~Miss Panda's Art Thread~

[Amissapanda]

I HAVEN'T POSTED IN THIS THREAD IN FOREVER, OMG. I'm diggin' your new style and latest artworks. You never cease to amaze me <3 I hope you're doing well! I miss seeing your pretty avatar around the forums~

Aww, thank you for stopping by! It does get kind of lonely in this thread sometimes. Hahaha. But thank you! The style is still experimental, but I will be doing more with it in the future, more than likely.

And I'm doing alright, thanks. I'm still around the forums here and there, just rather sparse save for a few specific threads or the occasional dropping by artist threads. Hope you've been doing well, too!

 

[Amissapanda]

Going LIVE with Mario Kart 8 in just a few minutes!

Here: http://www.twitch.tv/shiirahime

Hope to see you there! : )

 

[Amissapanda]

Phew. Finally going to get to post the art I spent all day on today:

REALLY proud of how this turned out. I've been playing with coloring a lot more and giving more depth, mood, and variety to my coloring patterns and shading. I think it's adding a lot more to my art and I'm really happy. I'm going to keep doing my best to improve. One of my best friends told me that they thought this is probably one of the best things I've done and that meant A LOT to me. I really am happy with it. Even the anatomy and the hands and feet that I challenged myself with turned out better than I expected. But I'm definitely going to keep gunning for improvement.

That said, I originally just planned to leave this on a plain white background, but after all the blood, sweat, and tears that I put into coloring the characters, I felt that I absolutely had to try a background. Aside from hands, that's my other nemesis. But I think it came out decently, so I'm pleased.

Oh yeah, this is also from my AU (though it could also be seen series-wise, too). Heartless!Ahiru doesn't do much for herself, so who braids her hair in the morning and takes it out of the braid for her at night? Why, her knight Rue, of course. : ) I love their friendship and bond in the series, so I'm liking that I get to explore it a bit more in this AU from a different angle. Female friendship is underrated!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy! (Amusing fun fact: When I uploaded this to tinypic, the bot code was "Friends Forever" XD)

Also here on tumblr: http://amissapanda.tumblr.com/post/103506637575/naturally-the-person-who-braids-and-un-braids

 

[Hyoshido]

but after all the blood, sweat, and tears that I put into coloring the characters, I felt that I absolutely had to try a background. Aside from hands, that's my other nemesis. But I think it came out decently, so I'm pleased.

dayum gurl you gotta get that checked out if drawing makes you bleed :<
Don't worry, I really know what you mean with that.

I feel like the Background was really needed too and damn did it come out great!
Your work is always so stunning, tell me your secrets!

 

[Shirohibiki]

oh wow, that turned out spectacularly!!!! i love it!!! youve really improved a lot, esp with your shading and the bACKGROUND IS GORGEOUS *0* you really did such a great job with that ;-; im so proud of you!!! :'3 keep up the fantastic work, i definitely love seeing this stuff!! kisses the pic adoringly

 

[Amissapanda]

dayum gurl you gotta get that checked out if drawing makes you bleed :<
Don't worry, I really know what you mean with that.

I feel like the Background was really needed too and damn did it come out great!
Your work is always so stunning, tell me your secrets!

Yep, got to be careful when drawing. A dangerous past time, indeed.

It definitely looked too bare without a background. As much time as it took, I found it worth it in the end, so I suppose that's what is important.

But thank you! My secrets are simple: Practice, Experiment, Practice some more. Rinse and repeat! The more you experiment and play with things, the more you find new and different things that you find are interesting or give the art something special or something it didn't have before.

oh wow, that turned out spectacularly!!!! i love it!!! youve really improved a lot, esp with your shading and the bACKGROUND IS GORGEOUS *0* you really did such a great job with that ;-; im so proud of you!!! :'3 keep up the fantastic work, i definitely love seeing this stuff!! kisses the pic adoringly

Thanks a loooooot~! I'm glad that you liked it and that you can see improvement! I've been working hard at it, even if I haven't posted a lot lately. As much as I shy away from backgrounds, I have to do them once in awhile if I want to get better at them.

Thanks again and I'm glad you enjoy seeing the art! It made me morning (er, afternoon, actually, since I got up late lol) to see these comments from you two. Thanks a lot!

 

[Amissapanda]

A lil' bump~ I'm working my curly cue style into chibis. I did some last night, but I haven't scanned the just yet. I might later tonight and see what you guys think of the sketches of chibis in that style.

 

[pengutango]

Haven't posted here in a lil while, but I have seen all your newer pieces you've posted. I really like the last one and the curly cue one in particular. The curly cue one, I don't think I've seen something like that before. Very interested in seeing how it looks with chibis.

 

[Amissapanda]

Haven't posted here in a lil while, but I have seen all your newer pieces you've posted. I really like the last one and the curly cue one in particular. The curly cue one, I don't think I've seen something like that before. Very interested in seeing how it looks with chibis.

Thank you! The curly cue style has been interesting to play with. To be honest, it has some small similarities to a style I tried last year for awhile. Let me see if I can find an example of it....

Here we go:

The two styles don't have MUCH in common, but it was looking over that style I tried before that I took it a step further and incorporated it much more into the drawings. I may pick and choose bits that I like from both styles for awhile to see what I like best.

 

[Amissapanda]

Curly cue chibi style~

 

[Kairi-Kitten]

Curly cue chibi style~

Oh my<3, these are beautifully done in the curly cue style I absolutely love how you manage to draw in so many varied styles, I love how expressive each style is too It's incredible to see artists who can attempt many different styles of art, absolutely lovely<3

 

[Amissapanda]

Oh my<3, these are beautifully done in the curly cue style I absolutely love how you manage to draw in so many varied styles, I love how expressive each style is too It's incredible to see artists who can attempt many different styles of art, absolutely lovely<3

Thanks so much! : ) I'm having fun exploring it, thought I'm not exactly sure what I'll do with it at this time. I might color these and see how they turn out and decide if it's something I want to play with more or not. But yeah, one thing that always bothered me was that my normal style doesn't really seem to be anything 'special' or 'different'. So I try to spice things up trying out different stuff once in awhile. Usually the styles don't stick with me, though. I'll see how far this one goes.

Thanks again!

 

[Caius]

Nice thread, great work. I'd be interested in seeing what you're capable of outside the realm of "anime" style.

 

[Amissapanda]

Nice thread, great work. I'd be interested in seeing what you're capable of outside the realm of "anime" style.

Thank you!

Haha, truth be told, I'm not really good at anything else. I intensely despise doing realism (it's not fun for me at all) and scenery, yet I'm in awe of those who do it and do it well. I have tried cartoony styles in the past, but I'm not really any good with those, either. It's a lot more difficult than it sounds to find something truly your own that's comfortable and manageable for you.

 

[Lilliee]

/peeks in.

Thank you!

Haha, truth be told, I'm not really good at anything else. I intensely despise doing realism (it's not fun for me at all) and scenery, yet I'm in awe of those who do it and do it well. I have tried cartoony styles in the past, but I'm not really any good with those, either. It's a lot more difficult than it sounds to find something truly your own that's comfortable and manageable for you.

8'D I feel you!
Especially concept art with those amazing backgrounds and details - I sit and sob at the beauty.

Usually to make myself feel better - I look at my old art. I cringe but like - it's so satisfying to see how far I've come. ; v ;

 

[Amissapanda]

/peeks in.

8'D I feel you!
Especially concept art with those amazing backgrounds and details - I sit and sob at the beauty.

Usually to make myself feel better - I look at my old art. I cringe but like - it's so satisfying to see how far I've come. ; v ;

Haha, yeah. Looking at old art can be good for a laugh sometimes, too. I used to draw so much DBZ and Sailor Moon stuff back in middle school and it looked absolutely TERRIBLE. But it gives me a good chuckle nowadays.

 

[The Hidden Owl]

Bump

 

[Kairi-Kitten]

Thanks so much! : ) I'm having fun exploring it, thought I'm not exactly sure what I'll do with it at this time. I might color these and see how they turn out and decide if it's something I want to play with more or not. But yeah, one thing that always bothered me was that my normal style doesn't really seem to be anything 'special' or 'different'. So I try to spice things up trying out different stuff once in awhile. Usually the styles don't stick with me, though. I'll see how far this one goes.

Thanks again!

Regardless of what you decide to do, they look so lovely; would be quite interesting to see how a palette of colors would look on each one : D I just appreciate all the works you've done; even the ones you call normal seem very nostalgic regarding Tutu hehe; I adore them : ) good luck on what you decide with curly cues, definitely a very great style to look at <:

 

[Shirohibiki]

Curly cue chibi style~

yELLS BECAUSE LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE OMFG
oh no oh no i love everything about them sklsdjfdsgdf
i think the hair is my favorite part, its all,,, like,,, FLOWY N STUFF ITS SO CUTE
and i love the expressions omg,,,
great work as usual dear ;v; !!!!

 

[Amissapanda]

Regardless of what you decide to do, they look so lovely; would be quite interesting to see how a palette of colors would look on each one : D I just appreciate all the works you've done; even the ones you call normal seem very nostalgic regarding Tutu hehe; I adore them : ) good luck on what you decide with curly cues, definitely a very great style to look at <:

Thank you! I'm not sure I would do palettes just for coloring little chibis, but it could be interesting down the line! Nonetheless, I'm glad that you enjoy them! I haven't done more curly-cue stuff yet, but folks on tumblr gave me a lot of ideas for OTP stuff last night, so I did a bunch of sappy romantic/silly drawings and stuff. XD

yELLS BECAUSE LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE OMFG
oh no oh no i love everything about them sklsdjfdsgdf
i think the hair is my favorite part, its all,,, like,,, FLOWY N STUFF ITS SO CUTE
and i love the expressions omg,,,
great work as usual dear ;v; !!!!

Ahhhh thank youuuu~! I'm glad you like them! I admit I tend to put some special interest in hair, but I can't resist. XD I don't know just when I'll color them yet, but hopefully down the line! (I'm just doing too much art to keep up with lately, tbh. lmao)

Thank you!