rhythmia

So today was the last day of business at the store I manage. So tired. But I still had an art attack after re-reading waxrose's part 42 in arashiroadtrip.

Title: Puddlejumping
Fandom: Arashi
Rating: Holding hands under umbrellas
Media: Ink wash, color pencils, markers, micron pens

follow the fake-cut!

Nino rolls his eyes. "That's why I brought this," he answers, handing over a smaller, rainbow-striped umbrella. "Not that I wouldn't love to save you from the big, scary rainclouds, but Satoshi and I are going puddle-jumping, so I think you can find your own way back to the house."

I live! I've got my OP fanart groove back! It got eaten by a period when the OP comms I hang out in and the journals I followed were relatively quiet, and then I was tired from work, and then my brain got eaten by Arashi (though not the rest of Jpop fandom quite yet, hopefully).

But now that the camera/photo developing retail business is in a bit of a slowdown because everyone's on vacation (it should get more busy in September, according to my boss) and the new!shiny!ghei!fandom grasp Arashi has on me has cooled off a little, my inspiration has returned! *dances, but with more flail and less frills and sparkles than Jpop boys*

I think I need somebody to flail with about Arashi, that might calm me down since until this point I've been mainlining youtube videos and capspam posts. The trouble is, like One Piece, there's just SO MUCH CANON possible to go through and enjoy. OP sucked me in for about four months before the flush of new fandom wore off, just because it took me that long to catch up on canon and what fandom had produced. When did OP come out? 1997? 1999? Arashi debuted in 1999 and besides their concerts they also do weekly shows filled with dorkery and nakamashippy goodness.

Now the point! Recordkeeping. Posted art to the anniversary contest in zosopp here and crossposted to onepieceyaoi here. Don't need to click on both since it's the same art unless you're interested in reading the comments (hopefully there will be comments! ^^;;)

It was fun drawing this. Got struck with inspiration and sketched it out in half an hour in bed. Inked it (I love my micron pens so much), then took my Crayola color pencils with me and spent about an hour and a half on and off coloring it in while waiting for the bus and also while on the bus. I'm much more satisfied with the color saturation this time compared with the nakama nap pile one.

Recordkeeping! Posted in onepieceyaoi

Title: Welcome Home parts 1 and 2
Rating: Part 1 is G, Part 2 is probably PG-13ish
Pairing: Everybody/Usopp. No, really.
Medium: Part 1 in mechanical pencil, rollerball pen and Faber-Castell pen for some outlining. Part 2 entirely in mechanical pencil.

Note: So, here's the long chain of stuff. The lovely sasori_katana wrote a SmoAce story she considered an unusual pairing for her, I commented about writing crack pairings, she ended up opening up prompts for crack pairing drabbles here, I posted a pile of ridiculous prompts, and then she decided to write them all for me, as insane as they were. For which I love her, so much.

The point? She wrote Welcome Home and it was awesome, and for me and so full of EEEEEE (well, I was full of EEEEE), and go here to look at the art if you're interested.

Recordkeeping for capslock_op. Ace comes by to take everyone out dancing at the island they're stopped at.

Voila. Part 1/?

I was doodling around in my sketchbook the other day with stick figures, and ended up with a cute little puppy pile nap configuration. So I decided to draw it out in my big sketchbook and color it in. I'm not entirely satisfied, since shading and shadows were a pain to figure out, but I like the soft feel of the color pencils for this scene. Though my need for some sharp edges meant I went over outlines in mechanical pencil anyways. :P

Title: Afternoon Nap
Rating: G
Medium: Mechanical pencil and Crayola color pencils
Pairings: Depends on how you choose to look at it: Nami/Vivi, Luffy/Usopp, Luffy/Zoro, Zoro/Chopper, Sanji/Zoro, nakamaship, OT7...

Warning to folks like me who have dial-up, the image is kinda big. Um, ish.

( Luffy stuffed himself at lunch and plopped himself on the foredeck with Zoro, then Chopper joined in and it snowballed from there... )

Concrit, if you feel like giving it, is appreciated. ^_^

Cross-posted to onepieceyaoi and craftycrackers

More crazy fanart, for gender-bender wednesday at capslock_op.
One ship-to-ship boarding maneuver (that is failing miserably because all the female members of the crew have synced up their cycles and the attackers just chose the worst week) and one pic of the aftermath/recovery.

Voila.

Right. I don't know either. Joined a comm called capslock_op and decided to participate. This is just a record-keeping post for myself. Gender-switch of the Strawhats, namely Nami(Namiji), Luffy(Rufia), Chopper(Choppako), Usopp(Usana), Zoro(Lola), Sanji(Sanja), and Robin.

Links to where I posted it:
Line art here.

Colored version here.