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[Raven's Tongue]

Did Raven always sport those types of earrings or are you sneaking in your love of Egypt? Are you going back to your first love Raven to try and get some of your mojo back?

glee-chan responds:

At first I thought I'd post this on that other page, but then I realized I have to draw another picture this weekend for the Glee pages, and after the week I had I don't know if I got it in me. So it went here. But yeah, Raven was an attention seeking measure that I was too lazy to follow up on.

[Gul Dukat]

I think you're spot on with the character design working well in Akira Toriyama's style. I would have thought they were some background character from when Goku was putting about in the afterlife. Seems like you've gotten out of your artblock, unless these are all premade drawings you had saved.

glee-chan responds:

I'll admit forcing myself on drawing this and the other pics I've done this week. I'm still in that slump. I guess I'm desperately trying to reclaim my hobby but so far I don't feel the joy I used to.

[Raven as The Crow]

I don't know if I ever told you this, but the original Crow comic, is my favorite comic of all time. The ones that followed, unfortunately never recaptured the magic of the first series. Even ones written by O'Barr don't have the atmosphere of the original. The trailers for the new movie do seem to understand the balance between the murderfest that is the Eric on the rampage, with the softer moments between him and Shelly, that give the reason for the violence. Even the original Crow movie didn't really get that part. You have to make people really love Eric and Shelly, as much as they loved each other, for the tragedy of the story to bleed through all the violence. In the end all the killing the Crow does, will not change what Shelly suffered nor will it take away the deep guilt and hatred he feels towards himself.

Oh well enough of that, great Raven picture. You're so good at drawing her, almost like you've drawn her before.

glee-chan responds:

I've been watching a series called Reliving the War by Wrestling Bios that shows every Raw vs Nitro (plus ppv) and rating which show was the best that week. I'm saying this because Crow Sting was on my mind and Raven joined Nitro a few episodes back. Soooooo thats how we got here.

[Freeza and Some Losers]

You mean Baby isn't the best Dragon Ball villain?! Knowing you, that background was likely what gave you the most trouble in this piece. I probably told you this before, but when I first saw Freeza, I thought he was a she and a dominatrix.

Are you going through a bit of art block? or just tired?

glee-chan responds:

Both, actually. I know you've heard me whine a lot about feeling defeated and unmotivated so I'll spare you the sob story again, lol. I did draw two pictures yesterday. I feel like I need to have Glee pictures and Crissey pictures (for all 10 of my watchers). So I guess I'm back to forcing myself. The thing is I feel like if I just stop drawing I'll lose my talent. So I keep chugging at it. I have a line drawing of Dragonball Gul Dukat and one of a sexy goth girl I want to fuck. Maybe I'll color this weekend or maybe next week. I don't know.

[Bikini Trek Girls - Refit]

What is interesting is how little you had to update this picture. It looks like you had to do a few changes to posing, though not very extreme and use lighter line weights. It is also nice to see you using this cute style, feels a bit nostalgic.

glee-chan responds:

I wanted to keep it similar but the same. I fixed some things from the original (like Tasha's hair and some of the girl's body proportions) but I didn't want it to be completely different. I actually did the line art last weekend. Coloring took all day today. 8-4 with a lunch break. That's usually my hours on a short day at work! But yeah, I really did love the original back then and it's honestly not too bad now - just unrefined. I do think the new one is superior in every way, but if it wasn't then I failed, huh? Anyway, I probably put too much effort into a project that most people either don't remember or don't care about, lol.

[Shocking Senshi]

Are you playing around with gradients and effects? I can't remember you using too many of those in most of your works.

glee-chan responds:

For the body "sparkles" I used a pulled image of sparkles and made it semi-opaque so the true colors I painted underneath would shine though. I also changed the colors to the sparkles for each girl to match the colors I wanted. For the lightning I drew it in black, made several copies, changed the copies to white and blurred them. Then for the crisp black lighting I selected and used that mask to delete the middle of the white blurred ones. I also had a blurred black lightning's visibility really scaled down so there was some darker contrast in the now visible sections in the white lightning. (That probably doesn't make sense). Maybe there were easier ways to make those effects, but that's how I did it.

[Delinquent Girlfriend]

Man, some of these take me back. It's always great to see Manatsu art. She is still one of my favorite characters that you created. From Sukeban bully, to undercover cop, to doting sister over Kaori. Still think Sukeban Girlfriend was a great story too, showed that Manatsu wasn't all muscle, she was cunning too. I honestly thought you had drawn her more than this, I don't know why.

I remember drawing Manatsu's hair always being hard, but it was unique to her. I do remember that one pic you did of her and Megumi hanging out at night looking all dangerous. That was a really cool one.

glee-chan responds:

I think there is one other picture where she's with Yuuki but it's kinda bad. She also is in some massive group shot I did where I attempted to draw all my OCs (at the time) in one picture. No way I'd attempt that now, lol. I think the reason I don't draw Manatsu too often is because her hair is murder to draw and color.

[Jesus Christfu is my Waifu]

This is incredibly well done, from the expression, to the hair and beard, the clouds and not forgetting the stigmata, this is really well done. Feels like the evolution of Bible Babes. This makes me think of this anime Bakuon. It is anime about high school girls starting a motorcycle club, very much a moe comedy. A recurring background character, is Jesus riding a Harley. In one instance the MC catches him coming out of a store with porn. It's a fun little show.

glee-chan responds:

That sounds hilarious! I'll have to do some digging and looking into it.

[Jughead's Lunch]

Lol, I think that is the only reaction I have to this.

[Old School Daioh]

I know I've seen Osaka before, but I'm not familiar with the anime. You did a good job with Osaka, the walking pose feels natural and you can almost feel that slight breeze. Kagura does look a bit stiff, especially when compared to Osaka. The body feels like it's nice and relax, but the smile feels stiff. That being said, still better than anything I could do and once again, you've shown off how versatile you are as this is a completely different style from the Archie stuff.

glee-chan responds:

Azumanga Daioh was probably one of the first anime to be sort of a "nothing" anime, in that it didn't really have a plot and it was a slice of life. No seriously, there is no goal for any of the characters other than going to school. The show is held up by the cast of characters. Lucky Star sort of followed suit on this, but even they had more of a gimmick and plot than Azumanga Daioh. At the time I compared the show to being "Anime Seinfeld", only the characters aren't as mean spirited (well most aren't, lol). The anime started a lot of trends in the early 2000s, so I think if you were to watch it today it might feel dated even though at the time everything they were doing was fresh. It was normalish girls with absurdish humor. This anime also is one of the few (I think) that also played a lot of comic timing, leaving a lot of dead space to make a joke land hard. So they'd repeat an animation a few times to the point where you're wondering how long they're going to do this, and once they do it again, you're laughing. I'm sure you've heard the soundtrack for this floating around everywhere because the music for the show became a meme itself. ANYWAY, yeah, if you want something easy-going, light, and fun to watch this is a good anime for that. It's what I think people might call "cozy"? There's no action, fan service, romance, drama, or tragedy. It's just fun...somehow.