Youkai 2

I made it ^^ drawn and colored it again...still not perfect, but I like it better now!

the whole idea of this picture actually started from the kappa character, kappa is a little frog-like japanese monster, quite a peculiar one^^ 

I spent most of my week end trying to ink rocks. 

this can sound quite quite crazy, but  people who makes comics often manages to portray things conveying in their pictures the sense of things not just their shape, I envy them so much!

I was inspired by a beautiful comic which a friend of mine lent me:

I  recomend it to people who manage to read in French and probabily in English, I guess from the picture up here, they have it translated in German too^^

Yōkai

Youkai is the term oftenly used  to refer to a class of demons, ghosts and spirits which are typical of the Japanese folklore. It was quite a while from the last time I had visited the manga shop, and I think it was even more since I had bought and read an actual manga. 

Two weeks ago I went there to buy a present for a friend, and then I obviously  found myself buying mangas for me. I especially love stories setted in medieval Japan or referring to Japanese folklore, with youkai and spirits, I could say I was grown up by InuYasha's manga and anime in my teens, so I suddenly felt so much inspired to draw Japanese monsters! 

the picture's just about a story of mine, one of those I had thought  about every character and every character's story without really figuring the actual story, still it is useful to make pictures about ^^

watercolour isn't finished, still I have already managed to mess it up. 

I guess I'll finish and try to fix it,by the way, I guess the youkai part hasn't turned out that bad. probabily.

willow, live sketches from my winter vacation

well, right, they were live sketches...I was in this little location in the open air, there was a villa, a little wood, trees and a creek. 

as the lazy person that I am would have done, I didn't even try to represent the villa ( architecture? perspective?...please..I was on holiday, remember?), but tried to copy the creek and trees. 

I actually started just copying, but a certain moment I started adding human features to some branches I had previously scketched. I guess I've always loved the idea of  nymphs and living trees.

the first story I drawn while attending drawing school was actually about a willow tree with human feelings ...guess I've always loved willows too, though it was quite a torture to draw it with all its propers branches and leaves then...this time it was easier for it had no leaves ! ^^

oh, I loved the creek running there as well, and there were woods and fens! it was just really inspiring , I think fens always are  

( as long as you don't fall into one...) =)

2013, perspective strikes back

While I was attending drawing school I used to think: perspective? come on...I'll never get it.

well, I never got it indeed, still one day the time came  when I could not just close my eyes and ignore it anymore, and here I am, fighting with adhesive tape, and lots of papers and rulers, fighting against confusing llines and  vanishing points...so many vanishing points, damn it! and when it doesn't turn out a very correct perspective I still try to cheat...

hope 2014 will be a better year to draw perspectives...

I wish you a better New Year too ^_^

Xmas 2013

having a bit of holiday lately I really got fun drawing and trying to improve my coloring ^_^

merry Xmas to all people who visited and visit this blog by interest or by chance, thank you !

winter's light

I've been drawing quite a lot of Irish scenarios and Irish houses lately, for I've been working on a project whose set is early 20th century's Ireland, I hope I will be able to air that project next year.

 anyway I  just woke some days ago and  felt like drawing some really wintry scene, and I had these Irish village and characters in my mind, I quite like the final outcome! up here, with some photoshop effects, down below the original one, which I find quite good too!