wanted a more manga styled one with a more simplistic coloring scheme. I’ve been drawing a lot of girls lately so I wanted to draw a guy this time. For today’s subject I drew Suiryu again. I just barely had a chance to see the second season of One Punch Man. The animation is not bad, but it truly has degraded compared to the first season. I also noticed that they rushed some scenes quite a bit, but it’s not too bad (specially compared to what they did to To Aru Majutsu no Index III). It was really fun seeing Suiryu get animated, I just hoped to see more of him.

As for this piece, I wanted to have Suiryu actually training after the tournament incident but I still wanted a bit of humor. So for this drawing I used the pose of the Cat’s Claw from the Jackie Chan movie Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow. It’s a powerful but hilarious style. You can see it here.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Sayumi Michishige Copic

Posted by Nube Obscura on May 5, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Update. Tagged: さゆ, さゆみん, モーニング娘。, beauty mark, copic markers, cute girl, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, 道重さゆみ, ink, Japanese girl, Japanese idol, leader, long hair, maru pen, MORNING MUSUME, peace sign, Sayu, Sayumi Michishige, Sayumin. Leave a comment

Continuing on with traditional work, I next moved on to using Copics. It’s been a couple of months since I last used them. I usually have trouble using darker colors because I’m afraid I will mess up in a way that I can’t reverse but this time I decided to push it woth some darker colors in the skin right from the start. Since I have been working with colors more I know how they will react once I add darker values such as with the hair so I felt a bit more at ease once I started working. I’m still not as fast as I would like to be though. This took me a couple of hours but I feel if I can probably do this in a bout an hour once I have a bit more experience. Looking at the reference photo and my version I could have added a bit more of the red tones on her skin but the overall idea was still portrayed which is good. The lips reacted with the ink since I might have overworked it a bit too much so I wasn’t able to portray a more natural lip color, I’ll have to be more careful next time.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Lin Lin China dress

Posted by Nube Obscura on March 24, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Traditional X Digital, Update. Tagged: anime girl, armpit, リンリン, ワンパンマン, China dress, copic marker, cute girl, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, g pen, ink, inked, lin lin, maru pen, Ring Ring, sitting, underarm. Leave a comment

I’m amazed at just how much effort Yusuke Murata puts into both the characters created by ONE and the ones coming out (so far) in Murata’s version. One of the characters that really captured my eye is Ring Ring. It’s a shame she only came out for a couple of chapters. I was hoping that she would come out a bit more but the chances of that happening are slim. Maybe she will come back with Suiryu after training to become heroes. One can hope. Another shame is that we didn’t get to see her techniques, she got defeated too quickly… While drawing her I noticed that her design is simple and yet very iconic and cute. The addition of the bells and her hairstyle is a really good touch.

Looking at the One punch man wiki, it seems that Lin Lin was supposed to be Suiryus sister, so I guess there were more plans for her…

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Airi Suzuki 80s anime style 02 inked

Posted by Nube Obscura on March 7, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Update. Tagged: 80s Anime, Airi Suzuki, ℃-ute, black and white, brush, brush pen, C-ute, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, 鈴木愛理, g pen, hatched, ink, inked, manga, maru pen, pen, personal, traditional. Leave a comment

I drew another ink drawing. I was looking through Sergey Orlov aka punksy‘s artwork and wanted to do another 80s style drawing. I want to paint it with a simple color scheme. But that will be later. I used both the g pen and the maru pen. I really love the thin lines I get from maru pens. The only reason I hadn’t used them for so long was because the ink didn’t flow out of the pen. But after thinning out the ink with water that solved the problem and man am I glad for that. One thing I wanted to try out was this set of Chinese watercolors, but to my surprise it didn’t contain black. After mixing blue, green and yellow I got an okay looking grey but instead I decided to water down the black ink. I quite like the way it worked out and will experiment with it more next time.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Drive Shoot vs Tiger Shoot Hyuga and Tsubasa

Posted by Nube Obscura on March 5, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Traditional X Digital, Update. Tagged: Captain Tsubasa, Clip Studio, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, football, futbol, g pen, hatching, ink, Kojiro Hyuga, manga, maru pen, Oozora Tsubasa, pen, soccer, Super Campeones, Traditional X Digital, 大空翼, 日向小次郎. Leave a comment

After working on the Nier piece I remembered how fun it was to draw using ink. I wanted to give the shooting battle between Hyuga’s tiger shot and Tsubasa’s drive shot a try. I drew Hyuga and Tsubasa using my g pen and maru pen then I added the power lines using Clip Studio. It took me a while to come up with the poses. If I were to redo it I would have Tsubasa bend his upper body further forward.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Inktober 2018 #22 Michishige Sayumi Sports Festival

Posted by Nube Obscura on October 22, 2018

Posted in: Artist Project, inktober, Update. Tagged: art, cute, Design, g pen, HELLO! PROJECT, ideas, ink, inked, inktober, Inktober 2018, life, maru pen, MORNING MUSUME, pen, personal, Sayu, Sayumi Michishige, Sports Festival, work. Leave a comment

This time I decided to once again give the maru nib a try again. I looked up information on the net but it seems like a stiff nib is normal when they are new so I used some paper to make some lines and see if I could make the ink flow. It started flowing but it’s so small that the ink is a bit of a pain to make work. I made a small and quick drawing of Sayu doing the Usa-chan Peace. With the maru nib releasing ink I decided to finally do the drawing.

This is a picture from the Sports Festivals that Hello Project used to do back in the day. Those days sure were filled with a lot of fun events. Sad they ended by the time the Platinum Era was around… (︶︹︺)

In any case, although the maru nib gave me problems as I went along it did work remarkably. It allows me to make subtle shading quite easily and more precisely (when it decides to work).