Started on Bumblebee back in January. Don’t ask me why I haven’t finished coloring him, I simply don’t know =(

This is my original character with a little of a story I’m cooking up. He’s a karolin (old swedish footsoldier) that went to the north to the land of the saami.
The story it self is a bit of a mix of low fantasy and old swedish folklore =). Added a closeup of his face.

Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier! I adore this series. It’s totally dumb at some times but I still really adore it, haha. And there’s so much great music to be heard.  Wanted to practice forshortening and just draw some cute gal for once.

Going to school makes me too tired to actually finish anything… so I keep drawing these ‘linearts’ to work on later =s.

There’s no action, no movement and gah <_<. I just felt like drawing this. He’s siting on a train reading a childrens book he found in the slums. He just clung to it, without really noticing. It’s from a fanfic I wrote many years ago. I recently found the old notepad I had used, and had to sketch something. I’m dorky, I really liked how I wrote that fic haha. I’ll post the fic part with the Finished CG.

I’ll try write of somethig more fun latah. I’m sick, have a terrible headache, cough and drippy nose. I stayed home from school again… *guilty* but I can’t be there all jerm like, can I =/?

WTF I CAN draw origininals, it’s just that I do enjoy drawing fanart. That doesn’t mean I’m a lesser artists and have no own creativity, infact I LOVE making up characters of my own. If they blame people for drawing fanart, then they should blame all the oldtimers. Take Michelangelo, Monét or Da Vinci. They all used MODELS for most of their stuff, ya? But you don’t hear anyone complain they drew too much FANART of real people! GAH! It’s the same thing Dx! REALLY!

So, I wanted to draw something saami again, but she turned out more like a reindeer android something something… maybe I’ll add more body on ze computer, I just wanted to draw a nice girl potrait, since I rarely dare do potraits anymore (thanks to the asshat that scared me of when I was a teenager, saying potraits is for weaker artists and all the good artists draw fullbody-super advanced poses.)

She’s also my normal style, a bit japanese influenced, not biiiig eyed eyes, got some nose, etc. I’ve come to understand that the most popular anime(japanese) styles out there include ones that look like they do in 98% of HENTAI games. (Kurama pointed the hentai ref out to me) Shiny cgs, with huge eyeees and that smoooooth coloring. And people adore that style, yes they do. So much they look at the face instead of the HORRRIBLE porportions or linearts, and still call it masterpieces. Can’t blame them I guess, I was luckly born blind. Almost. 

Which turns me to this whole thing going; “Japanese/anime styles is too boring to draw. It’s to easy. I’ll draw more realistic stuff from now on.” WTF? I can’t even belive several people say such things. Sure, some mangaka’s draw super skinny, longlegged, etc etc bodies. Then you look at Kentaro Miura’s work. Dare you say Berserk is a illdrawn comic? Dare you say the bodies and porportions are WEIRD (not counting Guts muscles, they live in another dimension)? But it’s still, never the less, obviously Japanese. I draw my stuff influenced by my favorite styles. But my absolutely favorite artists are Bauer and Arnold. But more or less famous swedish CHILDRENS BOOKS artists. No one can have missed out on eithers beautiful drawings for different collections and stories. But are they very human’like. Not really. Are they well loved? Hell yeah!

Anyways, here’s the drawing, hah =p.

People keep ‘nagging’ me to do un-fanarty-stuff. But I adore fanarty stuff! Because If I love the chars allready it’s so easy y’know? So I wanted to draw pretty hairstyles and sitting boys. This was the result.

 I named him Haru over a whim 8D! This is the pencil onry version.