i just got Manga Studio 5! I miss the 1bit & 2bit layers and the ability to have layers with different resolutions, but other than that, it looks to be an improvement over the last version.

anyways here are my first sketches :)

darkface:

Melkor and Fingolfin by *Vihola

emmyc:

pretending for a moment that I don’t hate winter

I thought it would be cool to do a gif-drawing hinting at dimension! I don’t think it quite worked out but I’d love to mess around with the idea more

girininjou:

womenfighters:

Red Knight, by Sang Han (fluxen). Hat-tip to visions-and-revisions.

Wow

svalts:

Sarah Kerrigan - by Grace Liu

ninjakiza:

womenfighters:

It’s by Simon Bisley (I know whoda thunk?). It’s his take on Blenda, a warrior from swedish folklore who led an entire army of women and wiped out a bunch of invading danes.

Thanks, papakielbasa.

Blenda was FREAKIN AWESOME.  Check out this excerpt from her story: 

“It’s a well-known fact that Vikings are unavoidably and irresistibly drawn to mead at all times.  They are powerless to resist it.  That magical elixir is like a tasty, fermented-honey tractor beam that sucks in all Berserkers within a hundred-foot radius and forces them to consume so much alcohol that they start barfing out of their eyes and fall asleep watching SportsCenter at like two in the morning.  The women of Smaland knew this, and that’s pretty much exactly what happened here.  The Danish horde rolled into Wahrend expecting to be chasing terrified women through the burning huts of their pillaged, looted town, but instead they basically walked onto the set of one of those crazy over-the-top 1980s beer commercials where Spuds McKenzie is jumping a surfboard over the Great Wall of China and the Swedish Bikini Team is rocking out to a boom box blasting Brian Adams or Loverboy or some other such ridiculous crap.  The big, tough warriors had no clue how to respond to an armada of hot Swedish babes bearing delicious meats and alcoholic beverages, and fawning over their giant man-biceps, so they basically decided to give in, hang out, and have a huge party, because - as we all know - nothing makes guys more retarded than boobs and/or booze.

After a few hours of Blenda’s cohorts surreptitiously slipping the Danish warriors grain alcohol and/or medieval roofies, the invading army all got wasted and passed out all over the place.  It was at this point that Blenda decided it was time to move on to phase two of her evil plan:  She and her friends snuck out to their farm houses, grabbed whatever instruments of face-wrecking destruction they could get their hands on, and returned to the party carrying a frightening collection of axes, staves, clubs, weed whackers, hedge trimmers, garden rakes, rubber hoses, and pitchforks.

Now it was on like neckbone.  Blenda and the women of Smaland tore the Danes a few new assholes, hacking them all into shark chum in the span of just a few minutes and utterly annihilating the invading army with a few hundred well-placed axe blows directly into the goddamned face.”

From: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blenda.html

DON’T FUCK WITH SCANDINAVIAN WOMEN, MKAY? ;)

darkface:

Boris Vallejo

kobalts-grey:

Cleopatra by *uberkut

(Source: desperatedelight)

darkface:

Vanishness by ruanjiajia

 

darkface:

Door to another world by *karil

ridiculouslybeautiful:

Iza Mika

vicaade:

Art By: Min Yum