13th & 16th ONLINE FRIENDSHIP ANNIVERSARY in Collab Crossover Drawings

These were my and my long time online friend's drawings to commemorate our friendship. We've been online friends since 2008 when we first met and talked in one online fan forum of a famous Manga, Naruto, called Narutofan.com.  

Started from online chatting and discussing over the series itself into talking daily, had made us went through several chatting platform ever since. Especially when the website was finally shut down, we moved to Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, Skype, Facebook messenger and after all these years, lately we communicate on Insta DM. As years went by, although we mainly discussed about anime but we then had several different series that we follow once Naruto, Bleach, HSDK ended. 

Nonetheless, since we both like whatever related to anime, so it didn't matter if we didn't share the same liking again. The only series that last longer to discuss lately was Attack on Titan / Shingeki no Kyojin before it eventually came to end as well.

 

The collaboration drawings came to mind after one day we discuss over a list of characters that we liked from some anime series we once followed and in the 13th friendship anniversary drawing, it was mainly showed we still had a lot in common and chose some characters from the same series. However, in the 16th friendship anniversary drawings, we chose really different characters and series to show. 

Anyway, it was just for fun and hopefully this will last longer than it is now and became somewhat a tradition for us.

 

13th friendship anniversary - online shaking hands theme - featured: (Me) - L Lawliet from Death Note, Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan, Akame from Akame ga Kill, Shigure from HSDK, Luffy from One Piece, Son Goku from Dragon Ball, Naruto & Sakura from Naruto, Clare from Claymore, Byakuya from Bleach. (Joan) - Ace from One Piece, Light yagami from Death Note, Ichigo & Rukia from Bleach, Itachi from Naruto, Levi Ackerman from Attack on Titan, Oga from HSDK, Vegeta from Dragon Ball, Esdeath from Akame ga Kill, Teresa from Claymore.

16th friendship anniversary - online video chatting theme - featured: (Me) - Yoriichi from Demon Slayer, Arah Yeunseul from one Korean Manhwa, Sesshomaru from Inuyasha, Itachi from Naruto, Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen, L from Death Note, Denji from Chainsaw Man, Chikage from HSDK, Enma Ai from Hell Girl and Anya Forger from Spy X family. (Joan) - Irene from Claymore, Aizen from Bleach, Shanks from One Piece, Guts from Berserk, Hongo from HSDK, Bulma from Dragon Ball, Ace from One piece, Makie from Blade of the immortals, Levi Ackerman from Attack on Titan and Kakashi from Naruto.

Betty Boop, A Classic Cartoon Character which was Originally an Anthromorphic Poddle

   

   Have you ever came across this unique and classic cartoon character? She is Betty Boop. Betty Boop was created by the author Grim Natwick based on a request back then and at first it was created as an anthromorphic poddle dog but then later on changed into a sexy woman.

   Betty Boop is regarded as one of the first and well-known sex symbols on the animated screen as classic cartoon character. She is a symbol of the Depression era in 1930s and a reminder of the more carefree days of Jazz Age flappers for the viewers that time. Her popularity was mostly came from adult audiences, and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many sexual and psychological elements which was not suitable for younger/minor audiences. 

   

   The series was popular and once was aired on local TV when I was young but it was short-lived due to improper content for non adults. Betty Boop was way older than Barbie although and truly described her era which some may not be tolerated nowadays. That's all a little bit back to the old time classic animated character. This is my fan art drawing for her character.