AO COPIC December Bonanaza Sketch 7: Shakugan no Shana

"No matter what selfish act you do, if I think you're wrong, I'll stop you. If you're in pain, I'll save you. If you're lost, I'll work with you. But being apart is the last thing I will allow."

... Two things.

One: In case anyone decides to call on it, yes I did draw Shana older. I honestly didn't realize it until I was halfway coloring it and my sister was all like "...isn't she supposed to be younger?" So I looked her up and lo and behold, she's technically supposed to be 13 at the OLDEST, least according to wikias. Even if not, at least early teens and I SO didn't draw a tween. So it's older!Shana. Maybe I'll try again another time with her PROPER age. *facepalm*

Two: I ended up spending WAY more time on this than I should have as a sketch. But honestly I haven't drawn Shana in like FOREVER and I got caught up in playing with all the warm/fire tones. Oh well.

I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that these "sketches" are getting more detailed as the days pass by...

AO COPIC December Bonanaza Sketch 6: BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER

"~~Every bit of courage inside me is lighting the fire...I won't run anymore!!~~"

I don't know what it is about B★RS that keeps drawing me back to her after so long...but whatever it is, I'm not complaining.

I still get excited whenever I hear something new on the horizon.

AO COPIC December Bonanaza Sketch 5: Wicked

"I don't cause commotions, I am one."

My most favorite musical ever! Love Elphaba to bits!

She was hard to figure out which class suited her. I already knew I wanted her to go the sage route vs. the wizard route, based on her character and personality, but all of the higher class outfits involved fur or some animal skin of sorts, which if she actually was real would smite me in a split second.

Sage felt the safest route to go which wouldn't get me killed. Besides, it gave me a reason to go back and draw the 2nd classes so it all works out!

Edit: BTW, I just found out recently from my sister that the color for 2013, according to pantone, was emerald. Fancy that.

AO COPIC December Bonanaza Sketch 4: Code Geass

"The two of us, together, can accomplish anything."

These two were my babies in college and my breakthrough in the shounen-ai / yaoi fandom and one of my ultimate favorite couples. Even now I still enjoy seeing them together on my computer screen~

Yeah, yeah I know they're not technically canon as far as series goes, but hey, you can't deny the fact that their chemistry together was just electrifying.

So yeah, seems my plan to try to draw once a day failed, mostly cause I have graveyard shifts at work. 4 days a week, for the past three months, I've worked round 2 in the morning and my routine usually involved going to work, going home and sleeping. Hopefully I can still try and stick to my plan even after the new year passes...hopefully.

So with that, Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!

PS. Happy belated birthday Lelouch! I was trying to time it where I could finish this by Dec. 5 but we can all see how well that turned out - 3-

AO COPIC December Bonanaza Sketch 3: Kyokai no Kanata

"Do I look... like a normal person... to you?"

I swear that ending of the latest episode... with the ending theme playing... my feels! All my feels! （   ｉ Дｉ）

Oh yeah if anyone asks why Akihito looks strange, besides the fact that he's in youma!mode, he's influenced by Champion Chen. You know... the doppleganger spawns and MVPs you find in Lighthalzen's Bio Lab? Yeah... it seemed appropriate.

AO COPIC December Bonanaza Sketch 2: Legend of Korra Book 2

"We are bonded forever."

Loved how Book 2 ended with epic feels and loved how Korra matured by the end of the book too.

Raava was fun to design for this.

I might consider doing a gijinka version of her in the future.

AO COPIC December Bonanaza Sketch 1: .hack//GU

"I...am right here."

So because I completely BOMBED my overly-ambitious project of 12 days of X-mas ==> 12 days of New Years last year, I'm going to try again!

Redemption!

This time I'm aiming for at the most 1 drawing a day for the WHOLE month! I missed out on the Inktober fiesta so this is to make up for it. At the least I'm going to aim for 31 drawings for this month. I already missed out yesterday cause I fell asleep before I posted it. -____-

I'll probably just stick to one or two figures though, maybe 3 depending on what I'm drawing. But I'm sticking to the same theme from last year, cause I love drawing characters in RO classes~