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Prismas!

Published on September 25, 2009 in Original Characters, Sketches and Skye. 0 Comments

Sooo. Another blog post? Not a great deal to say, I guess.  I bought some more prismalo watercolour pencils today. Shame they don’t do regular pencils; by the looks of things…although, the Caran d’ Ache Pablo pencils are pretty good too…and it seems as though watercolour pencils blend MUCH better than regular ones. With the exception of ergosoft Staedtlers, which’ll always be some of my favourites. But yeah, overall; things are looking good with these. So good, in fact, that I might finally have found a means with which to colour my sketches of Rico. He’s been a nightmare from day one. I guess it’s all about character design. Eleven’s always been a good cross-over between copic and pencil; because she’s both in my style, but also works in a more anime/manga setting (copic art). But Rico? He’s just anti-cartoony style. Just wont have it D: So I’m trying my hand at colouring with pencils again, like old times…’cause using ink on a sketch of him only works in black and white, I’m afraid.

(Also…LOL. I wonder how many other people have walked into the art store, bought prismalos and then proceeded to say, “LOL. They look just like prismacolors…why can’t they sell the proper thing?” Srsly. Does nobody know about good American-made art tools? Most things to leave that country…fail. But not art supplies! Nao! They’re genius.)

And on the subject of V, I’ve also considered doing a few sketches…like, age progression-y things. I saw a few internet memes on DA with this sort of thing…where they draw a character at different stages in their life. I was doodling the other day and came up with:

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in my infinite boredom. As you can tell, drawing children is NOT my forté, but I’m learning. It’d be nice in the future to be able to sketch all of my characters at different ages. I guess V’s just more…interesting, in that respect, because of how long ago his childhood really was D: Common logic might assume he’d never even had one. >: But that’s not the case. Still sort of in decision-limbo with his actual age. I’m thinking 33-36, someone else said 30; another 24-28; and he’s pretending to be 45…so…this is a pretty large range right there. 24-45. :| I’d like to use a mean value; but…I don’t have enough suggestions. Maybe it’s time for S to make use of her new DA sub?

(I still have no idea who donated that to me. But I LOVE them. I’m so happy : D I don’t have to lose my Beta testing skillz.)

Tableeettt!!!1

Published on July 30, 2009 in Original Characters, Sketches, Skye and Updates. 0 Comments

1 wasn’t intentional. But I left it, for drama.

Skye has a tablet now! I trekked to PC World at the weekend and picked up a Bamboo Wacom for £65. For some reason, the wacom tablets in schools never really seem responsive…but mine is AWESOME. I’ve been painting all week…but I’ve only come up with:

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As you can see, the background is just there so it looks okay when I submit to DA (hence, DA green), it’s still very smudgy; and I haven’t uploaded the full-scale image yet. I probably wont work on it again for a little while, but it’s good to know that I can still paint realism, even with a new tool.

It’s pretty much decided now, what I’m doing for my new site layout. I haven’t done any proper sketches, but I know where I’m going with it. The gallery will be a white box, red text on black; whilst the blog is the reverse. Rico’s going to be my little mascot (the current character I just -cant- stop drawing), mostly because out of all of them; he’s both my favourite to draw/my favourite in general; and he relates to me more than any of them. (Minus the eternal life thing…but, well, we have the same opinions on that. It’s not worth the trouble. And he’s not me, as such. But it’s the minor things that I give my OCs, really.) Oh, and following this theme; my novel site (still can’t think of a domain for it) will be red b/g, white/black text and front. Not sure which way around. I’ll see which I like more from the blog/gallery look.

So I’ll probably get to work on something at the weekend…at which point; when I do my site update; I’ll upload the tonnes of stuff I’ve not been putting up on here, clean up; and sort things out by character. It makes sense to just shove all the old stuff in singular folders; but with the amount of OC art I have now, it’s rather silly…so I’m going to go ahead and sort it in the same format as my DA gallery. Trust me. It looks a LOT better.

Hm.

Published on March 11, 2009 in Sketches and Skye. 0 Comments

Figures, you want sketches. I haven’t posted much in a few days. Been rather stressed with, well…everything. Mostly personal dillemas and matters of questioning ones purpose in the grand scheme of things…(truth be told, I spent more time questioning the grand scheme itself than my place in it.)

I feel as if I shouldn’t just doodle characters all the time anymore. Perhaps it’s the incident from yesterday that’s still grating against me and telling me I should quit now…or maybe that just triggered how I felt in the first place to resurface. Hmph. After all that surpressing I did of my emotions…such a waste, eh?

Well…who knows. I just figure…perhaps it’s time to go back to Realism for a while. Hell, I still have that sketch of Ilya that I haven’t finished. :| I have some graphite to work with…so…I could probably make use of that tomorrow, or well. LOL, tomorrow…I virtually have no free time tomorrow. Monday, perhaps…

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Mmn. Can anyone read Japanese? D:

Published on February 22, 2009 in Novels, Original Characters, Sketches and Skye. 0 Comments

Argh! Damn. Of all the languages I’ve picked to learn, I chose Russian.

Seems like just recently, everything I try to buy winds up on some obscure, unreadable, hiragana/katakana website. True, I suppose I don’t really need a tailcoat…but it’d be nice, wouldn’t it? Hell, I’m not even sure why I want one…or why I also seem to be chasing after clothes stylised in the 1800s look. I guess I’m just fed up with the whole mainstream ‘dress like a carbon copy of everyone else’ theme. ‘Tis not really my desire to dress modern. I’ve never really been fond of well, anything in the 90s-00s. And seriously. Who wouldn’t want to own a corset? They’re pure awesomeness.

Annnyhow. Random blog post. Yar. Tail coat search is failing miserably, leading me to obscure foreign websites…likewise with the steampunk quests. And in addition, I seem to be falling short of ways to get my Deviant-watchers to pay even the slightest bit of attention. True, they’re not all backing out on me…but…It feels more and more lately, as though people are passing over me and disregarding everything I say. It’s doubtful that I’ll sell anything this time around either. I think a reduction of dignity might be in order…I might have to appeal to the target audience (which, I assure you, was NOT intended) to sell my Death Note stuff, at least. It’s eating space in my cupboards upstairs. Space I need for original sketches. Well…I either turn “Kawaiidesune” on the anime-esque, or I turn to commissioning…and the latter gives me serious migraines.

Hm. I’m drawing to a close with my constant sketching. College tomorrow…perhaps I’ll get one or two more done for my deadline of the end of the month. (Yes, I’m talking illustrations here.) I have a whole 29 to do – one for each chapter in the first novel. I must be on…17? 17, I think. So I’ve done 18 of them, approximately. Which leaves me with another 11 – another 2 or three ‘Parts’ to complete. As I said in my DA journal, it’s looking to be somewhere between 300 to 400 pages after all this…so temporarily self-published, it’ll be about £15/book. It’s only a beta copy. If I get positive feedback, I might consider throwing away the £1000 and getting a publishing deal…with the help of crazed saving and a couple of temporary loans within the family. But I’ll have to wait and see. Thinking about thowing my e-mail in there, for the sake of it, so people can leave me comments if they so please. But then…it’s doubtful that I wont really know where they’re from. I doubt anyone will buy it, if they’re not aware of me first.

-facepalm- Here’s hoping. Maybe I’ll get lucky and be able to pay for a translator. XD (LOL ASIF.)

Wow. Fairly long rant. Didn’t even get to mention the frustrating week I’ve had. But then, you’re not into that, are you? I’ll leave you with a few sketches and ideas for the novel print-out that I’ve shown to Ava and Rosie. Then it’s back to finishing the commentary on my Pro-Solipsism rant.

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