Yukiko 2010 & Avvie

First and foremost:
Happy New Years!
I hope all of you guys are having a marvelous winter. :)
That being said...

It's about time I made myself a new ID for my deviantART. Seriously, the one I was using before was a sketch a did on whim so I could have an ID. Needless to say, I spent way more time on this.

Oh yeah, and don't know if I said this, but I found on the openCanvas website that they opened up a sister site, PGN Community, and the cool thing about this is that you can upload your event files and it'll actually play 'em. So here's the first entry on the site:
Event File.

I had the concept for the picture for a while. Back around August, I actually had another sketch planned out that I was going to use for my new ID.

EDIT: Found an even older concept!

Yukiko 2010 Sketch 1

Didn't like it so much, but I wanted to keep my stuffed animals in the back. So I tried again.

Yukiko 2010 Sketch 2

I wasn't too fond of that, though. I did like the whole "drawing on my page" concept, though. So I drew a new one but put Yukiko in a different pose.

Yukiko 2010 Sketch 2

The clothes on both these pictures are pretty much the same ones (as they're actually clothes I wear).

I outlined and coloured the picture during a family dinner party. With any kind of dinner party my parents throw, my sister and I would just finish our food early, and stay locked up in our rooms until dessert or something. In the meanwhile, I had lots of time to finish this:

Yukiko 2010

I'm actually quite proud of how this came out. I don't have a set palette or anything for skin so most of the time, the tones get a little funky looking. Here, the skin's nice and bright, and I love the technique I used to blot the colours in.
Skirt and hair's also nice (the skirt especially just for the folds).
But yeah, really, when I finished the picture I was like, "OMG, did I ever improve! If I keep it up, at this rate, I might actually produce stuff coloured pro-like!"

In total, from the final sketch to the colouring, I'd say the picture took about less than a day to complete.


Sketched on scrap paper with mechanical pencil.
Coloured in openCanvas.
Writing done in Photoshop.

Also, heyy, new avatar!

Floating on Heart Bubbles

The name kind of just appeared. There's really no reason I called it that, especially since it's a heart balloon, there's only one, and she's not floating on, she's floating by.

However, stupid deviantART's size limit forced me to make it lose a lot of weight, so the animation's a lot faster on my actual avvie there.


Made in MS Paint.
Animated in Photoshop.

SF-A2 miki

Can't believe I haven't uploaded this one yet, hah! Well, here it ish.

Say hello to SF-A2 miki, or SF-A2 開発コード miki as she is called by on the box.

SF-A2miki

Event File

Not much to say about her, but I do like her box art. Don't have much to say about her songs either, except her Engrish isn't bad (probably the best I've heard from a Japanese Vocaloid thus far). But if I had to choose my favourite song from her, I'd probably go with Fragile Snow for being the first song Google results came with.

The drawing itself is really old, probably done somewhere near the start of summer. Originally, I wanted to make her in time for AE, but I was preoccupied with making things people would actually want to buy. Well, recently, I decided to dredge up her old OC4 file and finish her up.

Kind of like the background, even if it's half-assed. The colours I used were nice, especially how the yellow circles pop against the blue and background.


Made in openCanvas.

Purple Doodles

One day, I looked at my sketch folder and thought to myself, "Huh, I don't have enough of those to go around."

Not much to say about this picture, besides I was obviously trying to limit myself with colours, but I thought the pink was needed, for, you know, difference's sake.

Thought I'd try out oekaki again, too. Ever since I got openCanvas, I've (regretably?) transition towards it.
Now that I actually used oekaki again, I understand why now.

Man, I thought I improved, too! I suppose in respects of drawing abilities and shading, but in terms of utilizing the program: still fail.

Really, out of all the three main oekakis (Oekaki BSS, Paint BBS, and Shii Painter), Shii Painter is probably my favourite. For one: I like their pen brush, have more brushes in general, and can have multiple layers. Paint BSS on the other hand, though probably the most popular, only has a crappy pencil and watercolour tool and two layers, so it is kind of annoying. I still don't understand how some people make such pro lineart - or any pro pictures at all. Oekaki BSS... there's a reason no one uses this when given the choice.

I think the main reason that I chose to go back to oekaki was I figured I'd go remake one of my old pictures. They did look pretty bad:

My first oekaki - most likely the first CG picture I didn't do on paint!

Shut up, man! That was done with my mouse, okay? No fancy tablet stuff!


First picture made on openCanvas.
Second picture made on Paint BSS.

Vocaloid Series (Sorta?): Zatsune Miku

Zatsune Miku

You know that I must've been really bored nowadays to actually do something art-wise, especially if the medium is traditional. Yes, that's right, more watercolours!

You see this over-occurring theme of hair fading into a purple shade so that I can avoid properly shading it? And zero skin shading, too?

Well, luckily for me, Zatsune's colours are predomidently black and red. The purple is just there to look cool, but on the fanmade box picture, the background is purple/magenta so I'm sure it fits.

Alrighty, so what I do like: the shading on her sleeves, and her right foot (the one coming out at us).
As for what I don't like: the sloppy hair, the nonexistent colour on her shit, and the "Z" in the top right-hand corner I didn't bother to take out among other things.

I've been wanting to do fanart of the evil Miku for a while, but with my laziness with the rest of the Vocaloids, I didn't get much time to do so. I decided to draw her in watercolours because I wanted, for once, to paint something simple, yet give it more "form" than with my other pictures. Plus, it's full bodied.
Yes, this picture was supposed to be "simple". Didn't turn out that way necessarily, though.

Considering to go a CG rendition of Zatsune regardless of being able to check her off my fanart list, but oh well. We'll see if I ever get around to that.


Made on “watercolor paper” pad, coloured with Talens transparent watercolours.

I need some real watercolour paper which doesn’t warp so badly

EDIT: I guess this is the last time I'm using Live Writer to import my Picasa pictures. I guess back to writing posts on Blogger, not like anyone should care.

Gah, I’m so bored nowadays. Ever since break started I’ve been doing nothing except watching cheezy Christmas specials on TV. Ugh, I might explode from the cheeziness. So to prevent myself from completely short circuting from the stupidness, I decided to do art, because I forgot I had the ability to art.

Here you go, guys. More fun with watercolours.

She’s eating the blue thing, can you tell?

Oh, here’s the tell-tale extreme paper warping due to watercolours. And I was actually using a “water colour” paper pad, but I should’ve know that trusting anything from Daiso was a bad idea. Oh well; real watercolour is too expensive for me.

The hair I cheaped out on, and did the same technique I used for one of my older pictures. Though the floral patterns on her arms, hair, and cheeks were tedious, but quite worth it in the end. I love that meticulous stuff, don’t you?

This was supposed to be a piece of “emotional art”, but it didn’t turn out so well. It’s still the nicest watercoloured picture I have, though!

Yup, and now I ruined my nice, white, nylon paint brush by permanently staining it with purples and blues (come on, doesn’t watercolour wash off?!).

And in addition, I also did some CGing! My word, what has the world become?!

 Granted, it’s cell-shaded and done pretty crappily. If you expanded the picture, you’ll see how much I didn’t care about the cell-shading.

What I hate about oC is how the whole thing just started slugging  when I try to select something and I just abandon the idea and just wing the shading, hoping nothing goes onto other parts.

I didn’t even bother with the cape! Bleh!

I have no idea who that’s supposed to be. Lets just say its Little Red Riding Hood and call it a day. It’s ambiguous enough to be anyone in a red cape.

Another thing to note:

Yes, I didn’t finish one picture, nor did I finish two picture, but I finished three pictures today! Granted, it was an old CG I started back before summer and most of it was done already, I can now check it off my to do list! It’s excess from my Vocaloid fanart project I’m currently failing at because there’s so many new stupid Vocaloids being made, that I can’t keep up.


First picture made on “watercolor paper” pad.
Coloured with Talens transparent watercolours ”

Second picture made in openCanvas.

Studies, among other things...

Started off as an animation reel kind of thing, evident in the awkwardly posed people at the top running around. She was the main focus of the picture, until I decided to do some studies. I think I did quite a good job on the muscles, personally, but it may be because I copied it off the screen (not literally, but close enough).

Then I told myself, "Hey, why don't I just continue doing some animal studies? I mean, I do need the help."
That gave birth to this:

It really is a shame that I forgot to scan this picture in in colour! I love colouring muscles in! The feline had colour-coded muscles, in fact.

The bird heads look awkward, to say the least. Actually, every animal's head, if I decided to include one, looks awkward. Exception to this are the skull heads (my personal favourite is the skeleton dog head). Yup, I already forgot everything I studied on the sheet. I guess more naked-animal drawing for me.

I also have a NSFW picture, but being NSFW (not like anyone visits here, much less during work) it will be for my eyes only. :)


Drawn with pencil on scrap printer paper.

Chocolate Microwave Mug Cakes

Because I’m a nice kid, I like to give things away in the spirit of Christmas. Teachers usually are on my gift list. However, this year due to lack of preparation and funds, I was at a loss of what to give.

Cue chocolate microwave mug cakes.

Okay, so I got this ingenius idea of giving my teachers, as the name implies, a cake baked in a mug. I was going to decorate it so it looked like hot chocolate or what not. Plus, once they were done eating it, they were left with a cheezy Christmas mug I found lying around the house (that I soon learned was supposed to be a gift never given).

This recipe is so easy that I can recite it by memory:

Chocolate Microwave Mug Cakes

• Mug
• 4 tbsp flour
• 4 tbsp white sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• Pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp milk
• 3 tbsp oil
• 3 tbsp chocolate chips
• Splash of vanilla extract
• Marshmallows (optional)

Directions

1. Add dry ingredients together (that includes sugar) in the mug. Mix.
2. Add egg. Mix.
3. Add milk and oil. Mix.
4. Add chocolate chips and vanilla. Mix.
5. I personally poured out a little less than 1/3 of the batter into another cup to maximize my cheapness and to prevent too much overflow. This is dependant on how big your mug is, and if you care.
6. Put mug in the microwave and cook it on high for 1 and a half minutes. The batter will rise out of the mug, which is fine, as it’ll fall once you take it out. However, I would keep a close eye to any batter spilling over the sides, in which case I would stop the microwave, whip off the side, and continue cooking.
7. Stick a toothpick through the cake and see if it comes out clean.
8. For my mug cakes, I covered the top with marshmallows while the cup was still hot so it’d melt a little and thus hold its place. I was hoping that the melted marshmallow gloop would play the role of frosting in the sense of retaining moisture.

Yes, it may sound fishy that I actually don’t know how the whole thing tastes, but from the slice I had lopped off from an overflowing top tasted pretty good. It’s chocolate and moist. I would think the bottom of the cake isn’t completely baked, maybe even like a lava cake, but that’d be even better.

Yup, sorry for no picture! Forgot to take one! Not like that it looked impressive anyways. It was just cake in a cup wrapped in clear plastic.

I don't even remember the last time I used watercolours

I've been using brushes everything, my toothbrush anyways. It's been a while since I've picked up a paint brush, but yesterday I bought 24 pack of Artist's Loft watercolor pencils and was excited to test them out.

I used regular Strathmore Sketchbook paper, and it's like pretty thin so the paper warped, surface rubbed off, and the colour bled to the other side. This explains the dark wrinkles on the paper. I used a lot of water to create the blotting effects, way more than the paper could withstand. Ah, maybe next time I should use watercolour paper, but it's so expensive! Anyone know a cheaper alternative?

It stared off with the head sketched in with blues, purples, and greens. When I painted that in, I decided, on a whim, to add wings, because wings are cool. I soon noticed I would need to lay down more colour than I liked if I wanted it blend in with the head. Here comes my Talens water color set my sister bought in Hong Kong, mint condition.

For my first picture with any kind of "paint", it didn't turn out as bad as I expected. I enjoyed the generic, run-of-the-mill colours offered by my watercolour set than I expected. When it comes to markers and coloured pencils, the more colours, the better. I forgot you can mix with paints. Also, I found out that pans/cakes is way more convenient than tubes. Have you ever noticed that when you mix colors together, you get less than what you started out with? Weird.

Don't ask me about the white oval in the bottom of the dress. I don't know either.

So, interested with the new media, I tested it out again today. This time, I drew in a pencil outline as well as trying to get the colours to what it's supposed to be. Oh, and less water.

The hair turned out great, albeit a bit plain, but for the most part I had kept it to the outline. "Alright," I thought, "the rest should be great, too!"

Well, the skin turned out pretty horribly. The pink I intended for the the fingers, cheeks, and joints spread everywhere.
Oh, and I also found out that the "black" I was using actually was a purple, and my jar of water was actually blocking the real black!

I added in some white highlights with my new brush, the Nobel round short-handle in size 5/0, the finest brush I own. I was hesitant with it, though, as I intended it to either be used with masking fluid or or white ink, and the white-ness would make it a real pain to clean.

Excited to explore some more.


Made on Strathmore Sketchbook paper
Coloured with transparent watercolors and Artist's Loft watercolor pencils
Second picture also used Derwent metallic pencils and Liquitex ink in Titanium White

Poor kitty, always being picked on by penguin

In psychology, we're learning about interpersonal relationships, but more specifically aggression. We were to make a comic strip of someone disengaging from a conflict. You know those things we were taught in school where if someone does something you don't like, say, "I don't appreciate you doing ___ and I'd like you to stop!" thing that you would never do because no one backs off? Well, that's the gist of it.

There was this one example that was hilarious and sad at the same time because the conflict was "resolved" but the guy getting picked on killing the dude picking on him. How peaceful, no?

INTERESTING FACT: Ever hesitate to do something because you thought "someone else would do it"? Well, everyone thinks like that. Many people die because, even though people would hear whomever in peril, no one does anything (some even watch the person die). By the time the police/ambulance arrive, they're dead. So moral of the story: call the damn police.

My 1st draft drawn in class. As you can see, there are two guys looking like they're constipated. Like how I tried to draw them in a "cartoony style"? I'm not one of those people who draw anime in everything; I know when it's appropriate. I switched the people into animals, though, as animals look cool and can be drawn stupid.
On the bottom with the ear and the part with the cloud and unicorn was my attempt to do a floor-chart-esque thing like some people have done and succeeded. Unfortunately, I don't have the genius to come up with something like that.

Final Product:

Poor kitty, always being picked on my penguin!

You get it? Is it funny? I don't think it's funny. No newspaper would accept this.

Technical part:
It's been a while since I've cracked out the good ol' pencil crayons/coloured pencils. For the past little while, it's all been my dear Copics, but I figured that: one) I need to save ink, and two) I haven't used them in a while.
I'm quite happy to report that, unlike me from grade 8 and 9, when I use pencil crayons, I try to add contrast in the colours. Failed, though, for the most part.

Man, is my room ever hot? Its' almost the end of fall and beginning of winter! Why is it so hot? And I can't stand hot. Bleh, me and my hyperthyroidism.


Drawn in pencil on printer paper.
Second picture inked in Faber-Castell Black PITT pen,
coloured with Prismacolours.

Even though it's Halloween soon, I didn't succeed in making anything scary

Sunday

Caitlin and her artillery

You may see "Bethany" next to her, but trust me, I right now changed to her name to Caitlin. Even though her official title is a knight, Caitlin takes on the role of a thief or a spy (giving her the title of "Caitlin the thief"). Her weapons include a key which can pick any lock, assorted bombs, and bottled up various emotions (but most commonly happiness). On, and like an ice pick. You know, those things the mafia uses.
Oh, yeah, guess who's applied to university? (Not that cool.)

Monday

Try guessing who this is! You'll never get it without a hint.

Tuesday

3:34. That's all I'll say.

Wednesday

Ice queen

Alright, something to break the chain of the first two pictures! Like the caption says ice maiden/queen/girl/person as one of my favourite elements is ice/snow. Her hair's inspired by Subeta. She's standing in front of moonlight because I needed a filler and crosshatching is cool.

Thursday & Friday

Costumes

This picture was drawn with each head separate from one another, but the crosshatching of the background blended them into one pic so it'll be uploaded as one picture.
The first head pretty much is me having too much fun with shadows. Oh, and showing off the hairstyle of one of my bob wigs.
The second head is my last minute costume I threw together for school on Halloween. It includes: a black and pink striped ponytail wig, a long white dress shirt, a cross choker, and a belt decorated with a pattern of roses in red glitter made out of cheap costume material as I took it from an old costume.
Yes! Halloween!


Saturday

Happy Hallo's Eve

 "Hallo's Eve?" What the hell does that mean?
Well, this is my attempt at drawing something "scary" for the sake of Halloween. Quite clear, I didn't succeed because, for one, it's covered in a border of lace, and two... it just isn't scary. I think I was going for something like Masky. But that looks so much scarier than this piece of shit, haha.

Caring

"Caring means showing concern for the thoughts, feelings, and well-being of others."
I can't believe I'm still sharing the generic, run-of-the-mill, you'd-expect-to-find-in-a-self-help-book quotes from my agenda!


Drawn with pencil on agenda.

I just love Megurine Luka, don't I? (Not really, I just draw fanart of her a lot.)

Sunday

Taylor and her sight/hearing enhancer lens eyepiece thing.

I spelled the name in the picture, oh well.
Taylor is still in the works. I'm not satisfied with the design for her eyepiece (which is crucial for her design).

Monday

Black vine tattoo scratch marks.

Tuesday

Wednesday & Thursday

Just Be Friends?

Megurine Luka and her boyfriend in Just Be Friends by Yehuyuan Studios. If it wasn't for the balloon, the picture would've only took up the Wednesday section of my agenda, but no.

Friday & Saturday

"Don't feel loneliness/I'll be there with you."

Remember last post when I mentioned CompT's awesome song, I Miss Him? Well, here are the lyrics to it, as well as a picture of a head that has no relation to the song whatsoever. The head and hand looks awkward, so I'm not too crazy about this picture. Bleh.
That hand holding the flower (yes, that's what the big dark blog in the middle of the lyrics is) looks like ze crap, too.

Bravery

"Bravery: Bravery is having courage in the face of fear or extreme difficulty. When have you shown bravery?"


Drawn with pencil on agenda.

ArtRage: First Impressions

If you guys don't know already, I'm a huge art application junkie. To name a few I have/had:

• GIMP (this is the only one I no longer have, but as it's freeware anyways...)
• Photoshop and all the other Design Suite apps (I downgraded my CS3 to my current CS2 because the icons are prettier :D)
• openCanvas 1.1
• openCanvas 4 (tool of choice)
• Easy Paint Tool SAI
• MS Paint - of course

Now I've got another to add to my collection. After reading a few forum topics about art applications, this name kept coming up: ArtRage. (And openCanvas never came up.)
So here's my first ever "review" thingamajig.

So I got ArtRage Studio 3. My first impression was the interface - it looked really nice! They took the time to round out the corners, for one, and give everything a sort of cohesiveness.  Here's a screenshot of ArtRage compared to PS CS2 and SAI.

Easy Paint Tool SAI... sadly, I forgot to open a new file so you can see the canvas.

Photoshop CS2.

ArtRage Studio 3 - obviously the prettiest one of the bunch!

One of the first things I noticed were how the brushes were displayed and how it mirrored the colour wheel. I think almost everything is collapsable.

ArtRage is very simular to the concept of Corel Painter in the sense that it tries to imitate real artistic medias.

Test run:

I'm quite fond of the paint tube combined with the pallette knife, which is what I used to make that huge sploch of colour in the background. I drew the face in with a pencil and a pastel. The birds and the beads on the left are stickers.

The reasons why I chose Studio 3 was for the watercolours. It looked so enticing in the preview image as it really looked, well, real. The eye in the top right-hand corner was painted using watercolours, and I have to say, I love the brush. It really imitates the qualities of watercolours. It can create vibrant strokes of colours as well as mix together to create a beautiful gradient effect. Other tools I used for the eye was a pencil.

Other brushes I tested out:

• Brush: a oval brush which imitates something akin to acrylics or oils. Streaks are left on the paint as if the brush hairs were really sweeping into them. It's a harder brush compared to the others.
• Fineliner: a circular, opaque brush. It work well for fine lining if the sensitivity was increased. I'm not much of a fan of it because it's blocky colour is so jarring against gentleness of the imitated brushes.
• Palette Knife: it's also featured as one of the blending in tools in many graphic programs. So this is really just the "mixer".
• Paint Tube: can only be used effectively with the knife, or else it'd look like this funny tube of colour.
• Crayon: a scruffy, textured brush.
• Pastel: simular to the crayon except softer as has a chalk-like quality.
• Pencil: akin to the crayon except the chunks of colour are closer together as well as the brush being generally thinner. I personally don't see the pencil like quality of it.
• Glitter: the weirdest thing about this is that it can also be smudged by the palette knife. This can be used for some cool effects.

One of the special things about ArtRage are the stickers. It's akin to some of the decorated brushes in PS, especially if the brush was a picture. I really enjoy ArtRage's birds in flight stickers, though. It looks like a good way to cheat my way out of painting a proper background!
Also, you can adjust how metallic the brushes should be, which is a first of any program I've seen for sure! All it does is turn up the contrast - and at 100% it looks like an ugly filter has been put on top of the line. Kudos for the innovation, though.

Also, I'm not too crazy with the lag, but my computer seems to be lagging regardless nowadays so this point can hardly be valid. I don't know if it's ArtRage's exceptional GUI, but I think that could be one of them. Well, it's a big problem because this really hinders how often I will use the program.


All in all, ArtRage is a good solid program, especially if you're into simulating traditional mediums. I recommend it for people who just like doodling or people who are new to CG art and have trouble transitioning from traditional to computer. One day I'll get Corel Painter, but ArtRage seems like a good replacement for all the poor people!

I used to make characters my age because I thought it was a good number but now that I'm that old, it's not cool anymore

Hello, agenda. What do you have in store for us today?

Sunday & Monday

Yukiko's old

Did you know it was my birthday on October 10th? Yes, so that explains why it's a persona fest going on, and by persona, I mean Yukiko. Avelyn (renamed from Amaranth because it has no meaning), found below the face, is there because she was heavily inspired by your's truely (like any character of mine's isn't). The bottom Yukiko has lulzworthy anatomies because she became a midget. I wonder what's she holding onto? Who knows?

 I actually posted this picture before, but since I drew more stuff on it since then, I thought I'd re-upload.

Tuesday

Wednesday

"I cried all through the night... I miss him~"

Megurine Luka from the song I Miss Him by CompT. It's also the only Vocaloid song where the English lyrics are at least something akin to normal speaking English and isn't riddled with words such as "hope", "dream", "believe", "rainbow", etc. It's probably also the second  best English I've heard from a Vocaloid, which is sad because Luka's supposed to be Japanese.
Did I ever mention how weird the English Vocaloids sound when singing English? Is this how Japanese Vocaloids sound to the Japanese? But I do have to admit, the no. one best English song from a Vocaloid has to be from Big Al. (His voice is actually kinda sexy, HAHA.)

Thursday & Friday

Great poorly-aligned emo poem thar!

According to About.com,  "(d)rawings of eyes are practiced a great deal by artists, and may suggest a frustrated artistic talent. They are sometimes regarded as showing a wish to be desirable. A feeling of being watched might be shown by a staring eyes, or especially an eye through a keyhole - you feel your privacy is being invaded." Which is strange because I'm not any of these things, or at least, I'm not the latter. I must've been really frustrated as a kid, then.
How you like the included "poem"?


Saturday

"This is where it ends."

The lyrics of Hush by Automatic Love Letter. Even though there are far more words than Ashes in wine, it was able to all neatly fit into the Saturday section of my agenda. Which leads me to my next point: why is the space dedicated for Saturday so damn big when Sunday is half of that? Like who's going to write that much stuff on their agenda during the weekend?
I'm quite proud with the shaded head. :)

Boldness.

"Boldness: Boldness means being willing to trying new things or face adventure with a sense of confidence." Well, no shit.


Drawn with pencil on agenda.

Emotion Haul

Following my week of melancholy, more emotion shit!

I find it questionable how useful art is as a therapy means, but I do like drowning myself in depressing pictures to pass the time.

I won't struggle. Just shoot me through the chest.

...or,  judging from the picture, more like the neck! Amirite?

Not much to say besides it's pretty emo.

Strangling the b**** who ruined it all.

Caption explains all. Man, who needs me when you've got such a descriptive caption?

Huh, maybe I should change the title from "haul" to "double" or something. Not many pictures here, really.


Drawn with pencil on good ol' scrap printer paper.

Pink and Purple

As I write this, I just finished drawing this picture.

This picture is actually a teaser for my annual birthday picture of my dear persona, Yukiko.

Hide your eyes because there's bright pink.

So what I like:

• Focused on two colours I kind of just chose on a limb (no, really, I just airbrushed some pink and purple on the background because I felt like it).
• Instead of blue in her hair and white on her dress, it's really shades of pink and purple, gasp!
• Her face turned out quite vivid... before I messed up the background.
• Coloured in 1 layer.
• The guy's coloured in the same colours as the background so he's not super intrusive.
• Background first, people after.
• It didn't take me a long time
• Experimented with colours in ways I usually don't.

Now what I don't like:

• Did my drawing abilities deteriorate? The anatomy is lol as well as the face... and pretty much everything else about it.
• What the hell happened to the background? 
• What am I trying to accomplish with this? Huh?
• Her right hand. Period.
• The skin tone I chose is so lifeless and unnatural.
• I don't like it!
• etc etc etc

It also took me about 2 hours to finish this picture - a first! No wonder it looks so bad, huh?


Made in openCanvas

A week of meloncholy

All I will say is that it happened the Friday prior to the week I'm writing about, and obviously, it's not a happy thing. Bleh, it's pretty obvious what it is, too, from the pictures.

Despite the solemn undertone, I'm really happy about this weekly endeavor. I came out with some great pics I love looking at every time I flip through my agenda.

Note: The days of the week does not correspond to when I drew it, it's just what part of my agenda it is labeled as.


Sunday
The start:

Keep on falling.

Monday

How far will my voice reach?

Tuesday

Melt away.

Wednesday

Earth bound.

She's not an angel, just a girl with wing. The end. The image has been in my head for a while... and I did not capture it in paper. Shame.

Thursday

A stoic, moon-white face.

Friday

Sing you a song you won't hear.

Saturday
The end...?

Ashes and Wine

I've got to say that this is my favourite picture out of the bunch. I spent a while shading in the tones. The entire lyrics for the song Ashes and Wine is there. Now, you'll just need to read my handwriting.

Fly away...

Drawn with pencil.