I Am Completely Serious

(Sorry for not responding to comments; I'm moving and taking tests (both medical and academic), which has destroyed my energy.)

Another post from Kaoru Mori's blog. Click through to see the actual sketches; the first one's mildly non-work-safe, as might be ascertained from its title.

"Panty Shot," "Face," "Slit"

It's been a while since I've posted sketches. Though all I'm doing is gathering together a bunch of weird things I drew.

By the way - the Glasses Festival is going on right now! The Glasses Festival is always going on.

"Panty Shot"

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I drew this just thinking of the sweater up top, but now that I look at it, it's basically a panty shot.

It is my opinion that the effectiveness of a panty shot relates to the ratio of visible panties to the other contents of the image. To be specific, the proportions should be roughly:

Visible Panties: 0.5

Clothing: 7

Exposed Skin (excepting the face): 3

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"Face"

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I wanted to see if I could draw this kind of facial expression. Then I decided to dress her in an English school uniform field jacket.

It's really the same sort of drawing I always do, done the same way I always do it.

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"Slit"

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I drew this feeling nostalgic for everyone's slit-skirt drawings in the Fellows Volume 9 "China Fellows" special. It's a slit in the back of a tight skirt.

...Yeah? And that's why you put those stairs in there, huh? (I'm shameless.)

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I really don't know why I'm only posting pictures like this today. I mean, I do draw other things! (desperate)

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I'm being slightly looser here than with Minekura, because Mori makes a lot of jokes, and jokes in Japanese rarely come through well in English if you're too literal with them. Though Mori's sense of humor is unusually Western, I think!

They're weird!

Kumiko Suekane (Afterschool Charisma): Suekane is allll over the place. The blog's tone is very casual, fannish, and jaded, to the point that I can't understand, like, 75% of her references. She's into Phoenix Wright. Complains about her magazine (!).

Moyoco Anno (Hataraki Man, Sugar Sugar Rune): There's one post on there, and in it she apologizes for not posting. And drawing - sounds like she's been sick. Tone is sad and bored. Feel better, Moyoco Anno!

Natsuki Takaya (Fruits Basket, Hoshi wa Utau): Very domestic. She talks about her assistants, presents people have given her, stuff she's bought, food she likes, and the weather. She posts photos of all of these things. The title of the blog is "Cat and Mouse and Stars and the Moon."

Kubo Tite's Twitter (Bleach): Casual stuff about work and his assistants. His fans send him fan-Tweets, and he says, "Thank you!" and sometimes comments on personal details they've mentioned. "I'm glad I've made a manga that fathers can read with their sons!" IF THEY WANT THEIR SONS TO GROW UP TO BE MISOGYNISTS i didn't say anything

Kaoru Mori (Emma, Otoyomegatari): I really enjoy hers. Excited discussions of her research material for Otoyomegatari and anything else she's been into recently. She went through an opera phase at one point, and obviously still likes the Victorian era.

She also posts a lot of sketches of busty women, attended by mock-embarrassed disclaimers that she does draw things other than busty women. Well, evidently you do not do so very often, Kaoru Mori. If you wondered why her women in Emma and Otoyomegatari are so much hotter than her men, this blog may help to answer your question.

Originally published at SarahPin.com. You can comment here or there.

The artist of Emma made some comics entitled “The Kind of Maid Series I Really Hate”. Being a connoisseur of maid-related manga series, as she is!

(I suffer some mild suspicions regarding her gender, largely due to the immense androgyny of her pen name.)