Part two of (hopefully) four. Got the two easiest ones out of the way first. Coincidentally my two favourite characters, though I like them all. Should have the last two done by the end of the week. Since Hiro’s hair is so complicated I imagine she’ll be the hardest so expect Sae next.
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I noticed earlier that Spoon released a sub of the Hidamari Sketch specials and that jogged my memory. Back about six or so weeks ago when I finally finished this wonderful show, I had taken some screen grabs of the four Hidamari Sketch girls with the intention to trace them, since the art style of the four was quite appealing. Basically, this is the first. I’ve tried to replicate the halftone-esque pattern that they used to colour everything as best I could, and I think it turned out nicely. I may do a lines-only version at some stage too, because the linework on its own actually looks pretty good. 1920×1200 only, sorry. A 4:3 crop would end up losing most of the image.
I’ve promised to do Miyako next. And before someone asks, sorry, Yoshinoya-sensei wasn’t included in the same style. I’m happy to do a trace of her if someone has a good image, though.
First trace (and first blog post) of 2008, yay.
Just a quickie this time. I promised several people that I would make Ako next on my Negima list (it helps that she’s one of the easiest of the ones left), and I’d actually started on her months ago, but never finished the lineart. So yes, I’m still chipping away at that Negima project. Feel free to request another character - if people want one, I’m much more likely to get around to them. To be honest, I think a lot of my motivation went out the window when Megami started running that series of awesome swimsuit posters with all the girls - in comparison, the eyecatches from the first OVA are kind of flat.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I recoloured her hair. For some reason in the eyecatch it’s steel grey, when it should be light purple. Wierd.
I’ve updated the status page too.
Kagura, everyone’s favourite taciturn miko / archer / closet lesbian from Prism Ark. I took my time on this, and I really, really like how it turned out. Technically it’s a request fill for several people, though my terrible secret is that I intended to do it anyway. Prism Ark really has great character art. Shame about the show itself. I’m at the point that I’m basically watching each week to hunt through the eyecatches for tracing material. After a lot of deliberation I decided to add the Momiji leaves that are present in the original eyecatch. Spent maybe ten minutes on them, just a quick stroke outline and a random gradient mesh to add some random colour, but they ended up looking really good.
Been a while since my last trace, but I think the wait was worth it. Priecia from Prism Ark. This one took me several days, mainly because of the amount of detail in it - I have a newfound respect for lace makers. Sadly, while Prism Ark has incredibly good character art, it doesn’t have much in terms of plot. It’s not terrible or anything, but there are many better shows to waste your time on first.
Now, I’m heading to bed. Doing all the detail work on this has fucked my arm - I need a new chair, this one is too low and any heavy-duty mousing is resulting in pain. 
EDIT: Re-uploaded with a fixed version that has all the lines turned on. Somehow I toggled one set of lines off and didn’t notice it.