My failed anime drawing

[jamuko]

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Cool drawings, Seth you really should get a scanner... even one of those cheapy deals that has a printer+scanner combo (I got one free with my laptop).

I'm working on so many things at once... kinda slowing my progress as a whole.

On another note, I drew Squeek's avatar.

[Halo_Unit]

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On another note, I drew Squeek's avatar.

Post it.

[jamuko]

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Heh, it's not hard to locate since Squeek is everywhere, but here it is.




Edit: Oh, and here's another one I made for him almost exactly two years ago o_O:

Pixel art... back when pixels and blinking icons were cool :P (It was meant to go on a gray background, so the transparent parts make the gray outline on Kuroneko look kind of weird here on FFR)

[magister_negi_magi]

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Awesome picture

I recently bought a scanner, and I don't understand how I'm supposed to get things to look as clear as they do as in this drawing. Do I need some kind of image editor? Is your line art just THAT clean, or does my scanner/art suck?

[Magnafiend]

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I find the scanner brings out the lines in my shading more than I'd like, or I have to put more preassure than I usually do to darken the lines just so they show up.
Try checking your scanner settings and make sure the quality is on max, or your scanner might just suck, but i rly dont know.

[magister_negi_magi]

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I'm positive that my scanner sucks. 90% of the time, scans come out as 1 pixelx1 pixel. After trying several times, I got this to work. Additionally, this is the best I can do on Microsoft Photo Editor alone.

So I heard you like Touhou.



I'll make it a smaller image next time...If you'd like, I have some other Touhou crap that I can pound my scanner into showing. For the sake of Touhou, if nothing else.

[SethSquall]

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I find the scanner brings out the lines in my shading more than I'd like, or I have to put more preassure than I usually do to darken the lines just so they show up.
Try checking your scanner settings and make sure the quality is on max, or your scanner might just suck, but i rly dont know.

Draw in light blue pensil first. Scanners have a hard time picking it up. Then draw the outline. I heard that somewhere.

Thanks for the comments guys, I'm drawing some more, I'll post them later. I need to buy "How to Draw Manga" books and stuff. That's my problem, everything I draw comes from my head. I don't actually look at pictures of anime or guides to help when I draw. It all purely comes from my noggin'. I've seen and looked at some on the internet but I don't actually follow them lol. It's just all I can remember from the anime I watch and stuff. I think I should start reading the books and that now.

Oh and I love that drawing Magister. Highly impressed. I will say that some of the proportions like the arm and leg sizes are a tiny bit off I think. Other than that I think it's brilliant.

[jamuko]

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Gah, I really wanna post but I'm gonna be late for class.

More later.

[magister_negi_magi]

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Oh and I love that drawing Magister. Highly impressed. I will say that some of the proportions like the arm and leg sizes are a tiny bit off I think. Other than that I think it's brilliant.

Whoo, thanks. I know Youmu's arm is off, but I never fixed it.

I scanned this Reimu TWELVE TIMES before it worked and didn't come out as 1x1, and even then...THE QUALITY, IT IS TERRIBLE.

Still, delicious armpits, I must lick them...

[Moogy]

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post your stuff on the touhou image board for mega-yen

[magister_negi_magi]

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post your stuff on the touhou image board for mega-yen

Where now? Can you give me a link?

I think I'm getting the hang of working this scanner. Still, I don't understand how I get magnificently clear lines. I made sure Youmu's lines were really clean, but it doesn't show up how I want it to.

Also, I don't like Marisa. I really don't. She stole my precious thing.

[Moogy]

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http://www.pooshlmer.com/wakaba/

That art is better than 99% of English speakers who draw Touhou fanart, I assure you.

[jamuko]

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Awesome pics Negi *_* it's a shame your scanner doesn't do them justice. My old scanner was a lot better at picking up pencil lines at high quality, but it broke randomly and now I'm stuck with my little freebie. It makes my lines look grainy (especially a problem with smaller drawings, which tend to be most of them :/ ). But still, it seems to be a lot better than that thing you've got. I recommend shopping around for something else too...

Wait, you just BOUGHT that scanner? o_O That shouldn't be happening then, unless you bought an old one off ebay or something. What model is it?

You might be missing some drivers which could cause the thing to hate you. Also, try playing around with the settings before you scan. If it's doing crap like scanning it as 1x1 it's probably a deeper issue, but it still couldn't hurt to try to get the settings better. I tend to scan at 600dpi (the highest my scanner goes without faking it) and adjust the brightness settings. For some reason it seems to like lowering the midtone values and it helps to bring that back up... and then after it's scanned I adjust Levels and whatnot in Photoshop a bit.

Draw in light blue pensil first. Scanners have a hard time picking it up. Then draw the outline. I heard that somewhere.

I've heard this a bunch of times too, but never really tried it myself. It seems wrong that a scanner wouldn't pick it up. But I guess in any case, you could change the blue to white using that hue adjuster thingymajig in Photoshop too.

Thanks for the comments guys, I'm drawing some more, I'll post them later. I need to buy "How to Draw Manga" books and stuff. That's my problem, everything I draw comes from my head. I don't actually look at pictures of anime or guides to help when I draw. It all purely comes from my noggin'. I've seen and looked at some on the internet but I don't actually follow them lol. It's just all I can remember from the anime I watch and stuff. I think I should start reading the books and that now.

I'm just like this too. :/ I don't like drawing from reference... it feels like cheating somehow, so it's not as rewarding and I end up feeling like I shouldn't show it to anyone (despite logically knowing that people do it all the time).

Those "How to Draw Manga" books seem useful, but they never really helped me personally. I just couldn't learn from the typical methods of explaining proportion and whatnot... (plus, to be perfectly honest, I didn't care for the art styles of most of those books ^^; just personal preference though). I find it a lot more helpful to find artists I admire and obsess over their works for a while.

[magister_negi_magi]

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http://www.pooshlmer.com/wakaba/

That art is better than 99% of English speakers who draw Touhou fanart, I assure you.

HUUUGE imageboard, even with the addition of RM...but I'm terribly afraid of being ridiculed by the whole internets.

All that's left in my folder(except for literally stick-figures with bonnets, bunny ears and pentagrams) is the Remilia concept crap I had, and I don't like how it turned out.

I've been doing a few Alice sketches and things on the back of schoolwork and stuff. I figure I better give her a full page, too.

[Moogy]

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The post threshold is like a year so nothing ever gets deleted, lol.