Weirin is complete! I finished this last week technically, but I forgot to draw the little flower on her shirt and I managed to put that off for like 7 days
And I saw this totally creepy roll of clouds yesterday night this morning at like 4 am (when I went to bed). It’s like a tidal wave that spanned the whole sky, slowly pushing across an otherwise clear night sky, lit in the distance by downtown Toronto. By the time I adjusted the camera to the right night time setting most of the sky was already covered by the clouds ): had I been faster this shot would’ve looked even cooler. I had to adjust the photo’s brightness tremendously on PS but I am surprised it showed decently, UNLIKE THE OTHER NIGHT PHOTO I TOOK BEFORE LMAO
We had our first real winter storm last week. The next day had some pretty nice skies and stuff so I took some pics throughout the day. What I realized from this was how much my new camera ROCKS compared to the old one. The light capturing is fucking amazing and aside from special situations like nighttime shooting (which I’m sure I just haven’t figured out how to handle yet, not because of the camera’s incompetence) what I shoot is basically what I see.
God look at all the different whites and grays… LOL OK I’M EASILY IMPRESSED SHOOT ME
The sky cleared up in the evening!
And a fail pic because I don’t know how to make it focus at night LMFAO
a 7am shot on sunday because my mom was trying really hard to wish my grandpa happy birthday over the phone and woke me up… I slept at like 4 ):
I was drawing zoomlines manually on this page and I was so scared I would mess up, because I use a relatively soft cardstock and I draw really hard, so mistakes would bruise the cardstock and be really hard to erase. So I scanned it in first and took a picture before I continued LOL… LIKE IT’S GOING TO LIGHT ON FIRE AT ANY MOMENT
This is what it looked like when I finished it on paper. I filled in the rest of the blacks on photoshop and basically blacked out most of the zoomlines I did on the bottom half because it looked better that way ): Now that I think back I probably should’ve just used a pen for that part instead; I wasted sooooo much lead on this page and I bet in like 2 years or something it’s going to smudge like crazy even though it’s in sheet protectors…and I’m going to cry ):
I also marked all the areas that I will fill in with black digitally just so I don’t get confused. I think usually comic artists use x’s, but I thought if I magic wand with x’s all over, I’m going to get little unselected corners that would be a pain in the ass to clean up. So I used c’s instead, and Meron’s cloak ended up looking like it toad skin HAHAHAH
Just the WIP of a song I wrote~ I was writing a song for my friend last year (2009 lol), but I couldn’t for the life of me find the CDs for the music programs I once had so I never got around to it… I thought all hope was lost, but today Chris helped me find it again. I was going to get a lot of Blackbird toning done today but I wasted most of the day away playing with the program because I was SO OVERJOYED AND FILLED WITH HAPPINESS BY OUR REUNION. Sadly I never got past the noob level with the program so I was soon disappointed by myself because everything sounds like shit. I don’t have a keyboard either so it’s like I’m trying to paint on photoshop with a mouse… I spent most of the time trying to figure out the pedaling and dynamics to make it sound nice LOL BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE BILLIONS OF KNOBS AND OPTIONS ON THE SCREEN DO… But after some hours everything still sounds muddied and there’s no tempo/dynamics variation because I couldn’t figure them out ROFL. Some part of me still wish I could just play and record this song instead of trying to teach a computer how to play it, but I have no vocalist to sing the song, so mr robot clarinet it is
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Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (: I finished my work early so I could do some CGing which I dearly missed.
I Livestreamed tonight and did the rough colours for this! I have no idea what to do with it now; I don’t like drawing line art, but finishing this without lines is going to kill me. I do hope to be able to finish this in time for v-day or something though, even though it’s totally gay
And I spent yesterday drawing weirin’s profile picture. Only Blackbird and Iriel left now LOL I am so relieved that I could still draw it in the same style as Veloce and Keri, which were done like 2 years ago or something. I hate her colours so much too LOL. PURPLE GOES WITH NOTHING and I had such limited choices because I already decided the shades of her outfit in the manga. The colour swatches I had at the side looked like distant light speckles so I decided to filter the shit out of the wip. I figured I’m bad at filtering so why not get some (indiscriminate) practice in!
And here’s a mess I made a few days ago. I supposed I should work on some of the chara designs for the next part of Blackbird even though I don’t really feel like it… because I’m not that crazy about drawing old people and animals, but I have to sooner or later ): I figured I should do the Chief’s cat form first and derive the human form from there to maybe, MAYBE make him look a little more distinguishable. But so far the human form looks like the king with a lot of hair so it’s not working LOL. And the animal form beast-humans take can change but not easily. They don’t grow larger over time, for example Meron’s cat form is as small as Iriel’s, because she prefers it that way. This chief, as you can see, prefers to be a huge tiger unicat!
On a random note, I’ve always had this HUGE pet peeve of watching young people play video games music, or “compose” or “improvise” piano music on places like youtube. The former is ok but the latter two just piss the shit off of me for pretty retarded reasons. I rarely ever watch these videos myself but once in a while I will get linked to one that is “impressive” or “popular”, and I get really annoyed because I can dissect the music by ear. By the time it finishes playing I would’ve figured out everything about it without extra hearings because it’s that shallow; yet people will like it because it sounds showy, nice, or both.
I am annoyed because I know I feel this way out of the elitist mentality in me: I can do what they can do (so can a lot of other people in fact, it takes no skill). Yet I can’t help but to look down on people who do this, and then get upset at the attention they reap because they’re fine with being shallow and I’m not. People will be marveling at these simple indulgences instead of listening to music that has even a slight bit more content in them. They make pop music look good!
The worst part about this is I am in the shoes of these showoffs when it comes to art, because what I do for art is basically what they do for music (LOL ANIMU VS REAL ARTSIES) Knowing this I still can’t forgive the fact that they take pride in being the frogs at the bottom of a well. MY DOUBLE STANDARD IS ASTROCIOUS ]: Sometimes I wish I hadn’t gone to university for music so I don’t feel so overconfident in this area
a documentary that is long, cheesy and probably contains unreliable info, but hits all the right spots to win my heart. I’ll be stealing honouring the concepts of perfection vs artistry in Blackbird :D
The one year I wanted to watch the count down, everyone decides to sleep super early LOL THIS IS SO SAD
I went to two christmas gatherings of old high school friends and they were fun. It’s so sad I don’t get together with any of my college friends because I judge too much to make good friends in college HAHAH. We watched Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and I didn’t like it much. None of the characters were likeable except for the cheshire cat and the march rabbit, the plot was a pretty bad attempt at being serious and there was no logic anywhere… And we went to see some fun lights at waterloo, where we acted like 13 year old RETARDS taking ridiculous photos with the lights LOL. Some of the lights were so crooked and weird; there was a yellow charmander and a pokeball that was not round, plus REALLY CREEPY santas and elves moving slowly scaring the shit out of us.
yep
We also played NY chase, where 4 of our detectives failed MISERABLY to catch the thief… apparently an engineer, an archeologist and two artists don’t make a very good team of detectives
In other news I’m finally past the halfway point on the super secret manga YAYYYY! I’m beginning to not like the style I worked with for this project but I have to at least finish it first before I can change anything about it in order to be consistent. Here’s a veloce with a haircut in a suit character from the super secret manga
“does my gender look ambiguous to you”
And lastly I’ve wanted to draw them as some high school gang for a while now and ended up making an alternate world for them. Blackbird is a blur because of the sketchbook scanning problem again LOL she was next to the binding coils ): and fucking cubist car floating in midair lmao
