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Twinhound — Mirai Millenium, Outside Hunting
Published: 2012-08-28 16:35:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 1125; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 43
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Contest Entry for Danny Choo's Mirai Artbook featuring Mirai and Haruka Suenaga in their Sailor Marine uniforms.Drawn by me, Kimika
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Mirai looks ready to defend herself against a dangerous robot with her friend, Haruka, either nervous or just getting serious as well. She looked nervous when I first saw her (especially with her blushing like that along with that expression) but taking a closer look at her she appear just serious. Well the characters are nicely drawn in your own way and the background looks nice too with it fitting with supposedly story the two characters are from. I take it the orange coloring in the white background is not just referring to the story but to the main character as well since orange seems to be her color.
The uniforms the two are wearing are nice in an interesting way. They look like a mix between a military uniform and a school uniform (which seems to be the idea), but this fashion looks kind of odd with the long, robotic like boots being worn with the uniforms. They just appear out of place to me but then you weren’t the one that design the uniforms of course.
Speaking of that I heard about this contest from another artist I am watching. I checked it out and I thought it was contest held years ago due to misreading the date it started (I thought it mention it was held in 2007), but I see now I was wrong. It looks like a nice contest I would like to enter, but I don’t feel comfortable of my skills at the moment. Plus I don’t think I can fulfill commissions for anyone yet. One of the things it points out is that some of the people who were chosen to get their works publish will be ask to do future illustrations for the website. It’s the last point listed just in case you didn’t read it (which I sure you did but just to be sure).
Well bye now and good luck getting chosen.
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Well thanks for the long answer here ^^
My super long reply got deleted by accident so I will try to recall what I have typed in more or less and I will try to keep it a little bit shorter this time.
I did read about that part that I might get requests of doing illustrations for dannychoo.com in the future but that is something which I would gratefully do since this is one of those opportunities I've been looking for after I was nearly left behind with tons of scripting and game concept writing and various other things since my teachers all thought I should not waste my time anymore for something I can do anyway, don't know about if that is the right thing, but anyways, that's how it ended in the end.
For an unemployed like me who is working on a portfolio currently, this contest might have been one of the best chances which could have happened in fact, it was not only a chance to get a name but at the same time it is a great chance for me to get back what I've neglected for the past 3 years due to my university days.
About the confidence in your own skills and the question whether joining contests or not (in general), well, here's what I think in regard of this question.
In any cases I would start drawing and do so as if you would join it in the first place. There is basically always one reason which implies in why you should be doing this and that would be to gain experience. Specifically said in a case of a contest would be for you (and me) getting the chance to compare to professional artists who also have by chance decided to join the contest. This gives people like you and me a big opportunity to search for what we still lack and that means in other words what we could still improve. I've joined contests ever since the early days, when I was still absolutely incapable of drawing characters with a more or less decent proportion and deformed faces, however, it is because of those contests why I was able to learn over and over again and getting closer to the artist that I eventually want to become (well in my case it is mostly like that I mean, I've started as a total amateur and I am still by no means on a professional level, but I am slowly catching up, I think).
Anyways, getting back to the point where you have done your piece of work, you can still decide then if you have confidence to actually hand it in or not. If you hand it in you might get featured even if you have no confidence in it because by chance, the contest host valued something which you yourself did not (seriously, things like that happens sometimes). So, in a nutshell, it's always worth taking part, of course, if in the end of the day you really don't want to hand it in, nobody is going to blame you and you still have the chance to compare your work with other people's and that's why Online Contests are so valuable in my eyes ^^
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You’re welcome. ^_^
I see. I hate when that happens. I type up a nice long comment that I put a lot of thought and effort into for someone only to get deleted by accident. Well I like what you had to say though and I am going to say ahead thank you for the motivation. It did help me to get motivated to draw.
First of all good for you! ^_^ I do recall you mentioning that you wanted an opportunity like this or just trying to get there. It was either that or you having a hard time doing something like this because of school. Also I am guessing your teachers wanted you to try something different to improve your skills and expand yourself which is nothing wrong with that, but at the same time it’s also good to do what you are good at/like to do instead not doing it.
As for the contest that’s one way of looking at it but I know there are some illustrations that are way better than the ones I can make right now, such as this one which I saw on this website a couple of weeks ago or so. [link] It’s very impressive. It’s not that I don’t doubt myself as an artist in general but it’s that I am still a beginner level artist and there is much I do need to learn and master before I reach advance level. However you made a good point though. Also about someone valuing what is in the picture I can understand that. There are cases I have seen pictures that had an aspect I like about them.
I may think about drawing something relating to the contest but I don’t think I would submit it. Plus like I said I don’t think I can do commissions at the moment. And it’s not just the fact that I am not skill yet but I just have other things I have to do in the meantime. I’m attending school again and I have a few story projects I am planning to work on. Then there is upgrading/changing my Deviant page and getting myself and my stuff in order.
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