I'm drawing I'm drawing

Working on a bunch of things at the same time. I'm planning on drawing all afternoon today because of reasons.

I drew this in a rush yesterday evening when I realized that Vincent's birthday is on the 23rd. I drew him with a random flower crown last year and I went with the flower crown idea again. I originally drew little Vincent with his arms down but it looked weird (especially cropped - it would have been just his head lol), so I tried to draw him arms and hands hoping it wouldn't turn out like crap...

Retrace 97 killed me because of various reasons, one of them was Noise. I'm posting this drawing here because I'm not sure I'll manage to finish it by tomorrow.

I posted a rougher version of this last time. I'm still struggling with the umbrella tbh. XD;;; Also, I forgot to mention last time that the inspiration for this was this freaky rainy weather we had last summer and in September too. I don't remember another humid and rainy summer like this. We were often woken up in the middle of the night to thunderstorms. It rained and rained sometimes for 24 hours or more without break.

We had really beautiful weather in the past few days, though. It was that pleasant late summer weather. Still warm enough yet not hot. And everything is still so green and beautiful because it rained all summer. There were only a few days of really hot dry weather during all summer. So instead of the usual yellow dried out grass strands, there's beautiful green grass and little flowers everywhere. It's amazing.

This is my Sinbad/Kougyoku kiss picture I drew back in May. I had this idea to take a screencap from the anime and try to paint it as background. Holy shit, it's so hard. I'm switching between Photoshop and Sai using the screencap as reference and it has already taken me hours to paint this much. As you can see I'm not even doing the parts that will be covered by the characters, but it's still really time-consuming.

Anyway, the finished version will probably look like the cheesiest romance novel cover ever. XD;;;

I've also been working on this waka!Sinbad sketch and I must say I'm pretty pleased with how it's turning out. I refined his right arm so it doesn't look so big anymore and added a lot of details on his outfit.

Speaking of Sinbad and Magi... there are two fanartists on pixiv who keep destroying me with their drawings. Every time they upload a new art log, I feel like a little child getting a box of candy. One of them is 何某 and the other is 襲釗. I'm completely in love with 何某's art style and I love most of 襲釗's ideas. *A*

Okay, I think that's all I wanted to ramble about for now. I'll try to finish that little Vince + Noise sketch today~ 2-3 hours after lunch should be enough if I can manage to not get distracted...

A few rough scribbles

Hello again my personal blog. Thing is, I'm jobless again at the moment, which means I have a lot of free time when I'm not too busy worrying about my future... But still, I'm not too inspired to draw. I finished the palette challenge I was doing on tumblr and now I'm like "NOW WHAT?". I have ideas, but... shit, I'm only getting worse. I find myself looking for references even when I want to draw the simplest things. orz

Here's a scribble I did after first seeing Pandora Hearts Retrace 97 (mannn that Retrace was the best thing). I drew this in a few minutes before we went to watch the fireworks and I haven't touched it since then. I may or may not do something with it later.

Sinbad is a compulsory addition in all of my entries lately. -___- Maybe I should do some decent finished work of him. Perhaps then I would be satisfied and stop getting these urges to draw him.

Today's scribble. I've had this idea since I first saw the "Special Feeling" meme. (That was quite a long while ago, yep.) Riza and Roy in the rain instead of snow. I kinda sorta gave up on this because I have no idea how to draw a frigging umbrella. Refs don't help. *sob*

Okay, that is all for now. I'm still pretty uninspired and I seem to give up working on everything faster and faster... I'll try to draw every day now that I have time.

I don't have any new music to listen to either. I'm currently listening to old anime songs I downloaded years ago.

Oh well, hope next time I can post better things~

Sakura Sakura

So many trees are in bloom now. It's like a real life animeee~ Ovo

<- This photo was taken in 2007. There are these awesome young cherry trees in front of my house and I love them. The pink ones are the "classic" pink Japanese sakura trees you can always see in romantic anime.

2008. I can't really remember when these trees were planted here, but as an avid nature and tree lover person, I was so happy when they started blossoming every spring.

2009. The white ones are so pretty here.

This is also from 2009, but the other side. These trees are more beautiful because a lady who lives in the other side of the house took care of them and she was watering them a lot.

2011. They were still quite pretty in this year, but the summer was hot and their leaves started becoming yellow earlier than they should have. We kept watering them that summer. However, they grew only a few flowers in 2012, I didn't even take photos of them that year.

2013. I see this and it breaks my heart. They are dead, DEAD. All of my beloved pink trees are dead on this side and most of the white ones too. It's the end of April and only two of the white trees are blossoming. I blame myself because I was working all summer last year and didn't pay that much attention to the trees. I think I was the only one on this side who actually cared about them, but then even I abandoned them...


3 trees on the other side are still quite beautiful thanks to the neighbour lady, especially the one next to the lamp - that one has always been the most beautiful. However, even one of those trees seems to have died down and the one in the back doesn't have leaves or flowers on the highest part of its branches anymore. Maybe they were actually infected with some disease...

So yeah... I'm a simple person who can easily get happy or sad because of small things like this. I was hoping they would at least grow leaves eventually, but they are still naked, ugly and dead. :( I feel that the entire world is slowly getting ravaged around me. The places where I used to play as a child are getting destroyed, plants and older people I used to know are dying. Everything is changing and I don't like it. Sometimes I wish I could go back to those happy carefree times when I was a child, everything was simpler yet more colourful and even time passed more slowly. Ugh, growing up sucks...

Ok, I'd better stop rambling about nonsense and post a few sketches...

Roy and Riza, my holy OTP, yeaaah. I did this like... over a week ago, but stopped working on it for some reason. I originally wanted to do a lineart for it, but I like the sketch too much and I'm afraid I'd ruin it with a bad lineart. So I think I'm gonna clean and refine it a bit more and then slap some quick colours on it.
I'm not gonna tell what inspired this... -___-;

And this is a crapstatic Judal/Judar from Magi. I tried to draw some random pose I normally don't draw, but I messed up his right leg. I have a love/hate relationship with this character. I think he's shallow. He doesn't get to be in the spotlight enough to become deep or lovable enough to me. But sometimes he's kind of cool...? Or just so eccentric and rude that it seems cool. And I like his character song. :O

I don't have any more to post atm because I'm frigging lazy. I should really finish up and post that Sinbad I did about 2 months ago (you know, the one where he's in his alternate orange outfit, which looks kinda like a rag that is about to fall off of him), but I already have so many sketches of him it's getting ridiculous. I'm not even a Sinbad fangirl, he's just too fun to draw, gaaah... And I miss drawing my precious brother-obsessed baby, Vincent.

My internet is utter crap lately. I'm currently using Skype to determine when I can click on things without having to worry about getting a "page not found" error. (The small green icon usually turns gray when my modem disconnects.) I wanted to link some songs and a cute animation, but my connection is so bad at the moment that I'll be lucky if I manage to post this entry... :B

~Long time no see~

Hello, my dear blog! I've been neglecting this place because of reasons. I actually have quite a lot of unfinished sketches, but I just... don't feel like posting them, even though I know not many people view this blog. But I finally decided to create a post here after a long time.

So this arrived in the mail yesterday. It's a tiny Alibaba charm I won in a tumblr giveaway. IT MADE ME SO HAPPY. I never participate in giveaways like these because I know I have no luck. But I'm a follower of the blog where this giveaway was held (and it's all thanks to them reblogging a Magi fanart I did), so I instantly became a probable winner. Apparently, I do have some luck after all, hahah~

Magi. I seem to have a serious affair with this series. It's just a terribly mainstream battle shounen, but something captivated me in it. I keep drawing the characters. You'll see it below.

This is an old unfinished sketch from last December. Levi/Lacie from Pandora Hearts. I dunno why I made Lacie's hair look like Alice's here.

My first Magi sketch ever, lol. I can't draw Aladdin. (Also from December. I started watching Magi in the beginning of November, then read the manga in December.)

Alibaba from the same sketchdump the previous Aladdin sketch is from. After this I decided to draw Sinbad. It was a mistake...

My Pandora Hearts OTP, Vince/Ada. I was suddenly inspired to draw this when my mom was watching some crappy romance movie in the other room. The women were wearing pretty dresses and the main couple died in the end. I guess this drawing is kind of OOC. But I wanted to draw it anyway.

Sinbad and Kougyoku from Magi. I drew this in January after not being able to resist the temptation to draw them any longer. I don't exactly ship these two but they look cute together or something. :B Oooh the wonderful unrequited love!! XDD But hey, they actually have a few pretty cute scenes together, Kougyoku is adorable, lol~

This is a super quick random sketch. I think they kinda look like young Roy and Riza from FMA... 8D

Ja'far-kuuunnn. Magi. I didn't like how he turned out and redrew his eyes today. He looks better now.

The stories about waka!Sinbad and child!Ja'far are some of my favourite things about the Magi fandom. All there is about them in the manga is like... A SINGLE FLASHBACK PANEL showing the young assassin Ja'far attempting to kill Sinbad. But there are hundreds of doujinshis inspired by that one panel and I have to admit I became intrigued by it too.

OOOH GO TO HELL SIN. I can't really draw you anyway, you don't look like yourself. My anatomy skills improved a little, but I still suck. I actually coloured this, but I prefer the uncoloured sketch. Btw I also started messing around with this and drew him different facial expressions, but this was the "default" one. And he's not really naked, I just made it seem so by cropping the pic. :B

Super quick crappy Alice scribble. Pandora Hearts, obviously. I'd really like to finish this~~

Quick Gil scribble. My mother told me he was handsome yesterday. Oh my God, the world is coming to an end... (My mother hates every character I fangirl over.) She also thinks I'm totally obsessed with Gil and I only like guys who resemble him in a way. Real or not real. That's why I like Josh Groban too. Yes, totally. :B

Here's another Aladdin I did a couple of days ago. This one turned out better than my first Aladdin, I think. His proportions are also better (I cropped the body off of the first one), though Aladdin is still too chibi for me to draw, lol. I wanna put his staff in his hand and colour this.

Eyebrow-kun. STAHP. GET OUT OF MY HEAD. NOW. I don't wanna fangirl you.
He really arouses my inspiration. There are probably around 5000 mistakes on this sketch, but I still like it. I hate that my Sinbad sketches turn out well. And I totally drew this instead of working on a commission... -___-

Ok, that was A LOT. Haha! I have some more Magi and even some OC stuff, but those are terribly sketchy unfinished things and they are simply unworthy to post. Now I'll go and try to finish the things I should have finished ages ago~ ^^;;;

Some Royai plus more PH doodles

Lalala~ Guess what! I finally managed to produce a few sketches I consider decent enough to post! Woo!

Yes! It's my OTP, Roy and Riza from Fullmetal Alchemist. Pose was inspired by this Tiger & Bunny fanart. I think I'm a sucker for dark + blond pairs. :B

Just a very fast sketch of Vincent. I can never get sleeping people's faces right... OTL

And this is my psycho OTP, Vincent and Lotti. XD I started drawing this yesterday, but it was only Lotti at first. Then I kept changing the pose and adding things today. Actually, I kinda like this even though it's still very rough and there are lots mistakes.

Also, I'm working on the 150 k kiriban request, but I can't get the poses/characters right... I really want to finish it soon, but a pic of 3 characters is a bit hard for me. TT___TT

Btw, I keep hearing everywhere how good Pendulum is. So I tried getting into this music. I usually like any kind of music from classical-ish to heavy metal. But... Pendulum is just... "too techno" for me, ugh... @___@

OMG Royai + Other doodles

Recent sketches:

Roy and Riza from FMA. I drew this in like 40 minutes, 100% Sai. I'm getting fast, woo! Oh my gosh, I missed these two. They are still my OTP even if I'm not fangirling over FMA with such intensity as before. Is this good enough to be on DA? I wonder...

Just a random character I sketched a few days ago~~

Gilbert and Vincent from Pandora Hearts. I drew this today afternoon in a few minutes just for random practice. Have I ever mentioned that Gil is ridiculously easy for me to draw? 8D I love their "cube" hair, lol. And angry Vincent is a rare sight.

Anyway, I'm still working on the Alice shimeji, it's about 50% done now, though the harder animations will come just after the first half...

Awwwh f**k!! That small apartment-like place on top of our house (it's sort of like an attic, but it's not) was sold! I've always fantasized about that place and wanted to go there ever since I was a little kid, but now I never will. Nooo!! We should have bought it. My mother knew it was being sold and she didn't tell me! Apparently, it's just a small room with a bathroom, but but but... it would have been perfect for me to start separating myself from my parents and start living alone. And it was so cheap I could have bought it from my spare money. Nobody has lived there before, but now the owners of the block decided to sell it. And these strange people bought it, we are scared of them. If I suddenly disappear in the near future, it will probably be because they robbed us and took the computer... -___-; Oh well, it's no use crying over spilt milk...

I just rediscovered the Tsubasa Chronicle Future Soundscape OST again and "Hear Our Prayer" is such a beautiful song, I love it so much!

Riza dakimakura sketch

This sketch is actually from last year. I wanted to practice female anatomy~~ I'd like to finish this. For some reason, I enjoy sexing up Riza, hee~ 8D;;; I think she's one of my fave female characters ever. I guess her left arm is off. Bleh. I hate arms, I always screw up the proportions of the upper and lower arm. OTL
Oh yeah, this is a dakimakura (huggable pillow) type of illustration, the dakimakura is a long pillow that features anime characters - mostly females - in sexy poses. It's almost like some sex toy ROFL! Although there are ones with innocent images like characters just standing wearing PJs.
Oh well, I'm gonna start linearting this now...