Anima

Here's my pin post for anyone want to know more about me

I'm Anima, an artist on the road to become the professional. Most of the time I do my fanart - spine animation, this tumblr have a little bit fanfic since I write somtimes

I have my own content too, but it's rare.

I'm into tokusatsu, Gundam, Jojo, Yu-gi-oh, etc. You can see more in my carrd link

My full description in carrd: https://animasmith.carrd.co/

My ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/animasmith

My linktree: https://linktr.ee/anima.smith

Mikazuki Augus Khai Bút art for Year of The Horse

Not an easy pose but I love this. Today marked the 2nd day of the year in lunar calendar, it's a good oppoturnity to do the first drawing of the year (a.k.a Khai bút)

Kiryu & Haruka Karaoke fanart for badge printing :D

Lưu Thủy (Water Flowing)

My 2025 Year-End art, quite in a rush since I'm too lazy. Turned out this is a nice artwork with me. The girl there is my OC

Lưu Thủy is one of the four famous songs in a suite to celebrate festivals, the holiday from Nhã Nhạc. The rest 3 songs from the suite are: Kim Tiền (maybe the 金錢, I think it could be called Glorious Treasure), Xuân Phong (Spring's Wind), Long Hổ (Dragon and Tiger). I don't know if I can draw the rest 3 pics.

Since Tumblr is a place to upload my full art (no wips, no process at all). I think it would be nice to translate the "To my drawing" post to English on this platform. This series is my long text about my drawing thing. I don't know if anyone need this, but I still do as I want to have more content in Tumblr, and my text content in English are quite rare, too.

Part 1.

This afternoon I saw a question about how to show people the mood that we artists feel in our work. My answer is: composition, colors, and details hidden in the works.

The composition could be improved by examining other media, such as photos, paintings, magazine covers, or films...which we can learn. I have a collection called "the frame" to collect all the compositions I love. I will set them as a reference sometimes, but avoid copying them.

Also pick the right color and right value. You can bring the piece that you colored block the value to ask an audience or friend that what they feel, if they think something same as you, it's the sign that you have accomplished in conveying your feeling. I remembered that one of my pieces is told that: "It looks really 20 y/o photograph in our country!", it's that moment I feel like a prize is granted to me. Although in the final rendered work, it turned out that it didn't like that compliment.

To the details hidden in the work, it requires you to research, to have knowledge, and have many experiences to choose what details to hide in the work. With the fanart we can imply the lore, also the popular motif and symbol in the culture. Speaking it like this sounds like a heavy thing to handle, but sometimes it just needs your thinking and preferences.

It's been years since my last drawing for Suiryu x Garou

In the unending decay.