Multitasking Musings;

I've actually been doing pretty good with art recently. Just a lot of doodles, because I've been busy with work and fighting off a burnout (By the way, I very much succeeded).

But, between all that, I did find time to get some drawing in, though not a whole lot.

First, on the left I have a couple ballpoint pictures I coloured really quickly with my water colour brush. The first one is Suka, obviously, dressed up in different gear from what I normally give her. I started a new RP with my dear girl, and this one involves the Grecian storyline I made a couple of years ago specifically to do battle comics with.

Instead, I wound up using it for and RP, but the RP died because... Well, I don't know, it just died.

It's going quite well now and we're having a lot of fun, ha.

Ainmire and Kara as well, and they're both being used in the same RP. Kara and Suka are both currently being held hostage while Ainmire and Kerorphe are busy fighting for their lives in a giant labyrinth just jam packed of monsters, demi-gods, and idiots.

To the right, are Ninja and Suka!

Ninja was just a doodle I did when I was trying to get into drawing again; You can tell because my anatomy is bad, I didn't draw a shoe, she's leaning on nothing, and it looks kinda stupid.

Haha.

I never draw Rebel... Poor guy, he's been taking a lot of heat lately from my coworkers/friends.

Beside that, holy crap, it's Suka again!

I know.

This is a mock up for something I'm working on in the long run. I still have a lot of work to do, because after three drawings I still wasn't happy with this one.

Oh well!

I do have a great picture planned out, I just have to actually draw it.

Tada! Yukio and Ainmire.

I love drawing Yukio, and I miss my baby very much.

I sort of wish I could just skip to writing about him in my own story, but he's quite a ways off in my storyline.

He won't be as interesting after the fact, when he gets his soul returned... but that's alright, he's still my baby.

Besides, when he gets his soul back, he get's hilariously jaded and whiny and he acts a lot like... like... well I'm not sure, but it's humorously flamboyant.

Ainmire I just drew because at work we were discussing why kilts are so awesome on men, and why I had a character with a kilt in the first place. Eventually I'll be able to actually draw him as a like.. properly built dude.. but so far! The musculature is not happening.

One day.

His outfit used to be hilariously complicated. Now I've simplified it to a cape and a kilt and some fuzzy boots.

And this, is Suka, Tinette, and one little Yukio who got sat on.

It's also an account of my fight with the flies.

Oh, these were also drawn the night I didn't have any sleep at all.

So they make no sense.

Tinette and Yukio, what the hell, that never happens.

But the idea crossed my mind, I found it remotely funny (by remotely I mean I was killing myself laughing) and I decided to draw it.

Also, a curvy Tinette that was RIDICULOUSLY fat before I realized I was insane with sleep deprivation and redrew it.

And, a Suka, sitting on some sort of invisible surface!

I'm so awesome.

9:46

Annie

This is How I'll Stay Awake!

I'm running an experiment.

Frankly, it's a stupid idea, but I'm running with it anyways!

Basically, I feel a burnout coming on. I felt it coming a few weeks ago, and I fought it off with a feel good movie and some junk food.

But it's back.

And it's determined to sink it's claws into me.

I'm determined to fight back.

Basically, my theory works like this. I'm waking up feeling exhausted every morning, despite how much sleep I actually get. So, to counter act this exhaustion; I'm going to push it to an all out extreme. I'm skipping a night of sleep, just for shits and giggles.

By the time tomorrow after work comes around; I will have been awake for *counts on fingers* thirty nine hours. What does that equal for me? Instant pass out. The second my head hit's the pillow, I'm going to be sound asleep.

I'm pretty much pulling an extended Nuit Blanche on myself in an attempt to reset my sleeping schedule so I wake up feeling refreshed, and in that aspect, fight off the burnout again.

Oh yes, I make perfect sense.

To the picture! On the left we have- my OC Suka.

"But wait," You're thinking. "That looks nothing like her. She's wearing PANTS!"

"And of course, she's missing an important appendage and it's been replaced with an impractical prosthetic!"

Yes, yes she is wearing pants. And yes, she does have a rather stupid looking left arm.

"What happened!?" You demand angrily.

"Now please, settle down," I counter.

This is an older design I had for Suka. I was talking with my coworker, and I was explaining how the Suka everyone I know knows about, came to be.

See, Suka used to be two very different people. I had two stories, and I didn't know which one I wanted, so I took a different Suka in each direction. About a year or two ago, the strain of two separate personalities on one character was getting to me. I took my two story lines, hacked them apart and then put them back together as one.

The Suka that existed in a world where she was strong and independent died out in favour of the monophobic Suka who needed someone at her side to take care of her.

At all times.

I thought this Suka offered much more room for character growth, and to be honest, she appealed to me a lot more than the demon-hunter Suka who existed in a parallel universe.

However, I wasn't sure if the awkwardness of a strong-hearted Suka really was getting the point across; So I grabbed my pen and made a quick doodle.

And yes, everything about this Suka is wrong (she's wearing HEELED BOOTS).

I had to change quite a few things when I picked which of the two personalities I preferred, but, I think it was for the best. This universe also had a very different ending, that was incredibly cliche and lame.

Definitely came out on top when it comes to story, haha.

12:52

Annie

And Then, Annie Remembers She Has to Get up at Seven.

Oh well.

I'm here to complain about my static artwork!

Complain I shall.

I've been having difficulties drawing lately, burning out of inspiration, I guess. I've been trying to get back into the swing of things, because Fan Expo is coming up in a month; and I've done nothing art related.

I got the inspiration a couple of days ago, when I was talking to one of my friends about a particular character of mine.

Eli is a special race of demon; one that I haven't bothered to name yet. Eli's race is special because there are no females of the race. They consist entirely of males, and the method of reproduction is incredibly unorthodox; It requires a flat cliff face, a lot of magic, a really crude C section and a blood sacrifice of the mother.

Lovely, hm?

Anyways, I'm just looking at it, and I'm immediately frustrated. Why? Because it's boring to look at. Something crude and shocking is HAPPENING, but I look at the picture and I'm like... falling asleep.

What should be different? Well, he (these characters are not characters in specific, just generic demon/woman) should be leaning forwards more. There should be more anger in the motion than I managed to actually draw. And she should be reeling back a lot more. She's getting her innards ripped out, but she's just.. standing there.

I fail.

But! I'm kinda gettin' back into the drawing swing again! Granted, it's through silhouettes... but still, better than nothing!

I have to wake up in a few hours for work.

Out

Annie

12:40

I'm Currently Not Melting

Because for once, Oakville has decided to stay at a bearable temperature; Allowing me to sit in my room and NOT die.

And what am I doing with that chance? Scanning and typing and posting to RPs.

Okay, so to the left! This is a picture of Rebel, Ninja and Alleiah. This is probably along the point in the time line where Rebel is on the run, and trying to find a safe place for his sister. He brings her home, hoping their mother will look after his little sister- but, she refuses, too ashamed of her mistakes from the past.

Rebel is then forced to take Ninja with him and to try to protect her. This all eventually leads to his demise.

This is the closest I'll ever get to a family portrait of the three.

I used to think Ninja and Rebel were even players in Rise, but they're not. The story is all about Ninja, again following the characters growth and change. I'm so bad with epics- All of my stories focus on particular characters and the changes they go through as life goes on.

I think, at the base of it, I've really got two stories. Sure, I've got starts and middles and finishes and bits here and bits there, and occasionally a complete, albeit thready plot; But I think the only two stories I care about are these ones.

I usually feel kinda bad, because I don't have as many characters as a lot of my friends, since as far back as I can remember sharing stories- but the characters I do have, are very special to me.

Aaaand a really quick "I'm trying to stop drawing crap" scribble of Suka. She's not all covered up, so this is probably post-rescue, and shortly before her disease gets too powerful and she croaks.

Despite everything she'd gone through, she's still happy, though a lot more conscientious of the world around her, and much more independent. By the end of the story, Suka's finally figured out that she can't always count on someone being around to look after her. Granted, it comes by the overwhelming feeling of being abandoned- after living with it for close to two years, and wanting nothing more than to be left to her own suffering, she accepts this and can carry on with life like a normal human being.

And then Alan comes to save the day! Yaaay!! Which leads to even more excitement. I love writing.

2:32

Annie

Put in a Bit of Effort

Tada!! This is a picture I did for my friend Tara as part of a trade. It's her character Avery, and her characters other self, Geist.

In return, I get well endowed Tinette.

I had a lot of fun drawing this, but I started the drawing in ballpoint-- then decided to fly with it and finish drawing it in ballpoint and going as far as to paint it and clean it up and hand it to her. All drawn in ballpoint!

I really love sketching in ballpoint.

So, ballpoint pen, aaand water colour pencil crayons. I really love having these things on me all the time, it makes colouring things so much faster, easier, and readily accessible than it did before.

This- is an age meme. Oooo. Yeah, I don't know what got into me. I just randomly wanted to actually FINISH one of my age meme's. This is the third one I've drawn all the characters for; the other two were Tinette and Suka.

I had a lot of fun designing these- Ninja's one of those characters that's just really fun to draw, because she's always doing something, or always moving, and when she's not moving around, she's got such personality just in the way she attempts to sit still.

So yeah, crossing a gap of twenty years, Ninja leads a pretty solid happy-go-lucky lifestyle; right up until shortly after the age sixteen drawing- at which point, Rebel dies saving her life, and things get bitter.

Pretty impressive though; over the course of a few years she manages to organize one hell of a rebellion and completely topple the standing government. She goes down in the history books as being the liberator of Rise (a single building large enough to house several cities and is, essentially, it's own country), but she just disappears after assassinating the president.

My friend Tara asked me today about Ninja's blood line. It's pretty simple; Ninja was a illegitimate child and the product of her mothers irresponsible actions. When Rebels father learns the truth of his wife's pregnancy, he leaves. This clues Rebel in that Ninja isn't his sister; but that doesn't change his feelings towards her. Alleiah decides to raise the child anyways. That is, until she turns four and Alleiah realizes her illegitimate child has none of the gifts and talents of her people. Ashamed, she asks her son Rebel to take her and run away with her. He does, living a life of prejudice to spare Ninja that kind of life.

In a roundabout way, Rebels death is all Alleiah's fault, who refuses to accept Ninja as her child.

Fun times!

1:20

Annie

Or I Could Just Work on Brown Paper

Instead of constantly sticking it on paper stock.

But, I'm lazy; and I just didn't want to leave it on a white background.

I drew and painted this while watching Criminal Minds and Star Wars!

Yukio and Ninja don't actually ever cross paths, but I like pitting them against each other in pictures anyways.

Can you count all the bones I broke? Haha, Drawing in pencil wasn't working out very well, so I grabbed my ballpoint and went at it with that. I've gone on about how much I love ballpoint before, right?

I worked the sketch out in ballpoint and coloured it quickly with my water colour pencil crayons and my water brush. Nothing fancy, just playing around while I was avoiding my bedroom.

I also don't like it, because the poses (other than the fact that I snapped Ninja's neck) are static and boring, and not saying enough, as far as I'm concerned. I'll probably rework it at some point, but not tonight.

SO YAY FOR ME, DOODLEZ TIEM.

10:18

Annie

It's way too hot to be doing anything.

This is me being unable to actually stay off my computer.

Well, actually, this is me trying to draw something, failing at what I was trying to draw, sifting through my portfolio for idea's and finding a butt load of stuff I never bothered to scan.

So, I scanned it! Buahahaha, course. Okay so basically, I'm trying to see what happens when I put doodles on my blog horizontally instead of vertically. Click here for proper size, please!

On the far left, we have two pages of something I tried, got embarrassed about and stopped. I had so much work left to do, but by this point I'm probably not going to touch them again. I picked a scene from Rise, and I was scribbling it out in little pages and blew them up. I wanted to try painting them, to see how it all fit together, and in the end, I decided for something like this I'd much prefer digital.

Beside that, Ainmire! I miss his grumpy face.

The next one is probably one of my favourite doodles of Tinette ever, because it just kinda happened and looked good anyways.

The following three are a series, each one drawn after the last as I hated them and didn't think they were lively enough. Too stiff and boring. By the end, I got a pose I was okay with, but I'd burned out and didn't want to finish.

Ninja and Rebel, being sibling-y. I specifically designed Rebel to be everything his sister wasn't, as they were supposed to be complete opposites in every way, instead I just wound up with an insanely boring character; who's only concern is his little sisters well being.

Alan and Suka, a doodle I have no idea what I was thinking about or where I was going.

This was me gettin' into the pokemanzzz. And being epic fail at slowpokes, I had to ask Chelsea to draw it for me! I like drawing in ballpoint, and I generally wind up liking everything I draw while at it. I like drawing chunky things.

Tinette, in some winter wear, probably lined with real fur. I don't think she's actually effected by the cold, or she would be really really damn frigid.

Suka and Verden, shortly after Verden saves Suka from unintentionally almost starving herself to death.

And of course, Ninja! I don't know what it is about her, but I like her quite a bit. In real life, I'd probably want to kill her, but as a character, I care about her a lot. The ceaseless, hyper, never ending supply of energy that doesn't know how to stop talking.

I am going to try and draw again!

6:54

Annie