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Published: 2008-02-15 21:08:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 430; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 8
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Okay Em, I'm SO sorry about not posting it! I was done, and when I tried saving, GIMP was being a bee-yatch and decided to become non responsive. So, I reopened it, put the background back in, and tried again.... it was unresponsive, and had erased half the work I had done!
so, extremely pissed, I put the remaing work onto a backup copy that was just colored, with none of the highlights and everything and went to bed extremely p.o'd..
so this morning I finished it, but then I had to run and catch the bus before school. So here it is.
I also am making this my (one day late) valentine's picture.
Okay, now anyone who isn't ~fluffy-the-wolf is going "WTF?" Well, here's your backstory.
This is Miku, aka Sailor Love. Em made her up, and the original pic is located here:[link]
Here's what Em wrote about her:
Her name is Miku. She's Sailor Love, and will one day grow up to be Neo Queen Beauty. She's fourteen-years-old, despite her goddess-like body.
She's ultra perfect and super kawaii! Eeeeeee! I said a Japanese word in an English sentence! I'm teh coolest! Anyway, Miku is Usagi's long lost sister, who is better than her. Everyone loves Miku, except Usagi. Usagi picks on Miku for no reason and fights with her a lot, cause she's jealous that Miku is the true leader of the Sailor Soldiers.
Mamoru is madly in love with Miku, along with all the other cute guys who have no genetic relation to her.
Miku is also Chibi-Usa's real mother. And Usagi doesn't really become Neo Queen Serenity either. It is Miku who shall become queen of Crystal Tokyo, as Neo Queen Beauty! Yaaaaaay!!!
Miku can destroy and/or turn the bad guys good just by looking at them. she's that powerful.
Her eyes are really gold. But they turn pink when she's happy, and blue when she's sad.
See the gold stuff on her Sailor suit? It's all real gold. She's that stylish. Weeeeee!!!
0_T What do you mean she looks like Usagi, just edited? That's a lie! She's totally original! And so are all these screencaps of Usagi that I colored over to make it look like Miku! See? Original design! Original, I tell you!!!
Now, she can't draw Anime style, and I can, so I said I'd do it. (Plus she did a pic of Vlad for me
and it's half of my half of the trade :3)Oh, and originally, her gloves were shiney... but it the dark purple was part of the lost info, and I didn't have time to put it back... plus it looked horrible.
So Em, enjoy, and to all of you, Happy (belated) Valentine's Day/SAD
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Thank you,, Yours are beautiful too! (Sorry for the mistakes when I speak because I'm french :S) I love what you do !
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You're welcome! and thank you!
(No problem! Most of the people I know have terrible grammer anyway 
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^_^ She looks very pretty. Completely fits the Sue role.
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No problem! I don't think I made her waist narrow enough though 
and thanks. I'm scanning Saki now, and I'll get right to work on her
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I hope you don't mind if I offer some critique. I'll assume you won't, since there is no "Critique discouraged" mark on the comment box...
I think your art could stand to have a few references before you begin drawing. Her pose is extremely awkward; she's standing as if she's been starched. Her head is misshapen; the hair doesn't fallow the rest of the head and looks as if it's been glued on backwards. Her jaw is very large and square; not feminine at all. Her hands are too small and so are her feet, and the legs have curves in all the wrong places; her thighs are quite narrow and she doesn't appear to have hips. Her eyes are especially weird looking; her eyebrows are on a weird slant and the outline of the upper eyelid makes her look like her eyes are pasted on.
Second, what's going on with the shading? Her skin is flat, and so is her top and skirt, yet her hair, boots and the bows all have highlights on them but no shadow. Not to mention that the highlights aren't done properly on the bows; they don't fallow the folds of the fabric.
Last, the inking is poorly done. I would look up tutorials, if I were you, for coloring, line art and anatomy, in order to improve my work.
However, I really like the background. As a fellow user of The GIMP, what effects did you use to produce that swirl/gradient?
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First of all, I'd like to thank you greatly for you're critique. I know that this isn't the absolute best, and I definetly need some work. So thank you for being blatantly honest.
Secondly, for the background, I used the gradient tool. First, I picked the colors, by double clicking on the GIMP too menu, and picking the color. Then, on the GIMP menu, I clicked on the gradient tool (not on the window that shows the layers) and chose to have the Foreground to background gradient, and under the options, (where it says linear) I changed it to Spiral (cw). Then, I clicked where I wanted the epicenter, and drug it out to the bottom right. And BOOM! You've got the background. (This is all done on a separate layer, btw
And again, thank you for the critique. It's comments like these that I truly enjoy getting (Oh, and thanks for not flaming me in the process
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