Old Anime Drawings Game and Manga Fanarts
Written by Teresita Blanco (The Artsy Sister)
When I was in high school, I limited myself to drawing fanarts. Due to financial constraints, I only had pencil and paper to work with.
I was always asking the teachers to give me some print paper to draw on. It got so pathetic that eventually one of my teachers bought me a drawing notebook, and three drawing pencils.
I got a lot of usage out of those art supplies. That early part of my career taught me that you do not need a lot of supplies to produce quality art.
This also gave me the habit of being frugal with my art supplies. I use them to the absolute limit, and before I get anything I ask myself a simple question: Do I really need this?
In high school, I used to spend my money on video games, instead of art supplies. Video games was something that my brother could engage with.
We only bought one game per year.
We got a lot of fun out of the Final Fantasy 7 game. I drew a fan art of Aeris. I prefer the original spelling of her name.
Another game that I liked a lot was Valkyrie Profile 2. It had quite the unique gameplay. This brings me to the next fan art. It features Freya.
Freya shows up more in Star Ocean till the end of Time. The PS2 had the best gaming library.
I have a lot of fond memories of all the games I played back then. Back in high school, I read a lot of mangas.
The library had a humble collection of mangas. One day, all were removed from the collection. I think it had to do with Tokyo Babylon.
It was one of the mangas that was part of the library. It is a good thing that I read through all the mangas before they disappeared.
Tokyo Babylon was one of my first exposures to Clamp’s manga works. On TV, they only showed Card Captor Sakura.
What I liked best about Clamp’s work was the way they rendered feminine characters.
Some of my early drawings are sketches of manga panels from Chobits. The plot is not my personal favorite, but I have to give credit where credit is due.
Chi is a very pretty, existentially depressed robot. Other manga works that I read were Fullmoon, Merupuri, Ceres, Wolf Rain, Ramna ½ and Inuyasha.
One of my old friends was a big otaku. I was always borrowing all her mangas to read them.
I kept reading mangas during my time in Collage. FIU had an interesting manga and comic collection.
I am speaking in past tense because I do not know if it is still there. Libraries get purged by puritans on a regular basis.
It is a practice that started in Medieval Times and it has continued till this day. As a writer, I find it a little sad.
Past writers worked really hard to create literary works, for them to have them be thrown away.
It doesn’t surprise me that there are such low literacy levels in the States.
The books that the students want to read are the ones that are always thrown away.
These days I do not read as many mangas as I did back then. I have a finite amount of time in the day, and I need my beauty sleep.
When I am not working on my website, I spend my time writing books or working on my mangas.
I sometimes like to look back on my early works. Even though, they are just fanarts, they laid the foundations for the original artwork I was to produce later in life.
This is Teresita Blanco, the Artsy Sister. Bye, bye and God bless.
