Failed attempts

Hey~ Sorry for not posting much here. "Failed attempts" is probably the most appropriate description of the past 1,5 months regarding my art. Let me show you some sketches...

This is a really crappy quick doodle of Vincent from PH. I was trying to draw in a different style, but I didn't like how this sketch was turning out, so I stopped working on it.

Scribble of young Rufus Barma inspired by the latest PH chapter. This is pretty ugly too...

Two drawings of my character, Alec. You can tell I have a really bad art block when I keep doing small doodles of this guy. The first one on the left is ugly, the newer one is better.

More quick OC doodles. Self-explanatory, lol~

Random background attempt. This is just an initial sketch, I ended up using a part of it as the background of this picture.

Djinn equip Alibaba from Magi. I have NO CLUE how his design works because it's so hard to make out from the manga panels plus Ohtaka's art can be pretty inconsistent anyway, but I tried to draw my interpretation of it. I think he's similar to Focalor, except that he has flames instead of feathers and no body markings. I made his waist a bit shorter on the lineart because I tend to make people's bodies too long. I'm doing the colouring in a different way and I kinda like how his hair turned out. 8D Anatomy is wonky as always, but I can't do better.

Saving the best for last - here's a Sinbad again. I started pointlessly doodling 2 days ago while I was waiting for Kasia's reply on Facebook and then it turned into this. I don't have much to say about this, except that I clearly enjoy drawing this dude way more than I should. Though I haven't drawn his metal vessels properly because I was too lazy to look up decent references of them.

Ok, that's it for now. I'll try to finish that Alibaba one and maybe Sinbad as well, but I posted the others just to show you I've been trying to draw things, I just have an attention span that probably equals the memory of a goldfish in capacity...

Btw, I was listening to the first Shingeki no Kyojin OST in the past few days and it's pretty good, but in my opinion, the Guilty Crown OST was a lot better.

OC + PH scribbles

I've never had too many original drawings and lately, I draw my original characters less and less. I realized they aren't interesting. I'm not a very creative person, I can't create good characters and stories. And I also lost contact with a very dear friend of mine, who used to inspire me and give me ideas. Our friendship was the strongest in 2009, we had fun talking about anything and I was looking forward for these good times to return, but I guess they never will return now. Anyway, it's still fun to draw some of these old characters we used to "shape" together and I always draw some random characters as well.

So, this is a random guy I drew just because. I like how my style is changing~

I tried to draw two of my old OCs in some fancy Victorian / Pandora Hearts-y outfit, haha! Alec doesn't like too fancy outfits if he's the one who has to wear them. :P The whole thing is extra sketchy, but you can tell I got super lazy by the time I drew the girl's dress... OTL

Bitty Gil and Vincent from PH. I actually sketched this in August, but never posted it here. I made a few changes on it recently. I guess these are not the pre-Sablier Gil and Vince, they turned out looking more like their 13 and 14 years old selves.

Yanderepozu of ecstasy!! XDD This is a very popular meme thing on Pixiv lately. I don't know where it came from originally, but after seeing Gil and Echo/Noise , I had to do a quick scribble of Vincent, this expression is just so damn fitting for him. 8D

And this is a huge-ass sketch I did in September. It's Vincent (WHO ELSE?! XD) with Echo and Noise, a bit of a spoiler. Believe it or not, this was inspired by Kasia's drawing. <- When I saw this, I got the urge to draw Vincent spilling some drink, lol.

In this past one year, Vincent seems to have taken most of my attention I spend on fanart. I can imagine Vincent, Gil and Break fighting for the first place in my mind with Vincent winning and clinging to Gil while he's also trying to kick Break out of the picture at the same time. XD I must admit that Vincent is really fun for me to draw and I have the most and probably best fanart ideas with him.Gaaah!!

Today, I decided to marathon Gintama and watched like 10 episodes straight since I'm pretty behind with the 2nd season (and I still have like 6-7 episodes to catch up). Has this series always had such crude humour? I mean what's up with all the dick and shit jokes? Anyway, sometimes I find it very tiring, but hysterically funny at other times. In my opinion, the cursed Blu-ray episode has got to be one of the dullest episodes in the 2nd season so far and I also don't like the episodes where they are fighting over food, but I really liked the story about the warden. These prison episodes tend to be pretty good in Gintama, I guess.
I also started watching Black Jack. I haven't watched much of it yet, but this cartoony "old manga" style is kinda fun, lol.

There are a couple of birds in our park that sing at dawn and dusk every day. I have no idea what kind of birds they are and I don't even remember hearing them before, but they are really sweet. ^___^ And they sing almost every day, even though the real autumn has begun a few days ago.

Also, ham flavored crackers are the tastiest things I've eaten in a while. Even better than the cheese flavored one. 8D

Birds, Pandora Hearts 61 and others

It's raining. We've had storms every day since Saturday. At least the weather isn't so hot all the time. The baby chickadees finally came to my window this morning. We have sparrows, chickadees, goldfinches and greenfinches. They come more often now than they did during winter. Even a woodpecker came once. XD
My budgie became unusually tame in the past few months. He somehow accepted me and he likes coming out of his cage now. He used to be so scared for almost 2 years, no matter how I tried taming him. And now he wants to rape my hand. XDDD

My stupid bird. Blurry photo, sorry. And yeah, that's my hand.

DRAWINGS

I haven't been drawing so much lately. (Again.) Here are a few crappy sketches I did:

Just some random guy~~ I was trying to practice poses.

The newest version of my Alec. Paint Tool Sai. My colouring has become so soft lately.

PANDORA HEARTS

I drew this in like 1-2 minutes, lol. It sucks.

Mom: "Is this a self-portrait?"

This is supposed to be Vincent, but his face and hair are so NOT Jun Mochizuki-ish. It turned out too much like my own style, I think. All I want to draw right now are crappy EMO SHOUJO pics of Vincent. Bleh. I drew this instead of doing a Fullmetal Alchemist meme.

Also, the last few pics were drawn while listening to Yuki Kajiura's Aquarian Age OST. I'm obsessed with Yuki Kajiura music again. (Or still?) I have collected a bunch of Yuki Kajiura OSTs by now. The only ones I don't have now might be the dot hack musics that aren't SIGN, Petit Cosette and Madoka Magica, which should be released in a few days or maybe it's already out.

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:

Just Alec

This is an older sketch from the beginning of last December. It was originally supposed to be one of my original character headshot series, but I drew him a body recently.
Alec, you bitch! Why are you so much fun to draw?! D: He's so so SO unoriginal. A while ago, someone told me he looked a bit like Lockon Stratos from Gundam 00. Ahaha! XD
Btw1, I'm actually colouring an old animation now. I made it in 2009, but lost my interest in it and didn't finish it.
Btw2, Erulisse made me listen to Marchen by Sound Horizon and now I like it. At first, I didn't like SH AT ALL. I didn't like the Marchen album either for the first time, but after listening to some tracks 2-3 times, I realized it wasn't bad. The more I listen, the more I like it. And I even began understanding the lyrics a little. XD;