ANIME/MANGA PIECES FROM THE ARCHIVES
I like the look of some manga and anime. I have often been called a ‘fan’ of it, which I resent intensely, because it is a label that carries baggage in terms of pre-conceptions and associations that make me uncomfortable. While occasionally I stylize my work so that people say it reminds them of manga, I rarely actively embrace the concepts completely to do work that can actually be called manga or anime.
Having said that, I posted images in past versions of the website that definitely have that manga look about them. Some of the pieces were for students to copy, feeding into their interests and giving them the chance to develop their skills. The gallery below is filled with selected postings from that era, some of which haven’t seen the cybernetic light of day in years.
Thank-you piece for a great peer tutor 
Another peer tutor piece 
Take a wild guess… 
This was a great team 
I usually posted this in the classroom before reports came out. It never failed to grab their attention. 
This piece was actually published as fan art in NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: THE SHINJI IKARI RAISING PROJECT. (Vol. 3) It’s mixed media coloured pencil with graphite. 
Test study for the students 
Another one 
Study for texture, detail, contrast and value 
For the modified students at the old school 
The Girl is a computer generated model that has been around for years. These studies were from poses set up in Poser, drawn when I was switching over to cg models in my art classes to deal with absenteeism among students, allowing them to keep up when, with live models, they would otherwise have foundered. And you know what? IT WORKED! 
The Girl study- 2 
More finish on the pieces to give students working exemplars. 
Exemplars- 2 
Exemplars- 3 
Exemplars- 4 
I made these and photocopied them for students to shade or colour when they completed their work. There were about 30 or so, but I am just highlighting a couple here. It was good practice for me and nicer than downloading them off Google, which had started only three years earlier. 
Yeah… okay. It was a weird time. 
Goth