Recent Pictures by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:9fc2c6c9-045e-ce00-925d-75baeb077c8ayou were our golden child by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:4b1c1b08-8e1a-2973-2026-e9fa4db6f1892007-11-18T16:54:19-08:00just posting stuff. finished a while ago, just hadn't gotten around to posting here. I'm trying not to be one of those people who leaves and is never heard from again, but sometimes I honestly don't know why I bother. No one over here cares about art any more.
Astarael, Shadow, Shruikan, and Phantom, from Tapestry.]]>Astarael - Tapestry by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:f13ee8d5-e099-6e15-52f6-52380d0162bb2007-10-28T10:55:02-07:00I haven't updated here in ages, so I thought I'd post some thing. This is Astarael as a demon, from the manga I am writing, Tapestry. I've only put it up on my deviantART so far, but eventually I plan to put it on a hosting site and/or get it published. ;D]]>Dream page six by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:6b18d7a2-96d0-36a3-7c21-1dc4668a8c6b2007-09-03T13:23:38-07:00Okay, so ... deviantART won't let me post this, because it's stupid. So it goes here. Now I return you to your regularly-scheduled programming, which I wrote right after I finished it, which was three days ago.
THIS TOOK ME FOR-FRIKKEN-EVER. Dx;
The feathers were the easiest part here. The whispy black stuff was what took so long, and gave me carpal tunnel in the meantime. Don't ask why Shadow is there. I randomly stuck him in, because I love him. They were originally saying something, but I didn't feel like looking up the tehtar. It looks better without text, anyway.
Hahah. Was it only a dream ...? Take that how you will; it might have more meanings than one. ;D
This is the best of all the pages. Definately. Though it doesn't really have panels ... Just one huge one at the top and a weirdy one at the bottom.
Reference: I used a crappy screencap from Kingdom Hearts II for the background. I would link to it, but it's a still I took from a YouTube video, so it should go without saying that the quality sucks. And I don't feel like uploading it.]]>Dream page five by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:72f82f6b-0d81-1c2b-ddbb-686d8526895b2007-09-03T13:13:24-07:00(copied from da, cause I'm lazy)
Um ... took me long enough, didn't it?
I did this while I was staying up to see a lunar eclipse. Which was really cool, by the way. Even though I had to watch it through our sucky, smudgey windows.
Started in June and finished in August. Worked on not at all in July, because I'm a lazy @$$.
That middle panel gave me the worst time. Ever. I just couldn't get it right ... It reads right-to-left. Like all manga I draw. Because I read too many Japanese comics.
I got a little carried away on Psyn's hair in the bottom right panel. And .. Phantom's anatomy is way off at the bottom there. Ignore that.]]>Rain by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:5b285793-a57a-244f-e042-2d8088bcc4882007-08-19T13:20:45-07:00I almost put this under 'other not listed' because I was looking for 'meteor methuselah'. ah well. Sorry it's been so long since the last update ... Dx
Rain from Meteor Methuselah. Which I just started reading, so don't post spoilers, please. Erm ... the artist seems to be rather fond of changing his hair colour. So I don't really know what colour his hair is ... so I picked blue. I like blue. And wings. I think my favourite part of this is those feathers. I like them. Despite (or maybe because) they were completely freehanded. Fun stuff.
Oh, and I almost forgot ... this is dedicated to Laitma, because [/s]she made me read it[/s] she recommended it. ;D]]>Something. by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:74d4d8c8-6d50-26c8-5a91-4f85d59345392007-08-07T21:11:18-07:00I drew this for the videogame pixel ID thing over on da. I'd like to say I've been working on something amazing in my long absence, but in truth all I've been doing is playing videogames I've already beat. Please don't kill me ...
The charactere is Felix, who is sort of not really a characature of myself. Um. The weapon-thing ... She fights with six of them, which fit together into two big six-pointed shuriken-like things. The shuriken are the 'first release', and when they come apart is like bankai, to use Bleach terms. Those work better than anything I could come up with.]]>Shadow themed profile drawing (gaia) by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:3566b6c6-e032-c13f-30ab-bf35b34f46202007-07-23T21:46:17-07:00I felt like I was neglecting you guys. D:
I drew this and edited it into a Gaia profile. The coding wasn't perfect, but it at least looked halfway decent. ;D I love sepia photographs.
I'm not sure I got the media category right. I used all traditional media, but the sepia and the inverted colours were done on the computer. The original looked way different and not nearly as cool.]]>Gaia avatar commission 01 by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:141765d2-8950-65b0-d068-a4e1c4bd8a462007-07-17T14:15:20-07:00First Gaia commission.
I'm rediculously tired and I've got a headache, yet for some unfathomable reason I decided to stay up and finish this. Based on the avatar below.
I'll do avi art, or full pieces. You can PM me on Gaia or leave a comment on my profile over there; my Gaia screenname is Akimbo`.]]>DUSKGLASS by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:ec9137d6-fca5-1e97-71a6-ea866e4f72242007-06-30T14:43:19-07:00Okay. I finished this last night. And I wanted to post it. Really. But there were peoples sleeping in the scanner room. So I couldn't. But here it is now.
I was thinking of the cover of Bleach 15, Beginning of the Death of Tomorrow. Can you tell? xD; (however, I'd like to mention that I didn't reference said cover in any way, shape, or form. this was just inspired by it. y'see? Lest you think me a pansy.)
...oops. this has been sitting who-knows-how-long. (smacks self) I'm gonna post now ...]]>wings by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:0736dcc4-7d08-1cd8-1dfa-9d7c56516d552007-06-29T23:17:09-07:00YAY FINALLY A NEW ART! SOSORRYIKEPTYOUALLWAITING!
Sorry. I didn't get enough sleep last night, so I'm kinda loopy.
Phantom and Shadow in the front, Shruikan and Astarael in back. the blobbity thing on shadow's hand is s'posed to be a raven. ooh, suspense! the canyon is the one august falls into in apocalypse, where all the demons live. i need to get writing again ... sorry 'bout the lack of proper shifting here. i'm feelin' lazy.
a watercolour i did in yellowstone, which is in a little of idaho and montana and mostly in that other state i can't spell, so we'll ignore that one. xD; the canyon is called the 'grand canyon of the yellowstone', which is the most uncreative name ever and has nothing to do with the grand canyon that's in arizona or wherever. really, how many grand canyons do the us need? at least two, apparently. [/rant]
oh yeah. drawn in pencil, with watercolour background and copics for the people. cuz the brushes they had were really fat and in general sucked.]]>Star King preview by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:a1311548-889a-d4e9-a221-0ed42fd890e62007-06-19T19:51:47-07:00A preview for the little one-shot I'm drawing, which I, being lame and uncreative, have titled 'Star King'. I only have the raws for the first eight pages done ... I have five left, and I can probably get it done. But since I might not have time to post those ... I'm getting these up.
It's about my charactere, Astarael. At this point, he thinks Shruikan and the Phantom are both dead. (Astarael is the Phantom's father. Shruikan is his lover.) They are the only two people left alive who he really cares about, so when he thinks they are dead (which neither are) ... this happens. Um. I hope you can read it. I don't have time for editing as of now ... I can read it, but then I wrote it, so I should hope so.
I'm done now. Please tell me what you think of the manga, should you do me the honour of taking the time to read it. It killed my pens. Which is why the second half of page eight sort of dies.
Warning: the manga contains Creeper and Emo Masochism. Mostly the former.]]>shadow by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:152e5793-7096-ed7a-d692-ee9596c06e182007-06-16T20:19:33-07:00Shadow in pencil. Shading is so pretty. ;D]]>more tapestry randomness by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:e005531a-04ec-b388-cfa5-1623c8fe749b2007-06-15T18:41:24-07:00My friend and I were talking about hollow Ichigo, and how his colours are reversed save the skin. And how weird it would be if his skin were reversed. We fell to debating what colour the reverse of skin tone is, because we have nothing better to do. And so I pulled up Tapestry and inverted the colours. Because I had to test it. Usually it looks really creeper, but this one looked so cool I couldn't resist -- I had to post it. xD; This has bees an episode in the Tales of My Insanity. And stupidity, so I'll shut up now.]]>Tapestry by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:42d1b93a-9671-7c7f-0232-c92149fcc2322007-06-12T17:53:54-07:00Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree,
But his hand came down empty ...
A character in RD. I was thinking of tapestry ... He looks like a cross between Howl, Vinculus, and Shadow.
I like the way I did the background. The scan actually came out good, which is unheard of in all the history of scanner-dom.]]>Raven in the Dusk trailer: part two by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:1bc5aa3d-155e-9274-c70e-544cc7e780132007-06-05T16:08:47-07:00Part Two of the RD trailer.
The whole, combined version may be perused on DeviantART, here, if you happen to desire the full effect. Though these versions are more true to the hard copy, as I drew them on seperate pages and in the DA version I opted to remove the pencil scribblings, thus making it quite a bit less aesthetically pleasing in the process (the editing resulted in that area looking botched and very much copy-and-pasted over. Same is true for the area where I joined the pages. The shadow created by the scanner doesn't match up from the bottom of page one to the top of this one. Which is why I posted it in the original, two-part form.)
So. What is it about? That's actually a really good question. So far it only has half a plot, which is about a charactere based on the Raven King in Strange & Norrell. The main charactere would be Shadow, the one with the blue hair up there, in last panel. It will probably end up a bunch of useless fluff concerning Shadow's backstory, with the added plus of lots of guys with pretty hair.
Why? Because I like to draw Shadow, and he has a story that needs to be told. So, ehh ... That's all. I hope to get some done soon. If you want to see it, it would be in your best intrests to keep bugging me about it until I finally get it up. I am a very lazy procrastinator. And yes, that includes things I want to do. If you need an example, just look at the Dream comic. It's only six pages, I started it in February, and I still have yet to finish it. If someone doesn't talk me into doing it, I'll most likely just sit around playing videogames all summer. Dx;
Ignore the pencil at the bottom. I was taking notes on the movie we were watching in History, because I was drawing during the movie. Because I'm a BAD STUDENT.
Part one is here.]]>Raven in the Dusk trailer by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:cdb8ebf7-6fed-292f-660c-80ae1820c6292007-06-04T16:13:49-07:00OH SHIZ I IS WRITING A MANGA??
This is a trailer-thingy. The poorly-written poem on there is from a ballad called The Raven King. Which is, funnily enough, about the Raven King, and is given in a footnote in Strange and Norrell. (yes, a footnote. When was the last time you read a fantasy novel with footnotes? There was a footnote in there that was nearly five pages long ...)
In said novel, the Raven King is a mythological king of England, who ruled three kingdoms, one in England, one in Faerie (which is, despite what you might have been led to believe, is indeed where fairies live), and one in a curious land on the far side of Hell. Over all he's pretty cool, though he does have this bad habit of kidnapping people he's taken a fancy to. (that's what the aforementioned ballad concerns.) [/old-English-legend-rant]
So. This comic is about a charactere based off Susanna Clarke's Raven King, and Shadow. Who is mine. I hope you'll read it ... If only because they both have really nice hair.
(one last thing: if you want to see me go through with this, please badger, remind, hint at, and generally annoy the pants offa me. I am a very very lazy procrastinator. Howevermuch I want to draw this ... I will find it hard to pull through. None of my other manga ideas have yet gotten past the idea stage. Now you know why. So be charitable and halp prevent it from happening to this one. Thank you.)
Panel one: Shadow and Astarael. The scanner killed Astarael's pretty hair. It looks a lot better on the paper ... the other two are the Raven King. Because he's pretty.
I was going to post the version in which I smushed the two pages of the trailer into one image, but it is very, very, tediously long that way. This way gives you a better sense of the original, but if you want to see the whole, I put it on DeviantART.]]>the Raven King by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:9e158953-1b6d-93d9-9f47-1217205e80782007-06-01T23:08:36-07:00It made me sad that there was nothing here. So of course I had to draw something. And of course it had to be the Rasven King.
Inked by hand, edited in Paint and OpenCanvas 1.0. Sadly, I as of yet have no Photoshop.
Strange and Norrell is quite fabulous, though, and if you somehow managed to find your way here without having read it, go read it now.]]>Charactere Guide - Shadow Duskglass by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:1a10571f-02fb-37a3-6d87-7650bbe550272007-06-01T18:31:57-07:00My charactere profile thing, for Shadow. He's in his early twenties. Bet none of you could've guessed he was that old ... by appearance, I'd guess eighteen at oldest. And for the American-brained, 49 kg is about 108 pounds. He weighs about as much as the average teenage girl. xD;
I added colour to the sketch at bottom as a last-minute thing. I really don't use coloured pencils that often ... as a result I don't have very high-quality ones. The hair in that one scanned funny. 'Course, it kinda looked funny in the original, too. I think I made the head in the main one too big ...
Yeah. I like that song. But ... It does suit him, the more I think about it, the more I see it is so. I have it available in the form of this weird little AMV on YouTube. It has the Naruto theme tacked onto the end, for some reason. Ignore that.
I need to re-draw this. D:]]>Las Noches by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:203a4930-9d53-f361-6445-be05ee86ab8c2007-05-27T01:27:30-07:00(pasted from the lineart:)
The lineart for theme 32, Night. It's Shadow. As an Arrancar. In Hueco Mundo. I'm excited. I love this one ... and I couldn't wait 'til after I coloured it to post. Because I'm a moron.
He is saying, 'Mi nombre es Shadow Diablonoches, Espada número trece.' Because I felt like it.
I know there are only ten Espada. So why is he number thirteen? Because I say so. xDD; And Diablonoches isn't his real surname either, I just wanted something Arrancar-ish, and I didn't want to change his first name. (Diablonoches = devil-nights, for those who aren't Arrancar-savvy.)
AND DAMMIT TEACUP, QUIT STEALING HIS SHIRTS!!
p.s. Yes, I modelled the hollow-thingy off Ulqui's. However, I did so without a reference, and I wasn't trying to make it the same anyway. I just happen to like his little horn-things ... [/paste]
Okay. So I'm thinking this is possibly one of the best things I've ever drawn. Seriously. I love this. I love Shadow~
Nehh, The date is for the lineart, peoples. I finished the colour roughly an hour ago. I should be going to sleep ...
And in case you can't tell or are as tired as I am, That orangey thing in the sky is indeed the moon. Just so ya know. It's a lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipses are orangey red, because of something to do with the way sunlight refracts through the atmosphere. Not that anyone cares ...
Has anyone else noticed that all of my backgrounds are dead? Nuthin living there ... 'course, Hueco Mundo is s'posed to be pretty dead-looking. But yeah. Can you guys tell I'm loopy offa lack of sleep?
COMMENTS ARE LOVE! ~<3]]>From the Depths of my boredom, for anyone who asks me how I colour ... by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:75e1dd8a-d0cf-4cc6-58eb-24e2804034292007-05-26T22:24:12-07:00Yeps. I was bored. People ask me how I colour/what I use. So I took the time, for those (few) people, to do scans between various steps of colouring Shadow's hair.
Umm ... right. Other than that, this is pretty self-explanatory ... the full art should be up sometime soon. I really love this one ... [/rambling]]]>theme 080 - 'words' by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:8d297dbb-ddf9-945d-2f0c-75839fc7d3022007-05-20T21:13:00-07:00Shadow.
This reminds me of Bleach, Hagaren, and Kingdom Hearts. All at once. I accidentally used some of the words twice. Hell, I wasn't paying attention. If any of you can read it ... I'll be surprised. Really. It's written backwards ... And yes, that is my real handwriting. Backwards included.
Has anyone else noticed that Shadow (y todo el mundo) tends to misplace his shirts? Well, it's not like they wear shirts under nobody cloaks in the first place, but still ...]]>theme 059 - No Way Out by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:6e6dd4e4-eb91-844e-939b-2848bb8c78d02007-05-19T02:29:29-07:00Okay, I lied. I am posting this. Now. I need to get up in the morning, but I'm doing this anyway ...
Yep. You can see the blood in this version, no? xD; Actually, the reason I did that was because the copics made the ballpoint go all funny. Word of advice: NEVER use copics over ballpoint. It smudges, and a billion other weird things. You can still see what it did on the right wrist. I guess ... the string cut off his circulation? That's why his skin's a different colour. In that one spot. He's kneeling in blood, which is why it looks like his legs are cut off. They aren't. They're just under the blood. Yeah.]]>No Way Out - 'Sinner's Gate' by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:dca11690-6d91-a088-6888-25c6c91ffea42007-05-19T00:58:32-07:00Okay, so this really has nothing to do with Hagaren, other than the fact that I drew it with the False Gate inside Gluttony in mind. So, yeah, he's kneeling in blood.
This is the result of me having a ballpoint pen and a few hours' worth of boredom. I think I must have some sort of weird wing-fetish. Has anyone else noticed that all my characteres tend to have wings? I don't even particularly like drawing wings. Or hands, or feet ... speaking of which, the hands in this are crap. I can draw better hands than this. And those are supposed to be bullet holes in the stone cross. I can't seem to draw those either. >>; But other than the actual art, I really like the subject matter of this. Oh, and the right wing is cut/torn off. There's no colour, so the blood doesn't show. So that's why he's only got one wing. Actually, he isn't supposed to have wings at all. Like I said ... (I also did his hair too long. On purpose, though, so it's okay)
The lightish thing in the blood by his left leg is a feather. I'm not sure I conveyed that ...
I'm going to sleep now. It's almost one ...]]>theme 030 - 'Under the Rain' by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:d17e21e3-4961-dbc4-e6b9-53dfe547561d2007-05-12T22:39:52-07:00Theme 30: 'Under the Rain'.
Shadow in a city. Yep, there's a Nazi poster on the wall. Hence the racism. Because ... Nazis were racist. Yeah, it totally works. I'm sure there was something else I was going to say, but ... I forget.
Oh right. Costume inspiration, anyone? xDD Shadow went final fantasy on us ...]]>El Conquistador Violeta by Dark_Alchemisturn:uuid:337773ec-982f-cf7c-e692-8a0ed719b1c22007-05-08T20:52:37-07:00Ulquiorra es un hollow violeta. Ulqui es Espada numero cuatro. El se puede quitar sus ojos. Ulquiorra es el unico que me gusta. Todos los otros son bakas. Por que estoy escribiendo en Español? Porque los Arrancar se hablan en Español. Y porque yo puedo. Pienso que es razón sufficiente.
'Numero cuatro de los Conquistadores Blancos nunca mas.'
Muchos gracias a Breeze-chan, y sus hollows violetas. ;D]]>