ART: Sexy Sensei

Drawing anime girls is not something I do very often, and as such it is a subject matter in which I woefully lack experience. Still, I do occasionally get the urge to dabble in it, though almost all of the time these attempts never progress beyond a half-finished sketch. What you see here is a rare exception.

Yukari Tanizaki from Azumanga Daioh! is one of my all-time favourite anime characters. I am usually not into over-the-top, chaotic characters but there's something about Yukari that captivates me. The out-of-control genki girl behaviour is off-putting to me and I've been told by my friends that it is curious how much I love Yukari when I absolutely despise Tomo from the same show, but I think what makes Yukari actually likeable is that unlike Tomo, she at least seems to be contributing something beyond just wreaking havoc and exhausting everyone around her 24/7. She is actually teaching things to her students and has enough self-awareness to not always let the "genkiness" fully take over her. As a result of all this, I think the ultimate appeal of Yukari, at least to me personally, is that she's a mature authority figure that still retains youthful playfulness.

(Now, if we get into her being a 'girlfailure' – as Zoomers like to call them – who drinks way too much, yeah... I suppose that's a bigger issue; nevertheless, this is a fictional character in one of the most defining slice-of-life anime shows of the early 2000s, so I'm willing to look past certain problems)

As for Yukari's looks, she is definitely one of the curvier characters in the original manga as well as the anime. Looks-wise, Yukari is top-notch: her tits are bigger than her colleague Nyamo's, and she seems to be very much aware of her own attractiveness as proven by her own dialogue and choice of swimwear, so I'd like to think that it's her loud personality and selfishness that seems to be dooming her to a single life. While I normally tend to be into girls with shorter hair, Yukari's flowing and wavy long hair is amongst one of my favourites of all anime girls and women.

When embarking on this sketch, I knew I wanted to make something based on Yukari's teasing nature and her status as a teacher of (likely very horny) male students. Inspiration came from many sources: the lace lingerie-clad girls of '80s and '90s anime and PC-98 adult visual novels, the age-old teacher fantasies every boy (including myself) has had and, last but not least, the two Private Tutor Nami hentai mangas that Azumanga Daioh!'s creator wrote and illustrated under the alias of Jonokuchi Jouji. These stories infamously feature a prototype version of Yukari, who is even more youthful and bears a striking resemblance to Misato Katsuragi from Neon Genesis Evangelion, who may have indeed been an inspiration for both characters. Scans of these can be found online, if you know where to look...

As is often the case, I did not use any pose reference for Yukari, though I did look at some poses later on to make adjustments to her thighs and to get the perspective/proportions correct for the lingerie elements. The lace detail is also something I fully improvised on the fly, since I wasn't able to find the kind of anime or visual novel reference images I wanted to copy for this. The only thing I am somewhat regretting is that I, er, did probably go a bit off-model with her body, as she is a lot skinnier canonically and her midriff/torso is more elongated. Unfortunately, I was feeling quite horny when drawing this, so I overlooked these aspects of her. I mean, her tits aren't that big in the show!

I would also like to give very special thanks to my friend Sadarax for helping me with the Japanese writing.

You can get the picture, as well multiple variants (such as Yukari done in the colour scheme of The Very Short Azumanga Daioh! Movie, as well as alternatives with a more basic background and with no background at all), in high-quality working resolution from my deviantART page (hit the 'Free Download' arrow button under the picture to get an archive).

ART: Pop!

Once again, I'm couple of days late into the party... but not that it matters.

I've been meaning to draw Sedusa at some point and I've actually been making sketches of her almost every three months or so since the late '90s. Yes, that long. However, I cannot stress enough how difficult it is to get her to look right due to her slim yet angular figure and that mess of a hairdo. Those two things have basically prevented me from doing a proper pic of her, coupled with the fact that I just cannot think up any good ideas for her. You'd think that a character who's built on having sex appeal and seduction skills would draw itself, but no... and judging from the serious lack of Sedusa fan art, I believe I'm not alone with these thoughts.

Then, I remembered something. A few years ago, there was a thread on 4chan's /co/ about Sedusa's Japanese counterpart from Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, which is an anime adaptation of sort of The Powerpuff Girls. While a large portion of posters hated the said adaptation (myself included), we couldn't deny the hotness of Sedusa Z, especially since she sported much larger breasts than the original character. The thread was immensely successful as a large group of people gathered to compile as much reference pictures of Sedusa Z as possible, with some regular Sedusa caps thrown in the mix. As I was going through my reference folders for inspiration, I stumbled upon those same very caps that I saved from that thread and figured, why not try to do something with the anime Sedusa for a change?

And I did!


Happy New Year 2014, everyone!

ART: Halloween '13 Double Feature

A Perfect Fit

While I've drawn female anime characters before, this is the first time I actually got around properly finishing and publishing one.

I'm a huge fan of FUNimation's gag dub of Crayon Shin-Chan and I was sad to see the show get such poor treatment on Adult Swim as well as apparently not selling enough DVDs to ensure continuation beyond Season 3... or was it that FUNi's license expired? Whatever the case is, I will miss seeing more new episodes about Shin's shenanigans and constant perving of women thrice his age and above.

Shin's mother Mitzi (Misae in the original manga/anime) is probably as prominent of a character as Shin is, and it's just delighting to see a comical middle-aged woman in a leading role in an animated show. Then again, this is anime where pretty much everything seems to be possible due to the Japanese people having much more open-minded attitude towards animation than the majority of Western audiences. In the gag dub, Mitzi is seen obsessing over getting breast implants, avoiding weight gain (unless it goes directly to her boobs) and daydreaming about handsome doctors and cartoon villains (while being pissed off when her husband and her son oggle at women). In the course of the show, Mitzi's butt gets a few mentions and even a couple of scenes where it's large size is commented on in a teasing manner. Being the ass man that I am, I knew that if I had to draw a Mitzi picture, there was going to be a high chance it'd feature her butt.

Since this is a Halloween-themed picture, Mitzi had to be wearing some sort of costume that would hopefully make sense on level. Eventually, I recalled seeing an episode where Shin dresses up as Yaz, a protagonist from a 'Magical Girl' show that his friend Georgie (Kazama in the original manga/anime) secretly obsesses about. During the course of the episode, Georgie eventually gets a chance to put on the dress himself and, for humor's sake, ends up getting caught wearing it.

But what if it was Mitzi wearing that dress...?

Exactly.

Patricia Fenton

Of course, I just had to draw another pic, featuring Maddie.

The idea for this piece came mostly from discussions I've recently had with some of my fellow fan artists, as the video game series Mighty Switch Force has popped up in them quite frequently. Even though I don't own neither the first or the second game (as they've not been released on PC, at least not yet), I'm in full agreement with everyone over how nice they look... and I'm not talking about the graphics here, wink wink, nudge nudge. Anyway, as I was talking about the series and looking at some of the promotional art (which I had actually seen before), I realized that Patricia Wagon (the protagonist for both games) seems to have rather nice, wide hips in some of the artwork... then my brain did the logical and placed another character's hips over Patty's. Soon afterwards, I was sketching like a madman.

I actually inked this one in Photoshop using a simpler variation of an old pen tool technique I learned from LLToon waaaay back in 2009. This is why there isn't any variation with line thickness, other than the outline which I did with the help of using the 'stroke' option found under 'blending options' (which I then used as my guide when I manually inked the thicker ink lines to make them look crispier).

I'm dedicating this one for Roger Bacon who's a fan of the game series as well as a fellow MILF enthusiast.

Oh, and that gun (Armacham HV Penetrator) is from a completely different game called F.E.A.R. (which, IMO, is one of the best FPS titles of the past decade and still an engaging, great game).


Happy Halloween, everyone!

GIFT ART: Sakaki-san

Here's a picture of Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh!, drawn by ManiacalCarrot as a gift for my birthday earlier this year. As those of you that follow my blog know, Sakaki ranks very high on my of list of hot anime girls and I just love her in that culture day uniform – to be honest, I love her in pretty much any outfit but I like the more "formal" tone of the waitress outfit.

I'm especially happy for this piece because good Sakaki art is hard to come by (and the same applies to hardcore pics where Sakaki isn't fucked by Chiyo's dog, Tadakichi-san), as Kagura and Osaka tend to be favoured over her (and Tanizaki Yukari). But for me, Sakaki will always be the hottest of the bunch.

Thank you very much, MC :)

DF: 'sup again, /co/

Another bunch of drawfaggotree. This time it didn't go so well, as I wasn't really prepared for Round 2 so soon. You have to be in a certain mood for this to work.

Anyway, the requests were: more Frankie, more Vicky, more Spectra/Wuya (starting to see a pattern here?) and Sam with Ember. I also drew two "filler" pics, which were quick monochrome close-ups of Vegeta, with the second pic depicting him as super saiyan (as requested).

I decided to call it quits earlier because 1) the quality of my artwork started to shift towards QUALITY, which is embarrassing and 2) I have to wake up early, so I can't stay up as late as last night.

Until we meet again! That is, tomorrow. No, I won't be drawing but I'm a regular there so I may post a message or two. As for future drawfaggotree events, well... I'd say I need a long break. These things are fun but burn lots of time.