Just wanted to point out this excellent essay exploring the aspects of the Touhou series and its incredible fan popularity. I must admit that it’s hard not to be swept up into the Touhou fandom - personally I quite enjoy the games and have a fair amount of the doujin music releases, but aside from [...]
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1920×1200 | 1600×1200 | Illustrator 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 [...]
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I came to a realisation yesterday - I started doing vector traces back in September 2003, though I didn’t release my first one until October. When exactly I started is still a mystery, however it’s five years ago this month. As such, I got off my lazy arse and added a gallery of everything, which [...]
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A bundle of joy was waiting for me on my doorstep when I got home from work today. The Disgaea 3 No.1 Honor Student set, direct from NISA. Yay. There was a little bit of randomness involved in the order - ‘randomly’ (I interpreted this as “when we run out of the first we use [...]
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1920×1200 | 1600×1200 crop | ai 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 [...]
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Nagi pointed this out to me while looking at some of the new squenix game screens released just recently. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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Just wanting to get a bit of a show of interest here. A while back I attempted to write down the process that I go through to complete a vector, since at the time people were asking me about it. Assuming I get around to making another one some time soon, I was considering recording [...]
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1920×1200 | 1600×1200 crop | ai 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 [...]
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Crap. Looks like I won’t be playing for a few weeks. I think that it must have seen me ordering a Japanese PS3 and gotten angry. It’s one of the Australian launch batch, though not purchased until 6 months after launch, so it’s surprising how well it’s lasted.
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So I was reading this entry at ANN, specifically Enoki Films ‘presenting’ Slayers R, the imminent new Slayers show. Now, putting aside that I thought Enoki had been dead for years and the implication that this show might actually have been pre-emptively licensed, the ‘plot summary’ really grabbed me. Part I - Episodes #1-#13 The story unfolds [...]
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