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akayashi β€” Meme - Illusts from 2003-2009

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Description jkfhsdkjhfdsk I saw the template and I couldn't resist filling it!

RANDOM FUN FACTS
- The red-dragon girl at 2003 is actually my first CG in the history of ever. It was Neopets inspired, I think.

- I believe one of the reasons I get a lot of comments that my coloring style is different and kind of realistic is because I used to admire an IY fanartist named "Mikaila". She used to blow my mind away with her beautiful & semi-relistic outline-less drawings. In 2004, I learned to color without outlines, which was pretty damn crazy thing to do for a rookie like me XD I don't think I could ever go back to coloring like that, lol;;

Even so, coloring like that set up the foundations and gave me skills to aim for a semi-realistic, slightly more complicated coloring style.

Mikaila will always be my #1 idol. I lerned a lot from her tutorials and from her writings. I owe her my artistic life. I hope that one day I'll be as good as her!

- I've always found cell shading to be kind of boring

- I don't actually have a definite coloring style. I never use the same method, I'm always messing around with brushes properties and variations, with filters and layer styles, blending modes, etc etc. Coming up with a coloring method is part of the fun of coloring!

- Photoshop was my first CG-ing program ever. Maybe that's why I love Photoshop so much and that's why I hated Painter/OC/SAI: I have had this program with me since always. I know it so well I always get the exact results I long for. No other program has been able to give me that.

- Even now, I still use the "Paper sketch + Scan + Color with Photoshop" method.

- I've only owned 2 tablets: A Wacom Graphire 2.0 (Former) and a Wacom Graphire 4.0 (Current). Both measured 6x8.

- Practice makes the master!

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This is so embarrasing! Back then, I started drawing out of curosity and never ever thought illustration would become such an important part of my life.

I'm grateful to all of those persons who have been involved in one way or another in my evolution as an illustrator. People I admire, friends, people who support me, thank you! I've been able to come this far because of you!

I still got a long way to go, but I hope to keep on having fun learning.
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Comments: 31

Pursiy [2012-02-07 00:46:45 +0000 UTC]

Wolfram and Moemiji are soo cute

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ls-kuroyami [2010-11-13 09:51:43 +0000 UTC]

8'D Q bonito me gustarΓ­a tener referencias de todos los aΓ±os desde q empezar a dibujar...pero esos dibujos desaparecieron.....misteriosamente seh.....<<

8'D Al fin se de donde sacaste tu avvie x3

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akayashi In reply to ls-kuroyami [2011-02-12 04:03:39 +0000 UTC]

XD The secret of the avvie has been unveiled!

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ls-kuroyami In reply to akayashi [2011-03-09 02:21:52 +0000 UTC]

xDD yesh!

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eartianwerewolf [2010-11-11 04:43:59 +0000 UTC]

I think I'm somewhere between your 2004 and 2005 xD. I've only been drawing actively for about a year and a half. Ever since the summer before last . I just suddenly got interested in art. I didn't really want to do it as a career until sometime at the beginning of this year. This meme always makes me hopeful TwT. It's fun to see how much one can improve. And I can't wait to see what this looks like in 4 years! haha and what mine would look like >w<

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akayashi In reply to eartianwerewolf [2011-02-12 04:03:04 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, thanks for your comment! I bet the new memes will be awesome and we will have improved lots!

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eartianwerewolf In reply to akayashi [2011-02-12 21:43:12 +0000 UTC]

yes ^w^ Hopefully I will have caught up! haha

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Sui31 [2010-11-05 07:32:21 +0000 UTC]

Cool!
I love your drawing and coloring skills~!
I love BL as well~!
XD

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akayashi In reply to Sui31 [2011-02-12 04:00:31 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thanks!

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EmmaVirus [2010-06-30 22:20:23 +0000 UTC]

I always find these so interesting, especially when you get to see all the years...

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Tsukinochiyuki [2010-01-13 00:27:40 +0000 UTC]

LOLL, you've improved so much~
Haha, I see so many people doing this, it seems like so much fun, but I was like, 7 in 2003. Or was it 8, haha I'm brain dead~

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Hibarinrinrin [2010-01-07 04:39:42 +0000 UTC]

ah todos hacen esto xD lo tendre que hacer tb
haha que cute el hamtaro que era XDDD a mi me gustaba mucho tb
OMG pensΓ© que eras mas peke O_O tenemos la misma edad!
Feliz 2010 Aka chan!

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akayashi In reply to Hibarinrinrin [2010-01-07 05:59:47 +0000 UTC]

Siiii, hazlo!! Es divertidoooo~

Jajaja esque tengo cara de bebΓ© ;_; *pedophile bait orz;;* Feliz 2010 a ti tmb, Hibari-chyan!

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Meichu [2010-01-05 22:53:49 +0000 UTC]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! has mejorado impresionantemente!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!

Jajajjaja creo que ahre lo mismo

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akayashi In reply to Meichu [2010-01-06 06:51:05 +0000 UTC]

Muchisimas gracias!

Siii, hazlo, es muy divertido

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SanctusIX [2010-01-04 21:28:49 +0000 UTC]

evolucion!!!! XD

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akayashi In reply to SanctusIX [2010-01-06 07:04:55 +0000 UTC]

Jeje, supongo que si! xD

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ryguy15 [2010-01-04 19:49:02 +0000 UTC]

You've improved sooo much. Congrats!

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akayashi In reply to ryguy15 [2010-01-06 07:05:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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dalvarez-v [2010-01-04 15:53:08 +0000 UTC]

Por fin!!!!

Un nuevo deviantion tuyo!!!

Me alegra verlo!!! Sabes que me gusta muchisimo tu trabajo!!!

Y por cierto.. felicidades!!!!!

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akayashi In reply to dalvarez-v [2010-01-06 07:06:19 +0000 UTC]

Jajaja soy terrible en esto de tener el dA al dΓ­a, jeje.

Muchas gracias! Y felicidades a ti tmb, ojalΓ‘ te la hayas pasado padre

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dalvarez-v In reply to akayashi [2010-01-06 17:21:36 +0000 UTC]

Me he dado cuenta que no lo actualizas!!!

Jajajajaja bueno.. al menos sabemos que sigues el camino creativo!!!

Suerte!!

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Trishette [2010-01-04 14:43:17 +0000 UTC]

puedo ver la mejoria!!! :3! bien hecho!

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akayashi In reply to Trishette [2010-01-06 07:05:15 +0000 UTC]

Mushas gracias

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limene [2010-01-04 04:44:42 +0000 UTC]

OH MY JESUS is it sad that I recognize everything between 2003-2006
like those Hamtaro pictures, I KNOW THEM. I KNOW THEM WEEEELLL. And the 2004 pictures I know super well too because I STALKED your dA account for inspiration. Lawl.

Also, I spy some uM arts in there.

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akayashi In reply to limene [2010-01-04 05:15:48 +0000 UTC]

LMAO, when I was browsing my Hamtaro stuff I was pretty much going "aslkfjsdlfsdlf" whilst thinking of you and Leelz

oh you are so cute, here, lemme shower you with lots of e-hugs <3

BTW, Iunno if you got my msn message or not, but HappysuperbelatedBirthday! ;3;

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limene In reply to akayashi [2010-01-04 17:04:36 +0000 UTC]

AWWW E-HUGS <3 <3
And I DIIIID, it wasn't super belated when you sent it XD I saw it as my computer was rebooting so I could reply e_e BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH <3

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akayashi In reply to limene [2010-01-06 07:11:48 +0000 UTC]

Next time I won't be hangovered and I'll get online to congratulate you properly!

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kuroitenshi13 [2010-01-04 02:25:36 +0000 UTC]

You are too cute. I love your works! You're so much better than I am. *snuggles*

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akayashi In reply to kuroitenshi13 [2010-01-04 05:23:31 +0000 UTC]

sjdfhjdf thank you very much! But I'm not better! We just happen to have very different styles

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kuroitenshi13 In reply to akayashi [2010-01-04 05:32:02 +0000 UTC]

You are totally better. There are a lot of things I can't do yet that you can. *smiles and hugs*

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