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Time: 25 hours.Materials: Copic Sketch markers, white acrylic paint.
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My first K-ON! fanart 8D It's a new series that just began airing a month or so ago and I watched it out of curiosity for all its hype in Japan. I'm a sucker for anything related to music
Mio (far left) is my favorite, can't you tell? *hogs spotlight* I'm not sure what I was on when I thought that drawing broken chunks of glass and miniature music scores would be fun, because it really wasn't. Not to mention I haven't the faintest idea how to color glass, so I pretty much BS'd my way through. Artistic liberties, I say! OTL;;
Speaking of the sheet music, I actually stuck a few lines of Hatsune Miku's "Letter Song" in there. Technically you could play it...if you can decipher it. Each drawn sheet of music is approximately half the length of my thumb. Have fun 8D
My printing day for AX is coming up fast so I have to move straight on to the next drawing. Expect to see me again soon
Left to right: Mio, Tsumugi, Ritsu, Yui.
K-ON! (c) Kakifly
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This is probably one, if not the best, fanarts of K-On! that I have seen on dA. This is indeed an excellent rendition of the characters wearing their signature ED outfits in your style, especially in a traditional medium, which you already seem to have mastered long ago.
I do like the horizontal composition in this, but it looks a bit unbalanced. I think this will look better if the right side of the picture is expanded more to better balance the composition more.
I can't really make sense of the transparent plastic looking sheets that are on the ground other than the fact that it gives the characters something to sit on and making the ground plane of grass look less monotonous. They look very nice, but it just does not work out for me.
It's interesting how you used a Miku Hatsune song instead of a song from the series for the sheet musics. I guess its alright if you are really making a very nice tribute for it.
The poses and facial expressions seem fitting for the characters and their personalities. They all seem to make the characters look pretty relaxed (while listening to music), which is good.
The sky looks pretty good. The cloud formations are evidences for the goodness. I can't say much because they look good already. I don't believe adding shadows under the clouds to create a better sense of volume is not going to contribute much to this picture's improvement.
The blue roses in the cracked glass container is a nice touch. However, the roses are probably making the glass look a bit too transparent.
Overall, it is an excellent piece that has already done its job in capturing and impressing the audience with its terrific execution of subject matter. At the same time, this picture still has a little more room for improvement.
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Two things drew me to this picture. One, I am a fan of the series K-ON. Two, the little details caught my eye.
The characters are immediately recognizable as being from the series, which is always good. The colors of the characters are also spot on. I can also see why you chose to go with Mugi in long hair as the bun she has in the closing credits would have ended up blocking some of Ritsu's head.
The overall blue tone does give a sence of both lightness and calm, but I'll agree with a previous critic and say that using the same tone for the glass beneath them washes Mio's legs out. I'm certainly no expert with Copic markers so I'll say that for a first attempt at "glass" it's not entirely too bad. It seems you have the reflective technique down, but shade it too much to really give it that glassy feel. It seems it's more like granite then it is glass.
Where it isn't shaded enough, actually, is the broken glass dome with the blue rose. Around the rose itself it looks like there is glass, but there isn't enough color muting on the rose colors to make it look like it's behind glass. Probably should have gone with a red rose so that it could be shaded a little bit towards a blue tone (not to mention be a little part of the ending credits). I understand why you went with it as it's where the blue butterflys are coming from, but maybe a color shift could add some dynamics to the overall look.
I really enjoy the look of the clouds. It's very subtle and at first you don't notice the shift of the clouds into the form of butterflies. It gave me a nice "oh!" moment when I gave it all a closer look.
The work is very enjoyable to look at and I will be adding it to my favorites.
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Wonderful! Just wonderful!
I absolutely love the theme for this. In fact, I'm always a sucker for music-related themed pictures! I just have a like for them, lol e.deviantart.com/emoticons/x/x… " width="15" height="15" alt="
Firstly, I love the different shades of blue put to it! The whole picture of "blue" makes me feel rather calm and contented, and if you intended that then you have achieved it!
The characters also stand out very well! I love how you have given them their own outfits! Makes them different from each other, which is a good thing as everyone is different from one another.
The music sheets were also a great touch to the picture! It gives a more...um...music-like theme.
Love the butterflies too! e.deviantart.com/emoticons/x/x… " width="15" height="15" alt="
Excellent job with your copics as usual! Again, I hope to see more from you soon!
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I love the horizontal flow of this, It just pulls my eyes across the page.
It's wonderful how you used color in this piece, Each character has different colors, not only in hair but in clothing as well. There are similarities but differences. I love how each girl is also wearing a different expression, it adds a lot to the picture!
The butterflies, especially the music note ones, are a wonderful detail! And I think you did wonderfully on the music sheets and on the glass. It looks like glass to me. ^3^
The background is beautiful as always, you are just wonderful with the media!
One thing I would have done differently, Is on Mio and the black haired girl, Their leggings blended into the background. At first I didn't see them at all.
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K-ON! Is AWESOMe, and so are you for drawing this!
Anyways, The style of art is not entirely like K-ON!, but you still managed to pull it off!
The way you color still amazes me, using the traditional markers. Not even i can do something like this with my markers. You on the other hand, know how to put them to full use e.deviantart.com/emoticons/d/d… " width="29" height="21" alt="
It's extremely hard to pull of a background like this with markers, so my recognition goes out to you for pulling it off.
The colors used in this is great! I truly love pieces that are "Minty-blue". Cool colors to be exact e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="
Love how you got the theme of "music" too. Those music sheets, the headphones, heck, even that glass of blue roses to the left gives me the sense of music (really like how you made that glass of blue roses by the way) e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w… " width="15" height="15" alt="
But yea, overall, a 10 out of 5
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Bravo its not easy using markers I know that's what I use!
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OMG it's a fanart of K-ON~! i love it! Mio is so cute! I love the background too and the butterflys! Where's Azusa? I know she's not in the song where they sing the "don't say you r lazy" stuff but it'd be nice if she was in there as well! Then you could make up an out fit for her!
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This is amazing! I love K-On, and this looks like it literally came out of one of their episodes. Well done!
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You've earned a new fan. The only thing that bothers me is I didn't find your gallery earlier.
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A beautiful and original picture!! I love it!! *o*
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Wah, I love all your traditional Arts!!!!!Keep up the good work~^^ its been awhile since I go to DA, and looking at your art/drawings made me miss the good old times when I used copics and stuff ^^
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Thank you for putting Tsumugi's hair down. I never liked in "Don't Say Lazy" with Tsumugi's hair put in a bun.
This is an amazing piece, and I really like it because I am a fan of K-ON!
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FFFFFFFFFFFF WOW your art is crazy good!!! 
Keep up the awesome work :3
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Amazing!
I'd be looking at the sky listening to music
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Super cute and pretty, I love the overall coloring and
background along with their hair, eyes, expressions,
poses and outfits
My personal favorite is the brunette sitting to the far right,
she looks so sweet and cute and I epsecially like her pose
and expression and the smooth waving of her hair and skirt
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This is extremely gorgeous; everything is so intricately detailed. You are so AWESOME
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This is great. If it had Azusa it'd be better, but this is great.
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Wow, that is so good. Yui, Mio, Mugi, and Ritsu look adorable in this.
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i love your art so much !!!!!!!!!! you are amazing!!!!!!!!
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What episode and season are these outfits from?
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This is fantastic!
Wow! All the colors!
What type of paper do you use for your copics? It comes out so clean and looks like it doesn't bleed!
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Oh my gosh! Amazing pictures and a fan of K-on. I WORSHIP YOU. XD
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