I've posted this before but here's a thing you can use to "paint" images

http://www.psykopaint.com/index.html

Oops, forgot this thread was here.

I made a slideshow with some of my favorite love songs for Osaka. I know she'll love it!

>>3612
Guess I can't embed with a pic.

>>/cr/1343

Post edited on 14th Jul 2011, 4:03pm

I play Guitar and since my waifu is a guitarist herself I often write songs dedicated to her.

For what it's worth, I Made this for a Halloween year before last I think it was.

I haven't drawn in a while.

>>4784
That's not half bad, actually. Pretty good. The face looks a little manly but other than that thumbs up, like, +1.

>>4785
Yah, thats his style: giascle.deviantart.com

>>4785
Thanks! I need to work on faces; I don't like generic moeblob style, but I don't want it to look manly, either.

>>4787
I don't see a manface, I guess it's was just surprising for the other poster to see a Touhou character drawn in a less cutesy style
The shoulders look kind of awkward, but if it's just a quick doodle then it's fine.

Thought I might repost this here at a more reasonable resolution (about its actual size), together with a compilation of some of what's on /tc/ so far: >>471 >>440 >>1351 >>/cr/70 >>/cr/185 >>/cr/337 >>/cr/1441 (that last one wasn't named after her because I was -and still am- uncertain about... stuff; but it was made for her, all the way through, keep no doubt about it)

Post edited on 20th Aug 2011, 4:02am

>>4874
Good Job Brohno. You got some skill. Are you teh same guy who posted that nice poem about her with the really good art? It seems to be a similar style to yours.

>>4876
I did make a doubtful attempt of poetry, included in the compilation... but thanks.

I was getting really discouraged with my drawing practice, and thinking of her helped me keep at it, so I ended up making this.

I'm not very good yet, but I really like this one, even if it's more for the sentiment behind it.

Post edited on 28th Aug 2011, 1:10pm

>>4965
(Thought I could've done a slightly less half-assed job at coloring for some reason)

>>/cr/1649

After working on this for a bit, I acquired a much better understanding as to why this pose/image is so appealing.

>>7065
Tohno, I think this is very good.

>>7065
I like this a lot.

>>7371
This is your best yet.

>>7371
Fixed.

>>7379
Thanks.

Post edited on 4th Dec 2011, 1:16pm

I wish I knew how to shade better ;_;
Done in sai

>>7612
I wish I knew to shade like that in photoshop, at least. Very nice.

I draw her around my house and stuff.

>>7615
Forcing her to do dishes? How cruel!

>>7618
Naww she is just making dinner

Nice, it looked pretty realistic in the thumbnail.

>>7618
why do people automatically assume if a women is cooking or cleaning, she's being forced to do so?

Drew this for her birthday, which is today.

>>7683
Happy birthday to your dearest.

>>7683
Good!
And happy birthday to you, Minagi; we wouldn't be all together here if it weren't for you.

>>7683
Happy Birthday!

>>7683

Happy Birthday!

>>7683
Happy birthday to her. Happy birthday to her. Happy birthday dear Minagi~! Happy birthday to her!

>>7683
Happy birthday!

>>7683
happy birthday!

Better late than never, I suppose...

Happy Valentine's day, Asuka.

>>8531
You made that yourself? Whoa, awesome.

>>8531
That's adorable. I loved the poem when I saw it in /cr/. Really awesome work!

Wanted to try a chibi style pic...

I spent a few hours doing this last night.

>>8537
That is one hell of a rape face.

Who is it, if you don't mind my asking? She looks like Revy, but I'm not sure.

Post edited on 21st Feb 2012, 4:01pm

>>8537
Yuno?

>>8538
Yuno, She's thinking about the guys who hit on her and how they haven't a chance in hell.

>>8540
You need to fix your codecs, man.

>>8542
The glory of 10bit quality.

Anyone else ever edit images to make them look more like their waifu?

>>8540

>>8531
I really love that poem, especially "She's the foam that the sea brought one day in a shell". You should post poetry more often.
I think the accompanying art is excellent, as well.

>>8625
Many thanks.
That verse was -of course- a direct reference to Venus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Anadyomene

>>8626
Well, then. I suppose it's a testament to the poem's strength that the imagery could stand on it's own with me being oblivious to the reference.

made this collage for my psp wallpaper

>>8707
Pretty cool. I'll probably do something like that over a weekend, soon. Any advice to save me figuring certain things out on my own?

I was thinking of copying each picture I want into GIMP, resizing it, increasing the canvas by a set amount of pixels on each side, filling the empty space black, then pasting each one into a larger GIMP window to form the collage.

>>8724
i did the same just with photoshop
just choose the pictures beforehand, or you wouldnt know where to put them afterwards and will end with a huge mess.

>>8725
What do you mean? Know where I'm going to put each image before I start?

>>8726
yes

I wonder if I'll ever not suck at this...

>>8735

The coloring puts me off for some reason, but it doesn't suck by any means

>>8735
I can't pinpoint it exactly, but something about your drawing style is pleasing and refreshing to look at.
I hope you continue to post a lot more of your work.

>>8822
maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_art

>>8735
just keep at it

looking at references can help

i just made this for my waifu, though i was kinda lazy making the meatballs.

I can't draw, but I can crop and resize pictures and draw black straight lines using MSpaint. So I made this, borrowing the idea and the template from an unknown anon who had made a similar picture about Yuno from Hidamari Sketch. Quite satisfied with it myself and about the fact that even though I can't draw nor am I creative in the slightest bit, I was able to create something for my waifu.

I was re-watching certain movie and got this idea. Thought about saving it for her birthday but one never knows. Did it in a rush: 3 days and a half, up to 20 hours of nonstop... Sometimes I can barely stand what all this is doing to me. But meh.

Post edited on 9th Sep 2012, 1:44pm

chic version.

>>10362
Very nice!

>>10362
Made a very stupid mistake. Here is the good one.

>>10364
Thank you.

>>10365
That's really cool

Made a custom theme for my DS flash cart. First time trying to make one, but it was fun to do and I'm happy with how it turned out.

>>10368
neat

>>10365
Beautiful!

I regularly write her music.

Same song, but some people couldn't get soundcloud to work, and youtube has got some pictures I found fitting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKjqyMiSbQs
https://soundcloud.com/jdarryl/hisakos-three-leads

>>10372
I liked them very much; would love to hera more (btw: for mp3 sharing/streaming, you could try Tindeck).

>>10375
Thanks for the interest.
I've just uploaded a new track, Hazy aspect: The intro for my set of singer-songwriter songs, which is still in the works. It should set the atmosphere for the listener.
https://soundcloud.com/jdarryl

I was thinking of making a huge painting with all the /mai/ waifus, it could take a while.

I don't know if it's a good idea.

>>10385
in case you haven't seen the sticky lately, there are hundreds.

>>10386

>285 images omitted. Click Reply to view.

I know, but i would choose the most posted ones.

>>10388
You mean all the characters interacting together? That would be great, if you can pull it out. However, a lot of them posters are gone and surely more people will come; so it'd always be kind of off with the current situation inside the community.

>>10390
I don't know if interacting together, i was thinking of just all of them making a pose, each waifu would have a different pose of course.

>>10397
something like this

Sometimes, when there is no new fanart, you just gotta make your own.

I used a part of our anniversary to draw a picture of her, well... its not as bad as my other attempts but, now that i think of it, i should´ve avoided the pumpkin....
friggin halloween.

>>10769
Nice. Draw more!

Almost forgot to post about this Graphig I made.

not that happy about how the hair came out, I think I might redo that part before uploading any sort of print out plans thing or anything.
That aside I don't think it's too bad.

Happy birthday, Asuka.

[may contain Q spoilers]

>>10775
Finally got around to redoing the hair.
I'm not sure which ones better...

>>11262
Neither of them are bad. Just keep them for whenever you feel you want to see one more than the other or whatever. Think of it as an alternative costume.

>>11262
I like the second one better, personally

Tried drawing this for Christmas and stuff.

>>11312
Also tried messing around with a background.

>>11312
>>11314
Looks nice! Drawn background would have been better tho.

>>11314
>>11312

Nice, i also tried to draw something for her on christmas, too bad i gave up on it.

>>11002
Final colored version.

I made one of those Do it for her images a while back. Other than that there isn't many creative things that I've done for her unfortunately. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I'm usually doing something else that takes up my time. Though I have been trying to work on removing the background of an image with her in it, but gimp has been evil as usual and I can't seem to get rid of the image background. I've seen it done before with similar images, so I'm sure it's possible. I have never been good with things like gimp though, and have almost no idea what I'm doing. I've been trying to get it to work for a few days now. As much as I don't want to, I'm thinking maybe I should just give up on it.

>>10365
Sehr Schon! (Can't get the umlaut to work to save my life)

I wish I could draw something as awesome as that. I suppose you could count learning her language as a creative pursuit? I need to get better on the piano anyway, so I might try writing her a song.

>>11549
I really recommend you get Photoshop. It's so much easier. Don't give up bro!

>>11551
Photoshop would probably bother me just as much. I was never good at computer art/image editing programs. I think I got it figured out now though, but I'm way too tired to finish it now. I'll probably finish it when I wake up, unless the settings don't save. It appears they do though so it should just be the way I left it when I open it up.

>>11552
Well. Everyone has his own preferences. I hope it works out for you!

As for me, I don't know if this is being called creativity. But she is helping me a lot with learning Japanese. Right now I'm working on translating a h doujinshi of her sololy for myself. Including typesetting.

>>11553
I hope it works out for me too. I already know it's not going to be perfect though and probably a bit rough around the edges. I guess it can't be helped though, since as I said I've never been good with these things.

>>11556
Well, what matters the most in the end is that you do it for her, right?

>>11558
Yup. I've thought for a while now that it would be nice to have this image of her without the background and other characters. Except now I've learned why every transparent image I've seen has always been a png file. The tutorial I've following says I should feather it. I'm assuming that doing that would touch it up, which would be nice since there are some rough spots and edges, but that it needs an alpha channel. If I export the copy and pasted image as a png and reopened it could I still do that? I'd hate to have spent all that time working on this for nothing.

>>11566
Never mind. I've finally finished it.
After roughly about 17 hours, numerous hand cramps, and a couple problems I encountered while making it, I've finally finished my first transparent image. Considering that it was my first attempt at doing this I don't think it came out too bad. In fact I'm quite proud of myself. Though there are a few things in it I'll probably touch up at some other point. I hope that no one minds, but I'm just going to post it here to make sure there aren't any problems with it. Not like that really matters though I guess. I probably won't post it anywhere else, besides this one time. I feel too proud of it to do so.

When awake I sometimes transparency fanart of her into a template to put on backgrounds I think look nice, like so.

>>11571
Contemplating throwing some blur or something on those edges?

>>11572
As I said I'll probably touch it up at some point. I'm to much of a perfectionist to just let it be the way it is. For now though it will do.

I don't know if this really counts or not since it's not exactly OC, but I do translation editing for doujinshi of my beloved. Many of them are books I bought and scanned myself, and I upload them in hopes that other people will get to see them, enjoy them as well, and hopefully like them enough to want to translate them so I can make the edits. I had fairly good success finding people to donate English scripts for a dozen different books of her, and I plan on trying to try looking for translators again soon once I finish scanning a few more new things for people to see.

It's can be pretty fun because there is lots of room for creativity in how I decide to edit some things. But most of all it's just enjoyable to do something productive with her.

Sorry I'm so late again (shit kept happening)...
Happy late Valentine's day, Asuka.

>>11759
That is gorgeous! I loved the poem when you posted it on /cr/ but never got around to telling you.

...erm, did you intend for the large cut strawberry to look like it has a pair of labia in the center? Either way, it lends a bit of gravity to the work.

>>11759
Great job once again.

>>11778
>>11781
Thank you.

>labia
Yup.

Trying out an impressionist style.

I think she looks a little too masculine, here. My bad.

Sonnet 1 (I didn't make the picture)

Do I often dream of such a place?
I go through each day in a pitiful attempt to join with you;
How would I not wish to feel your grace?
My heartstrings’ peace far overdue.

To be in your presence for just a moment;
Your hair green as mint to meet my shoulder;
My lips would form the word “gomen…”
And my tears should signal my struggles are over.

But your presence is finite in my world of escape;
I can not feel your touch nor voice;
Nor hope to ever hug your shape.
I need you; this final act of mine is not by choice.

You’re getting closer and I may see your beauty;
To love you was my greatest duty.

Post edited on 3rd Mar 2013, 9:21pm

>>11790
>>11976
Well, at least the second joke was funny.
Good job.

>>11977
>Well, at least the second joke was funny.
>"joke"
Hm?

Is your icy hair my beating heart?
Your cold, deep blue eyes my blood?
You’re all too perfect; such is a work of art.
A shame the collector is all mud.

To lay down beside you to feel your warmth;
Your breath pulsating ‘cross my face;
No matter where we were, south or north;
I would die with content after sharing such a space.

But no matter how I find you in your endless, boundless perfection;
And even if you were somehow here;
Could there be any mutual attraction?
My biggest fear.

For you are god, and I am trash,
I curse myself and commit the rash.

-----------------------------------------

How would I compare your paleness to any earthly thing?
Your beauty unmeasurable; you truly are flawless.
I never hear your name – only church bells ring.
You may be an eagle but your talons are clawless.

Fly, fly, my love, higher into the sky.
Can I please follow you over those damned hot coals?
My only complaint, my only question “why”;
Must you appear only upon my scrolls?

Your beauty unearthly, as you yourself;
How I would love to meet you even in dreams;
I beg you to climb down from upon my shelf,
Alas, I will miss you forever, it seems.

Before you I was content to live,
But now I cry for you, my tears to give.

Post edited on 4th Mar 2013, 12:05pm

Very barely (or probably not) qualifying for this thread, we started a new Elona+ game.
This time we'll make progress! Maybe!

I'm not sure how many of you celebrate White Day, but I made a green curry dinner for Keisuke. (We started a little early.)

Sorry for the crappy cellphone pic. Also, uh, sorry if this isn't topical enough to the thread but I thought cooking was creative...

Post edited on 13th Mar 2013, 9:10pm

I can't stop making these.

>>12132
I'm glad I'm not the only one, every time I see these I feel like I have to re-do mine because there are other pictures I want to rotate and look at.

>>12132
>>12140
Damn, it's been awhile.

I would have done one of those, but then I have to ask, what it is exactly you're doing for her? surely it's not giving up your dream job and working a horrible dead end job (like at a power plant) to support her.

>>12142
Who knows? Templates are fun.

>>12142
Everything.

>>12143
They sure are.

>>12143
>>12144
I suck at cropping

>>12142
I don't want to get top off topic and start talking about my personal life, but if it wasn't for her I would be a NEET right now. She gives me the "mental backup" so I don't mess up at my job. (Being a mechanic with no idea how cars work is a bit tough) A chunk of my money goes towards merchandise of her, and recently small, weekly gifts. (Like flowers)

The template is fun to fill out though, like the larger ones and its a way to spend time with her, picking out the right images.

I just made a couple gifs of her from the new trailer for CCC.

Re-take of that old one from the /cr/ thread about drawing with the mouse.

Post edited on 27th Mar 2013, 10:12pm

>>12171
corrections, as always.

Also fixed this one.

I don't really care about this "Do it for her" thing, but I made my own kind of collage "for her". Purpose of this collage is to show, how different she looks like in various official works while still maintaining incredible loveliness.

I've been working on a drawing of my waifu Okuu for over a month now, and this is how far I've gotten on it. The reason why this much took so long is because this is really only my second digital art drawing ever, and I'm having to do a lot of experimenting and trial and error work. I just finished the base colors and now I need to figure out how to establish the edges for the shading, but it's turning out to be a lot more difficult than I imagined.

>>12679
Looks good.

>>2183
I wrote and recorded an album (anthonypaige.bandcamp.com), with all but two of the songs on about how I met and contacted her. The other two, while not about her directly, are part of the album's narrative. And if nothing else, I feel I was successful in capturing and preserving the spirit of it all.
I also just want to say thanks to this board and everyone here, I don't post here quite often as I used to but this has been a very important place to me, and has provided much inspiration.

I'm feeling kind of a Tom Waits + The Pop Group + Foetus thing.
I like it.

Post edited on 4th Jul 2013, 9:36am

Finally finished my picture of Okuu! >>12679

I am relatively happy with the results and it feels good to finish my first OC of her. Hopefully I can keep getting better and better so I can make her as beautiful as I want her to be.

Post edited on 4th Jul 2013, 10:26am

>>12935
Congratulations! Looks great.

>>12934
Thanks! I do have to admit that I never would have expected any three of those comparisons, though.

Lately I've been spending a lot more time in Mikumikudance with Okuu with a couple of new models I found. I've created 2 original animations so far of her and quite a few poses, and it really feels good to look at them when they're finished. I've never felt closer to her before than I have now.

>>12936
Thanks!

Final sketch of the current picture I'm working on.

Had a little fun with an oekaki program. I'm a shit artist but I think the picture came out half-decent.

>>12998
Hey, that's way better than I could do. I like it.

Made this simple little thing a few days ago from an old key chain I found.

I recorded her character song earlier today, along with an intro consisting of a K-On! song I enjoy.

>>13171
good!

>>13171
just kidding it's good pls forgive me minami loving overlords!11

Post edited on 17th Aug 2013, 4:16pm

>>13173
Calm down.

I was upset suddenly by the yuri tones played up in the fanbase between her and Yutaka, so I wrote her a song, which I'll record sometime soon:

Sometimes I lie awake at night
Wishing you were here
and Sometimes I cry through all those nights
Knowing that you’re there
and Sometimes I just can’t help but think how
Pretty you are
and Sometimes I wish that I could win your heart

Sometimes I lie awake at night
Thinkin’ ‘bout the what-ifs
and Sometimes I think that maybe
We could be her-and-him
Sometimes, lord, I just forget that
You just won’t have any-a-that and
Lord, I wish that I could call you mine

Many-a-time I’ve lay in bed
Thinking “What if I was a girl?”
We could lie together with my fingers in your curls
but then I see the reality and damn it if ain’t hard
but we’ll never see ‘morrow together,
we’ll always be apart

Sometimes I stay awake at night
Wishing you were here
and Sometimes I cry through all those nights
Thinking you might not care
and Sometimes I can’t help but hold my pillow tight
and Mostly I wish that I could give you a kiss

I made a collage of her best and brightest smiles from all of her known books.

Post edited on 27th Aug 2013, 2:06pm

https://soundcloud.com/jdarryl/daybreak-melody

Had a dream that I was free falling with her, somewhere above the clouds.
I've always had a knack for remembering dreams and decided to put it to good use over the last few days.

>>13280
sounds professional.

Did you think I forgot? No way in hell; I just had complications yesterday...

Happy birthday, Asuka. Let's at least reach our 30 together.

>>13744
Beautiful as always.

>>13744
I made an account just to say this: That's probably the best Asuka fan-art I've seen in my life. I'm not even kidding. I like it when people do hyper-detailed art of 2D characters, and you just take it a step forward.

>>13747
>>13748
Thank you very much. I try my best.

fjaewklfjeaw dis thread got buried why not make this a forums

>>13879
We've kept it alive with our dedication so no need to.

I do like how in forums we actually have names though instead of being Anon with (character) as waifu. We could also PM each other in case we need to talk about more personal problems -- indeed sexual problems and the existing vs nonexistent problems have been serious problems for me in the past and I'm sure many of us are better at talking about things one on one.

>>13918
You don't really have to fill out the email field every time you post

>>13919
I don't, it automatically fills.

>>13918
No. Please stay on topic and stop bitching about this chan being a (great) chan.

If a chan stops being a chan and becomes a forum, it becomes less about the waifu and more about the person posting her, which is against the nature of the board.

Please learn proper chan etiquette.

Getting a lot faster at drawing Okuu now that I've been drawing her almost every day now, sometimes all day.

>>14050
Looking good.

>>14050
If you drew that you are very good at drawing

This was a lot of fun to draw.

It's been months since I drew her, and I think this is the last one I did.
>>7612
>>12935
>>14050
Damn, these are impressive.

>>7612
Why would you post something that you didn't draw?

Guess what? I finally finished in time.

Happy Valentine's Day, my love.
Thank you for everything.

>>14490
We have pretty high expectations of you at this point, but this one is beyond words!!

I'd be curious to hear a bit about the septagram/heptagram, or it's place in this piece at least.

I also really like how you incorporated greentext, pretty surprising.

>>14507
It's very kind of you, thanks; I myself didn't think I'd pull it out.

>septagram/heptagram
Sure: it's a symbolic representation of Lilith based on a scene from Kanashimi no Belladonna and this damned interesting site I once found by accident: http://www.phantomgallery.64g.ru/pyramid/pyr1ens.htm

BTW: clean digital portrait.

Wrote a little poem for Valentine's Day. I can't draw unfortunately so I slapped it on a picture from google. Sorry if it's hard to read. I feel bad putting my words over/on top of my loved one's face, so I didn't this time.

>>14490
Your stuff is always fantastic and I'm amazed at how much thought you put into the piece of art you just posted (in particular; it's clear you put a lot of thought into most of your art).

I drew this for Okuu right before valentines day. It was my gift to her this year.

>>14587
It's nice.

Ad Principessam Lunæ

1. A blue dress is taut,
stiff, and crinkling.
Where I am it’s known not,
a sad state of being.
2. Taut is this as well,
a bit sweeter, despite
the trembling almost as hell.
The cool heat within white.
3. But what is even tauter
is your motions and their anima.
To not see the thoughts they offer
the eastern savior’s pure, heißt lamia.
4. And I know you cry beyond your heart
and within, but remember that Heaven bled.
If we forget the wish and wist, in that part
let us at least have had near-perfection, what so briefly we said.

Happy Birthday Ayanami. I long for all your touch and mouth and spirit.

>>14826
>the eastern savior’s pure, heißt lamia

I saw what you did there, you lilin...
Good work.

I had nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon, so I made a quick doodle.

Kinda going against what I said here >>14463 but oh well.

>>15405
Lol no neck?

>>15407
I just wanted to focus on the face and hair, really.

>>15405
Are you serious about this being a quick doodle or did you sit there for like 3 hours? Because it looks very very good.

>>15414
Well I wasn't counting, but I don't think it took me any longer than half an hour.

Love Changes (I also put this poem up on my shrine)

We begin, the love of youth, the love of innocence
A special connection to a certain someone
Special in the heart aches, special in the butterflies
Special, for hugs and kisses with this person seem heavenly
Special just by being together, this all seems eternal
To love as a whole, and accept as a whole,
Body, mind, and spirit are one
Thus begins the love of Eros.

But something unexpected happens
For was this the joy you really wished for?
Am I wrong? Am I greedy?
Why isn't she such? Why isn't he such?
Is it you, not me, or me and not you?
Thus here is the other side of the love of Eros
Perhaps Love changes.

My love is the only reason I still live, I mean
I live to be a sacrifice.
Without this love we are consumed by greed and hatred
Meaninglessness, aimlessness, casual entertainment
Mundane joys that aren't worth living for
I shall be a sacrifice, and she shall be my goddess.
Thus begins the love of Agape.

Are you not being ludicrous? Is she really such a spectacle?
As time passes, shadows appear behind the holy light
Are they evil, are they blasphemous?
Or are they truths trying to pull you out of delusion?
Leave me be, there is no meaning in truth
There is no meaning in justice, there is no meaning in reason
Passion is my only savior, but passion becomes disgusted
The world reveals itself, and reality kicks in
Perhaps Love changes.

You are never safe, for humans are never safe.
And life constantly faces pain and death
And it is not always tragic, it is not always beautiful
It is a farce! Do not give yourself up to the pains of logic
Seek the endless, perfected purity, seek the Silver Garden
But harden your heart, focus your mind
Strengthen your body, and prepare to fight
For you have something to protect, and God is dead.
And God is dead.
Thus begins the love of Storge.

Time passes, and knowledge sets in
It aches to age and become our wisdom
She learns, he learns, you learn
How can we preserve innocence and purity when this mighty foe,
This mighty taint attacks from all directions?
If you value all of your love, if you value all of your beloved
Forget about it, forget the light and darkness you have seen in your days
And turn back the time and begin your recurrence.
Perhaps Love changes.
Perhaps again, Love changes.

Just finished drawing this.
I spent about 10 hours recently creating a theme that featured him for an R4i Gold card's UI and used one of the default ones for comparison and after all was done, it was super fucked and didn't work at all. I was so disappointed.
>>3841
That looks super nice.

One of my first attempts at Paint Tool SAI, honestly probably going to be too lazy to do much more.

Just drew the bottom picture. Top left is my previous try.
I really feel I am improving!

I draw him being flustered more than I should. Actually, I draw him more than I should in general.

I didn't want to start a new thread for this. Does anyone draw themselves with their waifu? Obviously it would be inappropriate to post anything here due to the anonymity factor, but I was just wondering if anyone else does. I guess mostly not because of self esteem issues.

>>16206
I don't have any creative talent but if I did I wouldn't draw myself with her. She is beautiful, I am not. I wouldn't want to ruin an image of her by placing myself in it.

>>16206
I would if I could

>>16206
I did once and don't think I'll ever do it again. Whether the drawing is good or bad, it's just too Chris-chan level, too much complacency. It's damn wrong.

>>16206
I would love to do so. However, I'm a writer, not a visual artist, so I write us together instead.

http://erica.waifu.pl/canon.html

I tried to draw her today for the first time. I took the easy way by just tracing an image from my netbook screen, it came out okay I think. It was actually harder than I expected and I totally gimped her nose. Took me about an hour.
I want to get more into drawing.

I got this idea from a screenshot I have of the AzuDai anime.

It's a trace, but I had to draw the irises by hand because they weren't at the right angle in the original image.

It turned out pretty well, for the most part.

Just picked a Blue Yeti mic from a local pawn shop. Now I should be able to record more "karaoke" style songs about things.

Mainly, a parody of the WWII-German marching song "Erika" but it's gonna be about my waifu "Osaka"

Just have to finish typing out the lyrics.

And what would the best way to stand upright and sing? Just hold the mic in my hand? I don't have a stand for it.

I'm in the midst of designing a wardrobe for Lemongrab, mainly so that I have a reference for clothes to imagine him wearing each day. He only has three canon outfits after all.

>>16531
For how long have you been actively drawing stuff (in general)?

>>16532

Since I was a kid I guess, and since people thought I was decent I just kept doing it. After growing up I've seriously slacked, though.

Why?

>>16534
I'm thinking about getting more into drawing.
Do you always feel like the pictures you draw actually look like him, or do you often feel like you just can't get it right?

>>16535
There are guys on here a lot better than me, though. You may be better off asking them (if they're still active).

I don't adhere to the show's style, but I feel I'm able to portray how I personally visualize him to some extent. Not perfectly, but enough so that I enjoy drawing him. Of course it's taken over a year to get to that point.

In the end most artists are never fully pleased with their work, I think.

I made a stencil

>>16538
that's so sweet and looks great, she'd be proud

>>16538
That's a cool idea.

>>16538
that's really cute, i'm going to try and copy you if you don't mind

>>16538
Part two: painted my netbook

>>16542
Well, that was daring.

>>16543
In case you mess up you have a few hours before the paint is dried up. In that time you can wash it all off using nail polish remover and water.

>>16542
Adorable.

>>16542
Holy cow, that's awesome. It's not something I would risk doing myself though. I'm too much of a coward.

>>16251
I traced another picture.
This is already a few weeks old and I originally didn't plan on posting this, but after trying to trace more images I now realize how freaking well this one came out and I'm really happy with how awesome it looks. Have a crappy picture!

>>16679
This one looks a lot better than your last trace in my opinion. All you need is to make your lines less wobbly but for me even after 5-6 years of drawing anime I have problems (mostly on the computer since I don't have a top-tier tablet) On paper my problems lie in getting good colored pencils and screwing up the inking, earlier this year/end of last year I still had problems with the picture leaning to the right.

>>16680
They are not actually that wobbly in real life, the picture is just relatively small and the resolution of the picture is a bit high.

>>16681
ahh that happens to me sometimes too, I usually make my drawings fill up at least half a page though. Here's an example of how silly things look at original size if I don't scale down the image. Don't really have a good scanner or camera and mostly have tried moving on to digital now.

>>16221
Are there any universal tips for writers, or I just need to disregard them and develop my own style through trial and error? Do you consider yourself to be an amateur or professional writer? In both cases, I would like to hear a piece of advice on writing.

>>16724
I hold that professional merely means you do it as an occupation (that being said it doesn't necessarily make you any better at it), there are too many pretentious writers out there. I don't need a label of amateur or professional either.

Just try to keep your grammar intact and don't use too many words that will confuse your target audience. Experiment with your style to see what sounds better in your head. As far as storytelling goes there are similar tropes and properties across almost all mediums -- try to take inspiration from things you admire while at the same time being critical of their shortcomings...

Will try not to sound too pretentious myself here but as a base rule there's a simple "hero's journey" derived from the Odyssey or other classic works where the protagonist gradually encounters more and more difficult obstacles as he reaches his goal (much like a video game tries to ease you in with a curve). It might be a good idea to start with that idea.

Don't have any particular books to recommend -- most classics despite their excellence in descriptive and occasionally psychological detail may lack plots engaging to the modern reader, centering around aristocrats and conversation... Indeed even as the origins of the adventure and the war story, the Iliad and the Odyssey both have relatively simple plots to me.

As far as my personal preference is considered though I try not to make the plot too complicated -- anime seems to do that far too often for fanservice, fightservice, or to drag out a shonen. My mind is on the philosophical thinking side as well. In addition to writing quite linearly, I use commas for additional details and pauses in thought rather than explosions of feelings or more poetic sentiments that you might see in Shakespeare. When I finally starting writing in third person I felt a lot more comfortable. It might be considered improper for me to try and create my own categories, but I think that at base you might have to try to figure out whether you have a "thinking" or "feeling" style. I suppose it's hard to box many of the great classics in one of those categories, but for example Dostoevsky describes physical atmosphere and character very well but I would still consider him a "feeling" writer because of how emotional his characters get rather than aiming for logical/mathematical purity.

I remember trying to write in a dramatic "feeling" style in 2012 after being captivated by Madoka Magica and it went pretty badly. Now I'm rewriting the same story and it becomes completely better, going for a full third-person and being able to make my OC a philosophical anti-hero rather than a tragic figure. I think pretty much from this current work onwards, as a thinking type I've chosen that my stories will be about conflicting ideas over conflicting feelings.

As far as editing is concerned I generally have a bad habit of not editing much outside of the current writing session, but I've more seriously thought about simply rewriting some of my novels to fix the mistakes.

Post edited on 4th Oct 2014, 2:10pm

I used to draw these a lot, don't know why I stopped. Putting him in situations is fun.

Silly.

>>16763
>>16764
That's extremely cute.

Happy birthday, Asuka.

It's nowhere near over yet.
I'm just not letting you go.

>>17092
Nice work (although it's probably too realistic for most of us here)

Took up drawing so I can draw pictures of her. Took a lot of editing but I'm happy with how this one turned out.

>>17106
That is good, how long have you been drawing?

>>17109

I've started taking drawing seriously like... 3 weeks ago. Before then, it was mainly doodles.

>>17112
That's impressive!

I've been trying to drum up more creativity for her lately, I've wanted to draw for a few days but I'm just not feeling it. Like any attempt would come out awful. So I printed out and made a paper doll today.
My ongoing dream is not only to draw as a way of extending her beyond her canon. but in the hopes of producing some intimate works so I can be closer with her.

>>17118
Cute. Where did you get the design?

>>17128
http://ranmaoyu.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&q=Lain

I just finished the other one.

Not sure if this counts, but I made a banner.

Made a seasonal drawing.

Dunno why I never thought of doing this sooner.
I printed out a photo of my waifu in 1/12 scale so it's almost like she's here in my room.

>>17237
good!

>>17237
Is that a cutout of your waifu? No photoshop?
Nice.

>>17239
Yeah it's a cut out. Like one of those paper child things.
The scale should be accurate too.

>>17237
>>17240
What did you use to print?

>>17248
Just a regular cheap old hp printer with regular paper.
I simply glued the image down onto some cardboard and took my time with cutting it out.
Also had to attach a simple little prop on the back to help it stand up.

Finally got round to scanning one of the presents I gave to Kagura on Christmas.

>>17301
Very cute!

>>17301
Nice. How long have you been drawing?
I did something for New Years. Mostly because I missed my usual weekend drawing session, but also because I was feeling like a lazy shit and needed to redeem myself

>>17302
Thanks.

>>17304
I first started drawing her back in May, which I posted >>15405

I've only ever done it a few times since then, and I've only drawn her.

I like your drawing, the pinky out is a nice touch.

Recently came into possession of a body pillow and I got excited and designed this. I probably won't have it printed any time soon since I'm still living at home, but it was fun to see if I could actually draw a decent one.

He's really inspired me to take my art seriously and I may begin scheduled practice. He's just so passionate about what he does that I feel ashamed my own lack of motivation, I guess.

Another weekend drawing complete, and it's still the weekend.
Kinda proud of it. Improvements all over the place.

>>17321
That's really good. Profile shots can be rough.

Reference drawing of a pic I found off pixiv, colouring practice. Was def fun to do.

>>17320
I still live at home and got my daki printed. I feel that the reward far outweighs the risk.

>>17321
Nice work, I can definitely see the improvement.

>>17324
That's adorable!

Since my husbando comes from a 2D fighting video game, he has sprites that I can edit any time I want~ And I don't mean that weirdly.. But when ever I edit his sprites, I get calmer (this especially helps in stressful situations)

>>17408
Doing little projects of/for your waifu or husbando is always relaxing and fun.

Started to draw using cosplayers as references. They are very very good anatomy models, compared to 2d references where my drawings end up having no bones XD. I feel really proud of this one. I feel like I'm improving.

No idea how to do eyes.

>>17417
>>17433

These are cute.

>>17433

You seem to have a good understanding of colour and shading. Apply those to the eyes as well. Differ the shades to make them look less flat. Shade in the iris.

>>17446
remember to make the top of the eyes darker.

>>17447
Gotcha.

A genuine smile never hurts.

I keep doing my weekend drawing. I like how easy this one seemed. Less effort more result.

Did another shoot with her today, was a little more tough than I thought because of the zero natural lighting I have access to.

I'm hoping this commission turns out alright. Its looking pretty good already

Made this eons ago for her, and I'm (well, we're) slowly in the process of writing a romance novel.

Happy birthday!

This week has been hectic, but I managed a picture. Thank you for everything so far.

>>17522
Great art and taste!

>>17522
Happy birthday Akira!

>>17525
>>17526
Thank you!

>>17522
Happy Birthday! Sorry I'm a bit late I missed it.

Finished Maira's segment of my animated portfolio today. It's only 3 scenes. The other two you can find on my shrine.

As always .gif messes up the colors again...

Took quite a damn while for just a few seconds, 9 days in total, same as with the first character I did. At this pace I should be done at end of March I guess where you'll be able to see the full thing. Maybe sometime I'll upload a sped up version of it in the making.

>>17551
I was gonna tell you to upload a webm, but then I remembered it's not enabled on most of the boards. Eh.

>>17552
Sorry about that, didn't notice. It should good now.

>>17551
Wow that's really awesome!

The space is actually copied but not traced... SmoothDraw really allows me to do cheap blends with fine spray airbrush haha.

Made this for an extra-credit assignment in watercolour class.

Happy Valentine's, my heart, my love.

Here's everything I've got.

I might not be here by next year so, if you don't mind, hold me now.

Drew this, kinda for Valentines.

So I have made a thing... ♥

>>17625
Cute!

>>17602

Isn't she, though? Whenever I am out jogging and I don't feel like running anymore, she keeps me motivated.

It helps that she says she'll cowgirl me if I can keep up for the next mile...

Here is an older one...

Here's my Valentine's drawing. Turned out pretty good I think.

Gonna try and rely less on tracing next time I do this, hopefully.

>>17628
I'd be interested in hearing the significance of the stuff going on in the lower left corner. It's, erm, a bit beyond me.

Incredible work as always, though!

>>17650
The upper half was explained around here >>/mt/2779 and the lower half are the laws of blood type heritage, which work somewhat similarly (union no longer disjoint and equivalent to product). In general, left vs right elements represent apollonian vs dionysian forces. "Red clock" is a metaphor of the heart, of course.

Post edited on 26th Feb 2015, 5:26am

It's a work in progress...

Apologies for back-to-back posts, but...

I would give anything to hold her close right now... ♥

*Thread Necromancy*

Spent all evening drawing and painting this, after a long break, but it was really well worth it.

>>18225
You did a really good job on her face. Very cute.

This is my Magnum Opus. I've corrected this drawing but I haven't scanned the new version.
I draw him relatively often.

<3

>>18349
Looks pretty good man. All that practice is paying off.

>>18362
Thank you! I'm trying to do a digital version.

Made this as a banner from previous stuff.
Totally related, so might as well post it here.

Post edited on 23rd Jul 2015, 9:40pm

I almost didn't make it...

Happy birthday, Asuka.
It's not over yet.

>>19231
I can hardly see the Japanese in here. Then again I don't know how 3/4ths German usually looks either.

>>19234
It's not even human.

>>19234
Actually this time I used a face-morphing program to render the model from a selected couple of white and japanese girls in like a 40-60 ratio (won't post them here for obvious reasons). After that I still strugled a lot with the cheeks; this one here was the very last version (couldn't edit last post).

In any case, Asuka having blue eyes is very non-realistic to begin with since they're carried by recessive gens, so what >>19235 said.

Post edited on 5th Dec 2015, 6:25am

It's her birthday today. Decided to try drawing something. Been a while since I've drawn anything and I'm still not that that good, but felt I had to do something for the day. Was kinda rushing it a bit to get it done in time.

It's her birthday today. Decided to try drawing something. Been a while since I've drawn anything and I'm still not that that good, but felt I had to do something for the day. Was kinda rushing it a bit to get it done in time.

>>19295
Nicely done. Happy birthday, Tohno!

>>19295
Happy Birthday, Minagi! I hope you two had and continue to have a good time today, and of course in the future as well!

Minagi is 32 now!

>>19328
Guess it pays off to browse places other than pixiv.

>>19333
That number changes a bit depending on weather you're going off the VN (2000) or the anime (2004)
I haven't been able to find any mention of a birth year anywhere, but I've seen ages be mentioned a few times in the past.
Her age has been placed at 17 before here and there,
( http://dic.pixiv.net/history/view/68966 )
although out of nowhere mal started to list her age at 15. I'm not sure where they got this number from, but to be as big as she is at 15 is like some kind of joke.

If we go off the 17 age with the VN that would put her at 32 as mentioned. If we go by mal's age that would be 30.
Anime with 17 would be 28, and with mal's 15 would be 26.

Personally I like to go with the 17 over the anime as I initially saw that first not long after it aired before eventually playing the VN, but that's just me. being 32 wouldn't make her much older than me and isn't something I'd really mind anyway. 26 would be ideal but I just don't buy mal's number.

>>19328
Guess it pays off to browse places other than pixiv.

>>19333
That number changes a bit depending on weather you're going off the VN (2000) or the anime (2005)
I haven't been able to find any mention of a birth year anywhere, but I've seen ages be mentioned a few times in the past.
Her age has been placed at 17 before here and there,
( http://dic.pixiv.net/history/view/68966 )
although out of nowhere mal started to list her age at 15. I'm not sure where they got this number from, but to be as big as she is at 15 is like some kind of joke.

If we go off the 17 age with the VN that would put her at 32 as mentioned. If we go by mal's age that would be 30.
Anime with 17 would be 27, and with mal's 15 would be 25.

Personally I like to go with the 17 over the anime as I initially saw that first not long after it aired before eventually playing the VN, but that's just me. being 32 wouldn't make her much older than me and isn't something I'd really mind anyway. 25 would be ideal but I just don't buy mal's number.

Happy birthday, Hijiri!

>>19353
Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday! Ayuayu!

>>19369
Happy Birthday!

>>19369
Indeed.
That hood used to fit you.

>>19295
This pic has a nice feel to it. Relaxed and soothing, with the water in the background. Makes one feel cool and comfy. I think it's very good. Also a great waifu, which is the cherry on the top.

I've had my waifu for a long time, ever since I read Mahou Sensei Negima. I don't think I've ever thought of changing for anything.

>>19371
It was very strange costume combination, winter and summer stile on same time.

Happy Birthday, Mio!

The 14th January 29th.

One cannot say your name,
Without waltzing in love.

Happy Birthday, Mai.

>>19450
Nice

>>19451
Thanks　( ゝω・)b