You know how I usually post a persona picture leading up to my...

You know how I usually post a persona picture leading up to my birthday? Well time’s a bit of a luxury this year, but I did manage to start on something.

Been a while since I’ve posted a WIP.

Why can't I design animals anymore

Realistic Yukiko

Well, she's gone through a stylized incarnation, so I guess it's only natural to also get a realistic counterpart. Lotsa references used for this, mainly a dall sheep with the horns of a mountain goat.

I coloured her from memory, and you can see my awesome memory of her design. You can tell how often I draw her. But kidding aside, I have been wanting to redesign her for a while. I gave myself some liberties with the colours to hopefully come up something interesting. Design's not bad, but I'll probably going through some more possibilities - as well as styles, before I settle on something.


Made in openCanvas.

I can feel the wrinkles coming

Yukiko

Event File.

As well as a bunch of messages on my Facebook. I'm gonna have fun going through that.

But with going with tradition, I drew another picture of good ol' Yukiko for my birthday. This time, it wasn't half-assed and last minute. I spent a good three days or so working on it, though I still think I could've spent more time on the skin and refining the details and such. However, overall, I think it looks the most realistic and colourful skin I've painted thus far.

After all, I do these yearly paintings I guess to keep track of my improvement. I suppose that's why I didn't draw her all animu, as I have been practicing something similar to realism.

Sketch

But that's not all. Since I found out that the above picture doesn't look so great once shrunk, I did something more stylized for things like icons and such, because only my art can grace the face of my online profiles.

I love filters and layer styles. How about you?

Anyways, I gotta go find my cane so I can wash my dentures.


Made in openCanvas.

Morning Sketches

Born from when I couldn't concentrate with finishing another picture which is currently in the works.

My fursona.

Are these Yukiko's colours, because frankly, I can't remember at all (though she is my fursona.) Just tells you so much about how much I draw her, right?
Pretty much practice with animals. I don't do them enough, even though I totally went on an animal muscle study spree a couple of weeks or so ago.

If I ever get around to making her a new ref, I think I'll change her eye colour to brown for the same reasons my persona does.

Started off a sketch of my persona to go with my fursona sketch, but ended up as a doodle with my reflection on the mirror next to me as a ref.
Doesn't look like me at all, but for a 5 minute sketch, it's not bad. Need some more practice with realism.


Made in openCanvas.

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.

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.

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

I draws in physics because I hate doing math

Yup, these pictures were scanned three months ago and are going up now. Oh well, "better late than never".

All of these pictures were drawn during my physics 11 course I took during summer. Yeah, I get bored when I'm supposed to be doing my homework. Who doesn't? (Check out my awesome physics work, too!)

A guy.

Oh well, like you know what the code on top means. I don't even remember.

Starfish loves you, loves you.

Yukiko in fursona form.

Yes, she's a sheep/goat. I thought I'd be cool and chose something out of the norm (ie canines and felines). Drawn on the same sheet as the picture above.

The head of a dragon. It's made of moonlight/comes from the moon and can be summoned by one of my mary-sues because we all know dragons make good attacks. I will not tell you what the name of the dragon is because it's just that lame.
I had to make for writing 12, of all the writing I did in the course, which I took at the same time as physics. I did the layout and coding all by myself! :)

A face and some brainstorming for my online portfolio website.

More brainstorming for a website for writing 12.

I had to make another website, but this one which offers advice. I was initially going for a banner with fictions' most notable characters, but I was short on time and used a generic site template.

Kanaria "life demon" form.

OHOHO, doesn't that "life demon" part sound lame already? Didn't I tell you that Kanaria started as an uber mary-sue? Of course she needed a bullshit second form obtained through a Sailor Moon-esque transformation - with wings!

Vocaloid Lily.

Lily was still in the process of being made when I drew this. This is probably among the first fanart of her! Gasp!

Yeah, didn't do so hot in physics. Oh well, that's the reason why I took it in summer school anyways!


Drawn with pencil and lined paper.
First picture drawn an index card.