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I'm almost out of schoooool~ Just one more exam to take, and I'm done! Damn EOC's... blocking my exemptions... Ahem. Anyway, this is some of the first fanart I've done in a while, and I've apparently improved a lot since then. D: It's Konata from the anime series "Lucky Star". It's one of my favorites, and I have no idea why the hell it is. Lucky Star really seems like a shoujo, and yet... I don't know any girls that watch it. In fact, everyone I know who likes it is a guy. It's really confusing... The series does a great job of making parodies of other animes from Sgt. Frog to Code Geass to Initial D to Yu-Gi-Oh to whatever else you can think of. It's really ingenious. But anyway, this is Konata, the kind-of protagonist. She's such a nerd, incredibly lazy yet athletic, short, and plays MMOs when she should be doing homework. I may draw some of the other characters later. I started drawing this to: 1- try out some new graphic techniques I thought of 2- add to my manga/anime inventory so I can sell stuff at Animazement next year 3- express my lame-ass fandom that only shines through every once in a while I vectorized the outline, and colored using brush tool with approxamately 10-20% opacity. So there you have it. I did this over the last three nights when I should have been working on a couple US History projects. I guess you can call that "getting into the spirit of the character". Yeah, that sounds like a good enough excuse. -- 13 hours Photoshop CS3 -- ©~evoblade Konata and Lucky Star © Kadokawa Shoten (manga), Yutaka Yamamoto, and Yasuhiro Takemoto (anime) |
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I'm glad you think the color use is good. I'm really trying to improve in that area, since I usually only use browns. XD
My friends have been trying to make me use "prettier" colors or whatever. >.>
But thanks again! Your enthusiasm nearly bowled me over, lol. ^^
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it's funny, there are loads of anime/manga that appeal more to non-target audiences... I'm a girl, and I definitely prefer seinen or shounen to shoujo manga, with anime I'm a little more flexible. is lucky star kind of like excel saga?
LUCKY STAR.
I honestly couldn't watch more than an episode. It was fucking hilarious for six minutes! But then I was leik, "Dude. How much can they say about the proper way to eat food before I want to shoot myself because it's OVERKILL?"
Twelves minutes.
Anyways, sweet job! I like the plant/wuteva? crap to the right. It's my favorite part. I... don't know why. T.T
I just used like... 4 layers for this background, and that's it.
First, I put down a fill layer of the light orange. That's it for that, movin' on. :]
For the second layer, I made a black and white gradient over the whole thing, and set the layer to Multiply. Then I used Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern with the dominant color as dark orange to create the dots.
Third, I made the rays with pen tool, set the layer to Multiply, and made a gradient overlay with the darker orange and reversed it.
For the final layer, I just used splatter brushes and some improv brushwork.
I know I probably didn't have to type all that.
Ummm, I was bored. DX
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Excel Saga is considered more of a Seinen manga/anime and it does deal with a lot of similar issues that Lucky Star does, parodying Japanese culture and stuff. But I think the thing that disinguishes them is that ES seems more action-based like a typical Shonen or Seinen, whereas LS is just a slice-of-life type thing. Like, just hearing about the subject matter, it doesn't seem like it'd be interesting at all! But really... it's a confusing genre. I just checked wikipedia, and it's considered a shonen there... >.>
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