Koro's lengthy Rakugaki:Update Nov.1st:**AdultContent-Included**

[koro]

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_40.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_41.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_42.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_43.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_44.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_46.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_47.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_48.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_49.jpg

-Sketching in progress.. More to come as done. :)

[NewRomantic]

I like your style it is reminsent of the Akria comics and such

[Peter Johansson]

wow, those are really great.
esp. 2,3 and 4, cool monster sketch
alltogether your sketching style is great. :chug:

[egerie]

Hey koro those are awesome ! What is it for ? A bit further background info if you can (NDAs... brr) ?

Edit: I forgot - The use of halftones is really a nice suprise. We don't see much of those in game (?) concept art around here.

[koro]

One for the morning..

Tues : 3:39AM - Japan time
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_50.jpg

Egerie:

-most part a few comics ref and ideas,
but the last few are part of a sketch session I'm having while drawing thubs for a comic I'm working on.. Like when I get distracted from drawing the main thing, I go off and doodle other shite:)

Peter:

-Thanks

[Android]

is that zippp a tone?,

damn you are hardcore awesome.

thanks you for sharing your work.:D

[koro]

Thanks you,

Honored I am to have such review.
-I have two methods, digital and traditionally applied tone to the work..

these for the most part are Digtal tone made over pencil sketches.

I will perhaps post my tutorial on doing tone by hand.. it's pretty long but worth a good read..

Thanks again.

[tyboogie]

holy shit Koro these are amazing !!!! YAY!!!

love the bottom left face of ODIN

you gonna develop that character more?


"insolent MOrtal--I will sodomize you and feed your remains to my pets" hahahahahahahahahahah

classic

keep up the great work koro!!!--ty

[Vader]

Nice work man, you got talent

[metalwinds]

wow, this stuff is fuckin awesome. i really like your character designs.. ..i think the bottom left odin is the coolest, also. great stuff, lookin forward to seein more

[tegehel]

"insolent Mortal--I will sodomize you and feed your remains to my pets"

Methinks something's been lost in the translation :conehead;

heehee

[koro]

5/14/03 U P D A T E : 5:28AM - Japan Time (*That's right, I don't sleep!)

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_51.jpg

-I'll continue this little diddy in a day or so.. :)

Teg:

-No traslation required, sir:)
was written as is in place..

Metal:
Vader:

Thankyou.

Ty:

-Odin/viking and Horus were part of some to be characters from a story I was working on pages for. The Script was originally written by Jean Marc Lofficier, and we tried to pitch it, but to no avail..

Peace :)

[Johannes]

Holy smoly! It started off good with the fantasy stuff, wizard, odin and the egyptian fella, then it just got better with the iinda french style space suit/robodudes and dudettes. And the vehicles and perspective is really good!

Kepp it up!

[Fozzybar]

This is really hardkoro!

I can't imagine how awesome your pieces would look in color.....












....hint? ;)

[Erik]

You gotta love those halftones! Man that looks so 'real' !

This is fabulous stuff.

How do you make the halftones? are they digital or are they some kind of rub-on stuff?

Keep it coming our way!

[deviousg]

great - epressive faces and solid figures -

[Erebus]

personaly i find the computerized tones fuckin annoying, but your work is incredible nonetheless. cant wait for more

[koro]

Thanks all:)

-To answer a few questions,
all of the tone I've used in these works are digital. I cannot, unfortunately discuss my method in full, but I can say that I use both tonework and patterns digitally and the traditional cut-peal and stick way. * for reasons that the soft that I use is not sold overseas, and the soft is not supported in english (and that what I use is a sevice I can provide to my own work), I have chosen not yet to disclose this method of yet.) -This may change however in the future.

-For a full tutorial (which I think I've posted in the life drawing tutorial by mistake), there is a full explaination on how to use regular tone which is the applied film way. Well worthg reading if you have the time..


Best,
and thanks again:)

[koro]

AND NOW :: AN INTERMISSION

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_53.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_52.jpg

[koro]

the Page for the day.. switching to color for a few..

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sketch_54.jpg

[Erebus]

fuckin A that is FANTASTIC!!!

man there are no words to describe how great i think that is.

you should color EVERYTHING

[imager777]

Love the colored stuff, and everything is so clean. However, I just can't resist saying 0LD! Nice work...

[koro]

Erebus

Thanks:) - I began this little trial as a series of sketches, but it's evoloving into a mini comic about a Man Machine society of the future trying to bring me back to life, say 140 years from now.. For what Diabolical reason?.. We'll see.

Imager777

-I'm just curious, but how do you mean "Old"?
-Thank you just the same:)

[imager777]

Originally posted by koro
-I'm just curious, but how do you mean "Old"?


I just said that because I've seen these already, and I never get a chance to say it otherwise.

[koro]

:: New Update Page (6) - color 5/28/03 ::
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/hand_of_koro_pg6clr.jpg

-Just got a new tablet, so I might seriously start working out more in full color. As part of this long, dragged out experiment of mine, I will be posting pages as I finish them making trasitions from B&W to color and back again.

Enjoy and have fun :)

[tyboogie]

yummy colors Koro!

[darkcult]

WHOOA just discovered this thread !!!!

SUPER COOL!!!

:eek:

[Kortez]

you are as hardcore as they get!!

:rock: :rock: :rock:

Love the colored pieces (and still the grayscales are nothing short of amazing :D )

kortez

[koro]

Tyboogie

Thank you, sir.
You too are also of some great works.
I caught another thread of your thuderDome contest works, quite cool indeed..

DarkCult

Thanks for tuning in :)


Kortez

Thanks.
-I will be adding more pages as they come. This is all an experient to do sketches as part of a narrative freestyle comic. In that, I'll be going back and forth between color and B&W.


Thanks to all again :)

[tegehel]

Your style reminds me of Juan Gimenez. If you don't know him, check him out, you'll like it, I bet.

http://digilander.libero.it/nonsolomanga/fumetti/index_gimenez.htm

C.

[JoshuaTheJames]

thanks for sharing!

-Joshua

[BluePencilArtist]

Well done and it is looks very amazing. I like your style and keep it up good work. I like Horus's head......:chug:

[Halis_Aetrous]

I am in absolute awe of the skill and ability demonstrated here. I have a couple of friends who draw comics as a hobby who would love to take a look at your work.

If you have a personal web site where you put this stuff, I would like it if you could post the link. I definitely want to keep up with the pretty colo-- I mean storyline...

=P Awesome work!

[Vader]

hang on i,m still picking my jaw off the ground.

Your work is amazing and your ideas are great too.
Do you plan on putting this comic on a site? and if you have a personel site can you post the link.

Are you professional?

[koro]

Thanks to all again,
It's a great thing to draw things like this, but it's even more of a reward to have the work viewed and enjoyed by an audience.

-I still need to work out a lot with my pallet, I think the drawing part is one, but coloring another. Some of the color needs unification in tonal value and structure, and some of the values are to hot with saturation.

-This I hope to better.

Be it that,
I am pleased that all enjoyed some aspect of the work.

to answer a few questions,
I do have a site at :

http://www.tonikoro.com

-As for whether I'm pro or Not,
that's an interesting question. -Of which I'm not sure I know yet or not. I have done a few tid-bits in comics, but not heavy books. It's a difficult thing to be the man on the rise in comics, many don't want to pick a guy they don't know will sell of the racks. I'm hoping to change that, but till then, I don't know if I can say quite "PRO" yet. I do have a few things in the works. We'll just to see how they pan out:)

As for this little number, I'll draw it and post it to this thread until it becomes enough to make up an issue or so. Then I'll PDF it and maybe offer it off my site.
Fully web comic born:D


Thanks again :)

[Aidan]

Great work - i agree.
I like the bw picts even more than the colored ones.

Maybe you highlight the colored pictures bit too much?

[MindCandyMan]

totally awesome!

[koro]

-just messing around in painter 6 a bit, figuring out some stuff..

Anyway..

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/les_nubian_fix.jpg

[koro]

<<-- sorry didn't mean to quote meself :D
MindCandy

Thanks again:)

Aidan

Yes sir, need to work on that.
Also, I don't know but there might have been something funky with the page 6 jpg, as when I saaved it I think I set it to have icc profiles. It made something strange in the color which I didn't dig..

Peace :D

[cucaracha]

yikes, you are kah-razy.

may I ask you, how long you are drawing? Your whole life, I assume? :D

Don't stop sharing your work, it's so inspiring!

cu

[negative clock]

Nice art man, loved the distraction painting.

:Pimp:

[Mort]

i like these pictures alot..keep em coming :)

[ShawnYe]

These are awesome. :chug:
Love to see more.

[koro]

WOW!

-Thanks for bringing this one back.. Haha, just as I thought this thread was dead "It Lives!". I actually have more waork that was to be included in this thread.. I'll have to get it ready.. :D

[Rickxu]

wow wow, never see such good things, keep posting more!

[koro]

Thanks again :D !

Here's a bit of the Rakugaku from an Idea I had one something..

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaki_comicpanel.jpg

-More like a painted sketch..an extention of some line I was doing in Oekaki..

[koro]

-A bit loose and random, but..

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/cyber_jazz.jpg

[MindCandyMan]

fantastic and expressive..."biggie blue fats on trumpet"...that's awesome...hehe

[brads3d]

that wetsuit is really excellent

[koro]

-Coffee after work,
and couldn't be sooner - Summer Vacation! Yesssss!!

-What was funny was I was sitting outside sketching at a starbucks next to the train station, sketching the passer-bys and a girl inside was watching me sketch through the window. When I got up to leave, she ran outside to ask me why I sat sketching people. I told her what I did, and she then produced a nifty little sketch of me drawing, coffee on the table, my smokes, and me sitting there..

Just funny..

anywho- Roughs and gestures with a pentel hightech pens and copier paper cliped in grabasstic fashion.

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_1.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_2.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_3.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_4.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_5.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_6.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_7.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_8.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_9.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_10.jpg
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/coffee_sketch_11.jpg

-sorry for the spamage :D

[maldrin]

i'm in love, dude

you could spam that many pages any time, imho.

i love your linestyle, especially with the pens.

and your color work?

faint.

mal

[Isric]

marry me.

Seriously, I love this stuff. It's so...thick. Great sense of narrative in ALL the poses. That's one thing that frustrates me about a lot of 'comic' artists these days, they think they can get by with just a static pose and hope the dialogue does the rest (i'm horribly guilty of that). You've avoided this problem entirely. More is required.

[koro]

wow :D

Thanks guys,

It's Hot as hell here in Japan.. Sweating my ass off trying to produce two comics at once. These are a mix of real people drawn from life, and people I made up. like the coffee post from before, there's a stoplight there where the starbucks is. It's right in front of a train station, so there is a cycle of crowds coming and going. Makes it fun to sketch people.

-Really glad you guys like this stuff.
I have a growing pile going. It's getting unruley because I buy now a ream of paper, and go at it.

More soon to come. :)

[Jeff Gran]

awesome stuff. You have funny sound-words. How do you think of them? I for one would love to see more...anything you have. :thumb:

[Kambei]

What can I say that hasn't already been said?!

I really like your design sense first of all, a lot of those sci -fi characters are great..

And of course the color is just awesome..

Keep on posting !

[Johannes]

Tell us more about the girl who sketched U sketching!!! Thats a pick-up-thingie if Ive ever heard one! :D

(Im a romantic at heart...)

Very fine sketches btw :)

[Ant4d]

thanks for shearing! it is real pleasure to watch your work.
me loves your style.

cheers
anton

[koro]

Back in the sketching with even more line mileage.

Upadate for September.
-I've been able to burn through half a sketchbook in two days.. Not bad, but I wish for more, with complexity. Got this neat little signpen that makes a neat little line. At any rate..

Enjoy :D
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_01.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_02.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_03.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_04.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_05.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_06.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_07.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_08.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_09.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_10.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_11.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/sept_sketches_12.jpg

[foster]

i missed this thread, and i have been missing allot of cool work.

wow!

jon

[kenchan]

kenchan tanjo!

Your stuff looks good koro san, especially the pen sketches you did in a cafe. I like the confidence in your lines.

motto misetekudasai.

[yfront]

I´m stunned and amazed! An inspiration to us all.

[jester]

Originally posted by foster
i missed this thread, and i have been missing allot of cool work.

wow!

jon

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who missed this awesome thread! :rolleyes:

Thanks for sharing! :flower:

Jester

[koro]

Thanks all again! :D

For those that missed it the first few times around, thanks again for having a look.

-I will continue to post in this thread as I can, it could potencially become quite long ;)

Stay tuned :D!

[LiL QoH]

I really like the pushed perspective sketches

[3bleadpencil]

your starbuck sketches are my fave!
3B

[morcheebix]

You definatly have some awesome stuff on here. However, i must say i do enjoy your sketchbook and loose pen stuff a LOT more than the shirow inspired stuff that seems to be all you do in comics. Its good to see you are developing your own style in your sketchs, shirow is great but an artist must develop his own way of illustrating the world.

[rubygenesis]

holy shit, those coloured works are mind blowing Wick3D! this thread is Killer, koro very nice.

[koro]

Thanks all again,
Lil Qoh

Thanks, was part of what I was pushing for.

3bleadpencil

Thanks again, I get quite a bit done at coffee it seems :D

Morcheebix

-Inspired by Shiow I am, but my taste are not quite that fixed on him. -Although I hear what you're saying :D

There are many other forces at work, but "what" would be hard to explain.
Thanks again :)

Ruby

thanks, need to color more stuff, but Black and white is so feasible.


Here's up for the next..
A little something I'm working up.

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/storypage_1_clnrough.jpg

Edit---> Other added tid bits..

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaki_sept_19.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/tonikorosounds.jpg

[koro]

little blerb of update.
been busy with some other work, but thought to get back to this one soon..

*this was part of something I had posted on a conversation on manga, part of roughs or as they call it in Japanese a "Name".

http://www.tonikoro.com/manga_pagetalk/name_page_zero.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/manga_pagetalk/koro_name_exaplerough.jpg

-more to come quite soon :D

[f00l]

ho!... yes.
keep on rockin'!

[Kortez]

man... you are SO great!!

[heiesuke]

awesome stuff Koro!

[koro]

fOOl, Kortez, Heiesuke, thanks again. trying to actually make schedule to get back to moreComics :D !

I was Sketchin' some things in a new sketchbook the other morning, tired from a few deadlines for some other CraP, finally took a break and decided to slap some color onto these.. :D

err.. Yeah.

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/ero_warai_sketch_1.jpg

[Carnifex]

"oh my how wonderful"
ehehehehehehehe:D

[koro]

Carniflex

;) :beer:
Yessir!

-The next was a little trial, more or less a speed paint that got a little over glorified, but I wish I had finished off the figure more. Sketched in PS with one of LungBugs pencil brushes I'm quite fond of, and painted in Painter 6.1 (I so hate Painter 8, and find myself spoiled from coloring anything in PS anymore)..

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/spdpnt_koro10_6_03.jpg

[skvv]

koro, please don't clean up those lines any more than they already are, the market is SATURATED with "shiny" girls with REALLY clean lines, and i think the sketchy feel makes it so much more palateable.

[koro]

[b]Evisr8r[b]

-Thanks, and I quite know what you mean. I think for page works it's something that happens more by default when done over in inks. But when I do pencils, or penciled CG works, I too like a more rough nature.

or rather something like this sketch painted down here-->


http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/industrial-phor.jpg

-this was a little study.. I was trying to use a few colors I don't normally use. Some areas strike me as a bit over the saturation, but it get's different between my monitors..

[al-x]

Holy shit...

How could I've missed this thread. This rocks!
The colors in the latest piece is kinda cool, yellow, pink and purple... why not :D

This thread should be in the best of ca

[SaltzBad]

Love all of it, except the dithering for colorization - it disturbs the otherwise awesome pictures, imo. Any other style would be less disruptive.

But hey, awesome lines and virtuosity with poses. Those pen-sketches knocked me off my feet :)

[metalwinds]

really great stuff here koro. i would suggest studying value because on some of your stuff (mostly your color work), the values seem to be misplaced or left out... . i dig the color schemes you choose though. keep up the great work

peace

[koro]

:: RePainted - RePosted ::

Version one I will now link for previous reference, and now put in the newly painted version..

And now, the repainted version 2, which I have tried for a bit of a differing angle..

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/industrial_phor_repainted.jpg

*Like to give out thanks to Rob Ashley (former to Eatpoo) for some advice, and also to those who've made constructive crits in this thread :D

[spok]

oh my god...wow!

[daG-ELLO]

What he said.

[koro]

thanks alot, I really had a time working on that last one. Need more like that one :D

-Next Up, have some sketches I'm doing right now. More of a live sketching session, I draw on the machine, and then put it up. this was begun last night after finish some freelance, so that means it's time to go off a bit ;)

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/cgsketch_oct14_001.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/cgsketch_oct13_001.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/cgsketch_oct13_003.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/cgsketch_oct13_004.jpg

[bRyaN]

More Koro stuff=Awesome....

dude that is uber sweet...

[koro]

Thanks again,

there's one more I forgot in that lot:D

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/cgsketch_oct14_002.jpg

[pogonip]

Koro you are a truly skilled artist !! Thank you so much for sharing your works !! :cuddle: :bow:

[koro]

back with a little more, been chilling out in the last few days, but I'll be hitting this thread a bit more as it comes. This one is a bit halfassed, but I'm trying to concentrate on a few more page works..

thanks all again:D

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/cgsketch_oct19_001.jpg

[Erebus]

are you going to have anything published in the near future i can buy something?

[siskol p]

damn dude,

its always great to see someone who utilizes the WHOLE PAGE and just fills it with all sorts a stuff, i know that when i get caught up in one drawing i tend to stop with just that one on it and go to the next instead of having 5 or 20 great drawings on one page. looking at your stuff is definatly making me re-evaluate my use of my sketchbook.

keep 'em coming pretty please with sugar on top

[MindCandyMan]

amazing...keep em comin man...I love seeing your updates!

[koro]

I've been on Rakugaki-Sketch Mode[ON] for the last week, and have been working on a few Adult themed works. Mind you the nature of these images, I have an actual reason for producing them, and appologize if there are those that are offended.

View discression is advised if you are viewing from a public, or work place.

at any rate,
here we go..

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/eroi_rakugaki_oct23_2.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/eroi_rakugaku_oct26.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/eroi_rakugaki_oct22.jpg

*This Next one is a bit hard, so I will link it rather than post directly (http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/Bukkake_kitty_naisho.jpg)

*This one (http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/cybersex_toy_naisho.jpg) I finished a while back ago, but since I'm posting from the XXX-Files, I might as well include ;)

An extra snippit from a sketchbook I have going just for the smut..
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/erogag_gangurojungle.jpg

*Going back now to more legitimate exploits of things..
http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakuga10-29_hyperbiker2.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/page1clr_conceptstory.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/conceptstory_pg3.jpg

-I have more that I'll post later on from random sketches that I have, but at current many of them are a bit disembodied. Since I've been working/sketching in painter a good deal, there are a lot of files that I have to go through;)

Stay tuned!

[battlemonkey]

kakoii nah~
i dont mind the perverted stuff, art is art.
i seem to enjoy your distorted perspectives the most, good work.. damn good work!

"oretachi wa onigiri desu yo. onigiri umai des."

[koro]

Battlemonkey

Arigatou ne! :D
demo, motto ippai kakenai to ikenai. ;)

toiuwakede,

The next rough in the set.
I always hate drawing the begining of a story because it never sits right with me after I draw it.. But trying.

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/airlock_pg4_pencilrough.jpg

[pvrhye]

You should check out the work of Enki Bilal. He's an old frenchman from Hungaria who does work right up your alley.

[koro]

You should check out the work of Enki Bilal. He's an old frenchman from Hungaria who does work right up your alley.

Yes, I know his work :D -The Unfortunate part is I'd have to order some of his books on the web here in Japan. Feel bad that I did not buy more of his stuff when I was living in the States. ;) -But like his work I do :D

[koro]

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/airlock_pg4_5_rough.jpg

-slight Update, next in some pages I'm planning. Looser, must draw faster and get out of the rut of getting the story down..

[dns2k]

AWESOME PIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea i would say your PRO... If you draw it... the work will come....
(cheap field of dreams art line ripoff!!)

AWESOME!!!!!



so when do we get to see your digital zipatone tutorial :)
-dns

[koro]

today's coffee and rakugakin' spamage. :D

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov5_pg1.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov5_pg2.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov5_pg3.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov5_pg4.jpg

Thanks all again ;)

dns2K

Hrmmmn.. That's what I'm hoping ;)

[Shadowkiller]

Well you succesfuly confused the fuck out of me i just saw porn and war sence at the same time but they were all amazing :D :D :D :wtf:

[Ant4d]

koro, this thread absolutely rules! I dig your porn:) really funny stuff. And at the same time you have really high quality comic drawings. It's awesome. keep it up. looking forward for next update.

cheers
anton

[strych9ine]

"She got knocked the fuck out!" That was fucking priceless...

Great sketches as usual... I didn't notice the Adult content warning since I visit this thread often. Right when I got to the hard stuff my 75 year old office mate turned around and got an eyeful. She doesn't say much to me anymore... thanks Koro! :chug:

[koro]

-Last night and coffee from after work today, here is an update for Nov.7th. this first one has a little idea I had for one of the Tarot cards I'm planning.

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov6_pg1.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/rakugaku_nov6_pg2.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/rakugaku_nov6_pg3.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov6_pg4.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov6_pg5.jpg

Thanks all for watching, and stay tuned..

strych9ine
Sorry about that, haha..
Sorry for the shock, but yes, be careful. I have a few naughty bits I put in between the regular stuff to switch hit. ;)

Ant4d
Thanks again.
This weekend into the early part of next week I shoutl be more over a hump with comics ;)

Shadowkiller
Thanks! :D
-Sounds fabulous. I suppose that might mean I'm getting closer to evoking a viewer reation, so that's great news ;)

Thanks all again.

[defcombeta]

wow very cool stuff, and yeah i understand the late nights , me its 4.48 in the AM and im only just now finishing up for the night.

i love the guns reminds me of shirow also the horus illusration is fantastic, i love egyptian myths and that is one cool horus, how about an anubis perhaps,

still i cant wait for more, "you sir have a nack for the intersting"

john mac

[bad weather]

F_cking great! You have a real smooth and free style. I love it. And who said there was any thing wrong with a bit of hardcore.
Cheers:chug:

[Legato]

till that sodomy part *shudder*

[jermainevl]

i'm shocked! :eek: that is absolutely disgusting!!!...but i LIKE IT! gimme more!:jump1:

[koro]

A few more bits from the head of the week.. ;)
I have some others I will post, of a non-erotic nature, but I'll need to save out the session of sketches, and might drop some color on a few of them..

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/eroga_11_7_finalclr.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/schoolgirl_2_fnl_naisho.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/x-files/ero_rakugaki_nov9_pt2.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaku_nov9_pt1.jpg

DefcomBeta
Thanks, yes late nights are sort of the enevitable, but best for concentrating and also for seeing the true color of my shitty monitor.:D -Funny that you would mention Anubis, I did do one which was apart of a comic I was doing at the time, but I never posted thinking that the version I did was not to par with the other sketches. Thanks again;)

BadWeather
Thanks, and thanks again for the encouragement about the erotics.
-I am to some degree hoping that the erotic works don't foreshadow a bad light on the Non-erotics (Like actors get type-cast into a role), but I'm going there. If there are those that dig it, I'm pleased to have the audience at any rate. ;)


Legato
haha - Sorry if you find there are a few that are shocking, or even offensive. However, while I'm going the erotic stretch, I can't be a "DullBoy". I am making an effort to keep integrity on various themes erotic and non-erotic, and that is why I've mixed the content in to one consistant thread while giving the appropriate warnings (i.e. **Adult Content - Included**).

Jermainevl
Hahaha! - Disgusting, yet wanting more;) well, here we are. This will be the last for a stretch, but I will have some that will see the likes in print, so staytuned for news;)

Best, and thanks again :D

[koro]

A blerb for the day.. :D

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakugaki_nov13-pt1_clr.jpg

[Sammy]

Nerd-boner, Skill-appreciation-boner, Actual-Boner....

koro.. you give me a boner

[Johannes]

Ahhh, yes. Enki Bilal said someone. Or moebius/jean giraud maybe?
Damn, Ur up there with the unmortals man!
I love your technical stuff and your humans. And the sketches - great stuff!
Interessting how U said doing the start was the hardest part. Ive heard that from some comicillustrators - that they even re-do the start sometimes when the whole album is finished?
Doing comics includes so much of pace and storytelling, its extremely difficult. :/
Ill keep watching here (as so many others!) :D

[shyst]

yea a great body of work love the linez and zipatone...

those were the days....

i read a ways back about being a pro-

i think if you work for a company that produces advertises and sells and hqs a following yer a pro-

now in america if you don't work for image dc or marbel or a ew others ...yer not a comicbook pro-

i think..

koro Nice..

personally i don't care for the sexual stuff a nude is art chicks wit dix is is pornography ..... but its draw nice-

*ducks*

hee hee..

shyst
san julian!

[koro]

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/nosveratu_cut_a.jpg

small one from this mornings late night stay-up. Didn't sketch so well last night. I'm thinking that some of the best flow in sketches happens when I'm outside and about. ;)

Shystp

-I've done One small page for D.C., but they don't send me mail anymore, so I wonder if I've been Un-Pro'ed ;) thanks again.

Johannes

Thanks, I'm only trying to do my best to keep in league with those whos work I've grown watching, reading, and loving, but in that, finding or creating the type of work that I myself would love to read. Might be why my comic book buying has slowed in recent. I go to the shops to buy, but I get sort of down from nothing to buy, and end up getting inspired to draw the kinds of comics I'd want to read. So, in a way it's like self-gratification.

:D

Sammy

Hahaha! -Great! Thanks!
An errection is a good thing. no? :D
keeping goin' ;)

[shyst]

hey Koro kool about the DC comics work...

mebby they saw some of your perverted stuff _laugh_

they are a strictly by the book company and won't hire any artist who has a body of erotic work... take a look at tim vigil he will never work at DC even though in my book he is in my top 3 comicbook artists of all time...

1. the guy who did little nemo in slumberland--- like in the early 1900's

2.al willamson

3. tim vigil

4. ect ect...

[cycrincy]

wow ur amazing did u say ur japanease? well it must be in ur blood ...i wish i could go at it like that!:D

[koro]

Today's bits.
this one is on the same page, so I've split in 2 so no scrolling ;)

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakuga_nov15_pt_a.jpg

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/rakuga_nov15_pt_b.jpg

cycrincy
-haha, Actually no. I'm an American ExPat, who lives and resides in Japan.
Thanks.
shyst
-I somewhat doubt that is the case. At the time I did some initial work for them, I was in communication with an editor that I was working with at the time, and that editor is no longer under the D.C. employ. Quite simply, I think I rather just slipped out of sight and mind with them. I know a bit about doing comics in the States, but if your are not on top of editors, it is quite easy to fall of the radar as a new up and coming.;)

But then again, as the porn stuff was said, even for publishers that are "buy the book" as you would say, guys like Shirow still do really explicit work and still get published as a more legit creator. so I ask, why be shunned by doing erotic works? why place the barrier over comics because we feel that comics is for younger readers and guys that put them in plastic baggies for years to come, so that they can be bartered on collector markets? ;)

[soul8o8]

..maybe this question has been up b4, anyway, how do you do it? what are you using? is that tablet or pencil or what? gaaah! ..it's beatiful!
:thumbsup:

[shyst]

koro hee hee - americas not as easy going as say france with boobs n tits on regular tv.. ect . and i don't know much about japans view on sex ect.........atleast over here smut comics to a point x cept for r crumb won't be winning any awards or recognition anytime soon....... =)..

Shyst..
e=mc2

[Anto]

Originally posted by koro
today's coffee and rakugakin' spamage. :D

Last night and coffee from after work today


coffee!? it seems that coffee is the source of these amazing drawings! and this whole time ive been drinking tea....fuck.

your work is killer - your females are fantastic and their poses are even better
great great work, and yes, keep it up


:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[st_sleek]

hi, cool stuff... however, I don't really think the rectangle censor does the trick on the third pic down... hehe

later

[koro]

http://www.tonikoro.com/digibon/koro_comicmsg.jpg

hehe - I shall return soon!

Thanks again all and sorry for responding so late in the game ;)

stay tuned :D

[cycrincy]

serve 'em on a plater and keep'em comen:beer: :chug:

[Seeker]

Is your site down? I'm getting red X's on all pages now :( I was able to see the earlier work, and I like! But I can't see your latest... is it just me?

[Cinsev]

nice work again as always.....i am in japan as well now....in a small place called shiroko....outside nagoya.

anyway, still think your sketches and doodles are lots of fun, and finished work highly pro.

[ElvisMcVegas]

fucking awsoem

[ElvisMcVegas]

omg thas so cool, iwish i could draw like that

[SeraphSword]

Wow six months dead, that's quite a bump. Although it's not all bad, I missed out on Koro's hrad core porno the first time around:D

[koro]

Like OMG!

It lives!

:chug: :beer:

thanks all again, for those i did not get back to the first time around until now. It almost looks cool to see this in almost a retrospective sense. -And on that note, I scurry off to hit the tablet off some more.

Peace, and stay tuned :D

[Crowfoot]

Those are great, I love your style. More than anything I like your avatar, lol. Rock on.

[Sok N. Wett]

Whoa I didn't know this other thread existed....damn there are some nice work...I even liked the Hentai ones. Awesome as always....I want to be your brother, so I can get your artworks all over my wall.... :)