Mel on a Llama
I was working on this a couple of days ago for an org requirement. Why isn’t it done by now? Allergies on my hands prevent me from doing the simplest tasks. How sad.
I hope it goes away soon. Just when I finally get my drawing mojo back, I’m handicapped. Oy.
Thanks to Aiken for some corrections he made. 
To prepare myself for doing the “What I Desire” Super Charity GO! commission, though I realize I should have probably went for a full body thing to practice realism with, huh?
Gotta fix up what goes where, liven up the colors, and smoothen the shading out. I’ve already spent an hour on this without realizing it. Cool. I don’t really do realism portraits often so I guess this is still a good thing to practice.
It’s also my answer to a repeat of a meme. I love that I can do that meme over and over with more people. I’m totally being way hardcore about it. If I’m going to use the meme to practice, I may as well go all the way, darn it!
The original, blank template can be found here.
Ignore that one box is missing. I’ve been moving them around. I’ve only managed to think up two so far. I’m still going to be fixing those thumbnails up. What am I doing? I’m not just taking this up… I’m taking it up in conjunction with the things I already owe people. Two birds with one stone! Ha!
This will work. It will because I will make myself work. Ahahaha.
Quick update from a cafe in school before I launch myself back into schoolwork.
I managed to overwrite the high resolution version of this with a low-res .psd.
Oh well. At least I had only just started. I can still fix this somehow.
Decided to re-do one of my Super Charity GO! commissions. It’s an angle and pose I’m not very used to, but even if it doesn’t turn out the way I was imagining it in my mind, it’ll be good practice.
I borrowed my friend’s tablet for this. Makes me wish I had a portable tablet so I could doodle while stuck in school with my laptop. I get quite a bit done…
I’ve doodled a little bit this week too. Yup. Totally not everyday, but it’s still a step up from when I didn’t do any doodles at all. 
It’s just a lot of work to scan them in. I’ll try to polish some of them before doing that.
That took entirely too long. I am so scared to do the face. You have no idea. I am about to go shade that right now! … after I take a sip from my cup of coffee.
When there’s coffee, you know it’s serious business.
Studies for a painting for one of my classes. What am I doing painting when I’m not even a painting major? Ask my professor!
In all seriousness, he wants us to experience what it’s like to have an exhibit. If I remember correctly, he’s going to run us through the ins and outs of how to hold an exhibit as well.
I’ve tried painting in acrylics before for Figure Drawing class. I did horribly. I’ve never painted anything larger than roughly the size of regular office paper. We need to do a 16″x20″ painting. As I type this, I’m making a rough digital study of what I’ll be putting to canvas. Will I succeed?
2003-2009 Art Improvement Meme
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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
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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?