Well I hope you all had a good Halloween. This month was nothing but failure for me in the end especially all of the Inktober days I missed. And the piss poor quality of the days I did manage to get up. Good news is most of them did get drawn And I'll just upload them over the next couple days in shame. Happy Halloween everyone. Kazumi Tsukuyomi, Kyouya Tsukuyomi (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu Batman (costume) (c) DC, Warner Bros  artwork by Kyanbu D-Universe, Dash Saga, D-Resonate © Kyanbu

Kazumi body reference will be expanded on over time. Name: Kazumi Tsukuyomi  Age: 31 Gender/sex: Female Height: 5ft 4in /162 cm Job Class: Edge Caster Species/Race: Ani-demon Kyubii    Bio: An extremely gifted Edge Caster and (ex)leader of "Moonlit blade". A clan that serves as one of "Lucidia Island's" Elite guilds. After Kazumi was stripped of her position and having 90% her powers sealed by the Clan's Consul due to her negligence in dealing with the Phantasm Out break that's plaguing the Island, among a long list of other problems. She enlisted the help of her friends "Tsunadai" and "Azumi", and traveled to "Somnus Castle" in order to investigate the out break and hopefully get her job back. Kazumi is very energetic, eccentric, and easy going with a love for nature. Often preferring to live life at hundred miles per hour without a care in the world. Though this often leads to her neglecting her position as leader of an Elite Guild. A Position she was born into. And gets her into more trouble then intended.  Despite her personality, Kazumi is a combat genius with a talent for thinking on the fly. Being able to keep up with an ever changing situation. Kazumi or "Lady Tsukuyomi" as she often goes by. Mainly uses mana edge swords and occasionally beam guns. And relies on combining close range combat with powerful Earth, Light, Wind, Water, and Fire Spells. Like most Kitsune, she's able to transform into other creatures. She's also able to take this a step farther by transforming into other objects her size or close to her mass thanks to her ninth tail, though she's unable to copy machines internally. Despite her powers being mostly sealed up, Kazumi is still extremely powerful compared to most members of her own guild. Possessing all nine of her tails at a very young age by her race's standards. Much to the frustration of her clan mates. Personality Tropes:  At her best, she's a fast thinker, an experienced Caster, fun and full of energy, someone who's quick to lighten the mood when things get rough. At her worst she's unfocused/easily distracted. Usually she's just hyper, fun loving, and easy going, usually laid back when she's calm,   Kazumi Tsukuyomi (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu  Artwork by Kyanbu D-Universe D-Resonate (c) Kyanbu 

Character design for a pet project of mine. Even though the Hex Dealer outfit was scrapped and replaced by this one due to it being a bit sexualized/inappropriate for the scenes it's being used for. It's B design is still being used for the test comic for now. While the A Design has been moved to pinups and scenes where it's not inappropriate. of which there are non planned for the comic and game projects respectively. I'll expand on this more over time. Pandora Rox Age: 22 Gender: Female Sex: Female height: 6ft (183 cm) Job Class: Fate Dealer/Wise Caster Species/Race: Ani-human Feline, Bio: A Skill Caster a member of Solis Guild. Pandora is Perky and knowledgeable with a love for card games, though a bit more forgiving and optimist compared to her partner "Alexcia". She's also often the one coming up with strategies when it comes to job requests and assignments with Alexcia handling the fire arms and weapons side of things. Thanks in part to her studies in magic and taking advantage of her extremely fast learning skills. She specializes in Casting Cards. Special cards used mainly by Fate Dealers that have a preset spell that can be trigger when thrown or sparked. In addition to a wide range of different elemental spells. However in her desire to be as versatile as possible, her spells tend to be weaker as a result. and she has no specialty in any element. Relying a lot on creative use of her Casting Cards.  Personality: At her best she's outgoing and optimist. Always looking for the best in people and most situations. At her worse she's too trusting and often too focused on learning different spells instead of mastering her current ones. Sometimes putting her and her party in dangerous situations or at a disadvantage. Usually she's reliable, reasonable and versatile, able to adapt to situations very quickly. Pandora Rox (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu Artwork by Kyanbu D-Universe D-Resonate (c) Kyanbu

Character design for a pet project of mine. Valerie Gust Age: 21 Gender: Female Sex: Female height: 5ft 9in (170.3 cm) Job Class: Holy Knight/Ascended Demon Species/Race: Ani-human Feline, Half Demon Succubus Bio: A powerful Holy Knight who works for the "Saints Clan". An order of Holy Knights whose sworn duty is the protection of the human race by any means deemed necessary. While the Clan is normally against having demon members. Valerie was among the few exceptions being raised since birth within the Clan as a part of their "Ascended Demon Project". Primarily because her Ani-Human mother is a member of the Clan. Valerie has a strong sense of justice and a desire to protect those around her. Often valuing the lives of others above her own. While she can be out going at times. She tries her best to remain tranquil when on duty. Sometimes leading to those around her misjudging her tendency to ignore/brush off rare and sometimes harsh insults from some of her fellow Knights during missions. Often resulting arguing against them when it comes to the lives of those outside of the Clan's focus. And holding a great deal of contempt for some of her fellow knights. Valerie is able to use Holy and Light based Spells and Attacks. Thanks to the "Holy Seal" on her back, a result of the "Ascended Demon Project". She's also completely immune to Holy and is even strengthen by Holy charms and seals through the use of her Succubus Ability to absorb energy. However this comes at the price of being unable to cast or use Dark Spells and Attacks properly. Often with very weak results. And though she can still change form, this too is also limited by her "Holy Seal". Due to this ability being tied to her Succubus half. She possess incredible physical strength thanks to her demon half. And wields Pole arm Weapons such as her personal Pole Sword "Edge of Heaven". Despite all of, and her continued training. Valerie hates fighting, and lives by a very strict no killing code of honor. Only doing so as a last resort, often with great disdain and restraint unless pushed too far. Like many member of the Clan, she has her own Caster Armor. Her Caster Armor (s): Rayaegis [ https://www.deviantart.com/kyanbu/art/Ray-Aegis-Armor-Valerie-2019-CGHQ-799115883 ] and Photon [ https://www.deviantart.com/kyanbu/art/Photon-Armor-Valerie-2019-WIP-791282796 ] Personality:  At her best she she's kind, caring, and protective of others, usually very forgiving. At her worst she's prideful when it comes to her disdain of fighting, can be a bit too flirty and affectionate at times, has a bit of a messiah complex, often refuses to accept help form others unless forced to or talked into it. Usually she's tranquil and despite her flirty and out going nature at times, is actually quite distant towards anyone that isn't a friend of hers or her fiance. Valerie Gust (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu artwork by Kyanbu :iconkyanbu: D-Universe, D-Resonate © Kyanbu :iconkyanbu:

Finally it's done. Valerie in her Caster Armor "Ray Aegis". This started out as traditional sketch thumbnail that was scanned in at 12 times it's resolution and resketched digitally in gimp. all of the rendering was mostly done all on one layer, same goes for the med tone Flat colors. A first for me in a while but over painting this way might be much faster then shuffling through layers. The rendering and texturing was done using the brush tool and touched up with the smudge and erase tool. Linework was done by brush and using transparency lock to recolor and blend in most of the lines in by brush.    Total layers used 9 out of 22 layers  Valerie Gust (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu artwork by Kyanbu D-Universe, D-Resonate © Kyanbu

Another Armor concept design for Siren's armor. debating on rather or not to stick with that green or go with pink. orange seems a bit off next to the Crimson red which is more closer to purple. 

Update: Values and lighting all planned out. This is starting to look quite promising so far.

An old doodle from way back in 2016 that I did when I was thinking of NPC designs for characters connected to Kazumi's guild. Was scrapped for awhile. until I saw it again and ended up just messing around with her design again. I probably won't use this for anything because good lord she looks super generic. And the cast actually has too many female characters especially with that body type. And very few male characters (drawn at least). But... I might play around her design some more anyway. Maybe it's burn out creeping in but I could use a slight distraction. And I kind of want to see what I can come up with for this side character. And giving her a much better design then this PU dress. And the Body and fur pattern reference for an old unused character “Asami Endo”. I'll expand on this more over time with a side view and outfit designs, but for now this is a good start. no mature tags since inappropriate bits aren't showing. and the pose isn't sexually suggestive. Though I might change the tags depending on how the mods and co feel about it should they see this.

Flatcolors all set for these Caster Armor designs. From top to bottom, Photon, Pulsar, and Kunai.   Would love to hear feed back on these designs.

Another attempt at making a good portrait of Fate and the other Sages. And I'm feeling pretty good about this take. Will be finished at a later date.

Another Summer PU of Kazumi that'll be finished at a later date. Some changes may need to be made to a few things here.

The great Garden War

Carpenter Bees are fighting a war on the roof of our house over a nest one of them made up there earlier in the year. Was gonna leave them be but then they turned the front and back yard into a Battle Ground. And now it's a problem. because they're zipping around like bullets.

The Spell that Kazumi is using is called "Bolt Step" a Light Spell that can only be used by Demons/Phantasms/Celestians and really any creature with shape shifting abilities. Turns the user into a bolt of lighting for a short period of time. The Spell can be used in two way. Partial conversion and full conversion. Partial takes up less energy and can be used more frequently but has a slower top speed. Full takes up nearly all of the spare energy the user has for a top speed that caps at light speed. Because of this, the spell is powerful but impractical to use. Making it unreliable outside of the hands of a select few whom know how to wisely use it let alone have the energy to do so. Kazumi can use the partial version for up to 5 times before needing to recharge, and the full version up to 2 times. Hopefully that doesn't all sound really silly... About this pic: Started out as a traditional sketch that was scanned in and redrawn, colored and rendered in GIMP digitally using the Brush tool and pathways. and touched up with the smudge, and erase, tools and the gaussian Blur filter on some parts of the Background. 35 out of 43 layers Kazumi "Lady" Tsukuyomi (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu artwork by Kyanbu  D-Universe, D-Resonate © Kyanbu 

The Color scheme is all planned out for both the Kunai armor and the Photon Armor. Will line and color these Later.

Update: so many little things that I had to fix up and correct. and still so many things to fix up. Flaws are part of the identity of an art piece. But I really can't let some of these keep sliding. Hopefully this will be done soon.

Update: Background and lighting all planned out so far. 

Happy St Patrick's day everyone. a bit late but I wanted to get something up. Since I could find time to make a new image, I went back and fixed up the old 2013 one. The coloring, rendering, and textures have been corrected along with a few other changes. All made by brush and touched up with the erase, smudge, and gaussian blurs. Total Layers: 91 out of 108 The original can be seen here:  https://www.deviantart.com/kyanbu/art/Happy-St-Patricks-Day-2013-CGHQ-359718169 Pandora Rox (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu artwork by Kyanbu  D-Universe, D-Resonate © Kyanbu 

Never did one of these before but I figured I'd give it a go.

2019 Update: I went back and fixed up the lighting and coloring. Along with a bit a touch up on the textures and expanding the canvas. This was actually being fixed up months ago. I'm just now getting around to finishing up the fixes I started for the sake of having a full color up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As a bit of practice with drawing fur texture. I took an old sketch I made from way back in 2012 (among others), scanned it. And rendered it along with making a few changes, additions, and corrections (to a point). Pandora Rox (c) Kwame A. Fletcher a.k.a Kyanbu artwork by Kyanbu D-Universe, Dash Saga, D-Resonate © Kyanbu