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I haven't done any homework all weekend. Go me.
I decided to be a complete procrastinator for the last two weeks. I'll just take things as they come.

Anyway, my class has this sort of sketchbook thing going on that we're selling to raise money for our class, and I'm putting 3 sketches in. I was going to put my previous Godspeed sketch in, but when I looked at it again I thought it didn't feel up to par, so I re-sketched him.


( Commissioner Godspeed again )

The sketchbook won't only have my stuff in, it'll have lots of awesome stuff from my classmates (they're really awesome). I'm not sure how many pages it'll be but I think they're gonna sell for $10.00 CAD each. Give me a hollah if you're interested. 8D


So, I think I sketch a lot better on paper, as opposed to on computer. It just feels more natural, and I'm also not staring at a screen.
It's better to ink with tablet though. I actually like inking on paper more, but with the tablet I don't have to clean the scans, which I hate doing.

I sketched this pic of young!Jade on paper and inked it in photoshop. To practice inking and toning and all the good stuff.


( Howl, is that you? )

So a few days ago, the goggles I ordered arrived! Jubilations!

My parents have gotten completely used to seeing shit from "Army Surplus" show up at my house. I don't think anything can shock them after the gas mask.

( Goggles! )

Wow, so much to do for this week.

1. Finish lineart and colouring (and text) for diagrammatic graphics class. For tomorrow.
2. Finish illustration (due on Friday). Actually it'd help if I started this.
3. Finish magazine spread (due on Monday). I should start this too.
4. 28 Page Grid assignment. (I'll mark this as done.)
5. Site for calendar project (God-DAMN-it I don't wanna work on this)

On the bright side, I don't think I have any homework for web design or branding.

Anyway, I pretty much spent all day working on the first part of the lineart for this:

( Still Nuwa )

And I wanted to play Apollo Justice all week too. v___v

Edit: In AP, I get all happy whenever I get to talk to Phoenix. It's... kinda pathetic, actually.

I finally got around printing the posters!
It was funny when I had to phone in to pay for them.

Me: Uhh, I'd like to pay for an order I placed?
Him: Are you [Nuu]?
Me: Yes?
Him: Did you design these?
Me: NO. I mean yes. I mean... *squeak*
Him: They're really nice.
Me: Uh, thanks. Uh.. *squeak*

But I eventually managed to tell him my credit card info, and in the "delivery instructions" I had written "PUT INTO OPAQUE BAG".

I got them delivered to a friend, who said the delivery person gave her a weird look. Then she told me there were puppies inside the bag.


( ANYWAY. )

Oh, right. If you'd like to buy a poster, please head on over to the STORE

<3

Here's the oil painting I did for my school's fund raising class:

( The Shipyard )


( Nu-Wa )

I would organize my tags, but I don't really think that anyone looks through them anyway.

So, I've been planning on revamping character profiles on my web comic site, since the ones up are rather outdated and I'll have to add some new ones pretty soon.
With that in mind, I drew a few new mugshots, and was pretty amazed by how different everyone looks.


( Thumbnail is unrelated. )


On a completely different note, my doujins finally arrived!!
I'm so sorry to everyone who pre-ordered. I was rather frustrated too, because mostly I was sitting around waiting for the printers to get their act together.

( Original Doujin )



Anyway, if you've forgotten, the doujin is this one:

( Doujin Sample )

The doujin has now SOLD OUT! Thanks everyone who got a copy! <3

Yaayyy.

It's lunch, and since I ate like an hour ago, I guess that means I just sit around waiting for the teacher to arrive again (since she still need to go over with me about what needs to be revised for my homework.)

Anyway, I decided to try my hand at CGing again yesterday since I (finally) finished Devil Summoner (Belial is hot) and didn't feel like doing homework or working on projects or anything productive like that.

For the longest time I was using a photoshop brush at whatever opacity I happened to use it at (usually flex between 30 - 60% or so) but I finally turned on opacity jitter for pen pressure.
And wow, what a difference it made.


( Read more... )

Edit: I took a photo of the painting that's due at the end of the week to show my mom cause she really wanted to see it.
It's... I dunno, it seems pretty incomplete to me but I don't know what to do with it.
I guess I'll post it around to ask for some advice.

( Landscape painting )

Lunch is almost over, I think.
So the other day I was looking at scans_daily and came upon this, Greg land drawing Pixie.
Well, I don't really keep up with X-Men, nor the New X-Men, so I wasn't sure who pixie was, but after looking up a few scans, I decided that she's kinda cute and I like her.

Anyway, point is, I drew her as practice for cging.

( Pixie )

Today is my burfday! Wau!

Anyway, not a lot happened. For an assignment, I have to paint part of my city, and because there's this abandoned shipyard down by where I live, I decided to paint that area.
I had to go in to take photo-references, and it seemed like the whole place was being teared down to make way for hotels, skyscrapers, or something decidedly unimportant. The area was fenced off, and photos that I had taken from the outside weren't so much useless, per say, as not as useful as they can be.

So I dragged a friend along with me and we snuck in.
It was pathetically easy, actually. I originally thought that we'd have to climb over the gate, or across the water, but it turned out that where the fence attached to the railing, there was a gaping hole where we could shimmy around the gate. At one point when we were in there, a construction guy showed up and yelled "it's dangerous here", but then he left without really making sure that we left too.

Here are a few photos I took. Mind you, they're not the best, compositionally, as I was mainly thinking of using them as reference for my painting rather than trying to take a cool photo.





I really like this place, it's totally fawesome to the utmost degree.

Anyway, after that we went to a comic book shop that was like a block away, and my friend got me the first volume of Elephantmen for my birthday:


Seriously, I love the paper it's printed on! So smooooth... and thiiick... But it did make the volume seem a lot thicker than it was. I already own the first three issues, and honestly I still have no idea where the story is going. It's an interesting read though, although I wish the story would pick up a bit quicker.

And lastly, a random photo of my room:


Abe keychain!!!

I usually don't post quiz results, but this amused me too much not to post.

( sexuality quiz )

A list so I won't keep missing them:

( The list! )

*looks back at list*

Wow, I'm a geek.