新宝島

Didn't want to look it up, but working from memory tried to use the video clip for this song for palette inspo.

I've been thinking about fashion lately, specifically how I dress and how uncomfortable I am with my own appearance. I've been this way for years, to the extent that I thought everyone feels the same way I do about it - we only dress up to fit in. I know that's not true, it really depends on the day, but for most days I wear a shirt and jeans to get by. The only way I can express any aspect of myself is by the cut of my tshirt (fitted, rolled sleeves or not) and the print. I buy band shirts, print tees of IPs I like, and just pair it with a pair of jeans. I've tried experimenting with coloured pants to feel fun in my appearance, I like colourful things - but sometimes feel uncomfortable drawing attention to myself, and revert back to black shirt with blue jeans. I'm very boring.

I'm very boring and very lazy.

Tenrai's Fortress

 

I had watched Shall We Dance (the 1996 one) and Departures over the past few days. I can't recall the direct path my thoughts took, but I was thinking about slanted eyes, how I don't see "natural" eyes so much in popular tv and movies so much recently. By recently, I mean the past few years. I don't watch very much Japanese tv and cinema but, idk, got me wondering.
I've been really self-conscious of my own appearance lately, wondering if I had the financial means would I look into getting cosmetic surgery? A few years ago I was researching forehead shaving, I don't like the shape of my forehead? I'm cis, but I don't feel feminine. At least, feminine in a way I wish I looked. 

I wanted to tick two boxes today: video game art, and slanted eyes. I only had one candidate: Ayame from Tenchu. For no reason, I wanted to draw some demonic Ayame. With her hair implying horns. 
It sucks, and I hope I can get to a point where I can be proud of a DD this year.

Edison

Done goofed and used the same muse song twice in a row. Whoops.
Yesterday I was downtown and just saw a stranger with sick fashion, whom I now deem: The Coolest Person On The Street. At that time and place, anyway. 

Edison

 

Holy shit, I have an update to post here.
It's hard for me to think about how I haven't had anything to update this blog in so long.

For the first time in years I have some up-to-date portfolio pieces! May was a busy month. Muscling through the rust to get a handful of portraits done. Man, it's embarrassing how much I haven't had anything to show for the past few years. I'm trying to get out of that headspace and just DRAW, but it's hard.

Anyhoo, so I knew Ghost Trick is coming back but I was not aware that it's not just coming back to Switch?? I spotted a listing on PSN the other day, and hhhhhh I'm so excited to play it again.

Ippatsu Gyakuten Renai Game

 

traced an old, old sketch.

Last Kiss

Anime petal storm. Let's ignore the glaringly obvious anatomy problems (and the hands situation...).

Today, or, yesterday, it came to my attention that Sorcerous Stabber Orphen is getting an anime remake in 2020. That's some cool news. I was a big Krylancelo lover in my early teens. Thanks, toonami.

Ur-Style -arbitrary style-

This was hard.

I just need to do something, I feel like I'm a useless slug. I was flicking through old drawing albums, and I don't have the spark like I felt I used to.
I had the idea that maybe if I stopped drawing what I was used to and did something different, something I didn't plan out and just have ideas as they came to me. Put on old music I used to listen to.