a belated christmas

[mayoraasei]

Firstly, I thought I'd do this:
[Error: unknown template qotd]Haro!!! I WANT a Haro~! I want a BLACK one. I want a real one that goes "Haro~ Haro~" and jumps up and down and rolls around looking stupid XDDD

So anyway, because I got home and came to be in an incredibly foul mood on Friday night, I drew this:


I know...I draw happy pictures when I'm pissed off. LOL. The sketch was a 40-minute job, so yeah...I didn't even bother drawing the clothes properly. But this is one of my favourite characters ♥ I should draw him more often XD

After I scanned this picture I found out that because my laptop Bluescreen™ed several times, Photoshop insists that I have to reactivate it. Grr.

So this was coloured in OpenCanvas, which I would use more often if only I figured out how to do a channel mask in it. I also don't like its colour picker as much as I do for PS, which makes for a double frustration when my laptop LCD is pretty unreliable - especially when it comes to choosing skin tones. It always ends up either too pink or too yellow or - on a very bad day - too green. OC has a cooler brush system though I don't use it nearly enough to know which ones I want to use. I end up just using the oil marker because that gives me consistent solid colours LOL.

Merry Christmas~ I'm exactly one month late! XD


(PS: I can't believe channel 7 put on the bloody NEWS right in the middle of the Federer vs Berdych match!!! When he was down 2-1!!!! ARGGH. Me and my friend had to watch Federer win that fourth set by watching the live scoreboard on the AusOpen website Orz. At least Fed finally got back on form in the 5th set and breezed through it like he usually does.)

Comments

[meissa.livejournal.com]

I love the way you colored his hair!

(And yay for Aussie Open posts! LOL. Althought that news broadcast cutting in for you guys? CRIMINAL!)

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

I loved the way in the sports section of the news they then went on and said "Federer is currently having an unexpected struggle". I wonder how many people were screaming at the TV "JUST BLOODY PUT THE TENNIS BACK ON". We caught the last set at least =/

[siu.livejournal.com]

lol, does that mean that we should try and get you into a foul mood more often to get these wonderful pictures? ;)

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

LOL Thanks. I'd rather not though XD

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

why the foul mood?

ps, awesome mood icons, I just noticed them when I set the browser to load pictures XD

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Hehehe~ Aren't they cute? XD

I think it was various factors, including a very long day spent working on something I wish had finished quicker.

No comment on the picture? =( This is "sort of" Kamaeh~ XD

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

they are indeed! oh and I like the shading for his face (but I don't think that shade of blue in his eyes or the clothing looks very realistic? I think you mentioned the clothing in your post, and I think I've stared at blue eyes too intensely at some point)

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I wonder why I don't get email notifications for this post O_o;

Haha...I planned to crop most of his clothes so I didn't colour it properly XD

Nevertheless, I always get confused when one talks about "realism" with anime art O__o;

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

I get emails for too many things =_= lol, and good point about realism, I forgot about that. I suppose I mean the clothing didn't look as well done as the other parts of your drawing; the inconsistency stood out a little.

:D ooh, and you want yum cha sometime next month? :D?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

But but...what happened to hotpot!!! T0T