Music

Ideas I have while listening to music. Trying to find what really sparks off my ideas, and also hoping to buck up on compositions this sem. (I've been using similar angles and compositions for some time. Ack.) Kishimoto's Naruto has brought some new perceptions for that, and maybe time to be a movie junkie, hahaha...

Music: CLOSER (Inoue Jo)


Music: Best Friend (Kana Nishino)


Music: Sign (FLOW)


School started finally, and the first lesson commands discipline. An animation to be done in 13 weeks. Concept by next week. Thinking of doing something happy and heart warming....

Printed out the first set of Business Finance lecture notes. I don't understand anything..... Haiz...... -_-.

Countdown...?

T_T............

Restless..........

Oh noooooo..........

Stepping aside, it's wierd that one is feeling dreadful yet still able to draw happy people. The same energy charge but a different output. Maybe my head is chanting 'nonono' but another part of me just screams 'bring it on!'.

A very random person in a random pose, digital this time. Wanted to stop after an hour of painting, but dragged to 3. Still not complete too.

Narutard-ed

Haha... wanted to do a fanart of Naruto and at the same time, do something about the portraiture practice I've set to do. 4 hours with color pencils... and though it was fast, I was not aware of the angle I was drawing at and it caused the entire portrait to appear elongated..... Adjusted it in photoshop, looked better.

Have been reading Naruto Shippuden these days. Slow yea. Although it feels as though it ain't got an ending, it's a nice manga to pick up, not just for the illustration quality. Storyline is the usual shonen stuff, but the growth of the characters quite keep it apart from the other shonen comics I've read so far (not many titles really, lol). People change and people pass on (ain't any big thing for gundam yea), just makes me wonder how long I'll be staying in my own world. Portfolio has been left forgotten... whatever I've done so far is more of a theraphy for restlessness than anything for the professional level. Thinking back, I wonder if I've given up on it when I said no to WSC... But yea, still young and alive, tomorrow is still there and I'm hungry. Haven't eat dinner yet... maybe just stuff some food in and emo next time, heheh. :P



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Eye of Beholder

Beauty in the eye of the beholder? A random sketch that started from a random rectangular pattern seen on a TV commercial. Then the girl. Then it looks empty. Then the old man and the (insert random gender) shorty. Might CG it, might not... it's just so random!

Have been reading Naruto recently. Dor told me Shippuden was nicer and that I should watch it. Awing at the art though, haha.

Elimona again...

Aye, colored it finally. Halfway through inking it, realised I made a big mistake... her boobs are supposed to be bigger, each almost as big as her face (or even bigger...). And considering gravity, it should look inhumanly big here, but ack... just can't get that kind of anatomy right. Maybe cos I can't look at mine to reference for that... ahaha. Anyways, edited the lines in photoshop... if not it'll look as though the jacket was transparent.

Finished the Edgeworth game finally. Kind of liked it, though the last chapter was very draggy. Unlike the previous ace attorney games, this has been the only one that never became a bedtime story for me. The script was great, but I heard it might have been the last the scriptwriter will ever do for the series. Looking forward to his new work Ghost Trick there, hope it'll be fun. :)

Caricature

Have been thinking about what I'm lacking in drawing people and looking at what other artists are doing. Thought of a few ways that might solve the problem... but haven't been taking any actions. :p When it comes to faces and expressions, caricaturing would probably be a fun and good way to learn. Think I'll start there, but wonder how long can I keep up with that...

Turnabout Ablaze is draggy.... but I smell the end of this detective game coming... sob sob.

Thank you Gummy!!

Nyak nyak... Went to hunt a new file for the game and managed to get past that error. Just wanted to finish up the whole game and see what's the story going to. Glad I did... cos chapter 4 revealed the reason why Gumshoe was so loyal to Edgeworth and more info about the Yatagarasu. And one funny scene concerning Edgeworth too, hehe.



After reading of Gumshoe and Kay's meet, I was tempted to draw it down. It was one of the heartwarming parts of the story, and it quite changed the idea of Gumshoe in my mind. Maybe he's just too nice to be a detective...

Simple stuff

Found a previous sketch that I wanted to color sometime back in illustrator, but didn't really start on it. Wanted to color something, so did a watercolor of it instead. Think I'd better go back and review the basics of color again. Feels like the more simple the linework is, the more important the color choice too...

After that logo, I found myself playing the ds again. Ace Attorney Investigations this time... Have that in the r4 for sometime, but didn't really get down to playing it. It's amusing watching Edgeworth get slammed over and over again with my wrong decisions, cos he'll try to cover it up, unlike Phoenix Wright. It's nice that the cases were out of the court, one gets to see different backgrounds rather than the courtroom (but that would mean no table banging scenes and clueless judges). The 'logic' system was an interesting addition, but there could have been much more to it, like processing 'wrong' ideas instead of everything being absolutely correct. It could have let players think more about the situation than simply 'trial and error'. The game hanged at the start of the 4th case, but guess it's a pause for me now. 14 days to the end of the hols! Omg.... everything's gonna end someday, guess it's good that it starts?

Beeeeeee Fun

Have been working on a logo the entire day today, sending emails and correcting the previous. It's something for my aunt's fren, so not asking for anything there but a namecard at the end of it. Good thing is they weren't demanding, so kind of nailed it in the first round with the random concept we came up with over a meal.

Started with this:


And now it's this:


Might have to do some test prints for the colors... I can't trust this laptop screen anymore.

Popcorn was a failure :( Didn't went so well, though we managed to pop a bit. Went to mum's fren's house for the microwave and made a small mess... things went a bit haywire and the second bag of half- popped popcorn spilled on the floor. >_< Ah well... Those that managed to pop and in good condition were eaten by Ann, and she said they tasted great. Wondered if that's for real or she's just trying to comfort me... T_T Next time, I'll just pop by the cinema and buy some for her instead... -_-

Never too sick for...

...chocolate. This flu has made me realise what is a torture... The whole family went down to Marche few days ago to celebrate Aunty Peck's b-dae and all I could taste was purely sweet, salty and lotsa bitterness.... I couldn't smell anything (other than mucus). T_T Probably not that bad, but still tormenting.

Just wanna draw something and the thought of that cough syrup came by. Modeled after my sis who recovered from a fever a couple of days ago. (There seemed to be a disease going around the house these days...)Realised that when I doodle, it gets very sketchy. Style? If so, maybe I should try discipline my hand a bit. Used copics this time. Bought a few new colors (Art fren having a 15% off these markers, and the Orchard one seems to be clearing off the old Trias at $1 each), but I seemed to lose touch with this medium now.

As promised, I brought my bro out for 'The Last Airbender'. ($6 tix for students! :D) The cg and fighting scenes were pretty awesome, but other than that, nothing else really lasted in my mind. Ah yea, Aang's tatto was cool. Brought back some popcorn, as Ann wanted, but I figured they wouldn't be as good when cold. Soooo.... popped by shop n save for some unpopped popcorn. We're gonna pop some tonite! XD Wonder how those two kids will react? Just hope it'll taste good....

Coloring others stuff

Have been coloring other people's stuff these days, in a way, hoping to keep my coloring sense intact while suffering a block mentally and physically. Down with cough and flu that got my mum busy again... but in a way, good maybe. She said it's good if I sweat... so I started cleaning the house. Yea, sweating!



Painted this picture for the bi-monthly contest held by the color me club. I realised making color sketches aided my coloring process. Didn't feel so lost there.



The sketch for this one caught my eye and I decided to give it some color. A lot of details and it asked for a lot of discipline and focus... Straining, but the result was worth the pain.

Elimona

Picking up 'Defense Devil' again, after seeing it in tankoubon published by Chuangyi (finally). Not that I don't like scanslations... it's fast, but having to wait for one chapter every week and being hanged in the middle of the story such as this just makes it painful to read. Somehow, the story seemed to have trailed off the initial lawyer idea, but it's still nice to read on and discover what's in it. Although the cases seemed obvious and you know who is behind it all, there have been a few surprises here and there.



Elimona from the story (errr... the one below was a random failed shojou-ish doodle of Baka-dera). She's one enigma, a sexy, naughty... not really bitchy character who is there to guide the protagonist towards his goal. Judging from how one powerful demon treated her, she must have been a powerful and old demon... but not sure what is her motive for helping an exile back to the throne. And yea, quite agree that the main male and female characters should just come off the stage and let Shugarl and Jupiter take over. (That would become a shojou manga though... lol. So sweet...)

.... just realised how hard it is to draw seductive women... The angle plays an important role too I guess. Might give it some color, tee hee.

Last Song

Random pic to test out the new block of Arches paper. Quite a nice surface to play with.

Mirajane

Trying to draw without thinking too much... Not good to think too much before drawing, end up not drawing anything. Sent the cpu for repairs. The fan has finally died. It was replaced a few years ago... wonder if this replacement would be needed anymore since we have tots of getting a new cpu?