Well it's been over a month since Letty has anytime to drop by at Schwer and Schwer Alike while dealing with his own personal issues. So far we have yet to hear any news coming from him or anyone else in this blog regarding his situation. So with that, all I can say to that is please keep Letty in your thoughts and prayers. God willing he needs all the support he can get from the rest of us... Another thing I'd like to add is that we're a long ways away from the eventual release of Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~ at summer Comiket. Either that, or more unfortunate events towards [erka:es] that will cause them to miss out on summer Comiket, and many fans will be forced to wait even longer until winter.
Now as for the deviantArt section of the Rosenkreuzstilette's English fanbase: I really hate to say this, but through Letty's point of view, I'm not seeing any improvements that's going to change deviantArt's already terrible reputation of "bad" Rosenkreuzstilette fan-art (i.e. steohen2's terrible attempt of making Trauare Wrede). Finding any that's particularly any good is just as Letty said in a previous blog post, "digging through the rough". An example of any recent fan-art of Rosenkreuzstilette that I would consider to be good is this rather cute artwork of Freudia Neuwahl by Yami-Mizore. Have a look.
I get the feeling that deviantArt is never going to have its share of quality fan-art for Rosenkreuzstilette, such as this artwork of Patchouli Knowledge from the Touhou Project, anytime soon. Probably not in decades. And I'd like to blame on past events committed against the Rosenkreuzstilette fandom (both English and Japanese) and [erka:es]. I, unfortunately, am going through some artist problems myself; the lack of motivation steaming from my frustration of my already sucky artistic talents as it is has prevented me from picking the pencil and trying to do something.
Speaking of Touhou, I'd like to introduce the readers, Touhou fans and 4koma fans of Schwer and Schwer Alike to something that will keep them busy for a while until Letty's return. I enjoy this this 4koma series very much. To all Schwer and Schwer Alike readers: I would to introduce to you all to colonel_aki's Touhou ~ Life of Maid.
For those who don't know about this 4koma series, Touhou ~ Life of Maid is a 4koma series that centers the daily lives of the Scarlet Devil Mansion residence (Remilia and Flandre Scarlet, Patchouli Knowledge, Sakuya Izayoi, Hong Meiling) with other characters from the Touhou series. I consider this to be "the Lucky Star of Touhou 4komas"; colonel_aki combines a cute art-style with very witty humor that's guaranteed to bring a smile on the reader's face. A lot of the humor comes from the fannon-related stuff that the Touhou series is known for, such as Yuyuko being a glutton and Patchouli being an otaku. But when colonel_aki makes Patchouli into an otaku, there no words to describe it.
There's also some suggestive humor in this 4koma series (such as PAD jokes and Sakuya's insecurities of her lack of bust size, because Sakuya is actually flat or small-chested in the Touhou series) and some references to video games and anime that you'd expect to see from Lucky Star made in Touhou ~ Life of Maid. And the beauty of it all is that there is no actual dialogue, but the readers can grasp what's going on in the 4komas that even English readers will have a laugh of what's going on. This is a 4koma that I highly recommend for 4koma fans and Touhou fans to check out.
You can read this 4koma series at colonel_aki's pixiv page (which he also has other artworks that's worth checking out, such as his Lucky Star fan-art and you can see where his inspiration comes from), or this collection dedicated to Touhou ~ Life of Maid here at Danbooru. Be warned though, Danbooru has NSFW ads for h-games and perverted merchandises from the J-List. You have been warned. While I'm on the subject of Touhou ~ Life of Maid, KamiNekoYu of YouTube has created an animated version of the 4koma series, granted they're not in chronological order of the 4komas.
Well this is ViperAcidZX crawling back into his hole, counting down the days until Sin and Punishment: Star Successor arrives to the United States...
P.S. If anyone at deviantArt was offended by my earlier comments, I do not intend to offend anybody (except for steohen2 and his "Trauare") and I apologize for it. But if you insist in pointing your rage at someone, please directed it towards me. Thank you.
Well, I'm happy to say Letty's still in my thoughts and prayers. While I have seen him on Twitter, he hasn't been doing much outside that site lately. Let's hope he's back with the contest results soon...
ReplyDeleteAbout deviantART, I was thinking of commissioning in the future, some of my favorite artists, including the well-known GENZOMAN and a few others I just adore into drawing RKS-releaed fanart. And if it's going to make things any better, I recently asked Steohen2 to remove those four absolutely horrible RKS artworks. But I'm sure we can do something else about it so deviantART has similar quality lines to pixiv. (the best thing, in my opinion is to round up all the good RKS artists from pixiv and have them create accounts and submit their artwork onto dA. I guarantee it won't happen anytime soon, as they don't have knowdledge of the English language, but that's just what I think would do best for dA.)
Viper, I want you to remember that I am in full support of you, and your artwork. I just want to be great friends with you, just like with Gondile and KidIcarusAnime. Sure I have done some terrible things you may never forget, but remember, I'm willing to do anything to impress you, whenever it's via art, conversations, or create.swf comics, I just want you to enjoy having me around, even if I never got to live some of the grand dreams that you did. (breaking a world record in The World Ends With You, and becoming a blog writer of SaSA, just to name a few.)
Oh, and did anyone notice that comment I left in TDOMMX's last post?
It looks like I'll have to learn how to colour digitally, because traditional materials just don't come out as well on deviantART.
ReplyDelete@Justin:
ReplyDeleteIf you're that committed to repair dA's image of RKS fan-art, then you better start asking the artist that you asked to make SuperCrapin and other terrible RKS art (such as these that I found) off dA.
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@ShivaDF:
What's wrong with traditional mediums (pencil, brush, etc.)? If Akira-Hikari can pull off something like this with color pencils, then someone else, that includes you, can learn to do great stuff with even the simplest of artistic mediums, too.
@Viper:
ReplyDeleteWell, you're in luck.
I just recently contacted everyone on dA that I had asked to do SJ fanart, and asked each and every single one of them to remove their "fanart" from their galleries. If any of them refuse, I'll be sure to give them the full story of why they have to remove it.
@Viper
ReplyDeleteWell, usually when I post colour-pencil art, the scanner washes out the colours and makes it look terrible, even with colour-correction. I can tell Akira probably put 3 layers of colour on his art, and that is not how I like to colour.
I guess I could try doing thick inks and then adding prismacolor markers that I now love to use.
RKS is a lot younger than Touhou, and erka:es it has only released one game so far...
ReplyDeleteSo the artworks can't be as good as Touhou's, the best artist may probably haven't heard of it yet.
Let it take some time to be as acknoledged as some famous franchises, and it's also up to us to make it more known throught forums and so on... ;-)
Uhh... Bad news everyone.
ReplyDeleteTwo of the deviants that I've contacted, ThreeCatsina-Cellar and Hellmuffin, have refused to take down their Super Retarded "fanart", and some haven't taken any action at all, and one deviant put theirs right back up only a few days after I had asked him to take it down. DX
@Justin:
ReplyDeleteFor the ones that didn't take action into remove the SuperCrap pictures, either A) they haven't respond to request to take it down, or B) because they worked on that should have never been made they simply refuse to take it down.