It turned out quite good but there's nothing that shows me it was done
by Paragon. The manga style of the artwork is everywhere now so much,
and that style's statement so strong, that it cancels out any individual
touch you might have tried to put on it. With thousands of people copying
this style it's nearly impossible to tell who did the work.
Also I noticed that sometimes coloring on a computer paint program also
tends to give pics a simular appearance. Much like an airbrush gives many
works a mechanical feel.
It helps to stand out from the crowd, the struggle to be unique so that
people recognize your work, especially now since there's so many works
out there being presented.

Just a few sketches from my drawing book. I never realised it before, but I might as well call my drawing book my FMA-fanart book, since 7/8ths of the art in there is related to FMA in some way.

Ah well.

used a reference for this one:
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/761...ansmute5zn.jpg

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6665/edage190rr.jpg

Hope you like~

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3...nesmall2rp.png

So here's the next one. Right off the bat, there are quite a few things I dislike about this drawing.

a) Ears too big.
b) Eyes are off.
c) Neck too long.
d) I forgot to color the button on her jeans.

Other than that, I really like how this drawing turned out. I really, really like her shoes and how the jeans come down on them. I drew it on new paper I got, which is really smooth and nice. Heh. I lurve it.

Scribbled up for the purpose of artistically bumping fallen threads on Gaia. With an imp stick figure.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v664/PCD/Bump.jpg

It does get similar in a lot of cases - smooth styles. But I like having the rough feel of the picture to look at - so it's not always 'CG'd' painted. I like... fake paint-painted? Does that make sense? :sweatdrop

And whilst I would have put my own spin on it, I can't - because it's his lineart so all I was basically doing was just adding lines and colour. Now, if I were to do my own version of a (what was it?) RO Priestess? I would do something slightly different.

Hah - my old illustration tutors used to get so mad at me, because whilst literally EVERYONE in the illustration work draws realistically, all I ever want to do is draw toons. Quite literally. I even collab'd on a set comic called Pirate Monkeys.

Nothing like drawing cartoon monkeys, really...

The great thing about toons is the freedom of exageration. And what you
choose to exagerate tells something about the person drawing it. A work
should give some personal insight into the artist who creates it.

It's easier to see that when a person does their craft by hand and uses
their own perceptions about a given subject. Even the choice of subject
gives insight into a person's thoughts and ideas. The more mechanical
the device for creating something becomes, the more common it tends
to be. Like an assembly line that mass produces plastic flowers. They may
last longer than the real thing- but they still smell like plastic.

I can remember back when I was in art class years ago where one person
drew great portraits. I asked him why he never sketched the full figure
or body parts. The person just couldn't draw nudes for personal reasons.
It was psychological and mental, not that he couldn't do it physically.
It told a great deal about the person, no matter how strange.

Now you have political unrest in the world over a religious cartoon. Which
has resulted in the defacing of hundreds of Danish websites and has even
resulted in a few deaths. The power of the toon! Which has surprised me
since I was starting to believe that the medium had become less and less
relevant.

So if you're choosing to draw monkeys, it might be wise to be careful which
religion they practice!

Oops?
 

I thought I'd post in here again. This time, I thought I'd try a completely different style of coloring. I really like how it came out. Also, I got the background from Google Search, just blurred it up a bit 'cause I found it necessary. Hope you like it.

Last night I had the chance, thanks to a friend, to see Shinichiro Watanabe at the
Detroit Institute of Arts Film Theatre. They showed clips from his
Cowboy Bebop television cartoon and also part of Samurai Champloo. After
that he answered questions through an interpreter since most of what he
said was in Japanese.
What I found most interesting is that much of his influence early on came
from watching Disney cartoons and listening to the rock band Kiss.
Also he said that the early anime that was made had less frames per second
than the American animation at the time, hence the panning in and out of
panels and less movement of the characters. This he said was done because
of the lack of money at the time.
All in all I enjoyed it. It was an interesting evening.

E: Dan says Smackjeeves will be back in a few days.
Can you say, "Where did all my comics go again?"
"I'll bet you say they're gone I betch'a-"
"Float'n here or there- I don't know......"

webcomix can be fun! truly!

Ed's just figuring out why they called it a "shrimp" cocktail.

http://img276.imageshack.us/img276/9...ocktail5wx.jpg

Originally drawn by one of my friends, but I colored it.

shrimpcocktail!
Oh my GOD! Celes! ...What the- HA!