“Put me down this instant! Who do you think you are?”

(Source: heartful-cry)

I still consider this to be the ultimate Lunar fanart after all these years. I admire all the effort the artist put into including just about all the important characters.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You may have noticed the URL change! That’s because I’m going through with the idea to make this blog about the Four Dragons in general and not just Nall. I brought the Lunar I+II artbook to my dorm, so I might scan some stuff with Ruby and the rest of the dragons in the future. To kick off this new year (even though it’s probably not all that new anymore), I figured I’d do some fanart based on one of my really old pieces of art to show just how much I’ve improved.

Unfortunately it’s kind of late and I didn’t want to bother with the level of detail I give my more serious drawings these days, so what you get is the same composition, right down to the thing where I would always put the name of the character in the corner of my picture in those days, but with my current sketchy style.

I’d say that the above picture has come a long way from the picture below, even if I didn’t feel like giving my best effort this time around. I think the one below only took about half an hour anyway? I worked really fast in the old days.

Anyone remember the old Flying Cat Homepage oekaki? That was a fun place. I would have done the “remake” picture in oekaki format, too, but I’m afraid the oekaki I frequent these days has been down because the owner has had server problems.

I think I’ll start working out the rough pattern for my adult Nall plushie this weekend. I have a lot of leftover fleece from the Christmas present I made for my sister, so making a rough draft plushie shouldn’t be so bad. It’ll be black, but I won’t really care about color because the shape is what will really matter most. Color will come into play when I enlarge the pattern for the final product! I’m looking forward to getting started on it.

Merry Christmas, everyone! My personal collection grail has been acquired, as you can see. It was one of my presents after all. The seller included a really sweet note, too. I can assure him (her?) that this little guy will be in the best of hands. He’s sitting next to that 13” Jiji for size reference.

All in all, this Nall is a lot better than I thought he’d be from the pictures that had been floating around online. He seems rather durable and is for a fact adorable. He’s soft, too!

I think on the original auction the seller said that this was one of the ones Victor Ireland of Working Designs fame bought and brought over to one of the E3 exhibitions in the late 90’s, too. The more you know!

On another note, conversion of this blog into a general Lunar dragon fan blog will likely commence sometime around January 11th, when I am able to reunite with my scanner; it was too big to bring back from the dorm, so I’m not going to bother scanning anything until I can bring the artbooks with me to San Antonio. I also got the SSS Newtype artbook today! It’s mostly storyboards and character sketches, but there’s also high-resolution artwork from the cutscenes and some neat concept art that I might scan some time or another. There’s also some artwork that I remember the Flying Cat Homepage having, but maybe I’ll be able to scan it in higher resolution.

In the meantime, I will be thinking of something new to call this blog. It can’t exactly be a Nall appreciation station if I’m bringing the other three dragons into it! You guys are also still free to submit things, by the way. The submit box will always be open. Fanart, fanfiction, just about anything will be accepted (so long as it’s worksafe).

A new challenger has approached! Even though this is technically a Nall blog, I was meandering around in CLIP Paint Lab last night and suddenly doodled Ruby. Perhaps I should turn this blog into an all-around Lunar dragon appreciation blog, kind of like the old Flying Cat Homepage that’s sadly no longer in existence.

If I do decide to go through with making this an appreciation blog for all the dragons of Lunar, then, I’ll start scanning some new high-resolution material from the Lunar I+II artbook sometime early next year (while I work on the pattern for the adult Nall plush I still intend on making, too) to commemorate this change.