Fanarts and stuff

Hi there!

In this post, I want to do some advertising for my artworks. You can find some of them via the links up above.

At first, I would like to show you my latest fanart, a commission for a very good friend. It's a Pokémon fanart, with two of the Eveelutions - Espeon and Vaporeon. Since I wanted a challenge with this, I asked him to give me a color scheme to work with. The chosen colors aren't that unfamiliar with the two pokemon but it still was a challenge to work with the limited spectrum of colors. I'm very, very content with the result.

Most of my other works are on my deviantART profile, some on pixiv and some on Animexx. I might keep you updated on my works here but I recommend you check out those sites (and maybe leave a nice comment ;)). 

Here're some other of my works: 

                                 

You can find the full view version on my dA profile! ;)

Also, I write fanfiction. Some of them are also on my dA profile but I mostly post on my LiveJournal, AO3 or fanfiction.net. There you'll find One Piece and Pokémon fanfictions, shipping and non-ship stories. 

For the next posts, I am planning a tutorial on light/shadow and how to do cuttling. Also, I was asked to make a tutorial on how to color pictures in GIMP, so look forward to those upcoming posts. 

(Although the next post might be an art appreciation post on Art Deco/Art Nouveau, I can't only post tutorials, can I?)

Toodles! 

First!

Well, hi!

I finally managed to make a blog! The design is just for now, I'm too busy to work on the one I originally planned for this. I hope this one works fine (for you) until then :)

I've been working on this blog for a year now, actually, but somewhere along the way I started to wonder if a blog really made sense for me. I don't write reviews on things, I don't offer resources, I will definitely not write about my feelings here, and with my level of art skills back then it didn't feel right to run a blog. What could I possibly blog about anyway?

But as I am spending more and more of my time with drawing (that time that I'm not on twitter, hehe) and I started posting progress of some works and also doodles on twitter, I thought that maybe posting them on a separate blog instead would be better. Since there are people (if only three) who are interested and using my tumblr for that is kind of stupid, I decided to make a blog to post doodles, pictures of my progress and all that stuff on the same site. (And not spam twitter.)

Also, I will run my challenges on here as I'm planning another one depending on my free time. And, if anyone's interested (which I know that a very few people are) I will do some tutorials or answer questions (I do get some, yay me!).

Oh, why that name? I know no one's really interested in that but I wanted to explain it anyway. When I was little, we used to have a red currant bush in our backyard. It was small but somehow "hollow" inside which provided a perfect hiding spot! So that red currant bush was my childhood hideout, my spot, and that's what this blog will hopefully be!

I hope I'll pull this through and not lose interest in blogging again (this is like my... 10th blog, lol).