
Supreme CG artist Ino, whose works we are hopefully all familiar with by now, has once again provided a fascinating video of himself creating an illustration from scratch, in this case of Vocaloid Meiko, one of the prototype virtual idols eventually culminating in Hatsune Miku.
That is to say, a well endowed lady in some revealing clothing.
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I think we can safely assume that the two images below were based on the 3D girl above, otherwise a variety of interesting and disturbing possibilities arise. That aside, it is interesting to see that several artists seized upon the same image for their model; hard to say which is the most enticing.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Manga
- Date: Oct 8, 2008 17:31 JST
- Tags: CG, Guide, Illustration, Ino, Legends, MAD, Music, SAI, Video Gallery

One of the more interesting genres of video on Nico are the various videos of CG artists at work, and there are indeed quite a few of these. Here you can see some of the best, surely of great interest to CG art fans and artists alike.
The subjects for these illustrations are Hatsune Miku, Nagato Yuki and a headphone musume, so likely nobody will be disappointed (although unfortunately no ero-CG videos are possible on Nico).
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The above illustration of frolicking sukumizu clad schoolgirls appeared in Dengeki Moe-Oh some months ago as part of a how-to article on drawing sukumizu, surely an essential skill for aspiring illustrators.
The creator has recently published a sukumizu illustration guide on his site, focused on the finicky business of colouring and reproducing wetness, so should you be of an artistic bent, or simply curious, you might want to check it out. Stretching to three pages, it is quite detailed.
If you are interested in this, you may also be interested to view the video of master CG artist Ino creating one of his works.
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