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Hey.... it's been a while... been a quiet summer on the art front, but I've been fiddling around with Boys in Skirts lately, so have a few sketches!

Meet Sharkey! I drew him for the first time yesterday, on my break at work where I had no paper, so it was in my note book. But, Sharkey, in the flesh! (sort of..). He doesn't wear skirts, but he is a friend of the boys in skirts. Side Characters need more love. *nodnod*

Speaking of side Characters:
Meet.....! Ah, right, she doesn't have a name. She's Simon's class mate. She's short and she has spunk. Lots of spunk. I like her. I hope to get her in the story more. If you have name suggestions, I'm all ears.

Chase! (formally known as the character called "Eric" or The Extravert.) I think I've settled on his name (only time will tell) and I must apologize for not remembering that Kar suggested this name a long time ago. Anyway, I need to stop drawing in him in really skinny jeans.... Sex Pot Revenge is actually a brand label, before you ask... This sketch is one of the few that I've been very content with for more than 24h this summer. Fun hair is fun.

(On a style note... I think I've been looking at Momo's art too much. She's rubbing off on me. Which is okay, since I love her style, I just want my own style, ne?)

Lastly, a non Boys in Skits sketch:
An attempt to draw Ame in modern clothes, but I was having FAIL with anything below the neck. I just really like his face, despite the sketchyness (it's actually pretty good considering how shakey I've been lately). I forgot to draw his feathers... TAT

Anime Evolution sketches and Prints Sale

Back from Anime Evolution. I'm not going to go in depth about it, but Artist Alley was a huge disappointment for me. Poor sales, poor placement, bad noise pollution. I did enjoy hanging out with friends though, and I got a couple sketches done while I sat there:

Poor Simon. I couldn't resist. I saw a few guys in skirts at the convention and... well... yeah. There's no real excuse for this.

For those who can't read my scribbles Simon is saying "Okay, I know I'm a cross-dresser, but this is going too far..."

I had far too much fun drawing all those bows.



I was relabling some of my old posts the other week, and I noticed I only had one sketch of Katrina (which I took down, lol, because the sketches in the first post were making me twitch). Katrina is a very under appreciated character I think. She doesn't quite have the cool factor that Nix does, and she's... the most normal of that group, but I think she's pretty cool.
Anyway, I have this idea of Katrina being a 1920's mob boss and Nix being her number 1 hit man. There's no actual story line for it yet, but this is kinda what she would look like. mmmm pinstriped suits and fedoras. Please ignore the guns. I had no references with me.



And, in an attempt to make up for bad sales at Anime Evolution, I'm selling prints again online.
The gallery of available prints is here: @deviantart
Bookmarks are 1.50$ each or 4 for 5$
5x7s are 4$ each or 3 for 10$
8x10s are 7$ each or 3 for 18$
The originals of the Avatar Bookmarks are for sale as well, 15$ each, or 55$ for the set.
I also have some ACEOs (Art cards, editions and originals) for sale: ACEO gallery
Right now the originals for both Wicked art cards are up for sale, as well as "fish" and Chi . They are 8$ each. I also have limited edtion prints (15) of all four of those. Prints are 2.50$ each. They are numbered and signed on the back.
ipod/phone cozies are going up on etsy soon, but they will be 6$ each.
All prices are in Canadian $. I can take paypal and money order. Cash can be sent at your own risk. Shipping, depending where you are and what you buy, will probably be between 2-10$. Please email me at honwodaisuki @ gmail . com with orders!

comic page of sorts.

Rough. (One day I will learn to clean up my pencil work.) Needs more background. Yes.

school scribbles

Edit: fixed so you can actually click on the pictures. don't know what happened there...

Two posts in one day? Scarry, I know...
Sketches from my notebook from school. sorry about the wierd shadows on the scans, but I split a bottle of water on it and it didn't dry flat. :(

Boys is skirts! r-l: Simon, "Eric"*, Simon, Jeremy and Jeremy!

My apologies to Simon for making him look terribly girly in the righthand picture. Also, the picture of "Eric" was the one where I settled on his hair style.

Aaaaand, Nisa. Looking all art neavou and pretty.

Brains or Die

Because Rei requested it, here's my zombie looking Yomiko. Totally by accident, but I did play it up a bit.... BRAAAAIIINNSSS....

The never ending war with pen and ink

Because I told myself I'd study for a midterm, I did art this afternoon. My midterm and art have nothing to do with each other, but I have this tendency to be creative when I'm I plan to do or should be doing school work.

Ink and I have a bit of a rivalry going. We rarely get along. I feel a bit like a lion tamer. Or like I'm trying to draw with a live snake... It just doesn't work very well. Most of what comes out is less than pleasant and I need to cover it up with color and hope no one notices. (This is part of the reason that my mind is boggled by the amount of favorites my mokona bookmark on deviantart.com has gotten.*)

I've tried various liners pens (Zig, Sakura, Copic) and even a ballpoint one by Koh-I-No0r. None of them really work for me. The Koh-I-Noor pen was always my favorite, it's never dried out, gave a good variation on line weight, and most of all it actually felt like using ink, because you could see it dry. Unfortunately, it's a bit like tight-rope walking these days; it has a tendency to randomly bubble and spurt ink.

I've been thinking, again, about getting a nibbed pen. One of those pens with interchangeable metal bits... Sort of like fountain pen, but, well, I'm not sure where then ink is contained. And then I remembered I had fountain pen! I actually have two, but the nib is broken off on one of them. I got them from my grandpa, ages back. So I pulled out my indian ink, and did a little doodle.


I really love this. I loved drawing it too. It was so much more satisfactory actually moving the ink around with a nib. I can get much more definition and weight and texture! And I don't have to worry about wrecking the nib, like on the liners... I also love how it looks rather like a lino block print. I did have some difficulty getting ink to come out of the pen regularly, I'm not sure what that was about. And I did have a big drop come out on my first attempt. That was pretty fun, :p.

Truth be told, I can do a similar effect with my Koh-I-Noor pen. I began to wonder why I haven't used it (I mean, besides the spurt...). Then I tried my copic markers with the indian ink...

On the right, you have me just going to the edge of the ink. On the left you have me going overtop of the ink. It does tend to smudge when I go over it.
That said, most of my inking process is done after I color something these days. I rely heavily on my glass topped desk as a light box.

The smudging is the very reason I wasn't using my Koh-I-Noor pen lately. it smudges very much when copics go over it. And even though I'm inking last, there's still touch ups to be done afterward. But this indian ink might be worth a try at least. It's also very black, which makes me happy.

And because Rei asked, here's pictures of the fountain pens:




*I know, I know, it's mokona. mokona is cute. I get it...

We're men! Manly men!

After a comment from my good friend Rei, and thinking about my habit of drawing feminine boys, I thought I'd try to make a male character look a little more... male. So I added facial hair to Rowan, who is Katrina father in friends and I's role play. I usually avoid facial hair. It's hard to draw, and I find it only looks good on few people, even in real life. But, I think it works on Rowan. It ages him, which is good, because he is old enough to have a 20 year old daughter. (something else I need to work on: drawing older people!) I'm still getting used to it, but I think I'm going to keep the beard.
And just because I liked this sketch, I'm posting it:
It's Haruko and Sebatian from Sight. Not much else to say.....