Silas Zee: V1046-R Mahoro

V1046-R Mahoro

2013.04.29

I'm that weird hipster nerd whose favorite Gainax Anime is one you've probably never heard of. XD

Mahoromatic is just awesome. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and check it out. A few months ago if found out that Gainax had put out one more two-part special and I found myself watching the entire series all over again. And once something like that happens fan art can't be too far behind.

I went with Mahoro's combat outfit instead of her maid uniform because I thought a more comic-y pic would ease me into drawing her since Anime art style really isn't my strong suit. ^_^;

This piece encompassed all sorts of wackiness to get the damn thing finished. If you check out the pencil stage it's all kind of messy. When I was plotting the art out I did a rough sketch on a piece of copier paper. After I nailed down the layout I tried drawing this up on a piece of bristol but couldn't get it right. Sadly the rough doodle I did on a piece of throwaway paper was a helluvalot better than the for realsies attempts. :O :O :O

I drew right over the ballpoint pen thumbnail with my pencils which made the inks even messier. On the inks stage image, you'll see the pre-cleanup inks on the left. Because of the crap paper and the ballpoint pen this was murder to fine tune. I know I could've used a lightbox or tracing paper to ink this piece but I've never felt my inks look near as good as when I work directly on the pencils. Weird, I know. ^_^;

In the end I think the effort was worth it. The piece has some problems, namely with the partially bland background. Anime stuff always looks weird in my style but I think I did okay here, especially with working her bangs in since I don't draw that kind of hairstyle often.