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Avantgarde and something more

( April 12, 2010 - 4:23 pm, filed under artworks, tagged as , )

Okay, I lied when I said “tomorrow”. Actually, the drawings from the dream are still a work in progress. Instead, yesterday I drew some pics of my Pokémon Soul Silver team and some other stuff. Half of these drawings are currently being painted, so normally I’d wait for all of them to be finished before posting them, but:

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I like these so much I cannot wait any longer to post them. This is Avantgarde, my female Scizor. The scan on the right shows the full A5 page; the left pic is the one I’m going to post in my artfolio and in other places. It was fun to try out a new watercolor technique.

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Quartz likes to climb on my head. He’s so cute I don’t have the heart to ask him to walk on his own feet. Besides, he’s not really that heavy.
I just fell in love with Sableye.

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What is this? This is my very first original character. His name is Dodo and I made him up when I was four or five. He was twelve years old and a cool and nice guy all around, he had many friends and he was always happy. He was also my imaginary friend, even though I never, ever drew him and his gang with me because I felt like we belonged to different universes (see? I had this idea even when I was FOUR). Anyway. Why this drawing? Well, yesterday my mom saw me sketching and brought up the fact she found some old drawings of him in a book, so she wanted me to draw him again. I was greatly amused by the fact these old doodles were also ridiculously tiny…yes, smaller than a finger. So, now I can say with certainty that my drawings have always been unusually small. I wonder why, though.

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Other than those old characters, I currently have only one original character that’s based on an animal, which would be Sheila the fennec fox. After drawing Dodo I wanted to show her to my mom, but I didn’t feel like making her come all the way to the laptop to see a scan, so I just sketched her like this. The scanner then killed parts of the lineart, so I helped her with some digital color.

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And this is me as a Pokémon Trainer. This time I checked the actual outfit before drawing it, so it’s more accurate than the other pics. YES THE ARM IS TURNED AT A WRONG ANGLE BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY MY ARM IS SO THIS IS ACTUAL ANATOMY!!!
lol, I should take some pictures cosplaying as myself. Maybe when my Argonian name is no longer Bleeds-On-Chairs.

I should make some stuff for people too

4 comments

  1. I am in love with how feminine Avantgarde looks, without having the stereotypical “female attributes” and still looking exactly like a Scizor. I can’t explain well, but I really like it :D

    Awww at Quartz climbing on your head. See, pictures like this, full of gesture and feeling, are among my favorite things to look for in fanarts (and art in general XD). Please keep on doing them! *w*

    Finally… the thing about Dodo saddened me - you had an imaginary friend but didn’t draw you with him because you belonged to different universes? B…but, drawing IS the magical thing that makes the impossible happen, and universes merge! ;w;

    Irene, April 13, 2010 - 3:51 pm

  2. I love the last drawing. What technique did you use for the main outlines?
    Quartz is really cute, and Avantgarde… I agree with the above comment, she looks very feminine.
    Your imaginary friend reminds me of something, but I don’t know what ‘XD

    A lot of my drawings tend to be ridiculously tiny as well, by the way, expecially the sketches, they usually occupy just a little corner of the paper even if the rest of the page is empty.

    Kate, April 13, 2010 - 7:39 pm

  3. Irene: I’m glad she turned out looking like that :D
    One of the most beautiful things about Soul Silver is that it really gives you the feeling your Pokémon is physically with you even outside of the game’s boundaries. So when I walk around with Quartz in the Pokéwalker I imagine he’s really there, following me around :D
    I don’t know, I had (and in a way, still have) this weird feeling that every fantasy has to stay in my head as long as I can, leaving physical traces behind makes me feel unconfortable :<

    Kate: Pencil + a brush pen for the darker lines + a grungy texture. It’s the same brush pen used in the drawings of Avantgarde.

    dubiousdisc, April 14, 2010 - 12:40 pm

  4. LOVE LOVE LOVE THE SCIZOR ONE <3!

    Pegaso, April 20, 2010 - 7:52 pm

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