Dreams

I was only planning on taking this to an early sketch stage, but it ended up fairly clean on its own. Although it’s not colored like most of the past fanart pieces, I figured it was good enough to display with the rest of them ^^. Anyway, the theme for this time was “dreams” which had me wavering between various ideas for a while. For some bizarre reason, I wanted to do a “Lacus Clyne ninja piece” (battle kimono!), but couldn’t see how that would fit in. Then I thought maybe I will do a “Naruto pimping in his Hokage outfit” piece, but didn’t sound like much fun (the Hokage uniform is like a dumpy frock with a big hat). But yesterday, after chatting with Ender about Azumanga Daioh, I had my idea! This is hyper-genki Tomo, who dreams of being an Interpol agent. With her pseudo-Fujiko Mine (from Lupin III) skills, who’s to say she couldn’t succeed someday? I tried to draw Tomo a bit older, and a bit more sophisticated, but I wanted to give her a slightly mischievous look, too. Then I scribbled her name out with my horrible handwriting, mwahahaha.

In spite of my best efforts, some of the dark on dark in her hair kinda blends in too much. While drawing the back parts, I discovered that Tomo’s hair can be drawn in the same way a simple Christmas tree can be drawn o__O.

I spent forever looking through the episodes for the scene where Tomo declares that she wants to be in Interpol, but I couldn’t find the scene for the life of me. It must be really short, and I didn’t know where to start. Eventually I ended up rooting through Azumanga Daioh galleries, before finally finding this picture. Speaking of which, the theme for next week is “roots”.

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