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cob27alt asked: Why do some of the characters wear clothes and others don't ? OuO

It optional in aminal world! O:

Inspired watching #1

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) & Adolescence of Utena (1999)

Episode count: 39 & 1 film

Originally posted by vicisgone

A young girl, who met a prince when she was very young, was given a ring by him so that they may meet again one day. The girl was so impressed by him that she decided to try and be a prince herself, one day.

The girl, Utena Tenjou then attends Othori Academy, in masculine prince-inspired attire and and still carrying the prince’s ring, and meets a quiet and strange girl named Anthy Himemiya, who is getting bullied and abused by other students. Seeing this, Utena then challenges the opposing students to a series of duels to protect Anthy, who is also known as the “rose bride”while there are talks about a mysterious power to “revolutionize the world"…

With it’s excellent character design, breaking down barriers of gender roles and human sexuality, a great and diverse soundtrack, with some stunning visuals and iconography, Utena wasn’t anything I expected, but that was a good thing. It kept me intrigued and I really had no idea where the show would go, making me want to watch more.

Utena is very much a strange show with many quirky and comedic moments that make it stand out, while also having mature romantic and psychological themes which helps make it a show that is not overtly dramatic, but also not putting comedic moments in inappropriate areas either.

The show is also a wonderful re-imagining/deconstruction of the magical girl genre, placing it in a fairy-tale inspired setting with the usual tropes of transformation, magic, and feminine roles warped and with psychological themes discussed in the show as well. It really is a show that you have to really pay close attention to though as the story progresses.

I really loved the artwork, the imagery, and the relationship between Utena and Anthy, and some of that inspired the comic’s artwork and some of the characters as well, but more on art ^w^ .

Originally posted by lucyharai

The Adolescence of Utena movie has left fans mixed, but I personally loved it.

Important things to note for the movie! This is a completely alternate retelling to the series, and resolves around a specific theme that is told almost entirely by symbolism, but even though this is an alternate retelling, it is still good to watch the show first before the movie, if you are interested in it.

That’s all I have to say, hope this was interesting :3

Entire series is on YOUTUBE and HULU, and the movie is on HULU as well.

Huh, still realized that I never did that shows-that-inspired-comic recommendation thingy, will do that soon!

cob27alt asked: Have you ever seen "The wind rises " ? I know ghibli is mainstream anime but its one of the more beautiful movies with incredible art

I saw it in theaters ! :3

The art was amazing >w<

Anonymous asked: Got any practicing tips? Got a friends that been drawing for a while but went into a depressive slump for a long white and stopped drawing. They are drawing again but feel like they aren't getting any better and seems about ready to give up again.

Hmmm, well generally speaking for any form of art, one thing I think helps me the most is to look back at the artwork I like and inspires me, they should ask themselves what art styles do they like? What pictures do they want to replicate in style and quality?

So what I do, is that I look at artwork or art styles I ADORE and love so much, that I actually take physical notes on how they specifically did their art so I can try and replicate it, so I’ll bring up some quick examples:

(From ‘Adolescence of Utena’) DRAWING STYLE:

• So the artist draws these characters with large, beady, but very detailed eyes.
• There is no actual pupil in her eyes, but the shading in the top part of her iris creates the illusion of one existing.
• Her mouth isn’t made up of one continuous line, but if you look closely, it’s made up of three separate spaced lines drawn in a way to create the look of a lip.
• The nose is low and very close to the mouth, the neck is thin, and the hair is relatively straight, but slightly wavy with a few strands hanging out.

Now, another picture, (From Pixiv [SOURCE]) COLORING/PAINTING STYLE:

• The whole color palette is uses many colors, but the colors themselves are not very bright or colorful, leaning towards more grey tones.
  
• Completely white background suggests bright lighting behind our subjects, I can see this when I look at their hair and the brighter it gets when it faces the background.
• I noticed that there’s really little shading at all, or at least hard, contrasting shading.
  
• There’s also little contrast in any shading that is made, making a soft-looking image.
• Actually little detail when it comes to the bodies and faces, most of that goes towards the hair, and any significant detail made on their bodies goes to the light shading when it comes to Madoka’s (pink haired girl) shirt

I could go on, but hat’s what helps me when I’m composing an image, and I can use this for manga, physical sculptures, or any type of painting, and I can apply this to whatever I’m working on.

Also another thing, a cartoonist I admire, Arin Hanson (hello Game Grumps fans :v) talked about the ‘Don’t break the chain’ technique, basically what you do is just draw everyday, don’t break that chain.

It doesn’t have to be a detailed super great drawing, but you just have to draw something every day, smiley face, flower, sun, landscape, anything, and that will hopefully create an incentive where you won’t quit.

This helps me, and I really hope it helps your friends too ^^