FAN ART, MORE ORIGINAL

MANGA AND INTERPRETATIVE ART

This gallery contains images inspired by manga or anime I have followed in recent years. I started drawing the images originally as a way of focusing the mind when working on other projects. They have since become something of a passion of mine. By drawing these characters, I am able to understand the craft of creating manga better and the personal styles of some of the artists involved with it. For the sake of simplicity, I keep the images as black and white line drawings with little shading. Please enjoy them for what they are...tributes to the masters of the art.

In other areas, I recently began a series of large images based on characters known to Western comics. The first was Harley Quinn, and then Poison Ivy, who will eventually have a series of works done with her exclusively as the subject. I have also inserted an older block print I did years ago of Catwoman. Just for fun, a joke piece of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings has been done, too.

CARDCAPTORS- Clamp

Follow this page down to see colour interpretations of some of these images.

CHOBITS- Clamp

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION- Gainax and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

MACROSS- Haruhiko Mikimoto

METROPOLIS- inspired by creations of Osamu Tezuka, featuring 2 and 3D art

ARMITAGE THE THIRD- directed by Hiroyuki Ochi

ORIGINAL MANGA

SELECT IMAGES FROM WESTERN COMICS, LITERATURE, and TELEVISION

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN- AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN MULTIMEDIA IMAGERY

I am not a fan of vampire stories. However, the fact that LET ME IN, an American remake of the Swedish film, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, struck a resonant chord with me almost made me a believer. I was particularly struck with some of the promotional images of Chloe Grace Moretz used in the film and decided to adapt one to create an Abby of my own. Changing out some details in hair and the face, I finished with the image below, done without any blending to show people you can create texture without smudging. With the exception of the hair details and the squiggly background, the entire image was textured using vertical lines.

Next, I scanned the work into Photopaint and began to burn in photos in thin layers. Redirecting the light and applying blur filters softened my character's features, making her a part of the scene.

In the final stage, I added a couple of lyrics from the song "LET THE RIGHT ONE IN", a little red atound the mouth- she is a vampire of sorts, afterall- and a frame to put it all together.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

By C.A. Seaman, drawing and compositing copyrighted 2011.

MYTHICAL CREATURES

please note larger images may reveal some artistic imagery of a more mature nature

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The images inspired by existing anime/manga and are not copyrighted by me, except for everything in the ORIGINAL MANGA section, which is mine...my own, MY PRECIOUSSSS....
Last revised: July 03, 2011.