Should've stayed in pottery class

Boring backstory: I was assigned to work at a ceramics studio at school not too long ago. And even though I call it a ceramics studio, it's not a place where they make anything, per se. The premise is is that they'll offer blank pieces, and pretty much, the customer comes in and gets to decorate the piece they choose. Because of this, the week I was assigned there was easy as hell because I virtually had to do nothing. Plus, it was the week right after spring break, which is always a slow time. Plus plus, it was in a shopping center which offered Wifi so guess what I was doing most of the time there with the assistance of my iPod?
My employer makes everyone who works there make their own piece to get the idea of everything. So I did.

Woot, my first plate!

Before firing:

Two love birds.

The back of it I painted it a speckled gray.

After firing:

Bad lighting plz.

Yup, the problem I see most people encounter when they're doing a piece. The glaze is all opaque when you slather it on initially, giving the impression that it'll be that opaque after firing too. So you forget that you need a lot of layers in order for it to give the nice, deep colour you want. And that's what happened to my piece too. Sigh.
At least I remembered that the glaze comes out a lot darker than what it looks like on your piece.  And it's really shiny when it comes out.

Other than that, I think it turned out alright, especially for my first piece. It's a nice plate regardless, one I wouldn't mind eating off of, haha. But first, I've got to wash it.

Oh, and guess what else? The plate is a value of $32 dollars. I got it for a total of 0.

But that's not the only thing I made.

Can I you guess what it is? I can tell you what it isn't: a dog or a Pokemon, especially not Shaymin.
It's supposed to be a deer. Just a deer. Period.

Yeah, did something a little simpler than the one above, because I started this one on the last day I was assigned there. I like how this one turned out a lot more than the one above, but since I kept the design more minimalistic, that's not a surprise.
The back for this one is a speckled black, which I think looks great.

Man, after my week there, I've got some respect for the people who work around kilns. Taking things out of that thing is nerve racking, especially when it's too high for you, everything's heavy, and everything can break.

Con Updates

The Cos & Effect Artist Alley deadline as last Friday. I did make it in time, but I really don't think I stand a chance, especially with the stuff I submitted for them to see. Oh well, no matter. I did make some new stuff for it, though so here you go.

Ignis chibi

Well, no shit there was going to be Ignis. A big improvement to my old chibi of her, no? I think I should redo all my chibis in the chance I do get invited to AA again. I like how she turned out, though. No cheap-ass colouring this year. Just all cell-shading this time (minus the sword).

Made in SAI

Who is this? You tell me. No, seriously, go tell me who you think he looks like so I can sell him off as part of that fandom. This is what happens when you don't properly read the rules and thus didn't see the part where the things you submit have to have the intention of being sold. Too bad I already drew this dude out, and spent a long time doing it!
Actually brought my sketchbook along to "work" (or really, career prep) as we hardly get any customers anyway. Whipped this up in one day and still tended to the people who were there. Got a lot of compliments for him, too.
I don't really like him, though. I need a reference desperately because I bullshitted my way through his muscles. Ugh.

 

This is actually a really old-ass picture I probably drew around summer. Even though it has nothing to do with anime at all, I figured it looked fantasy enough for someone to think it was from small, unknown game.
Actually, technically, this is based off a game. It's the game I was one of the concept artists in back two or three summers ago, I think. So I guess, in a sense, it could be considered fanart, except I'm one of the artists for it, so does that make it official art?
Would love to one day colour this bad boy in.


Drawn With Pencil

When you don't want to photograph your haul...

When you have zero inspiration, draw the things you wore, I suppose.

All clothes featured totally bought from Hong Kong. Drew them back when I just came back from Hong Kong, too, which is like a week ago.

...except I cheated with this picture because I don't have a shirt like that. I tried to look for one, though, but you know how hard it is find clothes in Hong Kong which actually fits?

Yup, no more outfits for now. However, enjoy a creeper heard instead:

Made in SAI.

Haul: Spoils From Hong Kong

So like I was gone in Hong Kong for a while, for anyone who cares. Picked up a lot of stuff there, which includes art supplies.
Even though there's a lot more that we got, this is the stuff I specifically picked up for myself.

Zebra Drafix Pencil

You don't know how long I've been waiting to get a new drawing pencil. Three years, yo. Three years (ever since I lost my last one).

Tombow Mono Eraser

And here's a new drawing eraser to boot so I don't have to used the worn out piece of crap I currently am.

Masking Fluid

For wartercolouring purposes... if I ever get around to painting anything in the near future, that is.

Copic Markers

HELL YEAH, THAT CASE COST ME EXTRA.
And I got duplicates. So sad.

Deleter White #2

Dewd, it's like a thick-ass, white paste inside. Yeah, a paste. Smells a little toxic, too.
At least it's opaque.

Nikko G-Pen Nibs

Yeah, this is what all manga artists used. That's right, kids. I've gone to the dark side.
I've actually got no nibs which look like this one. I mean, I've got a smaller version of it, but not these exactly.

So lets see how they preform on plain ol' index card:

G-Pen and Deleter White tests

I like using it. Yup.