“Listen to my world…”

BGM: “Room of Angel” from Silent Hill 4 OST

Tools: Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop CS5

Yes I know the BGM doesn’t suit… I have no idea why I was listening to the Silent Hill OST when drawing this picture… orz Well to be honest I’m not very satisfied with how it came out, especially the castle.. Something is wrong about it and I don’t know what.. plus too tired to care anymore *dies

The original concept was the 2 girls surrounded by ruins and looking up into the sky, which consisted of all that you see plus a sorcerer fighting a dragon on the castle.. and no I didn’t end up drawing that HAHA I did draw the ruins but it didn’t turn out well.. so I got rid of it orz

Was in a major artist block when I started this… and now I’m just ultimately sick of this picture XD *wants to move on

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I neglected the blog again! D: Here’s a new illustration done for Kiseki magazine‘s editorial page. For some reason, I had this idea that things will be much faster in watercolor, and well.. I don’t know if I was right or wrong. Overall the time spent is probably shorter, but when working with watercolor I ended up having to take a lot of pauses in between to wait for the paint to dry, so actually I did the coloring over a few days. As for inking, it’s definitely faster than in the computer! I tried to do it kazuaki’s way, which I once saw in a tutorial, first sketch on paper, then scan and ink on the computer, then print out and ink it again (actually her steps were more complicated since at the end she inked everything again in the computer ==) I think I’m still most comfortable with hand drawing rather than using the tablet, just have a problem with scanning quality.

I think at the end I’m only 70% satisfied with the coloring.. went way overboard with the colors : P I need to work on positive/negative space and just light/shadow in general.

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Errm, just wanted to try  typing more about the drawing so it doesn’t seem like just a repeat post of dA XD; Era, put your new pic!!!

I haven’t posted for awhile! Been distracted in the past weeks..!
Next week is finally my last week at work before I go back to uni, it’s a bit sad, but I’m hoping to have a lot of time to draw!!

Anyways, here’s some watercolors that I’ve been doing lately~~
Getting into watercolors recently because I just got a new set, because it’s really relaxing to do and because.. I can watch anime and draw at the same time XD yay

So I’ve been watching FMA~~~ Watched.. 50 eps in about a week!? O__O So addicted.

I’m still trying to make my art more loose though. Recently I concentrated too much on being neat @_@

starting to be some Gantz previews out *A*)
LOOKS GOOOD~~~ A lot of things look so exactly the same as the manga, the black ball, the suit, one of the alien~~
Can’t wait for this to be out! Nino looks really good as well

On another note, this is something I drew ages & ages ago.. I was trying to make a tiled background LOL! Forgot about it until now XD

Sunao ni Narenakute / Hard to say I love you

Gotta say, I only downloaded this because of Eita and Ueno Juri (whom I both LOVE ♥ ) and I didn’t even know that DBSK’s hero was in it, but anyways, this drama is REALLY GOOD! I’d highly recommend it to anyone who loved Last Friends and Love Shuffle *A*!!! Only up to ep 3 but I’m already hooked~~~

Let’s see.. synopsis from drama wiki:
This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves

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The twitter theme didn’t interest me at first – but twitter is really just a tool for bringing them together. I can see why they used twitter since when you’re online, you can be a different persona. I think it’s like you can express a lot of who you are but at the same time not revealing anything about yourself. (if that makes sense) which leads to the theme of becoming honest and opening up to each other and themselves. Well it’s something that people can relate to I think, when I look at online communities like deviantart or livejournal~

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