But first! Two random scraps that I did while taking breaks from work so you don’t have to scroll past the wall of text to see them! Yes, I take breaks from drawing by drawing.
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sepia: no shit it’s your last smoke THE PARTY IS 2 HIGH PRIESTS, NO KILLER
Carrying on… I came back from Europe like 10 days ago, organized my photos but forgot to post about it, so here they are: http://europe.ashen-ray.com. Most of them are obligatory non-spectacular scenic photos though ): but I promise some elements of beauty and hilarity? Europe was a nice place though; it made North America look like a boring wasteland–granted I don’t go anywhere so I don’t really have any grounds to speak on, but still ]:
We were incredibly lucky on this trip in my opinion; gorgeous weather and general good luck dealing with problematic situations were had in exchange for some minor unfortunate events. Nothing is worse than terribad weather on a long trip, and knowing Europe MOTHER NATURE DID ITS ABSOLUTE BEST.
Europe is exactly as I expected, except exponentially more breathtaking. I love to be impressed, and I truly was, by its history and otherworldly craft of its heritage. Just as my teachers and professors stated, photographs can’t possibly express the greatness of things I saw there, and that feeling of awe is exactly what I need to expand my horizon and add to my skill.
My favourites were London and Versailles. London streets themselves are a work of art; the swift pace, precision, and elegance of everything makes London a charming place to see. Plus everything that the Brits robbed from other countries are there so it made it even better. Versailles is just beyond description. I wished it was a little more well-maintained though, I mean the hallway of mirrors is like the hallway of dirty mirrors, but I realized it’s kind of hard given its size.
My least favourite was touristy Italy. It reminded me a lot of China with its poor manner, control, and the general atmosphere that you have to beware of everything. Plus it was super hot. Good thing it was touristy for good reason, otherwise it would’ve been a horrible way to end the trip.
Now, time to catch up with 3 commissions and 2 manga projects fldsj;flkjhgiodfgahs;jfa
This is the first time I went to AN without a helper/partner, and HOLY SHIT it was difficult to setup/take down on my own because I brought so much crap to make my life easier during the con. I was like dropping stuff all over the place outside and blocking traffic ROFL. and I turned down like 4 people’s offer of help because the day before, my dad was all like YOU SHOULDN’T RELY ON OTHER PEOPLE’S HELP, IF YOU TRY AND THINK YOU’LL FIND A SOLUTION when I was talking to him about setting up and I was all spited and stuff uuuffhh. But Draiad was such a sweetie and helped me out <3
ANYWAYS this year I ran into a lot of RO fans, I think it’s because I printed 2 more RO pics lol. this is like the 10th time I’ve said this but I WISH RO WAS HUGE AND SUCCESSFUL. god I’d love to just make a pure RO stand. I also wish they could just get rid of the pro wrestling area next to the artist alley, HOLY SHIT those bunch are loud and I couldn’t hear myself half the time BUT IT’S THERE EVERY YEAR ]: I didn’t take pictures of anything because I had to stay at my table for the whole weekend. Come to think of it I don’t even remember taking pics of friends that came by LOL I’M SO HORRIBLE. I’ll just have to ask minyi for that ONE pic she took of us……
speaking of minyi, turns out she stayed at a place very close to me so I took her to and back from the con for 2 days. She didn’t wake up on the second day and totally jumped when I busted into their bedroom LOL and she was so out of it after that and couldn’t do BASIC MATH…… That’s ok though, her kawaii asianness and awesome free print (fist to whoever that took the one I wanted) and British accent makes up for everything. I swear if I hang out with her for a few more days I’m going to start talking in that accent……
I drew a bunch of sketches on the last day because I was so sleepy and didn’t want to do more commissions. I was a GENIUS and slept at 3am on both friday and saturday nights so I was like brain dead for all of sunday. I was leaning backwards on my chair and drawing on my table at arm’s length. when I was done I look up the paper and they were all long and slanted and trapezoid shaped and WARPED because I was looking at the paper from a weird angle. Now I have to free transform them on photoshop back to whatever strange angle they were at before…… and all the sketches were so generic because I couldn’t think of anything interesting. I tried to make a character design but it was kinda meh and bland cus my brain couldn’t function. At least there was no wrestling on the third day ]:
Second drawing of Veloce in that outfit. She looks like a windmill at top view lol. I STILL can’t decide on how to do the back but whatever. The rectangle on the left is a thumb of how I want the entire picture to be (cumulus cloud covering the sun, pouring over a destroyed land in the horizon). the little text says “Storms that blind the sun cannot extinguish the destruction I’ve wrought”
Random sketch of Blackbird because I never draw her. I hate this sketch though, cus the figure is so not her and the shapes are horrible and her face looks dumb. This one and the next 2 are the sketches that I had to free transform cus they were mutated ]: but ya she doesn’t wear the same thing all the time, just very similar
Vocruen slightly pissed LOL??? he would never pull this face on vel though. maybe on other people…
prelim design for Rae (sangyun is his last name). most of the asian names in the story would phonetically mimic the chinese pronunciation. While I like asian names names I just can’t stand the authentic spelling, not to mention half the time it’s pronounced wrong. So I might as well make up cool english names based on chinese pronunciation! I need to look up chinese clothing to improve this ]: I have very limited ideas when it comes to oriental designs. The rug on his back is like wolf skin but I don’t know how to do it LOL. He’s a young bookworm mr. nice guy king. He’s kinda like Keri save for the fact that he’s not naive to the point of stupid
THAT IS ALL. And going to europe in 2 days :D I’ll be at london, paris, luzern, venice, rome, munich, and maybe salzburg. what are some recommended destinations of these places?
