One Piece

NHML – Nico Robin

The Near Hentai Monthly Lady for December 2016 is Nico Robin from One Piece. While working out various sketches for what to do with her, I hit upon the idea for this pic, which necessitated adding Nami. Since nobody seemed to mind her inclusion, I ran with it, and this is the end result. I tried my best to make it clear that it’s Sanji fucking Nami and Zoro fucking Robin, but who know’s if it’s clear without being spelled out. All four characters are sporting their attire from the Dressrosa arc, as requested in the cBox.

Nami Pin-Up

I’ve mentioned before that I have many unfinished pieces floating around in my work folder, and for some time this was one of them. I drew this one all the way bag in August of 2014, and never got around to coloring it until just now. After that much time I usually abandon a pic, but this one held up pretty well, mostly due to it being a solo piece. I think if I had drawn her with one or more other characters, the quality would’ve suffered and I’d be embarrassed to post it now.

That being said, the colors are brand new and I think they save the pic. This one’s a bit of a departure from what I usually do, partly because of its time capsule-esque history. I don’t do many pin-up/softcore pics anymore, and it’s also been a long time since I’ve done anything with One Piece. However, if the response is good, I could see myself doing more of both in the future.

Things Are Heating Up

Some of you may remember a picture I did over a year ago featuring the unlikely trio of Bulma, Starfire and Katara. The story to that picture is the same as this one. I had one of my friends dig through a folder of my reference pictures and choose one as the pose. I then had another friend, who hadn’t seen the picture, choose which characters would go into the pose. That’s how we got this picture of Zuko, Ace and the Flame Princess.

I drew this one over a year ago, so I feel like it doesn’t quite hold up to my current standards (no background, I think Zuko looks kind of off). However, general laziness on my part meant it kept getting pushed to the side, and I just now finished it. I have two other pictures from this game (one paired with each of these I’ve done so far, where the two friends in question traded roles), but I have no idea if I’ll ever color them and post them here. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but I have bigger, more interesting projects I’d rather focus on for the time being.

COY 4 – Nami/Videl

COY stands for Cross Over Yuri. The premise is pretty simple, I have a list I’ve compiled of over 500 cute girls from various anime and manga. I then use a random number generator to make pairing, which I then draw. Every third picture is a threesome.

This was a complicated piece. Not because of anything with the image itself, but because I got into quite a tiffle with Gelbooru over it. Apparently, it didn’t meet their quality standards because Videl’s mouth, quote, “Looks like a Goomba.” Whatever. For some reason, their policy against allowing Western artists never came up, though.

Interestingly enough, though, I saw this pic on Gelbooru several months later. It was up for quite a while before someone realized I wasn’t Japanese and had it taken down. During that time, it received an extremely high rating and had several very positive comments, probably more than it deserved. Go figure.