Sonic - Fleetway style!

Been on such Sonic buzz lately, especially for the UK Sonic the Comic. After starting work on my entry for the Sonic CD contest, I wanted to see how much I could draw from memory.

Not a huge amount, but I haven't drawn Sonic consistantly since I was 11, so I think I'm improving a lot since I started doodling everyone again a couple of weeks ago! :D I didn't even know I could draw Knuckles, seriously XD

Then went on Painter and did some more referenced doodling of my fave psycho.

It's only rough, wondering if I should carry on with it. Anyone think I should? I swear I'll draw him actually destroying something one of these days.

Well, back to sewing and working on my Sonic CD pic! ^.^

Sophie doodles

Need to start using this place for sketches and all that again, so here's a few of the main girl herself ^^

Drew this last night and my heart melted X3 Little Sophie asleep with a big squirrel plushie, so cute!

Practising an upward angle. Sophie looking up at the night sky :)

And finally, a proper layout for Sophie's room. I know it was really blank this first chapter, but I didn't really decide on details to add by the time I drew it, so I've now got a reason why there wasn't anything in it. These are some of the items she has in her room (the posters are on an inbuild wardrobe she stores a lot of things in too).

It's not much, but I'm busy working away as much as I can, so I'll have more to post soon! :D

Thieving time~ ;3

Finally got all the gems sorted for my little loot pouch on my thief cosplay. Bought 3 packs for scrapbook gems from The Works (99p each, can't really lose X3) and glued the halves together.

They certainly pass the shiny test XP Now I just need the pouch to but them in...

Still need to finish my dagger too so I can make that tutorial for it, heheh ^^;

As for other updates, I'm nealy halfway through toning my Manga Jiman entry. In a few days I should be all done! :D Gonna feel weird not posting a new TrickSong page tonight, but I've got one page left as my buffer and I'd rather wait the week to use it.

Today was a good day ^^

After heading to HobbyCraft to pick up some more stuff for my thief cosplay, we headed to nearer the centre of Nottingham to a shop called Twisted Playground. Wanted to go in there for ages, but we finally did today 'cause of a certain giant purple dragon hung outside the shop >3

....Yes, I mean Spyro XD My sister got the big guy, while I found this li'l guy.

Doesn't he hide my face no nicely? XD;;; Spyro says hi~ <3

Amazing shop tho', had so much there and me and my sis had a nice talk with the owner. Definately going back, I wanna explore that place way more.

Also been applying for jobs, so handing in CVs and getting smiles in return makes me happy ^^ Better than a 'sorry, the position's been taken' emails I get barely hours after applying online X_x

But anyways, after a 13 year wait, I finally have my Spyro plushie :D I think my sister's is lifesized, but my room's tiny, so she can keep him XP I'll get her to post a pic soon.

'Til next time!

Art: The Atoshi Twins

After trying to find a more interesting look for my next Manga Jiman contest, I decided to mix up my usual anime style with my 'TrickSong' style and really liked the result.

...Which got me into a drawing spree XD So I tried drawing some of my old TS characters in that style and decided to make a proper shaded picture out of the doodles I did for Mana and Celes.

Gotta say, I really like how it turned out, it was a nice simple but fun pic to work on ^^

Hope you guys like it!

'Musical' colour tests

Carrying on from the WIP I posted a few weeks back, I decided that her outfit'd probably follow one main colour, so I started seeing what colours worked best.

Still not sure which one just head, but I'm sort of leaning towards the grey one, like a stylised school uniform, but adding some colour to it. Might go with the red hair aswell to give it some more spark.

What do you guys think? :3

Holiday geekery

 Saw some stuff on holiday I thought'd be fun to post here.

Was in the car and spotted a painted van. Pretty sure this is meant to be Vegeta, right? The rest of the van looked pretty awesome, but I couldn't get any other pics of it.

Yeah, give me one chance for a YGO Abridged reference and I'll make it XD Went in the pub this sign was on, had really good fish and chips ^^

 

Seen a couple of these around, but my brother asked me to take a pic. Yay for minifigs!

Went to Locomotion in Shildon and found out the Hogwarts Express was there. Since it's got no more trips to make, I guess it's gotta hang somewhere X3

Tried to make a panaramic of some photos I took, but it looked waaaaay weird, so I left it.

This sign caught my eye in York. Then again, since I'm an FF fan, any mentions of related names grabs my interest X3 Guess Kuja decided to open a coffee place or something ;P

Not really geekery related, but we frequently passed the entrance to the Krypton Factor assault course on holiday, which was pretty awesome. Would love to give it a go sometime now I know where it is, but I think I'd fail before I even started XD;;;

I think that's all of it. I'm posting about the holiday in general on my website, so if anyone's interested in that, feel free to take a look and keep an eye out for updates. I'm hoping to post at least once a day!

Musical WIP

Doodled this today and added a bit of a lighting guide to it. I think it's looking pretty good, it was mainly to sketch an outfit idea I had tho' X3

The waistcoat and shirt's got a little bit of a Gumi vibe going on, but nothing a funky colour scheme can't fix >D I love short waistcoats to bits, so it was a safe bet that'd be in there somewhere ^.^

Weird dream

Okay, I'm gonna blame Doctor Who on this one. It was certainly...odd, to say the least.

Behind a cut 'cause it ended up longer than I thought it would.

TrickSong doodles

Was tidying up my room ready for the big pre-holiday clean and took a quick look at what I dubbed my 'Trick book', it's bright red and 99% of the drawings in it are from TrickSong (the odd other doodle snuck in there when I was bored).

Ended up finding a few sketches that I really don't know why I didn't share. They're rough, sure, but they're little ideas and such I've had for when I eventually start drawing it out.

 Didn't even finish sketching Sophie in this, but the little baby in that pic is so cute!! I kinda forgot how cute until I saw it today, I wanna make a plushie version of it one day X3

 Hannah holding the li'l baby while he's crying. Awww ):

Sophie wanted to play with portals. She still needs to figure the basics, methinks.

A sci-fi style world. She's got some kind of techno-suit on. The robot next to her doesn't have much more than a design yet.

Wanted to try something more summery for Soph. I love tiered skirts ^^

And finally, not exactly TrickSong related, but cosplay related instead. A TrickSong style pic of my thief cosplay. Next to it is a dagger design I drew. Still not sure what the final design'll be, but I like the shape :3

And now back to tidying my room up. 'Til next time, folks!

Game time!

No acorn post just yet, but for now, here's Sophie, Brett and Hannah playing on the Wii! X3

 
Hannah's...not too good at it, heheh.

Let the geekery commence!

Time to finally start using this place! Prepare for doodles, random nostalgia, cosplay and geekery!

...Well, I hope so XD

Anything anyone who might be reading wanna see? I'm hoping to share some of the fun of shows and games I had when I was a kid that people don't talk about as much. Might even make a video or two if things go well :3

So this place is for all that, and my actual 'official' website, Huggable Charm, is for crafts and such ^^

First proper post'll hopefully be this weekend. I think I'll post a small series of blogs about my own Acorn Archimedes. So many fun times and so much weirdness to share with people. Fun times.

Quick preview

So with Dissidia: Duodecim coming out in March, I got to an old thought of mine that it'd be awesome if Mikoto were a character to compliment as a neutral side between Zidane and Kuja. So I started redesigning her...again (here's the original).

I realised I got her practically mirrored, but she's already facing the way she needs to in it, so I'm gonna leave it (there's no many ways people draw her anyway XP)

So here's a quick preview, I still need to make some tweaks, but I'm happy with her design so far. I'll post the full pic when it's all done and coloured.

But first, it's titlecard time!

Art: Fire

And it's done!

Sometimes I work on pics that just feel right - more right than I'd expected. This is one of them, and it feels awesome.

Mana WIP

Gotta use this place for something, right? Here's a WIP of a pic I started working on yesterday.

Trying to be more dynamic with lighting, poses, angles and all that, so here's my start. It's Mana, a character of mine I created a long time ago, who was in my original manga, Tainted Souls, which is now on indefinate hiatus due to other commitments and major issues that'd need to be tweaked. I like to use the characters for experimenting with styles and ideas tho', so I'll probably use some of the others later.