Fwoosh!

Quick color test! ... Okay, bye.

More Dominance War!

Giving you more, whether you want it or not.

"Snakes on titties?"

I'd explain that title, but it'd be long and stupid so... yeah. There's boobs though. So, first is the sketch, along with a scrapped one of Pierrot (because I cannot perch hats). The final is on DA.

A glazed medic, usin' no anesthetic...

I actually had this whole long post last night but lost it. I forget how. Anywho, spurred on by seeing progress shots of Grace's centaur, I decided to take one of my sketches from that dump a bit ago (his current name is Night Surgeon, inspired by the song of the same name from Repo!) and color it, starting with tones. Ummm... my tones need work. The other thing is a crappy doodle done in Sketchbook Pro (which is amazing and I need to play with more). Ummm... enjoy! I'll be doing more work on that quick painting. I'm, ummm, 1-2 hours in? Don't know. But I tried to stay loose! I like it. Makes hair hard though... Hrrm... Yeah, enough of my rambling. Gonna add color now. And maybe work on my gift exchanges, oops!

Things coming over break! Concepts and storyboards for my next animation(s), portraits of my Bastille OCs, portrait of hiritai's Andrew, a finished Death and the Maiden from an earlier CGHub drawing jam, artbook things (?), and prints for the con season. Hooray for not-break?

Quickie WiP: Queen of Apology

Like the title says, this one's just a quickie painting to get myself used to Painter a bit more. I've been having problems getting colors to look right, but I'm getting better. It's shiny on the highlights (which does make some sense considering the skin tone) so I'm going to go back and tint that pink when I finish up everything else. Actually... now that I look at it, it's too lopsided. >.< So I'm thinking I'll be going back and re-sketching first. But that's the first pass! If this turns out okay, it'll be the first of the portraits of my Bastille characters.

Random Note: I was listening to "Queen of Apology (Patrick Stump Remix)" by The Sounds from the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack.

Speed Paint Epic Fail!

So, I tried speed painting. It was going okay but... I had a serious epic fail. The pink I used for the highlighting might work on Caucasian/Asian skin but certainly nothing darker. T.T So I tried a technique I'd found on dA for doing eyes (which did turn out well) then quit while I was ahead. >.< So... my efforts for you to laugh at. All in all, this took a little under 1 hour, with a continuous onslaught of Bjork's "Earth Intruders".

In other news, I joined CG Hub a bit ago. I really like it, but I'm super intimidated by, like, everyone. But it's so inspiring! Hence the above speed paint.

Yet Another Dump!

This ones from dA soooooooo...
Storyboarding Final:
http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/CD-2129-Turnaround-85424013
http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/CD-Larry-Turnaround-85424379 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/SB-Story-Illustration-1-85425110 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/SB-Story-Illustration-2-85425831 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/SB-Story-Illustration-3-85426431 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/SB-Story-Illustration-4-85427015 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/SB-Story-Illustration-5-85427287 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/SB-Story-Illustration-6-85427695 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/SB-Story-Illustration-7-85428109

Other Stuffs!
http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/Cel-Annette-in-Operation-TART-85195375 http://sometimesusually.deviantart.com/art/qXc-Yokiko-81645112

Yeah, nothin' but a whole bunch o' links. I'm sorry. I'll be working on stuff for cons in the coming weeks then heading to A-Kon in Dallas. Yeah, I'm going to fucking TEXAS. It's crazy.

Dump: Sometimes, I Do Things

So, I've actually sketched quite a lot since my last update. First up, a "quick" portrait of Gaia's krunkkid's character, Meshi. It was fun but I have SOOOOOOO far to go on painting skin. Second is an adorable little chibi of Grace/fongmingyun's character Rivek, done for chibi practice and because I owe Con Mommy. Lastly, a finished(?) background from the PFF trailer project. We... placed last. T.T And you can't even see most of the work we put in. But, well, we did our best and went with
something we knew would most likely not win... We tried. This is depressing, MOAR HAPPY!

As for things on DA, we've got qXc Round 3, The Drow Queen (finished), Karudaberi Jam, qXc Round 2.

Mini-Dump

I've been picking diligently away at various projects: con prep, a liberal arts project I'm using as a print making front (>.<), animation project (which I might also make prints from, since I'm painting things for it), and whatever other homework I have. So, here's a quick sketch dump.

The first is an Avatar: the Last Airbender style sketch of my character Annette. She'd definitely be Fire Nation, but I'm not sure if she'd be a bender. Her job would probably upgrade to personal bodyguard though. Maybe for Zuko? XD Personality and trigger-happiness would remain unchanged.

Second is a quick little Photoshop doodle done with Grace's tablet. I'm waiting for my new one to arrive, since the old one died.

Third is the last page of a storyboarding assignment to make a cereal commercial. There's this ridiculous milk tidal wave sequence that any animator would kill me for making. >.<

Fourth is a WiP of a painting I'm working on. Hoping to have it done as a print very soon. Hooray for elven queens?

Lastly is some pchat crap done on the Cintiq at school. Honestly, given a choice between a Cintiq and an Intuos, I'd probably pick the Intuos. The Cintiq is just too big and nowhere near portable. There's also a discrepancy between where you physically have the point and where the cursor is on screen. But doing the colors was so, so, so easy! Ah well, there's one at school so I'm set if I ever feel the need to use it again.

Original: Ameir Portrait

Just a link to the dA page this time, because I'm lazy. Click the title of the post for the link. It's a portrait of my Watcher character, Donovan Ameir Forrellis, otherwise simply known as Ameir. For randomness' sake, I'll post some bits of an IM with Grace, the owner of a certain Aidan, who is also a Watcher. If you want to know what went down, you'll have to join the forums here: http://www.miumu.com/boards/index.php

Grace: Ameir: *walks about from showers*
Grace: Aidan: "DEAR LORD, WHAT THE FUCK...?!!"
Grace: Beccah: "..."
Allie: Ameir: "... What...?"
Grace: Aidan: "... my .... eyes..."
Grace: Beccah: "..."
Allie: Ameir: "Are adorable. Point?"
Grace: Beccah: "Put some clothes on, or I will put you out on the street in the exact same state you are in now."
Grace: "That's right. Pantless."
Allie: Ameir: *sigh* "Yes, ma'am."
(Because I said the only way Ameir will let me draw him is naked. >.<;)


Grace: lol. It occurs to me.
Grace: Aidan is a virgin.
Allie: XD
Allie: As far as I know, Ameir is not. Unless he's been lying.
Grace: Not because he wants to be. But simply out of there having never been anyone.
Grace: ...
Grace: Ameir is so not.


Allie: Okay, I've gotten to the point where Ameir's considering either letting Aidan sleep, waking him up and maybe getting him to spar or something, or doing naughty things... and then asking him to spar.
Grace: doing naughty things to Aidan..>?!?!? DX<
Allie: Hahahaha! The reaction was totally worth it!
Allie: He was going to maybe give him a little kiss.
Allie: Because he's a hopeless romantic.
Allie: By which I mean I'm a hopeless romantic.
Grace: Or
Grace: A hopeless yaoi fangirl
Allie: Or that.
Allie: But so are you.
Grace: And btw, between those two
Grace: Aidan is so top
Allie: Uhhh, yeah!
Grace: lol
(Note: I don't think I could properly create and play a top. My male characters [at least as far as RPs go] all tend to be very go-with-the-flow.)


Grace: And yeah, lol. Aidan's a little homophobic.
Grace: But I think that's Ameir's fault.
(Note: Ehn, what can I say? Ameir's a very tactless uke.)


Grace: lol. I just always kinda pretend I'm Aidan and go with whatever is in my gut
Grace: Otherwise, I'd be playing me not Aidan
Grace: lol
Grace: 'Cuz if it were me
Grace: They'd be fucking on a training mat right now
Grace: >.>
Grace: XD
Allie: I have the urge to say "Your MOM dyes her hair like a girl!"
Allie: But, ummm, yeah. Ameir might actually not be okay with that. It'd ruin the chase.
Allie: Or, well, the purpose.
Grace: LOL
Allie: He might have to turn bi and go after someone else.
(This came from me saying how hard it was to come up with a reaction for Ameir. You'd know where it comes if you joined the forums and the RPG... >.>)

Masssive Art Dump!

Here's a fairly large dump of everything I've worked on since my last update. More or less.

First up, we have the finished, full version of this bookmark (titled Innocence Invocation), along with a random dynamic sketch of a conjurer in the middle of a jump (?!), and a quick paint test of the CG method I used for Innocence Invocation. I need to work on the technique and clean it up a lot, but I'll hopefully have it all worked out pretty soon.
Next is the sketch of Innocence Invocation and an WiP of the face. Yeah, I used color layers over a greyscale underpainting. Because... I'm cheap?
After that are the sketches if the pieces that will go to the winner of the Gaia group auction I did that Death card for way back in the summer. I'm hoping to finish those off within the week. Hoping...
Next is a little sampling of my chibis in the form of Tyki Mikk from D.Gray-man and my original character, Ameir, for the Shards of Aleysa RP I plan to get back into very shortly. Maybe within the week? Depends on how long it takes for the current goings-on to make it to the next day. XD
After that is a simple pose sketch. I never draw seated figures because I have so much trouble making them look natural. That still doesn't look entirely natural, but I think it's partly my color choice and heavily drawing through the figure...