ASIA's "README"
  • Sorry but I don't take commissions. This is mainly because due to the fact that I can not force my inspiration, and certainly not for people I don't know very well. Please understand. I am just a free-will fanartist.
  • You are welcome to host or share my fanart anywhere with appropriate credit (mention of my HN, website URL (www.endlessorbit999.com), etc.), and when you do let me know so I can go visit your site (^_^)
  • But please NO secondary modifications such as banners, icons, site background, etc. unless I agreed to draw something specially for that purpose in rare occasions. My fanarts are exactly that, fanarts, and the whole thing needs to stay intact with no additions or deletions. And I do not want them to be representing anything else or anyone else.
ASIA's Little Profile
  • I am a native Japanese, born and raised in Japan but has lived in U.S. for a quite a while.
  • Full time job, 2 cats, a husband (^_^) Drawing is a hobby (serious one though).
  • I am almost exclusively GW1x2 fanartist. Every once in a while I may branch off but it doesn't happen often.
ASIA's Art Materials
All of my fanarts are all analog, which means they are done on sketchbook with regular coloring material, such as watercolor pencils, pastels, and few color markers. If they are black and white, they are done by pencils or ink. I am old-fashioned. I will never move onto CG...there are already plenty of people doing digital, and analog art is too much fun! (^_^)/"
These are the watercolor sketchbooks I use for more "showcase" type of art. Nothing special, just sketchbooks with thick papers for watercolor techniques. I prefer this type of thik papers because I use water with my watercolor pencils. These sketchbooks are slightly bigger than 8x11. The only bad thing about these is the size is slighly bigger than my scanner area...
For more sketchy type of art and manga, I use slightly smaller "Field Watercolor" sketchbook. They basically have same type of paper with the sketchbooks above; the only difference is that these are smaller in size (I placed brown sketchbook on background for size comparison). I can use them more casually just because they are smaller, so I started using them more often. They are also easier to scan, too.
I basically start out any art with pencil and eraser. I prefer mechanical pencils over real pencils. As for erasers, I only use Japanese erasers. I just don't like any erasers here. Everytime I go home I stock up on erasers...
My coloring almost always starts out with watercolor pencils. This is the old set that was collecting dust at my parents house, but these pencils are pretty much all I need. I also have another set I recently purchased but this old set pretty much takes care of all of my needs.

For more sketchy arts, I just use them as pencils. For most of my "showcase" type of arts and mangas, I apply water with paintbrush (top left). Water melts these colors and gives it more watercolor feel to it.
For clear lining, I use small tip ink pens. My preferred choice now is the Sakura Micron pens. Sometimes I use brush-pen I buy in Japan for thicker lining. For vivid hair shine effect I use Copic Sketch Markers (on left) on top of watercolor pencil base. Needless to say I pretty much only buy brown Copic Sketch Markers.

For more printing-ready type of black & white arts (for Japanese DJ, etc.) I use dip type of pen with pen nibs (not shown), but these don't work well with rough surface of watercolor papers so I don't use them for color arts.
Prismacolor soft pastels (right and left bottom) were the best purchase I have ever made in my life (^_^) These colors are great... I normally just take a piece of paper towels rub it directly against pastels, and smear it on the paper. I use pastels mostly for background, and sometimes for clothes, etc. Pastels can give such warm colors and feel to it...

I have also purchased soft pastel pencils (left top). These are great for smaller areas (you can control it better) but the colors themselves do not come out as great as soft pastels.