Art Forest's Art

[Forest]

Hey there

(Way to sound cliched, huh?)

I'm quite new here...well, actually, that's debatable as apparantly I've had an account on Otaku for a while...and forgotten about it. *facepalm* Urgh. I'm an idiot, seriously. So yesh, I posted some of my art over at the fan art section here the other day and having seen this board, thought I'd post a few here too.

I've been drawing fan art for about 5 years now and it's weird...not fan art, fan art is funnn but since drawing fan art it's getting progressively more difficult for me to draw my own characters. Not sure why. Anyone else found this. Maybe it's pure laziness...I don't know...but one things for sure...whenever I feel like I'd like to create some sort of original character...it never usually seems to work. The onyl exception to this is Ezra, whose pic I'll post below. Technically fan characters I guess could be classed as original...but to me they don't seem *quite* original as they're still based in an existing fandom.

I'll shut up now.

If anyone is interested in what medium I use...it tends to be fineliner, pencil crayon and prisma markers. Got said markers a few months back and I'm still in the Learning-How-To-Use-Them-Properly stage lol.

Okay, so here's a few pics and thanks very much in advance for any feedback. ^^

[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/forest_fruits1/hatsuharu.jpg]Hatsuharu Sohma[/URL]

[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/forest_fruits1/makusakucolour.jpg]Makubex/Sakura[/URL]

[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/forest_fruits1/ezra.jpg]Ezra[/URL] (Bit of info on this guy. He's an ordinary 14 year old schoolkid until Hakan, a boy several grades above him, shows up and delivers the somewhat disturbing news that Ezra is one of the four elemantal dragons and that his true country is in preparation for war and without him, their cause will fail. The element Ezra covers is Earth, and Hakan, Fire and around puberty the dormant dragon spirit begins to wake. The actual age is different for each element and with Ezra, it is 14. )

[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/forest_fruits1/ayamestrawberries2.jpg]Ayame Sohma[/URL]

[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/forest_fruits1/ayamepic.jpg]Ayame Megami[/URL]

[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/forest_fruits1/Copyofhowlsophiecolour2.jpg]Howl/Sophie[/URL] (I do occasionally use computer colouring too...but verrry rarely. This was an doodle turned experiment into what Sophie would look like wth wings).

Thanks again!

~Forest x