Here I come with my latest artwork. This time it took more than four days to finish painting, so, to create some suspense the full image is only available after the jump. Also, I decided to rename her, our blog mascot, to a more realistic name. From now on Tsuki will be Nagahara Aiko. While Tsuki means Moon as well as Month, which could lead to misunderstandings in Japanese, Nagahara Aiko means ‘child of love of eternal plains.’ Of course it’s bullshit too, to prove that just try to define which plains are eternal and then imagine them making love, but it sounds complete and at least more beautiful than Tsuki.
Back to the painting, I tried some new techniques. First of all, I learned the right (as I see it) placement of shadows and lights from Gorobottsu. Then, I tried drawing a different eye shape and made shadows and lights with help of a light contour, inspired by the artist Kokoro whom Mefloraine kindly introduced on Paper Flower. And at last, I post-processed the picture with a slightly grungy texture, like the artist Dhiea I introduced before.
Expect this to appear on our banner soon.
Further reading
- Gorobottsu (NSFW!) (FTW!)
- Kokoro on Paper Flower
- I already introduced Dhiea before
- Ex-Tsuki-now-Aiko in a swimsuit
- Older Ex-Tsuki-now-Aiko artworks 1, 2, 3, 4
24 Comments
It’s so beautiful! Your talent in art is very impressive! I love the socks x)
Thanks! It was rather boring to colour the stripes on them, but I like that kind of socks too^^
Nagahara Aiko > Tsuki
Nice new name.
‘Tsuki’ was so cheap I wanna facepalm^^
Like the name change ^___^ Nicely done.
Thanks! And nice new avatar you have, it’s cute :3
So what is she cooking?
Its nice to see your steady progress in art
If you would have wanted to stick to the moon reference you could have named her Tsukoyo or something but the new names nice aswell
She’s making chocolate pudding for Christmas (already)
The moon reference was trivial, I just needed a name back then
Nice job! Maybe I’ve been watching too much Umineko, but she’s got that killer look. Yandere?
Probably it’s that she has red eyes. But I assume you, she’s just a bit tsun-tsun^^
Nice work! Definitely improved over the older ones.
Thanks!
You’ve done it this time. This is much much better than your previous ones. Good job.
Thank you!
Change the ladle to a knife. Nagahara-dono demands it.
Like what RP said, “She’s got that killer look”. A knife would accentuate that more.
When she will cook schnitzels she will hold a knife. But she’s not a killer person.
A killer maid, then?
Pedantry +1
Is a maid not a person?
Pedantry +1
No, a maid is a female employed in domestic service.
Wiki +i
An employee may be defined as a person in the service of another under any contract of hire.
Wiki +2i
Under the fact that I don’t have anything else to pedantiate about, and how pedantiate is not an actual word, OMG WHAT WAS THAT A UFO–
WHERE!??
The only constructive crit I have is that light doesn’t bounce off hair like that.
Together with some other artwork by various artists I mentioned, I used this as shading reference (slightly NSFW): http://gbot.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-149.html