Just wanted to say a big thank you to the people who have brought prints off me all year and especially to those who have done so recently, you guys have paid for my flight so I can spend Christmas in Ireland with my girlfriend. You guys are awesome. ^_^

Oh and I am officially taking orders for commissions on cosplay props, painting and custom prints. The slots are first come first serve. There's only a few open for now since it's the holiday season. But if you guys have anything you want making then run it by me and I'll let you know if it can be done.

Thank you all again!

Nanahra-

I'm seriously thinking about doing some commissions for cosplay props and some canvas paintings. I'm not sure yet but I'm seriously considering it. I already have an order to do some Assassins creed hidden blade gauntlets to as close to realistic as I can make it since the ones on sale on some cosplay shops are pretty bland and simplistic. If any of you have any ideas or are interested then let me know. If the demand is there then I might start taking some public orders.

Thanks.

Nanahra Out-

P.s. My NCR Ranger Costume got it's own article on Kotaku.com! I'm so freaking happy I can't tell you. You can find it here : [link]

After 23 years of full time education, after all the exams, tests, essays, emotional turmoil and countless sleepless nights I can finally say I'm done, it's all over. No longer a student, I have a focus and at last a title to what I am. I am a Game Artist and I'm fucking proud of it. Thank you Dad, for everything you gave to get me here, it's all for you.

It's been a while so I thought I'd better update on how things in my life right now. Since the last update i have indeed gotten onto the 3rd year of my university course and everything seems to be going great so far, Its difficult work don't get me wrong but its great to be here and on this course. I worked on over the summer on my modeling skills and it really payed off when I came to to the DeLorean car project which you can see the renders of in my gallery. Drawing wise I've been experimenting a lot more with multicolor shading and highlight drawing techniques using white pencils on black. Coming up with interesting results and will carry on trying this out to see how it all goes but i like where its going but i still need to work on freeing up my style a bit more, still seems a bit locked in high detail, need to learn to be more free.

The biggest thing that happened to me since last May is the fact I have now got the most amazing person in my life and I'm so lucky shes my girlfriend, just so happy I cant explain. Shes on DeviantArt also so go check out my lovely Sues work here : Love you so much hun ^_^

But other than that i wish everyone out there well and look forward to showing you more of my work and seeing yours in turn.

Nanahra Out -

Friends of mine you should also check out:

Another year passes us by and it’s time to start planning ahead for the future once again. What are my goals? What do I hope to achieve and how do I plan to better myself in preparation for the all important 3rd year? My main plan over these coming summer months is to improve my skills in using and understanding 3D Studio Max to the high standard that I should be at this point in time. I have found it a difficult and often frustrating program to use at times and at least in my experience have slowed my learning process of the program by too much for where I should be right now. But after doing the group project my execution of Asset creation and texturing have vastly improved so I look to improve my High-Poly modelling over the summer with particular attention to character modelling and hand modelling, both things I have had major issues within the past but feel now more ready to be able to create a more suitable model. I’m hoping I can practice a lot over the summer so I can also become a lot faster as one issue I have at the moment is that my pace can sometimes be too slow and this has a knock-on effect when I’m trying to do other work, getting faster will defiantly free up more time for me to do more work.

Art wise I want to practice more with colour on traditional media such as paints and pastels as I have spent most of my life drawing this year working with charcoal and graphite sticks. I have no issues with using colours but just wanted improve my charcoal rendering as it’s not something I’ve had a lot of experience with in the past. I will try to draw some location scenes with paint and such over the summer for practice as well as a bit of still life work in preparation for the 3rd year. The masterpiece project we did in Photoshop really helped in my understanding in the layering of colours and the directions of lines to achieve different effects so I aim to try and emulate this in my work as it as a lot more free and spontaneous than my current stiff and technical style. I have made big improvements in what I used to be like with my drawing but I do feel it needs loosening up further.

Above all I hope I am able to get into the 3rd year to be able to put all this work into practice. After the issues I’ve had over the past 12 months and the setbacks that have jumped my way being able to come back for the 3rd and final year with a clean slate will be a great reward. I have some time over the summer to be able to get myself together and come back with a renewed focus and stronger determination to better myself and achieve the best I can so I can get into the position to be able to get a job in the industry I love. It hasn’t and won’t be an easy road but I look forward to every step that gets me there. In closing I just want to thank the Tutors and some of you out there that have helped me and guided me through a very difficult time in my life and given me the motivation to keep myself moving forward, Your help and advice won’t be forgotten. Good Luck to you all.

I can't believe I've finally maade it this Far,!!! I can't even make a cup of tea without falling over thin air, I hate myself so much. I hope that I can be as awesome as Break one day but I know that will never happen because he cant be matched... or Emily (hehehe Looser), here's to another 10,000 Fails

I can't believe I've finally made it this Far,!!! Thank you to everyone, all my watchers and to everyones who has looked at and enjoyed my work. Thank you all so much. I hope I can continue to produce work that people can look at and enjoy, here's to another 10,000

I dont know... lets see what the future holds...

I had hopes that this summer was going to be fun, that I was going to go away on holiday to enjoy myself and I was going to get plenty of art work done but this has not come to pass. On July 13th I got a phone call while in greece seeing my Brother to say that my father had past away. Being stuck a thousand miles away crying and my mum having to deal with this on her own with her children not there was a total nightmare. This is not how my life should have turned out, this is not how my dad should have left us, this should not be happening. I am now in a position where i need to rethink whats going on in my life, what direction I need to take and how I want to get there. I miss my father so much and I know that he must have felt he had no other choice because he left behind so many people that love him, the biggest regret is that he will never see the fruits of all the hard work that I have gone through just to make him proud, I will miss you forever and always and everything I achieve from this point forward is dedicated to my grandad and you dad. I love you and I hope I get to see you again one day. Rest in Peace. xxx

Well its come to the time of year where uni is winding down and its time to head home for the summer, and I cant wait. Get to go and see my brother in Greece and just relax for a few months, hopefully get some new artwork done too. I would like to get a few canvas paintings done if I can plus I need to work on my 3D Studio Max skills and get better for when I return for the second year of my Game Art course at Uni. Other than that I wish everyone a happy summer and hope you all have fun, oh and keep an eye out for my Nanahra character for those who remember my graphic novel and game concepts... I'm planning on doing a revamp "version 2" of it so it will be a lot more detailed, this means that the first few pages i did will be revamped and redrawn then the story will continue... See you all soon.

Nanahra Out -

P.S. I have a new Twitter account that you can find here : [link]

Oh and dont forget you check out my Blog ( Shameless Plug ) : [link]

I've finally cought up with my univesity blogging and setting the page up to look a bit more clean and presentable, i've never really paid it much attention but im starting to get into it. If you want to take a look you can find it here : [link]

I'd just like to thank the people who've looked at my page and managed to get me to 6000 Views. I hope you liked what you saw and lookforward to showing you all more in the future, things have been slow recently but i'll do my best to start making more posts soon. But again, Thank you to everyone who visited my page, commented on my work or even added it to your favorites, It means alot.

Thank you all

Nanahra.

First of all Hello everyone in deviantART land and thanks for getting me past 5000 page views It may seem a small amount to some but every little helps.

Since I last posted my Journal a lot has happened. I have finished College, my girlfriend and I went our separate ways, been accepted and moved to De Montfort University in Leicester, UK to study an Honors Degree in Game Art. The whole thing has been a real roller coaster but things seem to be calming down now. The course has got some very talented people running it who actually travel the world talking to game company's asking what they want out of there artists and then write all the projects to fit what they need, So we really have great inside help from people in the industry such as CodeMasters, EA, SEGA and more. It's going to be a great 3 years...

Nanahra Out -

Another year and another term finished. I'm finally free from the shackles of education... at least for a few months. Anyway its been a busy 3 weeks but I've had a fun few days and it gets better next week.Yesterday (July 3rd) I celebrated an mourned the fact that i turned 25 (sweet lord its gone fast) and had the biggest supply of meat i have ever seen at a BBQ.... Yum, Today (4th of July) I officially finished college and tomorrow (5th) I'm on my way for a holiday in Greece. Can't wait.

Just got to keep myself busy this summer... my main plan is to build a replica Ghostbusters proton pack for giggles plus i alway want a toy one when i was a kid and never got one so I'm going to build a proper one... Plus I'm competing in a wrestling even in August so i have that to train for too.

I hope you all have a great summer holiday and happy 4th of July to anybody reading this in America. See you all in a week.

Nanahra Out -

At the moment I'm going through the final stages of my Major Project for the year, and since this is a stressful time I'm currently going through the hating of everything and everyone stage of the working process. I'm extremely tired having been creating and editing together a trailer for my videogame and completing the final advertising products to complete the campaign. I just have to hold out for another week and its all over... I hope I can hold out that long.

ANYWAYS.... enough of my rambling.

Since the last time I posted I finally hit 4000 page views.  Thank you people I have stated posting some of the P.O.S. designs (the advertising stuff) and more of this will come soon. I would like to thank all the people who liked the icons i posted and have become (as of writing this) have become my most popular and most downloaded pieces of work.

for those of you who missed them they can be found here :

Laughing Man Icons : [link]

Individual 11 Icons : [link]

Thank you to averyone who have bought prints off me, it's nice to know other people like my work.

Seeyou all soon.

Nanahra Out -

Greetings Fellow DeviantARTists... Some things have been bugging me as of late, one thing is that i have work unfinished and just left on the side while other projects distract my interest... well no more dear reader! I have decided to finish some work i promised to do long ago and restart a project that should never have stopped in the first place.

For those of you who remember my Cowboy Bebop piece ' 3,2,1... Let's Jam ' (see here : [link] ) featuring Mr Spike Spiegel, a lot has happened since i posted it, the best of which was it becoming the first piece of work i manged to sell a print of here on deviant art. so i thought if people liked it i may as well finish the collection and here they are, Parts 2 and 3 of this Cowboy Bebop collection and i hope you enjoy them:

Faye Valentine : [link]

and

Jet Black : [link]

The second thing on my agenda was to restart a project i should never have stopped. Its been over a year since i last posted a page for my graphic Novel ' Nanahra: The NightBlood Hunter ' but the wait is over and the work is back on. There are more pages in progress but i wanted to get this one out now so at least some of you can see where I'm at and how the story has progressed. You can find the page here :

Nanahra Novel: Page 4 : [link]

I've progressed the style a lot since the first few pages so it may involve me going back at some point to 're-master' if you will the original pages and cover.

Anyways, Hope you are all doing well and I look forward to your comments.

See you all Soon.

Nanahra Out -

Hello all in DeviantART land. A lot has happened since my last post just after Christmas and as you can probably tell by the title of this Journal it has not been good. 4 week ago from today (8th March 2008 as of writing this) my Granddad, Clifford Thomas, passed away. The loss of him is something that I don't think will ever really be able to come to terms with and it is by far the saddest thing that as ever happened to me next to the loss of my childhood friend which is a story for another day. My family lived and breathed the rules he laid down to make us the close and proud family we are today. For me I have lost the person i respected and admired more than any other person in my life, he was my critic as well as my number one fan. All the work I've ever done since I was a child was always shown to him first because he was always looking forward to seeing what I had made and how I had done it. All I have done and will ever do is for him, To make him proud as I always wanted to make him and to one day achieve the success he always wanted to see me enjoy but never got the chance to see. He was and is my hero and I miss you more than I can ever say.

With tears in my eyes i just want to say this to you where ever you are:

"I love you granddad and I will make you proud I swear."

John Clifford Haddock.

Hello everyone in DeviantART land. Its been a long time since i last posted thing on here (checks calender... OMG July! ) be given the season and all the festive cheer being distributed i thought it would be a good time to return and start from where i left off. First off Merry New year and a happy new Christmas to everyone. Since the last time i was here some things i posted had been deleted.. damn them.. but i have started the process of reposting the missing images from my previous posts. Along with some old posts i have also posted some new works, nothing too major but just thought I'd mention it. if you want to see them here are just the two new work posts:

Samurai Champloo Wallpaper: [link]
Laughing Man Wallpaper: [link]

Hope Everyone had a great Holiday Season and i shall talk to you all soon.

-Nanahra Out

Hello all. Just want to say thank you as i have finnally passed the 2000 page view mark. Roll on 3000.

P.S. Someone or something has deleated half of my posted deviations so i will have to repost them in due course. Hope its devart problem and not someone hacking my account and deleating my stuff. Otherwise i will have to start investigating...

Nanahra Out-

In my on-going struggle of learning new programs and new ways to present my work to all of the peple of the DevArt world I have made a few short videos shoing how I did some of my most popular image posts from the black lines upwards. There are 3 videos for you to select and im sure at some point i will do more, but if any of you have requests to see how i did any of my images then leave me messages and i'll see if i can make those vidoes for you and post the links on anothere blog.. anyway the first 3 are:

(1) 'Appleseed: PhotoShop Rebuild' [link]

(2) 'Seras Victoria' [link]

(3) 'Motoko Kusanagi : 2ndGiG' [link]

Oh and thats not all...
As some of you may remember I posted a link to the trailer of a student film im a part of called 'Metal Gear Crimson: Death of Liberty'. Well the FINAL trailer has just been compleated and it is epic.. well. okay at least. but check it out and i hope you all enjoy... [link]