音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Just finished PSYCHO-PASS, and I'm not very happy now.
Because...
Both Ishida and the pops are gone urobuchered (sorry, I'm weak at remembering people's names)!! At first I was dreaming something good would happen so we could get a happy end--but, well, you know that's an anime in which Urobuchi is involved so you should be aware that anything can happen.

And I'm not sure how its 2nd season would be like. Without those two, I don't feel like to watch it. ._.
-- guess I'll watch it anyway, the 1st season's plot is really good... yet it doesn't mean I like to be urobuchered! ><

With this chance, I'd like to take a deeper look at my own criteria for how I decide whether or not to watch an anime -- just realised such criteria exist a few days ago when I decided to watch PSYCHO-PASS.

Now I'm indeed considering whether I should watch an anime: +5 (better than ignoring!)

story type:
horror/thrill/detective: +30
fantastic/magic/supernatural/SF: +25
very funny: +15
daily sketch (healing type): -5
harem/GL/BL ONLY: -50

content in terms of rating:
too much ero-scene: -25
too much gore-scene: -10

drawing style:
Moe / high quality: +15
low quality: -5
too "man": -20

cast voice:
of my favs: +10 each
Ishida Akira / Koyasu Takehito: +25 each

char settings (calculate per main char):
tsundere: -30
kuudere / yandere: +15
ikemen: +15
nice ossan~: +25
shota: -5 (except Edogawa Conan => + 20 !!)
loli: +5
useless/stupid char: -20

music:
generally good: +10
Ito Masumi / Kenji Kawai: +20
other known composers: +15

songs (calcualte per song, OP/ED/IN):
good: +5 each
KOKIA / Akiko Shikata: +20
Shimotsukin / Noriko Mitose: +10

Anyhow, regardless that the following list is made based on my personal experience, the points were assigned very subjectively, and they can be added up independently -- Of course, the higher the better, but I don't know what's the max or cutoff (for not watching it).

Just for fun, you see. xD

Perhaps I should stop here, and save my rest stuff for my next post~

I've been feeling that something was wrong since my last post, and in this morning, I finally realised what that is:
My first drawn male was not Garry, but the Pyramid Head (a 5-min scribble though => doesn't count ^^;).

Yet today's post isn't about male-drawing or the Pyramid Head...
My another sweet 13-hour fight against neck-ache.
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Klaviertrios

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The vague idea raised a few weeks ago, when I scribbled randomly. But the first version of draft was not satisfying enough, so I merely adopted the idea but re-drafted the characters (those 1st ver. drafts are in my recycle bin and will probably be emptied soon, although I'd say all my drafts are just look horrible and nothing but messy. I do believe no one else could extract real outlines from it for digital processing).

Trio. Although at first I also thought about quartet or even bigger scale (not to that of an orchestra though), trio would be the best choice since it matches to.. something related to the characters but I'm not gonna say what it exactly is (and sorry, one of them was even excluded from my Koiseyo Otome in February, so this time I brought her back).

Just let me continue, originally it was supposed to be under the theme of Easter, accompanied by bunnies and eggs and placed in a green forest or this sort as the background. Also because of it, I at first was trying dress them up in traditional European style, but somehow, I had no idea why, the final costumes turned to be a rather more freely drawn and coloured.

But you know what, after spending ~13 hours (20:00-26:00 yesterday, 12:30-19:00 today and I had lots of trouble to draw a grand piano or a violin/cello bow properly ><), I didn't feel like to draw any more extra stuff. Indeed, what I really felt was that there was nowhere for even a single egg.. to place them, even well-arranged, would just make the whole piece way too funny. So I gave up for making anything special for Easter (well, it's actually snowing outside, so I'm not in an Easter mode at all xD).

Then, yet I was still responsible for assigning a background. Without bunnies and eggs, a forest-based view might look too complicated--I mean, I've been seeking online for some rose garden shots, but none of them would fit in here and they're hard to deal with in terms of modification and integration. A simple design was not a bad idea, so I transferred from a real photo to more abstract stuff: rose petals.

Abstract(-ish) style made things easier. A few PS filters solved everything. I was trying to recall the image colour when I listen to Mozart's trios (why? see below), but to match my chosen rose petals, I ended up with a strawberry-flavoured red stain (which indeed does matches Mozart's image, and it tastes just good as strawberry icecream~~ but NO, the background blurred red petals are NOT strawberry for sure!!). Right, almost forgot to mention, while adding the title--which should be just "Trio"--I changed my mind a little bit to add more text. It would be fun to mention someone who composed trios for piano+violin+cello as a part of the title, so of course, Mozart was my No. 1 candidate and I never ever thought about others' works (I really want to say when I finished the drafts, the Mozart flag had been confirmed).
I JUST LOVE MOZART, ANY COMPLAINTS? °w°
Thanks to that, I now get addicted to his K502 the first movement...

Thus I got Mozart and a "delicious" colour. Then the thing became to how to arrange these elements: characters, background-makeups and text. In this case, there's no other place but the top-left area for the title text, but how exactly? At first I tried to put the word "Mozartian" as a mirror-reflection to "Klaviertrio" (my honour to Austrian/German composers: using German in the title). But it just didn't work out (the final view looked weird). So then I decided to mention actual trios' titles, which were what showing in the final version and thus the word "Klaviertrio" became "Klaviertrios". Later, I realised the Mozart's name apparently should be appearing together with these works or people (with no knowledge to recognise the K### style) would not know whom I'm referring, I went through a few DVD covers (at that moment I was already feeling like I was making a cover art for a DVD release). And Yes, I was almost to drag the "Deutsche Grammophon" logo (or make a parody) here to get it more DVD-cover like! xDD <<< but I didn't, you see. (Too bad that I didn't dare to make fun of my favourite classical label.. ^^;)

↓And that's it. Now, time to sync my foobar2000 with my desktop~!

so sleepy.. ~_~

Gute Nacht!!

I don't have much today, just continuing the last topic in my previous post, time to make something.
The First Piece of the so-called "Something".
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Ib, Garry & the Snake

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If you've played/watched the game Ib, you should know which scene I chose to adapt here--although it may not be that true, I believe Garry would help moving the snake first before sitting down and staring at it.. well, don't pick on so much on a fanart! ^^;

As of the background. I spent quite a while to think about a good arrangement, yet ended up with simple and straightforward method. Red/blue roses in crayon-drawing style--you know why, don't you?!
Also, Garry, be happy, you're the first male I drew since I started digital drawing using a tablet back to 2006 (except the REAL PEOPLE parody in my last one about Figaro).

Since yesterday, we got a sweet refresher.
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Sleet!!

Let it snow. I don't need spring! XD
Although I tend to wish it to rain when I have my umbrella, and to snow when I don't. :3
As long as there's no wind I'll be happy.