Touhou - Flandre is Love

Just a quickie for WTFR's Flandre Friday. I thought I'd get some perspective practice... its not terrible, but I rushed through it so much that i didn't learn anything from doing it. The skin contrast is a bit off too. I still kinda like it though, but it needs some finishing that I can't be bothered with.

Touhou - Patchouli Moon Attack

Zambot 3 reference. I wanted to do this for a while... it doesn't look that much like it, but hopefully people who know Zambot at all will get it.

Lazy cel colouring... I only had 2 hours to do the whole thing, so it's just a colour layer and a colour dodge layer. I kinda like the high-contrast effect, but I don't think I'd normally do it like this on purpose. The lightning is decent, considering it took about 3 minutes (some squiggles and a cloned blurred layer placed into a group set to "screen" (which for some reason looks totally different to a layer set to "screen")),

Touhou 4koma - Touhou UFO Spotter's Guide

Geez, you go away for a month and the place dies.

The motivation for this came from "8" being marked as "drunkard" in "Uwabami Breakers" (leading on from "9" being "idiot" in "PoFV"), so I thought I'd see if I could invent a series of them. I tried not to list the usual jokes and references, but I'm not sure how well I did that way... Drawing silhouettes is kinda fun though.

Touhou - CIRNO IS STRONGEST

In widescreen-o-vision™.

Typical "joke gone too far" picture (comparing Cirno's ice crystals to Flandre's... uh, back decorations). This was something like 5 hours work, start to finish. I got to cheat a bit with the crystals, but the rest was just flat-out drawing 2 characters in the same pose, which seems unnaturally fast for my speed. You can kind of see that in the quality, of course...

Touhou 4koma - "You Reap What You Sow"

Just realised I can use the comic title as my post title to save thinking one up each time!...

Someone spotted a nikoniko video with some of my art in it (at 3:33).

Translating some of the comments:
"Haven't we gotten to the [named artists] yet?"
"SO TALL"
"Nice China"
"More guns than a Zoid lol" (?)
"ear transplant lol"
Along with a bunch of "WTF"s and "awesome"s.

Anonymous Japanese internet people are so civilised!... Although, I guess Youtube comments are much the same, so maybe it's just message boards that have all the manners of a chimpanzee tea party.

Touhou 4koma - Cirno

The beloved tomboyish girl. I guess people coming here won't recognise it, but this is taken from Cirno's profile story about her being eaten by a giant frog and then freezing it from the inside to escape. Not sure the joke works in 4koma format...

Did this with a timer running to make myself go quickly, ended up pretty much as I said yesterday. 1 hour for sketching, 90 min for lineart (panel 3 was the only complex thing anyway) and under 1 hour for tones. The big difference was that there was only 30 minutes of timewasting in there. This is the first comic I finished in one night~

Touhou 4koma - PCB #1

Something (probably Photoshop) came very close to deleting this just as soon as I'd finished... I wound up spending all evening undeleting a 99% done version. Doggedness triumphs over poor technology once again~

Tried laying out the text before the art, but it doesn't seem to work too well. Quite like the joke though. Took too long, again... I was hoping to produce one of these a day, but 6 in 3 weeks is a joke.

If I add up the time, its something like:
1 hour sketching
2+ hours for lineart (expanded to 4 or 5 due to MSN and web browsing)
1 hour for tone

Not impossible in an evening.