I’ve been playing with my coloring effects lately, and I don’t think I’ve been able to choose one that I’ll stick with. Most of the time, I prefer to do cell shading because it gives the painting an edge, making it look refined and very anime-like.

However, I think I want to learn how to be less anime like and blend the colors more. I’m just impatient with the blending process as it takes up a lot of time.

I’m beginning to loosen up a little now. I used to not correct my ink work on the PC because I felt it was “cheating” to do so. For this piece, I went ahead and flipped, moved, redraw anything I thought needed to be changed. I’m pretty happy with how this came out… although I’ll probably change the color of the teapot on the right. and edit the BG a little bit.

I think I want to draw other characters now…

It’s a little sad that I still can’t embed Deviant Art codes into my blog… But I’ve already written a complaint to Sanriotown, so it should be fixed soon… I hope?

I’ve been busy running around a lot lately. I wanted to draw something with a lot of detail on it, and a friend of mine sent me a fanart of Onegai My Melody showing some of the characters cosplaying as Rozen Maiden characters. I wanted to expand on it a little bit more, since it only had Uta dressed as Shinku, Koto dressed as Suiseiseki, and My Melody dressed as Hinaichigo.

I came up with this art, “Onegai My Rozen Maiden Melody”, featuring all 8 dolls from Rozen Maiden. I only wonder if Hiiragi and Jun will kill me for dressing them up as Kirakishou and Barasuishou? Haha!

I don’t like the background too much though. I might end up re-drawing that later on.