Yep, always paranoid~ Thank you very much!




Tablet. If it was by mouse, it would be less clean and would take me forever,. Tablet does also, but I'm getting used to it.

Have you tried linearting with tablet? It would help your drawings pop out more.

Color choices and such could use a little improvement too, but ti'll come with practice.

I have not tried that so, I'll look into it.

Yes, color choice needs more familiarity, but outfit wise, completely with what was during the period~ Horridly gaudy, lol!
The skin tones shades are what I'm focusing on getting better at, too. I'll need more practice and familiarity for sure~ Thank you!

Drawing of Rema finally finished in ink~ A background will follow up.

Next I will make a colored version at some point.


Hmm. I guess I could shade this, too...

Looks great! ^^
I think the armour is done very well, and I love her face and hair. =D

(The helmet looks especially good as well.)

Thank you~ It's an old drawing that needed to be finished. I hope I can do more with it and others.

Wanzer-panzer's Front Mission: Blitz Conflikt Main Character finished and colored.

I'm getting the hang of the tools~

Very nice work man, your talent is AMAZING! Really good work and stuff...

The head is too big for the body I think. upper legs/thigh area could use more lengthening as well as forearms. You have a pretty good grasp of basic anatomy thoug, and your hands are wonderful

Hmm. Perhaps if I shaved down on the amount of hair and face a bit, not so much. The legs are actually the right size. The crotch area appears lower than it actually is. Based on the example of the outfit I had to go by, it's the sag on the pants. Though I just spotted a boo boo~

But thanks for the comments~

Dusk Bust/Portrait.




I was thinking of adding a background of some sort...



BlackNeko's Commission for Lowell of Alpha and Omega (finished)~

Merged your two posts.
No need to double-post, the updates were both made in the same day. (Just edit the previous post and update it with the new information.) =]
(Not a verbal warn, just a friendly reminder.)


Anyway, I really like what you've done with the wolf! It looks dreamy.

Ah, sorry about that! I was in a hurry to post so I didn't realize it. Apologies~

Thank you for the reply. Being able to do animals with airbrushing and smudging does wonders, so I look forward to making monsters for my own project.

It gives it a "painting" look, which is a neat style; especially for animals with fur or feathers. =]
You're welcome. I'm looking forward to seeing your next piece of art. ^^

It really does, which is what caught my attention. One day I'll be able to utilize more graphic tools~ The look for feathers I'll definitely need in the future now that you mention it

I will have to go back and edit the face, though. I think the commissioner doesn't like the fluffy look, lol

One thing you should really watch for is your proportions as they are off. For example, that neck in your shot above is really long and thick and it looks more like a giraffe than a human neck. I think that you are on the right track and with some studying up on proportion and a little more practice you can do some really nice things.

You think so? I don't know if you mean his neck is too long when there are exaggerated features in anime artwork, taking into account styles also. I can't say too much on the Dusk picture as I did it a year ago but I did intend for him to look that way~

Here is some of my own work today....


Concept designs for the Scarlet Queen glyph.



*Heeeelp~

Style Test
I came up with him last night at random. I was testing a style and came up with him~

@Dusk
The piece is beautiful. However, I can see where Bacon is coming from. The neck does seem a little too tall and thick, but I love the colors and shadows.

@Lowell
O_O!!! The strokes you did with the airbrush are wonderful. It looks real with a little fantasy mixed in there. Well done! You bring a strong presentation to Alpha & Omega!

@Scarlet Queen Glyph
For some reason this reminds me of Kingdom Hearts lol. The designs are pretty good. I like the one on the bottom.

@Samurai Boy
This definately reminds me of Tetsuya Nomura's art style in Brave Fencer Musashi. I would love to see that one photoshopped! The clothing in this one was well designed. Good job!

Darn. Lol! I know~ I'll make a new drawing, not the same but of a bust like this with Dusk. Though I would never think of redoing ALL of my past work

The eyes might need to be touched up a bit, but yes, I like how it turned out as well~ I can't wait to hear the music you have created for the project as well.

Bah! It's too crappy for that, lol! The bottom one was the final out of them all. The top two were the concepts leading up to it. I just have to put it together in a editor~

It does, doesn't it? I knew those thoughts were coming from somewhere, hehe. I had the game once but I didn't like it T_T Thank you for your comments, X~

Emil put up three tracks I did for it on the front page on the BN website. He also put up a art exhibit video featuring your artwork.
BlackNekos Studios

I did check out the site but forgot to look for the music, most likely, I think. I'll go back and check. Thanks~

Oldies~

Some old drawings I dug up so as to show where I came from up to now. I have a horde more, but they are back in Virginia, sadly
Anyhoo, here they are:

Lost Children Pt. I

Mila


Another conceptual drawing of her when was more modern-based.


Shadow of Time

Characters


Ansgar's deceased father. He attributed much to Gale's technological developments during the War of Nis.

NuHuma Concept Art





Weapons

Ansgar's Spears






R-flection

Protagonists








I couldn't think of a better name for her, Lol



Antagonists



Monsters


Whisper of Dragons

Protagonists




Ubei!!

Characters








If by rare chance anyone has played Evil Zone for the PSX, they will now where this parody came from~ I wish I had a sound clip from when Danzaivar shouts his title, lol




Silly thing I did among others~


Parody comic short (unfinished) of Gackt's Metamorphoze music video~


I don't know if this makes much sense looking back on it but, that is if you can read it~


OMEGA

Guardians










She was not that originally, taken that Time has no affects like shown.













Antagonists




That's all for now! I hope I get the other drawings sometime in the future~

Ovara
New drawing with more work to go~

Wing Legion

After a good amount of time, I was able to finish this oldie. I'm happy with what I can do with the graphics editors I use but, I look forward to when I'm at least intermediate~

While I agree that more practice in graphic editing programs may be useful to you, I further agree that you've done an excellent job with these images. =]

I especially like the last two (Ovara Marie and Legion Wings).
Very colourful, on Legion Wings, and it is somewhat reminiscent of D.N.Angel (in my opinion).
Ovara Marie is just very well done - period! ^^

Thank you very much, I appreciate it~ I have confidence in what I can do, yet never want to be overconfident. Especially with an audience

I'll have a lot more work in the days to come; some new, others WIPs completed.


Here is a completed commission of wanzer_panzer's project. Still unnamed, a character bust from Front Mission: Blitz Conflikt.

New Dusk outfit design

Minor changes but its a WIP so more details will come later~

Rema sketches

Some facial angles and designs that will be reference material.

Your angle work is really coming along nicely, love the little pose sketch in the bottom right - I went through a phase of drawing loads of those.

I'd love to see more of your coloured work, personally I think some of the black is a bit too heavy compared to the line work.

I'm a bit heavy-handed when it comes to that, lol~ Something goes through my head, saying "Intensity!"

Beginnings of a drawing of Mana in his throne room. There is work to be done on this so it will be taken in steps. Any advice on how to go about the settings? It will be a dimly lit gothic architecture-styled court. I might do another version of this at some point, too~

Darkened stone walls, candlelight, large castle window in the back ground displaying the moon, perhaps some wine...


By the way, you really have an amazing quality of drawing facial profiles and hair. Very nicely done. ^^
Not to mention you're very good at hands/fingers. D=

Thank you for both the compliments and suggestions, XMO~ I actually had not thought of a window with moon, but that would add quite the effect, wouldn't it? Perfect! As for the other ideas, that would fit in just right, I think! I'm going to add these in and see what I have. Again, thank you so much for the reply~

You're welcome. ^^
I've love to see the final version, or edited version whichever you prefer to call it, so be sure to update so I can see! =D

Sons of Thunder




Draft before the final version. Has some mistakes but nothing that can't be ironed out later. First one with background since forest settings are a bit easier for me.

@Sons of Thunder

BRAVE FENCER MUSASHI!!! xD
That whole piece is awesome. The grass and trees looks great. The down enemies looks real good. Keep it up.

Thanks! I most certainly will~

Wow, the Forest Path Afterbattle image looks fantastic!
Love the style, and the artwork is amazing. =]

Your attention to detail is astounding.
Can't wait to see a coloured version! =D

Your linework is VERY impressive. You've got a great attention to detail and you do a really good job of drawing clothing, especially the way it falls and moves on a form in motion.

Also I really dig your mixed styles. You've got a background that would be perfect for a flat brush color pattern, a foreground of two dynamically drawn characters that would look amazing as a cel shaded color job, and a more realistic setting of fallen enemies on the ground. It all blends together very well.

Wow. Now those are some ideas! Thank you for your comment and advice. They are amazingly helpful~

Some new drawings I'm working on currently! I won't have as much time to post with working on two commission projects but I'll try and slip what I can in here and there~


Phantom Sorcerer Orion concept design




Dawn Merloci~ 1st Attempt



Monster concepts 1



Abyss Larva concept



Viktoria update

Oh my gosh, I barely have time to do anything nowadays! I fit colouring this in somehow just to make sure I could still use GIMP, but not quite done. Hope to have one more coloured and some other drawings up by today or tomorrow, if stress doesn't kill me! Two projects I've been commissioned on have taken up a great deal of my once free schedule so I apologize to those I have not gotten around to finishing their requests~

You're still doing as great a job as ever!
I especially like the outfits you've been working on, but I really like the Phantom Sorcerer. Looks like a great character. =D

Thanks~ I'm glad I have at least some breathing room and I'm able to draw after getting out of my period of doing horribly XD
Orion's outfit came out of nowhere as I had no idea what I was looking for. I had to think about what the Egyptians wore and how I could change it, and that was produced~ The lower torso turned out good but the upper half next to it...haha, not so well~

Two new drawings of Dusk.


*I decided I would rather it be shaded instead of coloured~

*Updated Aug. 13



*I included his Schiavona, Cinquedea, and gunarm for the first time in this.

You have amazing weapon designs there. Are those your own ideas? (Meaning the designs, not the types of weapons.)

Yep, those are my own designs. I don't know if I could make a new type of weapon because the practical have been taken. The schiavona and ciquedea are pretty basic but I needed a reference of a 1700s pistol since I'm not so good at guns.

Well, it's really cool when you can design something on the blade of the weapon, like etched into the sides of the blade.
You could try working with the scimitar weapon, since it also has a blade. I'd be curious to see what types of designs you would make on such a weapon. =]

It's really neat the way you design outfits and such, but this is a different side to your artistic flare and I'm liking it. =D

Thank you so much! I'll put a some designs together then. It would be good practice and I really should get into the habit of it, anyway~

I'm not going to lie, your designs are very creative and you have some great control and understandings of lines, but you need to work on keeping your proportions consistent. In a lot of your drawings the heads are too large for the bodies and in retrospect, that means the hands and other features just don't look right. This was an issue I used to have (and still have in regards to keeping hands and faces proportional), though I'm getting better. You are better at drawing than me, but that's just something I think you should keep in mind and work on.