Blargh // no, just Blargh. // Triple-blargh

Things like composition and proportions, and the general whooshiness of images I do much better on pen and paper. However, the editability of digital work is also a delight.

It doesn't look that horrible at a distance. Click closer at your own risk. T_T
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Hm. OpenCanvas was still running.


On a different note, I need to draw SIMPLER. Simplify, simplify, simplify!
I have some pen-on-paper drawings there, but, it's not a scanning kind of day, so nyah, I guess. Basically there's some junk and one decent Terra, so you're not missing much.

Something in 15 minutes // in 20 minutes

Now which parts should be black, which grey and which white? XD

*edit*


More lineart-like stuff.  Couldn't be bothered to even crop this one, I guess.  There's something wrong with the twist, but, meh. This pose has just a bit too much wushu in it, I think, too...

More practice, Tablet, Paint.NET

Paint.net...

Well, it's much better than Paint, definitely. Still, it's no Photoshop, or Paint Shop, or Opencanvas.

Art practice

From the back of a Cosmode magazine,
"Baby, The Stars Shine Bright" brand, line "Alice and the Pirates", I think? I probably walked right past one of their stores in Harajuku at some point.

Did this one fast, so it's not accurate or proportionate or anything. Hm.

About Tetris...

I don't speak much of game development here, but recently, I learned JavaScript ( which is kinda awesome, really, ) since one job I applied for required knowing it --- not sure if I got the job, or even if I'm taking it, but --- nevertheless, javascript: Fun, easy, fast to do stuff with.

So, I wrote a Tetris game with it. It's a classic style tetris, without gravity-based chain reactions. Nothing fancy. It stores the latest highscore on your machine as a cookie, too.

I really liked working on the block rotation and collision algorithms. Fun stuff.

I'm never drawing that armor again.

Which is a shame, since it's kinda cool.

Lineart, essentially. Some shading or color would be nice. Blame this one on the new Iron Man movie, or something.

But! Let me geek out for a moment about the fact that the university's scanning room has, not just an Epson A3 flatbed scanner, which I SERIOUSLY should abuse more. Epson does, like, the best scanners. But that's not all. There's also apparently a freakin' light table here! Also, the machines here have actual 16:9 aspect monitors! This is very noticeable as most monitors are, in fact, 15:9 or 14:9 or something silly like that. ( I probably should check the exact number. )
*edit* 16:10. That was it.

The art: I'm not entirely happy 'bout the face, looks kinda wide or something -- and I seem to draw really huge necks for some reason. Oh well. There's also no shading nor camo pattern, which would help and... eh. Take it as it is. Or don't.

I am sorry 'bout the lack of updates.

This blog was created as an outlet for my art, since online communities are, in fact, one of the big motivators for me. Which is a fancy way of saying "I like attention," but skips the fact I'm embarrassed by the fact.

In any case, there are some other things which motivate me - stories put images into my head, and sometimes certain concepts need drawing. However, I haven't had that much of an urge to draw lately ( which is a shame, as I've finally gotten semi-decent with it, ) and currently I don't have a monitor ( nor a display adapter -- IE, a graphics card, ) nor a job to get money to buy ones.

However that's not exactly the key problem - I could get a semi-decent CRT tube cheap or free if I wanted to, and there are some GFX cards I could also get. However, I've found myself doing a bunch of other things that need doing, a lot more since my monitor went *zzzap.*

So, I'm currently doing things like coding, reading science texts and trying to get a job, as well as figuring out of how to graduate, instead of being sucked in by my own computer's access -- there seems to be a difference in attitude between using my own computer and using other computers.

As a downside, I feel quite awkward doing graphics stuff on other computers.

As for blogging... I don't write for the sake of writing. I'm not a writer, like some people, and I do have a rant-about-things blog... which is in Finnish, sorry.

I have been thinking of starting yet another blog focusing on certain other interesting things, but I'm not sure if I will.

I do still intend to draw - I even intend to complete NETTG:TEY, in fact. Maybe I shall write about that later.