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lilserenity · #1 Post by **lilserenity** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:44 am

Hello,

Well it took 24 hours worth of work from the pencil outline i scanned to this...

Sohryu Asuka Langley - from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Eva 02 pilot.

[censored] I'm gonna miss this T23 when its sold. Just hope I love the T40 as much, not least for SXGA+, wow, that will make using Pshop easier than it is in XGA!

Vicky x

budder · #2 Post by **budder** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:02 am

I'm just disappointed that you didn't pick Rei. Nice work, though!

lilserenity · #3 Post by **lilserenity** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:20 am

Well, Asuka is something of a well not idol to me, but I really like her, she reminds me of me (although I don't have as much of a front

) and I just think she's a [censored] cool feisty [censored],

Keep an eye on my website as some cool things with regard to manga/anime and esp. Evangelion will go on there.

Also why Rei?

But then many would say the same for Asuka

Vicky

#4 Post by **BillMorrow** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:33 am

graphic honey was cute..

what is this stuff..??

lilserenity · #5 Post by **lilserenity** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:37 am

This stuff is Manga, a form of cartoon drawing that has come out of Japan and can be traced back to 1917.

I think it's a wonderful medium of illustration, it has certain properties that just draw me into it.

Anyway this is Sohryu Asuka Langley, from the 1995 epic Neon Genesis Evangelion. Anybody who has seen Evangelion all the way through will ratify that the notions that it presents are very deep and philosophical. Basically it's about the future of humankind, and who really is our worst enemy?

Asuka is the pilot of EVA 02, one of the Evangelion bio-robots designed to combat the Angels which come to earth to terrorise the human population. Or do they.....?

http://www.lilserenity.dynalias.com:8080/dvd.php - reviews there.

Vicky

#6 Post by **BillMorrow** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 9:02 am

thanks for the info..

this is what i mean when i say that some young people amaze and some appall..
from your web site you fall into the amazing category..

lilserenity · #7 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:11 am

Oh you make me blush

I suppose I try my best, it's not easy though being a undegraduate student, a deputy manager in my workplace, and doing an extra course for childcare, oh that and I run my website on my server, and enjoy my artwork, writing...

I tend to make good use of the time we are given in life.

Vicky xx

G-Man · #8 Post by **G-Man** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:35 pm

Vicky,

The website looks great. Congratulations! What's up with your new child (T40)? When will you get it?

Keep up the good work!

Regards,
G-Man

lilserenity · #9 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:54 pm

Hey GMan!

Thanks for the compliments on the website, its a design that I like too, seems to work nicely (so long as you have XGA but using 800x600 should be made criminal, just kidding

).

As for the T40, well I am still here plodding, well zipping along in all truthfulness with my T23 as I am still in England, and don't fly out to Chicago for 4 weeks yet. The payment for the T40 has been made, cleared and the T40 should be shipped tomorrow to the shipping address.

All being well of course

That and I have to sell the T23 before I leave for the USA, so long as the market price is good, chances are I could hang on to it until Christmas and catch the rush then. (i sold a 570E for £330 last Xmas. hehehe

) There again I don't want a situation like there is with T21s presently, corporations dumping them at ludicrous prices so the market is saturated.

it'll be the 7th of July until I am united with a brand new T40, mmmm looking forward to using photoshop in SXGA

Working on a new picture of Asuka and Shinji right now

http://www.lilserenity.dynalias.com:808 ... ept001.jpg

(bottom left the bigger sketch, getting Asuka just right) Just gotta work on Shinji now, then do the proper inked outline, followed by taking it into photoshop and working on it for a few days to get the result I had with the one of Asuka in her plug suit.

However, using Photoshop in XGA on the T23 has been actually OK, as I say, rather impressed with what the Savage 16mb chip can do. Certainly not thinking "Hell I want my T40!". But the T40 will be welcomed greatly, if only for more screen space.

Vicky

lilserenity · #10 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 4:20 pm

http://www.lilserenity.dynalias.com:808 ... ept002.jpg

Shinji Ikaru.

Mostly got him done easily but something wrong with it, I think the eyes are wee bit too big, the fringe too long and need a little more width and pointedness on the chin.

Still not bad for a 10 min sketch to try it out, and I am not used to drawing male characters in manga form. Still this pic should work out nicely.

Think I'll call it 'nisen san jjuu go' (2015)...

#11 Post by **BillMorrow** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 4:52 pm

what IS a plug suit..?

can i post that pic on thinkpads.com in the old section of what do we DO with our thinkpads..?

or perhaps some of your other work..?

it seems that as time goes by there is more and more i know nothing about..

lilserenity · #12 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:20 pm

morrow wrote:what IS a plug suit..?

Plug suit. Ok... breathe in...

The series Neon Genesis Evangelion features to start with, Angels - who appear to be attacking humankind... However, after the Second Impact (in 2001, when the Angels first came, Adam and Lilith) which melted the Antarctic continent, a new project emerged, under Project-E.

E for Evangelion. (Greek I believe for Bringer of Good News)

From this 3 massive bio-robots were created, the Evangelions. Only 14 year old children can syncronise with the Eva's, syncronising meaning controlling them. The children enter the Evangelions via something called a 'plug' - essentially a big tube in which they sit, which is filled with something called LCL fluid - this enables the electronic pulses of the brain to be transmitted to the Evangelion and thus be controlled through syncronisation of the mind and the Evangelion i.e.: you thrust your right arm out, the Eva's right arm is thrusted out.

The Plug Suit is necessary to protect the child (be it Rei, Asuka, or Shinji mainly) from the electronic pulses in the LCL fluid, and hence the name Plug Suit - a suit worn in the plug module...

Hope this makes relative sense.

Basically, watching the series will immensely help as it is in my mind the quintissential Anime flick, with such deep and disturbing notions being put forward, and the ultimate question of humankind's future.

I won't go off on one any more

morrow wrote:can i post that pic on thinkpads.com in the old section of what do we DO with our thinkpads..?

or perhaps some of your other work..?

Sure, basically anything I do that comes from a computer is done on my ThinkPads (a 560X, 560Z and the T23, soon T40), they are the only computers I own and desire to own, too many laptop systems leave me frustrated with no desire to work or be creative, the ThinkPad however draws me in and allows me to express my inspiration.

The website of mine itself is hosted on my ThinkPad 560Z, the site is written on a ThinkPad, the PHP code is written and ran on a ThinkPad etc., so please browse around and find what you will, that pic is one of my best CG pics though that I have done, and I shall post the one that I am working on now when it is finished

morrow wrote:it seems that as time goes by there is more and more i know nothing about..

One can never know about everything in life, but the key is to know enough about what you need to know in life...

Vicky xxx
(Philisophical mood evidently

)

#13 Post by **erik** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:30 pm

lilserenity wrote:Think I'll call it 'nisen san jjuu go' (2015)...

actually, the year 2015 is written 'nisen juu go nen.' "nisen san juu go" translates to mean "mr. year 2000" and the number "15."

ninen kan nihongo wa daigaku wo benkyou shimashita.

-erik

lilserenity · #14 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:36 pm

Hahaha.

*hunts down her Japanese tutor*

Gonna get him for this...

Vicky

*quiet footsteps.... *CRACK* .....that ought to do it. *slides whip back into bag* Mr. year 2000 and the number 15 indeed...*

lilserenity · #15 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:40 pm

Oh btw, I'll be in your neck of the woods flatdraft soon.

In Chicago that is

7th Jul-11th Aug.

Fancy giving a hopeless South Eastern English bird some decent Japanese lessons

Vicky

#16 Post by **erik** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:43 pm

lol, i got a good kick out of reading about 'mr. year 2000' and his sidekick, '#15.'

back on topic... do you know how to use adobe illustrator? if not, then your pencil-sketch drawings would be the perfect canvases to outline in bezier curves and output in pure, vector format. it would put you ahead of the game if you ever decide to go into c/g design full-time.

-erik

#17 Post by **erik** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:48 pm

lilserenity wrote:Fancy giving a hopeless South Eastern English bird some decent Japanese lessons

haha... my japanese is very, very rusty. but, i think that's beside the point. lol

-erik

[note: edited for grammar, lol]

lilserenity · #18 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:49 pm

Well, I barely afforded to purchase Photoshop 6.0 a couple of years ago, and I am quite happy doing the ink outlines and then colouring, using Illustrator at least to start with would leave me skint and secondly, hamper progress, that said - definitely would put me ahead of the game.

But I'm not headed for CG work, headed towards university lecturing, once I have done my degree, it's a PhD for me... and everything else there after...

Vicky

lilserenity · #19 Post by **lilserenity** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:50 pm

flatdraft wrote:
lilserenity wrote:Fancy giving a hopeless South Eastern English bird some decent Japanese lessons
haha... my japanese is very, very rusty. but, i think that's besides the point. lol

-erik

Evidently not as bad as mine! hehe. This is *just* what happens when I try to be lil clever

hehehe

Vicky

#20 Post by **erik** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 6:41 pm

lol

-erik

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