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Garden Party 2008!
Oct. 22nd, 2007 10:16 pmThe UCJAS BADASS contribution to the Garden Party is done!
The theme this year was apparently "Halloween". The three requests were:
- Akio dressed up as anything (and I mean anything)
- Hagu as a mushroom
- San (from Setto no Hanayome) as a Chivalrous mermaid
The first request blew everyone's mind.
So Friday night Cat stayed over, and then Saturday we spent the morning making onigiri and painting San from a picture that the resourceful Cat found online. Then we started plotting AKIO. OMGz. I started off thinking "Card Captor Akio", and Cat pictured him in a wolf costume. So we went back to the basics: if Akio were wearing a costume, would he be ... froofy? ridiculous? suave? dangerous? Once we settled on sultry, the Maharajah look was a must. Maharajah with... harem. TOO PERFECT for Akio. So we inked it Saturday afternoon, and then I was able to color it in tonight. It took 3 hours, but I'm quite pleased with it. Alas, I left my camera at parents' house, so this is the crappy cell phone camera version...
( the result )
Of course, lots of things wrong with it... all sorts of proportion issues, foreshortening issues, bulging package issues... Akio's head is way to big, and Anthy's way too small, etc etc. But all in all it's pretty awesome. Almost makes me want to keep it! ;)
Anyway, it's Monday night, which means Garden Party pictures need to be mailed tomorrow... and I don't think I'll have time to do a full-size Hagu tonight, what with lesson planning and all... Maybe I'll just do some cute postcards of people in costume.
The theme this year was apparently "Halloween". The three requests were:
- Akio dressed up as anything (and I mean anything)
- Hagu as a mushroom
- San (from Setto no Hanayome) as a Chivalrous mermaid
The first request blew everyone's mind.
So Friday night Cat stayed over, and then Saturday we spent the morning making onigiri and painting San from a picture that the resourceful Cat found online. Then we started plotting AKIO. OMGz. I started off thinking "Card Captor Akio", and Cat pictured him in a wolf costume. So we went back to the basics: if Akio were wearing a costume, would he be ... froofy? ridiculous? suave? dangerous? Once we settled on sultry, the Maharajah look was a must. Maharajah with... harem. TOO PERFECT for Akio. So we inked it Saturday afternoon, and then I was able to color it in tonight. It took 3 hours, but I'm quite pleased with it. Alas, I left my camera at parents' house, so this is the crappy cell phone camera version...
( the result )
Of course, lots of things wrong with it... all sorts of proportion issues, foreshortening issues, bulging package issues... Akio's head is way to big, and Anthy's way too small, etc etc. But all in all it's pretty awesome. Almost makes me want to keep it! ;)
Anyway, it's Monday night, which means Garden Party pictures need to be mailed tomorrow... and I don't think I'll have time to do a full-size Hagu tonight, what with lesson planning and all... Maybe I'll just do some cute postcards of people in costume.
