Fanart: Phoenixes, Aliens, Dinosaurs, Steampunk

[bottan]

Uakari confirmed that I should update on what I've been doing all this time. (Hah, what's up with me vanishing!) Anyways mostly I've spent an awful lot of time drawing. Here are a few of the results that I'm happier with:





I wanted to draw a big, intimidating dragon with Kurogane riding it, and somehow got distracted. After already finishing, Faren did something awesome and wrote me a fanfiction to go with it: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6709269/1/The_Knight_and_the_Princess. I was completely flabberghasted and loved it.



So... well, the thing I like the most about this pic is actually the tiny, flying ship in the background in the upper right half. Even though it's unobtrusive, it's the thing that actually triggered this. I mean, flying ships? Yes please!



In the end, Kurogane got his dragon anyways. I was such a nerd for dinosaurs, when I was a child. I like that the T-Rex looks so terrified -- I didn't really plan on that, but when it came out that way, I laughed and left it.



I love steampunk and I always felt like my skills wouldn't be enough to draw the machines properly -- I made some progress and so I just tried! The thing I like the most about this (besides having stuff exploding in Syaoran's face) is Kurogane's impossible, steam-powered arm. I'll definitely rework it, when I draw them again in this setting. People keep telling me, they like his pants better, though. *g*

Also, I've been quite absent the last weeks... I guess it has at least partially to do with me being pretty down for a time, only now I start getting my spirits up, again. However, they're finally rising! :D Hopefully that means I'm going into writing again, fun as art is, I miss looking deeper. Whatever may come, I will try to keep LJ updated, from now on! :)

Comments

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love all these pictures! ♥ You know, I was just going to bug you next time I saw you to post more fanart on livejournal... I don't have a DA account, so I couldn't comment on your lovely art there. ;_; Please continue to post it here!

The first three pics, well, I saw these before... The phoenix one is just lovely! I love Fai and Sakura's relationship so much, in a purely platonic way of course. I love Fai's silly grin combined with Sakura's expression of wide-eyed wonder.

The pic full of Martians, well, I really wonder what the story is behind that... XD Now that there's a fic for the Phoenix one, well, I almost take that as a challenge... Tell you what. If Uakari does a fic about Fai pouncing on Kurogane in his assless chaps, I will feel compelled to write one for either the dino or the martians...

The last pic I had never seen yet! I love it! The color balance of the three panels just makes the overall thing look marvelous. And yes... I adore the scorch-marks on Syaoran's face with a blank space where his goggles were... Kids, this is why you wear the safety glasses!

Tell you what, if you need inspiration for steampunk, perhaps you could check out Girl Genius? (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040329) The whole archive is free online to read!

[konnichipuu.livejournal.com]

MIKKE!! 8D Thank you so much!! <33 Yes, I'm a bit of a brat at times and forget that not everyone I love has a DA account, too, hahah. XD

God, the stories behind the martians... I'm pretty sure Syaoran has high hopes to get information out of them on how to change the space time in order to let his parents come back -- but in the end it's obviously all set up by Fai to freak out Kuro-tan. Also, I wasn't looking too closely when thinking on just where the oxygen in the space suits came from. *snort* OMG, fiction would be so awesome! 8D On the one hand, I'd be so honored and happy that I might explode, and on the other one, I'm also doing these weird setups, because I'm absolutely convinced that craziness should expand in the TRC fandom, once again, may it be in fiction or art! So, I only have to convince Uakari that she has enough time to write something on Kurogane's manly pants? Well, let me try...

Thank you, again! I'm actually really glad you like the colors, I was so bad with them just a year ago. Hahah, I just can't leave Syaoran alone... He would be the one reasonable enough to actually wear the goggles, though, so he had to be the poor guy with the soot-covered face, in the end -- drawing goggles on them reminded me so much of Fai not even once using his own in Piffle to actual cover his eyes... He's living too dangerously, as always, so no action for Fai in this one. XD

Wow, cool, thanks for the link! The backgrounds are pretty ingenious, I'll take a closer look at them, later! I've been doing a bit of reasearch and tried my hand on some more (http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/043/c/8/flying_steam_engine_03_by_konnichipuu-d39f4ap.jpg) interesting (http://konnichipuu.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d39etu6) engines (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/043/7/1/flying_steam_engine_01_by_konnichipuu-d39en4r.jpg), in the meantime... So the next version of Kurogane's arm will probably look like it'd make more sense. X)

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

I look forward to all future iterations of Kurogane's steampunk arm :) And also to the potential of Uakari fic with assless chaps... (I don't know that I'd really call them MANLY pants...)

[uakari120.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE TOTALLY MANLY. :P

[konnichipuu.livejournal.com]

I'm very sure, he wouldn't wear girly pants, at least.

[uakari120.livejournal.com]

No way man. Girl-pants are Fai's domain XD

[konnichipuu.livejournal.com]

You mean girl-pants like those that only have one hole for both legs and are wide and fluffy enough to flutter up in the wind and show your panties? Yep, Kurogane wouldn't wear those. (The spoilsport.)