Mangaka-Aspiration

Hi I recently entered my Happy 2012  Dragon Year Illustration
into a drawing comeptition on a website called mangamagzine.net and I really need your vote to win!

Please vote for my Year of the Dragon picture in the illustration Competition by following this link www.mangamagazine.net/illustra…
And then click add to favorites or leaving a comment you can cast your vote.

Your support will be much appreciated, please help me to circulate this far and wide the web and ask your friends to vote for my picture too,
by doing this you can make me and my illustrations be more well know!

You can see this great illustration for yourself at my gallery mangaka-aspiration.deviantart.…

Cheers,

Bernard Au (Mangaka-Aspiration)

Freelance Anime Artist/Illustrator taking commissions

I am still taking commissions to doing illustrations of anime style artwork from £5, I can draw manga and anime style characters in pencil, graphics ink pens, and/or full digital coloured paintings.

I can illustrate original characters, to a descriptive brief of the character from you.

I can also do fan art illustrations of anime characters, video game characters of your choice.

I can take your photos of people or celebrities for reference, and then draw and paint them as is, in a realistic style or in a manga/anime style.  I will draw if the subject(s) is posing for a portrait (headshot, half body view) or posed doing some kind of action (full body figure(s)).
The prices for the work that I am willing to do are below:-

1) Photo of yourself, friends, or celebrities drawn in an anime style or a realistic style

• Portraits showing the head and top half of body only, - b/w fully shaded or in inks - £5/US$8
- Coloured digital paintings - £10/US$16
• Full figure portraits, b/w fully shaded or in inks
single figure - £8/US$13 each
groups of people - £16/US$26  
- Coloured digital paintings - £20/US$33

2) Fanart of manga, anime cartoon characters, game characters fanart, celebrity fan art
• Pencil drawings with or without shading - £5/US$8
• Illustrations in inks or inks and traditional colour media - £10/US$16
• Full digital painting fanart illustrations - £15/US$25
- Add £5 extra after that for each additional character you want me to draw


3) Original Manga/Anime Character designs – from full body figures, to poses, and full character profile sheets
• Characters in inks and graphic markers - £4/US$7  per character
• Digital painted characters - £8/US$13 per character
• Character profile sheets in inks and graphic markers - £8/US$13 per character sheet
• Character profile sheets in colour - £16/US$26 per character
You may request to see sample sketches of initial designs I make for the character - £1 per sheet  

Please take the time to look at my gallery and see my work. If you think my artwork is good enough and is the style you're looking for, if you're interesting in hiring me for some work, then please by all means, contact me by my email, or drop me a note, and tell me what you want me to draw and we'll discuss it! Payment to me for commission is going to be by paypal as soon as I set up an account.

* Prices next to the type of commissions that I'm willing to do are subject to change from when you contact me to discuss the specifics of artwork you need doing, and then we work out a deal and a small contract for the actual commission.  

* Please note that I reserve ALL Rights to the artwork that you commission me for. The artwork itself belongs to you, but If you put it to commercial use or show it to others, or put it on the internet, you must credit me fully as the creator of the artwork.

Current projects that I've got on going:

-Manga Character Design - sketches stage
-"Death In Red lipstick"; cover - doing line-art and colouring - 50%
-My own personal comic project - early stages, just writing and drawing ideas

January has been and gone, I was busy with designing a illustration for chinese new year which turned out pretty awesome, did you like the kick ass character I drawn and coloured? Ive already began drawing something for Valentine's Day - a first stage design is finished and I may well post that later, as you might tell from me calling it first stage, its not completely finished as I need to improve it on the colours and add more to the background to make it look more appealing in terms of a valentines feel...

Freelance Anime Artist/Illustrator taking commissions

I am taking commissions to doing illustrations of anime style artwork from £3, I can draw manga and anime style characters in pencil, graphics ink pens, and/or full digital coloured paintings.

I will also illustrate fan art of anime characters, video game characters of your choice.  

I can take your photos of people or celebrities for reference, and then draw and paint them in a manga/anime style. I will draw if the subject(s) is posing for a portrait (headshot, half body view) or posed doing some kind of action (full body figure(s)).  

The prices for the work that I am willing to do are below:-

1) Photo of yourself, friends, or celebrities drawn in an anime style
• Portraits showing the head and top half of body only, - b/w fully shaded or in inks - £3
- Coloured digital paintings - £3.50
• Full figure portraits, single or groups of people, - b/w fully shaded or in inks - £4
- Coloured digital paintings - £4.50

2) Fanart of manga, anime cartoon characters, game characters fanart, celebrity fan art
• Pencil drawings with or without shading - £3
• Illustrations in inks or inks and traditional colour media - £3.50
• Full digital painting fanart illustrations – from £4 to £5 depending on complexity of the scene


3) Character designs – from full body figures, to poses, and full character profile sheets
• Characters in inks and graphic markers £3
• Digital painted characters £4
• Character profile sheets in inks and graphic markers £4.50
• Character profile sheets in colour £5
   
Please take the time to look at my gallery and see my work. If you think my artwork is good enough and is the style you’re looking for, if you’re interesting in hiring me for some work, then please by all means, contact me by my email, or drop me a deviant message, and then we can start discussing what you want to do!

I am gonna succeed this year in turning my life around, to have a career going for me in manga illustration and 3D design one or the other and no matter what someone says its not a good idea or I am not being realistic enough I don't give a shit what you believe is right, I just want you to start acceptting my views and listen to my opinions for a change instead of forcing them on me!!
My new years resolution is simple:- to be a more confident and goal-oriented person. By succeeding in being the person that I can see myself being in my mind, striving to do the things I set out to do will make me a more complete and happy person!  

Bernard
03/01/09