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Okay....I'm still heavily working on the Ouran High School Host Club Hikaru x Haruhi Doujinshi. I'm hoping I'll get it between Anime Expo. Note: I will be taking online order for those who can't make it to the con ^^ But I need a rough estimate of how many people are planning to buy it so I can estimate price and stuff.

If you read my fanfic http://kuruta.net/manga then you'll have an idea what it is about. It will be a two part doujinshi. (because the rest of the script isn't finished!) First part will consist of chapter 1-5 centering on Hikaru, Haruhi, and Kaoru. All host members do make appearance (whether short or long.. haha) Around 40 pages of manga and extra sketches.

My incentive for preorder is a random small HikaHaru color print perhaps ^^;;

Here is a small preview for the art style idea (still lots to do!!):
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So just leave a quick comment here if you plan on buying it.

You're not ordering it when commenting ^^ I just need a rough estimate.
I'm really determine to make my first doujinshi!! Hah. So yea, show your support ^^


Thanks!

(haha i'm copy and pasting this everywhere). I really doubt a lot would buy, so that's why i'm posting this to get an idea so I don't overprint. I'm starting to love heavy rock music...

Lately for the past few weeks my mom has been working overtime, so I ended up having to cook dinner after school (since I get out at 3pm). I am the type who hardly cook, only once in a while. So yea, I took a few photos of my dishes. I dunno how people manage to stand for hours and cook. My leg is all sore from cooking T_T;; I appreciate my mom even more, who works from 4am to 5pm and have to come home and cook.

( Food photos behind here )


On to my little Ouran doujinshi Notebook Kiss. Hehe I work on this everyday as I can. So no wonder I'm managing to finish almost to the end of the notebook! (If only I can do that for my HikaHaru doujinshi haha...*on hiatus*) There's no organization to the story and panel flow...so it's easier in a sense working directly on the pages...

( Ouran Notebook Kiss in progress )

Oh yea, I finished my annual Chinese New Year art @ DA

Okie, now I have to go work on some drawing and worry about 3D Modeling (It's sooo aggravating).

KAORUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥ ♥

(chapter getto --> ouran_host)

Now I dunno where to lean pairing wise...@_@ KaoHaru is cute.......! But...but..I like HikaHaru and KyouKao more err...yea!

Buuuu next chapter in December 22....T3T I need more Ouran!!!

Today I received my doujinshi! yaya~!!!

Fujioka Haruhi no Yuuutsu. # 1 - Beautiful printing @_@ It reminds me of wenlet's doujinshi with that very soft cg airbrush shade without using tone. I want to find a printing press like that ;O; The cover is too sparkly tho.... :-/

Host CLub Diary - The doujinshika draws a really nice Haruhi XD Not too girly (*w*)b The linework is really thin and detailed *inspired for my own doujinshi* Do doujinshika these days use digital toning? It still looks so nice....I need to practice with digital toning...

Ah the rest I got was a general Suikoden II doujin and 2 Digimon TaiKou doujinshi with an actual storyline *__* haha but lacks any kissing scenes T3T

I'm trying to see if I can request an Ouran sketch art book at Akadot...Why must it be gone already DX?!! I notice there will be an Ouran Fan Book in November? They better release it outside of the animate store T_T;;; Oh yea.... a KaoHaru Postcard? They just cropped that one picture up into separate card....still strange how they separated them.

( Talking mood....... )

I finished watching Honey and Clover season one within two days~! XD
So after feeling so inspired by the pretty color scheme and lighting effects in the anime, I immediately wanted to do something with watercolor....which I hardly touch at all XD;;;
I shall wait for the second season to end so I can watch it all at the same time.
Gah, its so hard remembering everyone's name....let see...Mayama, Hanamoto-sensei/Shuu-chan, Hagu-chan, Takemoto, Yamada, and Morita-san.

I'm kinda stuck on what to draw for my next Hikaru x Haruhi fanarts. Maybe its artist block after drawing a lot.
So I'm taking request of anything Hikaru x Haruhi. It's not going to be first come first serve. I'm going to just pick from the ideas and description that I find will motivate me. I'll give a little credit for those request I pick.
I'll post the link back here and in my deviantart/or my art site.

Thanks X3 (I post it only in my lj, cuz not much people read it anyways ahahah)

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Somehow I'm really not motivated to do anything right now T_T;; or sticking to one thing. I tried to cg Divine Fang chapter 3 cover...but I gave up quickly. And then I tried making the Digimon Path cover, but I didn't finish it either. I have to do commission for this one company, but then I couldn't really get my self to work on it. So I end up starting the redo of my Cloud and Aerith pic...and then I got distracted and watched Ouran episode instead... argh.......and that only happened within 1 hours T_T;;; Oh I still have that Ouran scan I was planing on cleaning up....

I finished my quick thumbnail pages for my HikaHaru doujinshi. It turned out to be 46 pages long!! Argh...this doesn't include pacing...so it'll be more pages. Haha... I guess I'll work on it during my school inbetween breaks ^^;;; Maybe I should separate my Hunny story and make this a HikaHaru doujinshi only. Gah, I can't imagine inking and toning right now >_>||

Somehow I can't wait for school...even tho I can't imagine how horrific it'll be with my crazy schedule. But the results of what the student are able to accompish from the Illustration program is amazing. I hope to improve there and make nicer atmospheric artwork with the buildings and perspective and crap.  Also I can't wait to learn Japanese properly!! So I can finally read my bookselfs of mangas. This semster I actually look foward to school D: (I'll probably regret saying that after it starts...)

Ah~~~~~ ヽ(＝￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣∇￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣＝)ﾉ
Now this is what summer should be about...nice weather today X3;; Not like last week with the freakin heat wave and having the fan turned on all night with no blanket wrapped around and dead breeze.

I'm working on manga lately~~~ finish toning and lettering Divine Fang.. Just need the two colored opening pages.....
Digimon I finished lettering. I wonder if I should tone that too....and I also need a color page for that too.

As for the Ouran Doujinshi I'm working on...I have 15 pages of roughs worked out for the Hikaru x Haruhi story. (i can't believe i'm actually working on it lol..never accomplished...) I'm trying to get some plot in but its hard to draw it out and have some meaning to the story -_-;;; So I went to look for some HikaHaru fics for some ideas and they are soooooooooo FREAKIN little!!!!! o(＞＜)O I totally ignore all fics that says TamakiHaruhi, twincest and etc etc pair....so yea, it was disappointing (_　_|||)

Ugh, oh well. Trying to keep in character and no smut and all too sudden stuff away. Fan Doujinshis are hard.........I need a writer lol. (or learn to right.......)

Ouu...and worst part haven't come yet...the printer. I need to find a way to make the doujinshi comes out nice clean solid lineart instead of the pixelated I've seen in other amateur (non Japanese) doujinshi.  Manga Studio (which I got free ufufu) is confusing as heck..too much tools I have no idea where to begin. When I test printed it on my laser, it didn't look that good as when I did a bitmap conversion on Photoshop.