fan art for fandoms (of varying obscurity)

I don't usually draw fan art but when I find a series that I really really like, it's pretty hard not to draw art for it. 

Of course, I started like a lot of you in drawing fan art for Final Fantasy VII and I even did a bit for Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. But because pieces for both fandoms are painfully old and therefore embarrassing, I bring to you my not so embarrassing forays into other fandoms, particularly the smallers ones and the not so smaller ones.

Left to right: Simoun, Padre Sybilla, Elias.
Pencil.

The books Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal were huge inspirations to me back in high school. In fact, these books were one of the few where I felt the insane urge to draw all the characters. Truly a classic. A lot of the characters were pretty clear in my head, but probably not in the way Dr. Rizal intended them to look like. In any case, my very first sketches of the books are here, with Simoun the jeweler with his spectacles and hat (derp, what is period appropriate), Padre Sybilla and Elias.

I've promised myself to redraw these awful sketches one day and probably even embark on a steampunk re-imagining of the book. 

When I was in college, one of the various series that ate my soul was Simoun. I was just discovering the beauty and fluidity of gender and Simoun was truly an interesting piece. I fell in love with all of the characters but two of my most favorite characters were Anubituf and Guragief. These two are probably the first canon gay couple I've seen outside of actual yaoi anime. I have full intentions of drawing more of them when I have some free time.

Anubituf.
PaintToolSAI and Photoshop.

Guragief.
PaintToolSAI and Photoshop.

Soon after, I embarked on the wonder that was Darker than Black. I'm a huge huge fan of anything action and my preferences really do lean toward the shounen side of things. My particular favorites of the series were Hei/Li, November 11 and July. I did see the second season but it didn't really do a lot for me. It did however convince me that August 7 is fantastic and he needs to be drawn more with the other MI6 members.

Nick and Hei.
PaintToolSAI and Photoshop.

November 11 and...?
PaintToolSAI.

November 11 and July, being all familial.
PaintToolSAI and Photoshop.

Tales of Destiny was also one of my favorite games. It's quite a pity that I can hardly find fan art or fan fic of the series. :( Leon Magnus was, and is still, one of my favorite characters in the game. A close second would be Garr. When it was re-released for the PS2 a lot of the names were changed to match the Japanese names so that may be hampering my searching for fanworks of them. Baw.

Leon Magnus.
Colored pencil.

Good Omens is also near and dear to my heart! Just like El Filibusterismo and Noli Me Tangere, I had wanted to draw almost all of the characters. It was basically the book that made me fall in love with both Neil Gaiman's and Terry Prattchett's works.

Adam Young, War, Pollution and Famine.
Pencil.

 It was really in college that I discovered that I quite liked comic books. Especially, gasp, American comic books. One of the first I read back in the day was Lucifer.

Lucifer Morningstar.
Photoshop.

Here's the output of a cross-over idea, in which Lucifer is actually Adam Young's father. I had read the screenplay for Good Omens and just couldn't help putting the pieces together. This idea also spawned this prompt on the Good Omens kink meme and was fulfilled with amazing results. I highly recommend giving this one a read.

Lucifer Morningstar and Adam Young.
Pencil.

While we're on the topic of books, my cousins got me started on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series. I finished all the books back in, ah, January of 2010 I believe and just had to do fan art of it.

Left to right, top to bottom: Luke Castellan, Quintus, Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo, Apollo and Ares.
Pencil.

*spoiler*
Ink.

Hermes.
PaintToolSAI.

Last but not least, I'm a fan of Greek mythology as well. Here's my headcanon!Hermes being adorable.