self reflection is good this time of year.

so. here we have the sketch version of:

The Self Truth by *Naminational on deviantART

i was hoping to do something more exciting with the border, but ... well i didn't. XD i plan to push myself with the next "universe halo chicks" ... oh and also mak the universes LOOK like one.

very hard to do in markers only.


go here for the non level fixed version of my scan:
http://naminational.tumblr.com/

Nami art dump, BECAUSE IM NOT GOOD WITH TITLES

Yay for sketch sets! :D haven't done one of these in a while... need to do more! most of the above page is all Uru. shes very vain. but also so much fun to draw.
sketch set with a prelude to something i will draw soon :D HINT: narwhal?
the very badly done plan for an image i will be doing. going for a muchaesh feel. XD the flowers are a place holder, for the real flower image. that's just to see how the space is utilized... AKA BADLY. D: so need to work on fixing that.

this week... its like ive been... PRODUCTIVE! WHICH IS A LIE. these were all form last week/ older :D HA!

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ART DUMP!

YAY! if you have taken a gander over at my Deviantart, you would notice the one on the left. when i was designing my 'narwhal princess' these were 2 hair designs i LOVED but didn't do. here is the finished colored version. :D LOOK AT THAT! im getting better at not losing something from the sketch stage to the finished work stage. this pleases me.

Narprincesses by *Naminational on deviantART

Here is the Uru smut pic. the original had some differences (like under boob... D:) and i added the pillow and bowl of cherries later on.

finished piece:
blatant cheesecake by *Naminational on deviantART

here is 2 sketches cropped from other 'sketch sets' that i did. ... both my buxom bronze skin babes eating a Popsicle... i apologize ahead of time for the amount of teasing this image is. im working on finishing this one sooner than later. i have added Psyco cat :D and i plan on flattering their outfits a bit. as they are both in cutoffs and bikini tops. XD NEED MORE FLAVOR. ironically i didn't intend to draw this. Tadi had had at least 4 versions of her eating a popsicle, so i blame her.

more sketches later! :D

Lyn Color Sketches

more Lyn! i was trying to figure out her color pallet so here is a psudo sketch of her. :3 color

Process update

So here we have my lovely ‘vent’ piece which has become a series of sorts (aka I wanna do more ‘emotion’ pieces… oh man. Add it to the list). To be honest it was really hard to work on this when I was getting happy, which isn’t to say I was mad or sad when I worked more on it I just suddenly ‘felt the mood’ and was like ‘yeah lets have at’

My original idea was so different from where this is going. D: dear muse hand me a map! But still I like it. I just wanted to mimic a crackling oil pointing effect, not this weird branch/weed effect… but I think for this image and for how I drew it, this works better. Yay organic shapes! This still isn’t done… I would put this now officially at 80-85% not much to say… XD

CORRECTION! So I went to scan it and I notice that the ink has reacted with the salt leftover on the paper… TO GET THE VERY EFFECT I WANTED! Only catch you can’t see it. XD HAHAHAHHA. I will include an ‘up close’ so you see eit. :3

i have nothing intelligent to say... so without further a due:

The Well, cover concept

The Well is probably the first comic concept I ever had. (with exception of Tin Ambition, which was a comic but not an idea just an idea about a comic… what? Are we confused? Yes! Carrying on.) The Well was thought up to be a short. It was for practice as I was wanting to get into comics and I decided I should think up an idea to use for study, for whatever reason (ie: super laziness) I never did it until 2009. (I got the idea in 2005ish? yeeeeeeah)

Well here is the not so beginning stages. I thought doing it in pencil only would be an AMAZING idea. Yeah amazing fail. This piece always needed to be in ink, why? To get the contrast between the light and shadow. (hurr hurr such a novel concept ehh?) but the issue, I am uncomfortable working in ink. Haha oh man this is gonna rock.
The comic is a homage piece to depression which surprised me as I usually don’t get all emotional with my art. (I mean really with as many asides I have done in this write up you can see how I have an issue focusing on emotion with ‘works o’ art’) It’s not necessarily MY depression but more how everyone feels in it. It’s something that consumes you hunts you down and rips you apart. (whoa, Nami whoa!)

RIGHT moving on. I have uploaded some concept art as well as a “throw away” piece (no really I’m chucken the ink work) of my current project that I can share (there is a client piece I’m currently working on but that’s all I can say HAHAHA NON DISCLOUSER >p) I am going to spend the next few weeks practicing inking, and doing some panel redesign. Then the completed comic will go up on my smack-jeeves page (OMG NAMI IS SPREADING ACROSS THE INTERNET LIKE THE PLAUGE. FOR SERIOUS.) in the mean time I get to bore you with my process here!

MUAHAHAHAH onto the art!

This is the main character! <3 I wanted her to look like she was getting consumed and also quite pathetic. Lol I feel bad for her but this is necessary. Let’s call it “plot development”. She’s so cute <3

This is the pencil sketch of the cover :3 this isn’t the whole image XD fuuu try to make sense of this. “Girl in wind and … hands? What?” yeah don’t worry a better more coherence image is to come later.


My ‘throw away’ in practice. >3 I decided to try something different! I may do a few more studies of this to see if I want to stay with my nibs (yay) or go to a brush (yay) or go to my pens (yay) I’m pretty happy with this one though… I can’t wait to have the fully finished image. To be honest I’m looking forward to finish the comic as a whole! :3 naha! That’s all for now! More in coming weeks!