Sunday Update: Kimigabuchi
15 November 2009
So I put my hands up.
They playin' my song.
It's a party in the U.S.A.
Hey blogficianados! PHN here, long overdue to update this shidizzle. Sorry for the lack of updates, it's been sorta crazy for me lately. In a break in the madness, I'm dropping this on you: a guest artwork from one Azuma Takeshi. He's currently publishing his manga book, Super Dreadnaught Girl 4946, a sad but striking tale about a giant girl who is so kawaii desu-ne? in love with some dude. Give it a gander if your fetishes swing anywhere near that set of variables. As for the image, it's Takeshi's pencils/inks, and of course my colorful persuasions peppered about. The scene comes from Azuma's very popular doujinshi series, "Re-Take," which is a "What-if" take on what would happen if Shinji wasn't so chickenshit throughout the ending of the Eva series. Needless to say, that strikes a chord with a lot of people because most EVA fans, deep down, would have killed to be in Shinji's position: babes, piloting a huge mech? A Rambo attitude would have done wonders for Tokyo-3.
The Squirrel represents Shinji Ikari.
The man represents...I dunno, Boss Tweed and Prohibition.
But enjoy the colors, and take it easy this Sunday. PHN's gonna wrap this up for now. Excelsior!
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YOUTUBE TUESDAYS: Nadia and Copyright Infringment
13 October 2009
You win this round, faceless conglomerate...
Sorry about the late update today. I was actually ready for an EARLY update, until I kept getting slapped with AUDIO DISABLED notices because of the music. I wanted to open today's post with, "Hey guys, today, instead of a hokey 80's song, I'm going with something more contemporary!" Yeah, big fucking mistake. Despite the fact that the perky, pop nature of the song fits perfectly with the flippant nature of the imagery, if I could just not deal with the stupid Music Industry Nazi Menace, I'd prefer it. So, rather than kowtow to the "I can't seem to figure out why music sales are in the tank when we treat our consumer base like crap" RIAA, I was doing research and trying to get around the audio detection. I tried everything from varying the bitrate to resampling the music (to try to get around any byte calculators or whatever they may be using). My guess is that they're using an actual listening program, that unless I can figure out the frequency to get around it, I'm going to have to just fight copyright with fair use. Sorry for the long rant about this, when we should be talking about......you know, fish and water and stuff. But que sara...that's the hand we've been dealt with, isn't it? Just remember that next time, you see that "Warner Music Group" logo on the back of the CD you're thinking about buying, that they're not friends to PHN. This is Peter "Top of Nixon's 'Enemies List' " Nguyen, signing off!
Sundét, A Tale Told in Painting
11 October 2009
The perfect summer picture for October!
Ahoy hoy, fandemaniacs! PHN here with the Sund-update. It's Nadia, rockin' a small section of the Seven Seas. For such a small percentage of surface area, the water surface probably got the most attention. But it was worth it to have it come out that nice. Doing stuff like girls, bodies, and even fish isn't all that different from what I usually do. So the water, which is a relatively uncommon element in my work, needed some extra TLC, because it's a special guest star, and also because it's such a rarity that I do water, I didn't want to mess it up.
Even the simplest things are prone to error if you're not careful.
So take a good look, and have a good time. One of my favorite parts of the piece is the stunning (read: garish) blue reflected light coming off of the water. But that's my style as a designer: loud, garish, and obtrusive. So if you want it large and in charge, you go to PHN. If you want it subtle and sweet, you can go to me too, I don't discriminate.
Fanart Friday: Nadia and Fish
09 October 2009
Nadia: A Real American Hero.
TGIF, it's Fanart Friday! Today, it's Nadia, doing what everyone does in October: go screw around with fish in their natural habitat! When I was a young kid, and my mom would take me to the asian supermarket, I'd take the opportunity to go over to the seafood section, take the clamps and beat on the still living crabs with them. That has absolutely no relevance to this picture, but I just feel that everyone who follows my work should know: I've been a renegade ever since I was a bastard child. And we're still rockin' the rebel ways with The SITE!
That's your policy, NOT MINE!
So anyway, back to the picture at hand. Trying something new with the camera, by half submerging it underwater. It's not really effective with just solid black and white lineart, but when it gets colored, I have the full powers of Adobe behind me, so I'm confident that the vision will shine through. No background in the sky, not because I'm lazy or anything, but I always feel that painted, puffy, happy clouds always comes out better then solid black outline clouds. Or maybe I'm just not doing it right, who knows. Drawing is hard.
It's "dignity!"
When it came to doing Nadia, the original idea was to have her splashing out oft he water. However, I felt that it was too similar to the EVA from last Friday's piece. So, after watching "The Fall," I was inspired to try an effect with the camera lens coming up through the water. I think it came out pretty good in the lineart, but you're going to have to bring it back next time to see the digitals on the colors. This is "The Blue Baller," PHN, signing off!
