Sketch Diary: Wide-eyed girl in profile

Sketched this during a Yuri on Ice panel at Zenkaikon 2018. Some good programming this year.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Chillin' at Zenkaikon portrait of a girl

I sketched this while hanging out at the voice actors panel at Zenkaikon 2018. It was good times. Lots of good chats with other artists and other convention directors.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inktober Day 8 - The staff

Sketched at Zenkaikon 2016, inked this week for Inktober. I'm slowly catching back up!

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inktober Day 5 - Lady with tech wings

Tech wings? Yeah I dunno what to call them. Beep bop beep boop wings. The sketch for this is almost 2 years old - yeesh. I remember sketching this in the halls at Zenkaikon 2015. Excited to get to go back this year!

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Wary priest

A quick sketch from lounging around at Zenkaikon. I like his/her pointy little chin.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Portrait during the Josei panel

Thank you, Joel, for encouraging me to go to the Josei panel at Zenkaikon 2016 instead of whatever the other option was at the time. I remember being like 'Idk if I'll be into the Josei panel... they'll probably just talk about dreamy unrealistic men and unrealistic expectations in relationships etc.'. So glad I was wrong. Was a pretty good panel (gotta a little sleepy towards the end but it was early in the day) and learned about a bunch of really interesting sounding manga and anime. Like the one where the main character is a secretary type woman by day and a call girl by night but the lovers she brings home are then fed by her to her pet alligator... YES PLEASE. Of course not all josei style stories are like that and that's the point. Some are milder, more slice of life style and others are more fantastical. The point is simply that Josei offers something for the mature female oriented audience.

Explain - you've got shojo for young girls, shonen for young boys, seinen for young men (think 15-24), and of course josei for adult women. Evidently there's also kodomomuke for kiddies that's supposedly fairly gender neutral. Check out this kotaku article for some more info.

If you're looking for something to check out, one of my current favorite josei type things at the moment is Princess Jellyfish.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Zenkaikon 2015

So last year I bought a cute little hard back sketch book and took it with me to Zenkaikon 2015, an anime/game/all the things convention in Lancaster, PA. Scrawled this little ditty while waiting for one of the panels. That's me up top, Joel on the right, and Kyle hanging down below. The three of us did the Con again this year, 2016, and it was fabulous. Really, they did a great job. I've got grandiose  plans of doing my own panel next year and having a table at the artist alley... we'll see. I've always wanted to do these things, give something back to a community that has given me support, camaraderie, and inspiration over the years. Either way, I'll be back again next year for sure. Lancaster is such a cute town to have it in, too. Reasonably priced, close to home, win win.

with love - M