Another overdone fandom, that's the last thing I need to get into. But oh well. :)

Finished, colored thingy: http://meili-melee.deviantart.com/art/Pantera-88865735

Lineart: http://meili-melee.deviantart.com/art/Pantera-lineart-88522004

Yay.

( Two fanart-ish drawings, one original work. )

And this is actually old news, but ... remember my drawing of the dolled-up girl in green? Well, much to my shock and amusement, that little joke entry of mine actually made the Top 150 out of about 7,300 total entries, and garnered me 80-some comments and a few unexpected fans. This, I should point out, is after my two serious attempts for the previous Elements contest got absolutely nowhere. I'm really not sure what to make of how the world works anymore, but ... yay?

This one is another fancy, lacy deal like my last two drawings. To Elizabeth: This started out as the chibi!Mana you asked for, but then it deviated and became more like Teru instead. Sorry, I'll give Mana another shot soon.

( Versailles makes for good background music when drawing stuff like this. )

As for this other one, the joke will only be apparent to those who have watched the numerous 5-7 minute doses of crack known as "Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series." Despite never having watched a single actual Yu-Gi-Oh! episode, now I can't even THINK about Yu-Gi-Oh! without breaking into fits of manic laughter. (Why? Go here at your own risk.) And of course I had to pick on Kaiba ... because antiheroes are the best.

( Screw the green hair, I have rules! ... Wait, let me try that again. )

Must go to class now. Ciao.

Whaaaaaaat, more?

Er, yes. My Graffiti addiction has been officially diagnosed now. To those for whom little artsy things aren't really their cup of tea, my apologies if these posts keep popping up like toadstools on your friends page. And if you've been commenting on these ... much appreciation! I don't really write much fic anymore, so this is the only way I can really share something that I've put significant effort into.

So for this time, the theme is ...

( Getting fancy, are we? )

The latest Graffiti contest on Facebook has "Earth, Air, Fire, Water" as its theme. And since I simply couldn't resist, here are my two entries. I can't say I'm banking on winning anything, but it's still fun to participate and put my creativity to the test.

( Creatures great and small )

Cheers!

( Three more drawings in the same style as the one in the previous post. )

This might become a series. I might go through the entire rainbow, and then some. I say "might," because if I say "will," it most probably will NOT happen. In any case, thanks to anyone who drops in to look! You all humor me too much.

O Happy, Happy New Year, all!

In honor of the dusk of one year and the dawn of another ...

( La-dee-dah~ )

I'm not sure if there is much point to titling graffitis. Nonetheless, this most recent one is called: "Hogwarts Meets Ouran High."

Its secondary title is: "What the Blazes Are We Wearing?"

Its tertiary title is: "Draco Fusses Over Inferior Tailoring, and Harry Unwittingly Imitates a Monkey."

Further suggestions are welcomed.
( Bloody hell. )

As if I didn't have enough ways to waste every minute and every hour of my life already.

And yet I love it.

( Sample wasted hours ... )

More importantly, happy holidays, everyone! Cheers.

Pairing: YooSu (Yoochun/Junsu)
Fandom: DBSK
Rating: G
Warnings: Of course not. Unless you have fluff allergies.
~ ^-^ Dedicated -- a few days late -- to Tiffo/clicheterms for her sixteenth birthday; meant to accompany the fanfiction "Home to Stay" by bel_chan

Cross-posted to Hug and YooSu Yongwonhi

( Reach out to me -- Call out my name -- )



( Artist's Notes )

Subject: Isshin
Series: Aquarian Age - Juvenile Orion
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
~ Drawn for ravenlock_3 ~

( Tiger, Tiger, burning bright ... )

And might I add that I expended a great deal of effort in order to make him look "cool," because in my mind, no matter what fancy-pants Chinese martial arts moves he pulls off ... he's still a big knuckle-headed klutz.

Drawn as a sort of picture-prompt for vicious_lullaby, because Juvenile Orion doesn't get enough love. :) Yes, the theme contained in the image's text should be part of the prompt as well. To everyone else, whether you know the series or not ... enjoy, and tell me what you think? ^-^;

Pairing: Tomonori/Tsukasa
Series: Aquarian Age - Juvenile Orion
Rating: Angsty-looking G
Warnings: Nah.

( Hide nothing from me ... )

... Except this time, unlike the case with the (maybe?)schoolboy, I have a vague idea as to whom the drawing is based on. The person in question is quite possibly my interpretation of what Artemis Fowl (Jr.), adolescent Irish criminal mastermind extraordinaire and devious brainchild of author Eoin Colfer, would look like. The Artemis Fowl books (I believe there are currently five in the series) are relatively short but delightfully snarky reads, and I do hope you haven't missed out on them. However, in case you haven't read any of them and don't know who on earth young Arty is, you may also view the picture's subject as, perhaps, an alternate depiction of Cain from Kaori Yuki's Count/Earl Cain and Godchild manga series. And if you don't know who Cain is either ... then .... -_-;;

( Butler ... shall I just go steal the long-lost painting, or shall I cause the inadvertent downfall of a few major corporations first? )

Ah, heck. Whyever not. I'll poke these in here too, to make the (small but possibly growing) body of my artwork easier to keep track of.

( Talk about the odd couple )

*sigh* I wonder why I had to make these so inconveniently big. Now they'll wreak havoc on my page's format. Ah well.

Great. That makes TWO anime fandoms that I've been sucked back into now. So anyway, the lowdown ...

Pairing: Roy/Ed
Rating: Er ... PG-15? Come on, it's just a deep kiss, anything else that's going on is subjective ... ;)
Disclaimer: Oh, please.
Anything else: IT'S SKETCHY. SKETCHY TO THE EXTREME. Don't say I didn't warn you about that.

( Show me now! )

Maybe I'll edit this entry with more details and artist's comments and junk tomorrow; my brain is running on empty right now. Oh, and if anyone knows where else on LJ a fanart post like this might be welcome, let me know -- though I think I might need some more practice drawing the FMA characters before I have enough confidence to share outside of here. ^-^;;

[EDIT] Idle comments: Roy was actually harder to draw than Ed ... probably because his character image is more difficult to convert into my art style of choice. Ed's eye (yes, his eye alone) presented its own troubles though. When I first drew it, I elongated Ed's lashes too far back, and only cursorily scratched out a line in the middle of his eyeball to represent the pupil, with the result that he looked like nothing so much as an Egyptian cat trying to lap up something from Roy's mouth. @_@ Now there's an image that's a bit difficult to swallow. Needless to say, I fixed that up posthaste. And finally ... the sketchiness is NOT because of my laziness. Maybe if I repeat that often enough, with sufficient emphasis, I can start to believe it myself.

GET ONE FREE!! Your own little creature character! Don't YOU want to be the one whose sleeve he's clinging to so endearingly? Low maintenance -- wholly original, no disclaimers necessary, doesn't need fanfic written about him, doesn't even need a name or a dark past, credits only to yourself for adopting and to Dani for churning him out for no particular reason! And if anyone is profoundly annoying enough to accuse your lil' critter of being a rip-off of an existing anime character or his/her second cousin or his/her dog or his/her own seventy-sixth original character, Mary Sue/Gary Lou the Twelfth, you can direct the plaintiff to Dani, who will then proceed to chew that person a new one and inform him/her that the only animated character figure in her near vicinity that might have inspired the drawing at the moment of its conception was a Hello Kitty bag, and if his/her cousin/dog/"original" character bears that much resemblance to Hello Kitty than he/she has Dani's most heartfelt sympathies. Dani will then give up on humanity for the umpteenth time for spawning such fools, abandon the world to its fate, and become a hermit in the Rocky Mountains.

...

Alright, not really. Don't mind the introductory advertisement; no adoption necessary, or anything else. I just felt like sharing this pic (I needed a temporary break from NaraSess), but lacked anything to say about it.

( Here he is ... )

The good: ... ... ... I forget. I'll get back to that.

( The bad, the rest ... )

I figure, if I'm going to make my [however brief] return to LJ worthwhile, I really ought to contribute something good. ^-^; So here it is, the best I've currently got. -- I think.

( Once upon a YunJae ... )

Should I be here at the present moment? Most likely not. Nevertheless ... first things second, second things first. School can wait, or at least, it had better, seeing as it took up more than its fair share of my life this past week. Now is some quality ME time.

And belated MEME time. Hence:

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now.
Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs.
Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

( Cut here, because I know I won't be able to shut myself up as this progresses. )

And in case I am struck by lightning or otherwise rendered incapable of showing up on LJ on the 21st ... ^-^ Happy birthday, Bel.

^-^; Barely made the deadline, but here it is. Happy Birthday especially to Changminnie! You're a big kid now ... Not that you weren't before ...

( Happy Birthday, JaeMin! )

Different sizes/dimensions here:
Small (750x666)
Smedium (900x800)
Medium (990x880)
Large (1125x1000, as shown here)

:) Extraneous information: Drawing rendered in mechanical pencil (0.7 mm lead XD;) on plain white copy paper. Pinky-sparkly background and lettering done on Adobe Photoshop.

^-^ Comments and feedback are treasured -- yes, treasured!
~ Dani