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?
Yes, I know the updates have been… non-existent on this for a while. But I have drawn a couple of things here and there, when June started, at least. I have to get back to that though. Now that I’ve somewhat adjusted to schoolwork and have been taking a better look at my goals and such in life, I think I’ll be ready to tackle this again.
Give me a couple more weeks. I’ll update with good stuff. Not giving up! And neither should you fine people (not only the few of you who actually follow this.)
A commission in progress for someone who donated at Super Charity GO! Do check it out, you guys! You can get art for heart’s sake!
It’s been a month since I last posted?! Seriously? Holy crap, I didn’t even know.
Have some Black Jack frontal bust shots (in slightly different styles) and those few sketches I promised last update.
Practice! Was going to be my sample for Super Charity Go. ^^;
Something I sketched up while I was at the UP AME caricature booth at the Shizen Orchestra last April 25, 2007. Pretty proud of both of these.
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.
Oh goodness gracious finally I can post like normal again! See, I tried the auto-upgrade feature to Wordpress 2.7.1, and… well, when that happened, I just couldn’t post at all, and my interface was weird. I’ve been trying to fix this for weeks. I finally found a solution though. Deleting and re-uploading works wonders!
I wondered why my layout looked weird now and thought it was the upgrade, but it’s just now I found out my laptop was set to 1280×800 all along! Gone are the days that I was used to seeing mostly black for this layout. My reality has been shattered!
But now that I finally got this blog working again, my desktop computer died the other morning, and it had the random artworks I wanted to share. :[ I’m on my trusty laptop, Black Jack, till I get a new computer. Such is life!
Oh well. Have these two comics I did to destress that I posted on my LJ!
