Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Changes in Progress...?

This thing is difficult to subscribe to and follow, isn't it? Bah!
I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and looking for other options. Currently, I'm researching WordPress, and life looks pretty good over there. Sleek designs, more user friendly widgets, and other goodies like multiple pages. O_o So, I may decide to migrate over there in the future. We'll see.

In other news, I recently decided to draw five of my friends. I told them I wanted to draw five faces, first come first serve, and they came. Yay. :D The plan is to sketch those, then let people vote on which one they like best. The best one will get colored and posted here (or WordPress if I decide to move there before I finish this little project...)! Excitement! I'll probably start on those sketches tomorrow. So long! I'll leave you with this lame scribble narwhal.


Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Dapper Quail

A friend of mine recently had a birthday, and my gift to her was custom, designed on the spot t-shirt. :) I have yet to finalize the design and get it printed and sent to her, but I wanted to show you guys the design. :P With her right there giving input, we ended up with this. A purple quail (quail is her spirit animal) in a vest, monocle, and top hat. Because, as she often says, and as shall be printed on the back of the t-shirt, "Everything is better with a top hat."


What remains left to be done is to preserve translucency in the background of the image, since we're printing it on a gray shirt. It seems that Cafe Press's customization interface only creates translucency out of white spaces when the t-shirt is light colored, whereas this is a dark gray we're working with. So, I have to figure that out. We were thinking of just printing it with my lamely matched gray colored box around the bird, but I know I can do better, so I'm gonna figure this transparency issue out.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Prehistoric Pinkness

So... I saw a pink dinosaur somewhere and thought "I want to draw a pink dinosaur..." So I took an image of a t-rex, traced it and made it pink (I don't trust my dino drawing skillz). xD I think it'd make a neat t-shirt..


Friday, August 10, 2012

Someone's Special Netherdrake...

This is for a friend. Just a quick sketch, but they've been wanting me to draw this creature a long time. :)


Also, I finally have the full version of Sketchbook Express! Yaaay!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Achievement!


Why is this an achievement? Because I said so! It felt like a good number! Well... It's actually 51, now... but I reached 50 posts today. :P

Foreign Vegetables

This is pretty self explanatory. So far there are four parts to this, and two or so more that I need to draw yet. :P I started drawing these a while ago, as things were happening, but then had a "meh" moment and nothing's happened on it since. XD So, I'll start posting these every once in a while and probably finish them up sometime. Simply click it to enlarge the image to a readable size (if you didn't know how to do that already. ^_^).


Tuesday, August 7, 2012

I felt abstract today...

...and so I ended up with something that I think would be really cool as a fabric! Perhaps I'll take a closer look at the fabric customization site, Spoonflower...

I saved two versions. Which one do you like better?



Monday, August 6, 2012

Huzzah for pointy eared people

Today, a boy called Hu Yui floated down from the sky to save the world. That's right; I'm playing Skyward Sword. And since they Legend of Zelda games usually give you the option to enter your own name when you start the game,  ANOTHER new character has been added to my collection! O_o There must be hundreds now... Link is neat, but I just love making people up, so *poof*, Hu Yui appears.

I sorta based this outfit on what I was wearing today, which was influenced by the styles around Skyloft. But actually, my tunic is a lot darker... I made it a lighter purple to seem more cheerful, like most of the Skyloft clothes. And that's not pink. That's tomato-stain red (and... actually.. my pants are grey.. But that just seemed too gloomy!). :P 


Friday, August 3, 2012

Simple Coloring

I didn't feel much like doodling today, so a chibi self portrait with no shading is all you get. :P


Thursday, August 2, 2012

Dramatic Jinhai is Dramatic

Liek, srsly. Jinhai looks really dramatic from this angle. I think it's the bangs.


Also, today is the birthday of my uncle who I attribute much of my enjoyment of Japanese culture, manga, and the manga art style to.
So, Oji-san, o-tanjoubi omedeto!
Feliz cumpleaƱos!
Saengil chukha hamnida!