Well, this took me forever (I finished it two weeks ago but forgot to post it)... Reward for anyone who can name every character in it! Hope you like it! I'm really tired so I don't feel like writing much =__=

Another new character or two on the way; I've been busy so I haven't gotten a chance to finish them. Fortunately, I'm very close to finishing Amaya (who some of you already know about). Anyway, see you later! Oh, and I'm thinking of adding a member page pretty soon. :)

Hello everyone! Things have been going pretty slow for me lately, but I finally finished something! My focus has mainly been on a tiring project that has taken me about 15 hours and 200 layers in Photoshop so far. To the left is Akiko, a rushed project that took me an hour last night and two hours this morning. For those of you who follow my Hatena, you can see that she is based off of my voted character Akiko who I may or may not transfer to 3DS because of this project that stemmed from it. (By the way, I can read your mind: "Her hair looks kind of like Pinkie Pie's!" But I didn't get my idea from Pinkie.)

Akiko is a sweet, naive girl who loves to have tea parties with her friends (her few friends are VERY protective of her, which was an obstacle Shizuka had to face when She is yet another member of that odd species (which I have yet to name) and quickly became a close friend to Shizuka and Katsu. Her special ability/skill is tripping over her giant dress. That's pretty much it. But she is the only light in a town of hate and sadness. Is it possible that she can save her homeland from destruction?

Anyway, it's possible that you might see a few more characters popping up over the next few hours/days. I'm really on a roll and I already have a few more pencil drawings I need to so I can possibly ink and complete them. Well, see you later! And don't forget to comment! ;)

It may not be much, but this page of manga took me close to 5 hours to complete. My original sketch/planning took me thirty minutes, plus an hour and a half or so of inking (which was kind of a scary process for something this important! XD). Then it took me a LOONG time to color. It is in the Japanese reading style (which pretty much means that you read from right to left: but you probably already knew that).

Characters:
Indigo (if you follow me on Hatena you know him), Flip (the bigger orange one, the name based off of Olivia's sister's cat toy) and Chip (the little yellow one: I just thought rhyming names would be cute). You probably won't see Flip and Chip much in my future manga-style comics; I've decided they're just kind of background characters.

Actually, my idea for this came forth when I was sorting through a bit of a disaster zone of paper. I came across a bunch of old comics Krysten and I made when we were really into Kirby (in like third grade). They brought back memories, so I read them all and got an idea when my characters from Wowza (don't ask about the name) got sucked into the world of Kirby's Epic Yarn and they couldn't understand Kirby until he put on magical translator boots (yes, probably ripped from Phineas and Ferb: I guess I couldn't come up with my own ideas very well back then...). I also discovered that my character Violet could turn into a kangaroo with a giant bottle of spray paint...? XD (A lot of my characters end up being named Violet for some reason...) Anyway, don't forget to give me feedback! :)

Second new character! Her name is Katsu (she may be renamed) and she has been in my character workshop for a few weeks now, but I finally decided to put her into action. She is a pirate of strong spirit and pantaloons (for those of you who know me: Yes, I know, she's my second character who wears pantaloons.). Katsu is a close friend of Shizuka, although their personalities are polar opposites. A shipwreck separated Katsu from the rest of her family, so for the last five years she has been trying to find them.

This picture is from the time I went to Hawaii. I don't really remember much about where or when this was, but I do remember that a follow-up photo to this one was me holding a coconut.

Soon I should have up on the wall of fame a few things that Lillian sent me in an email. It's called Trip to Trains. I hope you all like it!

This is my new character Shizuka (SHEE-zoo-kah). I don't want to reveal too much about her (in case some internet weirdo wants to steal her XD), but she's a former princess of the moon. When everyone found out that she wasn't really a purebred, they stripped her of her title and banished her from her own kingdom. She's quiet and calm, but if you blow her temper she'll attack you with the force of an army. Even she doesn't know what she is, but will she find her mysterious origins through her journey?

The background is a photo my family took when we were in Canada. (For those of you who know me, this was the day my dad insisted that it was "beautiful hiking weather" even though dark clouds were gathering and I could hear thunder. So we hiked for like twenty minutes until I convinced my mom to go back with me to catch the boat back to the hotel. Halfway down, we realized that my dad had the tickets to the boat. We made it down just in time for the boat's arrival and the rain's start. My dad was sprinting down the hill after us with the tickets. And it's a good thing, too, because the next boat was scheduled to come in two hours.) Yes, I tinted the picture a bit (have you ever seen clouds this color?) to match Shizuka's color scheme. Hope you like her!

I'm in a Shakespeare club where we choose one of his plays and perform it. This time, we're doing The Tempest (I'm Sebastian and the Shipmaster!). In one of the scenes, three goddesses appear: Juno, Ceres, and Iris. To do those characters, we have to make puppets. And so, with the help of a professional puppeteer, we are assembling these puppets! We worked on them yesterday, but I was the only person able to make it to the meeting. Fortunately, that meant I had one puppet job all to myself! It's not done yet, but here's the process: Make a base out of clay, then cover it with plastic. After that, cover the base in a layer of paper maché. Put on one more layer and remove the clay base after time for drying. Then you paint it and it's done! I will try to send a picture of the finished product. For now, here's my work in progress!

Hello! I finally got it finished! It's set 2! (Well, mostly just one valentine, but it took some good work to come up with!) I think, depending on its printout size, that I left good room for a Tootsie Roll or something on the back. Well, enjoy! Another coming soon! :)

I don't know about you guys, but I hate going out to buy Valentines. Plus, who wants to sit around making masterpiece valentines that nobody's going to remember? I sure don't! Ladies and gentlemen (but mostly ladies), this Hearts and Hooves day, I present.... My own line of valentines! For FREE! Here's my first set of them. Feel free to download and print them. I would recommend using cardstock (not the off-white kind) if you have access to it. If not, regular printer paper is alright, but a bit flimsy for a valentine. These valentines print to be the size of index cards, so I hope the text size will be okay. For those of you who don't want to give MLP:FiM valentines, another non-MLP set is coming very soon. I plan to release about 5 different sets over the course of the next few days. If I were you, I'd try to print these front-and-back rather than gluing them together. Each one below is next to its back. Enjoy! As for my orange girl, I'm having a minor case of artist's block and may post my yellow girl first. Anyway...