This is my design of Cleo’s character - an arrogant king whose comeuppance costs him his pride and eventually his kingdom - from her yet-to-be-written original story. The setting’s a somewhat cold climate, and while the King’s practically wrapped from head to toe, the traditional garb leaves the chest bare to display the royal sigil. Other unnatural forces are at work to keep him from dying of pneumonia

Planning on working on the Queen later (wayyy later XD ). This took a long time to finish, but was fun to make xD Made with Painter 7 and Photoshop.

my own hand + camera for reference
textures from cgtextures.com

This is my design of Cleo’s character, and the char (not the design) is absolutely <3. But he is also absolutely nameless, so am just going to call him King for now D: (hinthintnudgenudge on Cleo). Still need to make the background more distinctive from the foreground, fix his arm and his abs, finish his legs, do the axes, and ksgdfkasgff so many will just stop listing. I’m enjoying this piece a lot though, but I’m terrified it’ll come out looking terrible =_=;. The LOLcat on his chest is a placeholder for a sigil 8D; (rolls~)

This art’s pretty huge though, and Painter’s having a hard time loading it despite just having 3 layers :S. Am happy I’m in the habit of saving into different files - otherwise, the bg would be completely lost. Got corrupted on one of my RIF saves at one point so I had to recopy from an older save.

(Note to self: always save in PSD)

Gumshoe putting his coat around Edgeworth to protect him from the cold. No idea why Edgey’s outside without his red coat on in the first place! Cleo kept me sane through the four days it took me to finish this <3 I like how the colours turned out, but not very happy with everything else :D; Didn't know whether to go black, grey, or white with Edgey's hair (wtf is up with that, so many renditions in canon), but I eventually just went with greyish white.

Seeing so many errors with it now xD; Will sleep on this and see if I want to edit it in the morning.

Crosshatch texture from [the Screentone Depot]
Rust texture from the Resources of [Eatpoo Forums]
my own hand as reference (should I be alarmed that I have Gumshoe hands? Q___Q )

Dick Gumshoe and Miles Edgeworth © CAPCOM

[Photoshop Disasters Blog]
~ a blog featuring poorly-Photoshopped (? Photoshoped? XD it’s apparently a verb now, anyway) works in commercial media.

[Painting Village - China]
~ Dafen is a small village in China where hundreds of artists mass produce world-renowned masterpieces for sale. The technical skill of these artists are amazing. Here’s [another related article] showing some of the artists and their self-portraits, according to the styles of the painters they copy.

[Images of Colliding Galaxies]
~ several images captured by the Hubble telescope of colliding galaxies. Very gorgeous.

[Spinning Silhouette Optical Illusion]
~ this one’s crazy. It takes a while for some (like me), but for others, it happens instantly. Look at the spinning girl for a while, then focus on the shadow of her feet. After a while (or instantly, depending on how your brain functions I guess), it’ll look like she’s spinning in the other direction.

Portrait practice. I just put in the cloak swooshy thing ’cause I was too lazy to paint the ear, but then one thing led to another, and before I knew it I’d spent 3 hours on the gorram cloak, wishing I’d just painted the gorram ear. D:

Crosshatch texture from the Screentone Depot ♥

Random pimps of the week:

[Superheroes anthology is out!] from Tracy Williams
~ a One “L” Innovations-sponsored comics anthology, written and illustrated by Alison Bailey, Mechante Fille, Skylark97, Tracy Williams ♥ Here’s the blurn on their site:

“As the mainstay of American comics, it seems only appropriate that we pay homage to the genre at least once. So, suit up in your spandex, and dig out those world domination plots, ’cause we’re flying at the speed of light into the world of superheroes. Featuring two boy’s love short stories, one girl’s love short comics, and one general short comic.”

You can preview Tracy Williams’s contribution, “Ricochet Family,” [here] and [here] ♥

[Fucking thieves everywhere] by alexiuss
~ a sad tale of an RL art theft, although I’m linking it more for the artist’s funny narrative/illustration than the actual event :X; (refuses to feel guilty for that)

[Gizoogle]
~ enter a site URL and watch it turn into gangster talk XD More entertaining than I thought it would be.

Page 1 of a mini comic I’m making involving Phoenix and Edgeworth. Not really happy with how this turned out, but it was a learning experience. Hopefully, page 2 will be a bit better >.>;

Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth © CAPCOM

Cleo wanted Godot/Edgeworth, and I wanted inking practice. XD

Miles Edgeworth and Godot © CAPCOM

I had something definite in mind while I was making this WIP, then after most of the head was done, it went kaput. So now I’m stuck. On a head. Dx With a retarded-looking nose that I’m too lazy to fix right now.

Anyway, I am too hyped about this upcoming game not to mention it here. For those of you who play Gyakuten Saiban / Phoenix Wright / Apollo Justice, the recent issue of Famitsu just revealed a Gyakuten Saiban spin-off called Gyakuten Kenji (reserved English title is Perfect Prosecutor). The protagonist this time is Miles Edgeworth ( <3 ) , and the gameplay is a bit different from previous GS games (third person adventure game this time).

More info [here]

Scans from the Famitsu magazine, originally posted by counterfiction on this post:

Game’s timeline is set within the first Phoenix Wright game, between cases 1 - 3 of the first game, according to Kamapon, so the whole thing’s a sort of backgrounder to Miles’s career as a prosecutor. I’m a little disappointed with the timeline, ’cause I honestly believed Miles looked older in the promo shots (helpfully pointed out by sesame_seed that the poor man looked tired), and there’s a big, gaping, black hole of a timespan between T&T and Apollo Justice, with a lot of room to play in for the side characters.

The timeline is apparently within the third Gyakuten Saiban game. See update below XD

More info to be released on April 20, apparently. Damn, I’m dying to play this game.

Update: sarahofcroydon points us to CAPCOM’s recently updated website: Gyakuten Kenji / Turnabout Prosecutor Official CAPCOM Site.

Update: [Gyakuten Kenji / Perfect Prosecutor in-game caps], posted by insanezero

Update: xkourichanx said the following in this post:

“Yeah so I was reading Famitsu Weekly Hong Kong and they had the interview with the makers of the game in Chinese which I actually understood. I’ll post what I remember of it.

Time frame of game: Around the time of Gyakuten Saiban 3 (aka Trials and Tribulations)
One of the guys interviewed specifically stated that it wasn’t around game 1, when Edgy was still all EVIL xD

Returning characters?!: They really want to include some people that old players would recognise but don’t want to alienate new players. They MAY be including old characters, but they cannot reveal information about it now.

…

Takumi Sho (creator of Phoenix Wright) does NOT have a hand in this game, however he will have some influential role in that concert on the 20th apparently.

They also wanted to show Edgy’s razor wit xD As in, in the previous games you were always playing people who were kind of bumbly and a little out of the loop… but, in this game, they are aiming to make you see and feel like you are Edgy, solving a case with razor sharp wit.”

I woe at the conflicting news.

Update: Tuesday from Court-Records posted a rough translation of the Gyakuten Kenji pages [here]. The interview states that the timeline is during GS3 (Trials and Tribulations).

Update: Albireo provided [high resolution scans] of the Famitsu pages over at the Igiari community.

Big update: Trowicia recently [posted new links] to a LOT of new material regarding the Gyakuten Kenji game and the Gyakuten Saiban meets Orchestra concert.

[Orchestra concert pictures] by JapaneseGIRL from Court-Records
~ contains a TON of pictures of the event, and concept/in-game/promotional pics of the Gyakuten Kenji game. Apparently, there’s a new girl character who I am sincerely hoping doesn’t end up as Edgey’s assistant :S (clings to Gumshoe). Although some of the in-game caps show Gumshoe as standing alone, so I wonder if it’s going to be a shifting POV sort of thing at a certain point. Possible returning characters were also mentioned.

[A rundown of the GyakuSai Meets Orchestra event] by Piggyhoho
~ a review of the concert from a spectator, sounded like a lot of fun *_* I love this particular part:

“The video ended with Edgy’s sprite running out to a dark screen, then started huffing and puffing saying how he’s not good at running. XDXD”

(pets Edgey)

[Small promo vid of Gyakuten Kenji] from Famitsu
~ still waiting for it to load :S

new pairing!

Kidding. XD Such a precious shot, though. Of course Edgey would have an affinity for animals in captivity :S

This wouldn’t have even looked remotely human if not for Cleo <3 <3 <3 (pours love on her) XD It looked so retarded in its initial stages. Hopefully, it is looking far less retarded now.

Click the image below for a larger view.

Miles Edgeworth will always be my favorite prosecutor in the GS games, I think. I’m sorry, but no guitar-toting Ganguro upstart from Germany can even begin to compare <3 (is so bricked)

I'm not completely satisfied with how this turned out, but at this stage, I'm not exactly sure how to make it look better (woes at lack of skillz). Anyway, I hope it doesn't disappoint too much ^^;

Some detail shots:

Miles Edgeworth from Phoenix Wright / Gyakuten Saiban © Capcom

Just a Phoenix Wright doodle…

Also, I’ve cleaned up the categories so that it’s less cluttered, but it’s also left a bunch of posts untagged :D; Mostly sketches/WIPs, I think, and pimp posts. Will go over those later.

For the Trading Places challenge. Inspired by Jules Noctambule’s gorgeous Snupin fic “The High Cost of Living” <3 Tried to capture how the shortened nose and lighter hair transformations were brought about. Jules seemed to like this, so I'm happy XD Sorry if it looks weird out of context ^^;

Background paper textures are from the Eatpoo artists’ forums.