Pandora-Tan Character Art

[mafia-man]

Nintendo has Mario, Sega had Sonic, we should have the first girl as a mascot. A game would be sweet if done right.

And I can totally see a Panda Bear sidekick, lol.

Well Ninty does also have Samus Aran as a kind of secondary mascot

 

[borgqueenx]

@-Tj-: can you maby make some wallpapers with your cool anime girl?

Just watched the sci-fi movie Pandorum and i was constantly thinking if the catastrofe that would hit the world once the shipping starts

 

[WoD]

I just came.

Seriously, though, airbrush out the godawful cross-hatch shading and give it some dodge/blur highlights and we've got my first Pandora desktop. Kthx!

 

[Consequence_9]

I just came.

Seriously, though, airbrush out the godawful cross-hatch shading and give it some dodge/blur highlights and we've got my first Pandora desktop. Kthx!

man don't diss cross-hatching, i much prefer that to the shitty airbrushed look that everything else has. That's why i like metal gear's art so much. It actually looks like someone drew it instead of just photoshopping it (which takes comparatively little skill).

 

[WoD]

man don't diss cross-hatching, i much prefer that to the shitty airbrushed look that everything else has.

Err... it *IS* airbrushed. The crosshatching just looks messy over the top of the damned fine colouring job and really adds nothing to the image... other than the suggestion of poorly drawn escaping pubic hair. I'd erase it myself and re-shade the image, but I have only the skill to make a pigs ear of it.

 

[Aninhumer]

Tj, that is indeed excellent.

In terms of the design, I can't claim to have any knowledge of how it should be done, but as a backseat designer:
I think all that text makes her look slightly "corporate", which is not really representative of the Pandora at all.
Certainly the text on the socks seems a little weird, and could perhaps be replaced with blue detailing of some kind on the boots. (to keep the blue balance)
The blue pendant doesn't look as good without the black background that the other blue regions all have.

Nonetheless, you've clearly already put a lot of thought into this design already, and it really shows.

 

[-Tj-]

Nintendo has Mario, Sega had Sonic, we should have the first girl as a mascot. A game would be sweet if done right.

And I can totally see a Panda Bear sidekick, lol.

Actually, a panda sidekick idea popped up while I was discussing design ideas with another friend. I might work that in for the next revision. More tidbits in the next revision, hopefully.

A game would be awesome! Just hoping it's a 2D action/platformer-type game though. I can already see it in my head lol

borgqueenx: a wallpaper or two for Pandora is in the plans, though I don't know if I'll have time to get to it before the first batch starts shipping.

WoD: technically it's not airbrushed. I use a variety of large fuzzy brushes at varying transparencies as opposed to the airbrush tool. I feel I get a lot more control with a brush than an airbrush. I also don't use the dodge/burn tool- it's harder to control the colors that way.

That's why i like metal gear's art so much. It actually looks like someone drew it instead of just photoshopping it (which takes comparatively little skill).

I agree. A lot of my favorite artists have a more painterly style than the more comic book-styled artwork. That's not to say one style is better than the other, but I much prefer the more painterly styles to the silky-smooth stuff.

I'll see if I can come up with a happy medium for the wallpaper version, though.

Aninhumer: thanks for the input. To be honest, I'm not very fond of the "pandora" on both socks, so it might go in a future revision. I have some ideas for the boots, but no time to draw them out at the moment. The glowing pendant shouldn't be glowing later, that was more of an experiment. It's supposed a crystal-like Pandora logo but at this size it didn't really show up. So I made it glowy! haha

I thought I'd take a little time tonight to take out some of the hatching from the image tonight and fix the leg, which has been bugging me for a while.


Edit: put in a smaller pic. Click for large version.

 

[Trip]

Awesome TJ nice one

 

[Vorporeal]

Looking great! My one suggestion is that (to remove some of the excessive Pandora "branding") you should just make her top solid black. Having the logo on her stockings, skirt, and jacket back are probably enough.

 

[clippa]

Sexualised children may sell your product in Japan, but in the UK, it's more likely to get it banned
Can't we just have the cute penguin as the mascot instead?

 

[(naw)mcx]

My Girlfriend did another doodle

 

[JagAgemo]

That looks a lot bet.. cleaner. I still can't wait to see the hybrid of the two as I fell in love with the idea of the video cable being a ponytail ^.^

 

[Mr B]

Sexualised children may sell your product in Japan

This is actually a pretty funny misconception. You don't think everything from colledge students, to teachers, professors, and god knows what else are all at the age of "childhood" do you? The reason hentai is drawn the way it is, is simply due to old laws. The laws stipulated you couldn't show certain things since that would be "pornographic" and that was illegal. Human ingenuity perhaps, but i think someone found a way around that. And it evolved in to the mainstream form for drawn, or animated erotica. Today, there are little reasons to stick to the said laws, of course, but as so much else we do, some things we keep doing for no reason what so ever once the template have been set.

Kinda off-topic i assume, but still. The asian world is in trouble enough with the west as it is, we don't need to teach everyone that every asian inhabitant is a childmolester at heart as well.
B!

 

[darien]

This is actually a pretty funny misconception. You don't think everything from colledge students, to teachers, professors, and god knows what else are all at the age of "childhood" do you?

I think that's precisely why it's NOT okay for them to be dating 13-year-olds, amirite!? Japan is saturated in many things and in the end, there is no misconception, just a narrow view of the bigger picture. I mean schoolgirl panties in vending machines? Don't they already have too much raw fish in their diet?

 

[mali]

I don't think it's good where this is heading. Please respect the thread starter

 

[Paradox]

Sexualised children may sell your product in Japan, but in the UK, it's more likely to get it banned
Can't we just have the cute penguin as the mascot instead?

TJ's character hardly looks like a child.

Edit: I suppose it depends on your age, if you're 50-odd it may seem very young, lol. But i'm 22 and i'd say his character could be in her twenties.

 

[Sitwon]

Sexualised children may sell your product in Japan, but in the UK, it's more likely to get it banned
Can't we just have the cute penguin as the mascot instead?

TJ's character hardly looks like a child.

Edit: I suppose it depends on your age, if you're 50-odd it may seem very young, lol. But i'm 22 and i'd say his character could be in her twenties.

I hope that when I'm 50-something I'll still be banging 20-somethings. =P

 

[clippa]

I'm just saying, can it just not, for once, for god's sake, be some anime child-woman? How's about a milf instead? The other side of the same coin, instead of a vulnerable 12 year old with massive norks, inadequate nerdy types can feel safe knowing that lady pandora will hold their hand and guide them to comfy bad-mummy bliss-time. Can anyone draw Carol Vorderman?
Why does it have to be titillating at all? Like I say, what's wrong with the cute penguin? Just putting it out there. I remember when mascots were blokes in big furry suits

 

[mali]

Clippa, you typed the wrong URL

 

[second exodous]

Milfs are just not as attractive as a 18 year old girl to most guys. Japan does go a little young, the main reason I don't like anime. I like Tj's girls because they aren't anime and they aren't under age either. If it's a girl she has to be young(but legal age) and hot. If a girl represents the Pandora and she's Japanese lets not have her big where every Japanese girl is small, that is just distorted reality. But why would she be Asian? The Pandora isn't made in Asia.