Friday Special

For the record, I was sick, so I have a good excuse...

Ok, not really, but I was really in no mood to deal with my scanner. And I'm not in the mood to deal with it now, so I'll attach some pictures to this post tomorrow.... maybe.

bleh

Hate being sick.

I really want itunes money.

Anyways, starting Sunday, I will be Liturgist at my church. Just for the month of August, but still, it's cool. I hope I get better soon, I'm supposed to serve communion... -sigh- I'll try to be entertaining tomorrow.

Edit: ... I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to post the picture I drew yesterday. Then again people might not like me if I do. Normally I don't care about such things, but this is my artwork, if my popularity gets any lower my pencils might abandon me. I paid good money for those. Then again, the reactions that I could get from posting my Dark Link picture might be entertaining enough to make it worth it. Hmmmmm. In the meantime, this is adorable.

Edit 2: I did not intend for this to be Dark Link. It just did. In drawing this, I recognized my fascination with red glowy things. I didn't put a shine spot in his eyes because they give off their own light. =3

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Why did I decide to post this? ... Talking to stupid people makes me want to give them an actual reason to be confused by my motives. =D I'm so generous.

askdjfclkjc The Master Sword is longer than that. -.- I drew it at a bad angle and had to make it all short. The pic of me with the sword is the reference I used for it, but I flipped the triforce symbol to point towards the hilt so it would be different from Link's. I saw it in someone else's work and thought it was a nice touch, so now I point it out. Why is he not wearing his hat? I stole it. And his ponytail is adorable. I realized also how much black/red stuff I'm posting, so I colored the symbol on his hand and gave him a light skin tone. Really should have used I reference for his hair, but ohwell. I'm going to shutup now.

Tuesday Tunes

Yes, I thought about today on my vacation.... :)

No, I didn't.

But the lyrics in 'Hey Devil' by Toby Mac painted such a pretty picture, I had to sketch it out.

I'm referring to "Red scarf in the wind as it started to rain" as the inspiration for this.

TADA! First rain effect I've done! ... And you can't see it in the scan... -sigh- The only thing I'd really fix in this is the hair, I messed up in the sketch and then inked before I realized what was wrong. The shading was also a pain... I could've made it look like she was getting a little wet, but oh well. (The reason it's a little dark was because I was trying to get the rain to show up, but whatever.)

Madness Monday

O.O

Plane ride.

After only about 6 hours of sleep.

After a week long cruise.

And a car ride after all that.

funstuffs.

ANYWAY

I drew a few stuffs, and I did some observations and can now draw a guy! *cheer* Yes, when a bunch of guys in only swim trunks are walking around, I will take to opportunity to take mental notes.

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NO I was not being creepy. -_-

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rawr.

So, yes, I do have a few pages to post, so those will be coming up in a week-long special!

Except for tomorrow... I have something that fits that category wonderfully.

Until tomorrow, then.

Tuesday Tunes

Something really random I came up with while playing Super Smash Bros Brawl and listening to Soldiers by Out of Eden.

Steal their gear, they will come.

Master sword from Legend of Zelda.

Cape and Tiara (sorry, headband xP) from Fire Emblem.

Wow, lots of links today.

Movie Madness Monday

So, I'm lazy.

Lazy lazy lazy.

Only two pics for this week. I promise I'll draw on my vacation, but no promises on quality. I can't type today. Ah, well, here's a sketch of Mushu from Mulan. (Yes, I see the line in his arm, his arms were actually added last minute.) Just something quick, and not that good.

Leave me alone.

Weird Wednesday

25th post!

*confetti*

Ok, so it's Wednesday! Time for me to laugh like an evil genius and show what I've created to creep out the few people who actually read my posts. MWAHAha ha.... haha... yeah. So my scanner is not working with me at the moment. -.- grrness

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Stupid scanner.

So I have no idea where the idea came from, but it did. Pencil sketch, ink'd, marker'd, prismacolor'd. Just so you're not confused, the stuff around her is ripped up stuffed animals. If you couldn't tell be looking at her, she has issues. I was going to color her skin, but the more I thought about the character, the more I liked her white... I probably should've shaded her, but hey, I should probably do a lot of things. Like clean off my computer desk... or clean my room. The bow was a last minute addition, and the eyes are awesome. I got the pupils to be dark red by shading them with a black prismacolor. I must say, the mix of pencil and marker gets you a rather charming effect. I need a new black marker. -.- I bought the thing without looking at it's condition. The tips were worn down when I got it. And now the ink is starting to become finicky. ALWAYS check your markers before you buy them (I blame the idiots who write with them and don't buy them.) Meh, just my luck. But as soon as I get another 40% off coupon for Hobby Lobby, Sissy is going to buy me a brown, blue, green, and yellow. So I can just print out two and buy a black and a blender my bad self. Unfortunately, I doubt it's going to happen before my trip.

So, once again, this has been the 25th post.

*confetti*

Tuesday Tunes

Yay! I am a day ahead in this!

Yes, I did this yesterday. Quite simple. But I like it. I had to edit the saturation and whatnot of the scan cause the background came out WHITE... well, almost. So I got to get familiar with the location of the editing tools in preview. :) I really like this. The hair came out splendiferously, I messed up of the inking however, and did a few lines that shouldn't have appeared. -.- ohwell, I covered one with liquid paper, but forgot the other. This was all done in pen and pencil. Go look at the cover for the CD this song (which is the song for this week. it makes me happy) and I'll bet you'll find the idea for this picture. The Generous Mr Lovewell. Yupyup, happysong!

Now, I'm almost done the sketch for tomorrow, and I've done a sketch for next week last night. AND I am working on my technique for completely front faces! :D So expect quite a few looking-straight-at-you pictures. But for now, however, I need to go find a reference for the dress in tomorrow's picture, I can't find out how to make it look like she's sitting.

P.S. Splendiferous is an actual word, look it up!

Sunday Sketches (LATE)

YAY!

Actually, most of these were done on Saturday, but since I'm scanning/posting today, it counts. So, I didn't know what to do with the first few pages of the new book I got, so I decided sketches of characters I figured would pop up again could use a reference. I'm quite happy with how well the pokemon turned out this time. I need to get working on this idea I have for Wednesday... I really need to start working ahead on the weekends now that I've started school. I can't wait till next week. VACATION! woot. Maybe I'll work aheadahead of time so I can set up blogs to post while I'm away. OoooOOOo! I just realized I can do my Brokenheart with marker now! :D funfun.

So, I'm done tomorrows, I'll get started on the weird one after my clarinet lesson... and after I get off the computer. There were more sketches, but my scanner won't cooperate. So you get these girls again. VULPIXISSOCUTE!!!! >w< Anyways, I've finished tomorrows, but I need to get back to work... *sigh*

Flashback Friday

IGOTACOPICMARKER!!!!!!!!!
EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
ITROCKS!
Sorry, back to english. I got my first copic marker. Red, because I want to eventually finish an all-marker piece of the Minstrel. It's AMAZING! The ink flows soooo smoothly! and you can see any pencilwork underneath. I can't wait, cause my sissy says she'll get me some more!!!! I spent only $4 on this one cause I had a coupon. They're expensive to get, but refills are only $1 a piece. Meh, I'm having trouble staying inside the lines, but I'm still getting used to the bleed length of this marker for the paper I'm using. Speaking of which, I was down to the LAST page in my sketch book, so I took my coupon to get a new one. I was half tempted to get marker paper because it is so smooth, but you only get 50 sheets for $10 and you get 100 for the same price of sketch paper.

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oh yeah... I'm supposed to have art for you... I really didn't want to do a flashback today... So I'll post an update of that Minstrel I posted a while ago. I still need the colors for her eyes and hair, but she's colored for the most part.

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the rainbow lines of DEATH got me.... -.- ohwell.

Thursday Three

I really had no clue what to do today, but Jenna gave me an idea, so I'm going to go with it. She gave me the suggestion to draw cats. But I am not all that proficient at drawing them, so I will be drawing girls with cats, to make it easier on poor little me. I'll probably end up uploading them tomorrow, but might get one done and up tonight.

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I think I just learned an art lesson from a manga...... wow I need edumakation.....

Anyways, I will try to get those sketches done and ready to be posted be tomorrow, or done tomorrow. (I'm behind in things today.)

EDIT: Pictures got finished last night, thank goodness. I'm not all that happy with the last one, but it's fine. It was late, so give me a break. Here they are. Btw, if you want to scan TWO pages, make sure you turn the page before you scan a second time. >.< These are supposed to be of me and my kitty Shadow. Any cat owner should be able to relate to this.

Weird Wednesday

Sorry for missing yesterday. I got caught up reading 'Do Hard Things,' I'm going to make my sister read it when I'm done. So, yes, this is the angel of death I tried to do last Friday. She's a cutie, makes death not so evil looking! :D I know, I'm crazy. The big orb thing on her staff is for the containment of demons, and it also makes for a heavier swing. She has to deal with these guys a lot more than she has to be on assignment for people. AAAAHHHH, I just realized I forgot her poketwatch.... aw. She always has that on her, it lets her know when she needs to be somewhere. When she's on people retrieving jobs, she carries around a list of places she needs to be. As a character, she's quiet and thoughtful, doesn't really smile much, but she's just that way. Sorry for the sketchyness of the thing. And I kindof copped out on the wings. I wasn't really in the mood to go into all that detailing.... feathers have to be the most time consuming things to draw EVER. And she gave me issues with her bangs, so I'll probably have to drag her back out and fix these on a day I feel up to it. And the hands look way too small. BAH. Here's your picture, I'l go gripe about it elsewhere. :P (And no, I have nothing against human ears, pointy ones are just so much funner to do.)

EDIT: Just thought I'd tell you to look at this. It's beautiful!

Movie Madness Monday

Greetings.

I really need to get more of those 2D movies on DVD. Seeing as we threw out all the VHS because the player was eating them. Dx I mean, I think some of the newer 3D movies are brilliant, but I have no idea where to start in the recreation of those characters. This is because there is no guidelines that I could use. I really do not want to go back and draw characters from movies I've already done. Maybe later on, but not so soon.

Well, I has books. Yes, they're good. Let's see, I got the ... 6th book of the Dreamhouse Kings series (thriller), Do Hard Things (Thanks, Ashley for recommending it!), and Graceling (a fantasy from the teen section, bit like Ella Enchanted... but much different).

My sister has been gone for the weekend seeing her boyfriend. It's been wonderful having the bathroom all to myself again. I used up a whole bunch of sparklers. Made me want to draw sparkly stuff. But it was late, so I slaked off and drew nothing.

I like the new template for the blog....

Shoutouts

HEY!

Yes, that is a shout in text form.... whatever.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!!!!!

The day where Americans get to fire up the grill and blow things up without the cops telling you you're disturbing the peace. :D Beautiful. So, today makes me happy. Why? Well, DUH, I got a vampire dragon egg! (Yes, I am making an entire post just to brag about this.) It's a little place called Dragcave. I'm half an addict. There was two new eggs released today, so like anybody who knows how these things go, I got one of the new eggs then stalked the abandoned page for rares. I missed this little one a few times before I caught him. (Vampires have a tendency to get booted off scrolls by the other dragons, and since I've had it for about 20 minutes now, I'm think I'm safe.)

So, onto the shoutouts!

I'd like to give special mention to the other users of Dragcave, who use their wonderful dragon-drawing talents to design new species for the Cave. Yes, even the ones that are rejected.

I'd also like to point some fingers at the spriters, who take the designers' drawings and turn them into the icons you see today.

Oh, and one more group, the Writers. Yes, you are artists too. These are the lovely people who put together the descriptions for every species created.

Once more, Ladies and Dragons, put your hands together, for the Designers, Spriters, and Writers, who make Dragcave so wonderfully diverse and fun. :)

P.S. This look is just for today, tomorrow I'll change it to something more... me... blog needed a new look anyway...

Flashback Friday

So, if you haven't noticed, once again this post is artless.

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I tried, but when I started redoing a female angel of death, it turned into a dude.

NOT KIDDING.

I really want to start doing comics... but I need to get a LOT more consistent before I do anything of the sort.

btw

We still have not bought food. -.- I'm going with my father to make sure that we get everything. I had to rewrite the (too long to be a good thing) list in a lovely short hand that apparently, only I can read. Thank you for so lovingly teasing me about how I put the yogurt on the list whilst I was playing my video game, Mother and Cassie. I capitalized them so you remember who I am pointing blame at. What am I blaming them for? ... Good question... In the meantime, I have two birthday checks to cash and a Books-A-Million gift card still attached to the cardboard.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

I need a new sketchbook... and I want manga paper... and I want copics..... and that set of pens from Staples that I would really appreciate.

This post is getting pointless. I'd better stop now.

Thursday Three

OK! I drew three girlies for yous! Proud? I sure am!

And for the record, if you have never heard of Gradenvior (hope I spelled that right), Persian, and Vulpix, I pity you. Pokemon, just in case. I would've colored them but I didn't feel like it. May do that later. I had to make Vulpix all cute and stuff because she's.... cute... I guess I'm the only one who gets this. Gradenvior's hair was FUN. :D It was quick and fun. I messed up on Persian, though, but she turned out ok.

So, I'm having scanner issues, so it might be a while before I get them posted.... I hope this doesn't take long. -.-

YAY! It worked. ok, happy now. Doesn't even really bother me that the rainbow lines of DEATH came with it! :) I hope this not-having-artblock thing lasts, it's enjoyable!