Anime Relations: Clannad

So, for the last two days I've tried another coloring project, this time with an actual attempt at shading.



This is the result.

I'm pretty proud of myself really to have come this far after only two tries. However I still haven't gotten a grasp on shading yet and most of the shading in this picture is guesswork. In the end, practice and experience still seems to be the deciding factor as to whether a coloring will turn out perfectly. I didn't even try to do hair highlights on this picture, even though if I managed to do is successfully it would look more lively.

Something I think I did well was the right eye. The left eye was too small for me to do a good job on with my current skills however the right eye was perfectly fine. No, I did not shop in her eyes from a scan, it's all done from scratch. Although I will admit I was referencing a scan while doing it :P

In total this coloring took 25 layers, almost twice my first attempt. The actual surface coloring was only 13 but each eye took 6 layers to make.

Original Image From Gelbooru


Even if I'm making glaring errors here and there, I've found coloring to be a lot of fun and a great way to kill some time when I'm not feeling up to watching anime. I plan to do this a lot more in the future.

Using windy's nice tutorial that can be found in her blog. My first time doing something like this. It took forever D:


End result? I don't know how to fucking shade and choose colors.



I guess I just need to practice practice practice.

Character is Onozuka Komachi from the Touhou Project games.

Catch me on IRC, everything else is turned off. Sorry to people who's comments I haven't responded to in the last month. I haven't been very into MAL lately, mostly cause the community just doesn't suit my tastes anymore. People who used to be cool are now just trolling, people who annoyed me are twice as annoying, etc.

I'll be around, maybe posting here and there every once in a while, but 1 to 1 talk isn't going to happen with anyone here until I feel up to it again.

You can always catch me in most of the MAL related channels on rizon so if you still want to talk to me go ahead.

I'm not emo anymore. Comments are back on (for friends)

Woot time really flies, it's already been half a year xD (I'm actually two days late :/)

The last six months since I've joined this site have probably been the best days I've had on the internet in my short life. Sure I've hit some conflicts here and there and I've done many, many stupid things but overall it's been great :D

Some staff members I would like to thank for making my experience here so awesome:
selective_yellow
windy
Zel
Faust721
ZoiQ
kei-clone

And even though I've never seriously talked to him: Xinil of course, for creating the site xD

Special Mention Former Staff Member:
itainteazy

And now for a long list of normal users who I would like to thank for my great time here:
Daneja
Kuyukly
ViM
CanadaAotS
Purin
Synthetic
asandari
Ammy
Dr_deViate
drac
colorful
-AtaraxiA-
crowslayer91
Boursk
Jes
WinterNightsFall
Karura
Iriya
Zarin
YukiLi
LOLWUT9000
Konfig
ChiBuki
Paws
MrSanjuro
nixxie
eLiT3_
Kionniko
Nahata
Mhia-chama
PhAzEsHiFt
Escalain
noelhoi
Flame_Haze
gameoffreak8

The #anime/#hik crew: Seishi, neutralizer, Tanuki, Wasabi, SirensGrace, Drakarst, Tsukiyo-, sleepminded, EchelonV, Revy, Keikun

The #FL crew: Killuan, DangYou, Darkdragon500, divinecow, HalfofaCupNoodle, I-like-cookies, Death_Toad, Riot_Fate, Tsunamu, Rutix, illyasviel, ChaoticHoshi, Andu


And...that's it. I think.
Well this was a good way to kill 15 minutes of boredom. Here's to another 6 months :D

Anime Relations: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kanon (2006), Lucky ☆ Star, Seto no Hanayome, Baccano!

So I took a little time last night to redo my favorites.
Originally it was:
The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
Lucky Star
Shakugan no Shana II
Kanon 2006
Clannad

After revaluating my scores and each anime a little bit I've decided to change it to:
TMoSH
Lucky Star
Seto no Hanayome
Kanon 2006
Baccano

So while I'm still a KyoAnitard my favs are slightly more diverse now :D
I removed Shana mostly cause while I love it, I found in terms of enjoyment level SnH was much higher.
Baccano was added cause I found myself recommending it to others a lot lately as well as the fact that Clannad disappointed me immesely when Kyou and Tomoyo's arcs were cut off.


I also must be one of the few people on MAL with both Lucky Star and Baccano on favs. :S

Well, it took me about 7 hours but I've redone my list :x

It's not perfect and a far cry from award winning lists like Talon's or divinecow's but I think I did a decent job.

Link for those who are too lazy to even click twice to reach my list :P

The theme is styled after Little Busters!, a visual novel by Key and hopefully a future anime.

Every image was edited in paint.net v.3.30 and the text was done in SnagIt's screen editor program. If I had photoshop I could probably make the text look a lot better but oh well...haven't found a working crack.

The images (save the actual Little Busters title, which I stole off the Wiki article) are all from Imouto. Here are all the originals:
Careful, they're huge.


Well, I guess that's it xD Hopefully I can improve more as I practice this kind of stuff. Had to look at 5 other list sources this time around to get a good grasp on the CSS aspects ;x