This day happens once in every 4 years

Yeah. I'm so creative with blog entry titles. Also, stupid weather. Now it's all sunny and spring-like again and all the snow that kept falling non-stop yesterday melted last night when the snow turned into rain.

First of all, Kasia, if you are reading this (I know you're stalking my blog lol), I wanna let you know that our Lotti/Gil drawing inspired some cool smutty roleplays on Tumblr. 8)))

Drawings.

Unfinished version of this. I think it looks SO MUCH BETTER with the textures.

Looong overdue request of someone's characters. This is the 4th version and I'm finally uploading a wip, cuz I think I'll go with this version. I hate how the guy looks here, though. OTL

Very fast sketch of my cute little girl character, Amarevia. This name almost became my own second name through the years I spent using it doing stuff online, but it originally belonged to this character. I have to admit, now I think she's a little bit like Alice from PH, lol.

Sketch versus lineart. The pic really does change a lot in the process, doesn't it? 8D

Aaand here's something I started sketching today. Can you guess who this is? 8)

My rants about Pandora Hearts Retrace 70.
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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*

LottixGil wip

Because I'm scared of Tumblr... :B

Work in progress. This drawing is our lovechild with Kasia. She drew the rough sketch, sent it to me via Messenger and then I raped it with Sai. I want to finish it tomorrow, but maybe I won't, so I'm uploading this version for now, so I can show her that I'm working on it. We both have a thing for this pairing. Or maybe we just both have a weird inner Lotti who has a thing for Gil. XD; My mother saw this and said it was totally perverted. Well, if this drawing was 100% mine, she'd be undoing his pants instead of his shirt. @v@

Happy New Year!

This blog is almost one year old now. Woo~ I like posting stuff here. It's like an archive for myself and it's fun to look back at all the shit I've posted by now. XD;

As first thing to do on the first day of this new year, I joined Tumblr. *le gasp* Within like 5 minutes, someone already started following me. O___o; Whoa!

JESUS CHRIST I posted an older doodle of Break just to post something to see how it looks like and people already started liking and reblogging it. That site scares me. D:

Drawingz.

Jack. Tried to to a super quick not-very-accurate copy of him from the cover of volume 7.

A very different version of Jack. I cropped this, he's holding something on the full version~

"Damn, there's a fly in my drink..." XD
Apparently, when you become the next head of the Baskervilles, you have to drink not only from the chains' but your predecessor's blood as well.

Random sleeping Vincent. I haven't drawn every detail on his outfit. I think sleeping people are hard to draw. But Vincent is a character who tends to randomly fall asleep at times because of his Dormouse chain and I'm obsessed with drawing him. He originally wasn't supposed to have legs on this drawing, so sorry if it's totally off. >___<;;;

This one might be familiar from my previous post. I originally didn't intend to do a lineart for this, but then I somehow stumbled upon this fanfic (I hardly ever read fanfics, actually. But this one is way better than the average.) and it inspired me to continue working on it. 8D I have no clue why I drew that fancy underwear thing (or whatever it is) I drew on Ada, but it was fun to draw. Ada is like a Barbie doll, so girly and disgustingly cute. And Vincent is wearing a regular white shirt here instead of his frilly nightgown-like one. This pairing needs more fanart (the newest drama CD is all about them, tee-hee~) and this fandom needs more het pairing art in general.

Other stuff.

I found my old My Little Pony toys when we were cleaning before Xmas. I have/had more, but only these two are original Hasbro ponies. The baby one was manufactured in 1984 (yeah, a few years older than me, lol) and the big one is from 1992. They still look like they are new and the big one has all of her accessories. Do you think I should try selling them online? Hehe. 8D

This is my mom's cactus. It blooms in December-January. Isn't it pretty? I like how this photo turned out.

I wanted to rant about anime/manga stuff, but this post is already pretty long. I should post more often. XD; I watched Inception yesterday and liked it, but I think I should watch it again at least one more time.

Anyway, I hope I'll continue posting lots of things here in 2012~~

PH insanity and some OCs

Long time no post again, ugh... I've been drawing. Slowly and not that much. Let's see some sketches...

XD This is a "parody" of my own drawing of Glen, lolz. The original is in my deviantART gallery. I started this as a quick random scribble and when I posted it on DA, I somehow got lucky and it ended up in the most popular pics in the 8 hours interval, it had over 400 faves in a week. O___O

Jack and Glen. I drew this because of Kasia's comment on my previous Glen drawing. She said she wanted to do this to Glen. XD It's super quick (I drew it in about 1-2 minutes, I guess) and crappy, but I wanted to upload it here anyway, hehe.

Grumpy Alice is grumpy (or tsundere?). This is part of a bigger pic I plan on finishing soon. I still don't really like how her face turned out here. D:

Jack based on a panel from chapter 67. I just loved his expressions in this chapter so much I had to draw him. Maybe I'm finally starting to learn how to draw him. I really want to do a picture of him later, he's so cute. 8D

I revamped an old OC. It's a bit disappointing how little my style changed in 6 years, isn't it? D: I mean I've always been relatively good at drawing. Other people improve more in just half a year or so... OTL

This is a quick sketch of MauAcheron-the-crazy's character, Olivia. I don't like how her face came out and she looks too girly in my style. DX I drew her because she's one of the 3 characters I have to draw for a kiriban prize art. I've done 2 sketches for that pic already, but I just couldn't get them right for some reason. I feel guilty for not completing this request yet, because I've been sitting on that pic for about 2 months now... OTL

OH MY GOD!! Can you believe I drew VincentxAda smut?! Early in the morning I get fanart ideas like this. What the hell is wrong with me? -___- Vincent probably told her he'd show her some awesome magic spell which involves getting her undressed. 8DDD *shot* Uncle Oscaaaarrrr, your precious niece is about to get tainted!! D: I like this pairing even if Vincent is a "brother-obsessed creeper who buries his desires into vulnerable women". 8) And I actually like how this sketch came out, but I don't intend finishing it.

Woo~ That was a lot of... stuff. Pandora Hearts ate my brain a while ago, so most of it was PH again. I've been listening to a lot of Akiko Shikata songs while drawing lately. I'm also into Yuki Kajiura music again. Many of her songs remind me of winter, maybe because I watched PH in December 2 years ago, lol.

Anyway, here's a song by her I discovered just recently:

American edition of Fiction, WHY U NO HAVE THIS AWESOME TRACK?! FFFFUUUU

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