Kingdom Hearts' Xion WIP

Here is the work up for the Kingdom Hearts' Xion image, from character design to final illustration.

The process starts with a character design turnaround. In the case of fanart, the character design stage is less about designing the character (since she is already designed), and more about "feeling out" the design details in my style. Xion wears a figure-obscuring long coat, so determining her physique was another aspect of the process.

Next, I came up with a rough idea for the pose.

Once I was satisfied with the composition and pose, I set about drawing it. Here you can see the clean pencils, ready for inking.

Then I prepared the general lighting, color scheme and background.

After that, it was matter of inking and coloring the character. Check out the finished image on Cutepet!

Kiran from the Archives

I resaved some more of our older pictures to make them much bigger and higher quality, and thus easier to enjoy the details. Here's a selection of pictures from 2001-2002 featuring Cutepet's cutey blonde witch character, Kiran!

Ryougi Shiki WIP 2

Here's some more workups and sketches from the Ryougi Shiki picture:

Here you can see how I refined the rough sketches and concepts along the top into the final three picture candidates I posted in the last WIP post. Of the three concepts, I ended up going with image concept #2, which further refined into the bottom three sketches you see in this picture.

To really nail the anatomy, I took my favorite version of the sketch, and started breaking down the perspective:

Perspective isn't just for backgrounds. The character also conforms to the vanishing points. If you look closely at the top image, you can see where her body used to be, and how it was reworked to follow the perspective.

Working from the bottom blue sketch, next I did a final clean pencil drawing, and then finished it with the inks and color. A lot of love and time goes into each of our images, as I hope these WIP show. :)

Ryougi Shiki - Complete!

 Ryougi Shiki from the anime series Kara no Kyoukai. Enjoy!

See this previous blog post for WIP pics and more details.

Sci-fi Amelia - Complete!

This is a teaser cropping of our newest exclusive donation image on Cutepet. We teased it on the blog last week. Now see "Sci-fi Amelia" in her full-color glory (plus bonus WIP sketches, lineart, and more!) with a donation of just $2.00! Your donations help offset our monthly website costs and allow us to keep running the website open and free!

Here's the link to the download! Thanks and enjoy!

Ryougi Shiki WIP

New picture in the works... this is Ryougi Shiki from an anime series called Kara no Kyoukai.

When working out a new picture, I'll sometimes come up with multiple rough composition sketches. That allows me to try out different variations on a pose/camera angle, and see what works best. Stay tuned to find out which one I end up using.... :)

In keeping with the character design exercises I've been doing lately, here is a turnaround I did for Shiki:

Work in progress sketches continued in Ryougi Shiki WIP 2!

Rukia and Kagura - Complete!

 Here is the finished version of Rukia and Kagura crossover pic! That's Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach and Kagura from Azumanga Daioh, sharing a moment of passion. Enjoy! ^_^

See this previous blog post for WIP pics and more details.