You know how a lot of Maid and Butler Cafés in Japan have these little cards of your favorite server?

That concept, along with the idea of giving Earl Cain Hargreaves a pimped top hat to look like Ciel Phantomhive’s became this. I’ve never actually seen a card from those cafés, but I imagine this is sort of what they’d look like.

I like how the photo I took of a real café worked really well into the artwork. Deep blues and purples really work well for Cain, though I think I should have drawn in more feathers… the skull on his hat was really fun to pain too! I might try drawing one again later on… Maybe an artwork of Ciel next?

I wish my scanner would get fixed soon though… I want to finish my doujin already! ;~;

…also, I find this commotion over the “doctored photo” really amusing. Haha! I hope you guys enjoy it too~

I picked up a manga from the store one day. It was the first volume, in an art style that was manga-ish, yet different.

Then I went to the cafe to read it. It was rather cute… despite the vampire-ish genre that people have come to use and abuse lately, RE: play was pretty nice to read.

Then I found Nyanko-chan on Deviant Art and joined her contest.

I’m happy I got a special mention. It was a pretty fun contest, and I wish I had found out about it sooner, so that I could have prepared more.

You have to admit, Cake Angels like Tag really are the best kind of angels.

I’ve been working on this doujinshi (fan comic) for a while, and I’m planning to post it in my manga blog. It’s about Hiiragi Keiichi, Yumeno Uta, and Kuromi… specifically about how they feel about each other.

Unfortunately, my scanner died on me. I have a few pages I want to work on, but I can’t until I get my scanner fixed. And I haven’t had the time to do so lately.

I’m a little worried about my brother… he’s older than me, so I should be worried, actually. ~_~ I must be weird or something.

Now that I’m looking this cover again, though… I can tell you the perspective is totally off for this picture. I need to draw more characters will different backgrounds for practice.

Hope you guys like it anyway.

I’ve been playing with my coloring effects lately, and I don’t think I’ve been able to choose one that I’ll stick with. Most of the time, I prefer to do cell shading because it gives the painting an edge, making it look refined and very anime-like.

However, I think I want to learn how to be less anime like and blend the colors more. I’m just impatient with the blending process as it takes up a lot of time.

I’m beginning to loosen up a little now. I used to not correct my ink work on the PC because I felt it was “cheating” to do so. For this piece, I went ahead and flipped, moved, redraw anything I thought needed to be changed. I’m pretty happy with how this came out… although I’ll probably change the color of the teapot on the right. and edit the BG a little bit.

I think I want to draw other characters now…

It’s a little sad that I still can’t embed Deviant Art codes into my blog… But I’ve already written a complaint to Sanriotown, so it should be fixed soon… I hope?

I’ve been busy running around a lot lately. I wanted to draw something with a lot of detail on it, and a friend of mine sent me a fanart of Onegai My Melody showing some of the characters cosplaying as Rozen Maiden characters. I wanted to expand on it a little bit more, since it only had Uta dressed as Shinku, Koto dressed as Suiseiseki, and My Melody dressed as Hinaichigo.

I came up with this art, “Onegai My Rozen Maiden Melody”, featuring all 8 dolls from Rozen Maiden. I only wonder if Hiiragi and Jun will kill me for dressing them up as Kirakishou and Barasuishou? Haha!

I don’t like the background too much though. I might end up re-drawing that later on.