Moving to a new art blog!!
http://www.holidayblue.com/blog/

Wow, I kinda killed my art blog. D: Then again, not much art really happened since the last post. A lot of stuff happened which kept me busy, stressed, sick, you name it. I'll keep the ugly personal rants to my locked personal blog. :/ But I'd really like to get back in the habit of posting here again, even if it's just to post a simple sketch or concept designs.

So for now, have what little things I did get done. Nothing new if you keep up with my dA.

Fullbody CG with BG Commissions


Sketch Commission


Waist-up CG with Simple BG Commission


Chibi Commissions

Arian Laith

Fanart


Contests



I've also been working on a Durarara!! fanart to make it into a print to sell at this upcoming Anime Expo, but I think I won't be making it after all... I've never liked drawing fanart in the first place, and I believe you can tell that I don't enjoy it by looking at their quality. So I didn't really enjoy working on this piece either, even though I tried to make it as interesting as possible to keep me motivated. I'm hating the quality so far, and I don't want to sell something I hate to people for money. 8D; So no Durarara!! print. :( I'll still try to finish it at some point for the sake of finishing it, but it won't make it as a print.

And lastly, as mentioned above, I will be attending Anime Expo this year! I'll be tabling with Shadilyn at table D02! So if you're around and are bored, come stop by and feel free to make fun of us. 8D

I feel like I just received an early Christmas present. <3

Love Love Century, a voice acting skit made by Shadilyn and Muki

Amazing.

They managed to include a lot of the traits for each of the characters, and yet they still managed to destroy every single character, it's hilarious! xDDD And they even have a Ruina! (who reminds me of Rise from Persona 4 lol )


omg emoemo Beyll xDDDD;;; And I dunno whether this was intended, but Elthee sounded so gay in the beginning pfffffff. xDDDD


Thank you so much you two~ ;w; And part 2 pleaseeee <33333

Woa, long time no post here. I really have nothing new to display here anymore since everything I make gets used for vote incentives, and I haven't been able to work faster to make extra stuff that's not a reuse of the incentives. And those sketches are due to be uploaded to the main site at some point anyway, so this blog has really lost its purpose. :/

I'll paste another reuse for now and think about what to display here in the future. D:



I probably won't be able to work on this again till next year. orz

Here comes Ruina spamming your journals with more sketches. D<

Some recent sketches I've used as incentive until... just last week I believe:



Creating motion makes me want to /headdesk
Attempting foreshortening makes me want to /facepalm
However, I am happier with what I'm doing now compared to my previous attempts. I don't think I'll ever be happy with what I do (in a sense, I don't know if I ever want to be... but let's still try to get the basics right =_=; )
Drawing animals... eh, I'm not even gonna start on that. I do keep going back to drawing pics of characters with an animal(?) buddy though, I wonder why.

( Another one )


PF3 is in its final chapter right now. I've been keeping up with what's going on, but I failed to contribute anything last chapter due to Persona 4 distraction. OwO;;; I made this very quickly today though:



Someone is putting together a Persona parody poster to support the country of Gigandal, so artists were asked to make parody shots of their character(s) like that. xD Persona parody was just too awesome to pass up; plus it was very simple.


...I wanted to talk about something else, but I can't remember anymore. NRGH. D:

For those who actually check out my dA or MB accounts, you may have noticed I mentioned Pixiv Fantasia III (or PF3) there on my two latest submissions:



PF3 is an event going on over at pixiv right now where artists draw OCs/items/locations/etc in a fantasy world RP. There's a very well put together summary with a list of current events and such here by maiki. I noticed many English-speaking artists I follow were talking about it and making characters, so I kinda jumped on the bandwagon too and made the above two and a pixiv account (I didn't have one prior to joining this event /swt).

People who know me well may know that I'm not really into RPs in general, but this event has been very interesting, I've actually been trying to follow up with it and participate once in a while, my recent contribution being a mass purchase of ネ口耳(nekuchimimi) (which are pretty much cat ears that has the power to curse one of the country's leaders lol) to give out to the guild I joined. Just as an example of how this world really revolves around the artists' ideas, that item was based off another creation, the ネロ耳(neromimi), which sends support vibes to the aforementioned country leader. Someone even made a dog ears variation too for the dog fans, but with no special effects. xD

I've been more of a follower than a contributor so far (some people submit stuff DAILY. Man, I can't imagine... and awesome quality too x_x;; ), but I'm hoping to see through this event till the end. Chapter 2 just ended today (total of 4 chapters) and the event ends on May 10th Japan time.

On a final note, I'd really love to see some of the English-speaking art communities try to pull off something like this. O_O It does sound like a lot of work for the mods (with counting up all the points for each story and all), but seeing how successful it's been on pixiv, I'd really love to see someone give this a thought.

Elthee got presents!
...well, maybe they weren't intended to be presents, but I'm calling them presents anyway. *bricked*



scones colored the manga page that Elthee hogged. <3 I love the color choices she made for the houses in the back! And I never really noticed this before since I always work in black and white, but adding colors to speech bubbles and panel lines really make them pop out at you, it's really cool. *_*



From hellmaster05, sort of like a "what was really going on when Elthee got beaten up" picture. xDDDD <3 If Elthee got to see such a cute smiling Beyll, I'm sure he didn't mind being beaten up to see it. xD Gawd, Beyll, I don't care if this is supposed to be scary but you're... you're so cute when you're OOC. ;w; <3333


Thank you so much guys! Elthee loves you~ <3

Happy birthday asaphira_sachi!! <3


Elthee also shares the April Fool's birthday, so happy birthday to Elthee too~! <3

I didn't come up with any April Fool's prank to put on my site. Maybe next year. But I did sketch a chibi comic for the occasion:

( It's long )

The extra didn't exist at first, but the first part by itself didn't feel like a nice bday comic for Elthee. xD; It was going to be either this or a more prettified sketch of Beyll hugging Elthee (which is inconceivable, but... it's his bday... and it's April Fool's xD), but I slacked and picked the chibi route. :P Let's hope I can come up with something more clever and refined next year. Last year was a creepy oekaki, so I think this is still a step up? And maybe do an April Fool's prank too, some sites are pulling some really clever ones this year.

Eynord has been getting a lot of attention lately. I wonder if it's because of the Valentine's day sketch...

More VAs!

Eynord by Muki

Sexy Eynord by Shadilyn


For the Alice in Wonderland parody, I've decided on the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts (as seen in this week's incentive... well, at least the Rabbit), and I asked if anyone had suggestions for Alice since I didn't have one decided yet.

...which somehow spawned this adorable fanart:



By tozz

...I'm definitely considering this... *snorts* xD

keyk voiced Lionel~ <3
Lines from Chapter 1.

Check her LJ for more VA posts!


...I really should put together those VA recordings from last year... *swts* But I think I'm still missing a complete Elthee (or maybe even Beyll too? I'll have to check again). Even so, I should still try to make a VA section on the site to post all of the recordings I've received so far.

While I'm still on the subject of VA, if I can get enough people interested (which is always a challenge for me OTL... but let's just suppose I succeed for a change)... VA contest? Yea or nay? I'll have to think about how it could work, but the idea just popped up and it sounded fun. Maybe a contest to decide on character VAs to voice lines from the actual manga (like keyk did up there), or submissions based on original/themed skits with all of the voices and sfx put together, etc. This would be more fun and actually sounds more realistically possible than some radio/drama skits series idea I had ages ago, which would require constant participation from everyone involved (whereas a contest is just a one-time thing). And it doesn't help that the manga hasn't really established itself yet and isn't very far into the actual plot either... and you know, slow page updates...*BRICKED*