Art in Progress
Still trying to get my line work to look good drawing straight into the program. I still rush too much because I’m excited to learn and finish pieces. I haven’t tried much with scanned in pictures yet..
Here’s what I’ve been working on:
That’s Taiga Aisaka from the anime Toradora. My lines still aren’t pristine, but they’re definitely not as sketchy as the portraits I did. I’m really happy with how the hair looks it’s pretty and looks sort of golden. I’d almost like to push that more but I figured I’d move on. Of course the body is still in progress... I stopped because I couldn’t focus any more. I was at work and I started getting a tension headache, so I figured best to quit before it got real bad.
Next, this was before the portraits and Taiga:
It’s Hatsune Miku in an original design. I didn’t want to look up any reference for her song costumes and I’ve already drawn her in her original outfit. It’s really sketchy and... messy, I’m not really sure how I’ll proceed with it. I may redo the line work and tighten it up or I may just color it and not have lines.
Well there’s the progress I’ve been making. I should work on the calendar art some more... but I’m so enticed by Painter. After I finish the one I’m working on in photoshop I’ll probably move the rest to Painter. I have to see if it’ll look to jarring in comparison, but I don’t think it will.
Taiga Has Arrived!
The box is amazing too, so many cute illustrations. It’s a keeper, actually displaying them together is really nice.
Looks nice even in the box, but you know I can’t leave my figures in the box!
Quite an interesting plastic casing, it’s trifold. I liked that the face part was left open so you can see her face clearly even in the package.
She even had a small piece of plastic sheet between her head and body. I kind of thought I was going to break her by taking her head off... it felt like it was on tight, but I think it was because of the plastic sheet. This is the first time I’ve came across this kind of tacky plastic with my figures, where the plastic sticks to it’s self.
Awwwww.....
Taiga with Taiga! Look at the scale! So small.
The back is pretty too, such cute bows.
Sort of panty shot, but I really just loved the way the legs are posed and sculpted. Unlike many sitting figures there aren’t any flat parts.
I like her posed on the the floaty almost more then it positioned around her. It’s a bit unstable though and I’d worry about her falling and breaking.
So, as a Toradora and Taiga fan It’s definitely a nice figure. Really terrible that it was limited and not a wide release. There really hasn’t been many good Toradora figures that have had a wide release. The only one I was happy with and bought was Max Factory’s sitting Taiga. Which I’ll try to display these two together. I do have Wave’s Winter Fest Taiga on order too.
Welcome to the Host Club!
The most recent anime I finished and I thought was so-so. The anime revolves around a young girl named Haruhi that manages to get in to an elite school for the rich. One day she enters a club room and breaks a vase and ends up in the clutches of the Host Club in order to pay off the vase she broke. This means she has to pretend to be a boy. Each of the other members are wacky and eccentric characters and their antics make the show enjoyable.
I’ve come to find out I usually don’t enjoy shoujo comedy as much as other fans. I hear people rave about Ouran, but I found the anime to get a little too repetitive. What redeemed the series for me were certain episodes that dealt with characters problems and the last story arc where they wrapped things up nicely even though the manga it’s based on is still going.
I thought the show looked very, very nice. There were spots where limited animation was used, but it didn’t detract from the show. Really the visuals help out a lot with the enjoyment of the series. Since this is shoujo there’s lots of pretty boys and lots and lots of flowers. Okay that’s a little misleading, since it’s not like shoujo anime over do flower motifs, but they are featured a lot. Here I think it’s meant to poke fun at that convention. Usually Shoujo plots revolve heavily around romance and love, but this show only has a little of that and a lot of it is comedically played. Which makes this a series I think both genders could watch and find enjoyment.
It’s a nice series to relax to and have a fun time with, you won’t have to invest too much of yourself, though you may get bored if watching a lot of episodes at once. You could spend your time watching worst things though.
While I enjoyed the show I have no interest in picking up the manga to continue following the crazy adventures of this troupe of characters as fun as it may be... I just feel it be too much of the same and the art style doesn’t appeal to me all that much.