The Download Munkey : A Link A Day ;)

What would be a better way to introduce a site that deals with anime beauties and eye-catching graphics than to display a stunning picture from that blog in question? Another expert technique I learnt from The Elderly Gamer here :p

Here’s a sample illustration of a fictional female samurai from the Jun Tsukasa article @ Rendered Beauty.

© Jun Tsukasa

Stunning graphics are not the only goodies available on Rendered Beauty. There’s photos of anime and manga figures and garage kits (sorry, female characters only :), anime and manga desktop wallpapers and videos, cosplay photos (sorry, also female characters only as well as introductions to more well known anime and manga artists.

If you’re interested in Jun Tsukasa’s artwork, do visit his official site’s gallery and an unofficial gallery @ gallery.shirow.net (Some NSFW images on this site).

Before you start clicking furiously on the above links and disappear permanently from here, do remember to check out another Japanese artist Sana Takeda as well as Johannesburg-based anime-influenced illustrator Warren Louw on this blog

Something interesting today for anime artwork fans.

Warren Louw is an excellent artist hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa. What first attracted me to his artwork was the hair styles for his character designs . The hair designs for almost all of Warren’s work are impressive for their incredible attention to detail and realism Check these artworks Chain and Skai and Catherine. They remind me of the posters of real-life models that I see at trendy hair salons in SG

  

© Warren Louw

Clockwise from top left: Chain, Skai and Catherine

The reason I like his character designs as he is able to draw heavily anime-influenced characters like the ones above as well as those combining both anime influences (hair styling and costumes) and western comic designs (facial features and eyes) like Eri (left) and Forbidden (right) below.

  
© Warren Louw

Rui and Andrea (see below) are also two excellent character designs especially those into Final Fantasy style characters. I love the costume design for these two characters (very King of Fighters like) as well the detail on Rui’s sword hilt. By the way, Tetsuya Nomura, the Japanese illustrator for the Final Fantasy series, is cited as one of Warren’s influences.

  
© Warren Louw

My favourite has to be Project: Sherri. This artwork has to be seen to be believed. The entire artwork is impressive from the facial features (check out the eyes and hair) to the highly-detailed sci-fi costume and sword.

© Warren Louw

Visit Warren Louw’s page @ GfxArtist.com to view the actual size artwork as well as his other works .

Something for the anime fans to browse through for this weekend

Madman Entertainment, an Australian anime distributor has a massive wallpaper archive of the anime that they distribute.

A selection of wallpapers (total of 233 in 1024×768 and 1280×1024 resolutions) from Madman.com.au.

  
  
  
  
  
© Madman Entertainment Pty Ltd

From left to right, top to bottom: Appleseed : The Movie (x2), Burn Up Scramble, Burst Angel (Bakuretsu Tenshi), Chrono Crusade, Full Metal Panic!, Samurai 7, Samurai Champloo, Speed Grapher and finally He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (I watched it when I was a kid - but what’s it doing in the anime wallpapers section, Madman?)