Peter's Japan blog

Here's my drawing of Konata Izumi from Lucky Star. It's not finished yet, but since I haven't touched this in 2 months, I thought I'd give a teaser ;p (well, not much of a teaser as it is practically finished, just need to do the clothing and maybe some background).

Maybe I'll finish it one of these days. But for now, have a look:

While going through one of my old hard drives, I found some of my old drawings, and also one that I colored in CorelDraw. The one I'm showing in this post is a drawing of Sakuraba Aoi from Ai Yori Aoshi. Ai Yori Aoshi was a kind of harem anime, but different because of the chemistry and devotion between the 2 main characters: Sakuraba Aoi & Hanabishi Kaoru.

This drawing is from the opening video of the first series.

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Been doing some drawing again, it was a long time again. But this time I skipped the step of drawing it on paper, and tried to do it directly on the computer. But I'm kinda weird in the program that I use for drawing: CorelDraw. Everybody does it in Photoshop, I do it in CorelDraw, which is a completely vector-based program. Vector-based anime/manga drawing has it's advantages, it's easy to just move the line or adjust the curve, in stead of having to draw and erase, draw and erase with traditional bitmap drawing. Also coloring has it's advantages. But it also has it's disadvantages like drawing shadows is not easy as you have to make separate objects for the shadow for each color. And if you move some lines, you also have to move the fill (IF your fill is separate from your lines, which you might do sometimes).

I've done this type of drawing in the past before but I started it on paper, scanned it, and then put the lines over it. I must tell you that I always have an example in front of me to look at. I'm not that talented (yet) that I can draw them out of my head. So this time I did it directly in Corel and here's the result:

My attempt:

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