Snow

I'm such a kid. Yesterday, it snowed all day and it made me so happy. XDD The snowing continued until about noon today. I was watching it for a while early in the morning from my window and the snow was sparkling in the light of the street lamps, it was so pretty! I was about to give up on seeing more snow than just a few drops this winter, but  now we finally got some cold (VERY cold) and a decent amount of snow.

Drawings. KICK MEEE!! PLEASE?! I should draw more. I have a sketch which has the potential to be one of my best drawings if I finish it. I started doing the lineart yesterday and couldn't draw one character's face decently, kept erasing and redrawing, then eventually gave up. OTL (For now.)
I gave up on creating original things a while ago almost completely, but I'm not good enough even as a fanartist. I'm stalking a couple of artists on Tumblr and I'm always like "how can they draw so much? why is even their sketchy stuff so good? why can't I draw half as well as this person when I'm 5 years older and I have been doing digital art for 6 years and she's just a hobbyist like me?" Anyway, I've been trying to draw, but everything I do sucks.

First of all, while I was working on my Glen portrait, I noticed that the same file looked slightly different in Sai and Photoshop. The only thing I don't like in Sai is that the shades don't seem to blend as nicely as they do in PS. Different shades have this "edge" in Sai that I can't delete no matter what tool I use. When I open the same file in PS, it looks smoother.

Quick sketch of Leo. I stopped drawing/colouring this, cuz I didn't like how it was turning out. :\

Break. This one was inspired by a cosplay photo. I can't draw his hair.

This is COMPLETE UTTER SHIT. This is what happens when you try to draw something cool and dynamic and then you realize during the process that you cannot draw dynamic things to save your life and the result turns out looking like crap and 200% static lol. I'm just posting this to show you how bad my really quick sketches are. -___-;

Okay, here's a sample from the Pandora Hearts fanart calendar. We are seriously making a calendar (actually two calendars). In fact, I'm already done with the first 12 months. It's more difficult to do than it seems, but it's turning out better than I expected at first. I'm not sure when it will be done, because we still don't have a 2nd June pic, but I hope we can finish it before March... >___<;;;

I want to draw moaaar, I'll go now...

Oh, and some people take and edit even the sketches I post here on this blog without permission. Is it so hard to contact me and ask for my permission first? D: I may have to start watermarking even my doodles, lol.

The birds came back

Yesterday, the chickadees randomly invaded my window again. Seriously, 6-7 birds at the same time, that's A LOT. O___o Anywho, this is just a random update because I don't have much to post lately. All I've been working on is that crappy PH group pic. I posted a few wips of it to my DA scraps yesterday, but here's a part of its current state:

I still don't like how Oz's face came out and I'm considering adding textures to their outfits. Though it probably doesn't look very different. I didn't save it with the textures, just experimenting~ I would like to finish this by tomorrow...

Btw, chapter 63 is finally out and I'm downloading it right now. I've seen a RAW last week, but I decided to wait for the Fallen Syndicate's scanlation instead of reading random spoilers.

Now I'll go continue working on this shit picture...

The birds have left

After the super hot weather, rain finally came on Monday evening. There was a HUGE storm at midnight and since Tuesday, it's been much colder. It rained all day today and yesterday too. And today was the first day in this year when the birds didn't come to my window at all aside from a few sparrows. They seem to have moved from our park since it became awfully quiet too. I actually got a little sad because I got so used to them. XD But they will probably come back in September.

Drawingz. 

 ZOMG a pencil sketch!! I drew this in last October, though. Just wanted to scan it to test some settings in Photoshop. Random OC guy.

I posted this to my DA journal, just thought I'd post it here too. Break. I wanted to draw him in his sexy rainbow-coloured swimsuit he's wearing in one of the specials. XD

This is one of a bunch of retarded doodles I did on Monday. Chibi Vincent with a severed head. Lovely.

I posted the sketch of this a while ago. Well, I got bored of it at this stage. I thought the sketch was pretty good, but I don't like this drawing any longer.

Part of my huge PH group pic. I worked a lot on this today. I still have to fix some things on the lineart, but as you can see I've already started colouring it. Also, I really love to draw roses. :O

Ok, that's all for now. I'd like to draw something quick now~~ 8D

More PH again...

The reason I haven't been updating this blog that much lately is that I haven't been doing too many new sketches, I either just finished old stuff or posted on deviantART right away. But I did some more Pandora Hearts doodles! 8D (Geez, I'm seriously obsessed. Like... never before. Even my FMA obsession wasn't this intense.)

Elliot and Leo. To tell the truth, when these two first appeared in the story, I thought they were sort of cliché and uninteresting, but later on, they proved that they were amazing too.

XDDD Lolwut. This is Alice about to bite Gil's ear. I cracked up when Alice was chasing Gilbert in chapter 62 and I wanted to draw Gil with a stupid expression, so this quick doodle was born.

Finally, here's a sketch I made in February. I just refined it and slapped some colours on it yesterday. Originally, it was not going to be Gil, but then I was like "fffff why not?". I don't really like this because there seems to be something off about his face and I can't make the hair look right when I draw characters lying down. Also, the full picture is bigger, but I think his arms turned out a bit short. Meh.

Okay, now that I did some quick doodles, I can go back to work on my next big pic! Yay~~~

More Pandora Hearts doodles

I'm so obsessed with Pandora Hearts it's not even funny. D: I'm currently trying to fix that goddamn picture of Alice, Oz and Gil, it's taking me freaking forever. I'll probably just get sick of it and finish quickly. Anyway, I did some other doodles too.

Vincent. >___<

Team Baskerville vs Team Vessalius. *shot* I started sketching this yesterday when I was listening to songs from Fiction II on YouTube. I think MochiJun loves dark/blond pairs as much as I do. :B I guess browsing all the cool art on Pixiv makes me want to do more complex pics and improve... I mean when did I do a composition like this before? Oz and Jack look weird here, they are hard for me to draw.

100% size close-up of Vincent from that sketch. It's HUGE. If I finish this, it will eat up all of my system memory, lol. It's just a quick sketch and it's already like 11 MB...

Not much for now. I should draw something for a contest and also something for Royai day...

So cute! The goldfinches and greenfinches still come here to my window and they are here until about 20:20. Call me insane, but I think there is something magical in this. My computer is next to the window and the weather got hot, so my window is open. And birds who normally don't go near humans are eating there, so close where I could reach out and touch them if they weren't scared of me. There's only a semi-transparent curtain between us.

I saw something about Yuki Kajiura's new Fiction II album on Jun Mochizuki's blog a while ago, but for some reason, I wasn't very interested in this album. I thought it had mostly just new versions of anime songs I already know and have and assumed the original songs would be way too corny even for me. However, I still listened to some songs of it yesterday and today and oh wow, it's beautiful! :O It really is corny, but I ended up loving most of the new original songs and even some of the recycled anime songs are better than the originals. This woman's music is magic.

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.