Betakamo

 

I call myself Betakamo. I would have made an account a long time ago, but I just couldn't pick a name. For some reason names have always been very important to me. Be it a account on a website like DA, or a character for mmorpg. If I had a penny for all the times, my friends have waited for me impatiently to create a character so we could team up together in, Diablo 3 or Path of Exile, where I've lied and told them that I was investigating each characters abilities and weighing the pros and cons, when I was really translating words on google.translate or researching wikipedia to look for names of historical individuals, to name my character after.

Oh well. I settled on Betakamo. With a danger of sounding like a japaniac (I think the young and the hip call it weabo(?) these days?), I translated the word duck into japanese with google.translate, and it said kamo, which sounds nice to me. I made sure to doublecheck by copy-pasting the kanji 鴨, and looking at the pictures, and a lot of ducks turned up. But who knows, I might be wrong, and I have named myself Betasoysauce. Perhaps someone who knows kanji and such, can confirm it to me. And why name myself duck? You probably don't care, but if you're still reading, you must be slightly bored and not easily scared away x) so I will tell you. My danish name, is the same as Donald Ducks danish name. So yeah... that's why. My name is forever linked to the water dwelling bird of the anatidae family x)

Well look at me spending such a long time talking about a name. Maybe I should continue to talk about the stuff I make.

 

On this page I will focus mainly on manga/anime style drawings. Some ecchi, and some SFW. I will try to make expand my style to not just make draw ladies, to show that my interest in japanese styled drawing is not just about the hotness, even though sometimes I'm worried that could be my only motive subliminally. At the moment I've only ever drawn women. But I will try to broaden my horizon, and draw other things, like male characters as well x)

At the moment I don't think I could justify doing commisions (at least not for people's money). But who knows, if I can stay disciplined and make myself practice regularly. I might become good enough in the future. I think I've allready made a big progress in a short amount of time (You would probably agree if you saw what I drew, just a half year ago). I've been wanting to draw manga-style for years, and even got so far as to purchasing a "How to draw Manga"-book, and flipped through the flipping thing, but never really got that much further. I would look at the basic sketches, draw a circle and sketch up a characters face, then get discouraged when it looked bad, and not like the book, and then really give up. Every now and then I would be hit by a sudden gust of inspiration, and I would dust off the book and try again, and the same thing would happen. The most important thing when wanting to learn something, I have learned, is understanding that you're not failing, by for example, drawing badly. Because by making mistakes, hopefully you learn why they where mistakes, and you learn how to avoid making them again. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is called progress. Each attempt is a step on the staircase of success. Gee, I sound like a self-motivational guru. Perhaps I'm in the wrong business and should be publishing self-help books 

 

Anyway. Suddenly, around the beginning of this year, I would start drawing, and it would look bad as usual, but I was more serious than usual, and drew more drawings and filled up a sheet, in my sketchbook. Maybe it's worth noting that prior to that, about a year before. I had purchased a black graffitti-style pen, and a sketchbook and would start drawing streetart tpye things, so I was allready in a drawing cyclus. After a looong hiatus since I would draw a lot as a kid, and drawing was allways my thing. The thing I was known for in my class (so whenever a new kid would start in my class, I would always be anxious about whether they would be better at drawing than me, and be waiting for them to draw something xD).

Anyway the turningpoint, in drawing manga-style, was when I suddenly made an eye that looked good to me. That was like a small humble revelation to me. That it was perhaps possible for me to create something that could be do justice to the unique and beautiful japanese artstyle, that I and many other hold very dear to their hearts.

The next turningpoint, was when I ordered a Bamboo tablet, with Manga Studio Debut 4 included, and well here I am. I wonder where I will be in a year from now, drawingwise

P.S. Sorry if there where a lot of mistakes with contraction of words and with these guys: , -

I can never really remember how to use those properly