I never thought I’d have trouble finishing stuff, but I do now because I just feel like drawing simple pieces, but I’m very self conscious about the sequence in which I make new drawings, and I’ve finished way too many simple pieces recently that I feel like drawing something complex to break the chain. The result is I have a hard time picking what I want to finish and actually finishing it LOL ]: I’ve also been doing a lot of work for a friend’s web design so I haven’t had much time to draw at all ~_~ but thanks to my astounding discipline I was still able to make some progress on stuff to post haha
Coloured scrap from aikon! I had the word bravura pretty early on so everything on this picture actually centered around it. I actually really liked the idea and the feeling in general because this kind of flare and outlet is what I like the best, but the picture turned out to be a lot more tame than it should be lol ): I don’t know if I’m just subconsciously trying to be cool or something but I’ve always liked cars and fighter jets and battle ships as artistic objects even though I barely know anything about them, and I’ve always wanted to have a drawing or two of them. So here it is, a concert on a carrier! not that the music can logically be heard over all those jets flying overhead, if they should even fly when a thunderstorm is nearby, but who cares about logic LOLOL. I was inspired by a part of the art of piano documentary where a pianist was performing for fighter pilots outdoors, and propeller planes flew over them and drowned out a bit of the music, but it was an amazing effect and the thought of performing at such an environment gets my blood boiling lol
face, now with body!
This one won the polls so I pushed myself to get started on it. I was hesitant because I didn’t really know where to bring this picture in terms of environment, you can kind of tell HAHA. I made more progress than this wip but it looks better like this LOL ]: I debated between using lines and not using lines for this one; I went with no lines in the end because most people voted for it, but now I kind of regret it because it looks… weird LOL salfksdljhl I hope it’s only because I only started refining it and that it will look nicer and more consistent once I finish more of it. But if not, I guess I can always do lineart afterwards….. dot dot dot
On life, I went to the dentist a few days ago to clean my teeth and they tried to do an xray of my teeth with a chip inside my mouth. Except it’s too fucking big and I couldn’t get it next to my teeth. Both the hygienist and the dentist tried like 4 times to shove it to the right spot, and the plastic covering on the chip ended up scratching my gums omg I was in so much pain. I tried to stand it because I thought it was just pressure, but I only found out afterwards that it actually HURT my gum because the two lesions grew into canker sores now UGH. I was tearing from the pain at the appointment, and the doctor was like “no need to get emotional” and in my mind I was just like WOW REALLY FUCK YOU ASSHOLE LOL. The second time I went back it was a different hygienist, she tried to do another xray and I was like no I can’t do it. I showed her the lesions and she was like “oh did the doctor say what they’re from?” I was like YOU GUYS DID THIS LOL FUCK MY LIFE ]: so in the end she let me go without it…. and my mouth’s been painful for a week now FFFFFFFF She also basically like stabbed all my teeth at the gum area to measure the gap between the gum and the tooth? holy shit man had I known I would’ve taken a pain killer or something cus it was just like 2 hours of torture ): and I walked out with the dentist telling me I should surgically remove 3 of my wisdom teeth even though they aren’t even close to my molars. I’m trying to avoid it because he says it could be a year, it could be when I’m 50, it could be never, when they do come out. But my dad is pushing me to do it anyway just because it’s covered by his insurance LOL…… 2011 SUCKS, 1 SURGERY IS ENOUGH
I just came back from Aikon yesterday! It’s in Winnipeg and it’s the first time I’ve been there (the con and the city). I was really worried about a lot of stuff like getting along with people and commute and whether or not I’ll make my money back since it’s a tiny con, but luckily my dear host Rensing and her family was amazingly nice and fun. The room I got was like 5 star hotel status and during the usual long boring hours of AA, I got to talk to a lot of cute fun artists who were also exhibiting there so I enjoyed it a lot! In the end I did make some money so I’m very happy. I usually don’t sell a lot at AAs and this trip turned out to be absurdly expensive for its distance so I was relieved! Here’s a super long winded account of my trip plus a lot of sketches that I did there :D (more…)
I’ve been having such an “art block” per se that I haven’t done anything since I finished next week’s update yesterday. ok that doesn’t sound like a long time LOL BUT IT IS. I’ve been getting by with working on a web design for a friend, but otherwise I barely got anything done. It’s not even a real art block because I can come up with things to draw, it’s just that I’m forcing myself to go for illust concepts of stuff I like but have trouble doing, ie modern, casual, down to earth, more photo-like rather than arbitrary and posed. And those didn’t go anywhere ): so I got annoyed in the end and just flipped to an unfinished sketch from last october, finished it and pretended I got something done LOL
a princess of northern descent! I believe I was really just trying to make a chinese princess crown with baroque ornaments but I decided to draw her some fancy clothes too. I think this is weirin but I’m not sure…..
yesterday night’s attempt to convince myself I didn’t waste the night away LOL. I painted half of it and got a little bored because I really just wanted work on illustration ideas some more. It was nice to colour hair brainlessly for 2 hours and occasionally chat on livestream!
And lastly, tonight’s attempt to be productive was to .:*~research drinks~*:. because, you know, I decided to make poor veloce an alcoholic but I don’t drink at all nor know how they’re served :D The best way to avoid making her look like a poser is of course to do it myself, but I hate the taste of alcohol lol SO youtube will have to do! I ended up looking at bartenders and this guy is pretty funny and the best I could find tonight. Everyone else looked like juggling clowns because they just toss their bottles around for a while with a long or nervous face, then pour the drinks like nothing happened which is pretty lame ):
busy with work -> get bored -> tumblr breaks -> INSPIRATION TO WASTE TIME ON DRAWINGS. and here we wonder why we always get inspired to draw when we’re busy
based on these very fabulous horses, except not so fuzzy cute because the first thing that hit me was their eyes and I thought the one on the left was hilarious LOL. I was going to draw a self parody because drawing your characters to photos of animals deserves one, but I derailed from work to do this so I need to get stuff done lol ):
crappy sketches for not blackbird! The first one was the original concept when I started to work on it on photoshop. The idea was supposed to be the sky crying tears of blood but I keep having trouble with the movement and placement of the eyes and ended up drawing the second picture first haha. AND THEN PHOTOSHOP DECIDED TO CRASH WHEN I ONLY SAVED ONE VERSION so I had to redraw them so they look like crap lol ):
The second picture is one of the many gods?spirits? created by the person who took the high priest’s memories. The spirit’s name is Kanzeon, because its abilities is to see the things happening in the world with its countless eyes, similar to the bodhisattva that she’s named after (maybe better known as Guan Yin/Guan Shi Yin (观世音） but this spelling sucks ass). This spirit doesn’t exist anymore though and not many people know her story. My high priest character’s abilities comes from/is the same as this spirit’s, and because she doesn’t remember her name and didn’t want to randomly get a new one, she lets people call her whatever they like. Kanzeon was one of the nicknames people gave her because of her abilities and it just stuck/spread, so it basically became her name. The bodhisattva uses her outreach of senses to see/hear the sufferings of the people in the world and… help them? or share the burden of pain; at first I was going to make Kanzeon that kind of figure but I decided not to in the end, because I want to keep the kind of dense personality that her RO counterpart has, and that would be difficult if she’s too strong LOL.
