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Finally got this one done. I’ve been working on it off and on for the last week and a half. There’s not a huge amount to say here, I think this one’s turned out reasonably well. I had to do a bit of fiddling to get the 1600×1200 one to look okay, including moving the girls closer together. Not that anyone minds if they get closer to each other, I’m sure. Also, I’ve linked the thumbnail in with the new gallery software I’m using, so you should get a fun clicky lightbox thing popping up at you if you click the image. For consistency and convenience I’ve left links in too.
No idea what I’ll do next. Probably another Strike Witches one, there are three more shots from the ED that are possibilities.
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Another Strike Witches trace, this time it’s everyone’s favourite pair of pantsless germans. It’s been ages since I had a show that I was enjoying enough to want to sit down and trace some stuff from it, and isn’t broadcast in true HD (hard to justify tracing a shot from a show produced in HD). I didn’t spend that long on this, so I’m extremely pleased at how well it turned out, especially given that the source image was covered in text and I had to basically redraw an eye on each of them, among other guesstimations. I’m not much of an artist but it seems that I’ve been doing this for long enough that I managed to be able to pull it off pretty well.
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New vector, first one I’ve done in ages. I spent longer on this than I was originally going to - once I got to Charlotte’s horrible ugly set of pilot wings in the original image I took some time out and actually went hunting for a real set. Charlotte is based off Chuck Yeager, who had command pilot wings. I took the liberty of tracing the photo from wikipedia and using that as the basis of her wings rather than that boxy looking number with the big blue ball on the top. I think it was worth it. I also think I may have OCD.
Oh, and to save commenters the trouble: MAN STRIKE WITCHES SUCKS HOW COULD ANYONE ENJOY WATCHING THIS UNLESS THEY ARE HUGE GIANT CREEPY PEDOS WHERE ARE THEIR PANTS OH GOD IT’S NO WONDER GONZO ARE GOING BANKRUPT WE NEED TO NUKE JAPAN AGAIN LOLOLOL
I’m usually pretty prompt with these entries, generally doing them about a month out. I’ve been slacking off recently I guess, since next season’s only a week away and I’ve already been beaten to this by some far more thorough entries than my own. Anyway, here’s a list of the upcoming shows next season (beginning in July) which I intend to be watching or at least have enough interest in to check out seriously. As usual there’s a few others which I’m also going to keep an eye on and I’m sure there will be one or two that I won’t be expecting at all.
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