bento sketch book #7
July 12, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - sketch Tags: sketches
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It’s time for another bento sketch book!
Bento #46: Totoro with cherry blossoms
The drawing wasn’t completely finished, but I like how this bento came out. I had a hard time filling the space in the middle part of bento, but it worked out fine in the end. Totoro inari-zushi was fun to make too.
As you can see, I only finished the half of the sketch, I was too lazy to draw them. 
But instead, I wrote down a list of what I was going to make “ano-niku” with.
Bento #48: : Laputa robot with cherry blossom
Originally, I was going to put him lying straight in the bento box, but I realized that he was too long and I’d have to make him really small… So I changed to the angle of his body so his body would be the same size as the inari. I didn’t draw too many details for this one, but I did a detailed drawing of the fox-squirrel as reference on a different piece of paper.
For this bento, I only drew one Patapon. I was going to make a more complicated monster, so I drew it, but I ended up making the easier monster. I drew a round shaped tree from the game in the sketch, but after putting Patapons, I ended up making trees with snowpeas.
Bento #50: Prinny
I didn’t trace it, but I basically copied the cover design of the Prinny game for this sketch. I drew many characters for this bento in the sketch, but I couldn’t even make the half of them. I really wanted to make the tomato head worm though.
For bigger versions of my sketches, just click on the image of the sketch or visit Bento Sketches! on my flickr page.
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
bento sketch book #6
May 26, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog - sketch Tags: sketches
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We still had tons of leftovers from Cracker Barrel, so no need to make bento. =/
Instead, here are some sketches!
Bento #41: Ryuk from Death Note
I mostly focused on Ryuk’s face, so not much is going on around him. As I mentioned, I did draw Shido and Rem in the background first, but erased them later. I usually don’t erase anything from my sketchbook even if I didn’t have the time to make it. But this time, it was too distracting, and I couldn’t draw Ryuk’s wings with them in the background.
Just like any other Totoro bento, this drawing was done in less than 5 minutes. I love drawing Totoro. It just makes me smile. 
But I did look up for the logo for Studio Ghibli which appears in the beginning of every Studio Ghibli film as a reference. (The line drawing of Totoro in profile, with chibi-Totoro on his head)
This simple sketches of bunch of square heads in line took FOREVER to draw. I just couldn’t come up with a good composition for this, so I ended up making just the heads. I should’ve realized that the hole punch was much smaller than the eyes I drew for Castle Crashers. Then I wouldn’t have made the head so big, and the eyes would’ve been the perfect size. =/ And as you can see in the drawing, I was going to put bunch of animal orbs in this bento, but I was obviously delusional to plan such a thing. So instead of spending 3 more hours to make the animal orbs for this bento, I decided to make a bento just with animal orbs.
Whoops, seems like I didn’t paste the animal orb cutouts on this page… I’ll update the picture of my drawing later.
Bento #45: Pink Castle Crasher with Tom Fulp
I drew this Pink Castle Crasher after watching the video of someone playing the game, “Castle Crashing, the Beard.” Because I suck at the game and I kept dying before I got to Pink Castle Crasher. It turns out the most common Pink Castle Crasher doesn’t have a ” <3 ” on his/her head. He/She’s just like a regular Castle Crasher, in pink, with <3 on his/her chest. But I like my Pink Castle Crasher with a ” <3 .”
For bigger pictures of my sketches, just click on the image of sketch or visit Bento Sketches! on my flickr page.
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
bento sketch book #5
May 14, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - sketch Tags: pink castle crasher
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Before I go onto bento sketch book, I want to show off something…
I received a very rare Pink Castle Crasher from Luis from Newgrounds!
Came with bunch of weapons as well.
I think I wrote about how he was holding a contest “make an edible pink castle crasher!” at Newgrounds.com on my blog before, and he picked three winners! (Check out his site for the winners.)
Anyway, I sent the picture of my Pink Castle Crasher bento to Tom Fulp (one of the creators of Castle Crashers), but I wrote that since I wasn’t a member on Newgrounds.com to begin with, I felt that it’d be unfair to register for the site just to enter the contest, but I still wanted him to see it. Then we received an email, asking us if we want a Pink Castle Crasher anyway. We would’ve been insane to say no. There exists only 15 Pink Castle Crasher figures in the world! It just makes me happy when the original creator of something I created actually gets to see my creation, so for them offering me something so precious just blew me away. I do feel bad about those who entered the contest, trying to win this desperately, and thought about not putting the picture of it on my blog, but… come on! It looks so freaking awesome!
I’d like to thank Luis and Tom from Newgrounds and Dan from the Behemoth studio for being such cool creators of awesome games!
Now onto my bento sketch book…
As you can see in the drawing, I wanted to put the kitty from the game… but I couldn’t. Also I had no idea what I was going to use for the bottom part. I just wrote down “broccoli.” But I happened to make teriyaki chicken the night before, so I decided to use it in the morning.
Bento #37: Headcrab from Half-life
I’m so embarrassed by this drawing. I just couldn’t draw Headcrabs. They all looked like turkeys. This was a very rare case that the actual bento ended up looking better than the drawing.
Bento #38: Payatan from Da Mahou Touge
I just drew Payatan and bunch of faces for each vegetable on the side. I didn’t like how Payatan’s face came out in the actual bento though… He doesn’t look like him. =/ I guess I’ll have to make Payatan with his serious face someday.
Bento #39: Mehazawa from Cromartie High
I was feeling ambitious when I drew this, thinking that I could put those two guys in the bunny and bear suit. I drew Mechazawa sitting in the desk, but I couldn’t think of anyway to do it, so I just made him standing up, but I had to cut off his legs… And for some reason, Mechazawa’s brother is floating in the air, which also has no feet. This is what happens if you don’t plan things in advance.
This is the drawing of FAIL. It took so long to draw this, and it took even longer to make food look like it. It was a disaster. As I wrote in the original post, I ran out of the time, so I didn’t make the main character’s head. But I didn’t want to waste the lower body part, so I just stuck it in there. I don’t even know what happened to the bunny…
For bigger pictures of my sketches, just click on the image of sketch or visit Bento Sketches! on my flickr page.
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
bento sketch book #4
May 3, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - sketch Tags: sketches
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It was raining all weekend (except for the couples of hours of sun peeking through the clouds on Saturday)
I stayed home, cleaned the house, and worked on a new project. I’ll post a picture of it when it’s done.
So in short, no how-to today, and I’ll post some pages from my sketch book.
Bento #32: Where the wild things are (left side)
It took me forever to do this sketch… This wasn’t an original composition or anything. I tried to copy the existing drawing, and it still took a really long time. On top of that, I drew the wild things waaay too big. There were too many detailed parts I had to use seaweed for, so I had to draw their face on a separate paper to use it to cut seaweed.
Bento #32: Where the wild things are (right side)
This one also took me a really long time to draw. I just couldn’t make Calivn & Hobbes look like them at all. The style is very unique and hard to copy, and I think also it was because their faces were facing to the right. (usually, it’s easier to draw a face facing to the left if you’re right handed) I should’ve done something on the croquette. (the bottom “ground” part)
Bento #34: Battlestar Galactica
Not too much going on in this drawing. I just had to simplify the Cylon head, to mold rice and cut the lines from seaweed. I didn’t plan anything special to fill the gap between food, thus the broccoli forest. T_T I regret being so lazy, but I especially liked how Cylon head came out. I should’ve also tried to make the corners look better.
The drawing looks pretty scary now… Tingle standing with bunch of heads floating around him. I just didn’t think I could make a body for each Tingle, but I had to make sure that I had the face of each Tingle drawn for reference. I also drew the details on his belt and clock. The flowers were from his game, but I didn’t have the time to do it.
For bigger pictures of my sketches, just click on the image of sketch or visit Bento Sketches! on my flickr page.
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
bento sketch book #3
April 14, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - sketch Tags: sketches
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No bento blog today, but I’d like to show more sketches from my bento sketch book. Most of the notes are in Japanese, but you can still see what went wrong and what went right.
Bento #28: Toon Link!
Something is different about him (in both my sketch and the actual bento)… Maybe his mouth? Maybe his head wasn’t big enough? As I explained in my blog post of this bento, I originally wanted to have Tingle in this bento, but I didn’t have time to do it… But I like how the clothes on him look like real fabrics.
Bento #29: Moyashimon!
What a half-assed job I did for this sketch… It seemed so easy that I totally underestimated this. Some of bacteria were made up by me, and didn’t even have face on them in the sketch. The bento looked cute, but I wasn’t too happy about it since it wasn’t very accurate.
Bento #30: Rayman Raving Rabbids 2!
This bento came out pretty much exactly like the sketch. I doodled Rayman and a toilet outside the bento just in case I had extra time to make them, but when do I ever have extra time when I make bento? NEVER.
Bento #31: Totoro Snowman!
I got lazy and didn’t draw snow in the sketch, so the sketch doesn’t look like anything that interesting. Totoro is my safety-blanket bento, and just drawing a sketch of Totoro makes me happy. Besides, this bento didn’t have that much details either, so I did this sketch in about 5 minutes. Gotta love Totoro!
For bigger pictures of my sketches, just click on the image of sketch or visit Bento Sketches! on my flickr page.
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
