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Pic at left is a present from JayJay. No, not that one -- the one a.k.a. Omutsu2 on ABKingdom. Thanks, JayJay! (Click to enlarge.)

Hey kids! Dreyer here, taking over the site updates for the Fox while he's having his wild adventures down under, riding on kangaroos and eating shrimp on the barbie and chasing chazzwozzers and okay I'll stop now.

So! This week in art:

• Jay Manney brings us a cute piece of Sonic fanart, and takes us on a short tour of Smiley-Face Hell;
  
  
• Forum member Mr. X submits a voluptuous bit of Bleach fanart on behalf of Mimi;
• Normal Deviant gives us two adorable new drawings, including a commission from Kaijumorpher;
• Rai shows us a sleeping beauty and a "monstrous" request from forum member Destiny's Weapon;
• and finally, a single sketch of a happy little diaper-girl from Victoriah Nichole.

As always, click the thumbnail on the upper-right to view.

In the latest two pages of JD's comic, Trish goes into panic mode and walks in on Jenny and Jane trying on a new look.

And finally, Mikyzu presents Movies and Mishaps, a short visual novel made in RPG Maker.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play the latest version of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup and discover new and interesting ways to die horribly! Have a good week, and I'll see you all next time!

~ Dreyer

The drawing above was done by Elliot and features a very cute Yuffie.

Heyo,

This week We've got a lot of new art, including work from Reva, Elliot, Rai, Lil' Rob, Jay Manney, RF Switched, and Normal Deviant. I can't really think of a lot to write about, so I thought I might write about the various phases each artist seems to be going through. --Reva, as its pretty obvious, is on a wild west lil' cub phase, which I guess is kind of like Picasso's blue period, but with tumbleweeds and such. I asked him about it and its apparently commissions based off another drawing he did. --Elliot is a really really good artist, but he needs to draw more :P (one of the few artist who draws teh boys). Always meant to ask Elliot, is that girl with the anchor from Guilty Gear? --Rai is pretty new to me, or at least, I haven't known him as long as I have some of the other resident artists, but he has a good grasp of the anime style and in one of the drawings he did this week you can see the contour lines (don't know if that's the actual phrase) marking how he's drawing the form; I like that, it shows he's working on his perspective, and given the work I've seen from him in recent months, he's getting good fast. --Lil' Rob has always done cute artwork with his various characters, and in particular Petunia and Lily, they're my fav. --Jay Manney has had a long standing tradition of sailor moon and sonic art, I've seen a lot of improvement in his art in the time he's been hanging around here. --RF Switched never begrudges me the fact that I break one of my own cardinal rules every time I see his art... I usually post it before asking him about it. IT'S TOO GOOD! A common element in all my favorite pictures within this community is the start of a story that can be told without words in a drawing. More often then not, just by looking at one of RF's drawings, you can see there is more going on in the drawing then lines and ink. Not only that, but he draws a damn cute cat-girl, which seems to be what he's done most last month. --Normal Deviant has been catching onto what I just mentioned, putting a story into a drawing, and he's also been drawing some interesting fetish-type themes lately (as I mentioned in a previous update). One of the things that I've always liked about ND is that his art hasn't recieved the immediate grand welcome that some of the other artists here get, and rather then cry and quit, he's doubling his efforts, drawing more and trying new styles. I respect that, and its already yielding some good results.

There, that feels a little bit better. This week I'm trying to make the update less about me and my busy life and more about the community to which this site is devoted. I apologize if anyone disagrees with my views above, but I figured it'd be nice for some of the artists to see some more individual attention in an update instead of just 'so-and-so drew two pics!... yay!'. Before I head out, this'll be my last update for three months. I'll be back from Australia toward the end of August. I'll still check the forum when I can, but I won't be in a position to upload files when I need too. I'll be working on my stories as much as I can =D.

Laters,

~ CS Fox