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.

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.

Dollz: McDonald's Intrepretation of a Korean Kitty Bride

It's been a while since I've dolled anything. I've done pixel art, but I haven't really touched any drawing on top of  bases - until now.

EDIT: Added the final dot to her head - but no one saw the change anyways so it's all good.

The Korean bridal outfit worn by one of my Hello Kitty plushies.

My inspiration comes from, if you didn't already read early, a Hello Kitty plushie I have which is dressed as a Korean bride. Like with all my other multicultural bride and groom Hello Kitties and Dear Daniels, I got them all in Hong Kong from relatives but it's quite obvious from all the golden arches these dolls have on them that they're from McDonalds.

I can't say if the outfit is 100% factually  it probably isn't even remotely simular to real Korean bridal garbs, but I just copied it off a Hello Kitty. I'm pretty sure that the flower on her head isn't worn by real brides, but Hello Kitty always has something over her left ear. Hopefully the hair and makeup is right because Hello Kitty's lack of hair forced me to Google that up.

It was supposed to be "quick" but it really took me about a good 3 hours to finish. I blame the striped, multi-coloured wonsam. Can you tell it's supposed to have a red, green, and orange stripe?
Yup, I think I painstakingly tried to keep as much detail as I could, minus the McDonald golden arches on the ribbon-esque parts and some of the minute details on the cap.

All in all, I say that it's a giant leap from my previous dolls. For one, I didn't use premade palettes (which was kind of a pain) and in general it just looks better. I could show everyone my old dolls, but they suck. Period.

Can't wait to do the Dear Daniel counterpart to her.

Base by Jishin.
Done in MS Paint.
Transparencies added in PS.