It doesn't look so bad from afar

Ignis from Jingai Makyou

Event File.

Was intended to be a speed paint, but then I started to spent more time than I wanted to working on the face. I just gave up on everything below the face though. Clearly, I've been using outlines to compensate for my lack of knowledge in form, colouring, shading, etc.

I also broke away from my dependent use of the pencil tool and used the watercolour tools for use. I hate how it blends all the colours together, but I don't like having to use the blur tool even more. But I did not break my habit of avoiding backgrounds. Woot.

Anyways, it's been a while since I've done fanart of Ignis - or fanart at all really.

I hate Sai's brushes a little less now

Headshot of an unnamed character

Redesigned him so the poor guy doesn't have to lug 50  pounds of armor around

Redesigned one of my OCs, and then somewhere along the lines also ended up drawing a headshot of another OC from the same world. I thought my male OC's personality didn't really fit a wardrobe of heavy, bulky armor pieces, so I lightened him up and made him more like a thief.

...a thief with a big-ass sword. Obviously, it's not pictured.

He'll probably go through some more redesigns in the future, because I'm not loving it completely yet.


Made in SAI.

Request: OC Refs Numero Trois

Another character ref I made for a friend.

Guess who's style I based off this character off this time!

Yet another ref I made for a friend for her RP OC. Her outfit is based off D-Gray man this time... or at least, the one on the left is. The one on the right was just a picture she pulled off.

The one on the right also is supposed to have a long braid, but I thought it would look more like a tail or something so I opted to leave it it out... but it's there.

Hopefully she'll be okay with that.

Other refs I made for her: one and two.


Made in SAI.

More stuff I wear

Dressed up like a guy for a friend's project, though it was a bit excessive because I just sat behind a newspaper. I'm holding coffee because I was able to score a free one.

It was raining, sunny, and snowing all at once not too long ago.
This particular day, it was windy as heck.

First pic made in SAI.
Second pic made in openCavas.

Review-ish: SketchBook Copic Edition

Testing out SketchBook Copic Edition

While I was surfing Tumblr, I saw that SketchBook released a Copic Edition. Since I've got a thing with trying out new painting software, this was totally up my alley. Best of it, the program was free for a limited time and available for download off the Copic website.

I actually found it to be difficult to use due to the interface. It required a lot of holding and dragging, as opposed to just straight out clicking. I suppose it makes sense for tablet users - SketchBook being an app - but not so much for the desktop versions. I just found out now how to move layers up and down.

SketchBook Copic Editon interface

That aside, how about the important stuff like the brushes? Did I find them similar to Copics? I suppose, but it simulated all the stuff I didn't like about markers. One of which is the streakiness especially apparent from using chisel nibs. I hear that it's suppose to imitate the seven layers Copics need to achieve a nice saturated colour (something I've never heard about or noticed considering I own these markers). I'm not too much of a fan of the blurriness the brush nib gives when you press down on the tablet.
Did I mention I also really really dislike the Multiliner brush they have? It's too light, and resembles the lightness you would get if you erased over fineliner ink - one of the things I hated about doing lineart.

The palette is also very limited to 72 Copic colours, most of which are greys and peaches. I persoanlly don't mind being limited because it challenges me to be creative with layering colours to achieve a look a desire, something I already do have to face when using Copics traditionally.

Overall, the program's not bad. Not great either, but I can see how people would think it looks like Copics. I'll try to play around with it some more.

The frustration of having to relearn a new interface and my now ranging desire to draw lead me to switch to more familiar territory to satisfy my craving.

Derping around with openCanvas' watercolour brush. I never remembered it to be this nice. I quite like the way I coloured the sketch. I'll probably use the technique more for future reference.

...ignore the fact that the girl has a conjoined twin growing out her chest.

Oh hay, Blogger's got a new look

Vanilla sponge cake with strawberries

I baked a cake for a friend last week for her birthday. It's a shame that I never found out if the cake tasted good or not, because my mom kept bugging me for a piece when I was making it.
Did I mention I failed the first time and ended up making burnt egg custard instead?


And stuff I bought over the weekend at Michaels.

Canvas board, angular brushes, and Triple Thick glaze

I bought them brushes because I was tired of ruining my semi-good brushes with things like glaze and masking fluid.
I'm waiting for next week's coupon so I can pick up a more expensive item I wanted.

Moving on, I just updated to Blogger's new look. I don't mind how the front page looks; it just looks like a cleaner and bigger version of the previous homepage. The editing screen on the other hand... it kind of reminds me of something you would see in Buzzword (is that even what they're calling it nowadays?) or Google Docs. Less a forum you can type in, and more like an online editor. Don't know how I feel about it.

I know that I don't like how Google's trying to integrate everything with Google+ now. Google, man, no one is using Google+. I mean, I have it, but the only thing I've ever done on it was accept my cousin's invite to join it. Woo.

And Picnik's closing too.
...yeah, I don't care about that either.

Project: Bloody Mary Storyboards

Storyboards for an animation I'm making

Did it in like 2 hours the night (or really morning) before it was due. I pushed it off until then because I told myself, "Pfft, they're just storyboards. I can do that easily." Then I saw that I also required to do a couple seconds of test animation, and freaked out a bit.

Got her done, though. Nothing impressive.

Video made in Flash. Been a long time since I've made anything in that.

Project: Luka Drafts

Drafts for my comic project. It's based of Luka by Suzanne Vega, which is basically a song about a girl shrugging off the fact that she is abused.

 

Now the alternative story. These pictures were supposed to appear when you hovered over the original story. It's supposed to depict Luka's ordeal the night before the story started, as well as reveal what really happened. Originally, I was going to integrate these scenes into the story linearly, but taking to the account that the theme of hiding and wanting to do something "different", I chose this gimmick instead.

And I don't think I've posted this yet, so I'll post it now:

Me brainstorming for the project before I even took the class.

Made in openCanvas
Last picture pencil on graph paper

Project: Luka Storyboards

Haven't been drawing much for fun due to homework. I've been spending all of my free time drawing panels for my webcomic I'm supposed to make for school. Expect more pictures as well as information of it in the upcoming days as the project is due this week.

For now, I'll post my crappy storyboards for the lack of anything else to post. My writing is pretty illegible here so don't expect to understand much.


Made with pencil on paper.

Daybreak

Event File

I really did the picture so I can practice environments. I think the trees look alright, but everything else is pretty terrible, but I guess from far away, it's acceptable.
At least the colours are pretty. I forget the importance of a background too often. Maybe that's why my art has been so bland.

Guy lying on a girl

I’m usually never this neat with my sketches, or at least, I never bother to be. I realized that I didn't have enough pictures of couples - as in just two people - interacting with one another.
The girl’s supposed to be under a blanket by the way.

Made in openCanvas

Vocaloid: Oliver

Oliver

Event File.

Last Vocaloid I'll probably do for a while until I get all my homework sorted out.

Oliver is an English Vocaloid, voiced by an actual, unnamed British boy. I don't know why his design looks as if he was sailing art part of the navy, and his boat got attacked. Alas, regardless of how he looks, he still encounters the funky English problem as many English Vocaloids, but it's slightly better as would be expected from a Vocaloid3. You can judge for yourself.
Apparently he's super popular too.

Oh, and before I go, is it apparent that he's supposed to be lying down?
No? Okay.


Made in openCanvas.

It's safer to look for images of "leg muscles" than "legs" on Google

Leg studies. Mainly focusing on the knees and how the bone react to different positions.

Found time to do some studies yesterday. Might do some more today.

Pencil on paper.

Just avoiding doing a formal character ref

And instead, let me just spam you with some pictures of said character until I get the motivation to do one.

Probably will need to test out some more colour combos and design options before I settle on something, but this is what I first had in mind for her.

...now in a tengu mask.

More sketches of Kanaria. Mainly revamps of older designs as I am not original.

First two pictures make in openCanvas.
Last picture with pencil on paper.

What is this much text doing on an art blog?

No pretty images today. I thought I'd do something a little different.

I've got a confession to make: truth is, I've been cheating on someone.

I don't know what happened. We've been going strong for two years now, but it's been dwindling for the past little while. Sometimes, a spark would ignite here and there, but that only lasts so long. Then someone better kind of showed up.

And that person's name is Tumblr.

Though I guess calling a blogging platform a person doesn't hold any correlation, I digress. Anyways, cheating-context aside, I've been using Tumblr for a long while now, and due to not knowing what this primary blog business was all about, I've had an empty blog I couldn't get rid of hanging on my account and making reblogging a pain. Upon coming across a nifty web app that allows you to import your Blogger to Tumblr, I thought it was time to bring that Tumblr back to life.

There are certainly things about Tumblr's focus on microblogging that is alluring for me. As more dedicated readers may have noticed, as time wore on, my words got shorter and shorter. Even though I made this blog with the focus of just displaying art, I've always felt like that I still had some obligation to include a reasonable amount of reading material along with it. And that includes having a title, and I know that that is one thing I wouldn't miss. The option's still there, but now I don't feel like I'm pressured to have one.
Moving to Tumblr would effect the type of content available too. I'll probably make use of the ability to reblog to post things like tutorials or art tips or anything of the likes (nothing too self indulgent though, that's what I have my reblogging Tumblr for). I don't know how I feel about Tumblr being a social platform, as I was never one who found online socializing to be an enjoyable experience.

I guess I'll keep doing this two-timing act for a while, trying to run both blogs simultaneously, and see how it goes. After two years, I still have some sentimental attachment to Blogger so I can't just leave it in the dust.

So for those of you on Tumblr, rejoice! Now keeping up with updates will be much easier.

The link's porincinque.tumblr.com. It'll be on the sidebar for future references too.

Look at all that hipster editing

Some guy basically thought this picture was about nosebleeds from the tissue.

So good news: I won't be doing any more serious photography anywhere in the near future! Huzzah!
 
Remember my last post, the picture of the stuffed tiger, and how those were going to be what I was going hand in for my assignment photos but I chose to redo it last minute? Yeah, see how different my concept became now? I would ask if the theme was, but since I'm only showing one picture due to confidentiality issues, good luck with that.

Whatever, I liked this picture much better anyways. It was generally more well received by the class when I presented awkwardly stood there while the class commented on my pictures. Whereas some people...

Don't fret. I realized I didn't post a photo from another photography assignment I did a while back. I'm not posting the one I actually submitted due to more confidentiality issues so a reject will just have to do.

It's supposed to be a memory of hide and seek.

Back to the drawing board

Long story short, I was going to use these pictures for my final project, but four days before the due date, I decided to redo everything from scratch.
Try figuring out what the theme is because my TA and prof sure couldn't.

BONUS PIC: Basically, what we had to do for this rushed in-class assignment was to make a collage in Photoshop. So with all the Photoshop editing powers invested in me, I made this. Even though this isn't as awesome as an uncropped picture of a piano in an over-pixelated forest, I still think this is pretty great.

That is Eernie btw.

Then I read how the collage had to be "realistic".

I'd like to just stick to taking ghetto pictures on my phone

Oh hey, more school work. Of course it would be because when else would I be taking photos? Well, don't worry, because I won't be taking them for that much longer. Thank god, because I have no talent for this.

The point of these pictures was to exercise what we learned about composition by photographing two series of photos of two different scenes, where all you're able to alter in your camera angle. I'm not a photographer, but I hope you like my photos anyways.

Series one is a flower pot.

And series two is a glass vase.

There was zero editing involved other than some cropping. Basically all I had at my disposal was a camera and the sunlight.