i decided it was time for a change, so i've replaced all of my old icons and tossed out my old layout. i've also cut down my flist by quite a bit, mostly journals that haven't been updated in years. there are some people who have disappeared off the face of lj and a part of me hopes that they'll some day come back -- and when you guys do, drop me a comment here and we can reminisce about the old days or something maudlin like that. ;) if i've made a mistake of cutting someone, please let me know and i'll add you back (and shower you with apologies). this is also a chance for anyone else who's doing some flist-cleaning to cut me -- no explanations necessary.

in between reading an article about shamanic initations and freud's paper on psychoanalysis, i sketched a picture of allen -- so like, for every five pages i read, i would do one layer of rough sketch, detailed sketch, ink stetch, and so on. eventually i spent more time sketching than reading. XD;;
(freud was a very longwinded fellow, i find. but not as longwinded as some of the authors of the deviance and crime control papers i have to read :S:S)

( cosplay!allen -- from beansprout to bean; and a cracky-crack doodle )

now, i can either go read more of freud's crazy-ass theories, or i can watch hana yori dango returns ep2 that just finished downloading... oh, decisions, decisions. :D

still no scanner. so, lots of (bad) photoshopping to compensate (very multicoloured!). you have been warned. >_o

( 4 sketches under the lj cut, whee~ )

tonight is christmas eve and i intend to eat a lot and sleep a lot. granted, that's all i've been doing all week, but whatever. :D

i don't feel christmas-y at all (where is the snow?? :O), but i'll take any excuse to draw pretty boys. ;)
( maybe a teeny teeny bit not-work-safe )

in any case, even if you don't celebrate christmas and whatnot, just enjoy the break. ;) and the lights. and pie. mmm, pie♥

i've been drawing a bit over the break (i love doodling because it relaxes my mind completely -- which may be a good or bad thing when i do it in class XD;) i don't have a scanner right now, though, so i just took pictures of them with my camera (thus, beware the poor quality!):

( it's been so long since i posted any drawings! )

more fanart, yay :)

( more megane-ness [oshitari, this time] )

( loveless-ness )

here's another drawing that i "remixed" (it was more like "copying the pose" rather than "remixing" though XD;). i did this one a month or two ago, but i don't think i've posted it.
( angel )

here's something else i coloured a while back but didn't post:
( eiji...with blue hair? )

on a different note, i've been seeing an increase of manga and doujinshi sales on my friends page -- i guess it's because school's starting soon and everyone needs the extra cash.

i told myself that i was going to draw a lot during my four months of summer vacation. clearly, that didn't happen. X3; i did get a chance to sit down and draw a bit today though.

i wanted to try out my dip pen, but i can't control it very well and it scratches at the paper and leaks a bit from the tip. does anyone have any suggestions or tips on handling dip pens? well, i gave up on the dip pen halfway through and used a 0.28 gel pen instead (thin-tip gel pens are <3). i wanted to practice CG-ing, but i got lazy and impatient, so i did some sloppy toning instead. X3;;

( in which kyoya is smug because he can successfully twirl a pen )


i was rooting through some papers and i found this rough sketch: ( loveless-ish )

i haven't been drawing much in the past year, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to buy art supplies... XD;;

i'm doing the chibi requests out of order (i'm drawing whatever comes to mind first, really). here's trixie_chick's request of mori holding honey's bunny:

( mori + bun-bun )

just to be on the safe side, i'd consider this entry to be non-worksafe (for those of you who like to browse lj and watch anime *coughcough* during work ;)).

remember this picture? that's the one that broke my scanner and i had to take a photo of it with a really old camera. so i scanned it in today (no damage to this scanner, thankfully XD) and did some touch-ups in photoshop.
( oshitari and his cookies :D )

since twincest seems to be so popular, i did a sketch of hikaru and kaoru. warnings: nothing suggestive, but some nekkidness, and a teeny tiny spoiler for episode 5.
( twins do *everything* together )

i need to practise my chibi-drawing skills (for various reasons i won't get into here XD). so...i'm up for requests! just comment with the fandom, character/pairing, a scene/object/whatever (optional) ...you know the drill. :D
i doubt there'll be a whole lot of requests, but just in case, i'm going limit it to the first five requests (for the time being, anyway).

looking through my lj, i think my last fanart entry was back in february. now, four months later, with a working scanner and a working art muse, i finally have new fanart! :>

( red roses from daddy and mommy )