With a drawing just for me <3 8D I'm very happy with it :3
Good thing that he's doing an additional study at our school now, or we all just wouldn't know what to do without his constant presence D:
*fangirls*
Thursday, September 27, 2012
I HAS!
Aw YEAH! I has.
With a drawing just for me <3 8D I'm very happy with it :3
Good thing that he's doing an additional study at our school now, or we all just wouldn't know what to do without his constant presence D:
*fangirls*
With a drawing just for me <3 8D I'm very happy with it :3
Good thing that he's doing an additional study at our school now, or we all just wouldn't know what to do without his constant presence D:
*fangirls*
Of Bishounens and Old Characters
Some people may know, I've been in the roleplaying business since I was in my mid teens. It's a fun activity when you've got decent partners to play it all out with, and those I have! You're pretty much writing a story together, and I love making illustrations to those stories :)
Some people may also know, that I have HEAPS of characters that I use often and less often in the roleplays. And because of that, there are plenty of characters that barely get drawn anymore, which is a shame because their designs are nice.
I always strive to keep their designs simple but recognisable. A simple character design is usually the best, in my opinion. Isn't it ANNOYING when you have to look up a reference sheet for a character you yourself created, simply because you made the design so intricate you can't remember every detail? This process of having to look up markings, special attributes, and so on and so forth, tends to take the liveliness out of drawings, as it halts the drawing process and takes the spontanity out of it all. A simpler character design helps prevent this from happening.
IMPORTANT: I'm not saying this is the absolute truth, it's just what works for me. If you have an intricate design that you know by heart and have no trouble drawing straight out of your head, good for you! I know I can't do it, but if you can, I'm impressed and keep it up :)
SO! There are quite a few characters who are so old, that they'd never gotten character sheets/proper designs to begin with. Since some of these characters originated when I was sixteen, and I wasn't known for being consistent with my drawing style back then. Seriously, my drawings were butt-ugly, in my opinion, and I don't want to look at them because it physically hurts :D
First up, Grimm Mortis! He's the 'youngest' of the characters pictured here today, as he was created when I was in my second-to-last year of highschool. He still looked awful then, but what will you do?
Old design:
Grimm
And new:
Here he is, my newest sketch-design for Grimm. Pictured are his adult self and when he was an ickle 16-year-old. He's a silly mixed breed of demonic critters (papa was half vampire, half ava - birdpeople; momma was a succubus). He got attacked by humans when he was about sixteen-seventeen, which gave him his scars and damaged one eye severely, hence the eyepatch. I used to draw him very ...oddly, while I wanted him to have an air of sophistication while still remaining lanky and awkward.
Next up is Gustav!
Oh Gustav, how terribly I've ignored you, poor chap. The last two drawings I have of him online are from 2009 and 2008! That's like, forever ago! Doesn't help much that my drawings were absolutely terrible back then *shudder* Chins aren't pointy bits, past me!
2008: Gustav 1
2009: Gustav 2
And in 2008 I still had the nerve to start drawing tidbits next to my drawings with silly character info that shouldn't be part of a serious drawing. But I was a 17-year-old idiot, don't judge me. And in the 2009 one he's in his shorts even, with his boyfriend! Tsk tsk. Only drawing of him that year and he's in his underwear, for shame.
So, time to give the poor bastard an upgrade. *zzap*
That's better already. I'm still not entirely pleased, but it's an upgrade. It's still only a rough sketch, so I'll be improving his design more over time, but it's a start.
Second to last due for an update in this post, Hoshi!
Japanofiles, please lower the 'that's a girl's name!' signs! I KNOW. The name stays. He's always been called that from when I first started drawing him in 2006, and it won't change anytime soon. There are weirder names in the world. Such as Ashley. It's apparantly unisex...
Oh boy, this character has been through a lot of crappy drawing from me. Poor dear. But that's what you get when you get designed when your creator is only fifteen years old.... You get lousy drawings! Oh all the lousy drawings! Don't worry, I won't pester you with all of them. One terrible example is bad enough.
Horror of 2008: Hoshi
Drawing girly fellows so girly they were practically flat girls with male genitals downstairs was a ...thing at that age. *shudder* I've still got lots of improving to do, but I'm getting there. At least Hoshi now looks SOMEWHAT like a boy, rather than a girl with a penis somewhere.
I screwed up the part between nose and mouth. *kicks self* Ah well, I'll live. I really need to practise thing called 'digital painting' more. Whatever I did, I couldn't change that weird green hue that sits now between his nose and his mouth...
Last one, Hisoka De Winter. He's dutch, ahyuk. Well, partially. His momma's french, his papa is Dutch. But grew up in the Netherlands. Whatevz. He's basically my Gary Stu character, but I forgive him for it for I was sixteen when I created him. At least he's a -pretty- Gary Stu. I won't be explaining his backstory, it's so garbled and stuffy and packed with drrrrama, I'd be flooding this wordheavy blogpost with even more words. And this blogpost has far too many of them anyway. Too much wordin' going on here..
Old: Hisoka
Isn't even one with his lovely long hair. That's how old this character is. So old, I don't even have digitalised drawings of him of that period!
I always felt I drew Hisoka too young looking, and too immature/boyish, while he's supposed to be an elegant demon lord in his twenties. I'm still bad at aging my characters, but practice makes perfect so I'll just keep on trying.
Now I'm going to end this wordbarf. The pictures-words ratio in this post is way off! Bad me, bad!
Some people may also know, that I have HEAPS of characters that I use often and less often in the roleplays. And because of that, there are plenty of characters that barely get drawn anymore, which is a shame because their designs are nice.
I always strive to keep their designs simple but recognisable. A simple character design is usually the best, in my opinion. Isn't it ANNOYING when you have to look up a reference sheet for a character you yourself created, simply because you made the design so intricate you can't remember every detail? This process of having to look up markings, special attributes, and so on and so forth, tends to take the liveliness out of drawings, as it halts the drawing process and takes the spontanity out of it all. A simpler character design helps prevent this from happening.
IMPORTANT: I'm not saying this is the absolute truth, it's just what works for me. If you have an intricate design that you know by heart and have no trouble drawing straight out of your head, good for you! I know I can't do it, but if you can, I'm impressed and keep it up :)
SO! There are quite a few characters who are so old, that they'd never gotten character sheets/proper designs to begin with. Since some of these characters originated when I was sixteen, and I wasn't known for being consistent with my drawing style back then. Seriously, my drawings were butt-ugly, in my opinion, and I don't want to look at them because it physically hurts :D
First up, Grimm Mortis! He's the 'youngest' of the characters pictured here today, as he was created when I was in my second-to-last year of highschool. He still looked awful then, but what will you do?
Old design:
Grimm
And new:
Here he is, my newest sketch-design for Grimm. Pictured are his adult self and when he was an ickle 16-year-old. He's a silly mixed breed of demonic critters (papa was half vampire, half ava - birdpeople; momma was a succubus). He got attacked by humans when he was about sixteen-seventeen, which gave him his scars and damaged one eye severely, hence the eyepatch. I used to draw him very ...oddly, while I wanted him to have an air of sophistication while still remaining lanky and awkward.
Next up is Gustav!
Oh Gustav, how terribly I've ignored you, poor chap. The last two drawings I have of him online are from 2009 and 2008! That's like, forever ago! Doesn't help much that my drawings were absolutely terrible back then *shudder* Chins aren't pointy bits, past me!
2008: Gustav 1
2009: Gustav 2
And in 2008 I still had the nerve to start drawing tidbits next to my drawings with silly character info that shouldn't be part of a serious drawing. But I was a 17-year-old idiot, don't judge me. And in the 2009 one he's in his shorts even, with his boyfriend! Tsk tsk. Only drawing of him that year and he's in his underwear, for shame.
So, time to give the poor bastard an upgrade. *zzap*
That's better already. I'm still not entirely pleased, but it's an upgrade. It's still only a rough sketch, so I'll be improving his design more over time, but it's a start.
Second to last due for an update in this post, Hoshi!
Japanofiles, please lower the 'that's a girl's name!' signs! I KNOW. The name stays. He's always been called that from when I first started drawing him in 2006, and it won't change anytime soon. There are weirder names in the world. Such as Ashley. It's apparantly unisex...
Oh boy, this character has been through a lot of crappy drawing from me. Poor dear. But that's what you get when you get designed when your creator is only fifteen years old.... You get lousy drawings! Oh all the lousy drawings! Don't worry, I won't pester you with all of them. One terrible example is bad enough.
Horror of 2008: Hoshi
Drawing girly fellows so girly they were practically flat girls with male genitals downstairs was a ...thing at that age. *shudder* I've still got lots of improving to do, but I'm getting there. At least Hoshi now looks SOMEWHAT like a boy, rather than a girl with a penis somewhere.
I screwed up the part between nose and mouth. *kicks self* Ah well, I'll live. I really need to practise thing called 'digital painting' more. Whatever I did, I couldn't change that weird green hue that sits now between his nose and his mouth...
Last one, Hisoka De Winter. He's dutch, ahyuk. Well, partially. His momma's french, his papa is Dutch. But grew up in the Netherlands. Whatevz. He's basically my Gary Stu character, but I forgive him for it for I was sixteen when I created him. At least he's a -pretty- Gary Stu. I won't be explaining his backstory, it's so garbled and stuffy and packed with drrrrama, I'd be flooding this wordheavy blogpost with even more words. And this blogpost has far too many of them anyway. Too much wordin' going on here..
Old: Hisoka
Isn't even one with his lovely long hair. That's how old this character is. So old, I don't even have digitalised drawings of him of that period!
I always felt I drew Hisoka too young looking, and too immature/boyish, while he's supposed to be an elegant demon lord in his twenties. I'm still bad at aging my characters, but practice makes perfect so I'll just keep on trying.
Now I'm going to end this wordbarf. The pictures-words ratio in this post is way off! Bad me, bad!
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Cardboard Robots
SO! We had to make cardboard robots of about 80 to 100 centimeters tall for today. That was ....interesting. Ended up being quite fun to do, but DEAR LORD was it a hassle. From acquiring the cardboard, to putting it all together, to getting it to school, and getting it back to my bitty appartment.
Seriously, it was a hassle, but a fun one. But dear lord was it messy!
From the pile of cardboard I started the project with...
To the mess that was left after I finished the robots..
But in the end, the result was nice. The robots had flowers on them first, but I ended up ripping them off because they didn't fit the overall design.
With the flowers:
And without the flowers:
Lookit them, being all happy and stuff.
Getting them to school and back was a hassle. On the way to school, I held the fourlegged one in one hand while having tied the two-legged one on my backpack, but that was very exhausting and scary because the fourlegged one kept slipping in my grasp with multiple times of nearly dropping it >.< So on the way back I severely taped him onto my bicycle with its legs in the bicycle-bags D: He didn't like that, nope. And On top of that I taped the twolegged one onto the other as well so I wouldn't have to carry him on my back. FFF.
They were severely unamused...
Overall, it WAS a fun assignment, albeit a very complicated, unhandy one. It was just a great hassle to get everything done and get everything to school. That teacher gives some very fun but VERY impractical assignments, I'm telling you. Oh well, next assignment is a lino-cutting of about an A4 paper in size. I'll be alright.
Now back to cleaning, my room is still a mess. At least I've got a cup of hot cocoa to ease the pain 8D
Seriously, it was a hassle, but a fun one. But dear lord was it messy!
From the pile of cardboard I started the project with...
To the mess that was left after I finished the robots..
But in the end, the result was nice. The robots had flowers on them first, but I ended up ripping them off because they didn't fit the overall design.
With the flowers:
And without the flowers:
Lookit them, being all happy and stuff.
Getting them to school and back was a hassle. On the way to school, I held the fourlegged one in one hand while having tied the two-legged one on my backpack, but that was very exhausting and scary because the fourlegged one kept slipping in my grasp with multiple times of nearly dropping it >.< So on the way back I severely taped him onto my bicycle with its legs in the bicycle-bags D: He didn't like that, nope. And On top of that I taped the twolegged one onto the other as well so I wouldn't have to carry him on my back. FFF.
They were severely unamused...
Overall, it WAS a fun assignment, albeit a very complicated, unhandy one. It was just a great hassle to get everything done and get everything to school. That teacher gives some very fun but VERY impractical assignments, I'm telling you. Oh well, next assignment is a lino-cutting of about an A4 paper in size. I'll be alright.
Now back to cleaning, my room is still a mess. At least I've got a cup of hot cocoa to ease the pain 8D
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Screen Printing!
The past few weeks we've been getting practical courses for various parts of the school, and I got to do screen printing! Great fun was had :)
First lesson, we focused on getting a hold of the technique, which wasn't all that hard :3 Decided to make a nice something for two friends of mine, who are one of the cutest couples in the Dutch Furry Fandom 8D
First we had to make the design and then transfer it to the transparant paper used for screen printing o3o
And then you get to pressing, once you've prepared the printing screen 8D
And this was the result. Didn't know what colour to choose, so went with green in the end.
Week two we had to make a more elaborate design, for multiple colours. I didn't quite know what I wanted to create, thus just went with the rule 'when in doubt, draw kitties!' and so I did.
The process is pretty much the same as for the one-colour screen, it just takes a little longer, as you have to make multiple transparants, one for every colour.
And so, in the end, this was the result. I'm not entirely pleased with the lines, but this was the best alignment I could get.
Overall, it's a very fun technique and I'll surely be returning to the Screen Printing studio :) I wanna try making some t-shirts like this sometime! That'd be fun :3 And I wanna make some nice Tani prints, lynxie's design should work well for toony screenprinting pics :)
And that's the end of my screenprinting adventure, for now!
First lesson, we focused on getting a hold of the technique, which wasn't all that hard :3 Decided to make a nice something for two friends of mine, who are one of the cutest couples in the Dutch Furry Fandom 8D
First we had to make the design and then transfer it to the transparant paper used for screen printing o3o
And then you get to pressing, once you've prepared the printing screen 8D
And this was the result. Didn't know what colour to choose, so went with green in the end.
Week two we had to make a more elaborate design, for multiple colours. I didn't quite know what I wanted to create, thus just went with the rule 'when in doubt, draw kitties!' and so I did.
The process is pretty much the same as for the one-colour screen, it just takes a little longer, as you have to make multiple transparants, one for every colour.
And so, in the end, this was the result. I'm not entirely pleased with the lines, but this was the best alignment I could get.
Overall, it's a very fun technique and I'll surely be returning to the Screen Printing studio :) I wanna try making some t-shirts like this sometime! That'd be fun :3 And I wanna make some nice Tani prints, lynxie's design should work well for toony screenprinting pics :)
And that's the end of my screenprinting adventure, for now!
Monday, September 24, 2012
Graphite needs some love too.
I've been neglecting my poor 5B/6B pencils dreadfully lately, so I decided to give them some love while practising layout and scenes and foxes. So decided to draw my li'l fox-demon character in his 'camouflage' form. A form that doesn't always help him much when there's nasty foxhunters about :3
Being a good fox and keeping the rodents under control around his lover's farm. As long as he does that, the farmer doesn't mind having an oversized fox roam around the chicken coop.
Yeah, I have a lot of characters that I like to draw. Yeah, they all pretty much have backstories and whatnot. And a lot of them are veeeeery old - Hoshi first appeared in my notebooks during Math when I was barely sixteen years old. Happy fifth anniversary, Hoshi Nobu.
Being a good fox and keeping the rodents under control around his lover's farm. As long as he does that, the farmer doesn't mind having an oversized fox roam around the chicken coop.
Yeah, I have a lot of characters that I like to draw. Yeah, they all pretty much have backstories and whatnot. And a lot of them are veeeeery old - Hoshi first appeared in my notebooks during Math when I was barely sixteen years old. Happy fifth anniversary, Hoshi Nobu.
Charcoal IN pencils. Genius!
Oh how I've fallen in love with charcoal pencils. They're just so very ...interesting to work with. A little bit like black pencil, but so much more awesome. MRRRR, moar.
So here are some tests I've done with this newfound material of mine. BEWARE, there be boobies, and scantily clad women! And weirdness. I'd warned you about the weirdness.
The lady you're currently eyeing is Debbie, a fun character in a literary RP I'm in with a dear friend of mine. She's a shapeshifting silver fox creature, who constantly resides between human and fox - quite possibly because I just like drawing her weird like that. She's a very grumpy lady, sees no use for razor-usage and doesn't wear clothes very often except when it's more convenient for her to get around.
So basically I just like drawing women with weird limbs and weird masks and weird everythings. Don't judge me! More drawings coming :) I'm not done with those charcoal pencils yet!
So here are some tests I've done with this newfound material of mine. BEWARE, there be boobies, and scantily clad women! And weirdness. I'd warned you about the weirdness.
The lady you're currently eyeing is Debbie, a fun character in a literary RP I'm in with a dear friend of mine. She's a shapeshifting silver fox creature, who constantly resides between human and fox - quite possibly because I just like drawing her weird like that. She's a very grumpy lady, sees no use for razor-usage and doesn't wear clothes very often except when it's more convenient for her to get around.
So basically I just like drawing women with weird limbs and weird masks and weird everythings. Don't judge me! More drawings coming :) I'm not done with those charcoal pencils yet!
I draw cartoons, sometimes.
Oh, the joy of getting an artblock. When that beautifully blank paper just seems to stare at you all night long, robbing you of any idea that might crop up. Was a GREAT start of the school year. Yep.
I love my neighbour lady. Honest, she's a gem. She must have a lot of patience to be able to put up with my antics OwO But if only she wasn't so determined to crack her joints and even her neck so very, VERY often. Well, she puts up with my antics, then I'll put up with hers ;)
We have a lady in the building who feels compelled to STOMP around the house when she's wearing heels. Especially when she's walking on the tiled floors here. We hear her. Very clearly.
And my neighbour lady always knows when I'm walking past. I'm known for wearing my fluffy Lappland slippers. I'm also known for not lifting my feet while walking on slippers. Especially on the carpet.
So whenever there's a 'shoopshoopshoopshoopshoop' noise passing by, I'm walking past her door. She puts up with a lot of my weirdness OwO
Class doodles with a fat black marker are always fun.
I love my neighbour lady. Honest, she's a gem. She must have a lot of patience to be able to put up with my antics OwO But if only she wasn't so determined to crack her joints and even her neck so very, VERY often. Well, she puts up with my antics, then I'll put up with hers ;)
We have a lady in the building who feels compelled to STOMP around the house when she's wearing heels. Especially when she's walking on the tiled floors here. We hear her. Very clearly.
And my neighbour lady always knows when I'm walking past. I'm known for wearing my fluffy Lappland slippers. I'm also known for not lifting my feet while walking on slippers. Especially on the carpet.
So whenever there's a 'shoopshoopshoopshoopshoop' noise passing by, I'm walking past her door. She puts up with a lot of my weirdness OwO
Class doodles with a fat black marker are always fun.
I drew a Saturn!
The first Saturn I drew for my profile picture was too pretty 8D Thus I'll just put it up here. I was having too much fun with the musical bastard.
Paint is a very weird programme to doodle in...
Friday, September 7, 2012
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