Dignity

I lost it...CHECK IT OUT! :D

Pass

Yes, I passed. Despite some mistakes...:D



In other news, I got LMMS 0.2.1 to compile on my laptop. The last version (0.2) had errors, and would not detect any of my sound libraries, but they fixed it. LMMS, or Linux Multimedia Studio, is pretty much a Fruity Loops clone, but for Linux. Its to make mixes, using a sequencer and stuff. It looks really cool, and has a very nice snythesizer feature thingy (I am not music expert, I just like sounds :P) that can make some old retro sounding bleeps and peeps! I'll probably add a sound clip when I make something sound good.

And here, have some more sigs...

Requests

GAH! I'm horrible with blogs. I need to add something to my e-mail program, to remind me to post something every other day...

Anyway, we ended another campaign in my tournament. And, like every campaign (for the last...couple :P), I started a thread on the forums requesting signatures. Apparently people like my cartoony-style and the first 20 slots usually fill up within the first day...>_< So, I've pretty much been drawing ALL week, trying to finish before the end of the week (the first 20, there are a lot more requests, but only the 20 are guranteed to be drawn ;D)

So here are some of them:






And in other news, I am gonna take my driver's test within some hours! Let's see if the Floridian Department of Motor Vehicles will allow ME to roam these crazy streets! ;)

Work

And so it begins again, the part-time drainnage of my afternoon hours at the company known as...Lorien Technologies, where I burn my eyes starting at monochromatic documents all day, sorting through each one and matching their correct serial numbers with what was inputted into the database.

In other words, I started working again. ;) My job is actually really awesome, in terms of it's probably the easiest stuff you can AND you're getting paid GOOD money for it (I'm a 17 year ol' getting $9 an hour! YEA!). PLUS when they run out of work, it's cool too, because you're getting a small vacation. In fact, I didn't have work all summer, and it perfectly matched my no-more-school summer vacation for ULTIMATE SUMMER FREE TIME. And what did I do in that time? Nothing. :P

I wanted to hang out with my friends more, but that was an utter mission failure. I don't understand why I find it hard to do that. I'll probably be getting my license on Tuesday, so I think that should help, in some form or another. I'll probably by some bowling shoes and do a little of that, because I like bowling...:P

Other than that, no I haven't been able to shade the pants yet. Umm...but I will leave you...with THIS:

Pants

How do I SHADE THEM!?

Fireworks

Happy 5th of July! :P

Hmm, I haven' updated recently, I suppose I should give you (you being...myself) a status report. o.O

We moved last Sunday, to a nice little townhouse. I a cool 2-door room, unfortunately it has become the office, so my sister pretty much lives in here too. Meaning I don't get the little privacy I would probably want (i.e. if I'm on the phone or need to change after a shower) but then again, it IS my room, so I can now stare at her computer screen and watch what she's doing if I ever have the urge too. ^_^ I rather have her use the laptop though. :P

Not many updates on Saptiva (the lady with the gun drawing), except maybe some bad shading on the pants. I have no idea where the creases and such should go...I'm really bad at this. ;)

And something amazing probably happened in the past weeks...but I forgot.

Strands

Here's a little comparison on the shaded (on the right) to the non-shaded (left) hair.
(sorry bout that odd line through the right image, don't know what happened there :P)

Vibrance

Fully colored Saptiva, time for shading. Look at that PKM!

Stare

Here's some coloring done on Saptiva:





Also, I've been assigned as supermaintainer of Soldat in Wine.

Stratus

Finished her:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34669224/

Time to trace and line Saptiva!
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34656703/

Bluier

More shading, more hair, more shoulder :P

Progression

Well, I finished drawing me...
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34435051/

And have done a little more work on the blue-haired girl. I should probably give her a name or something.



The scene will most likely be a very cloudy, field of grass or wheat, looks like it's going to rain. Probably some drops falling already. Clothing color is something I'm pondering on, white shirt and black skirt were what I first thought, but we'll see what happens...

Me

I'm putting the blue girl on hold until I can:

1. Figure out a new position of the rest of her body (as I just drew the head, and the body sketch sucks)

2. Figure out how to proportionally draw her hands

3. Not mess it up

So, I decided to do a quicker work of anime, this time more "chibi" like, but not completely. This time, it's a guy...in fact, it's me! :D

Blue

Once again I am drawing up another anime girl, this time, as "animeish" as I can. :P Uhm...yea. Also, no tracing from video game sprites. ;) Here's what I've got so far...





There you can see the 2 differences between me drawing the lines by hand in Photoshop (first image) and then me doing that same line with the pen tool and the "simulated pressure" option (second image). Obviously, doing it by hand is crap, which is why I prefer drawing stuff in Flash (as Flash will auto-smooth what I draw for me, unlike Photoshop).

Again

SATs tomorrow...
Internet constantly dropping...yet school is over and I'm off of work. I guess it's all balancing out. :P

Drowning

I dropped my cellphone in the toilet yesterday. It was an accident, my sweater's pockets are pretty much horizontal and it just fell...-.-

1 more week of school. Actually, I plan on finishing by Friday. :P

Queen

I guess you can't really call her "King of Fighters" but whatever! It's the name of the game :P Here's a wallpaper I made myself of a completed (for the most part I suppose) Vanessa. Image quality is probably a lot crappier once I upload it here...



2 more weeks of school left...YES!

Vanessa

All right, new Photoshop progress. Her name is Vanessa, she is one of the characters from King of Fighters (2002).


Now this IS a trace. As much as I hate to admit it, for the first time in a long time, I traced the character, although, you gotta see it wasn't a line for line type of deal.



As you can see, I didn't have a WHOLE lot to work with. A very pixellated picture is the only reference I have in terms of color and for a vague outline. The gray outlined human shape though was made by me, to try and get the proportions right. I can pretty much draw it on paper now, although usually I'll get something wrong (legs too short, torso too thin). So its not a compelete trace, but its enough to have my sister rag on me. :P Either way, this wasn't really about drawing an actual person (like you might consider my other military chick to be) but more on the coloring. I'm trying to get the shading on the skin, hair, and clothing, as good as possible. With some help from some Deviantart tutorials I found, hopefully I can become a little better at it ;)

Completed

Well, I finished the military chick, generally speaking. I might tweak some more shading, and add it to a wallpaper or something of the sorts, but I'm pretty much done. :)

Vectorized

There you go. Finally finished (or pretty much finished, might smooth out certain parts, etc.) the outline. Redone completely with the pen tool, for the vector smoothness...now for more shading!