Doll: JBF

After a year of on and off (mainly off) work, I've finally finished it: my tribute to Luka's signature song.

Yes, I think I started this back when I just finished my Korean Hello Kitty bride one last year. Yeah, that's long, but in my defense, maybe if stupid Windows Update didn't restart my computer on me I would've finished earlier. Sure, I could've just saved the WIP before hand, but how many of you remember to safety save, anyways?

Well, what do you think about the resemblance?

 My god are his pants bad. And his shirt. And pretty much everything about the boy because he's rushed. Luka was completed about a year back, or at least her hair was anyways. I think she looks way way better, but maybe it's because she's more colourful than her monochrome counterpart.
But you know what really steals the show? The balloon. Like man, you don't know how proud of it I am. It came out looking so good. Sure, it looks pretty bad in a dark background, but in a lighter one it's not so bad. I should've animated it because it looks so awesome, but that would also mean I need to add in blinking animations, which isn't cool, especially since there's two people.

And the JBF sign looks like poopie. Don't look at it. I just didn't have the heart to remove it because it took me so long to do.

Made in Paint.
Base by wish04.

How could I resist?

Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls is AWESOME.
Seriously, go click the link if you already haven't. Watch it, subscribe to it, love it.

And in the spirit of it, I drew all the fanarts in Paint!

Hitoshi-SAN

 "I die a little from the inside every time Hitoshi goes 'rawr'"
AGREED.

So SPOILER:
Hitoshi's house gets broken into one day and he's kidnapped by who we'll refer to as "Rapist-kun". After being saved by Rakku and co, he starts having fantasies about him. (However, all the people think he's having fantasies of himself since it pretty is much him with brown hair.)

Rapist-kun is too smexy for you

I died laughing when I saw this part. How could I not do fanart of it?!
Of course, this doesn't touch on how amazing the actual scene in the anime is. Not even close.

Made in MS Paint.


And now something completely different:

What happens when I order a large hoodie

I love wearing it... just not in public.
The K stands for our school name, since I've got school pride.

Made in SAI.

MS Paint is only good for pixelling

Because all their other tools are the shits.

I tried, okay, to make something "painterly". But when you have an app with no layers and brushes which can't blend FO SHIT, it's really difficult.

Ugh, what is this?!

Yeah, the crappy colour palette forced me to choose each colour individually. You may not know what I'm saying, but if you ever tried to find a certain shade on MS Paint, you know it's hell.
Stuck to two brushes, mainly: the diagonal one and, um, a generic paint brush, I think? Still damn hard to use.

I hate the new MS Paint. So pixelling unfriendly. And the new additions suck, so.
Speaking of MS Paint, I totally lost the WIP of a doll was working on. Damn it! I swear, I safety saved!

On to some other stuff:

Ignis Chibi

Might do a better lineart of her and then sell her for AE. We'll see, we'll see. I do know I'm remaking all my chibis, though, lawl.

Me

Stuff I wear in winter. Scarfs actually do their thing in the cold, surprisingly. 10 minute doodle, like this post.


Made in SAI and MS Paint.

Yukiko 2010 & Avvie

First and foremost:
Happy New Years!
I hope all of you guys are having a marvelous winter. :)
That being said...

It's about time I made myself a new ID for my deviantART. Seriously, the one I was using before was a sketch a did on whim so I could have an ID. Needless to say, I spent way more time on this.

Oh yeah, and don't know if I said this, but I found on the openCanvas website that they opened up a sister site, PGN Community, and the cool thing about this is that you can upload your event files and it'll actually play 'em. So here's the first entry on the site:
Event File.

I had the concept for the picture for a while. Back around August, I actually had another sketch planned out that I was going to use for my new ID.

EDIT: Found an even older concept!

Yukiko 2010 Sketch 1

Didn't like it so much, but I wanted to keep my stuffed animals in the back. So I tried again.

Yukiko 2010 Sketch 2

I wasn't too fond of that, though. I did like the whole "drawing on my page" concept, though. So I drew a new one but put Yukiko in a different pose.

Yukiko 2010 Sketch 2

The clothes on both these pictures are pretty much the same ones (as they're actually clothes I wear).

I outlined and coloured the picture during a family dinner party. With any kind of dinner party my parents throw, my sister and I would just finish our food early, and stay locked up in our rooms until dessert or something. In the meanwhile, I had lots of time to finish this:

Yukiko 2010

I'm actually quite proud of how this came out. I don't have a set palette or anything for skin so most of the time, the tones get a little funky looking. Here, the skin's nice and bright, and I love the technique I used to blot the colours in.
Skirt and hair's also nice (the skirt especially just for the folds).
But yeah, really, when I finished the picture I was like, "OMG, did I ever improve! If I keep it up, at this rate, I might actually produce stuff coloured pro-like!"

In total, from the final sketch to the colouring, I'd say the picture took about less than a day to complete.


Sketched on scrap paper with mechanical pencil.
Coloured in openCanvas.
Writing done in Photoshop.

Also, heyy, new avatar!

Floating on Heart Bubbles

The name kind of just appeared. There's really no reason I called it that, especially since it's a heart balloon, there's only one, and she's not floating on, she's floating by.

However, stupid deviantART's size limit forced me to make it lose a lot of weight, so the animation's a lot faster on my actual avvie there.


Made in MS Paint.
Animated in Photoshop.