BERSERK PANELS

Just a few panels from the Berserk manga I colored years ago with copics. I still like them enough to post somewhere besides my mostly defunct Berserk tumblr.

 

 

This last one looks strange because I used a posterization effect, otherwise the coloring is "real".

It vexes me to no end that they've made it difficult to make decent looking image posts here, as in, to align them side-by-side it's nearly impossible. Visually I will loathe how this blog will look, but I must keep struggling.

I have a lot more, I am not sure where they are unfortunately! It's so disappointing to lose digital files over multiple computers. I have the original colorings somewhere, but again, I don't know where some went. 

This next one is massive irl (for me, at least- it's probably the largest thing I ever colored). I printed the manga panel onto art paper, I -think- it's 12"x18". I photographed it at multiple times during the coloring process.

 

This was a really fun project tho, and ultimately I like the process coloring more than the end result. The whole thing took many many hours and I colored the hair pretty impulsively (if that's not obvious lmao). I added black outlines with a brush pen & white stray hairs with a gel pen at the end. Glitter on the lips ofc. This was scary to work on tbh!! It was so beautiful and magnificent and huge irl that I was scared to completely butcher it. I still have it, but I don't know what to do with it.

This goes without saying but all the manga panels on this page were drawn by Kentaro Miura, may he rest in peace. Sorely missed.

THE FINE ART OF YOUTUBE THUMBNAILERY

I so often laugh out loud at YT thumbnails that I thought I'd compile some. Unfortunately I haven't saved any from before this very day (July 2, 2024), but a few today sparked this obviously brilliant idea. I think I'll make this into something I regularly post about so I don't have a folder full of thumbnails that I might eventually lose interest in or forget about 🤔

Up for today's consideration; I Am Rob and Tragienie (these links open in a new window and go to their YT pages). These are two of my more recent favorite YT gamers, they're both so funny and it's nice to stream them while knitting or making art. I love their over the top thumbnails, tbh I doubt I'd've clicked on their videos if not for their ridiculous thumbnails.

Rob fighting for his life! 😔

I nearly Platinum'd RDR2 but I don't have friends that would help me get the online shit, lmao. Other than that, I'd have it!!! This is a miniature tangent I guess but I've put 1200 earth hours into that goddamned game, I deserve trophies imo >:( ANYHOW, Rob is hilarious and very fun to watch play games and I recommend giving his channels a shot if you like watching this sort of shit.

Here we have Tragie- oh god, he's so funny. I love watching his videos, would love to catch a live sometime. His acting skills, his subtlety, the faces he pulls during moments of scheming or ridiculousness, just perfection ... no other streamer has made me laugh so consistently with their silent deviousness alone. Here is just a sampling;

Apologies for using only left-oriented faces, the dang timer obscures the greatness.

 

 

Oh right, there's a bonus entry to this post; grumpy artist. What a cool guy, I love his work. He's a painter who shares his process, often multiple times a day in short chunks and there's something about his thumbnails that I love. I hesitate to say they're funny because I don't think it's entirely on purpose, though he IS very funny sometimes so maybe he does find it humorous to some extent.

 

Not only are his videos educational and have a nice vibe, his work is incredible??? He only has 2k subscribers at this point and I can see him going far with this, he's very consistent (currently he's uploaded 1.1k videos) along with incredible skill & content. His ability to find shadow shapes and silhouettes out of seemingly nowhere is astounding to me. I'm very grateful for his uploads.
 

I don't have anything more to add to this for now, and dealing with blogger's annoying placement of things is making me a little insane so it'll have to do. I mostly want to put out some appreciation for some folks' thumbnail work, a good thumb will draw them in, especially if they're fun or charming (even if unintentional).