Iris, iris, iris! It looks fantastic! And also the reflections are so.. so... reflective. ^^'

I sometimes make little mistakes like that in my drawings. If you were using Adobe Photoshop to create a painting of this it would have been fixed during the painting process.

I lov this painting~
Pictures sometimes look quite different on DS' screen. :D

Thank you for the compliment. Don't I know it. lol! :) (About the images looking different on the DS and the computer screen.)

i followed your link :D you colour like me, blocking out the colour rather than building it up. its a very good drawing, the eyes are vibrant! is this an original drawing of your own? if so - wicked ^^ you should develop more!

@ boombox: Of course, it's an original drawing of mine. I really want to create more art fan art, though. I'm not for sure but, the character designer for the anime you painted the character in the following image was designed by a woman I attended hign school with. "SIMON! (TTGL)" She was a foreign exchange student. The character designer's name is Watanabe Tae. (Last name first.) Yeah, she's pretty good, even then. Many years later in 2003, I took a couple of classes at a community college in another state and met someone who translated the name of the character designer for me. I met Tae in Southern California when I was in high school. I wish I had stayed in touch with her now. You know hinkdsight is 20/20.

@ boombox: arigotoo gozaimashita for your compliments.

Douitashimashite/どういたしまして ^^ hey thats pretty cool! it'd be cool to be a proper anime artist or illustrator. well, theres facebook! :D

@ boombox: So you speak Japanese, too. Where did you get the hiragana characters for your computer? I'd really like to know. I'm not very fluent with Japanese, at all. I only speak a few words and couple of sentences at best. I plan on studying it again in the near future because I'd like to visit Japan someday soon. Have you ever been there? And, do you have a Colors! forum id?

Yes, i've been learning from my DS Japanese Coach for about 7months now. slowly but surely in my spare time :) i only speak small bits and a few sentences too as it warms you up slowly. but i found it very very useful and effective. gonna carry on using this until i finish and then pay for lessons! ahh i got it a while back. i typed 'how to type Japanese characters on vista' (or something along those lines) into google and found instructions to enable it. This link might help you if you have Vista :D http://www.guidetojapanese.org/wiki/index.php/Typing_in_Japanese
You don't need to download anything!

Yes i've been to Japan and miss it a great deal. I went almost 2 years ago and i think about it everyday. i went round Tokyo. Kyoto. Nikko, Takayama. Hiroshima etc. You have to go!! but bear in mind, it'll be always be in your thoughts! yeah my forum ID is the same name! ^^ lol, my major spam - sorry!

I want to go to Japan so bad. I definitely want to go to Tokyo. The DS Japanese Coach, is it a program for the DS Lite? If so, where can I get a copy of it? I use XP. If you know of a site like the one you gave me the link for that uses XP that would be great. Now, I'm kinda jealous of you. You've been to the land of the rising sun. So, did you visit your favorite animation studio run by a fellow by the name of Miyazaki Hayao or, maybe museum the father of manga, Osamu Tezuka? If you have any photos you'd like to share I'd love to see them. Did you go there on holiday or business? Have you checked you inbox in the forum, lately?

yes i have replied! lol

this is how u enable Japanese typing on XP on this site:
http://www.coscom.co.jp/learnjapanese801/msime-xp1.html

Thank you so very much. I'll look into this tomorrow. :)