Posts made by megakazul

@Captain:

Ah. Well, to be honest, I'm more versed in comic book pencilling. I don't do much shading, because the pencilling I do is meant to be inked and colored over. I'm still green when it comes to adding shadows and such. Most shading I do regularly is the kind used for pseudo-color (i.e. that bad guy picture on page 1). I tend to use hatching more for shadows and such.

Ya, I do get that comics vibe from your work. (And I'm still VERY jealous of your clean lines)

Hatching…that's another thing...

With pencil, hatching is more suited for refining and detailing existing shadows. Using hatching to actually define the shadow itself is more common with pen/ink. (Though you see it in preliminary pencil sketching too.)

The edge that graphite has over pen, is that you are able to shade using a variety of tips...you can use a blunt point, chiselled point, or the side of the pencil. (Not just the tip)

I mean, if you're using pencil, I think you ought to experiment more and go all out, rather than limiting yourself to pen techniques.

@Captain:

…"Values"? I don't follow...

Yes, what King_Ty said, values = shades

But to elaborate, because Freeza has only two different values per body part, he looks rather flat. Take his tail for example…I only see two shades. The shadow on his tail, is very close to the other value. Even though there are strokes to indicate some sort of round wormlike quality, the mind still registers it as flat because the values look too similar.

All in all, try darkening the shadows and sticking in 1 or 2 midtone values in there.

There's a lot more that can be said on the subject of shading, but there are plenty of books that explain it better than I can.

As a general tip, after you feel that you're done with a drawing, prop it up against a wall, and view it from...around 15 ft back (drag an unsuspecting bystander with you if you like). If you or your bystander can't differentiate background from foreground, character from character, then you aren't really done. :P

Detailing is excellent…I'm also amazed at the lack of smudging...

But seeing as you're using graphite...why not try using more values?

Bwahaha, my life is one fourth complete now!

I went to his Friday panel, but skipped the Saturday one so I could line up early for the autographs. As a result, I missed the Sogeking song but yeah,
Whoooooooo

His "What's up doc?" line was pretty memorable too! XD

@Eggy:

shaved ice

Cute!

Though what's the purple topping supposed to be? Taro?

@e1n:

i'm sure there are people like that too. i've come across yaoi pairings from house or grey's anatomy. but from what i've seen around y!gallery, there are more people who restrict their yaoi fondness within the two-dimensional realm (that's why i said about 60-70%).

Yeah, I did take that into consideration. I thought it was interesting that your statistic is basically opposite of what I see IRL(tri-state area) and online. 60-70% like Yaoi and slashing other fiction works while 30-40% only limit themselves in the realm of manga/anime.

@e1n:

another argument against that theory is that if you ask any random yaoi fangirl, 60-70% of the time, they'll say that they like yaoi ONLY in the realm of manga/anime. in other words, if you show them a clip of real gay porn (with real men and not anime men), most likely they'll go EWWW THAT'S GROSS.

For some reason I find this odd. I don't know if its just in your area but over here, the majority of Yaoi fangirls don't limit themselves to manga/anime but a lot other fiction in a variety of media. Harry Potter and LOTR for one are popular slash material that aren't manga/anime. Then theres the videogames and the TV shows…..It just doesn't stop.

…even straight guys have started going into the yaoi business to make money.

Can ya list any besides yourself? XD

@Cyringohn:

-Eye Roll-

No, Greg. Have not put the game into a console and cut it on. However, watching people play entire campaigns with multiple characters is more than enough.

Moreover, this isn't even an issue of how fun it is to play [never said it didn't look fun and enjoyable]. It's an issue that about half the cast are literal clones of one another, and 6-7 of the 19 maps are also clones of other maps. You don't have to play the game to realize how pathetic that is, especially when it's obvious that Koei only did it to whore out an Xtreme Legends expansion pack.

Maybe some of the characters look cloned…because well...some of them are relatives to each other? I mean there's Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Sun Jian, and Sun Shang Xiang for one. And then there's a whole bunch from the Cao family too.

Gorilla Panda Ftw

Oh hell, I'm always up for a random trip to the city. I don't want to go to work so Saturday's fine.

@jadiesama:

but yeah, anyway…
anybody have any suggestions for where we should go this year?

How about St. Mark's place?

For some reason, your designs remind me of Dali's works. Very nice.

Skateboarding, billiards, creating murals, reading, throwing things off cruise ships

@Mr.:

The anime was a disgrace.

Now lets never speak of it again.

The fight scene between Raishinshi and Taikoubou was teh win though. Other than that…yes, yes it was a disgrace.

I find myself unused to seeing Taikoubou in bishie anime form with the huge eyes and the spiky hair when he's always being depicted as an old man in asian brush paintings.

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The manga is a great read though. And I was rather impressed with the clothing/paopei/beast designs. The designs looked original and yet it still had that chinese flair. As for the anime…er....it was...interesting.

So how does this work?

How many artists do you need?

If you only need one, do we have to duke it out via art royale?

Sharing yixing pics?

Here's mine. I couldn't find my mom's wedding pot unfortunately. >_> She kept it away from me. Pics are blurry…meh, even a person with parkinsons could take better pics than me. The teapot is really dark irl, but the camera flash kinda made it lighter. Theres one main branch and several cherry blossoms surrounding it, as well as the top.

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@dinty:

Megakazul, here are some pics of my clay teapot. I don't have a camera, so I just set the pot down on my scanner. I put a coin on one of the scans for size reference. As you can see (hopefully) the entire pot is shaped like bamboo, with bamboo accents. I like the design because it's not frilly, but not too severe. It suits me fine.

Ooh, it looks awesome!! I am loving that handle!! Yixings in general don't have pictoral designs or colors that pop out too much. If artists wan't to go crazy with them they usually shape I believe. The more modern yixings actually do have more colors though, probably because there's more technology to actually do this.

Here is the box it came in, the lid of the teapot (note the bamboo shaped handle) and if you look closely on the top of the pot beside the handle you can see a faint leaf motif that goes around either side.
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/5956/leafmotifvp9.th.jpg

I think its about the same size as mine.

the bottom of the lid and pot both have something written on them –probably an artist's stamp of some sort. I'm not sure. If anyone can make sense of it, please say so. I'm very curious about the origin of it:
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8189/bottompotlidgb0.th.jpg

here are crayon rubbings of the stamps on the bottom of the lid and pot – can anyone read them?
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/2629/stampsmv9.th.jpg

Yes, that is an artist stamp. Can't read it since its ancient Chinese, though I do recognize parts of some words. I can't even tell what dynasty it's from. T_T When I had a stamp made for me, I just randomly picked a style without researching or anything. >_>

It looks like it's been used maybe once or twice before, judging from the staining inside.
I'll give it a gentle clean tonight, then brew some Oolong.
Looking forward to seeing how it changes the flavor.

So how did that go?

@Roz:

Oho? Clay teapots, eh? This is mine.

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6420/clayswanjs0.jpg

Is it a common thing for a clay teapot to have three stamps: a square one, an oval one, and a circle one? Because mine has the same shaped stamps as dinty's, but they say different things on them.

Kyaaaa, I sold one of those in the store once! ^_^ It is indeed very cute! I always love animal yixings. Where did you get yours?

As for stamps, I can only think of 2 explanations:

1. Its a collab between 2 or more artists, hence distinct stampings.
2. There's the artist's seal, two "seals of approval" from the commisioners or something like that. I know paintings and poems in China always had multiple stamps on them for this reason, but I'm not partcularly sure because of the time change.

@dinty:

Yours is darker than mine – I wonder if that's because it was made in a different part of the province, where the clay is a different color? Maybe megakazul can enlighten us

:ninja:Theoretically yes, the coloring could give us the mineral content which could then indicate a general location. However, I think you also have to consider age, and storage place as well.

Sushi, onigiri, and bubble tea…recipes that don't really involve heavy cooking. I prefer playing with knives and spoons.

That background is so made of win.

@KaizokuFan22:

does anyone know any tutorials or books for drawing anime style hair? the book I have onyl covers how to draw hair in blurprint, Tone,and movement.. no basics.

Also I will be puitting up a new pic in the next few days.. also Am I drawing too much for the past few days?

http://www.cablenet.ne.jp/%7ejapanime/tutorial/hairmain.html

Julie's tutorials are awesome for the beginner or the intermediate. I only linked to the hair tutorial but there's a link to the tutorial main page on there as well. Keep in mind that there's gonna be a lot of reading. If you really want to improve, how much you read and understand the tutorial is going to factor in. It's one thing to just copy the tutorial pictures, but to understand what they are trying to show you is another.

http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm

Polykarbon is another great tutorial place that covers most of the basics as well as a few handy photoshop techniques.

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/art.html

Farp is pretty much the only tutorial center I frequently turn to these days. It's an excellent place to turn to if you've found a certain media you want to explore but as far as I know, they have tutorials for the basics too. Again be prepared for lots of reading.

One last thing…do you have a scanner? It'll be much easier to see your works if you do.

@dinty:

Lead!?!?! What the hell's that doing in a tea pot? Thanks for the warning! Yeah, I've seen catalogs (I think it was the Republic of Tea catalog, because they are notorious for their sappy "spin" on things) where the unlined teapots are described as "giving healthful iron to your diet". And when I read that, I thought to myself: what they're really saying is that these things leach like crazy …

Yeah…they always seem to make their way into chinatown shops. :getlost: They're also cheap too so yeah >_> 15-30 bucks I believe. In this case, you get what you pay for.

A Chinese friend once gave me a special teapot made of some sort of clay that comes from some celebrated area of China where the tea is excellent (probably Yunnan though I'm not sure). She said that in that area, they drink their tea in these clay teapots because the clay is made from the soil of that area, so it has a similar taste to the water of that area, which means the flavor is more united. And again, that made alarm-bells go off in my head: so the main virtue of this teapot is that it leaches minerals into a tea and changes the flavor of it?!?! No thanks! … It's a beautiful little teapot though, and her intentions were (I think) honorable, so I put it out on my counter-top, even though I never use it.

Yixings tea pots!! Whoo!

These clay pots are neat in that they absorb the essence of whatever loose leaf tea you put in. After 6 months of frequent use, you can just pour in hot water without the leaves and all the tea essence trapped in the clay will be released and you'll have ready made tea, without leaves or anything!

And yes you're right, the clay will accentuate the earthy flavor the tea, which is why oolongs are normally used with it.

My mother received one as a wedding present. It has this beautiful flower motif thing going on. Again, its not really practical for daily use as it'll erode as quickly as 3-5 years, but yes, they're are rather pretty to look at. I've only seen my parents use the set twice, once at a mahjong party, the other when old friends were visiting.

Weee! This is fun – being able to reveal my massive tea-geek side and chat with someone who is also unafraid to show their massive tea geek side either.

Indeed!! (Now if you only had cats….)

Unforunately that doesn't say anything about Puck and Griffith.

if Griffith > Guts, Puck > Guts, then what's Puck ? Griffith

…eh, regardless of who pwns who, I still say you should draw some Puck XP

@changsho:

Hehe thanks guys. Don't forget that a new chapter of Berserk is coming out TOMORROW. About time.

whaaaaaaaaaa… But the scene where

! the aunt shot the thing in the eye!! How can you miss that D:

Guts and Griff took a day, then the background took another. See, lack of internet helped because I don't get distracted.

! I thought it was just some random weak spot…

In any case, I was half asleep during the film. X_X

Nice Berserk fanart. Needs more Puck though. XD

@dinty:

As best I know, they take everything. I've only ever bought from them through snail-mail – I send a check or money order and a week or two later I get my tea. But you can call them or fax them or use the website for credit card orders, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did Paypal as well. Just ask -- there should be phone numbers and e-mail addresses on the site.

And if you do order, take advantage of their samplers -- you get enough tea for about 4 cups, and most cost maybe $1 - $2. Nearly every tea in their catalog can be made in a sampler size. It's a great way to try a dozen teas without committing serious cash to any of them.

Do you know how it takes to ship and what they ship the tea in? 'cause it would really suck if they shipped it in some paper bag equivalent that took more than two weeks to reach its destination.

Oh, the inside is enamel? Yeah, that would make it much easier to clean than the one I saw, which was unenameled metal inside. I asked the clerk "how do you clean the stains and calcification from it?" and she said some mumbo-jumbo about "patina".

Ooh, I heard from one customer who had bought one of these unenameled teapots…turns out there were traces of lead in it. :ninja: So becareful...

In terms of color scheme I like the recent two better. The brightness of the sky complements the skin colors.

@dinty:

Well that's as good a recommendation as any – and if they're dishwasher safe, then cleaning them should be a breeze. Maybe she was referring to the staining -- how just about any cup you use repeatedly for tea will start to look yellow over time from the staining. I've never seen the bigger size -- is that like the size of a blender or something?

The one you posted actually was the bigger size (32 oz). Usually I make ice tea and tea concentrates from it. The smaller one is half of that (16 oz) and I find it more convenient for a hot cup of tea.

As for the staining, I noticed that the teamakers started looking off color about 8 months of use. Bleaching fixes it up pretty well. Does your friend add any sugar, cinnamon, or honey in it? I find that you have to rinse it more thoroughly if you do, otherwise they're more prone to clogging.

Ah, ok that explains it – then the person was drinking it for "medicine", not for taste. People drink all sorts of vile tasting stuff for medicine.

Ugh, don't get me started on the subject of tea and meds.

I find it ridiculous how people would go through such lengths to avoid exercising. That, and the fact that there's no guarantee that it's gonna work, even if you combine all the digestion-helping teas with each other since everyone's bodies are different. >_> Of course tea is healthy, but I really hate it when salespeople portray it as some magic potion that cures lupus, cancer, obesity, and what not.

It really irked me when one of my colleagues basically started prescribing all these expensive oolong teas to this one customer (he had to lose 10lb within a week for his wrestling match). She wasn't a nutritionist or a doctor which kind of ticked me off.

Yeah, that's pretty pricey! I'll have to see what Upton charges for the same. They do have some steep prices for stuff like "shade grown, tippy, organic, new harvest, hand rolled…" , but on the whole, their down-to-earth teas also have down-to-earth prices.

I've seen these asian tea market/festival events on the chinese news, some of the teas sell for up to a grand for a small pack…but yeah luckily there's lots of good stuff that sells cheap. That's what I love about tea, nearly anyone with an income can enjoy it.

Ooh...that rooibus lemon yogurt looks gooood. Do you by any chance know Upton's payment methods?

:happy:

drools

Hey, maybe I ought to work there just for a month or two so that I can pillage the place with my discount, just as you did. I've got tons of tea books already, but a cast iron teapot … mmm ... they're probably hell to clean though, huh?

Ahaha, its a shame this thread wasn't created 6 months ago. I could have given ya'll a lot of cheap stuff (the store ships for free too). It's a great place to work (if you don't mind the corporate 'tardness and freaky managers). $8.50 an hour where I worked, free drinks and a 40% discount on all products. I ended up paying $120 instead of $200 for my cast iron set. XD

Speaking of which, the only way I clean mine is with rinsing. Absolutely no scrubbing allowed! (Otherwise, it'll ruin the surface.) Caring for it is pretty simple, nothing rusts since the inside is enamel, and I'm sure you already know that cast iron is indestructable. Unfortunately, I don't have many tea drinking friends so I can't throw tea parties with it. :sad:

Good to know!
I see it a lot in health/organic/whole food stores. That's probably why.

I sent a pound of the cocoa variety to e1n. XD He likes it…or so he tells me.

For some reason, I am reminded of BLAME.

I tend to favor comics without dialogue over ones with dialogue. Your's is excellent, please post more.

@dinty:

Bevin, was it one of these?
http://www.adagio.com/teaware/iced_ingenuiTEA_teapot.html?SID=9102771aec43c7afdd8753c2cd79dbd8

If so, a friend has one, and she swears by it because it's convenient and easy to use, but she also admits that it's a little bit tricky to clean.

I have like 5 of those in the house, 2 giants ones, 3 small ones. Very convenient, you can take 'em anywhere where hot water is available. As for the cleaning part, mine are dishwashwer safe X:

:blink:
That had to have been a dare. I can't imagine anyone willfully cutting a partially-fermented, sesame/nut/grass-flavored tea with a fully-fermented, disgusting smelling, smoky-flavored tea, and then cutting that with MILK. That would be like throwing chunks of durian into a bowl of oatmeal and yogurt.
:sick::sick::sick::sick:

I'm 90% sure it wasn't. The customer who made the order was a heavy set middleaged woman, which led me to believe that she chose those particular teas for their digestive qualities.

Megakazul, if you don't mind me asking, at which tea shop did you work?

A little hellhole called teavana. From the outside, its a cute high end tea shop with a relaxing asian atmosphere. I hated working there though 'cause my coworkers sucked and the company had shitty regulations. As for the tea is great but freakin' expensive. The most expensive tea one is Monkey Picked Oolong which went for $25 for 2 oz. (approx a handful.)

On the plus side, I pretty much grabbed everything I wanted already (tons of tea recipe/history books, pretty cast iron tea sets, cans of tea) via 40% discount babyyyyyyyy.

@bevin:

It's funny, I'd heard several years back from someone (a lady who ran a loose tea shop, no less) that some kinds of tea had more caffine in them than coffee. I looked into it recently when I heard the same thing from my doctor and found out that that, evidently, is not true. I think some tea leaves might have more when they're either fresh or first dried, but by the time they get mixed in with other, less potent leaves (caffine levels seem to vary from leaf to leaf), or depending on how strong you brew it, the caffine content drops down to about half the amount of coffee beans. So if you heard someone say tea has more caffine than coffee, you can butt in and offer that little nugget up.

That's interesting, the only tea I know of with the same amount of coffee is Yerba mate from Argentina. It's not really "tea" but an herbal infusion thing as dinty used to describe rooibus. Nicknamed the "coffee lover's tea," people who drink it report to be more mentally alert and don't experience jitteriness or crashing.

I've been taught to say to customers that caffeine from all tea's on average is absorbed more slowly by your body than coffee caffeine. I've never actually researched this info myself though. I still have my training manuals with all the info we're supposed to know on the products, so maybe I'll dig that up.

I've tried iced oolong tea, but never heard of this red tea before. I'll have to look for it next time I am in china town.

Red tea be from South Africa, so I'm not sure if China town would be the place to look.

I used to work at a tea store, so I got to try lots of cool shit. The tea was high quality loose-leaf so it was hella expensive too =/

Some of the customers ask for the wierdest mixes. I think the most gross request I ever got was iced oolong and puerh with milk. Puerh has this odd smell, as it's processing takes place in a cave. So you've got bitter tea + a musty smelling tea + milk…

As for my favorites, I'm kinda of a tea dork, so brace yerselves. XD

Hot teas:
Silver needle
Queen of Babylon- White tea w/ pomegranate seeds, sour cherries, carrots, and pineapple bits
Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearls
Gyokuo Imperial
Darjeeling Puttabong
Golden Monkey

Iced teas:
Thai iced tea
Passion Fruit Green Tea
Green apple oolong

Tea smoothies:
Passion Fruit Rooibus
Mango Rooibus

Eh, I hate eating Mochi and icecream together. The stickyness of the mochi and the gooeyness of the icecream creates such a gross texture, its like eating glue. XD

@SaiyaJedi:

Japanese and Chinese both used to use unsimplified characters; however, in the middle of the 20th Century, both countries embarked on separate paths of simplification. Thus, while Simplified Chinese characters might be recognizable to the Japanese-literate who are well-read, Japanese actually has its own sets of simplifications (called Shinjitai, or "new character forms"), which sometimes line up with Chinese, but are often very different.

Ah, that would explain why I couldn't look up certain words in the chinese dictionary, as they were probably part of the Shinjitai. I grew up using traditional hanzi, so I was kind of shocked when I learned that China mostly used simplified. When I started learning japanese, I saw that the kanji for Gaku and Kuni were the same as the simplified chinese versions, so I cried (and gave up for awhile).

After comparing the shinjitai to simplified hanzi, I feel like I'd adapt to shinjitai more. Unlike simp. hanzi, the shinjitai (in most cases?) leaves the radical portion of the character intact, instead of transforming the whole word. Thus, looking up a word via radical would still be feasible. (How does the average japanese person look up kanji anyway?)

Thank you for the lists, I'm sure they'll be helpful to me sometime next semester, when I take japanese again.

Do japanese ever use simplified chinese characters as kanji, or just traditional?

I'm going. Probably gonna just spend the day browsing the dealer's room and the artist alley.

http://news.com.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJournal+revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html

Eh, for those who frequently hang around LJ (fandom communities in particular), I'm sure you've already got a glimpse of what's been going on. As far I know, the Harry Potter fandom's been hit hard, not sure about anime/manga communities, though I'm pretty sure they're on their toes.

For those of you who don't know, LJ users and comms listing pedophilia, shouta, loli, incest, etc. as interests are supposedly being reported by this groupWarriors For Innocence. This group (which reeks of sketchy vibes) basically claims to prevent online predators from striking.

Their method of attack seems to be first searching for users/communities by interests and then reporting listed names to LJ. LJ of course, is allowed to ban people/comms if they're posting "objectionable" material.

If you want to know more, this person seems to have compiled a fair amount of info and links regarding the issue as well as a list of suspended users and comms.

http://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html

Tried translating, but I gave up halfway.

Chapter 457: Meat

! p1-
Moria: Start! (The zombifying procedure)
Usopp: Wha-what is this… a gi-giant's corpse?
Chopper: oh...!! oh...!! (weeping noises)
Nami: Chopper, don't make a sound! Restraint! (X_X)
! p2-
Moria: At last!(not sure about that...) Straw hat Luffy's shadow!! I'm your new master!
Luffy: ...
Usopp: ...!
Moria: Starting from now you will be reborn from this stiff corpse... I bestow you a voice and flesh! However, you must forget all your nakama. Once you transform you will obey my 10 generals.
! shakes Luffy's shadow to make him nod
! Moria: evil laughter It's a deal!! (literally: the contract has been extablished)
! p3-
Hogback: You ought to (something about concluding Cindry's deal X_X)...that way, we can finally eat on plates again.
Cindry: Sooner or later, I'll crush those plates on your knees. (kneecaps? X_X)
Hogback: Holy mother!! Oh Cindry, your threat is so frickin scary!!
Absalom: The way Cindry treats Hogback is so amazing (strong/powerful, ack can't find the right word X_X)
Chopper: !...the shadow!!
Moria: Come...Wake up now!!
...From your 500 years of slumber!
! p4-
sound effects
! Nami: ah...Luffy's shadow...
Moria's evil laughter
! p5-
more sfx
! Absalom: It's in!!
! p6-
sfx
! Nami: No! You can't scream!
! p7-
HOLY MOTHER!! (XD)
Moria: What the hell's going on?
Nami and co: The corpse moved!!
Perona: Oi (insert name)! So you pirates were hiding here!!
Usopp: Crap...they've found us!
Nami: We screamed by impulse!!
Chopper: The monster's eyes opened!!
! p8-
Absalom: That's my bride, how did she end up here?!!
Zombies: It's those pirates! Get them!!
! sfx plus moria's laughter
!!? The giant esaily broke the chains!!
! p9-
Hogback: Excellent!! This is simply art!! This (can't read this font X_X)!! This monster is worthy of it!!
! Luffy monster: Meaaaaatt!!!!
! p10-:
Absalom: Sanji! Shangfan!(name?)
?: Sanji? Who's that?
Absalom: Where are the pirates?
zombies: They left!! Those are the footprints(?)
Absalom: Don't go!!
! Usopp: huff What's happening....what's happening?! Just now...
Chopper: huffhuff Luffy's shadow was put in and it started moving. So this is the zombie matter. So this is Dr. Hogback's so called life resurrection...(X_X)
! And here's where I gave up.

X_X X_X I know there are members here more fluent in Chinese than I am!! Come out wherever you are…..

Awesome, may you find your Hotohori.

@JustIra:

megakazul: Would you like me to scan your envelope art once I get the chance? Luffy was adorable!

If you want to. It's all good.

She's a woman .

Maybe a stallion?

Damn, I reallllllly wish I can go as my all-time favorite illustrator is going to be at the artist's alley. DX DX DX

Awesome!! You rock! No more scouring all over google for refs ever again!

This site also has them, though they're smaller images.

http://www.eastblue.net/pages/anime/galerie/index.php?id=Settei%20Pre

Having fangirls force you to eat/snort mayo all day might put on a strain on your health one day. Plus it'll be hot, with his outfit.

I say go as Gintoki. No, I DEMAND you go as gintoki. XD

Ohhhhhhh so it does have eyes! I couldn't see them since the creature was moving quickly throughout the whole entire film. >_>

But ya, it looks spiffy. Nice job!!!!

Maybe it's because your image's file extension is wierd.

".png.jpg"

I believe you need a URL.

Your best bet is upload the image online, intoPhotobucket. There are different hosts if Photobucket doesn't satisfy you.

Your friend Tina bears a striking resemblence to Nami. XD

@mr_bushido:

I'll probably just keep that money for food & partying. I can buy anything you see in a dealer room anytime I want, at discount prices. I love having industry connections.

O_O I am soooooo gonna look for you at Otakon if I go. (provided the dealers booth discount still stands)

edit: I'll even throw in some gintoki fanart for ya XD

Skullkid.

Increasing the contrast made the pic more glowy which was great but at the same time it made Tatl and Tael look ugly. Oh well, can't win 'em all.

!

TOLDYA IT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL!!!

(I think you should outline some of the bamboo leaves and stalks to give the background a little more uniformity and volume/oomph, but IT'S STILL BEAUTIFUL!!)

I'm a woman .

Mailed the sketchbook.