Oh hai! Long time no blog entry. I've been mostly just finishing older stuff and posting things to DA and working on my Alice shimeji. Anyway, here are a few sketches I did in a few minutes before going to sleep:
Vincent and Echo from Pandora Hearts. This is an actual scene from the manga/anime and I've always found it disturbing somehow... 8D;;; I kinda like their faces and Vince's right hand here.
Hiver Laurant from Sound Horizon's Roman album. I like the designs of most SH characters, I especially like the characters from Roman and Marchen because of their gothic feel. I drew this in like 5 minutes or even less, lol. I was browsing Pixiv and it inspired me.
Nothing special, just a random boy. I like to draw faces. 8D
And this is a screenshot of testing my Alice shimeji. It's about 40% done at the moment. I've been working mostly on this lately. This thing is freaking time-consuming and I'm actually detailing and shading every single image. I'm a masochist. When I draw them from scratch, one takes me about 30 minutes to draw. The ones where I just have to modify a few things don't take me so long, but still, 46 images, that's 23 hours in total if I count 30 minutes for each one... @___@ *runs off to work on this some more*
I live in a block of flats and currently, a family lives "under" us; a man, a woman and a little girl. They haven't been living there for too long, but they always argue. Just now, they had a horrible quarrel, they were shouting at each other, slamming the doors and all that stuff. It was so horrible to hear the little girl screaming and shouting "Daddy! Daddy! Please don't hurt mommy! Please!". Poor thing. :( Why do people like that live together? I miss the kind Hungarian-Japanese couple with the two little boys who lived there before.
Anyway, some drawings I worked on in the past 2 days:
This is one of the sketches I did for a kiriban request (on deviantART). It's not perfect, but I guess I'll go with this one.
Mom said I didn't draw enough girls. So, here's Ada Vessalius from Pandora Hearts. I like her. I usually don't like useless girly girls with small brain and big boobs, but Ada is cute. XD I also loved this scene in the manga, it was adorable, lololol~~ I thought she'd be afraid of that guy or something, but she tried to protect him instead d'awww~~
And this is Count D from the Petshop of Horrors manga. Someone on deviantART asked me to draw him after seeing my drawing of Count Cain. I've spent about an hour working on this so far, I'm slow... OTL
By the way, I'm randomly obsessing over Sound Horizon's album, Roman again. The funny thing is I don't even know the song titles because I have the whole album as one big file and the CD cover and booklet are all in Japanese.
Anyway, here's a live performance of the first track:
I finished the festival pic yesterday, but I made another work in progress pic. It looks almost finished, but I still made many small changes till the finished version . I still hate this, meh...
And I wanted to do some random mindless doodling this evening, so I started my 2nd semi-realistic character portrait thing in Photoshop. I've worked on it for only a few minutes so far, see how fugly it is:
Btw, I'm still listening to Elysion. 8D I think I randomly learn a lot of Japanese words by looking up the lyrics. XD Here's another song I really like:
Mlkjahaddweiu that goddamn art block is killing me! DDD: I've been trying to draw and I have lots of things to draw, but but but... I can't. Here's some crap I doodled in the past few days:
Another pose practice. The left one was based on something unfinished I drew a long time ago (I probably used a reference, since I can't draw shit by myself let alone a pose like that, the right figure proves that...) Actually, I've been doing these because of a kiriban request. I sort of expected I'd end up struggling with it, but I didn't expect it would be THIS hard. I tried to draw many different poses and shit, but I still couldn't come up with anything I was satisfied with... OTL
And this is another crappy sketch. I've been asked to enter a contest (the deadline is in a week), so I was trying to draw characters in a hot spring. I think the hot spring theme would be the easiest, but apparently, I can't draw even that... TT___TT
By the way, if KGX347 comes to visit my blog again, I wanna let her know that I did start colouring her pic. However, since the contest has a deadline, I'll probably try drawing something for it first.
I started watching a new anime, Gosick yesterday. I kinda liked it so far.
And I've been trying to call a place to apply/ask about some job, but they won't pick up the damn phone! DX
Weird Japanese music of the day (the more I listen to Moira, the more I like it):
So, this is something that was drawn by my dear friend, KGX347 at deviantART. Her original.
I just asked her if I could colour it and she said yes. Then I decided to redo the ENTIRE lineart digitally to practice digital inking (cuz I suck at it). It took me a few days, but I'm finally done with the inking. Hopefully, I'll start colouring it tomorrow. 8D
I heard today that xxxHolic was finished, so I went to read the last 3 chapters. The ending was kind of unsatisfying, though I kinda stopped liking this series when TRC ended. I think they should have ended it just with Watanuki inheriting the store and waiting for Yuuko. This last part was totally boring in my opinion. It made me like the whole series less. :\
I also finished Vampire Game a few days ago. It was a pretty good series. Nothing too epic, but it was pretty cute. I didn't like:
- Illsaide. Seriously, that kid totally annoyed me. He was more powerful than almost everyone else, yet he was a stupid brainless douchebag, who never knew what he really wanted and kept hesitating and tinkering away throughout the whole story. Still, a lot of people loved him for some reason. I rarely dislike characters, but I really didn't like him. >:[
- My favourite character died. (Although this can be a positive thing as well, I love drama.)
- However, Illsaide didn't die. XD;;;;;
- The art. It was okay and shoujo-y, but I didn't like the proportions and the way the characters' mouths were drawn on their faces. When their mouths were open, I kept thinking that it looked off, I don't know why.
- Duzell was a vampire, right? Then why didn't he need to suck blood? (Or maybe he did, but the author thought that mentioning it wasn't important.)
- Everyone fell in love with everyone. That's why I don't like shoujo...
- Even the fairly intelligent characters did some really stupid things sometimes. Also, Duzell was ridiculously weak and stupid for a vampire king. Although they do mention this a couple of times. XD
- I kept thinking that the author was trying really hard to force some shounen-ai into the story, but it came out awkward at times. I liked:
- The story was enjoyable and had some relatively good twists.
- I liked the humorous stuff most of the time.
- The characters were quite likeable, I guess. Although I wasn't crazy about anyone.
- The ending was pretty good, although I did feel like the author was rushing a bit and didn't explain some things in the last two volumes. Plus you could see it coming after reading the very first volume (or maybe first two volumes).
Oh, and today, I searched for some more Sound Horizon things and found this Dream Port single (?), that is a collaboration work between Revo and one of my fave Japanese "anime composers", Yuki Kajiura. 8D I'm currently obsessed with the 2nd song from it, it has practically the same melody as the first song, but this one is typically Yuki Kajiura-ish, it could be a song from the Pandora Hearts or Tsubasa Chronicles OSTs.
I doodled this today. Just some more dynamic pose practice. The one on the left sucks... D:
SOME OLDER UNFINISHED PICS
My character, Zach. I drew this in last October. I didn't like how his face turned out, so I didn't finish this.
Abarai Renji from Bleach. Some studies for a commission I did last year. This is also from the end of last October.
The Pandora Hearts sketch from the beginning of last October that doesn't want to be finished... ^^; (I'm still working on this, though.) I think Oz's hair seems "too big" and his and Gil's pose is somewhat off. Oz's arms are still a bit short. Also, Gil should be a bit taller than that, but he already looks tall enough compared to Oz and Alice, LOL! XD
A random character sketch from last September. I think I wanted him to be a loser knight or something, but I'm not sure he looks loser-y enough. His name is Edward. XD Or maybe I'll be more original and name him Archibald, lol.
Munsu from the manhwa series Shin Angyo Onshi (one of my faves <3). This one is almost one year old, I drew it in the beginning of last March. I didn't like how it was turning out, so I didn't finish it. (I did finish the Aji Tae I also did at that time, though.) Now I think it isn't that bad after all, I should fix and finish this...
Yay! I have a lot of stuff I should be working on! I downloaded some Sound Horizon albums a while ago and I've been listening to them a lot. It helps me concentrate on drawing. My favourite is the Elysion album right now. It has catchy tunes. Yield was the first song from this album I really liked. Lalalalala la la~ la lalalalala lalala~~
