Pixel Phantom Art
A review about an artist that draws stuff that makes mine looks like crap compared to her. Known as pixel phantom.
Her site can be found here . Currently she’s releasing a manga called 「エアリセ」 or ‘EARTH’, which have a beautiful cover but also awesome art inside.
“The front cover of EARTH vol 1″
Anyway the book is available at Kinokuniya and I am not sure if there are translation for it yet. Please SNATCH it when you see it ^^.
Here is one of the cg she did which is Vita-chan. Anyway the original Nico-video link can be found on her site on how she did it. I’ve also linked it here.
CG Phase
I believe that the program she used is Photoshop CS3. One unique thing about her art is the way she cg the hair. Most of the time her character’s hair is always shine from beneath so to create a more unique glow and soft look. Of cos she play around with colors a lot like the hair from the top purple to red and then to yellow. In this way the cg won’t look ‘boring’ but instead it looks striking and colorful. The colors she used are also very vibrant and high saturation. As you can see from the video she did a lot of color balance to make sure the colors fit. To do CG like her, you need to know that to do shading for a hair is not using darker or lighter colors all the time, but also need to mutate the color a bit so it will look different than other regular cg.
March 27th, 2008 at 15:00
good lord! i didn’t know that was her art! XD I saw that Vita colouring a while back. Good shit!
March 27th, 2008 at 15:52
Wow. So… I take this to mean that she drew that Touhou erodoujin of Youmu x Reisen, too?
March 27th, 2008 at 17:37
@Owen
Sorry I’m not sure..
March 27th, 2008 at 22:30
And spreading pixel phantom love! :3
Owen> Yep, he/she did.
March 28th, 2008 at 0:13
Damn, I need to learn how to draw stuff like that.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:08
Good shit indeed.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:37
umehiko: Awesome, thanks for the info.
April 1st, 2008 at 14:20
Time to install my CS3 and take pokes around.
September 20th, 2008 at 11:59
Nope, definitely not ps3, seems more like comic studio. Anyway, thanks! She’s now my favorite artist! (trampled all over fancy fantasia, KEI, and maki chitose)
September 20th, 2008 at 14:41
It’s a “He” actually
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:58
He? That would explain the fanservice, but….how can something that was drawn by a guy be THAT cute? No, I won’t accept it!
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So it’s a he, huh…
September 27th, 2008 at 12:36
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