orange~

I've been watching some old X-Japan videos few days now and these guys were really cool back then. It reminded me of why I was such a big fan of them! Toshi was a beast on the vocals, Pata and Taiji were super smooth glam rockers, even Yoshiki was fairly cool there and hide brought his crazy energy to the band. These guys were throwing TV's out of hotel rooms, kicking people during lives and there are slut stories about hide and co floating around the web.
 
Then fastforward, I check some recent live material........... Yoshiki introduces every song, Yoshiki does some overdramatic shit, Yoshiki and (now ballss-less) Toshi have some random heart warming conversation on the stage. What happened? When did this band become Yoshiki & co.? He was never this prominent back in the day! And what happened to Toshi?

oh right. the fucking church era Toshi. Poor guy really.
 
Compare Uglymouth's video to this, here they  recreate the atmospehere of their early days in a small venue:
 
lol, love the part where Toshi comes up with his own counter to Yoshikitty. Toshinguin. (not official name), because trying to create an image/brand yourself as a penguin with sunglasses is a cool idea.

Toshi went to church camp for a while and was never the same
 
(or whatever that cult/brainwashing stint was about)
 
EDIT: holy shit remember toshi's band w/ the like 13yo kid in it lmao

@orange~ completely agree
its pathetic to look at a new live recording followed by something like this
 
 
 
it's understandable why and how they became so famous, it's just sad what they've turned into

I've been watching some old X-Japan videos few days now and these guys were really cool back then. It reminded me of why I was such a big fan of them! Toshi was a beast on the vocals, Pata and Taiji were super smooth glam rockers, even Yoshiki was fairly cool there and hide brought his crazy energy to the band. These guys were throwing TV's out of hotel rooms, kicking people during lives and there are slut stories about hide and co floating around the web.
 
Then fastforward, I check some recent live material........... Yoshiki introduces every song, Yoshiki does some overdramatic shit, Yoshiki and (now ballss-less) Toshi have some random heart warming conversation on the stage. What happened? When did this band become Yoshiki & co.? He was never this prominent back in the day! And what happened to Toshi?

I've been watching some old X-Japan videos few days now and these guys were really cool back then. It reminded me of why I was such a big fan of them! Toshi was a beast on the vocals, Pata and Taiji were super smooth glam rockers, even Yoshiki was fairly cool there and hide brought his crazy energy to the band. These guys were throwing TV's out of hotel rooms, kicking people during lives and there are slut stories about hide and co floating around the web.
 
Then fastforward, I check some recent live material........... Yoshiki introduces every song, Yoshiki does some overdramatic shit, Yoshiki and (now ballss-less) Toshi have some random heart warming conversation on the stage. What happened? When did this band become Yoshiki & co.? He was never this prominent back in the day! And what happened to Toshi?

Crappy webcam quality but oh welllll
 
 
 

Hi!
 
I suppose you gotta promote yourself everywhere if you want something good to happen and get to places and finally have enough money to buy some music from your favourite artists like Avelcain or Mejibray.
 
so anyways I do digital paintings. here are few I try posting more later.
feedback is always welcome! negative/positive whatever! ^^
 
you can see the same stuff mostly on my tumblr: http://slsds.tumblr.com/
 

 

 

 

 

Actually what I meant is you should try to express a certain object using less strokes. I used to paint with oil paints, watercolor and acrillic, so I worked on that a lot (thanks to my art teacher), and now I try to be as minimalistic as possible also with my pen drawings (with moderate success). 
 
And yes, it looks better now.

By the way, if you're having trouble to maintain the proportions, I think it's a good idea to sketch the whole character first, and then crop according to your composition, in case you're doing a digital painting. I should try that myself

Thanks for the feedback!
@PsychoΔelica, why happy paintings...? : / Well obviously they're not, but saying they're paintings of suicidal and depressed tendencies makes it sound too gloomy imo. I tried making more happy things with this style, but they didn't end up looking right. I guess the topic title is a little distracting.
 
But yea, thank you million times for the constructive stuff! I've heard it before as well - that these works look a little sloppy and unfinished. And I agree. The thing is... I often get bored of drawing these before polishing and just decide to throw them to tumblr anyway. I need to learn some patience for sure. I've been continuing some of these afterwards and tried to give them an extra layers of polish, but still some choppiness remains... I'll probably try to find sweetspot from somewhere between what I have now and more detailed lines. Proportions and anatomy is an area I need more practice too for sure.
 
Here's an example of continued work:

(You can see the earlier version few posts above. Personally I like this new one a whole lot more ^^)

@orange~ thank you! i used to have so much trouble working with colors, but now i find them easier to work with as i experiment mixing different colors. ^^
 
here's some gantz fanart i drew while being hyped about the movie. (and hoping to draw more later)

 

 
guro warning:
 
and something original

First I just have to ask: why do you call your paintings happy? If you ask me they have a rather gloomy and sinister feel to them. I'm not very fond of your painting style - it looks a little sloppy in my opinion, I believe that if you had certain areas in your paintings with more accurate and less choppy lines that would declatter the composition, and work better for your composition. Like in this piece for example - 
On the flip side, you have a distinctive style, which makes you recognizable right away - I particularly like the facial feastures of your characters.
I also like that your paintings are never dull, and you have some sort of movement or action going on in every one of them, judging by what you've posted so far. In that sense I really like that first picture.  I want to say that, if your aim is to draw more-less realistically, you should work more on the proportions and anatomy. But I'm sure you can do it. So keep it up! Looking forward to see your progress. 

I'm glad you can only sense *some* of her influence, because at times I felt like I was following her work too closely.
 
anyways here are few more ^^:
 

 

 

 

 
 

nice pale colors in the first one~!
the preview of the battle system looks interesting so far. it's really cool that you're thinking about working more seriously with your video game project. it'd be great to see more in the future. keep it up! ^^

Woah these are awesome! Thank you for sharing. I really enjoy your style it is quite unique.

I trying to get back to painting. Summer has been too busy.
 
Most of these painting are for a certain video game project I hope to start seriously this fall.

The screenshot is from an older build.  The new engine got a bigger resolution, So I'll be redoing most of the graphics..

Hi!
 
I suppose you gotta promote yourself everywhere if you want something good to happen and get to places and finally have enough money to buy some music from your favourite artists like Avelcain or Mejibray.
 
so anyways I do digital paintings. here are few I try posting more later.
feedback is always welcome! negative/positive whatever! ^^
 
you can see the same stuff mostly on my tumblr: http://slsds.tumblr.com/
 

 

 

 

 

@itsukoii's post, haha those pictures are golden! Rest of the band are pretty casual, but hiro got something showd up his ass in all of those pics.

Can anyone tell where I can find pics of them before becoming VK?

if anyone was curious, here's hiro's old band:

 
^ and that's hiro.

omg I just love that shinobu! colors are so pretty! **
 
I'm kinda jealous of your color usage in general haha

stuff from a month ago
 

shinobu from bakemonogatari/monogatari series
 

sometimes i don't know what i'm drawing but that's okay
 

a drawing of some photo i took

Jej !! Can't wait for this !
 
Seems like they're taking a step towards bigger game with the high budget bucket head look/MV and the awesome album cover art.

they have changed their band name to "プロキシオン(Proxyon)"
 
 

I felt like like messing with styles a bit.... I'd like to use this style more, but I'd like to draw a full body. I used to draw the entire person, but I've just been doing torso up drawings lately.