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Kukaku Shiba

Kukaku is my favorite Bleach lady. Not only is she the most well endowed, but I genuinely like her character. She's confident, knowledgable, relaxed and definitely tsundere. On top of being one of the more unique bleach girls, she's also one of the most underused. I'm not sure if she even appears in the series anymore. As such, there isn't much fan art of her and I felt obliged to correct that.

I'll be updating with a little tutorial on how I did this in a couple of days.

Toph Crawling

Once again, I make an attempt at drawing and painting a sexy adult Toph. Once again, I feel really creepy doing so. Just so you guys know, she is covered up down there by a material similar to what makes up her "boulder holders." I didn't render it because everytime I did it looked either like a piece of poo... literally, or a penis. I'd rather some people think that she's totally exposed down there, than think she's shitting herself or that she has a penis.

Unfortunately, I can't claim that this was a speed painting. I worked most of the night on it and it still feels like it is below par. However, the reason why I took so long, and why it didn't turn out great was because I practicing things I'm weak in.

First, the pose. I've come to realize that alot of my skill in regards to poses always involves the figure standing upright in some basic way and I never deal with perspective in any way. There are two reasons for this. Most of the books I study, in terms of anatomy, have just plain standing poses. The other reason is that most of the poses that I get in life drawing are either standing or sitting, and I rarely put myself in a position and the model rarely poses in a way that allows me to practice foreshortening in a really detailed way. I mean, it's understandable, the model needs to find a pose that's comfortable to hold for 30 minutes at a time. But still, I need to practice it. So I challenged myself with the perspective and the pose.

Second, the painting style. Once again I'm trying really really hard to be clean. I mean, I loved the Ken - Shoryuken piece because the general style of that game, well the opening, is very messy and sketchy. That's right up my ally. But clean is what people respond to

Third, color practice. I made it a point to only use colors I could use while painting in real life. I avoided using levels, brightness/contrast, and adjustments. This was so I could remain as honest as possible. I often get the feeling that I use those adjustment abilities of photoshop as a crutch and I need to get out of the habit of doing that.

Finally, I was trying to create a connection between Older Toph's Boulder Holders


I posted this earlier. I went back and redid some things and that's now at the top. If I make any more significant changes that will end up at the bottom as well.

The Rest of Sokka Week

About the design:

Sokka, like his sister, is a difficult character to describe and ultimately translate. Like Toph, he is a character of contradictions. For example, he usually comes up with the plan that saves the day, but at times acts completely oblivious and stupid. Sokka basically exists for two purposes, to move the plot along, or be funny.

He also is a ladies man. No one who watched the series didn't realize this. He even gave some of the best advice for attracting women ever. "Maintain maximum aloofness." Anyone who knows anything about attracting women realizes that this is completely accurate.

He's smart, atheltic, funny, and understands the opposite sex despite being a mysoginist. I know quite a few people like this. So I based the design on those people. He's tall, handsome, confident, and has a shit eating grin. He's a douche.

A douche we love.

There, a short description. Finally. --- Must. Resist. Urge. To. Elaborate.


Sorry about not updating. I simply haven't had the wherewithal to do it. I mean, not only am I working on other art, but classes and stuff are getting in the way. Like yesterday I spent 8 hours writing a paper for Economics. It's getting towards thanksgiving and a lot of teachers have major stuff due just before thanksgiving. Their logic is that if you get all of the important stuff in before thanksgiving, then students can enjoy their vacation. That's true, but still it puts a lot of pressure to get stuff done.

I'm the kind of guy that likes to get stuff done the second I get it or a week or two before it's due. Like all of these things I'm posting were done a month and a half ago. So I'm trying to get stuff done early and it's taking up most of my time.

Getting sick and being in school is really putting a damper on this whole thing, isn't it?

Oh well. One more week. Next up Aang.

I'm sad that Aang gets no love. I actually have alot to say about him.

TYL Sokka Old Costume and Fire Nation Costume

Tuesday's Normal Wear

Sorry, Election = shitty connection for some reason

Wednesday's

This one's on time woot woot

TYL Sokka Adult Costume

I actually have a lot to say about this, but I don't have the wherewithal to write it right now. Tomorrow I'll do it. I promise

Sokka
Age: 25
Height: Between 5’7” and 5’8”

About the design:
“A buffet of manliness.”

longer description coming soon

TYL Katara Special Costumes

Misato

I wound up tossing this one. It wasn't up to par in terms of quality.

Yoko

I like this one way way more.

TYL Katara Adult Swimwear

Almost done with Katara. Shame too, she was my favorite.

Three For One

Sorry about missing yesterday's update. Like I said, I felt myself getting sick, so after school I downed some NyQuill and went right to bed. I woke up about 10 minutes before I had to get to class today, so I wasn't able to upload the images this morning.

Today, I give you two Katara images and one special image of Kei as an apology.

TYL Katara Second Fire Nation Costume

and

TYL Katara Swimwear

and Finally
Kei- "Yuri, not now."

Part of me wants to make a Beat Angel Escalayer inspired image with Kei as Escalayer and Yuri as that purple haired robot chick. Some of you know what this means.

TYL Katara Fire Nation Costume

Late again.

I feel like I'm coming down with something. I think it's the flu or something. Damn viruses.

TYL Katara Old Costume

Sorry, this one is late. I had too much to do today. Oh well, at least it's up at the same time as the DA one.

TYL Katara Adult Costume

Katara
Age: 24
Height: Between 5’6” and 5’7”

About the design:
I’m going to try to make this much shorter than the Toph thing. Hopefully I can avoid an inane wall of text that no one will really give a shit about.

I actually had an idea for an older Katara a while ago. Deviant Art removed that painting for some reason, but some of you may remember it. (It’s in one of my blog posts if you’re interested in seeing it.)

Katara is a difficult character to pin down, describe and ultimately translate. Whenever I see a description of her, I usually find that it either exaggerates or glosses over her flaws. As such, I think it’s hard to really portray an older Katara wrong. Instead of focusing on what not to do, you have to pin down one of many possibilities.

I think Katara is one of the most accurate depictions of an adolescent girl ever put to TV. In the series her personality is volatile and ever changing. One moment she’s the voice of reason, the next she’s trying to justify stealing or committing murder. In the first season her attitude towards Aang changes and fluctuates from admiration, to jealousy, to maternal, and so on and so on.

As Katara would age, and as puberty passed, this volatile nature would probably go away, or at the very least, be subdued. Most likely, it would merely be subdued. Rarely does a character trait that overwhelming just dissapear. So with this design I want to give a hint of that youthful volatility but still communicate that she had matured as well.

Physically, I wanted to describe this design as “A babe that exhibits a beautifully controlled and asymmetric flow.” I wanted her body to have kind of a wave like quality to it. Her stance is the first attempt to communicate this. All of her weight is on one side giving her an asymmetric balance. Her features (hips, breasts, shoulder, hair, etc.) culminate to give this wave like quality across the countour of her left side, but then there is a much more rigid right side to counteract and balance the figure. This decision further compliments my idea of giving her a kind of under control volatility. Were she to shift her weight, surely she would be more stable, but she chooses not to. She remains stable by conscious choice of how to balance herself.

I also wanted her to be attractive. I wanted her to look kind of like a model. She needed to be “a siren godess.”

To that end, I also chose to age her face a bit. Pick up any anatomy book, any good one at least, and you’ll find a basic layout of how a face can change over time. The fact is, what is said is not gospel. Not all faces grow and change like that. But , our faces do indeed change as we age. Yet, we remain recognizable. I changed Katara’s face to appear more adult, but still retain her innate attractiveness.

I’ve been trying to do that with all of these characters. Age their face, but keep them recognizable.

I also chose to make her well endowed, and to give her shapely hips. I did this to communicate that she’s gone through puberty. I put these two elements together in a way that I think makes her very attractive and shows her obvious age. When it comes to endowments, with Toph, that was just ridiculousness, this attempt is meant to be attractive. Of course, whether or not I succeed is based entirely on the viewer’s tastes. Her hips and legs are thicker to give her a kind of dancer like quality.

Honestly, I read through all of this and think I succeeded more in my previous painting than in this character design. Oh well.


Looks like I failed in making this shorter. Oh well. Maybe Aang’s or Sokka’s will be shorter.

Sorry for the blathering once again.

Toph 10 Years Later New Swimwear

Sorry about this being late. I had some travelling to do.

Anyway, this is Toph in her new swim wear... that never touches the water. Toph is wearing a one piece because in my experience, well endowed ladies tend to prefer the one piece suits when they aren't interested in giving a free show.

I originally planned to have only five images, but after finishing that last one, I thought to myself. "That's rediculous. She'd never wear that. That's just disgusting." So I felt compelled to make something that was a little more-- respectful of her figure.

That resulted in making new swimsuits for all of the other kids, which you'll see later.

Toph 10 Years Later Old Swimwear

The title is self explanatory. The material is less restraining than her Fire Nation clothes but still form fitting. This is why her cleavage looks different. It's still the same mass, just a different shape.

Toph 10 Years Later Firenation 2

Interesting thing to note, I was working on this while I was working on Toph the Melon Lord. Hence the similarities. Though, this is more-- unified. Everything is rendered as a cartoon, instead of a cartoon head on a more paintingly rendered body and background.

Toph 10 Years Later Firenation 1

I don't have much to say about this. I pretty much blew my description wad on the first image.

Toph 10 Years Later Young Costume

Same info as before. I think her bust size is way more apparent in this one (and will become even more apparent in the next ones). This is why I chose her first costume as her primary costume. These next ones are just for fun to compare how her body has developed and changed.

The response to the first toph was pretty much what I expected and such that I learned that it would be a better idea if I disabled comments. My reservations about fan reaction were somewhat justified. And that was the tame and "serious" one.

It's funny, I had all these polls to make sure people would actually want to see these and still some people had to nitpick about what they didn't like. It's almost as if the polls made them believe that they had a voice in their creation when that wasn't the intention. The intention was to ask one question and make one statement:

Do you want to see these?

If I want your opinion, I'll ask.

You'll notice that I've been trying to do less and less fan art. I originally said that it was the first fan art I'd done in months, but I forgot about The Apprentice. The reason for that, is with fan art, fans can tell you that "you're doing it wrong." I fucking hate that. Whether or not that makes me ungrateful, mean, stupid, or a bad artist, I don't care. I just fucking hate it.

I hate it to the point that it makes me not want to do fan art. So, just to avoid it, I disabled comments. That may make me a totalitarian dick head, but I can't help it.

I've learned, as an artist, you need to "be a man about it." You need to make clear cut and communicative decisions and never second guess yourself while you're close to the work. To that end, it's a better idea to ignore what people have to saying during, and just after you've created what you've created.

That isn't to say you can't learn from your own mistakes, but worrying about that shit while you're making the art, makes making the art not fun. Fun is the point of this whole thing. All of my "great" art is stuff that I had fun on. Andrew Jones once told me

"if you don't enjoy what you do than you are cheating yourself out of your full potential and your also cheating the people in your life from benefiting from your full expression as a human being,

your on the right track , manifest your enjoyment to the fullest,"

So to the end of enjoying myself let me say. You can think whatever you want about these, but don't expect me to adjust or change based on that opinion.

More Deviant Art Deletions (this is getting redundant)

Moar deviant art deletions.

OMG NUDITY, ON AN ANIME CHARACTER....that is obviously an adult

Yet more explicit stuff is allowed in photography.

What?

I really fucking hate Deviant Art. I can't wait till more people know about this blog so I can pretty much drop DA all together.

More Deviant Art deletions

A cunt deleted this work, so I'm posting this here. This is my virtual middle finger. Sit on it and spin.

OR

I hope that the ones who support and enjoyed this work will enjoy it here instead. I'll be uploading work like this here instead from now on. Deviant Art is now my print bitch, nothing more.