Ken said:finally, here is almost all the volume covers in the new style with a decent resolution, only 2-3 are missing http://imgur.com/a/TEVlI
The image look good, but the brown eyes...Ken said:http://i.imgur.com/531CGrr.jpg
Lithrael said:I think the digital work looks a little off-putting too but I also think that we can chalk that directly up to the nuts and bolts of a media change. I'm frankly surprised to see the digital brushwork on, for example, the pumpkins; it's what you get when you use default round brushes. The exact same strokes would produce a much more visually appealing look if he used a more sophisticated brush.
Lithrael said:And the line quality itself is what you get when you have line/brush smoothing/stabilization turned completely off.
Eluvei said:I'm not a huge fan of how the cover painting turned out, but I like the two posters. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement, the blurring effect in the distance in the elves poster looks a little jarring, and some elements show too much that they're in separate layers from other elements. I'm personally happy he's started working digitally, it's unexpected.
Aazealh said:For those interested I bought volume 1 and volume 38 digitally on http://www.hakusensha-e.net/ and volume 1 doesn't include any new illustrations aside from the cover. However the original color pages are there, which is pretty neat.
Ken said:oh wow very nice! quick question, those color pages, are they on the same type of paper as the rest of the pages in the volume or did they use higher quality glossy papers for them?
Aazealh said:Sorry you're mistaken, like I said in the post I bought the digital editions, not the physical ones. I've looked around a bit online but can't seem to find the new version of volume 1. I'm not sure it's available yet and I don't know if it will have those pages in color.
Aazealh said:I can't really say I'm happy he moved to digital, since traditional paint work has its charm and is all too rare these days.
Patrick said:Higher quality image of the new volume cover.
http://imgur.com/qvPKMGQ
Yep it's still there. This time it's an image of a cherry blossom tree inside a new border which we can probably expect to see for all future images (I guess?). I'll PM a picture of it when I get home. Another change I noticed is you no longer open the volume to a page of Jets Comics, instead there's a page at the back of the volume of ... I can't remember the name.Walter said:Thanks for the images. Too bad about that spine... Is there still a tiny, original image when you first open the volume (inside of the dust jacket)? I always looked forward to what Miura would do for those, and I'd be sad to see them go.
IncantatioN said:The volume also came with a promo-sleeve like the last 3 volumes. I don't know what it says! It looks like there are signed copies of the volume cover (?) and Beherits with dates for a promotional thing (maybe those are YA release dates and there's something Berserk related in those YA releases?)
Rupert Sinclair said:One thing I noticed is that in the original YA release when Griffith puts up his hand to stop Locus after Rickert slaps him he has a gauntlet on while he had been gloveless throughout the scene, this has been changed in the volume.
There is an add for volume 39 at the end that says it will be released in 2017, I imagine we will be staying monthly for some time.