Sketch 13: The 'Oops'

Sorry for the long hiatus. Been busy with...holidays. Hah. Oh well, the many pains of having a long period of nothing-to-do-ness. One more day and it is back to studying, Back to the papers; back to the cramming and exams and the passes and the failures; and back to life. Oops, did I just miss out the most important aspect of university life? Why, I believe I did. Friends! The joy of meeting friends.

And oops, did I just say 'Oops'?

Oh yes I think I did again. Well, that reminds me. I have a sketch I would like to share. This one is a little unique in the sense that it came to me in such suddenness I was starting to doubt my source of inspiration. Such a special piece calls for of course a special title, and I have taken the honour of naming it as such.

Well, this is for those of you who still reads my blog (for some reason, heh) and for those of you Naruto fans. The thing about anime or manga is that it teaches you countless valuable lessons in life, such as the importance of ramen in the completeness of the world; or the kawaii-ness of having whiskers on your cheeks; and even the fact that it is a bad idea of placing your lightning/thunder imbued hand right through the chest of someone you love (just in case, this is where the 'oops' comes in). Which reminds me, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

Well enough chit chat :D Let's-a-gooooooo.

Oh wait. Before that, we have a couple of new members that I would like to introduce into our Pen family, or I had taken the liberty to coin the term 'Penamily' :)

Meet Ziggy and Wingel. The two most frequently used pens in my arsenal:

Two super duper fine beauties :3

EQUIPMENT: Zig Millenium 0.05mm, Pilot Wingel 0.38mm, Mechanical pencil 0.5mm, Pilot G-3 pen 1.0mm, Eraser

So, as usual I was browsing through the net and that's when something hit me. Why not draw a page of a manga? This idea was not irrelevant because a few days back I did this: 

And yes, that is a Muji notebook. I was thinking of stamping my name on it using the Muji stamps they have in their shops (you should really check them out) but I wanted to make mine a little more unique. And so I thought of imprinting one of my favourite moments of the manga onto the cover. This was done separately and it took me about 2-3 hours. 

So, as you might not know, Kakashi is my favourite Naruto character. And for many reasons. The white hair and the mask says it all. Who WOULDN'T fall for that? ;)

So I looked for the page and found this: 

I know. There, there, my fellow Otaku's. Keep them tears. 

I started out with the pencil and came up with this: 

Notice how Kakashi's left leg is out of the picture? That, kids, is a classic example of poor positioning. And I blame this on no one else but moi. And I apologize for that. Oh well, no one's perfect, right? 

And so it was time for Wingel to prove it's majesty. And after an hour or so of inking, this is what I got: 

The trick of erasing the pencil markings is to be VERY patient. I learnt this through the hard way. It id NOT fun to see smudges all over your paper. No matter how dry you think it is, give it an extra 15 minutes to be sure. If best, leave it for half an hour. Go for a walk, play a game of DotA, watch an episode of South Park, or just start another drawing :) So I erased and I inked. 

And I inked, and I inked, and I inked....

...and I inked...

...and inked...

and done! FINALLY

*drumrolls* The final product....

TA-DAAAAAA ! 

The rain was tricky. I had to use a ruler to do it. But nevertheless, This consumed quite a large amount of ink. 

And for the record, I am utterly impressed by manga artists. UTTERLY. 

Well, that's it. Thanks for da time and hope you enjoyed. See you in the next one.

And I quote the Vlogbrothers: DFTBA!