Danny gang completed ^^/

Continuation from the previous entry, the Danny choo and his sweet mascots (Haruka and Mirai) in Nendoroid style artwork is now completed ^^/ Please click on image below to get a bigger version :3

Okie gotta make some lunch :P laters everyone ^^/

Doodles oodles

a cheeky Doodle from today :3 I suspect my mom will have a lot to say to me if she ever chance upon this sketch ^^; Despite me being already married for a few years and all... (LOL)


And one from earlier this month (3 guys, 2 SD girls) I rarely draw guys, lol!



As some (if not all) of you had seen, I doodled Danny choo and his 2 adorable mascots nendoroid style ^^/! Danny doodle was drawn straight with Sai, and Haruka and Mirai were sketched on paper first before "inking" in Sai ^^/ (What is Sai?)
I hope to find time to colour ^^; Danny doodle will probably be completed the quickest since he's mostly in black :3

Girls docking... Wallpaper!

Thank you those who keep coming back to check on progresses, I decided to make wallpaper versions of this particular image ;)


1024 x 768
1600 x 1200
1680 x 1050 (16:10)
1920 x 1200 (16:10)

But of course, the final image is available on the Gallery page as well :3 and also by clicking on the image up there you get to see the actual higher resolution for your personal collection.

To see the previous work in progress for this particular image, you can check out the URLs below:
Inspiration and sketch
"Inking" in Sai (What is Sai?)
Colour progress teaser

Girls docking progress

Of course not completed yet, just wanted to tease :P

Girls docking inked

Enough said, I love Sai! ^O^ okie think gotta head out soonish, will catch up with comments later :) (thanks guys, I read em ^^/)

Girls dockin...?

Saw a news item on dannychoo.com yesterday, was very amused that that imagery has a term! :P
yes a sketchu preview in progress :P Gotta love a lazy(-ish) Sunday!

Alice in wonderland more progress

Bunny not touched yet so left it out for now, and I think I gonna call it a nite ^^;

Alice in wonderland progress

Tried some other tools in Sai, very quick fills done, haven't really figured out the program fully just yet, so background was quickly done in photoshop, may redo it later in Sai of course.




There are different ways and methods I use when I colour my artwork.

Usually the line art -- either scanned image, or inked in the computer -- is in a separate layer, and similar or same colours or items (example, hair, clothing, skintone etc) in different layers. I noticed that in photoshop the file will become huge as more layers, shading and effects are added.

In Sai, the image refreshes and saves quickly, something I really like since it definitely saves some time. Also multi control-Z is definitely a plus ^^.  In this current work in progress, I fill some base colours (in separate layers) first, this method allows me a quick over view of the overall colour schemes and when I finalise colours I will do shading later. This method is neater in a way that we can re-select the filled in parts, keeping most shading within the base colours.

In the previous "That cat girl" I used a slightly more time consuming and messier method, where I shade roughly around and then erase the strokes which bleeded outside of the line art.

Alice in wonderland inked

Took some time to ink one of the sketches from Thursday ^^ Colour adjusted and text added in photoshop Am really enjoying inking with Sai! ^O^ (thanks FatB for pointing out I'm missing something before Sai lol)

That Cat girl

Okie quick colouring of cat girl completed ^^/ Was gonna give her a more fantasy colour hair style but end up using brown ^^;  This piece of work is mostly coloured in Sai, quick background and text done in photoshop ^^ As usual, clicking on image below brings you to full view, or you can find it in Gallery page.



okay back to Work work ^^;;;;

Nya?

Sai program getto p(^O^)q


I was pleasantly surprised that they had an english version of a page which I previously only saw a Japanese version of, and realised omg I could get the license to use it since I like it a lot :P The line and brush strokes feels more natural on this little programe than photoshop ^^; I'm not used to the wand tool in Sai just yet so am using a different method to colour, the colours leaking out will be erased near the end -- which is why the colours are bleeding on the edge. I'm not done colouring this image yet of course :P

Shop sketches from thursday

Was rather busy on Friday, so did not scan my sketches from thursday ^^;
I sketched some ideas for some doll related sewing, couldn't resist drawing thus "Alice in wonderland" inspired themed girl ;)


Drew a maiddo chan and a nameless lady holding a cuppa coffee ^^


Sketching is always quick, but refining and colouring are time consuming, hopefully will find some time to colour something soon! ^O^;

Yukata girl coloured

Okie took a little time after lunch to quickly colour Yukata girl ^^/ also updated her into Gallery page :3


How she might look as a coloured paper girl :P


ETA click image below to get a slightly larger version to print and make your own ^^/

New toy -- Bamboo Wacom tablet

While out and about with the husband on Sunday, we came across this slick looking Bamboo drawing tablet which was at a reasonable price, so we decided to get it for me to try it out.

I remember seeing an entry called Anime paperchild on 望み - What is that you desire?
And decided to try my hand at making one with my new "toy".

Here she is, having tea in her yukata on my tablet ^^ I was going to colour her, but thought to make a black and white version first ^^  I did a rough sketch in pencil and paper, then "inked" and shaded her in photoshop.
After that I printed her out on our inkjet printer and cut her out. Took a few shots, and decided this one looks the best of the lot.


Tried putting her on my laptop also ^^


Since she turned out rather cute, I hope to find time to colour her eventually, possibly after my deadline later this week ^O^; meanwhile, here's the version in grey :3

Happy birthday Singapore and Happy birthday to my husband :D

Food abused tumblred :P

Swim wear ladies completed

Okie the ladies are done ^^!
I would give a hint to what I was trying to find out from the previous entry, but I think this time it's quite obvious no? LOL
Currently clicking on the image below will bring you to the full view, image has been updated into Gallery page as well ^^/


ETA couple progress thumbnails:


So what's been keeping me busy this couple weeks? Take note these are preview work in progress lol There's a few more of course which I am pretty happy with, but I won't be showing for now :P


okie lunch time ^^;;;

Swim wear ladies in progress

Too busy these days, can't finish colouring ^^; also going past my bed time (no good)
Was gonna finish the clue, but never got to it just yet :P Thanks everyone for answering the questions from previous post ^^

Curious to know

1) What do you notice first when you see this sketch below?
2) Which girl U prefer? :P



Small update about puppy clock status: Hmmm I haven't figured out how to make it work on wordpress so may eventually just put something which will work on blogger (Like mine) later on ^^; Sorry for the wait ^^;
ok back to work ^^;

Shop sketches...

So yesterday I was working at the shop again, so I had some time to sketch a bit ^^

I'll feature my favourite of the three at the top :P  Dunno why I got this idea LOL the triangle mouth was drawn after I couldn't decide on the mouth ^^; the SD on the side could be better lol but the idea is there :P



Anyhows, yes another Ranka Lee fan art (LOL) I didn't have reference to the bottom part of her dress, so I improvised :P
I wonder if I am a closet Ranka Lee fan in denial? :P
I tried to draw Sheryl too but I made her look horrible, so I not showing :P



I walked to work cos I missed the bus (oops)
and walked passed this visual (well from memory) I suppose if I painted it or shaded a bit more it'd look less flat :P And yes I do draw (try to) other stuff other than girls ^^