This is a collection of fan art works for Appleseed, of which I feel deserve merit and appreciation. Give the artists’ your thanks and check out their other works as well. I may eventually do a highlight for one of these artists themselves :).
Inktober Appleseed 2016
By Don Wayne Austin
Don Wayne has an amazing portfolio, one that everyone should take a look at. I’m certainly going to do a highlight of his other works, but I love that he’s done a few of Appleseed! He does some serious justice to the original style but his take is deftly his own. The shading utilizes dithering, a technique that saves time and has been widely used since the 80’s, and I quite like the use of it here; the sharpness that it provides is very effective and aesthetically pleasing. Balancing dithering can be tricky, though Done Wayne does it well here. Overall tasteful line thickness and proportions over all.
Appleseed Pin-up
By Dannlord-Donomx
This guy has an amazing set of works, though he appears inactive from a few years back. Wonderful line-art and technical acumen. Briareos is lookin hella buff, I like the variations to his body. A lot of artists seem to play around with how they want Briareos’s head to look, I dig the details that Dan has done on this. Some of the darker, thicker, lines seem a bit off, but this being a line-art those things are fairly easy to change. You may notice a lack of detail or shading on Briareos’s legs; This too is fine as you can add that in with coloring pretty easily. Overall the design is wonderful
Anime Ladies
By Leonardo Giron
Lovely cross-over here! Three of the most bad ass female characters, from three equally amazing series. The Appleseed character, Deunan, is the top right. Alita, from Battle Angel, is on the right. Iria, from Zeiram: The Animation, is on the left. If you’ve not read the manga or seen the animation for each of these series, I highly suggest you do. Maybe I can provide you with a Mega Upload link, or something through IPFS? Haha! Even so, Deunan looks great and the artists style comes through quite well. I didn’t realize Deunan was so T H I C C, but her outfit is well done and the line-art is on-point.
Kevin has such an immense style and fully utilizes art techniques make his works feel complete. He’s got a bit of raunchy humor too, which is wholly exemplified in this piece. It’s always been a bit of a thought as to whether or not Deunan and Briareos fornicate or not, or at least if they did how that might even work haha. The idea of how different sex is in the future when you have cyborgs and prosthetic bodies is a common and understated trait to Masamune Shirow’s universe. We see this play out a lot more in Ghost in the Shell, however the roles are switched a bit. Nonethless, Kevin has done fine work on this and his other works are just fantastic. What I enjoy most is how poignant his lines are, the efficiency of his shading as well as his playful exaggeration of form.
Deunan & Briareos
By Hime Soph
I’m amazed with the amount of Appleseed cosplay out there, and this is one of the best! Immense detail and really on-point to the characters. Cosplay makers and actors really have stepped up their game over the years; it always fascinated me how people make such convincing costumes.
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