The World Was Our Oyster

This is my contest entry for Wacom Asia Pacific's 2nd Manga Contest. The theme is about your "first love". The picture pretty much tells the story, although I've exaggerated the girl's clothing a bit to reflect a nicer style of uniform.

I'd ride that bike for an hour from my place to hers and take her on rides through the fields. Nice days.

This is still a WIP (work in progress) I'm just submitting it now because even without the shading, highlights and brush strokes added to the vector I think I've still accomplished enough to stiffen the competition up a bit

Good luck to whoever else joins. Great fun! Oh and Pleeease comment on this CG... pleeeease!

Technical Info:
art and sketch: Adobe Illustrator CS 2
bicycle: Cinema 4D r10

The bike was modeled in Cinema 4D and rendered out with Sketch n Toon. I used the render as a trace reference for the composition. Blur effects are all done in Adobe Illustrator as well.