Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
As much as a miserable waste of time it is, I frequent the 4chan Artwork/Critique board. Recently, it’s gone to an even deeper part of hell, as unthinkable as it may be. Still, I like to “redline” some of the drawings because a lot of the time, the advice given by the others is actually very terrible. However, I end up redrawing most of the picture, as rude as it might be.
Done for a friend; he looks up to me on all things beatmania-related.
Done only a week ago. Frankly enough, it’s the first time I’ve been able to do a camera shot like this.
I’m even ashamed of this one. The original had the faces looking all the same. In the end, I couldn’t even scratch decent anatomy for anyone because it was just going to be a colossal waste of time.
Finished last night; someone said that the original drawing looked like one of the divas in Elite Beat Agents. So I drew it as one.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Finally, I get to update.
It’s Sakura, from beatmania IIDX, if you didn’t know.
Click for larger version.
And as usual, here is the pointless edit.
And if you want, you can make it your wallpaper, too!
Sat through this one for two weeks, at least when I wasn’t busy doing something else; good learning experience, though. Now if I can only finish something like this within 1/10th of the time…
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Or something… (edit)
The something being a H-game…humm (edit)
Ahem.
Anyway, I’ve been drawing beatmania-related things really sparingly for some reason. The IIDX characters used to be one of my favorite things to draw, since GOLI’s design sense is pretty good and his characters always stand out; he and the staff even made some amusing backgrounds and stories for the characters. I wouldn’t think IIDX would have gone this far without the design team’s influence.
Sakura here is my 2nd favorite IIDX girl. Her story is that she was visited by a death god who mistakenly took her life, so she ends up inhabiting the body of Iroha until she is brought back by the time of IIDXRED. For some reason, all the characters backstories don’t really have anything to do with IIDX (other than they play it) and is rather about a cute relationship map.
I’m not sure why her racing outfit was ditched for the black suit that shows up in IIDX GOLD; apparently, most of the costumes that they wear come from a fashion shop called ROOTS26. Why they wear such odd clothing is kind of beyond me.
