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Rinako to the rescue!

Rinako to the rescue!

Rinako, in two neat outfits. Her school uniform is the upper one, I think, or maybe that’s her ‘hanging around town’ outfit. In Japan, her school outfit would probably not be a monochrome suit like the guys of Yu Yu Hakusho, it would more likely be a kawaii seifuku. Bottom is her ‘save the world’ martial arts outfit. I tried to make her look like she’s dashing off, but it didn’t turn out quite the way I wanted it it. My hands are also too small. I have since learned (and tried to do, with limited success) that hands cover the same area as the face.

Oh, yeah. Also Rinako has light brown hair and light blue eyes.

Heroes All (almost) II

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Another large gathering of cool characters

Another large gathering of cool characters

Another version of Heroes All! With Lyn, too, because she’s so cool. The strange people here are (L-R) Mengil, who was an evil Warhammer Dark Elf who was rather handsome in the White Dwarf article about him. So now he’s a good guy because I say so. Then there’s Legolas, then Kusko, the skinny dude, and Kurama sitting on the ground, explaining botany to Jim from Treasure Planet and his rocket-powered skateboard, and then Sain is sitting on a stump, chatting with the two Hylians: Raven and Link III, and Sain’s taken off his hip-plates. And Lyn is posing because she’s good with a sword.

Kusko and Lakia

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OH, YEAH

OH, YEAH

This picture is of Emperor Kusko of The Emperor’s New Groove. Also an original character named Lakia. Curvy, cute, full of corny jokes just like everyone else in the movie, and Kronk’s cousin. Kronk’s adorable, isn’t he? Anyhow, I’ve never seen Kronk’s New Groove so I don’t know if I’ve been too presumtuous or not. I also invented Lakia before KNG came out. She doesn’t look so good in this picture.

Rinako and Kurama

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Lots of hair there

Lots of hair there

Yoko Kurama and… uh… girlfriend, Rinako. Sorry. I didn’t know about Maya when I made Rinako up. Maya is a girl from the manga Two Shots, about how Kurama and Hiei met, and she had a crush on Kurama but he was forced to delete her memory to keep her from remembering the danger she fell into when an evil demon kidnapped her. So she forgot about him, too.

So Rinako is half Japanese, one quarter Canadian, and one quarter water demon. (What? Even Yuusuke, the hero-nerd, has mysterious demon blood that suddenly manifests itself, I’m told, in season 3 or so) She comes over to finish high-school in Japan, meets the gang, helps Kurama escape from something, learns martial arts and how to use her innate powers, which for some reason includes ‘light’ as well as ‘water’, blah blah blah, and also she plays violin.

Rinako and Kurama random sketches

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Various poses... foxes... roses... light blasts...

Various poses… foxes… roses… light blasts…

See, one day when I was flipping through my friend Bobby’s Nintendo Power, I found a poster advertising a pixelly Gameboy Colour game that had a cool-looking red-head with a thorny vine in it. I forgot what it was called, but I never forgot the red-head. So, one day recent to this picture when I saw a different reference to the red-head, I was interested. His name is Kurama, and his franchise is Yu Yu Hakusho. I developed an ‘original character’ to take the brunt of the flash crush I suddenly got, and her name turned out to be (after some switching back and forth and tweaking) Rinako. I didn’t understand much about YYH, so that fox is supposed to be Kurama’s ‘demon’ form. Rinako wields some kind of light magic, although she never knew about it until she met the guys in YYH.

Ordinary Hero

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Link looks pretty good with his hat off

Link looks pretty good with his hat off

It’s Link! That other guy is Sain, because I was going to use it to draw a gmax (3D program) model of Sain and use him to make an animated version of a Dire Straits song. He’s playing drums now. Most everybody else is still the same, but I think Eliwood took over bass guitar and Kent went over to the extra keyboards. Then to relax myself I did a cute little scribble of Link giving the victory sign.

Sketch for Watercolour of Mom

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Lots of grass... so much grass to paint...

Lots of grass… so much grass to paint…

At the Filburg Festival (Comox Valley thing in August) I took a picture of my Mom, because she was pretty. She’s wearing a pink dress with little flowers and a straw hat. I remember my friend Jessie was with me. I wanted to turn it into a watercolour for a birthday present for her, and I did a few practice paintings, but I never got the shadows dark enough. I should finish that this summer.

One Jump Ahead I

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I think I'll take a stroll around the block!

I think I’ll take a stroll around the block!

This wiiiieeeeerd picture is based on the One Jump Ahead song from Aladdin (by Disney). Link is singing the lead, Ganondorf is playing the guards, and those Gerudo in the back do a little dance during the musical-only bits. There are three pictures total. Link looks like a total dork here. The Gerudos have no hands.