16 comic thumbnails on a single piece of paper, drawn with a rollerball pen. The studies are from the comic “Yokohama Kadaishi Kikou”.

Some manga studies I did over the summer of a comic I really enjoy “Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou”. It’s about a robot girl who runs a cafe during a sort of quiet apocalypse. It’s a bit older (1994) and is a little bit gay. I absolutely love the art style, the pacing and how slow it is. I highly recommend checking it out if you can. There’s four OVA episodes for it over on youtube. The first two were fantastic but the second two were done in 2006 and weren’t as good.

Manga studies are such a nice way to look at my favourite comics in a different way. How are they panelled? How does the artist pace the story? How do they use B&W to it’s limit?

I’ve done manga studies before in this public post of Monkey Punch studies, or for Grab Bag Patrons I posted a whole sketchbook of studies!

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Rectangular image of a black and white drawing with some greyscale. Lupin from the shoulders up clearly kneeling with one hand on his heart and the other holding up a poinsettia. He’s wearing a Santa hat. Jigen is on the other side of the image facing away from Lupin blushing but smiling, he’s wearing a leather jacket and pulling his black hat down over his face.

Rectangular image of a black and white drawing with some greyscale. Lupin is in the foreground in a hat, scarf and coat being hit by a snowball, his left arm is up protecting his face from the snowball. Zenigata is in the background running towards Lupin after just having thrown the snowball at Lupin. Yata is face down in the snow in the background with snow on his back.Rectangular image of a black and white drawing with some greyscale. Lupin and Jigen are shown from the chest up while sleeping in a bed together. The covers are up covering their chests. Jigen is on the left holding his pillow and snoring, his night cap falling off his messy hair. Lupin is on the right and awake, he’s looking over at Jigen lovingly with a hand up by his own chest.Rectangular image of a black and white drawing with some greyscale. Two panels are shown. Panel one is Lupin running away but his face looking back at the camera, his eyes are closed and he’s smiling widely. There are christmas trees and lights around him in a dark night time background. The second panel shows Zenigata stopped in his tracks, blushing and eyes wide as he looks at Lupin who’s off screen. Zenigata is also surrounded by christmas trees and lights.

Four more days for the advent calendar event over at lupiniii.club where each day a piece of fanart or fic is revealed, along with a prompt! I’ve been trying my darnedest to get a prompt drawn up each day, posting them each day is a bit hard so I’ll be posting them in batches!

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Black and white ink drawing of Goemon wearing a samurai helmet and Jigen pointing at it saying “It looks good!” Text above them reads “Lupin Advent Calendar Day 1: A gift they’ve always wanted”

Black and white drawing of a reflection of Fujiko looking at herself in the mirror and smiling. She’s wearing a slinky dress, a feather boa, and Christmas tree earrings. Text above her reads “Lupin Advent Calendar Day 2: Getting ready for the holidays”Black and white drawing of Lupin holding a stack of wrapped gifts as he walks through a quiet winter street, there’s shops behind him and it’s snowing. He’s smiling and wearing a long peacoat.Black and white drawing of Zenigata from behind, he’s yelling “Lupin!” from an open window. He has lipstick on his mouth and cheek. Lupin is in the distance running away while wearing a dress and wig. He’s laughing. Text above them reads “Lupin Advent Calendar Day 4: Escape”Black and white drawing of an emperor penguin in profile at a zoo exhibit, while Jigen, Lupin, and Goemon watch on in the background from behind the zoo barrier. Text above them reads “Lupin Advent Calendar Day 5: Penguin”Black and white ink drawing of Zenigata resting in a fancy cafe chair. He’s smiling with a fancy drink, and wearing a straw boater hat with a flower print button up short sleeve shirt. Lupin and Jigen are in the background at a different table grinning and whispering to each other. Text above them reads “Lupin Advent Calendar Day 6: Vacation”

There’s a holiday event going on over at lupiniii.club where each day a piece of fanart or fic is revealed, along with a prompt! Other folks can join in if they want and do a piece for the daily prompt, which is chosen by the artist of the day! It’s been real fun to sketch these in my sketchbook every day so far.

Day three was my day to post my big piece, and my prompt was “shopping”.

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Image with multiple black and white inked drawings on it. The first drawing shows a couple hugging each other and smiling. The second is Lupin and Jigen from Lupin Zero looking at each other while their hands are touching spontaneously. Drawing three shows an older man holding a wrench in one hand and wiping sweat off his brow with his other hand. Drawing four shows Lupin and Jigen on a picnic together eating sandwiches.

Four shoutouts for my Private Collector gang, it’s always really fun to draw folks’ ocs and some cute Lupin/Jigens!

Every month that someone pledges to the Private Collector tier on Patreon, they get an inked doodle shoutout that appears in my monthly sketchbook, usually waist up and a max of two characters. The request acts as mini commissions and folks can ask for their OCs, my OCs, or any kind of fanart.

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