Well, he's here...

[luco]

And let me rant for a minute about Sanji. He's a pain in the ass to draw! I mean, I adore drawing him and everything, but to get what I put down on paper to match what I see in my mind is really difficult ;__; I was going through a lot of the japanese sites to see how others drew him and while they have very beautiful art, it wasn't quite what I was after.

I wanted him to look like a 'guy', I wanted to be able to keep him as expressive as he is in the original series! And I want people to always remember that he's a fighter as well. >__<

And I don't know how well I suceeded...

Hopefully it's alright.

Oh and the weed in his mouth will be explained by Chopperfish later >_>;

Comments

[yuki-kokoro.livejournal.com]

*grins* You're so amazing. Sanji looks awesome. I especially love his expression in the first panel; he just looks so perfectly SANJI and his face is so expressive even when he's not feeling anything but a general "why are you here, exactly?"

...Though his chest and super-hot arms are certainly FANTASTIC in the last panel as well. And CHOOOOOOOOOOOPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER! He's so cute in that last panel! All hanging here, looking adorable and content. Totally willing to let mommy-kitty/fish Sanji take care of it. ^^ Like a cat that knows it hasn't really done anything wrong so it's just going to chill and dangle. And his cute little limp arms!

[luco-millian.livejournal.com]

The first panel was actually the hardest because of that expression. It took forever to get the mouth just right and then the eye and yeah ;___;

I'm happy that people are pleased ^____^ And that the last panel managed to tell people what I wanted it to

[yuki-kokoro.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I also meant to ask... how do you do these pages? Sketch, scan, then ink in a program with a tablet? And what program do you use? @_@

[luco-millian.livejournal.com]

Umm, I think if you look back a post or two you'll see my work space ^___^ That'll show you the sketch in progress and a couple of the inked pages lying around. I sketch and ink by hand (because it's faster) and then scan it in and do the shading and such in OpenCanvas.

I use to do pages inked on the computer, but it takes forever and at least this way I can do most of teh work wherever I am ^___^

Thus more art for you guys.