Derp Link

Look at dat beautiful face

So I've got nothing done for Christmas thus far, and it looks like what little gift art will just have to be late. In the mean time, I'll show you this beautiful piece I made for someone else.

I know that it's nothing too difficult to create, nor legit, blood-and-tears art. It's pretty much a traced - yes, traced - image of Link's face on a rainbow background. Actually, I didn't have any carbon paper so I used newspaper instead. That's what you call being creative.

And I never knew how useful retarder could be until doing this. Man does acrylics dry fast, which was hard to work around for me because I've worked mainly with tempera. I didn't mind it that much because this is mainly cellshaded anyways.

Anyways, it's super simple, and made it within a day, but I got an awesome reaction from it, and I guess that's what counts. :)


Made with acrylics on canvas.

The last drawing of the summer

Two old OCs.

School starts again tomorrow (or today, really) and like all monumental events in my life, I like to mark it off with a drawing. I thought it was also only befitting that I revisit some neglected OCs with a medium I haven't used in a while. Of course that'd I know it's not much, but it's not like I have the time to complete a full blown CG in a couple of hours. Plus, just something about the feel of a pencil that can't beat a tablet pen.

Now, if I can direct you to the time stamp, you can see how I'm currently majorly screwing myself over right now. With that, I bid thee fair well.


Made with pencil on plain ol' printer paper.

I-Should-Have-Been-Taking-Notes 7.5: Art

Unlike my last post, where it consisted of things I found after I had uploaded my first three batches of doodles, I had this one ready to be scanned and uploaded for a long time. But I, being the lazy me I am, never got around to it. To prove how lazy I am, I still have a small pile of sketches I did back in July I have been meaning to upload for a while now, but probably will wait until the start of September to do so.

Anyways, I didn't upload the art I did in art because this actually contains some stuff that I'm proud of (of course, because it also includes things I did for school).  

Disclaimer: This doesn't have every art assignment I had completed for class as I never bothered to take them home (they wasn't a lot anyways, trust me). Thus, even though I have not much to show for it, and even though the class was ultimately an easy A, I did put some effort into getting that A.

Fanart for someone's character, except the term "fanart" implies that I'm a fan of said character, which I'm definitely not. She's basically a mary sue put in the Bleach world.

The concept work for my vegetable marching band picture.

Loosely based off a bird in a birdcage. It was supposed to be inked with actual pen nibs and liquid ink and such, but once I saw that it bled horribly when I used it with a ruler, I gave up.

Ugly self portrait. I prefer the portrait of my friend I drew using a phone picture as a reference. The quality's so bad because I took the picture with my phone camera as it's too big to fit in my scanner.

Another ugly picture, but this time its a painting. Something I did when I was bored. I obviously don't know how skin's supposed to be coloured.

Probably my favourite piece in a while, especially since I did it entirely out of paint and it has a background for once. It was actually put into the yearbook.

And that's all, folks! Unless I find some more art I forgot to upload, this is practically all I art I have to show you from my last year of high school.

Check the rest of the series out:

• 7.1 Sciences
• 7.2 Languages
• 7.3 Psychology 
• 7.4 Misc

Drawn with pencil on mechanical paper.
Third picture inked with Indian ink.
Second last picture made with tempura.
Last picture made with tempura and pencil crayon accents.

I-Should-Have-Been-Taking-Notes 7.4: Misc

Hey guys, guess what else I found when I emptied out more of my binders? More art I didn't upload! Yay!

Here's stuff from a bunch of subjects, I just never uploaded them with the batch because I'm not going back to those old posts to update them. This saves you time you would have been spending going back to old posts looking for the update. You are welcome.

Horses and cats. Found in my Japanese binder.

People practice. Trying to get better at drawing realistic.

More concepts. You might recognize them to be practices for my Eng graphic novel project.

Some concepts drawn in the back of my math notebook during English.

Reversed side of the picture above. The same concepts, and some dinosaurs on request from the guy sitting behind me in English.

Done during volunteering when I should be looking after the kids, but I do a lot more than some of the volunteer colleagues who just do the craft and doesn't help the kids at all so I deserve to slack off and draw this once. It's obviously a picture of a girl.

Check the rest of the series out:

• 7.1 Sciences
• 7.2 Languages
• 7.3 Psychology 
• 7.5 Art

Drawn with pencil on plain ol' paper.
Last picture drawn with pencil crayons.

I-Should-Have-Been-Taking-Notes 7.3: Psychology

I'm updating my blog when I should be cleaning my room, especially since there's a bunch of stuff on the floor which makes it difficult to enter my room without stepping on mounds of paper. My priorities are in the right place.
But seriously, I had scanned these in a while ago, after emptying out my school binders. I've been meaning to upload them, but laziness is always pulling me away. That and other obligations, but they're usually aren't all that important, like cleaning my room for example.


So why does psychology get it's own post? Is it because I drew the most pictures during that subject? Is it because the teacher would sometimes start the class off with asking us to draw stuff on a sheet of paper? Or is it because the pictures here are particularity kick ass because I coloured them in with crayons my teacher provided? Well, the answer is all of the above, and with that, I'll start.

A girl holding a cup or a bowl or something like that.

People and animals. The animals frankly look so much better.

A beautiful brain I copied from a textbook. I only know all these parts because I learned them in Bio. Despite the implied evidence from the graph, I learned less about the brain in Psych than I did in Bio.

A chart about the harmful effects of stress that grew into a zoo for neon-coloured animals.

Things I want. Can you decipher it?

A nightmare I had...

...and the other half of it. I've been having dreams daily now, I hate how I keep getting chased by a mad man in all of them.

How depression looks like. I'm not being emo; that was what was asked for.

Check the rest of the series out:

• 7.1 Sciences
• 7.2 Languages
• 7.4 Misc
• 7.5 Art

And since I'm on the subject of school, did I mention I received the subject award for art? I was totally not expecting that, art being such a subjective... well, subject.


Drawn on paper with pencil.
Coloured with crayons.

I-Should-Have-Been-Taking-Notes 7.2: Languages

I'm updating my blog when I should be cleaning my room, especially since there's a bunch of stuff on the floor which makes it difficult to enter my room without stepping on mounds of paper. My priorities are in the right place.
But seriously, I had scanned these in a while ago, after emptying out my school binders. I've been meaning to upload them, but laziness is always pulling me away. That and other obligations, but they're usually aren't all that important, like cleaning my room for example.

And now stuff from my two languages, English and Japanese.

Faces.

A head.

Concepts for my Eng comic I never uploaded. Strangely enough, it was found in my Japanese binder.

Some concepts for yet another Eng project that I would explain but it was a stupid assignment anyways. Included is a picture of an angel I drew to show people I could draw with pen, and a kick ass dinosaur.

Animals and body parts.

More body parts. What does this mean?

And yet again, more body parts, but now with people... or at least, half of them.

Check the rest of the series out:

• 7.1 Sciences
• 7.3 Psychology
• 7.4 Misc
• 7.5 Art

Drawn on paper with plain ol' mechanical pencil.

I-Should-Have-Been-Taking-Notes 7.1: Sciences

I'm updating my blog when I should be cleaning my room, especially since there's a bunch of stuff on the floor which makes it difficult to enter my room without stepping on mounds of paper. My priorities are in the right place.
But seriously, I had scanned these in a while ago, after emptying out my school binders. I've been meaning to upload them, but laziness is always pulling me away. That and other obligations, but they're usually aren't all that important, like cleaning my room for example.

Lets start off with the things I did in my two sciences, specifically Chemistry and Biology.

I had half an hour left, and all we got was a review package. Guess I'll draw.

Bunch 'o poses. Can you guess who these people look suspiciously akin to?

Viza with an ice pick and brass knuckles.

Someone in a dress. I drew it while dissecting a pig. FUN FACT: I don't wear gloves when I dissect things.

Body parts, faces, a chibi, a person, and an enzyme on the back of a grad survey I obviously never gave back.

Sorry, too haunted by the equilibrium question I didn't crop off to write a proper caption.

The outfits I wear that inspire me enough for me to draw them. Summer time = me in less scrub clothing.

What do you mean all girls don't have volley balls taped to their chests?

Check the rest of the series out:

• 7.2 Languages
• 7.3 Psychology
• 7.4 Misc
• 7.5 Art

Drawn on paper with plain ol' mechanical pencil.

Study study study study

Lets start off with something completely from my head, something I haven't done in a while: an outfit post.

 

Granted, I wasn't really wearing that today. Because I didn't go out, I was just in my plain ol' oversized t-shirt bearing the symbol of a Guide camp I went to (yeah, it's one of those t-shirts). I figured that was boring, so here's something I wore a while back. Enjoy the picture because it's the only decent looking thing to follow.
Used Photoshop instead of my usual SAI/openCanvas. I do enjoy doing these kind of quick doodles on PS a lot more because the lines are bit thicker and sharper.

While I was already on the program, thought I'd do my enviro on it too. Unlike oC and SAI, PS has textured brushes. I really wanted to be good at using 'em. It didn't save how horrible the enviro came out though, but that should've been expected by now.

Note to self: colour in the background first instead of doing the foreground and then doing the background around it.

I hate shrubbery. Takes forever to do and it looks like crap.

Some 30 second figure drawings using photos and not 3D skinless models.

And finally, more figure drawing, but without the time limit. Yay, I get to analyze pictures of naked/scantily-clothed people longer!

I also started a painting in the morning. All I'll say about that is masking fluid is a pain in the butt to remove.


Made in Photoshop or with paper and pencil.

I wonder how many of these I'll have to do before I actually see improvement

I feel motivated. Since it's summer, and I've got nothing better to do, I guess I'll try improving on my art. Doesn't sound that hard, right? Just two months to become pro. Nothing difficult.

But like any person who wishes to get better, their starting work is gonna suck. I'm no exception.

Here, enjoy some crappy colour practice I did in the past two days.

...and this is the only thing from my head I'll post up. I didn't put too much effort into this one because before I really began, I got fed up with my lack of colouring ability and started to do some study-like practice.

Now get your eyes ready for some crappy enviros (as if the hands weren't crappy enough).

What the hell...

...is this shit?

I'll spare your eyes and move on to something I'm better at: body parts and people.

When in doubt, draw yourself.

And time for something done traditionally.

I sense long nights of practice in my future.


Made in openCanvas.
Last picture drawn with pencil on paper.

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