Papercraft: Kitty

Some more papercrafts. I've been getting into those as of recent.

Meow.

Design.

Probably the hardest design I've tried to conquer yet, especially with all the small fussy bits.

Once my printer gets more yellow ink, I'm so ready to work on the love birds. Now, I just need to find out where to put 'em when they're done...

Con news and what not

Before I start on the more important stuff, here, have some art.

Moon-goddess form (wow, that's lame) of Anaria

I drew for the sake of me always drawing a revision of her every couple 'o years.
Mhm, rainbows.

Old-ass sketch I never got around to uploading.

Another sketch of a person.

Made in SAI.


Alright, as you may or may not know, last year I was fortunate enough to be part of Artist Alley in our city's annual con, Anime Evolution. This year, there wouldn't be one, but there are some smaller events happening, all of which offer an Artist Alley type thing.

Cos & Effect
August 13 - 14
Our current replacement for Anime Evolution. Since I don't have Facebook, and it doesn't have a proper website, I don't have much information on this. All I know is that there's going to be an Artist Alley consisting of 25 tables. They'll be accepting applicants on a skill level basis, which means lulzy crappy artists would be weeded out. I don't know if I'll be one of those rejected, however. In any case, deadline for applications are soon so I'll need to start working on some impressive stuff.

MiniComi
July 23rd
From the description, this is more artist market oriented. I think you'll also need to submit work for them to judge, but I think it'll be more lenient, and perhaps leaning more on the "first come first serve" basis. Not sure if I should register, but it's a lot cheaper than Cos & Effect. Plus, it's free if you just want to check it out, which I just might do since it's a one day event anyways.

Coincidentally, both events are held in the same university as last year's Anime Evolution was held.

Alright so that's enough posting for me at one go. I'm missing my Dragonball Z Kai right now. kthxbye.

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 3 - Ze Actual Thing

...and, without furthur ado, here's actual comic.

The pages are black and white because I sent the pages to another guy who printed them out and coloured it like that. That's why only the cover has colour because I was in charge of printing that out (and I was shit scared that my colour printer, which was already running out of yellow ink, wouldn't make it).
Also, over half of them have words because at first, I was putting the text in myself. For the rest of it, I got another guy to do it. Like you'll understand it with or without text, though.

And yes, I found the Looney Toons part kind of... just thrown in for the hell of it. I do have to say that I did a good job (at least in some parts) of making them look like who they're supposed to be.

Oh yeah, I forgot that people read left to right in America. Woops.

Unfortunately, the rest of the colouring was not as kick ass as this.

Copyright infringement.

I actually like how Sylvestor looks here, standing there all stupid like.

Because they totally don't resemble who they're supposed to be.

...troll face.

"You realize, this means war!"

Bet you'll never guess who those three Daniels are (though you already wouldn't if you didn't go to school with me).

Pepe's got a gay crush on Bugs.

D'aw.

And this is exactly why I chose Pepe: he always ends up alone in his shorts.

Should've ended it with "That's All, Folks!" instead of a sad picture of (supposedly) Shylock.

While I was doing my individual evaluation of how the marks should be distributed around the group, when it came to one member, I wrote down "I honestly don't know" in the part where it says to list what they did. Though it's not entirely true, because I heard he coloured in two backgrounds.
Granted, I did hog a lot of work, lol. But that's because drawing's my forte.

Outlined in SAI,
Edited in Photoshop.
Cover made in openCanvas,
Edited in Photoshop.

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 2 - Character Concepts

So, I think I may have just over planned my graphic novel here. I knew I wanted to stray away from my usual anime style, and since - predictably - finding out that it's going to be a funny comic, found it not very befitting either. Thus, I tried to make up a style that's more American cartoon-ny, and here are the results.

P.S. Mainly these pictures are of Portia because I'm sexist like that.

Portia, Bassanio, and a Disney-ish head.

First initial sketch to just get me in the mood for it. I kept a lot of the features on Portia more or less the same, though (the slanted eyes, for example).

Portia

The rest were drawn during the wee hours of a school night. I think the most important thing I wanted to accomplish then was to draw peoples who looked different, and not just "different hair and eye colour" different.

Bassanio and Portia.

Portia and Nerissa/Jessica.

A stoned Antonio and a Bassanio.

HOLY SHIT, WHAT'S THIS?
It's pretty much me playing around with different styles but with the same head. Kind of like the style meme I did a while ago, except less messy, and there's a realistic girl and a furry version. Can you guess which each style tries to emulate?

Don't bother, because I didn't try to copy anything.

In the end, it didn't really matter how long I spent planning how the characters would look...


Drawn in SAI.
First pic drawn on printer paper with mechanical pencil.

Graduation Owl Papercraft

Man, if only I had found these sooner! I couldn't made them for one of my two friends who graduated last year. But as of now, the only person graduating soon is me. So I guess it's a graduation gift to myself, haha?

Oh, but before I show you the picture, I must say this: check out the awesome collection of licensed manga in the background. 

Graduating Owl Papercraft.

Template.

What's cool about it is that there's a male and female versions, and both have a change of robe colour and the scroll be a bouquet or something. I chose the generic female one as I'm not a dude.

The owl is also intended to have a message on the yellow/green paper disc its standing on.

Pretty awesome, huh? You'd never know it was made out of paper unless I told you.

Now I'm inspired to make a dog or maybe some more birds.

More dip pen tests

So, it'll probably be a while before I end up posting for the month so here's a belated haul post thinger-ma-jigger.

Finally got a proper caligraphy ink set to go with my dip pen set.

Silver, black, white, and gold ink.

Don't you love the backdrop of the math homework I should be doing now but is instead writing this? Yeah yeah.

Oh, and can you guess what this is?

I'll give you a hint: it makes the big bottle I bought not too long ago a big waste.

They're even the same brand as the nibs, Speedball, too, so I know they should work fine with them.

And fine they did:

Ink tests

Holy shit man. If you actually bothered to read the writing chicken scratch, you'd see that I spent a considerable amount of time ranting about how awesome the black ink was. Also found a new favourite nib. Amazing what proper ink can do, right?
As for the other colours, the chunks of glitter in the gold and silver ink produced an overly thick and heavy line for me. Plus, combining the ink with smaller nibs makes the line too transparent and not glittery enough. I have no choice but to stick with the bigger ones. Oh well. Still beats using marker ink instead.
And, I probably don't need to say it, but I also tested the white ink out there, but being white, you can't see it.

What else is cool is that, unlike Sakura Pigma pens or something, this stuff is permanent when it dries. You can actually feel the texture, man. It dries 3D.


Drawn on a piece of index card.

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 1 - Drafts

Title speaks for itself.

It's pretty much gibberish to the average reader as I shortened the script to fit the speech bubbles. That script is also the same script I will not be providing.
I also made it so that the characters are represented by the letters on their foreheads. This is the basic run down of who these characters are (or the important ones anyways):

• Jessica
• Lorenzo
• Portia
• Nerissa
• Gratiano
• Bassanio
• Antonio

 If these names don't ring a bell, then that's because you've never read the Merchant of Venice. And if you haven't done that, then you're even going to be left more clueless. I say you just stop trying to make sense of it and just gawk at the art stickmen.

The end peoples!
I know you can't wait for the real one to come out, right?


Drawn in SAI.

A week of dressing up

It's funny because we already had a grad spirit week, and now we just had another. I guess it's because this year our grad particularly sucks due to them opting to replace the cool grad events (like Winter Formal) with stupid stuff like movie nights and bowling - which, by the way, no one goes to nor remembers.

Anyways, I don't like sharing my identity so here's a picture journal of what I wore during spirit week.


Monday - Nerd Day

Nerd Day

Pretty much half of the things I wore that day isn't mine! Including the 3D glasses, which I took from my sister, who took it from the theater. I must say, seeing everything framed by thick black boxes was weird. But I'm not a nerd without my glasses.

Man, some guys had it easy. They already were the image of the stereotypical nerd so they didn't need to dress up at all! (*coughSeadoncough*)


Tuesday - Hardcore Punk/Goth Day

Goth/Punk Day

Initially, I was tentative about doing this day because I had volunteering with children right afterwards. But since I pretty much dressed up as a goth every year for Halloween, this was really easy for me. It's the only day of the year I put makeup on, too. Today was no exception. Hooray for lots of black eyeshadow and eyeliner and - my favourite - black lipstick.
Oh, and yeah, I just went with it. I just wiped off all the black lipstick before I went to see them. They still commented on my freaky looking eyes, though. If they thought I was freaky, I wonder what people thought of me as I walked around Value Village.

I let my friend borrow my cross choker as I figured I'd end up taking it off during the day anyways. As a result, my clothes didn't reflect any gothic-ness at all. Which I guess is fine, because the lipstick does the trick. Also, it's good I didn't look overtly gothic because I was the only one who bothered to dress up in many of my classes. Awkward.

I got to do someone's makeup that day, too. Kind of weird putting on eyeliner for someone else, especially when that someone else is a dude.



Wednesday - Superhero/Sidekick/Villian Day

So I mentioned earlier that I went to Value Village, right? The whole purpose of that was trying to find something for Superhero day. I cycled through a lot of ideas, Supergirl being one of them. I even considered being Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls, as the only dresses I have are blue, but no one would get who I was without bringing my Bubbles plushie I have.

Didn't see many people dress up for this day either. Predictable.

Should've just taped a Superman symbol on my shirt, though.



Thursday - Genderbender Day

Genderbender Day

So that hoodie I foolish ordered in extra larger finally comes to use. And people laughed at me.

Lots of funny reactions for me today, mainly compliments for my facial hair. When I walked in to English, my teacher was like "WHOA". I got a "who are you" by another guy, and my Bio teacher almost didn't recognize me - again. And when I was walking home, my mom was driving on the road and saw me, and began to wonder who I was. She really thought I was a dude before realizing it was me all along.
I didn't think I looked that much like a guy! I clearly looked like a girl trying to be one.

What's sad is that I saw a ton of girls dressed up as dudes. As one of my classmates puts it, "Girls just have to dress crappy and put a hat on!" I've always thought guys had it easier, because all they needed to do was put on a dress. Guys didn't really have male-specific clothes. But in any case, it was a disappointment to only see four drag queens. Sigh.

I don't understand how people can walk around with jeans that fall down to their mid-thigh. I can't even go half of that without having to pull them back up again because I didn't want my underwear to show.




Friday - Disney Day

Disney Day

Also called my super cheap spirit week day because I didn't really dress up as anything!

Hate the backpack I was using though. For the past couple of days, it would rain in the mornings and suddenly become sunny. I took my chances and hoped it was going to be one of those days, because Friday is my walking home day. I couldn't fit an umbrella into that stupid bag of mines, let alone my lunch and textbooks so if it was still raining after school, I was screwed.

And it was still raining after school so I was screwed.

I bet no one saw the Tinkerbell on my shirt, either. Hell, I didn't even notice there was one until after I had bought it.


Made in SAI.

I also like to add that our year is the most apathetic one I've seen yet - for both spirit weeks!