Happy Bday Dad!

Lookit all the freaking brown!!! Muahahaha XD

A picture I drew oodles and ages ago with the intention of making a new ID picture for myself, but I never got around to finishing it.

I wanted to paint something, but I didn't feel like sketching something, soooo I opened my old line art and got cracking. Actually did some line colouration this time around, though most of the fun was in the shirt and the green curtain cloth in the background. And the hair, I quite enjoyed working on the hair..

Looking back, I don't know where I started doing things differently. Let's pull something from the archives, shall I? *Moseys off*
Okay so other than the absolute horrific anatomy (I think that closer leg there is just.. broken...) The colour damn well BLINDS argh.

I think where I mostly started to do things different... Is when I started to experiment with cell shading and the overlapping of a darker colour, like purple, and just changing the opacity to add shadows I wanted. So after cell shading for a while, and switching to a more painterly practicing (for me at least, heh, my brush strokes are obvious even digitally) with Yukio, I carried that over, and started the whole.. "Mixing of an opposite colour" to darken, which I never really believed in.

And purple, use a lot of that.

So unlike my "White Rabbit" chick here, where I'd try to just use a darker of the original colour to make tints, and a lighter of the original colour to make shades... everything looked plastic, Bright, and blinding, like I always HATED about my paintings. It's actually the reason I just.. stopped painting almost a year or so ago.

Wow, I'm seeing changes x3 And it makes me happy to see that yeaaah, I'm actually making PROGRESS, ha ha ha!!

Anyways.. Fun story of the day >< So I went to orientation for my new job today. I'm excited about this job, it's manual labour (I'm a glorified janitor), brainless physical work, full time hours, plenty of overtime to clock in come july/august, and hey.. Lots of money x3. I have to apply for OSAP tomorrow :B can't forget about that.

So anyways, I'm not as excited about two of the guys I'm going to be working with (they're the stupid jock types) and all the ones I did connect with-- are art students, and they'll be working at the Trafalgar campus =[ I.E. different school entirely. Yeah, Stupid jock types, the guy introduced himself as.. Nes. As in like... Nintendo. I asked if I could call him as such, but apparently the guy who wears socks, sandals, track pants and bright blue boxers (wears pants at his knees. So not attractive), doesn't have a sense of humour and told me flat out I was not to call him that.

Well I'm going to call him that anyways.

When he's not within earshot.

Kay, I'm tired, think it's time for me to crash x3 Been painting for a while now.