Hi there!
After stalking the forum for the past few days, I've finally decided to register! I haven't before because I didn't have the time to introduce myself properly, but now I managed to spare some time and here I am! ^^ I don't usually register in many forums, but after analyzing this one, I thought I should give it a try! =)
I Iike drawing in manga style, but I still have to improve in many aspects. I'm usually busy with the university and can't draw as much as I'd like, but I'm always trying to draw, even when I'm not supposed to (when I need to study, prepare for my exams or write essays, for example), so I'm always a bit worried when I'm drawing because of this lack of responsibility of mine, that's why I decided to draw this profile picture I'm using, because I'm often "tense" like this, haha!
Well, let me introduce myself ^^
Name: Karina (TiNoSa is a nickname).
Gender: Female
How did I find the forum: I was looking for something related to drawing (now I don't remember exactly what) and came across one of the topics here. I didn't know this forum existed and, after taking a look, I became interested =)
What I am: I'm a (fan)artist, I've been drawings fanarts, mainly. I do draw OCs, I also have stories for them, but I think I'm not so good when it comes to creating my own characters. On the other hand, I fall in love easily with good character designs from anime/manga characters, and when I like the character's story or personality, I just have to draw them! xD The interesting thing is that, at first, I didn't like to draw fanarts, but nowadays 90% of my drawings are fanarts from characters I like, hehe. Most of the times I try to be faithful to the original character design, but sometimes I do some crazy things with the characters, hahah.
As for my drawing style, I draw digitally. I enjoy different drawing and coloring styles and have experimented with some of them, but what I like most are clean linearts and cel shading (I draw messy sketches too). You'll see =)
Age: 21
Country: I noticed that there are people from other countries besides the US here, and now I'm one of them! ^^ I'm from Brazil. Yup, I speak Portuguese, so feel free to speak to me in English, Portuguese or even Spanish, cause I can understand it well, although I prefer to answer in English cause I'm not so good at writing when it comes to Spanish. I believe you guys already noticed that I'm not very good at writing in English too, haha. Sorry for any mistakes D:
Favorite Mangas: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Tokyo Babylon, Wild Adapter, Shiikugakari Rika, Tetsu x Rika, Tantei Aoneko, Sakura-Gari, xxxHolic, Eyeshield 21, MPD-Pscyho, etc, etc. Well, there are many, specially mangas by CLAMP, Motoni Modoru, Kazuya Minekura, Katou Setsuko, Haruka Minami, Yamagata Satomi, Yamato Nase, Mizukami Shin, Suzuki Tsuta, etc. Yeah, lots of yaoi authors here ^^
Favorite Animes: Fate/Zero, Sengoku Basara, Tekkonkinkreet, Aoi Bungaku Series, Chobits, Chouyaku Hyakuninisshu: Uta Koi, Death Note, Ixion Saga DT, Magi, etc.
Other interests/hobbies: My favorite hobby is reading manga. After that is drawing, then watching animes, and finally sleeping! Yeah, I like to sleep a lot when I can, it's almost a hobby to me xD
What I'd like to do here: I was looking for a place where I could talk to other artists and receive critique, because I think critiques are very useful and would help me to improve. I'm not an expert at drawing, but I'll try my best to give feedback to people here, too. It's very nice when it's reciprocal =) By the way, I believe I'm very optimistic when it comes to drawing, because for me is very easy to see what's good in other artists works, so I like to look at people's strong points, but although I'm years far from being a pro, I'll try to give advice when necessary, too ^^
I'm very sorry for the lenght of this text, but that's it! Please check out my drawings, tell me what you like about them, what you dislike as well, feel free to give critiques (you can correct my English mistakes too, I'd be thankful) ^^
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My FanartsI'll post the OC's later ^^