Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Everyone loves Hatsune Miku, right?
I admit, I’m guilty of hopping on the Hatsune Miku bandwagon. I was a little indifferent to her until after AX when saw exactly how popular she really got (and one of the artists next to us traded me a Miku print). I actually started sketching this one a month ago, but got incredibly sidetracked with more important matters and drawings. I took a different approach from the Iroha and went for a little thicker inks.
As again, click on the above drawing for a higher resolution.
on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 7:48 pm:
Neat!
on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 9:52 pm:
Yeah Im impressed how much of a hit shes been, but I must say after so many rehashings of character models, its good to see something refreashing and new once and awhile. Seriously how many characters have necroraped the Rei Ayanami look?
on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 10:33 pm:
Ahh, nice. A rapeably fresh take on a overused character.
on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 11:10 pm:
So, being in the states, and I admit, out of the loop, what exactly is this? I googled it, but seriously, that didn’t help much, is she a singer? Anime? Manga? Computer Program? I’m confuzed -.-
on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm:
Hatsune Miku is a recently released vocaloid (a vocaloid is a synth set to emulate voice) used with music, taking the samples of a somewhat popular voice actor. Her mascot character has been the target of a lot of fandom due to some clever marketing and people doing a lot of stuff with her in doujin albums and videos over nico nico.
on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 12:12 am:
Ah, rock on.
on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 7:41 am:
Ah so THATS what that character is…
on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am:
I doooo love her ;_;
on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 11:10 am:
oh man, I just realized that the curl of hair under her left eye makes her look like she has one empty drooping giant eyeball. now I can’t un-see it!!!
on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 6:50 pm:
I could care less about who this character is…
@Artist
What I do want to comment on is the actual line work. Wow, what a great job, looking sharp!*very impressed*
What kind of software did you use to sharpen the lines up with? Or is it all digital line work?
Thanks for your time.
on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 6:57 pm:
I used only openCanvas 3 and sketched and inked all from digital scratch. I could go into further details about how I do it, but that’s for another day, maybe.
I prefer openCanvas to other software for linework because it is relatively easy to adjust pen settings quickly. Plus, I think it just “feels” a lot smoother to use compared to photoshop or painter.
on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 3:03 pm:
@Quendan
Thanks for the reply. :)
I was checking out some of the artwork done with oC. Looks like the software is worth checking out sometime down the line. The Event playback feature looks especially interesting.