Man... I'm sorry, guys. I'm really busy right now and when I do get time to draw, I end up working on my five original characters and I'd rather not post my concept art due to people on the internet who like to steal artwork. Most people who check here are people who know me; and I'd rather only have those people see my original designs. I'll post any fanart that I end up doing whenever I get a chance... I hope my website can still be successful in its new life of fanwork. Don't forget to check every so often because I'm going to try to post more often. :)

Yuuup... title says it all XD... I was going to make something special for my birthday but I forgot... XDXD
Well, I got everything I wanted for my birthday, including a 3DS XL (yay!). Does anyone know when Flipnote 3D comes out? I thought it came out on the 31st but when I checked the store it wasn't there. :(

Once again, I want to apologize for not posting art as much as I used to. I'm starting to take more time on my projects, including Shizuka, Katsu, and Akiko. No, I haven't given up on them. Actually, they were just the teaser characters and there are 2 more main characters done/in the workshop. All of them have undergone major changes in appearance including more realistic hair and more detailed faces. So the concept art has drastically changed (besides Akiko, who has really not been changed too much besides adding more personality). Don't worry, I have plenty of works in progress going right now. The wait shouldn't be long for something new! :)

Hi guys! You may have noticed the new layout. I was looking for more room for more pages, so I made some of my less active ones into subpages. Be sure to check out the new pages I made! :) (and please join the member page.)

Anyway, it's two days from my birthday! And I think I'm getting new artist's pens (including an extra small :D), but I don't know if I can actually wait for two days (my pen situation is becoming an impending disaster-- my medium only lets ink flow when I use it one way and my small is skipping really often)... XD I'm also hoping to get the rest of Shugo Chara! and possibly Shugo Chara Chan!. That's pretty much it besides maybe a few surprise shojo mangas. What do you guys want for your birthdays?

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! ;)

This is the dithered version of my manga (see previous post). Has anyone else had trouble saving a bitmap-mode image as a JPEG? I eventually got it saved as a PNG to upload it, but...
This is the first piece I've ever tried this on. Hope you like! ;)

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!

Flipnote Hatena recently published an announcement that said that on May 31, 2013, Hatena will close. Forever. After everyone worked hard to build a wonderful community for 5 years, I guess Nintendo somehow decided it was for the better...
Because the DSi's Flipnote Studio is being replaced by the 3DS' Flipnote 3D. (I understand this is exciting for you, though, Krysten. I still think Flipnote 3D would be a cool addition to what we have now.)

What do you think? Is it really fair to destroy some people's only way of showing off their work? A lot of people say that Hatena is where they got inspired to do artwork. And even more of them say that they can't afford the 3DS or their parents won't let them have one. PLUS, on top of all this, the new Hatena for Flipnote 3D has a monthly fee to post your animations. Unless you're a popular creator (like Fleesveon or Epic). How the heck is that supposed to work?!

PLUS, it's impossible to transfer your account and Flipnotes to your new Hatena (well, I can transfer my Flipnotes because of my SD card). And my guess is you're gonna have to go through the registration process ALL OVER AGAIN (and it's not just a 'Name, Username, Password, Repeat Password, Email:' You have to do all of that and then have Hatena send you a permission form for you to print out, have your parents sign, and then email back. I tried doing this for a month and I finally got an account. Anyway, my beef isn't with the signup system.)!

Please give me feedback. Is this REALLY right?