[fanart] Serenity

Oooh, I'm really really late for this one. If I'm to keep with my pic-a-week plan, I'm behind by four... :(

Anyway, this is... well the hairdo alone should be really distinctive. The manga struck me as really really silly even when I first saw it way back when, but there's no doubt in my mind that I'd have loved it if I'd seen it 10 years (maybe even 5 years) earlier. So I guess this is a tribute to the silly little girl I once was.

The picture turned out surprisingly well, and I think I'll finish it one day. I'm of two minds whether to go look up the frothy confection that is her dress, or to make something up. And what to do about the background? Eh, anyway my monitor is still not calibrated, so it'll be awhile. Hopefully some inspiration will have struck me before then.

Pictures owing: 4

[fanart] Tenten

Okay, I'm a few days late for this week's weekly art thing. What I drew on Sunday was so crappy I couldn't bear to post it. This one, however, turned out so well I think I'll complete it - when I get the monitor colour corrected, that is :P

This is Tenten, but about 10 years older and infinitely more kickass than she currently is. Please to be ignoring nonsensical things like the inadvisability of strapping a weapon to bare skin or wearing a necklace that will hit you in the face while doing a backflip. If physics is mutable in Naruto, so is common sense.

The weapons are called Wind-Fire Wheels, which I found on some online martial arts store. I may change it to the more traditional design I found; while this design is cool-looking (the actual one, that is, not my inaccurate scribble :P) it seems a bit complex to traditionally forge. Flimsy too, if you think about how easy the blades would be to snap off. They're apparently tai chi weapons, though I have doubts they were ever used in actual battle.

[fanart] Shannon

Jeez, I'm just barely skating in under the deadline. This week's is Shannon Casull from the novel-turned-anime, Scrapped Princess. Yet another anime I never watched till the end. Frankly, once the dystopian future, save the world from aliens part of the storyline started in, I lost interest. Must every anime have the giant mecha?

What I liked most about Shannon is his hairdo, specifically the tail :D I'd forgotten what a pain hair is to paint and I think I overdid the shininess :P I also took off his armour/outfit-thing. There's cool-looking outfit, then there's fiddly as all hell to draw. What was the character designer on? I'm surprised the animators didn't object.

Of the rest of the characters, Pacifica was stereotypically annoying, Raquel was the stereotypical older sister and the rest didn't really register. I was tempted to do a picture of Raquel's kick-ass magic effect but I don't think a still would look so good; what kicked most ass about it was the animation, really.

[fanart] Kaoru

A scribble done in a few hours. I'm rather fond of Kaoru as a character, though I think she, like every other female character in Rurouni Kenshin, tends to be badly sidelined.

I'd intended to start out my weekly art thing with KKJ, but I have a new monitor. While it's nice and huge, the colour is definitely off somehow. So no bothering to even attempt to colour. I need to go borrow a calibrator from somewhere.