...to wish you all a happy new year! I wish you to be healthy first and foremost, because if you don't have that, you have nothing. I wish you to be successful in all your projects and endeavors, both art-wise and professionnal! All of my artist friends out there, I wish you to be productive and improve a ton! I hope I will! Don't be afraid, make your dreams happen, stand up for what you believe, enjoy the present, help and share with the people around you, and show tolerance and respect. Happy new year!!!

-Lukaël

P.S.: Don't forget I have a kiriban at the 50 000 mark! Good luck!

::UPDATE::
And it's done!! Conrats to ~Disolia !! Thanks everyone for participating!! Considering how many people seem to have tried to caught it, I might just open a free sketch journal soon, whenever I need a warmup I could pick a few names in there and draw a quick thingie, why not!

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Only about 50 pageviews left!! Who's gonna get it?
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Why is it even called a kiriban? What the hell is a kiriban?? I never quite got that...

Anyway, yeah! After 5 years, I'm nearing the 50 000 page views mark. I really doubt anyone will bother, LOL but shall anyone catch a screenshot of my 50 000 and send it to me in a note, I'll draw them a sketch of anything they want. I'd offer a more complete picture but I'm really busy these days so I unfortunately don't have the time for any more. For now, at least.

Good luck!

You know it! I LOOOOVE Christmas, it's too bad I see so many people hating it. I just love the ambience, the music, the feeling!

I wish you all a merry christmas, and happy holidays

I'm having a great one myself together with my girlfriend for the first time!

And I got Carl Sagan's Cosmos as a present!! AWWWW YEA

[link]

This can't be real, right? It has to be some kind of hoax or mistake. If not, spread the word my american friends, your country is in deep DEEP trouble.

You basically have no rights anymore. This grants the military the power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even kill U.S. Citizens.

Yeah after seeing *veroro doing it I figured I might try recording myself while I work on some pictures. It's really fun to watch once I'm done! Watching 2h30 compressed in 4 minutes almost makes it look easy, ahah!

So yeah, I'll probably record some more in the future, but when I do, I won't always make a journal about it, the youtube link will simply be in the video's description. So look out for those if you're interested.

You can watch me working on my FFVI fanart here: [link]

Any feedback is welcome!

Sup guys!

No big updates, still trying to sketch off the art block and trying to work on some old unfinished pictures.

Mainly just wanted to remind you all that you can see my sketches and doodles on my tumblr: [link] , since I wasn't really active or posting anything on there until now. They can also be found on my twitter: [link] I'm trying to be more active in general on my social networking sites eheh. If you have either, feel free to add me.

That's it for now, I hope to have finished pictures to submit on here soon!

Take care, y'all!

Hahaha I remember posting that a few years ago, I'd be interested in seeing what new would be said. I'd appreciate it if you took a minute to fill it Thanks guys!

PROS
01. I like when you draw: ___.
02. I wish you drew more: ___.
03. I wish you drew more fanart of: ___.
04. I wish you drew more original art of: ___.
05. I wish you drew a comic of/about: ___.
06. I wish you made a tutorial about: ___.
07. My favorite part of your work is: ___.

CONS
08. I dislike when you draw: ___.
09. I wish you drew less: ___.
10. My least favorite part of your work is: ___.

OTHER
11. If I had to describe your work I'd say: ___.
12. If I had a question to ask about your work it'd be: ___?
13. The main strength & weakness of your work is: ___ & ___
14. Anything else?

Sup whoever reads this. Yeaaaah, as you might have noticed, I haven't been here in a while. I was drawing quite a lot before June, but then my girlfriend moved in with me, then I moved into another appartment with her, and I've been working a lot and been very busy since then, I haven't had time or motivation to work on a single picture! I'm hoping things will get less busy soon, I really need some vacations..... Plus my photoshop's been acting out, and my computer has, too....

More characters are getting revealed for SC5, so that's a nice income of inspiration, you'll get to see some fanarts of that for sure! But I also really want to finish my Final Fantasy set I was doing too... And I also want to come back to drawing my characters! Hopefully this will happen soon.

Thanks to whoever takes the time to read this, I hope I can show some new stuff soon!
Take care!

Yeah, this just got announced apparently. More info here: [link]

Set 17 years after the events of SCIV? Man, that's a big jump forward to do for a fighting game. Most characters will be well in their 40s. Ivy' breast better be down to her knees.

It's a pretty bold move, but to be honest, Soul Calibur really needs to reinvent itself at this point. The fighting genre has really leaped forward in the last few years with the Tekkens, Street Fighters, Blazblue, the new Mortal Kombat. The bar is higher now than it's ever been before, so I hope they can deliver, because SC3 and SC4 really didn't do that much for me, gameplay. I've always loved the character designs in SC more than the actual games or gameplay. Especially since the story is never really told that well in SC games... It got worse the more it went. Developpers need to look at MK9's story mode and take notes. Lots of notes.

It'll be really interesting to see what they do with the current roster of characters. One thing that's cool with Soul Calibur is that the designs and costumes really change a lot from game to game, especially compared to like... Tekken and the likes. But with a 17 years leap ahead? Damn. Who will stay, who will get cut? Who will replace them? Can't wait for Amy and Tira's new designs!

What are your thoughts? I'm sure I've got a few SC fans among you watchers!

*EDIT*
Look at this awesome rendition of Bina that I got from `Hellobaby


Awww hell yeah! I just finished illustrating my second children book, which means that after 2 months, I am finally free to draw for myself again! So you can expect a lot of new art soon! I have a bunch of art trades and collabs to take care of with the likes of , as well as many many ideas for pictures of my own. I wanna do big tribute pictures of things like Blazblue, Final Fantasy, Repo!, etc. as well as draw new and complete character profiles for all of my OCs. Let's get this party started!

Btw, still no word about Udon's Megaman Tribute book, so I still have no idea if I was picked or not. They're a month late in their announcement, which kinda suck, but they're waiting for approval by Capcom, who, considering Japan's recent situation, probably have their hands full with other stuff. It's okay, doesn't matter. I'm in no hurry, I'm still holding hope to be in it though.

Finally, check out some of these great commissions I got in the last 2 months! Pretty daaaaaaamn sweet stuff!

:thumb199806115: by my good friend Julia

by the insanely talented Hellobaby!

Hey there!!
Whoever reads this lol I have a friend you may know, , who's having a bit of a financial problem, so she's opening commissions! If you have some money to spare and want an awesome picture at a cheap price, go ahead and contact her!! Believe me, it's worth it, she's real talented!

All the informations can be found in this journal: [link]

I'mma go ahead and get one or two myself! I'd appreciate it if you did too!

In other news, I still have no news from Udon, but they said no winner had been contacted yet, so I'm still holding hope!

It's been a while already since I've finished and submitted my piece for Udon's Megaman Tribute Book ([link], but I haven't really shown any WIPS on here...

Well, the wait is killing me so here's a sneak peek for you guys!! Spent many dozen hours on this entry.



Only a few days left until March... The winners are supposed to be notified by the end of february, so if I don't get any confirmation within the next few days, it'll sadly mean I'm free to upload it here lol Of course I'd much rather be picked but well.... can only keep my fingers crossed....

In other news, there won't be any new picture on here until April... I'm working full time on illustrating a children's book, so..... but I can't wait to get back to my own pictures!! Got a ton of ideas, so I'll be back with a lot of submissions!

Offered myself some Christmas presents and bought 2 commissions from artists here on dA.

A chibi of my OC Bina by

So ffffffffreakin cute. c:

And a lineart of my OCs Netza and Chumah by


Which I just finished coloring!


So yeah Really happy with those!

In other news, I'm working on an entry for Udon's Megaman Tribute book. I don't know if I really have any chance but, who knows! It's worth a try at least. Other than that, I'll be working on illustrating a second children book in the next few months, so I might not be drawing much else for a while. But I'll certainly try in between.

Some of you might have seen recent videos depicting extreme cases of animal cruelty involving crushing, torture and killing. These have pretty much always been around. Sadly, some countries like Egypt and China don't really have laws regarding animal cruelty, and thus such videos can be made and sold without consequences.

Well I wrote to the WSPA (World Society for Protection of Animals) to know what someone like me could do to help about those. I was linked to this onlijne petition that the WSPA has created to present a Declaration to the United Nations that would establish worldwide rights for animals (hopefully at least)

Sure it might be wishful thinking, sure it won't necessarily solve much, but it's the very least thing we can do, don't you think? What if it actually helped stopping such horrors from being done?

So if you care, please sign the petition and spread the word as much as you can. It only takes a minute to do so and what little difference it makes matters.

>>> [link] <<<


Also, if you do see other animal cruelty videos, PLEASE don't spread them on social networking websites like facebook. No need to give those people any more of the spotlight. The only place fit for them is jail. At the very least.