CantuArt

Well I've finally done it. After years of wanting to go I finally made it to Japan. I've been staying in Tokyo for just over two weeks now. I'll be here for a total of two months. It's been great so far. I found an apartment close to Akihabara. That place is dangerous. I could spend everything I got there. Oddly enough it wouldn't be on anime stuff. There's so many computer part stores. I'd be building and buying so many machines if I lived here. I already dumped quite a bit on Copics. I've been to a bunch of stores that sell them. Each one has every sketch marker available. Some have every marker type and ink available. Cheap too compared to

Since the time I started working on the Raven illustration I've been slowly getting back into drawing. After my last journal until now I hardly did any drawing. Most of what I did were just practice pieces to get to where I was. I had lost my passion and my drive. I had to force myself to think of something to draw when previously I would be overflowing with ideas. It made be angry and depressed to draw. The only bright side is that I took up a new hobby. I put more effort into painting minis and that in itself was a good experience. I'm mostly untrained when it comes to art. I lacked many fundamentals. Thanks to painting those minis I learn

For sometime now I've been meaning to post some of my older work. I'm talking about the stuff I made before I really developed my drawing and CG skills. There's not much difference I suppose. I think there's a bit more refinement in my current style. Plus some of the characters have undergone many changes over the years to reflect the changes that occured. The main thing I want to display is a comic that I started and never completed. A friend and I came up with it about four or five years ago. We agreed that he would handle the writing and I'd do the drawing. We haven't done much of either in quite some time. I still draw the characters to c