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Published: 2006-11-17 03:34:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 146; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 2
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This is an idea I have had from shortly after I heard the answer. I would not be surprised if I were to hear that Osaka asked the question without anyone knowing it!
I have sinced learned, quite recently, in fact, that the number 42 has been retired from Major League Baseball in the US in honour of the late Jackie Robinson. There are still two players who have 42 as their numbers; they were actively playing when the number was officially retired at the 50th anniversary and have been allowed to keep the number until they retire.
42 was also the racing number of NASCAR legend Lee Petty. His son, Richard, took the next number, 43.
Drawn with 0.5 mm mechanical pencil, inked, erased, scanned, cleaned up with MSPaint, printed, coloured with markers and pastels, scanned again, manipulated with ArcSoft PhotoImpression and resized with MSPaint.
Azumanga Daioh and Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga (c) Kiyohiko Azuma
Life, The Universe, and Everything (c) Douglas Adams
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Awesome! I love how well you executed the pose (I didn't spell that right at all did I?). But...I'm not sure if I understand where the inspiration came from... 
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Spelled A-OK!
According to the book Life, The Universe, and Everything, a computer found the answer to life, the universe and everything after millions of years of computation. The computer stated that the answer to life, the universe, and everything, was forty-two. It further stated that the reason that the answer to life, the universe, and everything being forty-two sounds so bizarre is that no-one had ever thought of the question.
The computer went on to state that it didn't know what the question either, but suggested that another, more powerful computer be built that could find the question. The computer was built, ran for another few million years, and was about five minutes away from finding the question when it was demolished to pave the way for a new intergalactic highway. The fact that the computer was known to its inhabitats as the Earth adds another dimension to the scale of this calamity...
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*snickers* Of course it's the question now that's the problem.
Great job on this! Osaka's pose looks great and I absolutely love the concept! 
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Yep, too bad they destroyed the second computer five minutes before it was scheduled to generate the question. Especially since that's where humanity lived...
Thank you.
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You're most welcome! 
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I don't know much about baseball, but this is a really cute picture. At first I thought it was referencing Osaka's "blast a home ruuun..." comment XD
I love her cat-like mouth, it's really cute, the way it curls over like that, and it suits her, too. Her pose is nice and dynamic, she looks strong, here, which is a nice contrast to her spaced-out expression. Those hair shines are really pretty.
Great job on the grass, too. How do you do that, if you don't mind me asking?
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Thank you for your thoughtful comments!
Actually, the main reason for the picture was to show Osaka with the number 42 on her back. Life, The Universe, and Everything, the third part of his five-part "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, begins with a supercomputer finding the answer to life, the universe, and everything after about seven million years of computation. It states that the answer is 42. 
I was my own model for that pose.
The hair shines in this picture are the very first ones I have ever drawn or coloured.
The grass was done with two green markers, one light and the other dark. I made a lot of little strokes with the light green marker inside the diamond and the dark green marker outside the diamond. Once I had done enough of those (I hope...) I coloured over the remaining white space with the light green marker both inside and outside the diamond. I had to be careful not to saturate the paper inside the diamond because, if that happened, the blades would be covered over and the viewer couldn't tell the blades from the background. After all that I did some blurring and filling in with ArcSoft PhotoImpression.
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