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★Giveaway★

I recently hit 20000 followers on this blog! It always blows my mind a little whenever people express interest in what I draw, and in many instances, people have gone out of their way to be kind and supportive. Thank you, so so much for everything…! ;////;

I will be doing a small giveaway of prints and books.  There will be 2 winners in this case,

One person will receive a hand-made sketchbook of about 20 blank pages with 2 small drawings at the last page, and 3 prints of their choice from my storenvy shop. (Any size)

Another will receive the "Wanderer" art book, as well as 3 prints of their choice. (If the winner happens to have the book already, they can replace the book with 2 more prints of any size.)   

To participate, you can like and reblog this post once each. (The giveaway is for followers only.) The deadline will be 11pm EST, Sunday July 28th, at which time I will use a random number generator to select the winners and will be contacting them via ask box. Shipping is world wide. :)

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*Edit* Reprints of the art book are now available for regular orders on Storenvy! I've also added a few new print designs to the store. :3

p.s. All the preorders are officially sent!

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Finished my very first art book! C:

5.5" x 8.5" Saddle-stitch book

Features 25+ piece of original art made between 2012 to 2013. The book is 32 pages in total and has 14pt soft cover and gloss paper stock.

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Streaming!

Will be working on the cover for the mini art book I am planning.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/maruti-bitamin-s-livestream

No sound at the moment.

p.s. My computer is in an awkward angle so I cannot type any replies. If you have questions please free to send me an ask here! 8)

Livestream (online)

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Doodle streaming at the moment! ^^

Sorry I won't be able to answer any questions until the end. My laptop is really hunched over in order to record the paper. (Also audio is mute at the moment.)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/maruti-bitamin-s-livestream

Livestream (online)

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Shugo Tokumaru “Katachi” Stop-Motion Video

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I got some questions about scanning recently, so here is a post I made a while back in case anyone was curious. :)

A Small Scanning Tutorial

For TGA-Tsurugi and a few others who inquired about scanning in and editing traditional media. There are, of course, many ways of going about it, but this is what has worked best for me personally. 

Here is the comparison of a blurry photo and a scan of an image.

Scanner Model: Canon LiDE 35 (8 years old now:D)                                      Photoshop (7 or CS both works)

1. To obtain the scan, I set the scanner mode at 300dpi on Colour Photo.

2. Go to Settings-> Set Fading Correction to “Hard”  (On default, images can scan in quite faded, so setting it to hard can reduce colour loss. But keep in mind, it will pick up all the dust and sometimes over-saturate the colours but that can be easily fixed.)

3. Everything else on the scanner, I leave at default, and scan.

4. Once image is obtained, I will clean off all the unwanted dust and textures in Photoshop with eraser and healing brush.

5. Now to adjust the colours.

6. For altering brightness, I go to Image->Adjustment->Curves.  On RGB, there are 4 channels. RGB itself is great at adjusting the light and dark. (Move the curve around with your mouse to test it out.)

7. For other colour adjustments, you can use the 3 other channels in Curves. (Red, Green, Blue.)

8. As mentioned before, scanning pictures under “hard” fading correction can oversaturate. To fix that, go to Images->Adjustment->Hue/Saturation. 

9. In the menu, there should be “Master” and also 6 other colours. You can choose to adjust the image entirely, or adjust selective colours.

And that’s pretty much the process for obtaining and editing a scan. 8)

Hope that helps!

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機嫌なおしておくれよ

奇妙礼太郎トラベルスイング楽団

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Reblog for adorable Yamaguchi Ichiro.

Twitter / SAKANAICHIRO: 9/1発売BRUTUS『人間関係』の撮影後。篠山紀信 …

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I am so looking forward to this!  I recommended Sakanaction to people who liked this drawing of mine at the convention. I hope they looked up the band!

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(Listen!)

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バランス - Ogre you asshole

Such a good song and video clip.

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Wild Child

Pillow Talk

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sakerock

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Sakanaction

night fishing is good (LIVE)

4:10 is my favorite part. i-i

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Linne

Shugo Tokumaru

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Lost Lander - Cold Feet