Winter in March

We had snowstorms where I live last weekend. O___o It started snowing on the afternoon of March 14 and then it kept snowing for almost an entire day. The snow didn't melt right away and it was still cold and windy even today. A snowy March 15 like this has never happened in my life before and I heard the last one before this happened when my mother was still a kid. Nature is not fooled, though. The blackbirds sing in the morning and evening and small leaves and flowers began growing everywhere.

 It looked like this.
My mother says if you washed your face in March snow, you'd be beautiful, haha~

Anyway, Pandora Hearts Retrace 82 came out yesterday. It's 65 pages. It's beautiful. This series never ceases to amaze me. It's so cute, emotional, exciting and bloody dark and tragic at the same time. I love Oscar so damn much. I've loved him from the beginning, but at first I didn't expect Jun would give him any special attention or character development or anything. I thought he'd only be this random funny uncle, who won't have much purpose in the story other than being a minor comic relief character. Well, I was wrong. Oscar is a great character like everyone else.

I did so many super fast PH scribbles in the past 1-2 days. @___@

Oh, and I'm also refining/colouring this thing from my previous entry:

VERY SLOWLY because I had commissions and other more important things to draw in the meantime. But I'm having so much fun with this lame sketch. XD

The story of this sketch:
hand: SINBAD PLZ.
brain: NO. COMMISSIONS.
hand: NO. SINBAD.
brain: NO. PANDORA HEARTS.
hand: I WANT MY SINBAD.
brain: I ORDER YOU TO WORK, HAND.
hand: ONLY IF I CAN DRAW SINBAD FIRST.
brain: ... OK.

I think I'm crazy... Anyway, I'd better go to sleep now. I'll work on my Pandora Hearts sketches tomorrow.

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.

Various PH stuffs

I've been in a creative mode lately, which is good, I guess. Okay, let's post some things here~

 These are two work in progress pics of this deviation. It took me a week to finish the sketch, get over my laziness and start doing the lineart, but then all the linearting, colouring and background were done in only 3 days, which is a really short time for me, cuz I usually sit on a drawing for weeks... XD;

I enjoy torturing characters I like. >D I put this up on my Tumblr, but I wanted to post it here too~

This a 3-colours-only quickie thing of Demios done in Sai. It's unfinished and I have no clue what Demios' "body" looks like, because we never see it clearly in its full glory in the manga, so this is just my guess. Ok, Pandora Hearts really made me go crazy. Srsly, since when am I obsessing over things that resemble of a skeleton of a genetically modified mutant goat... ??

I also did a colouring of Jack from chapter 69, but I don't really like how it came out. Anyway, I posted it on Tumblr and it got more likes and reblogs than anything else I posted myself so far, so I guess maybe it's not that horrible after all. XD; The reason I did this is because I'm still considering making a fan video of Pandora Hearts and it would be good only if I could edit/colour shitloads of panels for it. I'd edit out the speech bubbles and backgrounds and colour the characters. So it would be insanely time-consuming. My other problem with it is that I'd like to focus on Jack and the tragedy of Sablier - in other words the newest arc and we still don't have enough chapters of that. But of course I could start editing and colouring the older parts I'd like to use nonetheless~~

Oh, and I almost forgot adding this. I drew this yesterday. I had this sudden urge to do another semi-realistic portrait of a PH character and I chose Glen/Oswald. (I think I'll keep calling him Glen for the sake of simplicity.) About 80-90 minutes of work with Photoshop CS2 so far. I used some references to get the proportions right, but he wasn't based on anyone in particular. So far, it looks much better than my first realistic Vincent wip. XD;;;

Alright, that's all for now. I wanna work a bit more on that realistic Glen today. 8D

... NOOO I just heard those bitches killed off Megaupload and Megavideo!! *wriggles in agony* DDDX You have no idea how much anime and other shit I used to watch on Megavideo, I even watched the entire Avatar series there. And of course I used to download stuff from Megaupload too. Hell, even my shimeji was uploaded there and now people can't download the zip version from my DA any longer. Let's pray for they won't shut down deviantART and other sites likes that...

And I should have posted this last time, but here's this little statistics about the

Frequency of Pandora Hearts characters appearing in my sketchblog posts in 2011:

1) Vincent - 17 posts
2) Gil - 12 posts
3) Alice - 6 posts
   Jack - 6 posts
4) Oz - 5 posts
   Break - 5 posts
   Glen - 5 posts
   Leo - 5 posts
   Ada - 5 posts
5) Lotti - 4 posts
6) Elliot - 3 posts
7) Echo - 2 posts
8) Sharon - 1 post

I thought it was interesting, lol. *runs off to draw*

Some semirealism-ish stuff

Anyone remembers that random guy I doodled back in March? Well, I found it again and decided to work on it a bit, but got bored of it again...

And then I started another one today. I just did the skin, it was without eyes and hair when my mother saw it and she said it looked like Gil from PH or his brother. o___o So, I made it look like Vincent, heheh~ I don't think it looks that much like him, though:

Ah, well, I knew that as soon as I start doing requests on DA, I'd suddenly want to work on 5000 other things. I guess I'll be hyperactive artistically this week. Should I refine/finish that Vincent one? 8D

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:

Realism practice

Wow, I already have something to post. I may also post some older sketches, though. I drew this today. Just a random dude. I was experimenting with a new lineless style. I actually like it so far, though he has a stupid face, lol. Maybe I'll finish it. I need to figure out how to make the hair smoother in the edges, though. ^^; I also need to get used to this blog, heh...