I've been sketching a lot of things gaiz, I haven't been THAT lazy.
The sketch bundle in the top left corner I did right now. It's going to be the cover for my random shoujo pages for practice 'cause every story needs a cover! I mean...everything needs a cover even if it isn't a story~! :D
I drew the same people a while ago in the bottom right corner. I have myself, the two people I had crushes on, some friends and their crushes, and some weird people who give off shoujo manga vibes! XD
Also with the bundle from the bottom right corner are character designs for a shoujo one shot. I like how the guy looks, but the girl looks boring. She's supposed to be decently attractive and not the type that sticks out too much because the main focus is on her (lovely) personality~! :D Unfortunately, I gave her a weird hairstyle and she just looks like a goofy eccentric character...O.o;
Above them is the sketch of a picture for a contest on pixiv that I will try my best to finish before I go to college and coincidentally the contest ends on the day I start my classes! XD
Above that is none other thannn...Hikaru Miko Wakusei who was my Naruto OC who I am drawing for the Mary Sue challenge~! :D Lemme tell ya, she is definitely a mary-sue...I mean her 'goddess' or something version has no pupils, angle wings, AND cat ears..WUT?! I mean, she's a bit more creative of a mary sue (clothing-wise), but she is just painfully a mary sue. I did tone down her character a bit as I learned about how to create real characters, but I dunno, she still felt a tad bit mary sue...>3>
Then again, it's Naruto, people are randomly extremely powerful for no reason except that they were mad or whatever at that moment. Just like in every shounen manga~! :D
The drawings on the bottom left are just sketches for my story. I was trying to figure out the hair styles and how the main characters looked etc. The different kinds of outfits and the overall ethnic feel of the characters.
I drew the main character and his change in hairstyle. Basically it just grows out! XD But 'cause it's such a weird hairstyle it grows out strangely.
I finally read some Ao Haru Ride and I surprisingly liked it. It's like shoujo candy. It uses the same basic events that most shoujo have (one moment was extremely awkward and I have no clue why the author put it in there because nobody really talked about it afterwards) but it's so sweet and nice that it's hard to stay away from.
I put off reading it mainly because it looked very boring. The plot summaries I read of it sounded totes boring...
But then I was looking a what kinds of manga that some of the members of Morning Musume like to read and the majority of them said Ao Haru Ride. It is pretty good.
I also realized a bit of the way through reading it immediately when a character started crying who the mangaka was. Surprisingly it was the same mangaka for Strobe Edge which I just finished a few days ago (and I believe there was also a cameo of the characters from that one part). The mangaka improved a lot from that manga, but I still have a problem of telling characters apart. It's mainly the main characters which is a terrible thing! At that scene where I think there was a cameo I couldn't really tell if it was a cameo since the characters looked like every other character. But I assumed it was since there was random focus on them for a few panels...XD
So, yeahh, go read it!
Since I mention basic events of most shoujo a few moments ago...let me address a few of those here!
Those moments that you have seen in the majority of manga:
-Girl bullied by the girls who like the super popular guy (happens all the time and it's quite annoying because it's sooo unrealistic because in the first place girls don't really make clubs over that thing and from my experience most girls aren't that in love with the same guy so much that they'd make a club for them!)
-Guy or girl falls on top of guy (somehow this always always happens. I do like these scenes, but it ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS happens...>3>)
-Guy blocking girl with arm or arms (like the cicada block~! :D Ohohoho...but seriously I think if a guy did that to me in real life I'd die inside a little because that looks sooo incredibly stupid on the guy's part. Whatever he is doing it looks like obvious intimidation and reflects basically the same emotion. It looks just oh so silly)
-Random guys attack main girl and guy saves girl(Happens in every single shoujo that I can think of...at the moment...'orz I know the world's a scary place, but sheesh)
-Guy saves girl from being hit on by saying 'she's my girlfriend'(I'd really like to know what manga started this because it feels like that has been happening a lot in the more recent shoujos. I think it's cute, but...it was in Ao Haru Ride and there was barely any reaction and it was such a pointless scene that it made me cringe. Now I feel like I'll always cringe at such a scene because it's just...so overused...It Seiyuu Ka-!, though, I found it acceptable because it was one of the few cliches used and it had an excuse, the guy is so used to acting that being overly dramatic like that fits his character and would be something he would do)
-Girl who seems nice at first actually wants the guy the main character is after and becomes an anatagonist instead of a friend (I'd really like to see this more creatively. I mean, it is fairly realistic for a cliche. I have seen this happen several times. I've also seen it where friends stopped being friends because on person thought the other person like the same person they did. I wish shoujo mangakas could have more creative antagonists.)
Those are all I could think of right now. Feel free to comment on this post with more shoujo cliches! There are plenty out there! XD
ADIOSSS~!
