#toronto comiccon :-D

[cyburnya]

dude

[hexephre]

yikes... it gets harder every year to find art for every month. you'd think going to art schoolwould help. but now my time is taken up by weird stuff like teeth corn. teeth corn is certainly art, but i like to show personal stuff if i can, and anyway i had lots to choose from for december.

some chatter below the cut!

January: some dragons from my flight rising lair: Coruus and her copycat charge, Baltazaar. not pictured: his charge, Warden, who is actually a ward and not a warden. this charge-chain was born through me winning a dom raffle prize of a guardian breed change scroll and a nocturne egg titled "don't talk to me or my charge or my charge's charge ever again" and now they're part of a big happy poor starving suffering family.

Feburary: a composition for painting class that had to involve at least ten "objects", the letters A-Z, and the numbers 1-9. i made an "HD" version of a much more stylized piece i'd done a while back, though i also changed/added/removed some dragons. i should post the original sometime.

March: Fern the golden flower faun, one of my dappervolk pets. the dappervolk beta was such a great experience this year - it changed and improved so much over the months and i can't wait for it to come back for official launch!

April: a bust doodle of Kapari, a character whose design i still haven't really nailed down. disciplined and suave, he's the owner of a large trading company in Cyreneas who knows his strengths and isn't afraid to get what he wants. he tends toward a controlling personality.

May: a diptych of phos and cinnabar from houseki no kuni (land of the lustrous). done as prints for ottawa comiccon and anime north in toronto. god that anime is pretty. painting phos's hair was tons of fun.

June: a redesign of a dragon of mine, Zalitz. originally from my flight rising lair, he's an OC in kenah now, a co-founder of the city of drakavel. he's lived like 4000 years so he's a big boy. he spent a long time as a skydancer before becoming a wildclaw, so both of those are reflected in his design, though i obviously don't want to use too much FR in my original work.

July: my dappervolk spiral imp, Bingo Machine, giving my avatar a four-hand pap. dappervolk's art and colours are #aesthetic and deeply inspiring, but really don't express well in my flat doodle style. i hope to pick up some painting tricks from studying their art!

August: Ashes in Eyes, my D&D tabaxi bard. i love her so much. this piece got a lot of love on tumblr back before i accidentally wiped my account, which made me pretty happy! i don't usually use warm/earthy colours so this was a fun departure and i think it turned out really well.

September: afterlife, a three-page comic done for my junior studio class. the assignment was simply to incorporate found text into our work. i enjoyed hinting at a lot of symbolism and a deeper story behind what was on the page, although very little was really said or shown.

October: anthro Rylen. his design was always human-faced but then he started living in a world where everyone else was furries and it got weird. apart from that i also defined his body shape better - in the original piece he was super curvy and while i really liked it, he kept telling me he wanted to be more obviously male presenting.

November: shacks the luxray, from my pokemon pearl playthrough. maybe one day i'll get around to designing the others in my party as anthros. ...maybe one day i'll get back to that playthrough. let's go threw me totally off track.

December: the royal crest from legend of zelda in geometric style. i did five of these pieces using various LoZ symbols for junior studio. by the end i kind of wanted to never look at a vector again. i'll get back to them eventually i'm sure, but now i'm burnt out on them lmao.

here's to another year of art! i can't promise myself i'll better or more art than this year, but as long as i keep DOING art things will eventually shape up.

[wrath-of-dawn]

Update on my growing Akayona Haul

Recently I've just been saying fuck it I need a pick me up, I have the cash and this makes me happy so I've been buying a lot of official and fanmade merch for akatsuki no yona.

Therefore I felt it necessary to share my enjoyment with the rest of you and help support those who have done such fantastic work.

So below I'm attaching works that I currently have and those I will be receiving in the future along with links to the artists if it's fanmade!

First up is some of the more recent hana to yume giveaways (bless up thank you cdjapan)

In the past I'd also been lucky enough to get the old art book, stickers and diary too.

As the books come out in English I've also been slowly picking them up and for x-mas I'm lucky enough to have a great brother who bought the anime for me 😍

My earrings were custom made for my cosplay that I made for comiccon Toronto but holy crap the lady who made them was the sweetest thing ever and let me hand pick everything from the bead caps and beads to the thread colour and length. She was always so quick to reply and to polite.

They were made by the wonderful MiledyDi on esty 😊

Sorry about the colours btw my lighting is really crap (they're more golden and the beads more blue)

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/MiledyDi 

More recently (and by that I mean months ago up to this month) I also got an awesome print of my icon done by the fabulous @say0ran-arts two wooden charms from Precious Charms and an acrylic shin-ah keychain and sticker from Harululu :D

http://say0ran.tictail.com/ 

https://www.storenvy.com/products/16605531-yona-of-the-dawn-1-wooden-charms

https://www.storenvy.com/products/23278524-acrylic-charm-yona-of-the-dawn-pre-orders-closed

And then finally with the last few weeks I bought an amazing print and commission from the hugely talented @anadia-chan!

I plan on having them both framed and will ask permission from her if I can post digital copies of the pair when she's finished linking her store below (bc my phone camera is crap)

https://www.storenvy.com/products/23829834-yona-of-the-dawn-art-print

Things I have on the way still:

- The Mizuho kusanagi 15th anniversary art book 

Please check out some of these artists if you have the time, they’ve all been so lovely to be and work so hard! It makes me really happy when I’m able to support the work I love and after a pretty shit year I figured this way i can kill two birds with one stone: support those i admire and get some cool shit lol

once again i’m sorry for the shit phone camera, if there’s anything you want to see a better picture of i could retake pictures with my cannon (I’m just lazy).

[cousinslavellan-archive]

I have no idea what to ask but perfectly understand how you're feeling, so I'll go with improvisation to keep you occupied! What are your next cosplays projects?

♥ I appreciate the message either way! You’re too sweet ♥

Honestly, this is the year where I plan to just cosplay Commander Shepard to every convention. I’m not kidding.

I’m planning to be Casual!Femshep to both EGLX (1 day, March 11th) and March Toronto Comiccon (March 16th - 18th, tho I’m working a booth) since they’re more relaxed conventions.

Then, assuming I get my full Shepard Armour in April like I’m supposed to, I’ll be wearing that to both Motor City Comicon (May 18th - 20th) in Michigan with the lovely @scientistsalarian (eeeee!) and Anime North (May 25th - 27th) with @tia-luna , @ariannadi and a bunch of our other friends! 

The only con I’m not 100% sure on costume yet is Yeticon (June 15th - 17th) because… it’s kind of a waterpark con? There’s more activities so idk if Shepard armor is a good idea, so it’ll likely be a mix of casual costumes and Pokemon stuff.

Either way, I’m excited! Gonna be a full year of cons! :D Thank you so much for the ask ♥ ♥

[comic2canvas]

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Zacharya Starke (@comic2canvas)

Time for a little shameless #selfpromotion 😅 I'm not the best at selling myself and usually post on #ig to share a glimpse into my process, but I can't even lie, I do have fun with these little videos lol 😏💥 If you have your own indie comic, and want a #variantcover done, or even a favorite #comic that you feel just hasn't gotten enough love, send it to me and I'll make you a canvas 😄 ... pssst creators only pay an extra $50.00 for a second variant canvas in the same order 😉 #comic2canvas #marvelgifts #dcfanart #DCComics #marvelcomics #comiccollecting #comicfan #comicfanart #mixedmediacollage #comicstuff #nerdstuff #batcavestuff #collectiblecomics #oneofakindart #oneofakind #superheroart #luxurylifestyle #comiccon #toronto (at Toronto C•A•N•A•D•A) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ypvJSJuNb/?igshid=1jrzvoyfy0mya

[ghostlydreamerdreamer]

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Vincent M Ward (@vincentmward)

Toronto, Canada Im coming to your country for the Movie Expo September 20th-22nd...I will be signing, Panels, teaching, pictures and hugging babies so get your tickets now and follow @movie.expo.. More info coming soon...Huge announcement coming soon, I mentioned it a couple months.. I keep telling u to speak it, have Faith, live right and eventually any and everything u set out to do will happen😉...Hey Drake I got some projects for u #comiccon #comics #comicbookconvention #conventions #toronto #canada #conventioningwithvincentmward #vincentmward @drake @champagnepapi #canadians #vincentmwardtour #twd #thewalkingdead #thestepdaddy #amcthewalkingdead #horrorfans #horror #horrorlove #HorrorSeries #HorrorSeries #horrorlovers #guestspeaker #JohnWynnsMirrorMirror #redemptionofadogg #host #thewalkingdeadamc #deathhouse #horror #devilreaux #devilreauxcomic Www.vincentmward.com (at Toronto C•A•N•A•D•A) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0hHa-DDZpN/?igshid=1dcmny2ypcsxu

[drearydiarycomics]

🍎🍯 Shana Tova to Jewish fam + beyond 🙏 Perhaps G-d is watching our every action or maybe existence is chaotic & random 🎆 Either way, wishing everyone a safe, happy and healthy year 5779 🎉🌙✨ . . #shanatova #shanatovah #5779 #jewish #newyear #erevroshhashana #roshhashana #apples #honey #comics #art #drawing #drawingdaily #comicbook #comicart #judaism #jewishart #jewishcomics #comiccon #torontocomics #toronto #repost #like #share #love #happynewyear #🍎 #🍯 (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BngdIIaHRXV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3bmqvf3cr6s3