How I drew as a kid? + Alice shimeji?

I found an old CD I made in 2004 when I was scanning a lot of my old drawings and getting rid of the originals. Let's post some drawings from it! 8D

I'm still proud of this. XD I was in 3rd or 4th grade when I drew it (I was about 9-10). It's supposed to be an illustration for a Hungarian folk tale. I think we had to draw the beginning and the ending in a two-panel comic like picture. The one who did the outlining with markers as a finishing touch was my mother.

I guess this is from about the same time as the previous one, though a bit later. This was my "let's copy Disney" era. This is Bambi. But I also learned to draw relatively decent dogs thanks to Lady and the Tramp. I never drew human characters, though. I simply hated drawing them.

A small drawing coloured with markers. I can still see the Disney influence~~

I drew this in 3rd grade. I always had trouble with drawing noses and there was a time when I simply didn't draw noses at all. XD I think I must have copied that bird from something, it's too good, lol.

This one is from a series I drew in a notebook in 1997. Picúr, a stray dog who lived near our park and we used to feed him. He/She was a young dog and was there for long months. My best friend and I played with him/her a lot, it was almost like having a dog for real. Good times.

This is from around 5th-6th grade, I think. My animals began developing personalities at that time.

From the same time as the previous dog. I was also a big fan of horses aside from dogs. I drew dogs and horses most of the time.

Okay, that's enough for now. I have a few even older things I wanted to upload, but the files are too big and I'm too lazy to resize them right now. So, that's how I drew as a child. People said I was good. I usually had to enter different competitions and I actually won some prizes. My first success was getting 2nd place at the local art contest in my school as a 2nd grader (I was only 7 or 8).

ANYWAY, I randomly decided to make a shimeji ("desktop buddy") today. I wanna do Alice from Pandora Hearts. 8D I'm not sure if I'm gonna finish it, because it seems pretty darn time-consuming, but I'll try.

This is the first frame. Now I have only 45 more to draw... 8D;;;;;

Kiriban sketch + Random fanarts

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:

Victorian dudes and random doodles

Ok, so from newest to oldest:

I tried to draw Cain from the Trinity Blood manga yesterday. I think it sucks. There are some manga styles that are relatively easy for me to draw / copy / imitate *coughpandoraheartscough*, but Kiyo Kyujyo's style is something that's beyond my limited art skills. Her characters have too big eyes and I simply can't get the facial proportions she uses right. D: They also have crazy hair. I actually tried to draw Esther first, but it turned out to be an utter failure... OTL

How to make me instantly fangirl any anime/manga? Throw in 2 relatively good looking male characters with very different personalities in a series, let's have them be friends and then turn them against each other! If they end up slaughtering each other in the process, that's even better!
... it was just a matter of time for Jack and Glen to tingle my inner fangirl's interest. Glen probably doesn't look exactly like himself, but I was too lazy to search for good pics of him in the manga. Btw, they are from Pandora Hearts, obviously.

Very quick doodle I did one day before going to sleep. In about 5 minutes.

Pose practice. I think I used a photo reference for the girl.

Spring is here!

Today was officially the first day of spring! The blackbirds sing in the mornings, so cute. Today, I woke up at about 1:30 am. And I couldn't fall back asleep. I managed to fall asleep at around 3 am, but then I got up at 4:30. The moon was just above the neighbouring house and it was so big and orange. O___o I've been on my period since Friday night / Saturday morning and it made me feel awful. Although period = new Pandora Hearts chapter lately. 8D
So, a few quick drawings:

This is my take on someone else's character. He probably doesn't look like himself, but he was fun to draw.

Elliot from Pandora Hearts. I drew this now in a few minutes. It kinda sucks, I hate his face. The latest few chapters were... powerful. I adore this headhunter arc. I think the mangaka tortures poor Elliot way too much, though. He didn't deserve to end up like this! D:

Ok, I think my inspiration is finally coming back. Tomorrow, I'll try to draw as much as I can!

FFFFFUUUUU

 I don't care what happens today, I'm going to finish this even if the sky falls down!! DX It's taking me so long because I'm shading everything. I like how Sharon's dress came out.

And I doodled this in Sai yesterday in about 20-30 minutes before taking a bath and waiting to have enough water, lol. Sorry if the colours make your eyes bleed.

Gilly + Funny comparisions

I doodled this yesterday. I downloaded a bunch of Pandora Hearts doujinshis yesterday morning and I had to draw a Gil. XD;;; I love him. I'm posting this now, I want to finish it today. Btw, Pandora Hearts is the only thing that makes me download doujinshis. I did download a few FMA doujins before, but I usually don't like those. I wonder, is there something like "Pandora Hearts het doujin / hentai / yuri"? I can't believe that none of the female characters are interesting enough for the fans to make doujins with them. D:

I tried to draw with a mouse in Easy Paint Tool Sai, lol.

When I'm really uninspired, I try to redraw some old pics of mine. EPIC STYLE RAPE, LOL! I think I improved a lot in 2010. o___O I actually tried to do a remake of this sometime in 2008 too, but I don't have that drawing on my hard drive any longer. If I find it, I'll redo this. And I might finish the latest version, so I can see how much my colouring improved. 8D

Ok, this one is old. I made it in 2009 just to laugh at myself and my crappy old proportions. X) It's Alec. I actually posted that 2nd drawing to my DA gallery in 2010, but I changed his face.

Alright, that's all for today. Do I update this blog too often? XD Now I'll go try to finish the Gil.

Here's a random Pandora Hearts AMV I really liked:

Natsu Matsuri pic + Today's doodle

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:

Natsu Matsuri WIP

I'm posting this work in progress pic only because I got a new Sai from Rayn44 and wanted to try saving a jpg file. (For some reason, my old Sai can't do that any longer.)
I hope I can finish this today or tomorrow...

Quick headshots + OMG snow!

Charactersss~~ I'm not satisfied with my current style. These are just quick portraits of a bunch of different characters. Mom liked the top left one, my personal favourite is the bottom right one. We both like dark haired guys, lol.
And it's snowing right now. It's 20:53. The trees are so pretty. I doubt this snow will last for long but maybe it won't melt till the morning. I can't even remember the last time it snowed in March and didn't melt immediately.
Ok, now I'd better start working on something I'll actually complete.

Suffering...

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):