And yeah, I see what you mean with the line widths. The more I try to go back and try to fix things up though, the more I feel I screw over the look of the lines(GAR!), so I’m inclined to leave them as-is, for the time being at least =P.

And yes, I’ve had several good looks the .ai files of your vectors, and they’ve definitvely been of good use as pointers - super thanks for making them publically available o/.

I’m looking at doing the eyes next before I move on to color the thing, as I gather they’d be the single hardest/most frustrating part, so it feels good to get them out of the way first ;).

I am working on my tutorial, but slowly. Don’t have a huge amount of spare time - the last one was done quickly because I wrote a good chunk of it ages ago.

Nothing on the list raises any particular interest in the “hey, that seems fairly interesting” -manner, though I do have some hope for The Spirit of the Sun and Ayakashi Ayakashi, if I were to pick anything from it.
I’m sure I’ll also end up watching Kanon, though I feel I’ve been sucked dry in terms of that by the previous anime as well as the game. I’ll leave it to Kyoani to prove me wrong in that :p.

I hope you’ll get a bit of an inspirational spark back (and there’s still 4 new eyecatches to go!~), because there’s still a few eyecatches I’d like to see wallpaperized, but I don’t think anyone can fault you if you don’t - I can’t say I can recall seeing such an awsome splee of vector spam for any other series, much less all orginating from one and the same person :).

Regardless, you’ve served as an inspirational spark for me to make some attempts on my own, though I’m still learning things out and am because of that awfully slow with the whole process :(.
What I’ve managed to conjure up so far though is only half-finished linework - http://www.zomgwtf.net/RandomPicturesNstuff/Simoun/Yunyunvectalsingerizering.gif . I’m not entirely happy with it myself, even if it actually does look better than what I had initially anticipated I would be capable of :p.

If I can muster up the energy and finish that image, I’ll probably take a stab at the 23-2 Yun-Onashia eyecatch after that, because I really, really like it myself, though the amount of linework in it makes me fear that if I do eventually start on it, it will be one of those things that’ll take me a year to finish :/.

Sufficient to say, trying to do these yourself raises the bar of respect to you and your work a fair bit ;).
At the same time, I hope you’ll eventually have the energy to finish that tutorial you started on a while back, for I really could use some pointers how to speed up the working process, other than “practice makes perfect” ;).

And, ah, traces… we love you anyway?