Rainbow Pop!

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Done with three different pens. This also counts as my first entry for February Draw Everyday. Cause I said so.

This is a true story.

Just a silly doodly comic I did in class. (I promise I listen!) Me and my two awesome friends and groupmates, Krinkle, and Nadine, in class.

Baby thesis is just one of the many things killing our brain cells right now. We have a painting exhibit coming up in February, plus our entrepreneurial plates to tackle, not to mention two other baby theses in our two other majors. We also have work in another major, but let’s not make this sound even busier than it already is.

Still doing my best not to fall completely behind with drawing more often. I’m gonna try crosshatching this and putting light colors on it for the heck of it.

2003-2009 Art Improvement Meme
by =dia-aren-marie on deviantART

As it says, this meme shows you a summary of my art from when I was 12 up till now. It’s pretty funny how much you can improve as long as you put your mind to it. Now stop getting depressed about not drawing enough! You’re doing just fine at your own pace!

Doodled this the other day, I believe. I need to fix the pose. Something’s gone horridly wrong with it even though I used some reference photos. Nevermind the fact it’s cartoony!

I’m going to finish these darn memes. I’m halfway through the one shown above! … halfway done sketching, that is.

But first, I must attend to my neglected schoolwork. Why do they call it a vacation if they give you work to do?

PUMP UP THE JOY 2009
by =dia-aren-marie on deviantART

I finished the sketch from the last entry! Do check it out if you can. It’s never too late to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year~!

Kind of spoils the surprise, but hey, look! Second day of my attempt at drawing more often, and I think it’s going swimmingly. Even if they’re for drawing memes on dA. I’ve never finished one of those, you know? I still remember the first one by… Nyu, I believe? I only got up to the second or third question.

So far, the meme on the top has been a lot of fun, even if it takes me an hour (or more!) just to sketch and ink one answer. That’s because I’ve been using reference and being super OCD to make up for the lack of practice this year. Can I still call them doodles if they take me that long? They’re still not exactly professional or polished work, but they’re pretty much there…

The meme on the bottom, I’m just about to get back to. I think for this one, I’ll try to finish all the sketches first before I begin inking. Let’s see if it works.

Well, that was certainly unforeseen.

It’s almost 2010 and unfortunately I didn’t seem to keep up with sketching this year. I could tell you all the reasons for them (excuses and typhoons and all) but there’s really no point in enumerating them. I think the problem was trying to work at other people’s paces. So, my goal for 2010 isn’t to update everyday, or every week. Every month is already pushing it.

What I would like to do now is to use this blog for updates for what I’ve been doodling, rather than forcing myself to doodle just so I have something to post. The latter method doesn’t seem to work very well! So I’m turning it around. Yes, I’ll admit I haven’t even doodled for myself at all this year (not exaggerating!), but I’ll focus on the drawing aspect, rather than the updating aspect. Does that make sense? I apologize if I sound like I’m running around in circles.

I can’t promise myself or others that I can draw every day, or even produce that much art, but what I’ll try to do now is build the attitude of not letting something stop me once I do get the urge to draw. In short: I can still be a lazy ass, but not as bad as I am now. Haha!

Currently working on a silly holiday/new year’s pic. Very simple, very doodly, but it’s still work. What do you mean I’m procrastinating on my academics?

I finally got the chance to scan in the last of my sketches for this challenge. While I bombed the challenge, it turns out I sketched a lot less than I thought I did! Maybe the rest was schoolwork. Weird.

Apologies but I am down with some form of flu/cold right now so I don’t have much to say. There’s at least one thing here I haven’t scanned (finishing it up) and these aren’t in order but here we go.

Black Jack sketch! Was supposed to be for my personal 10media challenge, but I think I’ll change it. Still, I want to try rendering this in ink wash anyway.

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Staedtler fineliner pens.

Day 5: Lots of random doodles while I was talking to my friends/classmates about things like horror games… and reviewers, like the Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic, and Yahtzee. I have unusual fandoms.

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Sense? There is none.

I love them plate titles. ;P This one is from back in early December. Not much to say other than this is another acrylic wash plate where we had to try to get “thin or anorexic” and “fat or obese” proportions down. Pretty happy with the guy, and I know the girl, even strictly following the reference I had, looks weird. I really need to work on drawing fingers.

And I know her head might look a bit small, but it was a sacrifice I had to make to make this thing look like a scene… well, as much sense as a woman in a swimsuit turning around just in time to witness a fat man in a tutu waltzing past her while “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” plays in the background would make.

Still didn’t quite have the hang of acrylic wash here (still very inexperienced with the medium). I need to be more careful and use less contour lines as possible. Economy of lines, as my prof coins it.

Plotting. Literally.

This next one, about child proportions, from early January turned out much better. I started becoming braver with the acrylic wash here, layering it down much more solidly. Granted I still need to work on gesturals in general, especially since I tend not to notice mistakes until I’m midway into a drawing. Pretty happy about this one.

References are from Veer and FlickR.

Your regular February Draw Everyday Challenge posts will resume tomorrow! (This is not part of it. ;P)

I’m not sure how many of you know about Hourly Comic Day. I personally only found out about it a few days ago, and I want to give it a go. I thought I’d try to practice. So have some scribbly hourlies of my day yesterday, January 25th ‘09!

Preview:

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Okay. Wow. I’m really bad at updating anything in the world, aren’t I? Including fansites and other places. Then again, I always bite off more than I can chew. At least I start stuff? :D;

Here’s a really random (big!) sketch dump from the first semester of my college sophomore year. This isn’t all of what I’ve been doodling, I probably have a couple more. I still need to make a sketchdump of the doodles I did in my freshman year!

I probably won’t make as many comments as I used to, since I think that’s why it takes me so long to do updates. Just a heads-up in case anyone wonders why I’m not as much of a babblefish as I usually am.

This is how I am most of the time. Durp. :B

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