Comments | lyschan: Happy September!

lyschan

Happy September!

Sep 01, 2009 18:44

Did you think I forgot? Ha! I did not forget. Here is more daily-fashion-with-lys!!

( saturday through tuesday. hey, like the first of these posts i did! )

miyazaki, sleep, daily fashion, family, art, movies, flowers, food, kayli

Comments 9

double_dear September 1 2009, 23:23:41 UTC

Bwahaha! Flower 'Ranger. That's awesome. It sounds like an interesting idea for an anime/manga. Like a competition type thing about ikebana. They have a competition thing about bread, so why not flowers?

The left one for Aug.31 is extra adorable!

Your complaining about painting reminds me of the manga artist for Happy Cafe. She has a little column about how she hates coloring, and she even drew a little picture of when this fact first came to light in elementary school. So cute.

A book would be cute in color or just in black and white. They sell a bunch of artbooks in Japan that are just character roughs and line drawings. A Saiyuki one just came out, and Kinokuniya's selling it for almost $30.

lyschan September 2 2009, 00:04:28 UTC

Hahaha. I originally wanted a more sentai-type pose for that one but the girliness won over. I think there's some ikebana/flower arrangement competition in the manga Zig*Zag... (but that series isn't very action-oriented.)

Thanks!!

Aww, I do like painting in general! And I love choosing colours. I think I've read things like that from other mangaka too, though... maybe that's why they choose to do black/white manga, rather than being book illustrators or something else?

If only I was famous like Saiyuki, I could probably get away with an expensive artbook!! Haha, but we'll see! It would be fun to publish a book of something like this.

alex_andrews September 2 2009, 00:58:40 UTC

I think that just the occasional color picture would be nice in a book like that. I really like your coloring but also the sketches have their own charm to them.

lyschan September 3 2009, 02:23:58 UTC

Hmm, interesting. Yeah, I could see where colour might be distracting in some cases. I guess I'm just thinking as the one wearing the clothes I draw, and how a big part of my choices is the colour combinations, and that can be hard to visualize. Ooh, it'd be really cool if I could have like a vellum overlay of the colours over the plain sketch. Haha, entirely unrealistic though...

Thanks for the thoughts :D

alex_andrews September 3 2009, 19:44:02 UTC

Should I know what vellum is? Or is that something that comes up more in art school? Anyway, I will assume you mean doing the colors on some kinda translucent medium, which... would be cool!

I don't really even find it unrealistic, although I don't know much about printing related economics. Might be something worth prototyping to see if you like it? And if you want I would buy the test book even it it was really expensive, because, how cool would that be to have a one of a kind item like that! Although you'd probably wanna keep it, so hopefully it would be doable.

Anyway, there are some more thoughts to be thankful for. Or you can spit on them! (though its not very lady-like... still the notion is amusing).

lyschan September 3 2009, 20:10:59 UTC

GASP you don't know what vellum is??? Yes, it's basically a translucent paper. A little heavier than tracing paper, and can have ink/colours printed on it. If I were to market this idea to a major publisher and they really liked it and expected it to sell (aka if I was famous and the entire world was desperate for more lys-art), it might be possible to do vellum overlays... but otherwise, I think the colour ink + nonstandard assembly of the pages would make it too expensive. Another option would be to treat it as an optional colouring book and let people imagine their own colours! Whee!!

Ew, no spit. Spit is gross.

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brand0nius September 2 2009, 16:22:44 UTC

I think I agree with the comment above, that a mostly black and white with occasional colored pictures would be good. Anyway, a book in general would be pretty awesome! It'd be like your own personal fashion magazine, and it would also justify you buying more clothes, which I can't imagine you'd be too upset about.

I think if you want to do this you should start at New Year's, though. It would make more sense than starting sometime mid-September, maybe? But maybe it wouldn't, I don't know!

lyschan September 3 2009, 02:26:21 UTC

Hee! I admit I would enjoy an excuse to buy more clothes. The problem is finding the space to store them all. My drawers and closet are stuffed as it is! It's tragic!

Hmm, you may be right about starting at the beginning of the year. Or maybe it's okay like this. I'll have to keep thinking about it. Either way, if I can keep up doing this through January, I can probably keep it up for another whole year!