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Another crazy anime related idea I couldn't suppress. This was probably sparked from an article Lindsay showed me about Taichi Takashita, and his online campaign to establish a law permitting marriage to fictional characters.

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Regardless of my feelings on this very important matter, it got me thinking about a picture combining a 2d cel-style character with a realistically painted character.

"It might create an interesting juxtaposition." I thought.

Initial image concept: “The image is composed like American Gothic, except with two people outside of a modern Japanese house or apartment community. The male character is a realistic looking guy, drawn in a photorealistic style. I'm not sure if I want him to look flattering, ugly, or average. I suppose he should be the type of guy who would marry an anime character. The female character is drawn in a generic anime style, and painted like an animation cel. She has a baby in her arms, drawn in a semi-manga style and colored with soft shading. The background art looks like a colorized manga panel, that is to say, it looks like a rotoscoped photo with screen tone. Add a color wash overtop to finish, but don't paint the bg.”

To get the background shot, I ended up having to do extensive photo research. I walked the streets of Tokyo on Google Earth for several hours collecting reference shots of buildings. Since I didn't own any of these photos and none of them where from the proper angle, I ended up drawing the background from scratch. It took the better part of a night, but it integrated into the picture far better than a manga-style photo trace would have.

I tried to echo contextual and textural elements from American Gothic throughout the image, like the patterning on the schoolgirl uniform. See if you can find everything. :)

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Characters sketched on 11”x14” Strathmore Series 400 Drawing paper. Background sketched on a 9x12 Strathmore Series 400 Sketch paper. Image finalized and painted in Photoshop CS 2. 2d character line art inked in Paint Tool SAI. About a week from concept to completion.


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~Neoconvoy Dec 25, 2011  Student General Artist
Great work!

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*Namine-Fatale Apr 20, 2011  Student General Artist
This is really cute. Love your insight!

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Désolé pour mon mauvais français!
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~Cindi-Khieu Apr 7, 2011
...I love you. Even if you aren't fictional. :)
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~masukangin Mar 15, 2011
nice picture....!!
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~Keiitan Feb 26, 2011  Student Writer
How lonely do you have to be to marry a FICTIONAL CHARACTER?!
I mean, yeah. I'm obsessed with some characters, but not enough to MARRY THEM!

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~saya93 Feb 6, 2011   Digital Artist
ahah. EPIC

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~KittyEaredFreak Jan 18, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
You broke my brain. WIN.

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~dagger3000 Jan 16, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Nicely done. I love the way the styles sort of class together and show that there isn't really such a thing as average. I also decided to use the image at my blog, which you can access below. it will be in the 1/17/2011 article entitled "Anarchy for the Common Man."

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~RomanceForYou Nov 10, 2010
Absolutely amazing. ^_^
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~SkullsandSilhouettes Jul 4, 2010
I like it. Haha.
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