Welcome to Cafe Mew Mew!

Hello and Welcome to Café mew mew!

I shall be your hostess today, let me introduce my self I’m truly also known as Mew Torte!

This club is about relaxing, having fun and most of all helping the mew artist! Here you will find special services cratered to helping anyone who needs it! I’ll be posting links to awesome web sites, resources, and art information that will sure benefit you!

Don’t worries if you just need a place to sit down to have tea and cake we’ll cover that too! Here at café mew mew we hold unique contests like fashion shows that people can compete in for unique Tokyo mew mew charms and jewelry made be me!

Oh, you want a menu of everything that happens here? Here, take a look!

• Character intros- You can post a sketch a possible fan mew and get comments and/or advice on it by me or the rest of the members of the club or just post it there if you don’t want to submit it to TheO.

• The café help line- You can seek advice to how to improve your character like the bio, costume, back-story, weapons, mew names, etc.

• Tutorials and resource discovery- I will post tutorials and guides how to make a mew (including my own). I’ll post pictures of poses, bodies, reference pictures, etc made by me. I’ll post links around the web of great stock pictures, inspiration, character development, drawing information, free Photoshop brushes and tutorials, etc so will never hit art block again and stay inspired!

• Mew repair- If your mew needs a full revamp, needs work, or you just hit a road block that you can’t go over, and you can submit your mew to get a design repair/option!

• Fashion shows- Hold themed fashion contests for members to have a chance to win custom jewelry from me!

• Mini stories. Short stories about my own mews that you don’t see often. Members can submit there’s too!

That’s just the beginning! New services and events are always around the corner, so stay awhile! :3

Mew Gurinpisu?

Here's the long-awaited (well I think) draft of little Gurin. This is a sketchy piece, I know her arms are whacko, and her eyes are too big and too close together, and I know her feet stink. My little hoofted cutie. She's "deer" in my heart, no pun intended, but I'm still not happy with her hair. Any ideas?

So far here's her bio (I know, not very complete at all):
--HUMAN--

Name: Gurinpisu NoLastNameYet (lolz)
Translation: green peas no last name yet
Age: 9
Height:
Weight:
Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Birthday:
Personal:
Skills:
Hobbies:
Love Interest: none

--MEW--

Name: Mew Gurinpisu
Colors:
Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Mark Location:
Animal DNA: pampas deer
Weapon: gurinpisu baiorin (green peas violin)
Attack(s): ribbon~ gurinpisu lullabye (makes enemies sleep)

Mew blue berry remix!

I just redid mew blue berry and I love her outfit but I still have a few ideas for her.

I dropped her old look compelety and started fresh like I was making a different character and it came out great! No fuss at all. :3

I want to do a little before and after and what things a I changed about her soon. Till then check her out! I'll post the colored version.

So I heard making characters are a bitch?

Hey and welcome back to café mew mew!

Do you ever want to make a specific character but every time you try it just wouldn’t come out right or the way you want it? Or the character always seem to create it self and leave you with someone else completely? Will you’re not alone and I get that all the time.

Currently I’m redesigning my mew blueberry Popsicle. I love her personality for the most part (got to take the quiet one clichés out), but her design is god awful now, her human and mew form. Every time I try to make her different it always falls flat and it’s extremely frustrating! I can’t even to look at her anymore not to mention redesigning her.

Now I know a lot of you are like “yeah that’s great but how do we deal with these characters from hell?” Well, I’m about to tell you! Some of the methods I use and some internet resources.

Assuming that you came this far down into the article you know that you have a character that’s more evil then the devil himself so I won’t ask the question “how do you know you have a hells angel for a character?”

Moving on to the next step, how do you remedy this disease? Well, there are a few ways that I think are good methods while other artists have theirs. There’s nothing wrong with experimenting! Here are some of mine! :0

1. Dissect the mother tucker! Take all the traits out that you like and dislike (personality traits, clothing, etc). Throw away the bad parts or save them for the next victim and throw in all the traits that you want the character to have. See if your new baby is able to come home if not try try again or go down to number two!

2. Get inspiration for the character that you want to create! Go and hop over to your favorite artist’s site or characters and get a feel for the character you want to create. Reimaging what you have into that you want and don’t hold back. If you end up drawing a different character competently then let it be for now. Limiting your creativity I thinks hurts you in this method. If you want alter that new character to fit the traits of the old one. Just mix and match and see what you get and don’t get stressed over it and just have fun. If you do just do something else and leave the character for the day. (or a century if want to be like me har har)

3. The last one is like the 1st one but more in-depth but very useful when making characters from stretch! It’s pretty much like starting anew but saving the best traits that you the character to have. Make a super detailed bio or grab a template from the internet (I have a link to one down below) and basically fill it in as much as you want. To what the eyes look like to what he/she will do in a zombie outbreak attack. This a great method because you have more control over what your character will be like since your listing all of his/her traits one by one. Rather then simply drawing the character and letting you’re the character create it self.

If you still unsatisfied just kill the character and move on! :D (funeral services are not necessary in this case)

So that’s my methods if you have your own post them up for everyone to see. There is more then one way to skin a cat and the same goes for remaking characters! To help aid people who have trouble with making them here are some resources.

http://users.wirefire.com/tritt/tip8.html

This one is really good because you can use the bio for your own and there is a list of personality traits that you can use for your character, a double whammy! The bio is not the most detailed I’ve seen but just enough to flesh out your character easily.

http://thundercake.deviantart.com/art/Unique-Character-Design-Tips-105722545

One of the best Tutorials on making a character. It got tips that you will surely use for life!

Okay, that’s it for now! This was going to be one of those short but sweet posts but I wanted to do something more big! I hope everyone got a least one thing that will help improve in some way ha-ha, because that’s what this club is all about! If you got a some ideas or anything you want to share post them so everyone can see! And if you’re not a guest poster comment or PM and I’ll make you one!

And if anyone got any good ideas for my poor mew blueberry Popsicle throw them at me, I’m open for ANYTHING D:. And if anyone needs help with anything with their character and wants my help I’m more then happy too! Just post them up, comment or PM me whatever floats the boat. :3

Thanks for reading! Show me want you got and I’ll see you next time! Mew Torte over and out!

Japanese Culture!

Oh snaps! Another update in café mew mew!

This time it will be about the culture in Japan and I don’t mean in anime I mean REAL life! :D

Anyway, as usual I notice flaws in my making in my TMM fan comic I was thinking to myself. “hmmm, she will have to go to school and on Saturday’s too since this is japan. Oh, yeah what ARE schools like in Japan as far as differences besides being a pain in the ass or a safe haven in the daytime in some animes, HMMMMM?”. So I got ah-googleing and found a web site that answered my questions and so much more!

Its really good if your making any comic that’s based in Japan. It can be cool AND accurate! Ha-za! :D

http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/culture.html

Got instrument?

Hey everyone!

Before I start I just want to say sorry for the lack of updates and whatnot. I’m suppose to a least post every once and a while but I got super lazy! D:

Also I haven’t seen any posting of anyone’s mews either. You can post anything mew related even if your just asking for help. Don’t be shy; just post something so this place won’t look so lonely! :3

So getting to the point to this post, when I was working on my mew red wine. I wanted to give her an instrument that made a spooky/weird sound. The normal instruments that I knew of didn’t make those kinds of sounds so I had to search myself! So after confining in Google about my musical drama, I finally found a site with just strange and self made instruments! You can find totally different and original instruments for your mew here. Its also fun just looking at everything like your in a museum or these days an E-museum :0.

Here’s the link to the webby and have fun and start posting some awesome ideas!

http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/

Oh yeah, I call dibs on the guitar/harp hybrid >:|

Oh, yeah again, if I didn’t make you a guest poster or want to join just comment down below :0.

And once again…