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Finally got this one done. I’ve been working on it off and on for the last week and a half. There’s not a huge amount to say here, I think this one’s turned out reasonably well. I had to do a bit of fiddling to get the 1600×1200 one to look okay, including moving the girls closer together. Not that anyone minds if they get closer to each other, I’m sure. Also, I’ve linked the thumbnail in with the new gallery software I’m using, so you should get a fun clicky lightbox thing popping up at you if you click the image. For consistency and convenience I’ve left links in too.
No idea what I’ll do next. Probably another Strike Witches one, there are three more shots from the ED that are possibilities.
I came to a realisation yesterday - I started doing vector traces back in September 2003, though I didn’t release my first one until October. When exactly I started is still a mystery, however it’s five years ago this month. As such, I got off my lazy arse and added a gallery of everything, which you can find here or in the link above. My intention is to further integrate the gallery into blog entries in the future as well. If you encounter any wierdness - and you probably will, I can’t test everything - then please drop a comment here and let me know.
Expect a misty-eyed retrospective entry soonish. It’s amazing how much I sucked back when I started this stuff. Also, I’m open to suggestions for a 5th anniversary commemorative vector. :V
A bundle of joy was waiting for me on my doorstep when I got home from work today.
The Disgaea 3 No.1 Honor Student set, direct from NISA. Yay. There was a little bit of randomness involved in the order - ‘randomly’ (I interpreted this as “when we run out of the first we use the second and so on”) either the 2-disc OST, a 36-page artbook, or a Flag. The OST was what I was really hoping to get, too. Looks like checking Rosenqueen every day in the hope that they’d do a special bundle was worth it. Now to wait for an Ar Tonelico 2 bundle. 
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Another Strike Witches trace, this time it’s everyone’s favourite pair of pantsless germans. It’s been ages since I had a show that I was enjoying enough to want to sit down and trace some stuff from it, and isn’t broadcast in true HD (hard to justify tracing a shot from a show produced in HD). I didn’t spend that long on this, so I’m extremely pleased at how well it turned out, especially given that the source image was covered in text and I had to basically redraw an eye on each of them, among other guesstimations. I’m not much of an artist but it seems that I’ve been doing this for long enough that I managed to be able to pull it off pretty well.
Nagi pointed this out to me while looking at some of the new squenix game screens released just recently.
Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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