This is based on a cover of ‘Dunk’ featuring Haruko Sagara as Sukeban Deka Kyōko Nakamura. I drew this free hand with my pen, without a rough draft which gave a rather unfortunate facial features. I had to edit things out in order to get it all working and looking more presentable.
Hasta la proxima,
-Nube
For those who actually visit the site, here is the unfortunate original line art:
A manga version of the Yamaha scene from Jackie Chan’s Police Story.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
A quick drawing today.
You know, it’s a shame that Seven was pretty much forgotten after she was introduced. I really enjoyed the addition of her character and I would even go on to say she is my favorite character. They could have done some interesting stories with her and Legoshi but I guess things just end up that way sometimes.
For this drawing I wanted to convey a melancholic scene but one of hope since despite Seven’s hardships she didn’t give up and continued to move forward. I drew and inked this drawing traditionally and then added the hatching and screentone using Clip Studio.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I had drawn this back in I believe June 3rd of this year. Back then I had no idea of how to color it. I did at some point wanted to make it with gray tones but couldn’t figure it out. Today on my Youtube recommended’s list was a video featuring the art of tourniiquet, this one here.
After seeing it I decided to give it another try. I liked the way it turned out but wanted to add more contrast and texture somewhere so I eventually ended up using some paper texture for the background. I really like the way it came out.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I attempted doing an ink drawing of Sayu with her short hair back in 2018 for inktober but wasn’t satisfied with the end result, so I decided to draw her again. This time I used a combination of both ink and digital hatching and some small manipulations to the diamonds below the table which were done in the wrong perspective.
Really love the way short hair compliments Sayumi.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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
So I don’t know exactly how it happened but I seemed to have missed the announcement of a new Captain Tsubasa anime. When Japan released the announcement of them hosting the olympics there was this really cool advert that really embraced their pop culture. Among the many animes that made an appearance was Captain Tsubasa. And let me tell you that animation was gorgeous. It seemed to have a lot of it’s aesthetics based on the manga which I felt had the best anime interpretation of Tsubasa that had been released at that point. I really wished that the prospect of there being a new anime would happen but alas there were no plans at that time.
Here is the video. Looking at it now I do wonder if the first segment was in fact from the original series, it looks really good (the whole video is pretty awesome so I recommend watching the whole thing, but if you only want to see the Tsubasa segment it starts at 0:32 and has another segment at 1:08):
Now jump to about two weeks ago and I just happened to stumble upon Captain Tsubasa 2018. It actually looks quite good (definitely better than the 2002 version which I really did not like their art style and coloring). I personally still prefer the effects and animation from the original but this one is great. Or at least it got that way as the series kept going. The second part is definitely superior. But I do have to say, the opening animation was absolutely amazing. It looks even more like manga artwork was being animated.
Not the best version of the opening but here it is (you’ll see the segments that I mention as the opening reaches the end):
I really love Captain Tsubasa, although I really don’t care much for Tsubasa and his team. Truthfully every other important character from the other schools around Japan are much more interesting and appealing to me. As this post and artwork will lead you to believe, of course Hyuga is my favorite character out of all of them, though I do have some more that I really like. But Hyuga is definitely my number one.
Here is the artpiece:
It was done first with dip pens and then colored using Photoshop.
References used:
Here is the process:
Do any of you guys like Captain Tsubasa? If so who is you’re favorite character?
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Last time I drew Miss X and during the time after that I went ahead and fixed some of the issues I had such as the really small feet and also added some more colors and played around with the values.
I’ve seen some artwork online of Miss X and Athena together as a team, kind of like if they were yankees. So the project will be something based on that.
For Athena’s design I wanted to draw her in her school uniform that has the long skirt so she looks even more like a yankee. So I used her design from King of Fighters 94. I really love Athena’s design and her fighting style. She is actually one of my mains.
This is the final drawing:
These are the references used:
These are screenshots I took from the game.
And these are from the official artworks:
This is the process:
Now all that is left is the background.
That’s it for now.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I guess since high school I have been doing an art piece especifically for new years. Usually I start it the day before and finish it on the first day of new years. This year though I made 2 before new years (one of them was El Chavo, and the other one I will show below) and the Eri Sawachika one for new years. I’ve been quite busy lately but when it comes to just drawing and not painting the workflow is not that bad and I can move relatively quickly.
This was one of the other pieces I did before new years. Again I was inspired by that video I showed on the last post. It was also done quickly so I made a lot of mistakes, but the biggest is the proportions… especially the “bobblehead”. But I figured I would try and fix it digitally using some techniques I saw online.
Character is Harima Kenji from School Rumble.
I used this reference, but decided to change things up a bit, for some reason had an image of him in a Kung Fu like scenario (like Bruce Lee). Decided to take off his glasses just as an extra challenge.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/24639023747/in/dateposted-public/
Bobblehead Harima… I guess I was so focused on the pens that I didn’t think of the proportions especially since I imagined his whole body from the get go and I ran out of space below.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/24639000007/in/dateposted-public/
And here he is with an edited head:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/24639002027/in/dateposted-public/
Posture still seems a bit off. But it was just a test anyway so it should be fine as it is for now.
And so having shown both of the pre new years pieces, let’s now focus on the piece I made for and on new years. Again I chose someone from School Rumble. I wanted to do something simple and just modify it for new years (plus I wanted to learn a thing or two from a pro). With that in mind I decided to recreate this scene:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/39477590652/in/dateposted-public/
Here is the quick draft (as to be expected it is quite faster to just draw it one time instead of the two times that I usually do, rought draft then a clean final version):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/38799615714/in/dateposted-public/
By this point I finally figure out that there was no way I could just copy everything over (so much for just doing a simple piece…) New years in these parts of the world are winter after all, so I had to dress her up appropriately. After a quick search online for winter clothes I came upon this reference picture:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/38612206075/in/dateposted-public/
So I decide to use that sweater and that design:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/39477594802/in/dateposted-public/
Should’ve stopped by this point and made the rest digitally, but since I wasn’t sure of how I was going to go about it I continued on:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/39477594492/in/dateposted-public/
… I didn’t even do any clean designs, I just made some quick lines with no real ideas on the type of knitting. It doesn’t look horrible but I should try harder.
Here it is with the filled out dark parts:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/38612203505/in/dateposted-public/
So I got to this point by the end of new years but it was quite late so I had to call it a day.
Time was running low already so at this point I finally decided to mix it up with digital techniques. But for that I had to search up screentones and textures that I had to use. That took a while. On top of that I decided to clean up my messy texture lines so that it would be ready for the knit textures.
Here are the textures and screentones I used:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/39477592442/in/dateposted-public/
Then I had to take out the color and change the contrast:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/39477592872/in/dateposted-public/
This is the screentone I used to darken areas up:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/38799647334/in/dateposted-public/
Since it’s new years, of course I needed some fireworks:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/24640047977/in/dateposted-public/
That looked a bit lonely though so I decided to add a cityscape:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/39507959611/in/dateposted-public/
I couldve modified the darkness of the fireworks screentone with the cityscape’s lighter sky but that would take too much time, so I decided against it.
This is the final piece, clean and simple (though quite time comsuming due to finding and modifying the screentones, and cleaning up the rough knit lines I made).
After making the piece smaller and a .jpg it made the cityscape screentone quite choppy.
Aside from the obvious changes I made, I also changed her expression. I wanted her to be contemplative and yet have some hope for the future, thus the small smile.
Anyway, this year has finally started so lets do our best to make our goals successful.
Happy New Year.
And as always
Hasta la proxima,
-Nube
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