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[19 May 2012|04:45pm] |
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I drew for a friend.
It's an Inkie Pie!
Yeah, that's all. I also applied for work at a nearby store. It didn't go well. Probably going to throw out a few more applications elsewhere and hope for the best. Aside from that, not much in particular planned.
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| Doodle Update |
[12 May 2012|04:23pm] |
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Got Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3. Having a blast with it. Much more accessible of a fighting game than the others I've touched.
Why do I draw again? Because in the time it'd take me to throw together a text description, I'd get an ink doodle that tells more info than my text would. (Though not always in as particular details as my text could.) Also because I can glance at a picture and get the idea. If I glance at text, I get nothing but an impression of the time I'm going to sink to go any deeper into it.
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I went back and aged down Skyburst/Confetti. On Equestrian Dawn, I already have two growth-stunted sillysorts, one average young adult, and then I had Skyburst. I don't have the experience to effectively emulate a mature woman as I intended with the character, and I didn't have any child-characters to join in on school scenes and whatnot. So BAM one age change later, problem solved.
Wap. Why? Because A, Z.
Squeak. If I really want to explore a topic to get stronger as an artist? I should work on my humans and understanding the technical behind why buildings and robots work to make them more convincing. But uh. I really don't care about these doodles enough for that to be my sole reason in pursuing those topics.
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Cool Thing: 20 Minute episode on Moraff's World. Ancient DOS Games.
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| Weekly Sketch Thingy! |
[05 May 2012|02:02pm] |
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I am done with finals and done with the term! Woo! Only like. One or two more years of this stuff left to go! ...I hope.
I drew more than this, but this is the only thing I really feel like sharing this week. I drew Charlotte again. Or at least something akin to it. Kibro version rather than the Sab version, which is only evident by the presence of a tail. I think she's just one of the more fun characters I had with flaws that I found amusing to explore and exploit.
Wasn't really meant to be her at the start, but seemed like fun after I had a shape.
Also, a quick reminder that I don't post everything to this Livejournal. Just the stuff that seemed the most interesting or relevant for that week to me, or seemed liked something I'd most want to glance over when reviewing my journal to see what I've done in past days.
But with the exception of sexually explicit content, you can expect just about everything I draw to land on Windstone sooner or later.
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Space Fortress 2 is out and playable! http://www.pixelships.com/adg/epf016.html Not totally polished up and refined, but OMG FREE GAME.
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[28 Apr 2012|05:57pm] |
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I wonder if I should change up the titles on these things week to week. Might be kinda fun. but I don't like the idea of naming them 'such and such edition' like EqDaily used to do for their 'Drawfriend' posts since I didn't like when they'd declare a theme and then not actually have any theme in the contents.
Oh also, next week is finals week. And with that, a freakton of projects I'd rather not work on will be coming due. Soon I'll start looking around for a new place to stay closer to university. Staying on the dorms is already out. Attending the summer term is out. I'll figure things out as I go, I suppose.
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Blue Bunny the Dream Rabbit. She likes hugs and is about as smart as a cotton ball. About as affectionate and honest as a cotton ball is soft.
To be totally frank, though, the sketch version looked much better to me. It's more lively.
A changeling popping balloons. Because it's fun.
Sweetie Belle's butt. Or at least half of it. Because my study habits are goofy, but seem to work. How do you remember what the days of the week are in another language? Play a story-game with a friend asking what day was Free Balloon Day and where the CMC stole balloons from on Free Balloon Day.
... Did I mention I like Spongebob? Or at least I like what I remember of it. Haven't seen the newer stuff.
I remembered drawing a stripper with poisonous barbs before. So while I was waiting on a lecture to end, I thought to myself, "Now would be a perfect time to draw naked sexless creatures in a featureless cartoony way because I think that is hot." So I did.
And since it's on my mind, I did a bit of digging up to figure out where I had gotten the idea from. Used to have a character on Sabrous MUD named Cynthia, apparently. And I failed completely at making them look saucy.
A pony that was supposed to be Sweetie Belle (looks more like TwinkleShine who I've drawn before) blowing up a balloon. If you want a reason why, she may have been helping Cheerilee prepare for the Hearts and Hooves day school events or something.
Oh wait, all of the balloons in that episodes were floating. Oh well, at least I tried.
Probably the drawing I like the most of the ones done this week. No flipping clue what it is. But hey, I learned a new word! And that's important, right? I think it's important, anyway. For now, I'm going to assume it's some kind of balloon robot hologram goo water slime bubble metal illusion inflateything hybrid. Because everyone likes balloon robot hologram goo water slime bubble metal illusion inflateything hybrids!
Oh hey, one of the Danger Keepers. Not sure if it's Axis or Origin. I was just quick-doodling at the time. But I think it's a fun product. If I ever do sit back down and throw another game together this year, I'd love for it to be either a rethinking of Danger Keeper, or something a bit Mega Man inspired.
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One Pony Thing: What? I think the socks are cute. Even if the bloody/violent implications of this Tumblr lately are weirding me out enough to unfollow the RSS. Seriously though, whoever this person is must have some design training under his/her belt, and before the VDC they did a lot of neat funnies and gags, so I don't feel bad for pointing traffic their way.
One Cool Thing: Ancient DOS Games on Treasure Mountain! http://www.pixelships.com/adg/ep0085.html Because can't go wrong with ADG. (Except when it does go wrong.)
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[22 Apr 2012|06:21pm] |
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Like it or not, you're going to die. Go do something. You like fun? Go do something fun. You like helping out? Go help someone. Stop 'considering' and do it.
Pony: The season ended. This is the part where fans gets ravenous to compensate for the loss, and creative sorts churn out new stuff to sate the thirst for content.
Cool Thing: Red VS Blue. http://www.youtube.com/show/redvsblue?s=1
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[14 Apr 2012|11:40am] |
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Yeah, I'm not all that invested in the whole drawing thing this week. Probably won't until this month is over. Finals approach, and all the project due-dates with it.
I'm becoming increasingly doubtful of my ability to handle digital art. I've been finding it increasingly difficult to sit in front of my tablet for more than a few minutes at a time, and when I do, I just get frustrated and quit. Been trying to work up a bit more with crayons. They're very convenient and inexpensive. While I can get some effects I like with paint, the amount of effort involved in prepwork and getting proper material to work with it is a turnaway for me. And markers seem interesting, but if you want the right color for your picture, you'ld better make darn sure you know where to buy the color. And you know what? I freaking don't. But with crayons, I can get some hundred colors for about $30. Good enough.
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Rowdy Ruby because Beachballs. Also because I liked this other pic enough that an excuse to reuse it somewhere I frequent sounded like a cool idea. http://windstone.travisuped.com/index.php?q=/post/view/2126 Also, because I eventually realized 'Awesome' is a terrible, boastful character name that can't be consistently lived up to, even if the dream that gave me the name was pretty awesome to me.
There was an RP with a black-and-white theme party. And I suck at drawing this character's proportions. Attempt at two tasks in one throw.
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Cool Thing: Apparently this video is advertising boozoholz or something. But it has racing robot animal thingies in it. Yay. http://vimeo.com/38290762 Oh, also, and I just found out about this Jean Jacques-Perry guy who made cool music that reminds me of Mario Paint and Earthbound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfRI_ITSsWo
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| Well, That was a Bust |
[08 Apr 2012|01:00am] |
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Derp. Not making any promises on getting the site updated. I can't seem to stay on top of this stuff lately.
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[07 Apr 2012|05:25pm] |
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Yeah, sorry about the metadata getting behind. I'm working on catching up for the month. Hope to get the most recent stuff all caught up for proper searching on the site by midnight EDT tonight.
Oh, also, my life is still relatively devoid of anything of interest outside of RP and college. Thinking of getting my first official (part-time) job in upcoming months. That'll be a new experience. Why do you keeep drawing the saaame thiiings over and over? Because there is not a lot else floating in my head unless you want me to draw something about how Neuronetworks are confusing and work on mathematical wizardry and the faith in computer processing power or something.
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Color version is here. I'm not very good at color theory, apparently. Also, I got lazy and I have no intent of finishing this pic anymore without doing a redraw. And I don't think I care enough to redraw.
Because kitty.
'They're all made of rubber!' is not an appropriate response to someone suggesting you could benefit from examining more anatomy. Unless they are made of rubber and you already did the research to know exactly why you made them rubber.
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Pony Day: Last episode before the two part final. And since they want to show both parts back to back, next week will not be a new episode.
Cool Thing: Uhh... Uhhhhh... Yeah, maybe next week.
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| Drawing Habits VS Viewing Habits |
[02 Apr 2012|12:34am] |
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Amusing how majority of the images I enjoy and save focus on having vivid flat colors on foreground objects with backgrounds and at least some elements implying the passage of time or a story, but most of what I draw avoids hinting at a setting and tends to have a lot of monochromatic shading going on.
Sure, there's exceptions. But it's like I've trained myself to draw something with only lose ties to what I enjoy viewing. That can not be good.
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[31 Mar 2012|09:26pm] |
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It's uncomfortably hot in my room right now. There's an air conditioner in the window. It doesn't seem to help at all.
Also I seem to have stumbled into membership with a new MU* that has much higher sexual content than any I've touched before. I'm not sure what to think of it yet.
Draconequus? Chimera? Doodle? Whatever.
Fwwssshhhhhhhhhh.
Pretty sure I can do this pattern with my eyes closed now. I need to mix it up.
Squeak. You'ld think I'd get bored of this theme by now.
Hey, remember this doodle? That's fine, I didn't either.
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Pony Day: Kind of a polarizing (but cute) episode with continuity nods everywhere.
Cool Thing: Got a Spare Dollar, Buddy? Dude's gotta eat. (Also there is art.)
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[24 Mar 2012|10:42pm] |
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Your RP character has been appointed captain of the Balloon Team for the once-a-year one-day special event! Oh wait, Balloon Team is a Subteam of the Support Team which is headed by this person you really dislike! Oh wait that person can't make it so that part of the event was canceled. Oops. But that's okay! Tomorrow's D&D day with friends! It'll be a good time because learning things with friends is always goo- oh wait the DM's got his hands tied. Oops. But that's okay! The TGS podcast is recording tod- oh wait they all bailed for the Guild Wars 2 coverage. But that's okay! There's still good food to eat that was just cooked a few hours a- oh wait no some insects got in it and now it's inedible. But that's okay! There's always tomorrow!
If only my words and my emotions matched, I'd be considerably more happy with most of my life.
Anyway, I've taken to listening to fanfics as read by Text to Speech software. Generally, I use zamzar.com for that, but I've been experimenting with Espeak, Gespeaker, and Festival. If you know any good, reliable text-to-speech software, let me know. Free is great, but if I've gotta pay for better stuff, I can pay for better stuff. (Windows XP or Ubuntu GNU/Linux are my primary OSes.)
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I swear I drew this same picture like three times this week, and this is the only one left somehow. I like it.
If I'm going to latch onto fanon ponies and get drawing, it'll probably be either Surprise or Pokey Pierce I go after. Not sure which. Anyway. Thing.
Her name is Mondo. Well, actually, Mondo is just the nickname.
An explosion suit with explosion patterns on it. Best idea ever.
This is only really here because I like the tail.
I guess I did draw the same pose more than once. The paff means she's pleased. Or uh. Something.
If you were looking for the justification for this, I have none. I just think it's cute.
I saw two different pictures I liked, so I tried to combine them. Not sure I did the best job on Apple Bumpkin, but it's a start.
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Pony Day: As far as narrative goes, this is probably they best job they've done in Season 2 since Lesson Zero. A nice, happy, fairly fast movie feel-good episode where ponies aren't being distorted to hay and back to force the lesson to work.
Cool Thing: Fiverr.com - I haven't used this site before, but the basic gist of it seems to be that you can put out tasks that you're willing to do for $5, see if anyone's willing to pay you to do it, and then make a few bucks easy. Alternatively, check to see what offers are out or make a request for what kind of task you want done, see if anyone's open, and drop $5 and get the stuff done. If it does what it says, it sounds really really cool. - http://fiverr.com
One Last Thing: It's an ADG filler episode. But it's a filler episode about music. And it's a Games show. Games. Music. Something of a slow start, but I imagine different levels of music experience will get different things out of it. - http://www.pixelships.com/adg/epf015.html
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[17 Mar 2012|11:28pm] |
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Yeah, after giving it a few tries, I'm not sure Inkbunny is really a place I need to be. Also, today kinda sucked. But the rest of the week did not. So that's kinda neat.
Revel Romp riding a balloon. Because I thought it looked cute, it fits his cutie mark, and balloons make great steeds for short distance travel.
There's a series of comics called "Squeezing It" or something like that. This sketch has pretty much nothing to do with that series.
I got lazy when trying to figure out how to draw chainmail armor. This is a very very *wrong* look as far as intent. But taken as is, I really reaaaally like this picture. A lot. But it's definitely not the bard I was going for. It's a little too showy for her.
Still doesn't look like actual armor, and there's no hood. But you know what, I'm okay with that. I think this is pretty. I like it just as much as the image before.
It's a thingy! It enables flight! I'll call it the JAGERSCHNITZEL! Or I guess I'll call it the Pegasus or something.
Because Side-scrolling games.
These are balloons!! And you must try some!!!! Because!!!!!! Just what.
Because if he hadn't done this in the show, he'd not be totally notable.
It's Hot Blooded Pokey PIErce! What did you expect? A sleepy pony? Go get 'em, wild guy!
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Pony Day: It was an episode with dragons in it. Fun for worldbuilding and fanwork fuel. Not much else notable about it. If you really want to see the Dragon Quest episode, shouldn't be too hard to track down.
Cool Thing: Ancient DOS Games: Techno Venture - Kinda weird. Though it was pretty neat, though. Stun Rays are nice. A relatively short video. http://www.pixelships.com/adg/ep0080.html
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[10 Mar 2012|02:22pm] |
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You know, I just realized I've been visiting the same MUSH daily for over half a year now. Huh. Spent most of my week off from class sick. Then when I got better, had some more family drama drop me into a middle-man role for a little while. Got particularly lucky when someone recorded part of the process of their own on a commission I got from them. By watching the video and stepping through it slowly, I figured out a bag of new tricks to apply to my own work to get results I can enjoy a lot more. So I spent a bit of time applying those tricks.
I forgot I had installed Oekaki software on my website. This was the result of me testing to see if it still worked at all. I mean what else do you want to know about it? I just threw the first things to come to mind together.
A low-detail vector puzzle-piece. I was trying to throw together a cutie mark for an RP character. It didn't turn out quite like I hoped. (You wouldn't be able to tile these together to make functional connections that fit.) But I still kinda like how it looks anyway.
The balloon is a recolor of a previously-made thing for another pony's cutie mark. I tried to put the puzzle piece onto it as a design. While it seemed to work moderately okay, Inkscape doesn't really have the nicest deform tools, and when you scale this down to cutie-mark size for the average view of a pony, the puzzle piece looks like a second highlight. A really angular, strange, broken highlight. Ultimately, I removed the puzzle piece from the RP character's cutie mark. It wasn't missed: It was a temporary character.
I am pleased with myself. I'm renaming 'Gallivanting' to "Gold Star". If the heavy black outlines weird you out, there's an alternate version with a different approach to the coloring viewable here. http://windstone.travisuped.com/index.php?q=/post/view/2449
I'd hug it.
PUNCH HOLES IN THE SKY (Pony) Day: Tartarus. Metal Gear Solid. Time travel. TV 1080p Youtube.
Cool Thing: Can't Get Her Out Of My Head - I'm not familiar with this website, but a friend passed me this link. Really really brief story. I had a laugh.
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| By the By |
[04 Mar 2012|01:16pm] |
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I actually don't use the friends page of LJ like I used to. If the way I'm structuring these posts is still a bother like when I used to have all the thumbnails at the top, let me know so I can kick the order around a bit. I like the current setup as it saves me a little bit of typing-time not having to drop the same image in everywhere twice, but I can always throw in an LJ cut or something.
Also, I updated a day late due to the D&D session running long and I fell asleep. I'm doing these overviews more as a way for me to get a quick glance-over of the things I liked out of what I've posted to the art dump each week, as well as some comments, so the feeling I get when I miss a day is not the same panic as if I were a day late to hand in an assignment or an hour late to have a paid task completed.
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| Weekly Windstone Overview |
[04 Mar 2012|12:45pm] |
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I finally got my Friendship is Magic: The Friendship Express DVD in the mail. I'm pretty pleased with it, especially that extended intro thing I've been curious about for eight forevers. Now that we can hear the thing, I'm kinda wondering how long until someone either figures out how to filter the vocals out of it, or re-performs the background stuff without vocals. I really did what they do with the guitar stuffs and synth/percussion.
In all seriousness though, I'm not sure the video quality is any better than the iTunes LQ downloads. I'd be happier with a BluRay. But hey. I take what I can get. And besides, an excuse to toss money at the series without going through DRMtunes sounds good to me.
Have some pretty pictures! Which may or may not actually be pretty.
In convenient wallpaper size! The story behind this picture: Before I encountered the NSFW-Silly AskPrincessMolestia.tumblr , I used to follow the equally NSFW-Silly AskMolestia.tumblr. I once asked a silly set question to AskMolestia and got picture responses for each one. One of which I liked enough to use as an avatar icon for a while. Yesterday, I was kinda wondering what it would have looked like if the newer tumblr had attempted to draw the same thing as the older one. So I tried emulating the look. There's some particular difference I can see at surface level- Celestia isn't usually heavily shaded in APM except for one or two scenes that focus on pronounced, direct lighting (the fireplace scene for example) and the way I write text is not the way APM usually handles dialogue -but I think it's somewhere in the ballpark of the look I was going for. So I'm pretty content with it. It at least gets across the idea I was going for, even if I'm not completely satisfied with it for reasons that have little to do with the execution.
(It has more to do with me being too lazy to animate this for several frames.)
I revisited one of the pictures from last week in an attempt to fix it up a bit, maybe do it up in color. While I don't think this looks awful, this is definitely not the look for the image I was going for. That look I'm trying to achieve is something of a compromise between this kind of carefully-picked flat-color work and this kind of vibrant, lively stuff. I still have no idea if it's my techniques that are taking me to the wrong destination, or my tools.
To be frank though, I'm having a hard time telling how much of my dissatisfaction is due to having no story or action to illustrate, only objects and settings that sound fun for the moment. For example, I find myself very drawn to the energy a lot of the stuff this artist does, though the visual look strikes me as indistinct at times. But I'm not. Sure. Maybe it IS the glowy look that I dig?
SVG. I know not all browsers work too great with it. But I'd much rather keep my SVG saved as an SVG.
Err. This was a WIP inkscape vector of another picture from last week. I think maybe some of my struggles with line art can be solved with vector art, but it takes so long and so much effort... Usually for no more evident payoff than if I had never used vector to begin with. I think the ability to scale infinitely interferes with my ability to judge when I should stop trying to fix problems and know what's working for my bigger picture.
Butt. Which reminds me. Holographic rodentcritter in shorts. Best thing ever at least two times over. Okay, maybe not best, but still, that's just a really cool idea, right? :V On a note, I fully expect that weapon registration to become relevant in about half a year or four, even if it reads like a gag at this moment in time.
http://windstone.travisuped.com/index.php?q=/post/view/2428 The image on the left gives me the vague impression of a rectangle when I squint at it. However the image on the right gives me something of a triangle shape. If nothing else, I can say I sorta prefer the triangle. I'd guess that the reason the left one doesn't keep the arrowed/angled shape for me is because of the headsize. I dunno. I just. Dunno.
Just some idle doodling. I really like how the leg-looking things came out. Though I think the cage-looking thing didn't turn out as good as it could have.
Squeakysqueakin'! (What do you mean it's not awesome!?) Because if I don't draw this sort of thing once a month, it means I was set on fire and tossed into the sea and then struck by lightening, frozen, blinded by light, and then eclipsed in darkness. Or. Something. On a more serious note, I should have some characters being aggressive on things. Because sometimes that's fun. Kinda like having characters be embarrassed by things. But neither of which are something I have massivehuge experience with so uh. Yeah. I should read more. I drew this one before the Molestia thing. As in days before it.
Would you believe me if I said this whole time, I completely disregarded Flaaffy and now it's my favorite because it has a rubbery body? I mean now my ultimate excuse is Flaaffy + balloon = enhanced attack power. Or something.
Oh right the picture. I dunno. I wanted a shiny robot, but then I didn't. And then I remembered Flaaffy is an electric type and wanted a rubbery robot. And then I realized that still makes no sense. So now this is a deadly leathal bubble jelly jam slime balloon rubber monster doom monster thing of doom. And. Monsteriness. Oh, it it summons electric whips and lances, why not?
What? I don't usually draw characters with any amount of reasonably bodyshape mass or pudge or anything.
Because I haven't drawn Charlotte in freaking forever. And RPing/writing a wealthy, physically aggressive, foul-mouth catgirl with quirky friends isn't really in me... Okay, it probably would be if I used like made-up swears for the foal-mouthing aspect or something. The other stuff could just make for a fun time. If I were to try to go back to the world of Kibrosa (Not Sabrous. Sabrous Charlotte is dead. :V ) to tell a story I'd just follow this weirdo around all day.
It's putting its foot down! Run for your liiiiives!
Because drawing the same head/ear structure over and over clearly isn't going to form any potentially damaging habits.
Finefinefine, you win, I'll explain. I'm waiting on a commission I paid for to go through. And so I bide my time by drawing balloon things that aren't related to the commission so that I can easily pass the time away. When I'm not playing games, entertaining my niece, chatting, or RPing anyway. Or doing classwork stuff. Oh hey, that reminds me. I'm on Spring Break for a weak. What I'm going to do with that week? Probably nothing different than usual.
As for what I'm commissioning, I'm paying someone else to draw a thing I wish I could have drawn, but wasn't able to do after months of trying. I'll probably mention it again when it pops up on the net, but I'll probably not share it directly in this LJ.
Oh, this picture still has nothing to do with the commission btw. I just kinda figure bunnies and balloons go together. I mean just check Youtube. They put them together all the time. I also tried throwing blue and yellwo together since I like those colors, but I think I picked the wrong crayons when I started. Haven't been too eager to continue it since. If I do continue this pic though, I'd probably switch over to digital.
Hey, remember those bagillionty paper-thing dog-characters I named and drew a while ago? Yeah, I should totally draw them playing ball games. Because that's exactly what they would do in their free time. Exercise is good. Also, I like action scenes. But I've said that already.
Unlike the picture a while back, while this does have something of a boxy/cross-y shape to it, it looks a lot more like an angled arrow for me. I like that. Also, the motion lines and kinda general chaos of the lines gives it a bit of movement. While uncontrolled and therefore less practical than it could be, it's still nice to have something I can look at that makes me feel like AW YEAH LET'S DO THIS LET'S ROCK LET'S GO (INSERT CHEESY LET'S LINE HERE) IT IS ON! Stuff like that is nice.
Chaos Drive + Digimodify = This. At least when I was drawing it, that's what I was thinking of. Now why do I feel like I've done this before?
Oh also someone told me I should watch the Doctor Who episode Boau Dog or something. Bow Dog. Boaw Doy. Dooms Day. Something like that. I'm leaning towards the last one. So yeah, I should probably do that.
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Pony Day: This is definitely going somewhere in my top 3 episodes for season 2 so far. Impressive for the pony of the main six I'm least interested in. (BTW: Someone with video editing skills. Get to work making a DBZ episode by splicing it with some clips from Lesson Zero. I don't know what you'll call the pony version of Kai-O Ken x20, but darn if you do it and actually try, I will watch it.) - http://youtu.be/_9JJFyImLww
Cool Thing: Authentic Star Wars lightsaber prop thingy for sale. I think. Check it out and see for yourself, because I still need to see the darn movies and I only half-grok what I read. The guy's trying to scrape up emergency funds, which is why they're reluctant but willing to part with the prop. - http://sierraromeo.deviantart.com/journal/Have-to-sell-authentic-Lightsaber-prop-want-it-287812512
C-c-c-c-cool Thing x20: Yeah, remember how I said I'm playing Dungeons and Dragons (4e) for my first time lately? One of the peeps on Equestrian Dawn MUSH pointed me in the direction of this amusing exchange about a Gazebo... - http://www.duke.edu/web/DRAGO/humor/gazebo.html
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[25 Feb 2012|03:56pm] |
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Man I don't even know what I'm supposed to put in this slot anymore. I'm not the happiest camper this past month. It's just been ups and downs. And the whole 'What you don't know can't hurt you' is total BS. But that doesn't make some parts of knowledge any less painful.
I was trying to draw Snails. It didn't work. I still like this picture anyway. The curves of it all are nice.
Do you like odd robots/holograms/dataentities and senseless over-the-top action?
I know I sure do!
Thing is, over the top things don't really work well or mean anything if there's never any point at which things settle down to relatively tame things so that there's contrast.
I want to frigging hug this thing.
Oh hey, a Pegasus Pony. How swell. I kinda like how the wings look in this picture. Which I find kinda odd and surprising, as I don't remember drawing those on there, and I'm not a huge fan of drawing wings anyway. They just don't seem to go well for me. But hey, it's a thing. Also, dig that ponytail. Open mouth action.
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Pony Day: There was no pony. Derpy got censored on iTunes. Timeslot moved back 3 hours, so for those who had the show way early in the morning, now you'll be able to sleep in and still watch it. It also means all the fanartists/podcasters will have less time to work on it in the same day, and people who intentionally changed work/class schedules to fit it may have trouble. http://derpyhoovesnews.com/derpys-new-voice/
Cool Thing: Heaven Variant appears to basically be an Indie revival of the core of Einhander. And I am really really excited about it. http://youtu.be/SN1y-b9TTnQ
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| Weekly Windstone Overview: What's Valentines Day? |
[18 Feb 2012|07:23pm] |
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An uneventful week. Thank goodness.
Confetti/Skyburst, the Pegasus who wants to change her destiny but can't escape her fate. Names changes don't define a person.
What's a better nick? Apple Bloon or Apple Boom?
I really reaaally freaking like this one. I want to do this up in color sooner or later. I dig the view, and it's got a good bit of energy behind it, I think.
Ready? Action! Also, experimented with the ear shape a little. I kinda like it, but it seems like it would be better for a weapon on a robot or something than for actual ears. Unless they are a robot bunny!
I don't even know. It reminds me of a weird mishmash of Mushu from Mulan, the Options from Gradius, and something from Darius. I kinda like it, though.
Rare case of me drawing a human I like. Except they're not *doing* anything. At all. How dull. I keep getting hung up on things being pretty, but a pretty picture of nothing isn't any more useful than an ugly but functional warning message or a text passage or something.
Because bunnies cast magic all the time. Naturally.
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Pony Day: A Friend in Deed - It's a Pinkie Pie episode with balloons in the first frame. I am pretty freaking pleased with it. Have a 1080p tv link.
One Cool Thing: Ancient DOS Games: Ugh! What a strange game title.
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