Week 59 Banners

[cool_spectrum]

Banners here for kotae, shikumo, rashiea, cool_spectrum, and wizards_pupil!

Comments

[kotae]

That was fast: I saw this post before the winners one, didn't even know I won, XDD

Thanks for the pretty banner~ ^^

[cool_spectrum]

LOL! I usually hate that, sorry! XD
You're welcome, you very much deserve it <3
That has to be the cutest Ulquiorra icon I've ever seen <3

[kotae]

Oh, no need to apologize, I was just amused, XD
Thanks! <3
And I totally agree about the icon (courtesy of misako_chan, btw) ;)

[cool_spectrum]

Haha! I guess that's a good thing!
She's amazing! Actually, both of you are... it seems to me your styles are very similair! Especially your manga coloring <3

[kotae]

Haha, might be because we both are 'old school' iconmakers.. Thanks! <3

[cool_spectrum]

If being old school is what makes your manga coloring so good, I wanna be old school too <3

[kotae]

The only thing I know is that practice helps a lot! That, and learning from others (pixiv is full of beautiful fanarts, I get much inspiration from there) ;)

[cool_spectrum]

Thanks for the tip! I'll keep on practicing!
That reminds me, I have a question about turning a full sized manga coloring into an icon... usually I just flatten the image and size it down to the right size, but the lines get really pixilated... do you have any suggestions on how I could fix that problem?

[kotae]

Hm, I think the important thing is that the image you're working on is high quality.. If the lineart is too sharpened it can be a problem. For example, when I color panels from the recent Corda chapters the quality is kinda low, so I usually duplicate the image, blur it a bit then put in multiply mode. It shouldn't come out pixelated when you resize it. This works for me, hope it helps you too~ ^^

[cool_spectrum]

Ah, thanks for the tip, I'll try that! <3