| Picture Requests |
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- Melfina (Outlaw Star), for Outlaw Melfina
- Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), for kout3uka
- Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin), for Caprice
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For those interested in keeping track of things on your own, I've got the table up there showing my current spread, and I'll post it at the end of all my blogs to give everyone a running update on things. As I get done, or get more requests you'll see things move around.
I wanted to get a jump start on things, so I'm posting this in the morning. This project is open ended, that means you don't have to wait till I get a picture done to request one, but expect it to take a while some times. You'll know I got your request if you see it in the table.
Comments:
eldertenchi
It is a different concept, and I hope it will accomplish several things: Improving my art, and getting me to produce quality work under a deadline (self imposed). If you have a character you'd like me to draw, by all means throw it at me, I'll do the best I can with it if I can find the right material to work from.
Outlaw Melfina:
I don't want to go all
technotaku on you so I'll just say that I try to explain things in a way people can understand them, though I do miss once in a while.
I took a look at that painting, very nice. I tried oils once, the painting turned out great, but oil painting is much more expensive than my animé art so I'll stick with it.
I doubt I'd ever actually cosplay either, even though the theatrical elements of such a thing would come easy to me and would be fun. There's no real point in doing something like that for my own amusement though. I don't get to many animé conventions out in the boondocks where I live, and I freak out my family enough as it is, so I'll stick with being plain old me (Yeah right, like I'm plain!).
kout3uka
Of course drawing is easy when you decide everything for yourself, and I want to get away from that. In my case, I hand copy screenshots which isn't really getting my art anywhere, and would have lead to trouble later on if I had kept the ones I had already posted up on site here. Since these are requests, I'm going to try to be original with the concepts for the pictures while being as true as I can to the characters I'm drawing for you guys.
Yours will be a challenge for me, and I love a good challenge. I haven't seen Gundam Wing, so I'll be researching Duo a lot before I even think about putting pencil to paper. I'm not afraid of taking that chance to handle a subject I'm not familiar with because if I was afraid, well, I wouldn't be drawing at all. Taking risks is how a person improves, and learns right?
Caprice
Actually, Van Fanel from Escaflowne would be difficult to draw, and of all the characters I've done, I still haven't done any from my first anime experience yet. I was toying with the idea of doing a bonus picture to suppliment the requests, and this would make a great inaugural piece for that side project.
I don't have an issue with using reference pictures. It's is a good way to sharpen coordination and see results when learning a new style, but there seems to be a misunderstadning between me and the site about pictures drawn that way. I've known people, a lot better artists than me, try to submit original works and be told the art was too good to be theirs, while my straight screenshot copies (which I admitted were straight copies - and therefore obvious plagiarism, and not drawn very well at that) went right on through without a word of challenge. I removed those pictures from the site because I didn't think it was fair to those artists to have my questionably legit artwork up. I'm starting from square one with my existing animé artwork postings through this request program, which will take at least some of the straint off of me in doig things right.
Random Fact About Me:
My intuition is 90% correct when writing important documents like résumés or letters. Regardless of what other people tell me to put in those, my gut usually knows the right things to cover.
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