Here it is, the final installment.
Here is a cute chibi picture.
A girl eating Hello Panda. My good friend Keiko-san used to give me Japanese sweets. Hello Panda was my favourite. I found out they are available in the Indian shop in Turnpike Lane.
Another that I really liked was Caplico. The little Caplico mascot made in into this picture:
I think this was a continuation of the Chibi Sky theme I was drawing. I think the images I used as a ref were themselves bootlegs of a franchise called Little Twin Stars? I hadn't heard of it at the time, but the similarities are very strong. I'm sure I saved the original stickers (they were from a plastic teaset from the 90s), but I can't remember where. I'd love to upload them here. They were so cute!
A faerie I tried to redraw in my own style from Linda Ravenscroft's How to Draw Fairyland:
The original sketch of Fly Away Home! You see what I mean about how much editing goes into it digitally! It's so bad!
The Lost and Found cover sketch. This was simple enough that it just needed a little cleaning up. Do I always draw better when I have a reference? Yes. Do I nearly always feel too lazy to find one? Also yes. The Japanese was probably all the kanji I was looking up for the fanbook translation, or even the Fire Emblem DS game that we never got in English.
Wowzers! My Micah and Zaid sketch. Was this really all I had? The final version is probably the best artwork I've produced, alongside my GS cosplay.
Yuri from Infinite Space. It's a brill DS space RPG game. I highly recommend it. My nephew wrote "Yuri the man" above it. The game was split into two parts, and the saved games were headed Yuri the Boy, and Yuri the Man. We found it funny.
I did this using the upside down drawing technique. It works on the principle that knowing what something is meant to look like inteferes with the process of actually seeing what it looks like. So by turning the image upside down, you can actually see the lines more clearly as they are. Try asking a young child to draw a cube, and (unless they've been taught already) even when you put a cube in front of them for reference, nearly all of them will attempt to draw all six sides, regardless of the fact that never more than three will ever be visible at a time.
Anyway, I was having a lot of success with this technique from the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Then one day I got an almighty headache, and it seemed I just lost the ability overnight. I really don't know what happened there.
This post was kinda short, so maybe I'll dig up some more old sketches later. Okay, bye!