Fanart: Hiiro no Kakera

I'm a cheapo. Even though I'm an exec for animu club, I stated early on that if we get like a pathetic amount of entries to the fanart contests, then I'm going to submit something into it. Well, last time I checked, we got a grand total of one entry. I'm not going to make it that easy.

Theme:It's better to give than to recieve.
 (Thanks, Jenny, for the theme. *cough*)


Originally, it was going to be a 4koma kind of thing so people can actually get the theme. Here are sum sketches.

Actually drawn on the same sheet of paper this picture was done on.

So this was going to be the "winning" picture, in the sense that it was going to be coloured-in nicely and they won't be in chibi.

At this point, I scrapped the whole picture because I didn't want to draw all the chibi dudes, and I was growing to hate the picture the more I continued. The lines were too thick for my tastes, and everyone looked a little funneh.
 
It was a shame because I really like how I did her legs.


So, I opened up a new openCanvas window and drew a totally new picture.

Initial sketch

First sketch to get the pose right.

Second sketch (drawn over first one)

Second sketch to clean the picture up. I think this one looks better than the actual thing, honestly.

Half-assed end result.

Hiiro no Kakera shoujo-esque fanart

Event File

Initially, the bottom picture was going to be cell-shaded, but meh. I didn't think it looked nice half-way into the picture.
Half-assed background is is half-assed.

Bleh, with a picture this crappy, I think I'll lose (but not to that one legit entry, anyways).

Also got an Ipashaa (or something like that) version stashed somewhere, but I scrapped it for Hiiro no Kakera (for no real reason, mind you, other than the latter's designs were easier).


Sketched with mechanical pencil on paper.
Made in openCanvas.