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For gundamseed-angels's Picnic battle contest.

I love this scan when I saw it (it's been a while since I liked the new GS/D scans.... ), and I remembered seeing a scan of the boys that kinda goes with this one. Since GSA's contest was going on, I decided that I want to do this wall.

Didn't want to do cell-shading, so I coloured this the way I usually colour my doujinshi (with some new experimentations), with watercolour and airbrush in openCanvas.

This took about 3 nights, about 18 layers. Hair was most fun. Ocean and beach drawn with reference in the boys' scan. Clouds are drawn from scratch. I thought it'd be too weird for the boys to wear pants and running shoes on the beach, so I gave them shorts and sandals, cept I suck at drawing feet and legs and designing clothes (esp for boys) DX Athrun's holding that blanket thing (it used to be his coat xD) because I didn't want to draw his hand ^^; Changed the boys' eyes a bit 'cause I didn't like the eye style in the scan. Some minor colour changes here and there (esp for Athrun's clothes.. I swear, he sucks at choosing colour for his clothes, although Kira's not much better xD)

Cagalli: *thinks* When Athrun gets closer, I'm gonna squirt him with my gun >D
Athrun: *thinks* When I get close enough, I'm gonna attack Cagalli with this blanket >D
Kira: *stares and thinks* Mmm... frills
Lacus: *thinks* I love the beach

Wacom Graphire 4, openCanvas 4.06

gundamseed-angels paint-o-rama celestial-luminesse

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Comments

  1. toumarie Aug 14, 2008

    YAY! I'm the first ^^
    Good idea! hahahaha...
    Fave ^^

  2. moonescape Aug 14, 2008

    You knew it just had to be done. XD I'm glad you did though. And really liked the idea of combining the two scans together. they realyl fit. o.o um, not much to say, but well done ^^

  3. ShanaFlare Aug 14, 2008

    this wallpaper is amazing! :)

  4. JCzala Aug 14, 2008

    The combination is great. Wonderful work yet again. It's an amazing wallpaper. I like the way you colored here. The style works well with the whole pic, not to mention that it makes it more realistic and appealing. Athrun's legs are kinda funny though. Anyway, this is a refreshing wallpaper. I wish you added some sun.

  5. YENESIS Aug 15, 2008

    ohh jeanil konwawa super! nice wallpaper!

  6. x-lawss Aug 15, 2008

    It have been a long time i saw you Gundam wallpaper XD
    Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

  7. ASH-Hikari Aug 15, 2008

    Wonderful! I just love your painting >.< Athrun and Kira's outfits look a bit plain compared to the girls (normally I'd find that normal, but those two can be kind of girly XD) Either way it's great, and having an entry for the contest is also great >.<

  8. LoveBug Aug 17, 2008

    Pretty~~~! I love it!

  9. xKai Aug 17, 2008

    The scene is lovely XD the way you manage to change the clothes of kira and athrun to suit the girls is very impressive =D

  10. audeaya Aug 18, 2008

    Great work maple-san!
    I like it and your ideau to regroup the 2 scans ^^
    Iit's very pretty with you color and your painting!
    Thanks for sharing your work miss!
    See you soon my friend ;)

    PS : Captain and Commander ForeEver XD

  11. SAKURAZERO Aug 21, 2008

    Wow~ so cute >w<~!

    I like your idea xD~ ,good luck for the contest ^-^

  12. saphira0589 Aug 24, 2008

    Lovely work!

    Haha, the guys never seem to know how to pick their clothes... XD

  13. MyrrhLynn Sep 30, 2008

    Wow I thought I recognized the boy's pose, I'm in awe that you were able to transform them into beach outfits. Nice work!

    And ROTFL, you totally made me LOL at the internal character thoughts at the end of your description. XD

  14. sasuke987 Mute Member 37wk 5d ago

    wow u drew that thats asom

  15. OliDamager 33wk 6d ago

    nice work

    merged: 04-08-2009 ~ 09:50pm
    wow this is pretty good

  16. LastClyne 3wk 1d ago

    So beautiful
    thank you for sharing
    >_<

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