Ibuki Cells

Ibuki
いぶき
Cells

Takin' a lil break from the Xbox to work on some more portfolio stuff. Was hopin' to get this done today, but doesn't look like thats happenin'.

Brotha Raz

Razel

LOVE'n this game. Had to literally force myself to finish this today. Back to BRINK!!

BRINK update

Razel

With BRINK being as awesome as it is (now that i have peeps to play with). I've barely had time to finish this piece of Raz i was going to have ready by this Tuesday, oh well. Here are the cells for now. BACK TO BRINK!!!

Keep Rollin'

Drone

...Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'. Naw but seriously, gotta stay fresh. LATER!!

High Flyer

Droid

I may not be soaring above the clouds, but that doesn't mean she can't :p LATER!!

Still here, but barely.

Hangin' on to nothin'

This picture pretty much sums up my current situation (that is me btw). Being broke with no steady work is hard. Anyway, gotta stay on top of my game. Oh yea, d'ya hear? Osama's dead. As a wise robot named Gir, once said. "Hurray for Earth!"

Four Leaves

Clover

Some early morning practice done while watching some anime and listening to the blaring upstairs broadcast of Prince William's wedding. If she looks familiar, thats because she is an older design that i decided to practice with. Still have a ways to go before my Ps lines will be as clean as i want them, but its all about progression ;)

Chun-Li

Chun-Li
春麗

Round 5, COMPLETE! Had a blast on this one. Blue is one of my all time favorite colors to work with, next to green. I went with her Alpha outfit because to me, it looks badass.

Round 5 Progression

Chun-Li
春麗
Colors

Wasn't able to finish the full production, but here's a little treat for today ;)

Ms. Li

Chun-Li
春麗
 Lines

Here's what i went with for my lines for Chun-Li. I Wanted a clean and crisp feel that i just cant achieve yet with my tablet. Came pretty close though. Anyway, colors will follow tomorrow. Peace!

Practice

Sista Samurai

Been trying to find new mediums to work with to help me better my hand skeelz. This was done entirely in Photoshop. Colors may follow, but this is it for now. Hope everyone had a Happy Easter. Peace!

Crimson Viper

Crimson Viper
クリムゾン・ヴァイパー

Here is round 4, hope everyone is enjoying their holiday so far. Im trying to figure out who i want to do next. Maybe Chun Li, or Sakura, we'll see. Time to knock out some more work. LATER!

Eggs, Candy, and Assassin's

Crimson Viper
クリムゾン・ヴァイパー
- Lines -

Well this is hopefully not my final post for this weekend. I plan to have this colored, among other things, over the holiday. Hope everyone enjoys the egg hunting, candy eating holiday that celebrates Jesus' zombie rebirth. Anyway, Happy Easter peeps, speaking of which... LATER!

Cammy

Cammy White キャミィ

Round 3, GO! I had a bit of trouble with this one at first. Especially drawing the pose. For those who don't play SF or who just can't tell. The pose is Cammy's 'Cannon Spike' attack. Anyway, it was a blast working on this. Back to work.

Cammy-o

Cammy キャミィ - Lines

Happy 4.20 all you ganja bruddas!! Now while i have absolutely no clue why it is April 20th thats associated with marijuana or getting high. I do want to update you all on my latest fighter piece, Cammy. I was going to do a piece with her, Juni and Juli all together. But figured i'd save those 2 for later ;). Anyway, back to work.

Juri Han

Juri 樹里

Round 2, Juri. Im thinking of doing up Cammy next. But this one was a blast, Juri is probably my new favorite SF character.

Juri Duty

Juri Han ハンジュリー - Lines

Time for round 2. This time we have Juri, from SSFIV. Colors and final will most likely follow up tomorrow. Back to work.

Karin

Karin カリン

Here is the first of hopefully many pieces in my Super Sek Fighter series.. Next up, Juri Han.

Karin Colors

Karin カリン - Colors

Half way home with this one. Expect the full version late today or tomorrow morning. Back to work!

Super Sek Fighter

Karin カリン - Lines

My newest lines for a series im working on. Basically a friend of mine told me, that mixing my Graffiti and my love for gaming together, was my "element". So in light of that, i bring the lines of a second piece in a series i hope will go far. As well as taking my skills to new heights. I present,  Super Sek Fighter :)

Collab Sneak Peek

SFC - Sneak Peek

Here is a small sample of my full piece, for my upcoming Street Fighter Collab. Enjoy.

Rose

Rose - Street Fighter

Here's my latest piece for a collab i have on deviantART. If you can't tell, its a Street Fighter collab. My previous Ibuki piece was supposed to be part of it. I figure since i had never done Rose before, that i should add her instead. All colors were done in Photoshop.

Design Prototypes 2

Zip-Up Shirt

Here are the rest of the concepts i had been workin' up. This time for the homies. Like previously stated, im not that savy on Fashion Design. Thats it for now, Later!

Design Prototypes

Sleeveless Dress Top

This is merely a concept chart. Im not too savy in the realm of Fashion Design. Hopefully sometime in the future i can some stuff like this made for my line. Figured i'd update you all with the some of the shizznizzle i've been working on. Later!

Sara Colors

Sara - Colors

Here ya go. Probably the last vector illo i'll do for a while. Need to get back on polishing my tablet skeels. Later!

Sara Lines

Sara - Lineart

Here are the newest lines for my little pirate princess, Sara. If your coming from Facebook, it looks like I'm going to have to update my artwork here since FB wont let me upload anything. Stay posted for colors :)

Ibuki

Ibuki - 伊吹

Did this up a couple weeks ago, as part of a collab. The project was put on hold, so i decided to post my piece.

Sara

Sara

This is my counter part for my previous design, Sai. Her name is Sara. Whats a ninja, without a Pirate to sweeten the pot, right? Anyway you can view her color process in The Art Sektion.

Sai

Sai - Ascent

Sai - Bring it

My latest Character Design, Sai. Tried to go with a Tenchu meets Bleach style. Don't know if i captured it as good as originally planned, but im in love with it either way. 

Hard Corps Review

  Hey everyone, been a while since my last slightly over dramatic Valentines blog. Im here today, not to bring new shirt designs unfortunately. Instead i have a full review of the new Xbox Live Arcade and PSN game Hard Corps Uprising. As apposed to what i was going to do with a half review... that was sarcasm, in case you didn't realize or were to busy speed reading so you could update your Facebook status. Anywaaaaay...
  Hard Corps Uprising is a side scrolling arcade shooter from the genius' behind Guilty Gear and Blaz Blue. The game was published by Konami, and is a blatant homage to the classic Contra. Lets begin where Contra left off. Hard Corps puts you as part of a mercenary/resistance special forces team fighting against the oppressing conglomerate/government called the CommonWealth who is attempting world domination. Go figure. Ok, now that the incredibly cliche story is out of the way, lets talk gameplay.
  The game plays like your regular side scrolling shooter. BUT TEN TIMES BETTER!!! You can actually aim w/out moving as apposed to old scrolling shooters and, get this, STRAFE! I know, try to surppress your excitement. In all seriousness, this game is extremely well done. The graphics are top notch. mixing 2d sprite animation with 3d animation making for an amazingly glorious game.
  One of the coolest features in this game are the game modes. There are two different game modes. The classic Arcade mode, where you fight your way to the top of the leader board with high scores. And the completely addictive Rising mode, where you play through the game's story, earning points to level up your characters abilities and weapons.
  Yes there is character development, and its actually pretty good for a DLC game. You can upgrade your characters weapons, abilities and buy things like life gauges and extra lives. There are total of 4 playable characters. However, 2 of these you will have to dish out some dough for (at least for 360 not sure about PS3). The characters you can play as are:
Bahamut. The badass who clearly has an emorific personal grudge he wants to settle.
Krystal. The equally badass girl with the obvious traumatic past experience that some how motivates her.
Harely. A crazy old biker dude with a outrageously tight outfit and big ass cigar.
and Sayuri. The mysterious samurai badass with the "im only here for money" story.
  The game is a really well done modern dedication to a classic. The coop is additively fun as well. Although, sometimes it can get confusing as to who is who on screen. Especially when weapn upgrades are applied and the screen is clustered with spread shots.
  Over all, the game is one of the best DLC games i've played so far. A solid 10/10. Hopefully they'll add some more content in the near future.

V-day. Whats the answer?

Ok, I know "Love" is supposed to be this abundant thing that captivates us all and blah blah blah. Lets get it in. Love is an emotion, nothing more. What is an emotion, well lets ask Mr. Webster:

n. 1. A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

Ok then, so its basically a chemical reaction in the brain that is stimulated by feelings of excitement resulted from a variable. So this thing called "Love" is exactly that, the result of a feeling. "No shit Josh! Everyone knew that." Oh my bad, i thought what people considered to be "Love" these days was diamonds, chocolates, and new shoes. Pink and fuckin' red money that we spend on others to show how much we LOVE them. Now lets re-cap. If "Love" is an emotion, that is stimulated through feelings. That must mean that all this sharing, like buying necklaces, earrings, and perfume. Is the variable that is stimulating this so called "Love" in your heart. Correct? Soooo intern, that must mean that you're not really in "Love" with who ever is buying you this shit, unless they have the same effect on you as well. "But Jarsh!! THEY DOOOOO!!" Right, so if this significant other of yours is sooooo awesome, amazing, and otherworldly. Why the fuck does this retarded holiday exist!?!?! If you truly "Love" someone, why did this great almighty country of ours, decide to make one day exploiting it!? Why not the whole year!? Why is February 14th the day of Love!? Better question, why does everyone fall victim to it!? Please answer in the form of a question. That is all, enjoy your day. :)

BONUS QUESTION: Why is it that men seem to be the ones targeted with buying this over priced bullshit? The fuck did we ever do!?

Style King Reveal, Anime Review, and other news.

Hey everyone, I'll start by unveiling a new design that i made, specifically so the guys could stop hate'n. It seemed that once i revealed the Style Queen design, every guy i showed it too wanted it, go figure. In light of that little dilemma, i here by give you the Style King design:

Sekstyle - Style King

Before anyone asks, yes im planning on making a black version. Once everything is finalized and sales begin to take off, i'll release it. Until then, enjoy.

Now onto one of my favorite things in this world, Anime. I just finished watching Burst Angel. Those of you who follow me on dA or Fb have probably already seen these:

Jo from Burst Angel By Sektr

The show has by far some of the coolest characters ever. However, if your not into the whole "cyberpunk/action" genre, don't watch it. The show itself, is kinda shaky and geared towards that demographic. The story follows a team of mercenaries on a hunt for these things called "glowing brains". The show mixes shooting action with a sort of mecha style. I personally loved every minute of it. There was enough action to keep you entertained, and enough story to keep you interested. The one thing i love the most however, is the character development. A lot of the anime that get bad rep are usually caused by the lack of plot focus. When in reality, if there is nothing in the story to care about... then who cares. Plot and character development are crucial to any decent anime. FMA, Naruto, Bleach, Death Note, hell even Samurai Champloo had this. We call them "Fillers". Now whether or not an anime uses this to its advantage is up to the studio. Obviously 2 seasons of fillers is waaaaaayy too many (Naruto). But if you use fillers to develop the characters as well as the story, then they can be some what tolerable. Thats exactly what Burst Angel did. Every "filler" episode, had just enough plot behind it, to keep you remembering why you were watching it. I was pissed, however with the ending. No spoilers here, but don't be surprised if you get a little angry. Anyway, all in all i'd give it a 4.5/5 definitely worth the watch.

Shirt Reveals and other news.

So i've been anxiously waiting to post these designs. I wanted to go a little more beyond with these then in my previous designs you might have seen on DeviantART or Facebook. The first design is for the guys. I was inspired by my city a little bit for the color scheme.

Sekstyle - Black and Yellow

As for the next design, i wanted to make something the ladies could rock. I wanted to keep it similar to the Black and Yellow Tee, but maintain a feminine vibe.

Sekstyle - Style Queen

Both are still pending as far as printing goes. Actually they all are, I just wanted to give you all a glimpse of what the first shirts are going to look like. For all of those wondering about the 3D designs. Yes im working on some of those and still plan to print some if not all of the previous ones you may have seen. 

In Gaming News. Rockstar is going to be releasing the first gameplay video for their newest project, LA Noir. Stay posted to their Facebook http://www.facebook.com/rockstargames for further details along with the video release. For those of you not too familiar with the game. It takes place in the late 40s in Los Angeles. You play as Cole Phelps, a young detective trying to solve a string of murderous crimes that seem to have taken hold of the city. For more info on the game you can peep the site http://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire/ I personally am not too into those kind of games, but Rockstar rarely disappoints, if at all. 

For all you people who are awaiting the arrival of what is surely going to be the most epic fighter in the last couple years. Capcom is almost constantly announcing new media regarding the sure to be classic Marvel VS Capcom 3. You can check them out on Twitter for updates http://twitter.com/Capcom_Unity

Well thats about it for now. Stay up yall, peace.

-s1

Mono, Classics, and Updates.

As some of you may or may not know. Graffiti artist CUTE has asked that the graffiti community attempt to re-design the MONOKROME logo http://bit.ly/eyt1j9 . I've taken my, sort of unconventional, whack at it...

Mono Re-do by Sektr1

In some other off topic news. I've been going through my old albums and came across some of Ice Cube's older stuff. The War and Peace Vol.1 (The War Disc) album is especially good. If you haven't already heard of it, im sure you can find the songs on YouTube. Songs to look out for are: Pushin' Weight, Fuck Dying, and Ghetto Vet. Definitely a solid album from one of the most iconic MC's to ever do it.

In another Sekstyle update. Here is the design for one of the first Sekstyle shirts. Colors are still being decided. Stay posted for final details.

Sekstyle Hip Hop vol.1

As for now supplies are looking to be limited, but should change after sales increase.

In gaming news, Gameinformer posted this http://bit.ly/ggCFQM . Needless to say, im excited. 

Well, thats about it. Stay posted and stay up, Peace.

-s1

Gettin' Started

Sooo, yea. Im kind of new to this whole Blogger shiz (if you can't already tell). I'll most likely be updating this a little more often then my DeviantART or my Facebook...hopefully.

In other news, Sekstyle is coming a long nicely. Im hoping to have the first printed shirt ready in the next couple of weeks. The first shirt is going to be the Hip-Hop design that i first released. Also the New Sekstyle logos are done.

Sekstyle Logo Comp

Anyway, thats it for now. Stay tuned and stay up, peace.

-s1