Yay finished!
Anyway, I wanted to wall this pretty scan Fantastic Children - Helga (scan) by MapleRose , and because the
Fantastic Children gallery looks really empty and this anime needs more love.
So I asked the people at (thanks for the help guys!) what I
should make her lay on, and under the shadows of a tree got the most votes. So that's what I went with, playing
with the light effects and stuff. I'm not sure if the colours/bg is too er, happy for her expression, but candy
wanted 'moar light!' :D. I guess my interpretation is that even though she's surrounded by beauty,
she's still not happy because she's longing for something (and it sort of fits with the story/theme of
Fantastic Children actually).
Background and shadows are painted in ArtRage. ArtRage + marker tool = <33 Mini-tut on how to use the marker tool.
Since I couldn't use layers in ArtRage, I then exported the paintings and put them (and the scan) together in PSP8.
Then did some adjustments/tweaking and stuff. Finally, painted some random (and ugly) flowers in PSP8, 'cause it
felt like it needed something more...
Layers: Uh, I forget, about 10-20? But the background is painted on one layer, the shadows on the girl on another, and
the rest are adjustments and stuff.
The title, 'cause I'm lame, is from part of the lyrics of the ending theme of Fantastic Children, Mizu no
Madoromi by Origa. It means 'small flower', and can either refer to the girl (Helga), or those weird flowers
I've painted.
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