J.Ho Originals

Art Dump Dec 2024

~ J.Ho

Going to be sharing a number of older pieces that I haven’t shown before, and just decided I’m going to keep them all in one post. Updates will be ongoing!

Swordfighter:


A ghostly fox spirit (kitsune), and an old school JRPG mock-up featuring the said fox spirit… pretty proud of myself for coming up with the pun Kit Swoony.:


Here’s a nutty one… a vanilla/coffee/chocolate ice cream squirrel. Topped with hot fudge and nuts:


IYKYK #letsfightinglove


This skull dude is one of those rare cases where a visual popped up in my head, and I was actually able to draw it as I saw it. I think maybe I should put him on a shirt. Or a sticker?


A cosmic maiden and a cosmic unicorn:


2024: Year of the Dragon and then some!

~ J.Ho

The Year of the Dragon has a lot of alternates in different cultures, I decided to cover all of them! This was a lot of fun, but drawing 9 characters wiped me out! Note that I started this blog entry with the Snail on the posted date, but kept updating it until posting the Dragon on Feb 15, 2024 (several days after the actual Lunar New Year >_<U). I feel very relieved that next year’s Zodiac features no alternate animals!

2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon according to the Chinese Zodiac, so I conceived these characters as a group of Rangers (in the fantasy RPG sense), but for a futuristic setting. My aim was to make each character feel very distinct from the others, but still make sure the group’s costumes and colors felt unified and balanced as a whole.

Size chart below!

Lo!

~ J.Ho

The good thing about getting a burst capillary and drawing a little cartoon about is that the next time you get a burst capillary you already have a little cartoon ready for it. 🙃 #flashbackfriday

Retro Vibes

~ J.Ho

A retro heroine with retro sci-fi gear.

Also retro because I finished the lineart two years ago, but didn’t finish the colors until now. 😬 So, also #WayBackWednesday, I guess? 😅

Rabbit & Co

~ J.Ho

Last time the Year of the Rabbit came around, I was enlightened to the fact that in Vietnam they celebrate the year of the Cat rather than the Rabbit. A little research this time around and I learned that the Gurung of Nepal also use the Cat, while the Malays use the Mousedeer!

That sounded to me like a good excuse to draw a Rabbit/Cat/Mousedeer crew for the year of the Water Rabbit (and Cat and Mousedeer). And hey, this time I actually finished the drawing in time!

Okay ya nerds, Gong Xi Fa Cai! ✌️

Wayback Wabbit

~ J.Ho

This one is going WAY wayback, two full zodiac cycles back to the Year of the Rabbit 1999! 😬

The drawing on the right is the original–back then I could not run Photoshop on what I’m sure was a very busted, dusty, and ancient PC. So, in my pre-digital era, I would draw and ink the lineart on paper, make photocopies of the finished inks, and color over one of the photocopies with markers or color pencils. I did it this way so that if I screwed up the colors, I wouldn’t have destroyed the original lineart too… and trust me, I screwed up the colors plenty of times!

The drawing on the left is a scan of the lineart, with brand-new digital 2023 colors. I always find it a fun exercise to color old lineart… it’s like a collab with your younger self. 💀⌛️👶