Lucky Star: Konata

HEE.
I'm almost out of schoooool~
Just one more exam to take, and I'm done! Damn EOC's... blocking my exemptions...
Ahem.
Anyway, this is some of the first fanart I've done in a while, and I've apparently improved a lot since then. D:

It's Konata from the anime series "Lucky Star". It's one of my favorites, and I have no idea why the hell it is. Lucky Star really seems like a shoujo, and yet... I don't know any girls that watch it. In fact, everyone I know who likes it is a guy. It's really confusing...
The series does a great job of making parodies of other animes from Sgt. Frog to Code Geass to Initial D to Yu-Gi-Oh to whatever else you can think of. It's really ingenious.
But anyway, this is Konata, the kind-of protagonist. She's such a nerd, incredibly lazy yet athletic, short, and plays MMOs when she should be doing homework. I may draw some of the other characters later.

I started drawing this to:
1- try out some new graphic techniques I thought of
2- add to my manga/anime inventory so I can sell stuff at Animazement next year
3- express my lame-ass fandom that only shines through every once in a while

I vectorized the outline, and colored using brush tool with approxamately 10-20% opacity.

So there you have it. I did this over the last three nights when I should have been working on a couple US History projects. I guess you can call that "getting into the spirit of the character". Yeah, that sounds like a good enough excuse.


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13 hours
Photoshop CS3
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©~evoblade
Konata and Lucky Star © Kadokawa Shoten (manga), Yutaka Yamamoto, and Yasuhiro Takemoto (anime)