BARAPALOOZA THE SECOND

 

And just half a year later Barapalooza was back. I didnt expect it too soon to be honest since the first one didnt had too much time to organize and my wallter was still in rehab after spent too much money on bara stuff last year, but it was back anyway we like it or not.

But this time was much much bigger, twice as bigger, with more artists, less yaoi and more furry as well. New artists who where missing in the first eddition as well as old friends, lots of cosplay this time (mostly half nude men in puppy mask) and activitys with prices and events, tough still contained in a medium size place.

First day was incrediblly full of people and actually most of the merch was sold out that very same day!!! I am very glad for the artists but i wasnt able to buy some of the products i wanted thanks to it. Also every time you buy somethign form an artists, they give you a small sticker for the conbook and once you get the stickers of all artists they give you a coin cnmemorative of the event. I really wanted the coin but buy something from each artists was way too much.

There was still a lot of bara artists missing but i am glad to see this event taking shape with each edition and i hope they later bring artists from another countrys as well and again, i felt "strange" buying this kind of stuff actually but this is a dream come true, specially at the begining of the century who started to see the bara art style born.

Two of the postcards are from the first event but the conbook was improved and not only is much bigger now but the activitys with the stickers were a nice idea, tough get all of them was a heavy duty for a wallet.

Git this book marker from ADRIXADRIX and i am actually tempted to use it even with the risky for people to find it since even in the clothed side this is very sexy looking.

This keychain is from EDD LAYER EX and i love it soo much!! He also had a Chris Redfield one i really regret not getting and some really amazing art prints as well that were sadlly sold out when i arrived.

This stickers from Ryu and King and the Snake keychain are from HTOAST ART he have such nice art style but i adore the two sides keychain of Snake!!! I cant belive there was this much Metal Gear Solid merch.

This keychain and stickers are from Y!Gallery veteran KERAINEN who was solud out of merch when i arrived!!

This stickers and keychain are from DUALSIDERS he was doing an activity where let you scratch on some of his little monsters mascots image and depending of the number you get you get a different price as well as the stickers of the creatures.

This is a Barafuda card collection from LE BARA ILLUSTRE he also had some awesome but really huge posters.

Stickers, art prints and more keychains from LUPIN ART and again, while i loved the Chris Redfield keychain, the Solid Snake one is soo awesome and makes me soo hapy, but also makes me soo happy that they are producing high quality porn art of Final Fantays XVI.

This is an artprint of FUHRER DOODLES and again, more Snake!!! But also i regret not getting more stuff from him since the qualty of his art is soo crazy high and hard to belive.

Stickers, cards, art prints and even more keychains and a mousepad from PRINCIPE CONEJO he had soo many merch it was pretty difficult to choce.

More Final Fantasy XVI!! Made with the beautifull style of FROSTED KNIGTH as well as more Endeavor and two pretty thick doujinshis of pornish adventures between Endeavor and Hawks.

No standee this time (tough i leave some i really want) btu instead i got a 3D mousepad from Endeavor made by Frosted Knight and is hard to describe or see in here, but the colors are soo beautifull and looks almost iridiscent. Her art is juts soo amazing!!

IT´S A NICE DAY TO PLAY UNDER THE SUN

I made a promise to not post anything more than art in here, sadly i dont have anything new from me to show but i do have an artwork made by another artists, a bara commission by Hasout that includes Miguel Caballero Rojo from Tekken and my own original character; Alexander Gates.

Its very rare to see Miguel art by now, somehow everyone is drawing Carlos Oliveira but Miguel seems to be in obscurity by now but i hope he comes to the spotligth agan in Tekken 8 and my Alex, well, its been soo long since i seen him and is always soo exciting to see him with the style of a different artist.

I love the style of Hasout, with enough realism to make it exciting and enough fantasy to make it interesting, he is really good at drawing hairy bodys and his wamr coloring is such a threat! I love how he draw Miguel but my favorite part is deffinetly Alex Gates, he looks beyond perfect.

This was a gift from my wonderfull boyfriend who knows me very well and makes the world better not only for me but for everyone by comissioning Miguel pornish art!! I love him!!

And please go and visit Hasout on both TWITTER and BLUSKY , his gallery is really magnificent and he keeps doing awesome art pretty often and is really good at commissions as well!!

BARAPALOOZA

 A blog entry!!! This time around is not about art of mine but about an event taking place here in Mexico; a Barapalooza, the first bara convention of the country. Something like that was just a dream 20 years ago, a place to enjoy all things bara and meet artists about the subject, finally away from the clutches of yaoi.

Tough since quiet some years ago we been having yaoi conventions as well as furry conventions. The furry conventions are specially lush and expensive....and i had my doubts about a bara convention and this Barapalooza confirmed them: there is very few artists in Mexico drawing bara....and the few they are arent very well organized, not like the furry fandom that works like a clockwork or the yaoi that have theyr strengnth in numbers. Bara is still a niche genere despite its boom on twitter.

Barapalooza took place in a tiny space and it was more like "Furrypalooza" since it had lots of furry artists. The line that divide furry and bara is soo thin and blur soo i guess its OK, many of this furry artists had really amazing art and very high quality merch i really enjoyed!! 

There was also some "yaoi" artists and sadly, theyr places were pretty empty since all public went directly to the bara sections. I guess this was to be expected but like i said, theres not that many bara artists in Mexico to fill each space, at least not this time since the convention didnt had too much time to organize.

All artists were soo nice, a true pleasure to meet them and i finally see after a long time ago old friends like Kerainen or Le Bara Illustree or really classics like Pirate or Dualsiders. There was really pro artists but also newbies who are starting to let theyr art be known on the internet and i like that a lot, theres a lot of talent and ilusion on them and i am glad they have a space to show theyr art outside of the internet.

My only regret is that i wasnt able to support as many artists as i wanted to. I spent much more than i was expecting and try to buy merch to as many artists as i could, but still there was some pretty cool products i had to let them pass and i am thinking on contacting this artists to buy theyr stuff later.

Overall this event was small and could use much more bara into the mix, but it was really fun and interesting and is a great start for something big someday. Deffinetly a first step for the 20 years old dream of a bara convention.

An very usefull and great looking Endeavour bag from JAIMONSTER and Monty underwear from VANDOIY

The conbook as well as some postcards from the event.

Stickers and some really cool keychans from DON BARA BARA

Love this stickers from BESTIA PURPURA

Some really amazing looking stickers from SLICE OF SALMON

More stickers and shiny postcards from the amazing talents of LE BARA ILUSTREE

Amazing postcards from PUMPKIN WOLF and ZIPPER HYENA

A comic and postcard from my old buddy form Y!Gallery KERAINEN

A postcard from MICHOCATTO and a keychain from DUALSIDER

An original hand draw sketch from HEAVY PAW DRAW

Two posters of CASTELS BUNGALOW

Two hand draw original arts by PIRATE YISUS

And finally two posters, a doujinshi and a standee from the amazing REDGART

I really regret not getting more of this amazing artists, please if someone read this ever go and support them, they have an amazing talent.

CATMAN (THOMAS REESE BALKE) - BATMAN

 Thomas Reese Blake, son of a famous hunter and heir of his fortune, once he spent his entire fortune and being a big Batman fanboy, decides to turn into a burglar known in Ghotam City as Catman (turning him into the focus of all of Catwoman/Selina Kyle´s hate), stealing banks and museums juts for the thrill of being pursued by his hero Batman, he even builds up a giant mecha-cat to pilot and steal an egyptian jewell that turn people into cats, but it dosnt matter how elaborated are his cat themed plans, he always ends in Arkham thanks to Batman.

Thats it until Lex Luthor try to rectruit him for his Secret Society of Super Villian and Catman rejects him, with the result of his lion pack in Africa being slaugthered by DeathStroke, Thomas vowed revenge against Luthor and ends joining the mercenary group Secret Six as theyr leader, a group of pretty odd villians who dosnt want to be Luthor minions and starting a mecenary career that goes against the Justice Lague and all other supervillian.

Like i already said in my last entry, i dont read comics at all tough in 2005 i started read the mini serires Villains United and later on i jump into the sequel long serires Secret Six. Gail Simone writing was pretty fats, fun and livelly tough while i enjoyed it, my main reason to read them was Catman, he was such a sexy and intense character i even read other comics he appeared as guest (like Birds of Prey, Red Robin, etc....). Not only he was really manly and sexualized, but he was such a dark and troubled man as well who was always facing the worst of situations. And most of those worst situations came in the shape of women....specially Chesire. And the oposite can be said for the men of his life, specially Deadshot who ends having with him an incrediblly bromance.

As a side note, Catman is bisexual, i mean canon and officially bisexual. And with all that said, no one draws him....there is literally no Rule 34 of him and that really astonish me until today.

Soo i really wanted to give some love to this lonely and totally ignored husbando who deserves all the porn of the world with all the supervillians and herores from the Justice League (specially his crush Batman). 

Tough i really changed my style to adapt it to Nicola Scott style. Her art is soo amazing and the issues she did for Secret Six are my favorite soo far, tough my skills fall short for such a feat, "good american comic book" style is much more difficult to handle than i tough.

Also i divided each of his costume parts in layers, to make variants soo i ended up with 150 different layers and a HUGE file and...really, how do you people draw a picture with soo many variations in pose and costume??? This was such a strugle for me, i dont know if i will do this again, modern artists really got all my respect.

The background was soo troublesome too, specially the banister with gargoyles in the back and i ALMOST forget to draw the reflection of Catman on the glass (reflectins since each variation have a different one), overall i spent way too much time on this and almost scrap it half way given the HUGE work it involved.

But, the idea to draw this hunky stud ignored by 99% of humanity keep me going, he really is worth it. I may draw him again tough in a much more simple set up. I really want to draw something more simple next (tough i am sure i wont).

Again, the HD version of this can be found at Pixiv and Y!Gallery.

BANDIT / PROCYON CLEANHANDS - NOCTURNALS

 I am not really into comics at all, i rarelly tocuh one every few months but one of my very favorite is Nocturnals, by Dan Brereton and sometimes i wonder if i am the only one who reads them because find his books is extremelly difficult and expensive and still i hasnt meet too much people who knows the title and thats a damn shame, because it mix the noir with Lovecraft horror, gangster action with supernatural elements and the most autumnal characters and Halloween athmosphere. Really, this is the perfect comic book for every Halloween.

The Nocturnals are a group of monsters lead by Doctor Nicodemus Horror who lives on a cementery and have to keep theyr place in bewteen the criminal bands of the city while at the some time face the horrors of the night that prey on humans. While Doc Horror is an extremelly hunky DILF i always got more interested on Procyon Cleanhands, also known as Bandit. An hybrid between man and raccon that was developed on a laboratory of genetic enginering, he escapes captivity along other mutant hybrids and start a life of crime in the city.

He ends being one of the most feared names in the streets given how feral and savage he is but also how cunning and thougfull, he even wants to take the place of Doc Horror as the Nocturnals leader tough ends forming a friendship with them thanks to him falling in love of Starfish, Doc Horror´s mermaid bodyguard that keeps punching Bandit on the face each time he trys something towards her.

There is very few fanart of Nocturnals and i am pretty sure this is the very first NSFW as well, wich is ironic given how the comic focus mostly on the womans shape, i hope Dan Brereton dosnt kill me for sexualizing his hunky racoon man.

I know its been a long time since i post something but i been waiting to draw Bandit for years and given theres literally no fanart of him out there i tough i had to give it a try but it was really intimidating....Dan Brereton art is soo fantastic and amazing, at first i tough mimic his art style but i could never do such a thing soo i ended interpreting the character with my own style and while this dosnt fully look like i wanted and i almost dont post it, even with all its imperfections, i worked too much on this and give my best.

Draw is harder for me than ever before, but little by little i hope i can achive the level i want to reach eventually and i will start a new illustration inmedietly to at least update this place each month.

HUNTER

 

A day ago my best friend died. He was really noble, smart and wise as well as really stuborn and wanted things done his way. He was a wild beast really and my confident since the very first moment we meet. I talked with him a lot and he listened to me and i promised to take care and protect him always.

I dont know if i did a good job by doing it, but he made me company for 8 years. Last thing i said to him was how much i love him and i was beside him the last time he breaths. Its been just a single day and i miss him deeply now i feel him distant and i hate that.

I remember the furst time i took him to the park and how he took sun bath outside our apartment while played Vita besides him. I remember the time he bite my nose and pee on me while i was cleaning him. How thin he was and how much he grows fat slowlly.

In this days, 3 years ago, his younger sister died and as silly as it this i hope that somehow are together in someplace and i hope i see them again in the end.

I really dont want to turn this place into a kind of cementery of mine. I am sorry for those who still follow this place tough maybe this place is already a cementery, an empty space with many mamories.

KENTARO MIURA

 In 1998 i read a videogames magazine with an article about a game called "Sword of the Berserk", a very favorable review soo as soon as the game was out on the Dreamcast, i got it. It was dark, edgy and very complex as i learn it was based on an anime and manga of the name Berserk, soo i started read the manga in a small traslation site that posted a chapter for a week, removed that chapter and added the next one.

I read the story little by little and with a messed up order, and still it was the most intense thing i ever read on comic format. Not only it was heavy on horror, but in emotions too, with characters as strongly deffined as mountains, even the smallest character was easy to identify and care.

Never i ready anything that had soo may horror lurking on every page, on every emotion, on every action even in places that seemed totally harmless and never i read somethign that let me feel the void and lonelines of the main character toward the savage world around him.

I wondered for years, why people is not talking about this? Why theres no movie on a definitive anime addaptation? How can this be soo ignored by most people? 

Years later they made the movie version of the Golden Age and they started to publish the manga (in my country) and suddenly Berserk was no longer that brillant jewel hidden on a cave and still, it never lose its soul and intensity, never cosidered its readers idiotic or rushed things out, quiet the opposite, Berserk is as full of misterys and as vast as the ocean.

Kentaro Miura died this very month, wich means Berserk will be forever hidden on a shoroud of misterys, of questions of no answear. Kentaro Miura let us explore its amazing world for 30 years and now he closed the window and took with him the voices of Guts and the rest of the characters that surround him.

For many years i made a lot of assumptions of how the story would end but i am pretty sure non are correct. Miura sayd he already had the ending planed but i wonder if thats true....maybe there was no ending? Maybe is better like this? I sure hope they dont make another artists continue Berserk, is pretty pointless at this point mention Miura´s amazing art and how everything would be for nothing without his master hand.

Its been a 20 years travel for me and it finally gets to a clousure. I will read the 40 volumes again and soo far, the most expensive items on my collection belong to Berserk, i think it will be relevant for the rest of my life and the life of many i hope but without it, the industry of the japanese comic is REALLY in trouble. Not in money trouble since they have Naruto and One Piece, but they lack a tittle as meaningfull and rich as Berserk.

"He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy."- Guts