Cosplay: Inazuma 11

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Hi again! This is one of the latest entries I'll write before I move to Estonia! 

First of all, sorry for the sity presentation of this cosplay photoshoot... blogspot is really bitchy I tell you, I've spend literally hours just trying to place the images in a place in which they look relatively good in regard to the other photos, and in the end I had to make non-sense use of kanji and kana to "fill space" above. Buuuuuh.

So here I bring you some of the photos we took, me as model cosplaying Kiyama Hiroto! I don't really have much free time lately, but since I attended Expocómic so I could see my friends in Madrid before I leave, we arranged a little cosplay photoshoot in our spare time there... after all, I won't be able to cosplay with my Spanish friends for quite a while!

So this is the basic information about this cosplay photoshoot: 

COSPLAY INFO

* SERIES: INAZUMA ELEVEN (イナズマイレブン)

* CHARACTER: KIYAMA HIROTO ( 基山 ヒロト)

* VERSION: ALIEN HIROTO (casual)

* MODEL:  CarmenMCS

* YEAR: 2011 (I was 24 in these photos)

* POST EDIT:  CarmenMCS

* PHOTOGRAPHERS:  Itamar, Subaly & Kiriahtan

I am just showing some of the photos here, the ones I like the most or that I find better. For the rest, please visit my Cosplay Facebook page. From there, go to "photos" and "albums". Thanks for visiting!

So, let's get started with the actual photos!

I had a problem while cosplay Hiroto: because his eyes are sooo green and bright and his skin so pale, it looks freaking unnatural in real life xD But I guess it helps in showing his "alien nature" XD!!! This first photo is my favourite one of this shoot!

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Most of the photos were taken almost at the entrance of the hosting building of Expocomic. It couldn't be more perfect, look at the screenshot from the Inazuma Eleven anime I upload here and take a look at the background of some of the photos, we were so lucky that the place next to the Expo was so closely looking to some of the places in which Hiroto is usually around!

As usual, just click on the images for full view!

I decided to cosplay this simple outfit because I didn't have any new cosplay as I am very busy lately, so some of my friends suggested I should cosplay him because I already had the wig and clothes -even though I was just a new Inazuma fan and didn't know much about Hiroto- and so I did. Why not? I find him so cute and I already had everything! 

The day of the con, when they saw me, they were like "OMG YOU ARE REAL LIFE HIROTO WE HAVE TO TAKE PHOTOS!" and after the con they were crazily asking for me to show the photos so, on popular demand, here you are!! X_D!!!! 

For a simple and rushed cosplay lots of people recognized me so I made lots of Inazuma fans friends, and some of the photos we took are interesting, so I am happy about all of it!

So, these ones bellow are the last photos of this cosplay I'll upload here until I take a new photoshoot of him. For the rest of the photos please visit my Facebook Cosplay Page (where you can find other of my cosplays too) IF YOU GO TO MY FACEBOOK COSPLAY PAGE AND PRESS ON "LIKE" YOU'LL FIND FANSERVICE OF HIM HA HA HA (and some more fanservice coming up!) ... ok allow me to explain, one of my friends demanded asked for some fanservice photos, and I had to agree to take some to a mild, cute extent XD

 

And as said, now I am leaving you with the last photos. See you and I hope you enjoyed them! 

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Finally, a VANDAL HEARTS blog!

And this is the address!!! http://vandalheartsrfa.blogspot.com/

This new blog is dedicated to my most favourite videogame ever: VANDAL HEARTS, by Konami. I created this blog for personal enjoyment and to share my love for this game with other people, especially with other fans.

I've loved this game for about 15 years, but unluckily for me even though the Vandal Hearts games are considered classics and very good games among Tactical RPGs lovers, they never had an active fan community (in the sense you don't usually see any Vandal Hearts fanart or fanfics, never ever saw VH cosplay, etc). Konami didn't releashe much material regarding these games either (just the games and the OST) so of course that's one of the reasons why the fandom is so very very VERY inactive. 

I finally decided to start this little project to help this legend rise from its own ashes and give other fans a reason to want to be more active! Lacking much free time and stuff always ended not allowing me to create it, but I don't care anymore, I'll just update when I can!

And to commemorate, I am showing you some of my old Vandal Hearts sketches!

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Japanese Fonts

Hi again! This is Carmen ^^

This is jus a quick update and more like a list of some links I've found rather useful while looking for Japanese fonts, but I guess it's going to be as useful for others as for myself ^^

 
So the thing is, I've been trying to find japanese fonts because since my PC died and got formatted and stuff, the only font that I have to write Japanese and Chinese is Arial Unicode MS... and as said, after much searching, here I bring some webs and blog and stuff where I was able to download some FREE Japanese fonts that are actually very awesome as well!!! Enjoy:

- FLOP DESING: has many many MANY fonts, some are free, some aren't, very useful and cool ^^I think you have a limit of free downloads so get the ones you like the most! XD

- JAPANESE CULTURE BLOG: useful to get some info and reviews about japanese fonts but the instrucctions to download the free fonts aren't there lol if you don't understand Japanese, you may have a bit of a problem getting them...http://nihongoup.com/blog/10-beautiful-japanese-fonts/

- ... but luckily I found JAYHAN  http://www.jay-han.com/2007/09/21/cute-japanese-font-for-download/ that pretty much brings you direct download links for many of the fonts in the other blog and more! In that blog they also have this other entry you'll find useful to get even more free japanese fonts [link]

- GRAY GRAPHICS: you own the artists on that site their effort to bring you exclusive designs for your japanese writings! They are free, just click on the little squares or text to download the fonts.

- 4GALAXY: a collection of about 45 fonts that can display kanji writing as well.

- MANIACKERS DESIGN FONT: more of the same ^^

I hope this helps you guys!!! By the way please do remember this:

"You may use both free and shareware fonts freely for noncommercial personal purposes, such as creating a logo for a personal web site, free web design materials, goods or banners. Please contact [the author/owner] before using the fonts for commercial purposes, such as for commercial products, stores or companies logos, TV, books and magazines, or CDs.When you got questions about installing or using fonts, please try browsing the internet first. You could find the answers yourself."

I am not dead (yet)

OH LOOK IT MOVES :D

Hellooooo I am not dead I am just very busy, and also very disappointed with Blogspot since it decided to fuck up my links on images with the new automatic gallery it shows... click on any image and you'll see what I mean. I suppose it isn't too difficult to remove but right now I don't have the time to investigate how to do it, so yeah I'll be back some other time!!!

Lately I am prepraring to move to Estonia for 6 months because of my Erasmus grant, working on my practicum, still recovering from illness and stuff, and in my free time I play Team Fortress 2 and watch Inazuma Eleven. WHY YES, NOW I AM A FAN OF INAZUMA -and its yaoi- PROBLEM? : D

Ciaooo!!!

My Dynasty Warriors fanarts

Hello everyone! I just finished a fanart I made for this contest LINK and, well, I am sharing the pic with you guys! I drew one of my fav characters from the videogame Dynasty Warriors. He is called Ling Tong. 

Click for the full size version

 

I love his weapon in DW6, it's a Sanjiegun, like Nanami's from Suikoden II... yeah, the pose seems familiar all of a sudden XD Would you believe that it's actually pretty difficult thinking of cool poses for Sanjiegun users? Try, try XD

You can see some details I would like to highlight here... as said, click for full!

Dynasty Warriors has been one of my favourite games for almost 10 years already (Vandal Hearts is still my fav lol) The lastest game, DW7, is AWESOME. Of course I don't think it's perfect but you should really try that game! I plan to do a review of these series one of these days...

This series of games is based on Chinese History, or rather, based on the events of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (which is a chinese classical novel) and the Records of Three Kingdoms (actual history of China) I love History and I love killing loads of stuff so this game is perfect for me lol.

Ling Tong is one of the officers you can use in the game, and I really like him... I've made some fanart of him in the past too, and I'll share them in this entry too, even if they are old XD Hope you like them!

 Gan Ning & Ling Tong

              

I made fanart of other Dynasty Warriors characters, I'll submit them some other time so that the entries aren't so long lol! So, yeah, this is it for now, hope you liked the pics and PLAY DYNASTY WARRIORS 7. Ciao!!!

SERIOUSLY, SPANISH PEOPLE

Seriously, Spanish people... JUST WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!

Now, now, I actually HATE rants and I hate ranting myself because I feel stupid and childish when I rant, but seriously, if I told you about all of the shit that goes wrong in my life because OTHER PEOPLE DON'T TRY AT LIFE AT ALL.

Like two days ago, I went to the post office, I told the lady attending me I wanted to send the letter to Estonia, and without letting me continue, she made the stupiest face ever and said: "...I don't know if you can, since, well, where is that anyway?"

Please. PLEASE. Someone explain me why this lady who works at a post office is asking me where the heck Estonia is and actually telling me she doesn't know if I can send a letter there or not. I don't understand.

Well, after I told her Estonia was in Europe, I asked her for the documents necessary to send certified mail with return receipt abroad... and she was like "I can give you the ones for Spain, I don't know what you need to send letters abroad" and then I was like FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF for obvious reasons.

I left without sending my documents, because it was late, they had to close, and NONE of her remaining workmates knew which documents where the ones I was asking for... Then, they told me I should have informed myself on the Internet about that, because they are not there to answer that kind of questions because then if the letter doesn't arrive people tell them it's their fault and in reality it's the clients fault for not knowing better... like seriously. SERIOUSLY. WHY.

And this was just ONE of the shitty things I encounter everyday around Ciudad Real, and this time it isn't even THAT much of serious business, but lots of times, you need important stuff to be done and people just not only don't care, but they don't even realize that I give a fuck if they care, THEY JUST HAVE TO DO THEIR FUCKING JOB SLIGHTLY EFFICIENTLY BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING PAID TO DO THAT SHIT.

Then people ask why I prefer Barcelona and why I would want to go to Estonia to study when Spain is so awesome and stuff. Enough said. Ciao.

Suikoden I & II now in Manga

I couldn't believe myself when I found out but it's real! Thanks to Nanami's World I discovered that, since 2009, a manga series for Suikoden I as well as another manga series for Suikoden II are being releashed!

Suikoden ( 幻想水滸伝 Gensō Suikoden) is a classic series of RPG videogames. Fuck Final Fantasy, especially talking about Suikoden II most RPG fans can tell you this is one of the best RPGs ever created and even now it surpases most modern RPGs in graphics, plot, enternaiment, and playing system.

There were mangas for the other games but never for the first two! The first game is from 1995 and the second from 1998, why would they releashe the manga version in 2009? Japan is crazy but I don't mind because the first two Suikoden games are some of my very favourite videogames ever! (actually, I know pretty well why they are releashing these mangas now, I'll talk about that later)

 So, let's get started with the review! I bought three tomes from YesAsia, the ones releashed so far:

-Suikoden / Tome 1
-Suikoden / Tome 2
-Suikoden II / Tome 1 

Both the Suikoden I manga and the Suikoden II manga are by the artist Yu Hijikata and are being releashed slowly, at the same time. I wanted to put a link to the artists but didn't find his website or any other info, but it's the same artist from the Valkyrie Profile manga (another classic RPG) . The tomes are 160 pages long, more or less, and come with a map of the Suikoden world, a tablet with the 108 starts of Destiny and other stuff.

COVERT ART, THE FIRST TOME OF EACH MANGA

As you can see, the cover art is very beautiful: good anatomy, cool poses, great colouring, good layout design for the covers... the first pages of each manga have a couple of coloured pages too, that are equally beautiful and reminiscent of the artwork seen in the games. I'll let you some examples here before getting to the black and white pages:

Now with the actual story and black and white pages. The anatomy is not bad, on the contrary is pretty decent most of the time and the fighting scenes have really cool effects and movements. Sometimes, especially when it comes to bulky guys faces, the faces look a bit too strange XD And some of the young, teen guys in this manga (like Luc, Ted, Tir McDohl, Ryou etc.) look really girly, I was kind of a bit disappointed with Tir at first because not only he looks girly, he actually acts very girly and childish too... then I realized it's just because it's the begining and he rapidly started to man-up and mature by the end of the tomes, ha ha ha. As said, most of the drawings are really cute, maybe too cute for a manga in which thousands of people are going to die XD

Let's see some examples of the first tome of the Suikoden I manga!

On the left, Black the dragon and the heroes. On the right, Luc (told you he looked girly XD)

 

Leknaat on the right; on the left, McDohl, Ted and Gremio arriving at her place. As you can see, not only the characters look beautiful but also the backgrounds and illumination! 

Let's go now with examples of the Suikoden II manga, the author is the same as I said so the style is pretty much the same, so let's show some "awesomeness" from two of the most charismatic heroes in all the saga... of course, I am talking about Viktor and Flik!

 They are cool, they are strong... and they are adorable. Look at Viktor at that last panel XD

Let's not forget about the others! Luckily for Joey, he managed to look manlier than Ryou and Tir XD Look at those backgrounds, they are cool, so loyal to the source material!

Well, Luca Blight looks as mad as usual, doesn't him X_D He's and awesome bastard, and he looked damm sexy in the illustrations of the novels and in Suikogaiden... let's see if we get some sexyness in these mangas too XD

I tried not to spoil too much with the pics... If you are interested, I found scanlations (scans with English translation) of the first tome of Suikoden II here as for the Suikoden I manga, Nanami's World said they are scanlating both tomes too. As for "yaoi fangirls" who won't fucking read a thing unless there are some hot guys they can pair up, there is more than plenty of bromance in the Suikoden series and a consecrated yaoi fandom. Like, seriously XD

It hasn't been too long since I discovered there is a  Breath of Fire IV manga, and now these Suikoden I and Suikoden II mangas... Japan is releashing lots of new stuff based on classic, popular videogames lately, and it's probably because of the japanese videogame market crisis. On one hand I am happy because I always wanted material based on my favourite retro games (I wish someone would make a Vandal Hearts manga lol) but on the other hand it's such a pity no one would releashe new stuff beyond Devil May Cry or new RPGs beyond the Final Fantasy shit... though it seems lately the Atelier series is regaining fans and sales with the lastest Atelier Totori for Playstation 3, as well as other sagas, but they still are already popular series...

So yeah, this is long enough and I wasted much more time than I should have X_D See you guys!

Sundae and Hetalia

Hello, this is Carmen as always! So, after a long time without submitting any fully coloured drawings, for the first time in months I've drawn something "for me" (I mean, not realated to the videogame we have in process, or to the fanzine I colaborate with etc.)

And this is what I bring you out of my lust for cute, shiny, tasty stuff: a Sundae and two of the Northamerican twins from Hetalia, ha ha. So girly, it's really not my style but hey, it's nice to try new stuff from time to time! Hope you like!

Click for Full size & High Quality

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And now, animated .gif of the process! When I actually remember to get pictures of the process, I like to share for various reasons... one being I can show I did the pic myself, another showing some of the steps I follow to colour. I hope you find it interetsting! (like always, click to enlarge!)

It's animated! Click on it if you can't see the animation

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OMAKE! Extra Alfred for the fangirls who enjoy making icons, wallpapers and the likes

 

And that's all, I made this entry just to show my latest drawing XD I know I don't usually draw "chibis" but, as I said, it's good to try different stuff from time to time! 

See you!

No free time but I did a cute sketch XD

So, as the title says, I am actually very busy right now... like always, anyway XD I already got my grades and I got awesome scores! But I am still busy with my Practicum, Erasmus documents (I am going to Estonia!!!) with other grants documentation and stuff like that... I should be a little more free soon. But hey, since I can't do any papers during the weekend (the offices are close XD) I finished a little concept art for our Hetalia videogame!

- Æsir Norge -

Our "powered up" version of the representant of Norway in Hetalia

 

It's just a "chibi" rushed art of how he is supposed to more or less look... he will look all adult in the game, of course XD what do you think about this concept? It was actually me who proposed to use some "fairy" or "valhalla" related look for him, so I was the one to draw it for the most part... We used the Elder Futhark runic alphabet and put the "ansuz" rune on his chest because it's named after the Æsir, and the rest are related to the different powers Norge has while in this ǫ́ss form (water, sun, tree, and such) 

... I keep calling him Norge / Nor / Noruee because it hasn't yet been revealed his human name and calling him "Norway" it's weird for me XD We are thinking of calling him "Lucas" in the game, for incognito missions and stuff, since that's a popular fanname for him!

We are also thinking of merging our videogame project "HETALIA: Liet´s Quest" ( ヘタリア:リトアニアの伝説 ) with "Hetalia Atlantis" (ヘタリア* アトランティス) ... let's see what happens in the end!

To finish, let me show you some of the other art I created for our videogame! (Click to enlarge!) And remember you can always see more of my art on my Deviantart and the other links to the right of this blog!

We nicknamed them Emily and Monique 

in the game since their "human" names haven't been revealed yet

 

Long time no see!

First of all, APOLOGIES because I deleted the comments you guys left in my posts, thinking I were just deleting them from my inbox... I really need to tinker around more to get used to how things work... but seriously, why deleting them from the inbox deletes them from the posts too? Makes no sense to me. I am sad that I deleted them, sorry guys T_T

So, yeah, I haven't updated in a while! I've been busy with exams, work, illness, family stuff... all of that. Now I have summer vacations and I'll hopefuly draw, cosplay, program more for our Hetalia videogame, play some videogames myself...

Right now, I'm replaying one of my all-times-favourite-RPGs ever, the one known as "Breath of Fire III"... the reason why I felt like replaying it it's because I recently realized there is a Breath of Fire IV manga (scanlations here or here) so, yeah I felt quite some nostalgia XD Back in the day I was too young to fully understand the plot in those two games (both because of my inmadurity and because of my level of English lol) so I am fully enjoying reading the manga for BoF IV and replaying BoF III.

 Breath of Fire III

Nina & Ryu, the heroes of the Breath of Fire series

... I wish they would have done a BoF III manga too, it was my favourite, much more than BoF IV XD I am also playing Sengoku Basara 2 (when I feel like killing tons of stuff lol) and Dynasty Warriors 7 at my boyfriend's place because I don't own a Xbox or PS3 myself (awesome game dears, JUST AWESOME) 

Breath of Fire IV

Though, as I said, my favourite Breath of Fire game is the third one, I have to admit that Breath of Fire IV 

art is of much more quality, and very beautiful as you can see in the pics. Click to enlarge the images!