Eiri and Shuichi
Maitai
An A/U Gravitation/Liquid Rodent picture

This is the fifth drawing where I used photographs as part of the background. No references were used to make this piece except for some drawings in a Manga Pose Resource book for Eiri's fabric-draped lap and legs.

This is yet another traditional drawing with an #F pencil and shading smeared using stumps. The title refers to the drink Eiri has brought to his sunbathing and nude lover, who is mostly off-camera except for his legs and his butt. I was still trying to work with the extra-long limbs apparent in the anime and manga style while still using some of the muscular body definition from DBZ.

You can see the differences in my current style compared to this past style. I was still developing a style for this universe at the time I made these drawings. What I draw now is much better than this, but these older drawings helped develop the style I have today so they are valid as learning tools to show the progression of my style.

This drawing sat in the sketchbook until July 2004, when it was finally pulled out, scanned and the cg completed. When I found this drawing, I noticed I had last touched it back in April 2003. It looked almost completed, just needing a little definition to the lounge chair and some shading on a rear-end. We are talking about just a few little lines here and there, a few smudges, and it would be done. Why I did not finish it before now? I have utterly no clue.

So... that night I added the chair definition and for some reason, a beach towel, shaded the rear-end and the side of the lounging person's body and did a few little shading touchups and extra line erases. I declared it completed and signed/dated it, using both the old date and the new date. It is like a 'drawing' dated and a 'drawing's done' date.

Eiri's legs were difficult to draw because of the foreshortening. I do not think I was that successful with it but it looks okay, I suppose. I am just not good at drawing foreshortening without using a reference specific for the pose. I had to guess by looking at a few drawings in a Manga Pose Resource book and cobble a blend of sketches into one pose here.

The drawing was scanned and adjusted so the piece had a stronger contrast than the original drawing.

Photos of palm trees and a beach shot, taken by the onna in Hawaii and California, were used to add to the background. I extending the beach photo so it would cover the entire lower half of the drawing, even behind the figures, so the sand and rocks would be seen. A Photoshop built-in texture was used for the chaise wood.

The pareo and and beach blanket patterns are graphics taken from The Seam Shoppe website, an excellent place to find yummy fabrics with a tropical theme. (http://www.tropicalfabricsonline.com)