Yuna

Yuna! So I've been replaying Final Fantasy X for the fourth time XD but this time in the remastered HD version for PS3. And falling in love with the story and Spira all over agaaiiiiiiin. This was in fact my first ever Final Fantasy and changed the way I thought about video games in so many ways, as I'm sure it did for many people. So I really wanted to pay tribute to it by illustrating the iconic Sending scene.

For this I experimented blending both the traditional 2D ukiyo-e style I've been using with somewhat more 3 dimensional painting and I'm pretty happy with the results! You can expect to see more experimentation from me like this in the future! Hope you like.

This is fan art and Final Fantasy X is ©Square-Enix

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Twitchin'

Poor Red :(

This is my contribution to the "Twitch Plays Pokemon" phenomenon (if you're unfamiliar, this is a pretty good summary and timeline about it: http://www.dorkly.com/article/59505/the-majesty-of-twitch-plays-pokemon)

It was particularly fun for me, because if you didn't know kids, when I was your age, this was my first video game. Blue version. And there were only 150 o' them suckers. I still play the games today but everything related to the first ones makes me pretty nostalgic XD But when I first saw the stream, the one thing running through my mind was: "What the heck do the people around him think?!" Do they think, "Kids these days!" or "Does this boy need help?" or "When was the last time he got some sleep?!" Anyway I hope you enjoy the art. Download it from the link below for the full view and see if you can scope out all the references I threw in!
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The Wind Rises Contest Entry

deviantART had a contest this week to create a piece of art in tribute to "The Wind Rises", Hayao Miyazaki's final film. It was a tight 5 day deadline, most of which I had to prepare for my next con which is this coming weekend, but I took a day off anyway to do it. It was my first time entering a dA contest and I felt I really needed to pay tribute to Miyazaki has he's been a big inspiration for me over the years. Anyway, hope you enjoy! Can't wait to see the film this weekend!

The Nine-tailed Fox at the Changing Tree, Oji

This one was so much fun to make! It was inspired by one of my favorite Hiroshige prints (http://bit.ly/NfwMLQ)

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Nightmare

My latest ukiyo-e style painting! Hypno lulls them to sleep, Drowzee eats their dreams, and Darkrai replaces them with nightmares! Inspiration for this piece was "One Hundred Stories of Demons and Spirits by Kitagawa Utamaro (http://bit.ly/1c1EpL8), and the characters are inspired by pokemon and yokai.

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Ice Cold Water

If you've ever been to Otakon before, you're probably familiar with the "Ice Cold Water Guy". If not, watch this short video.

He's become somewhat of a celebrity and a big part of Otakon over the past few years. So for Otakon's art contest to illustrate "what Otakon means to you", I decided to draw him in sort of like a Street Fighter style. Yeah I know, it isn't really what Otakon means to me. Probably why I didn't place in the contest! But that's okay, I didn't think I would. Once I got on a roll with this idea, I couldn't stop! XD

And if you've stuck with it this long, check out this remix someone made. Seriously I can't get enough of this haha.

Work from the past couple months...

So I've kinda forgotten to update here in a little while... sorry about that! I'm better about updating my deviantart, but I'm planning on starting a tumblr and facebook fanpage soon so once I do I'll have to be better about updating everything all at once! Anyway Anime Boston just ended  it was my first time doing an artist alley and I had a blast! Thanks to everyone who came by my booth! If you were directed here from my business card, please check out my deviantart and look forward to more things to come! I'll do a post about the con here soon (maybe tomorrow??)

Morrigan and Lilith from Darkstalkers

Ukiyo-e style of Arcanine from Pokemon

Ukiyo-e style of Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke

(trying to prevent his cursed arm from cuttin people)

Ukiyo-e style of Gyarados from Pokemon

(based on The Great Wave Off Kanagawa)

Almalexia Faces the Undead

(my entry for the Elder Scrolls Online Poster Challenge)

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Django Sketch

Man I had a lot of fun doing this sketch. I loved Django Unchained so much that I bought the soundtrack on iTunes as soon as I got home XD Easily one of Tarentino's best.

I've been working on a lot of different things but haven't experimented much lately, so I devoted some time to that in this piece. Went for a sort of Red Dead feel for this study. Also wanted to experiment with glow effects as I'm planning on using them in some paintings soon. And I also tried out some new brushes that Sandara on deviantart uploaded (http://www.sandara.deviantart.com/#/d5szaqj). I mostly used the canvas brush for the background and the multi-purpose square brush for Django. Photo I used for reference: http://itsjustmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jamie-foxx-django-unchained-wallpaper.jpg

Pokemon Fan Arts

Have this guy just in time for Thanksgiving! One of my favorite parts about Thanksgiving is Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I wake up each morning on the holiday just to watch it. Some day I'll make it to the actual thing T_T. Anyway this was a fun project to tie that parade in with Castelia city from the most recent Pokemon games, which is based on New York itself. It only seemed fit the Pikachu balloon was showcased there too! With some of my most recent Pokemon fan art, I've been attempting to make the world feel more believable. Hopefully that comes through! I'm going through a huge fan art phase right now so expect more on the way soon.

In addition, I recently started a new mini fan art project called the Pokemon Watcher's Sketchbook. In line with trying to make the Pokemon world more believable, I'm imagining myself in the role of a Pokemon watcher, attempting to capture Pokemon in the field on page. Here are my first two examples and I hope to update with at least 1 new page each week.