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+ .Australia Day 2008. + by =llifi-kei:iconllifi-kei:

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At 11:30pm last night, a sudden random burst of patriotism hit me and inspired me to draw this. xD
I was rushing frantically, hoping to get it finished in time to post on Australia Day... and luckily, I made it! -flops, exhausted and sleep-deprived- @___@;;;

For those of you who don't know, the golden wattle is Australia's floral emblem. =D The other flowers around the border are the floral emblems of each state, although they may not look very accurate as I was using a book of flower drawings rather than actual photos for references. ^^;

Time taken: 9 hours

~ Drawn in Adobe Photoshop 5.5 with mouse and tablet ~

(Note: About her right shoe... after drawing her whole leg and the shoe, I realised that the leg did not quite seem to fit into the shoe but I was happy with the shoe and didn't want to change it, so then I kept trying to change the leg to fit properly with the shoe... but I still don't think it worked in the end. xDDD; )

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`AaronBradford Jan 26, 2008, 3:19:31 AM
Wow, that is so totally awesome! Dunno 'bout her right foot though.

:+fav: for sure!

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

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=llifi-kei Jan 26, 2008, 3:58:27 AM
Thanks for the comment and the :+fav:! =D

-nodnods- I did have a lot of trouble with the proportions, I spent so much time fiddling about with them and changing them that I eventually gave up. =P Guess I should probably spend more time on the inital sketch, next time... xD

(Aussie Aussie Aussie!) Oi! Oi! Oi! xDDD

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`AaronBradford Jan 26, 2008, 4:51:34 AM
Always good to plan things ... even if you don't follow through.

If I was an anime guy, I would so totally ask this girl out.

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~the-derivative Jan 26, 2008, 8:12:59 PM
love the Aussie feel =]

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~drummer017 Jan 26, 2008, 8:37:25 PM
lolz australia is great!

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~yannay Jan 26, 2008, 9:10:15 PM
wow!! Look what Kei can do when she want to draw, has inspiration, and has a tablet in her hands! That is so super good, def. worth the time it took you! I like the golden wattle, and yes you could have spent more time on the background (but seriously it's good enough). What possessed you to draw the girl with blue/brown eyes and weird two colour hair? Kei's proportions have improved heaps! The shoe is slightly off however.
The one px lineart looks great. Now I wanna try that. xD
Good work. :thumbsup:

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=llifi-kei Jan 26, 2008, 9:56:47 PM
Yay, thanks! It is very glad that the Yan likes it! ^__^ I am still undecided as to whether I like it or not, though... it does not feel like the sort of thing that I would normally draw. ;___;

Apart from being brain-dead and lazy... I thought that maybe leaving the greenery on the edges a bit faded and incomplete-looking would draw more attention to the girl in the centre, rather than having an overcluttered picture. xD

Um, well... if I was going to draw an 'Australian', I wouldn't want to draw a completely European-like person, you know? Because then where does that leave me? =P So like, half and half... to represent all the multicultural-ness? xD

Yay! But be careful with 1px lineart (actually 4px at 100% canvas size)... it is really difficult to make things go the way you want them to. ><; Maybe that's because you need to have a sketch that is also 1px thick... because with this picture, I did the initial sketch with a large brush that I was comfortable using... and then blew it up even further to cover the whole canvas. So there was a lot of room for error with such thick lines on my sketch... ><;;;;;

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*luvd-n-hated Jan 26, 2008, 10:06:11 PM
happy australia day!!! lolz i didnt do anything but sit at home on my bum all day long... i feel so unpatriotic lolz

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~yannay Jan 26, 2008, 11:45:57 PM
yeah I know you never tend to like your own pictures. But I think it looks really good.

True. The blur thing is a good technique.

Weird Kei logic. half half? xp It reminds me of Moosh hair actually.

*sigh* why does everything have to be so hard?

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=llifi-kei Jan 26, 2008, 11:56:05 PM
...Because if life was easy, then it'd be boring? xD

I was going to poke you onto MSN, but then I started working on CD cover-ness using stock, too. xD

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