Draw! Challenge #5: Gluttony and Winry

Winry somehow gets stuck on a date with Gluttony!!

Ok, I have a lot of excuses, but I'll save you from all of them. Short of it is I didn't spend much time one this one, that's why I rippled the BG (like heat) and it looks bad... plus some other flaws/incompletions I wont point out.
But it was still fun to spit this one out. I wanted to give tribute to one of the best anime series Fullmetal Alchemist which just ended last week. Gluttony is a bad guy with a never-ending appetite, and Ed in the back there is the hero who not until the last ep hooks up with Winry (on the right). I tried to do Ed's chibi self... I think I was only moderately successful. Oh I also found that surprise is a hard expression to nail... it appears that I got closer to awe or something.
Ok that's it... I'll try to squeeze more time in next week.

Draw! Challenge #5

Taking an other's work and making it your own is quite a challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed last week's cross-over theme. In lieu of this, I propose this weeks challenge to be another fan-art piece of sorts...

The Unlikely Union

This week, we will be taking characters from other works and pairing them in a romantic situation (a wedding, a date, a good old fashioned snog fest, etc). These characters can be from the same comic, game, anime, etc or from different ones. The goal is to match two characters who would make very unlikely lovers.

Exclusion: Last week's crossover inspirations are excluded from this week's challenge. Wolverine, Spiderman, Mario, Pikachu, Yui, and Yoko are all off-limits to both artists in this challenge.

Broken Polls

It seems that the Blogger Polls are broken at the moment. If you see 0 votes it probably means your vote wont go through, please bear with us, I am reporting the bug.

[Update] Please Vote HERE! in the meantime (sorry that it looks funny)

Draw! Challenge #4: Yoko-On!

Yoko-On!

So I'm gonna be straight up, I chose this weeks topic because I wanted to draw Yoko. Yoko is a character from Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan. She's fun with a bit of sass. I dressed her up as Yui from K-On! by giving her Yui's hairpins school uniform and sweet guitar. I wanted an 'in your face' pic which I think I pulled off well enough. I thought about having her wear the jacket, but though it might look a bit weird with her neck~thing.. (it's not a scarf, it has a zipper!) but I still wanted the jacket in there, so I thought it'd be cool if she was tossing it aside.

So I spent a LOT of time getting the perspective, kudos to Steve for some tips. My line work carried over pretty good from last week, but I really think I upped my coloring. Used some neat brushes to get some of the textures and tried hard to stick with the real colors. I'm not a big fan of how they do her hair highlights but wanted to stay true to the 'copy' nature of this exercise. I think one of my favorite parts of this pic is the warm colors esp the ones coming from the floor. I wanted to give it that sundown in the school feel that you get from K-On! sometimes.

Well, with this I'm starting to feel near my peek; hopefully I can practice this strategy a bit more and see where I can grow from there.

Draw! Challenge #4: SUPER SMASH MARVEL COSPLAY!!

SUPER SMASH MARVEL COSPLAY

Which Marvel comics character will you dress your favourite Smash Bros. players in? I tried to duplicate the Final Destination level from Smash Bros. It's not quite up to the standard of the game, but it's the best I could do... I think the floor's a bit bright... I tried to darken it, but I guess I should have used darker tones to begin with. It looks like I forgot to draw Wolverine-Mario's left claws, but I decided that I didn't want it to look like he was actually stabbing Pikachu. It took me all week to come up with the them, then it hit me. I hope you like it. I've spent all week practicing my lines and colouring so that they're cleaner. It seems the practice paid off.

I choose you bootknife

I Choose You Bootknife

This is a quick pic I did for ExtraLives.org's Pokemon Marathon that is currently running. Took me about an hour and a half???... Photoshop crashed on me mostway through so I had to screencap it before putting on some final touches.... but that pretty much stopped it in the current state, and left it at the lower quality.
Oh and bootknife is a cool Extralives meme, it's a knife in a boot! [Bootknife site?]