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uninspiring title asides, This is a gift for my friend, Rik, who requested girl, gun, penguin, food and explosions, sorry I can’t work the explosions in :3

This is also a homage to my favorite manga of the moment, Biomega. I imagine this is what might happen if Nihei sensei were into moe XD

a couple of close up:

Done mostly in photoshop, except for lineart which is done in manga studio. This came out a bit weird since I’ve been really lost with CG, I tried a few trick I learned from the magazine, and I came up with a way to work around a dingy machine which can’t really handle 300 dpi color cg, what I did is, I first worked in 100 dpi, lay out all the colors, then blow it up to 300dpi to work on details, and also cut a few part to work in separate files because I can’t get the pen stroke to work flawlessly in this size, kinda cumbersome way to work, but better than nothing at all. I really envy people who can work on crazy resolution like 10000×12000 pixel O_O;;;

Can’t wait for the day I can afford a decent machine to work on ;_;

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From my webcomic, Beleth’s library of eclecticism, yep, I was having fun crosshatching.

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This comic I created especially for Kodansha Morning Competition. It’s 23 pages long and took me 2 months (!!), I realized that sounded atrocious in term of speed, but this comic has gone through various transformation, to begin with, it was started as a completely different story and was going to be almost 50 pages long, which I realized, I won’t be able to finish before deadline. Then it turned into this current story, which still have a lot of pages redone/reword over and over. And I was under the pressure to prove myself, my skills, I can’t say that I was happy while working on this, I was downright paranoid, even after finishing it, I felt bad every time I looked at it, and I wanted to hibernate till March 2008.

I long for the day that I can JUST draw comic without this constant needing to prove myself worthy to everyone else. It’s tiring.

anyway, here’s some samples, unless you are on my lj friendlist, then I presumed you have read the whole comic and I apologize for duplicated contents, otherwise, enjoy, I’ll make the whole comic available here when the result of competition is out. (and I don’t score anything)

I swear this is the last time I’m looking through this, or else I might have a nervous breakdown.

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I couldn’t’ have said enough how much this is making my life much easier. Background is a bane of my comic artist life’s existence. Looking at some of my works, you might think that I LURVES drawing background, but the fact is polar opposite. I HATE it, I loath it but I can’t skip it and I can’t stand doing sloppy jobs on it. (that’s why I got incredibly mad when I saw other professional comics with sloppy backgrounds) If I had assistance to draw me a background (amongst everything else) like japanese mangaka, I reckon even I could do 15 pages weekly too.

Enter Google SketchUp, description from Google itself reads:

Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design.

basically, what you do is, you draw flat square with normal drawing tool, then you use this ‘push/pull’ tool to pull on the surface of that square up to make a cube, and lo and behold, you just creatd a 3D box!

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bahahaha, sorry Dock, your lj just inspired me XDD

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huhuhu, another Snarry, it’s only a matter of time now that I’d do actual Snarry doujin XDD

Manga Studo as usual.

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so sweet it made me sick XD

line art in manga studio and color in photoshop. I’m starting to like this technic simply because it’s fast and it looked acceptable, but I still would like painting cg sometimes T^T

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Another Harry Potter Snarry Fanart, done in manga studio, I should have separate category for this :p

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I’m getting into habit of doing fanart of things I actually barely have any idea about XD (Link, Raiden, PH, PW and now Lenore) called it fate, I often don’t get to do fanart of things I actually know well, haahaha

Done in Manga Studio, Lenore © Roman Dirge.

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