Left Hand Makes an 'L' Shape

And here I present all ten finished Ninja's! There's a couple anatomy problems here and there in some of them, but I was really happy with every pose I drew so I wanted to include them. I had to add two more because I didn't have a 3/4 back view; and I wound up with two I couldn't pick between, so I drew them both.

I hope Enzo likes them, he was happy with my thumbnails, so with luck, he should like these.

If you look really closely, you can tell when I recently had my puffers, because the lines get all wibbly wobbly. Welp, in a few weeks, the shakes due to steroid inhalers should be all gone, and my lines will smooth out again!

These poses were a real treat for me, haha. They were rusty at first as I tried to get back into the swing of things, but they picked up towards the end.

The first page (on the right) wound up fitting together much better in a design sense than the second page, but that's alright, I'm in character design, not graphic design.

Following, we have my twelve renderings of hands!! I love hands, and drawing hands always fascinates me. I like the way they feel and the way they speak to me, and never cease to be amazed at how they move.

Honestly, some days I could just stare at my hands all day.

Printed off on nice, clean matte paper, I'm very happy with these.

I also managed to fix up the contrast on my CRT monitor, so I don't wash out my red lines and rendering while I'm trying to work. It will also help with cleaning up my whites, because they won't be washed out to a point that I can't tell they're gray, haha.

These, are my foot renderings! Hooraaay!

Everyone I've asked so far has told me they like the feet more than the hands and that they feel the feet are stronger drawings.

That saddens me, but at the same time it makes sense, because I drew the hands while I was slogging to school and feeling not too hot, but the feet I drew after I got an extension, went home, got some meds and recovered some.

I'm going to drop these off at Thurmans desk tomorrow, along with a thank you note for the extension.

This is what I've been up to! Still have a few more things to finish, some layout work, gettin' started on my ocean curve tomorrow, got textures to paint, and some bones to draw... Just trying to keep up to speed.

Hooray homework! It never slows down. Despite that, I still don't get the feeling every animation student I know complains of; never sleeping, being stressed to all hell, and like.. in general havoc. I'm still keeping pretty easy, sleeping plenty, and not losing my mind.

Time management, something I never thought I'd be any good at!

Annie

9:21

Sporadic! Innit Wonderful?

Ta da, the results from my character posing assignment. These are all drawings of Ninja, a character I picked because she's insanely fun to draw and poses just about any way I can imagine.

This is what I was up till three in the morning drawing.

I don't have any varied lines, because I'm taking a break on those until it clicks a little better.

Gotta say, I'm not having the best few weeks. Came down with a cough a few weeks ago that just got worse and worse, and nobody would believe me when I said it wasn't a cold. I couldn't really walk all that great, I was short for breath, I got dizzy easily, I lost my appetite, and I was coughing so hard it hurt to breathe and my spine felt like it was going to snap. I thought maybe I had the flu, and tried to sleep it off, but it didn't work so well.

Went to the clinic, and was diagnosed with pneumonia and given a prescription for some medication. Continued to have a bad week, trying to get my homework finished on time while trying to deal with my symptoms. And I didn't finish my homework on time. I got a note from the clinic, and I got an extension. Awesome sauce!

I came home on Saturday, forgetting my entire family still hasn't adjusted to the fact that I don't eat meat. There's very little to eat in the house, and what I can eat, my brother eats before I can get there. Something with the elevation made my cough worse, which sucked, and finally, my mom dragged me to the hospital to get more medication, and chest X-rays.

Oh yeah, sexy hospital gown.

On the positive spectrum of things, I finished my project for character design, as can be seen above, my book page turn animation and I finished two of my cloud studies and I plan to finish the other three today. That leaves layout homework, painting homework, and life drawing homework. That would be three layouts, one painting and twelve drawings of feet.

Luckily the ocean animal animation got an extension on the deadline, so I don't have to worry about that this week, which is a load off my mind. Heck yes.

Tomorrow I'm going out to lunch with my friend Dickie, at some point I'll have coffee with my friend Meg, and tea with Stephie, somewhere along the line.

I'm feeling pretty chill right now. Had my new, really expensive medication (paying for it totally ruined my mood), ate something, and now I'm just chilling. Probably going to head downstairs before too long to do some more painting, but I'm going to relax up here for a bit first.

Oh Ninja, you lift my spirits to draw.

Annie

5:24

I don't have a sensitive hand.

I decided to try my hand at digital inking today! Only because I was watching Xena and my hand was cramped up from doing nothing but drawing balloons all day.

I didn't finish; I mostly got my key frames drawn and I have a bazillion more to add. I tested it on Sarah's computer and it moves HILARIOUSLY fast, but, she's lookin' good. If hilariously fast.

To the right, I have a drawing of Suka and Yukio! They're my darling OC's and my original OTP that I had to break up because of conflicting personalities.

I'm only realizing it now, but goodness, I made Yukio monstrously tall. He's rather short, about my height I'd guess.

But anyways, this is a scene from an RP I'm in with my friend Tara. Yukio finds Suka pretty, and true to my original story, he kidnaps her. Obviously, she's not very okay with that, and faints. After Freak steals one of her eyes. What a jerk.

I kind of wish they still wound up together; but after I changed Suka's personality so she was the more frightened of my two Suka's- and after I took Yukio's personality and I made him more flamboyant and whiny and jaded, they couldn't have worked. I couldn't even get Suka to the part in the story where Yukio is because of her changed personality.

Call this an homage, to the original couple. I'm working on one of Alan and Suka, because I recently redesigned Alan as well. I'm still working on his personality; he's too goody-two-shoes for my tastes.

Annie

1:46

Artist Frustrations...

Yesterday after class, I went to visit a third year animation teacher known as DQ.

He sat down with me, and patiently, on his own clock, for about forty five minutes, and went through my portfolio, one page at a time.

He offered me a lot of helpful advice, and now I want to redo everything in my portfolio.

I've never in my life been so torn between relief and frustration.

I was told, that as an animator, he liked my art. He liked my style, the visual appeal, my design (I still have no idea wtf that means), my clean up... He liked my art, which was incredibly inspiring and relieving, as everything I drew just for me he liked. All of my spare sketches and especially the one I posted the other day complaining about my bad posture, he liked.

But, the art in my portfolio, my rotation, my character design.. Was stiff, and lifeless. "Body parts stacked on top of each other," "all the pieces are there, but it's like they're not interacting together,". Tinette's design consisted of a lot of sharp points that I have to "watch out for, cause they're difficult to animate," and my drawings were, "Borderline illustrative,"

When I got home... I wanted to throw my portfolio in the air in frustration and tear into it and just.. eat it, really. Two of these I drew right after getting home, the first and the last. I wasn't quite in a drawing mood and was having a bit of an.. "I'm very shaken," funk. They didn't turn out all that amazing, but the one I added today, the middle one, turned out much better.

I would have downloaded better suited fonts... But I can't say I care all that much about this little doodle to do so.

So, at the same time that I'm happy and honoured that DQ liked my art and took time out of his busy work schedule to look at my art and give me his honest opinion, and not only that, he LIKED my art; I'm frustrated to no end with my portfolio.

Today was the premiere of our Artist Trading Card club; and it was great. A lot more people than we expected showed up, our snacks were eaten heartily, we watched a lot of movies, met a few new people, and all made ATC name cards for ourselves, as well as picked our themes for the coming months.

My themes are Persephone, Supernatural, Aliens and... oh yeah, Zombies. So exciting... I'm totally drawing a Sabriel zombie. I like Garth Nix zombies. Well no, they sort of scare me senseless, but I do quite like them.

I'm also doing a personal one on one trade with my friend Ksenia, who is going to paint Suka for me, while I am going to make her a postcard following the theme "Spring". I'm excited. It was wonderful to see her again, she's such a sweetheart and I missed her dearly. I'll be bringing her over for tea some tuesday when things aren't too busy... Which on Tuesdays they typically aren't.

She gave me this beautiful silver ring as a gift, and I was so shocked when it actually fit my finger (rings never fit my fingers); and I'm going to try and wear it as much as I'm able. I'm not much of a ring person due to the fact that I can never fit them over my fat knuckles... Ksenia even mentioned it wasn't much my style, but sometimes occasions (like a date) call for such things. Seeing as I'm not planning on going on dates any time soon... I shall make use of it as a ring so much as I can!

I still have homework to do, so I must go and throw together three stamp designs. Adieu.

~Annie

11:21

Blast it, I missed 11:11 again.

EEK! It's a familiar face!

Look who I drew!

My goodness, I have the hardest time drawing this girl. Just like Alan, I don't know her very well, so when it comes to drawing her, I don't know what to do.

I should think about her back story. Once I sort that out a bit, she'd be so much easier to draw.

As I was working, I was irked by how similar her and Tinette were, in terms of build. It frustrated me, and Kara just got a little rounder and little softer than Tina.

In an all out cat fight, Tinette would probably win, but definitely not for lack of trying. Kara isn't someone to be taken lightly; Though she has an over all happy disposition, she can just as easily open up a can of whoop ass in an instant. She has a tendency to overrun what people are saying (especially Ainmire), and takes charge of most situations. She's got a good temper, but can be hot headed as she's easily excited. And when she gets going, it's difficult to stop her. However, Ainmire has gotten very good at that.

Uhm.. Like I said, I really don't know much about her. I know she loves Ain with all her heart, and would do anything for him. I know he loves her, though he doesn't let on because he doesn't care for mushy feelings and he's very very very anti-touchy-feely, while Kara is a hugger.

I love her costume, as I mentioned before. Like most of my characters, she's lacking in any body piercings or tattoos, yet is pretty anyways. Ainmire was very lucky to find this girl! Even if he doesn't know it yet.

Hmmm, it's getting late. I should consider going to bed...

Out

12:55

Halloween on Christmas

I'm going to be late for my... not.. really mine class. BUT I WILL LEAVE SHORTLY

Just flipping through my old sketchbook, I found some drawings I made for Halloween and couldn't finish because I left the sketchbook at home. That being the case, here I have the two drawings.

This is Tinette! Duh. It was the first one I really liked and set me off on a huge spiel of Halloween pictures. I'm only posting my two favourites though, so yeah.

Tinette!

I like the black and white, but here's a link to the coloured flats!

Of course she's a playboy bunny. It suits her perfectly! She'd have no problem wearing that to a party. She's just awesome like that.

Neeeext:
Yukio. I love this guys character, but like hell I have any idea what's going on with my lines in its black and white like this...

I picked my practically zombie character and made him a zombie for Halloween. I'm so creative. fail.

So originally I had about four of these, but I like these two the best. Originally, I was going to come home and spend Halloween painting, so I could have them up in time to celebrate. Originally, each of the characters was going to have a certain pallet for the base. Yukio's was probably going to involve a lot of blues, greens, and yellows, while Tinettes was going to involve a lot of reds, oranges, yellows... They were going to be very very different, despite me using the same base for both. I had a hell of a lot of fun drawing the base, but by the time I was finished, my hand was cramping insanely and I could hardly move it. But still, I enjoyed myself and got carried away with details, and had I gotten the chance to paint them, they would have turned out awesomely.

I have to run now, I'm going to be late.

Tata!

Piggies Piggies Piggies

I'm sick of being sick.

Anyways, because I haven't drawn since like... last Friday, I figured it was about time I drew something.

I had an excellent opportunity to, as 2D design was my next class, and hey! I never pay attention in that class and generally walk out with at least one good doodle.

I'm still on a ballpoint kick. Don't worry, I'll get out of it eventually, seeing as I discovered today that blue ballpoint is a lot more difficult to remove than blue colour erase pencil! Wow, who ever figured that out?

Well, I could remove it, but in the end I decided I didn't mind having all of my gray pen lines on top of the colour.

I doodled Tina and Suka today, because I didn't have some clever idea for a couple picture. Well, I did actually, but still not having done any research on dancing my whole Tinette vs Yukio wound up not happening.

I like this design for Tina, I think I'll keep it, but work on her dress a bit. Or at least the lower half of it.

I adore the contrast between these two. In every possible way.

Spent the day attempting to dislodge my lungs by coughing! Almost succeeded in puking, but luckily managed to spare myself that embarrassment. Should be gone before long, I'm at the point where there's a butt load of coughing, but I'm not feeling as though I'm attempting to breathe up water with every breath. My appetite still isn't that awesome, I've taken in virtually no protein since I got sick, which means my energy levels are low, and I feel like a slob who sits on the couch all day watching Criminal Minds or CSI or Avatar or whatever anyone else wants to watch. I just don't want to move. Attempted to eat one of the enchiladas we made on Saturday, but I hardly managed to get down two bites before I clued in it wasn't going to happen, and now it's back in the fridge. Had a salad instead! Mmmm, veggies.

I'm still feeling very energy-less! Which is why I'm sitting here typing and I'm probably going to retreat downstairs in a moment and turn on the tv while I doodle my work for tomorrow. Or just doodle my characters.

Oh that reminds me! I'm going on an artist hunt again. Time to scour the pools of Gaia forums and look for a decent artist I don't mind paying!

~Annie

8:04

Let the Madness Ensue!

I got so caught up in Gaia's Halloween event, I forgot I wanted to post this.

I do have a reason for drawing something so stupid, don't worry.

But first, a summary of my not so awesome night on the town!

When I first arrived at my sisters apartment yesterday after lunch, I dove right in to start cleaning. Cause I'm awesome like that. Weeeeell, I could only go through boxes of stuff that belonged to my sister, and anything of James' (sssss) I couldn't really touch because he said he had to sort through it himself. Everything was piled into boxes that weren't obviously marked as "Misc" but were serving that purpose. I did my best to trash, sort and organize everything, but I can only do so much with only 50% co-operation. Though he did get more helpful as I stopped trying to rummage through his boxes and let him do his own thing.

In the end, we didn't get a massive amount of cleaning done, but we did make a very nice dent in the amount that was left.

We could fit my mattress in the living room, which is where I had to sleep, so that was a sizeable dent.

After cleaning, we took a bit of a breather and decided to head out to paintball!

Holy crap, I forgot how much I loved paintball. When we first started, I started to hyperventilate and had to calm myself down so I could actually play, but I was highly amused by the darth vader sounds I was making through my mask.

Until I got shot in the knuckles and I realized.... Oh dear, this hurts a hell of a lot more than I remember.

Turns out we got much more powerful guns than the ones we got back in high school at Sgt Splatters.... and James doesn't seem to believe in the whole "mercy" thinG, or the "DO NOT HIT YOUR OPPONENTS IF THEY ARE ANY CLOSER THAN FIFTEEN FEET!" rule.

During our second round of capture the flag, I decided to set up the riot sheild to act as my own portable protection. James had to get the flag, and then make it to our side of the feild. If he couldn't make it, too bad, Jesika and I won. Well.. He didn't come the way I expected, and instead of coming around the building in front of me with the flag, he decided to take us out and capture the flag when there was no one to obstruct him. He came around on my left, and I noticed him a second before he started shooting and managed to fling myself backwards into the buidling provided. I gathered my wits, and approached the window, knowing I'd have a clear shot of him through that window.

Didn't HE have the same idea?

We both showed up at the window at the same time. He fired first, I got off two shots before one pelted me right in the neck. My shots clearly didn't hit home, but the one that hit me in the jugular knocked me clean off balance. I tried to recover, but the pain was insane. I caught my heel on a skid, and went down. Lost grip of my gun, landed hard on my elbow, whacked my knee, and was still blinded by the tingling pain in my neck. It hurt so badly I was actually fighting back tears; but it was justified. He wasn't even a full three feet away when he fired at me, and caught me on completely unprotected skin. And then to top it off, I fell over. I was flat on my back for about a full minute before I managed to bite my lip and roll over, having managed to stave off my tears. I crawled to my hands and knees, gathered up my gun and staggered to my feet--

When James kicked the door down.

I threw my arms up and told him not to even think about it, I was so beyond out.

We had to take a break after that, and I have a nasty welt on my neck to show for it. It's even worse now, surprisingly...

However, in the rounds FOLLOWING, I climbed up to a second story platform and hid there for a good twenty minutes, waiting for James to walk into my firing range. And he did. Oh he did, and I got him gooooooood. Left a mark on his thigh. I also staked out behind a door, that James kicked open and failed to notice I was standing directly behind. He bolted through the tiny room I was hiding in, and as soon as I confirmed it was james and not my sister... I fired three shots, one that got him on the underside of his upper arm and the other that got him in the vest. BUT I GOT HIM OUT TWICE, AND ONLY SUFFERED TWO WELTS FOR IT. And a shoulder scraping and a knee bruising, but that was because I fell. Like a sack of bricks.

So paintball = Awesome. I don't care the injuries I suffered, paintball is bloody awesome.

Then, we went to the Madison. On Madison street. So creative.

I don't like bars.

I'm not going to go there.

I went home feeling sick.

Jesika has given up on the idea of me ever actually enjoying myself at the Madison.

Or any bar.

Ever.

So the picture!

My sister was watching me as I doodled Ain in his winter get up; because Ain's a stick in the mud and doesn't care for Halloween (Though actually he's fairly superstitious so would wear a mask on Halloween), and asked me if I could draw her. As an Amazon.

Of course I didn't want to, so kept telling her I'd get around to it, and coming up with excuses not to do so. Until we missed the train to Brampton and had to sit at Union Station for an hour and she started harassing me again.

BTW my sister and I don't get along very well, I'm going to put that in right here because she's being a nasty bugger in the other room right now.

So I started a teeny doodle, and I came up with something, but it was boring, so I figured I wasn't going to use it. I tried to think about what I knew about Amazons, and what I found fascinating about them.

I don't know a lot of stories that involve Amazons, except the story of Hercules, where he needed to steal the garter off the Amazon queen Hippolyta (This is the same Amazon Queen who murdered the random unknown 'Antitheus'; Ainmires accidental namesake) in his seven labours.

Well... then I started getting really funny ideas, because my sisters loud and annoying and angry when it comes to her boyfriend James because he's so much stronger than she is and can easily incapacitate her when she's trying to hit him or poke him or do whatever it is she's trying to do.

They also spend their spare time trying to scar me, which actually disgusts me but no matter how uncomfortable I am and make it clear I'm uncomfortable, they won't STFU.

So here, I drew my sister, the angry Amazon woman and James, the powerful and slightly amused Hercules. I now only have one page left in my sketch book, and have to sleep on the couch because my sister is horrible.

She claims she doesn't make noise when she sleeps, but BOY is she wrong.

She also kicks.

And in staying up late and typing this blog, I forfeited my rights to the guest bedroom.

Fan-bloody-tastic.

I'm going to be a nasty bugger MYSELF tomorrow, and hide in my room and play on my iPod. I'll emerge hours later to finish the Gaia event, and my SISTER can get landed on the couch.

She's so evil when we're around the family Dx or other people. Or anyone other than the company of us two. When it's just the two of us, I can deal.

Alright, I'm going to bed.

Annie out!

1:49

Fruit flies buzzing round my head, keep buzzin' round my head keep....

I'll keep singing to the tuneless song. Well it does have a tune, it goes to that song that's like... "Raindrops fallin' on my head, keep fallin' on my head---"

The other day while I was in the bookstore, I figured I'd buy myself a prisma colour marker. I already have a few of them, a bunch of varying grays, a green, a red... Fun stuff, but I saw the "sky blue" marker and for some reason it fascinated me.

I picked it up and decided to pay for it, the thought in my mind that I could use it to make achromatic drawings on top of my gray collection of markers. In my brain I was thinking I could start up a new style for myself as I got used to markers and started to build up my collection.

I'm enjoying it! To the right I have a couple sketches I drew tonight and coloured really really fast sketch like, just to try and get the feel. I also coloured a few of my older, cleaner sketches to see how it looked, and I've decided I want to pull out my green marker and try making achromatic drawings in green.

I also completely forgot about my gray set of markers and wound up not using them at all, but that's alright because I enjoyed myself with just the blue on top of all my messy lines and then my cleaner inked lines.

I was also experimenting with Tinettes design, and when I drew her hair I was like... "Ooooo, I LIKE this drawing!" It was supposed to be a doodle following the recent happenings of the RP, but I wound up liking the drawing enough to not want to destroy it.

My tea is incredibly sweet tonight.

I also was playing with eye styles tonight, because I just watched the Swan Princess and was like.. I want to try something ELSE for eyes! She just doesn't look... she looks far too like.. Eh, I wanted to give her more angular lines to match her angular face and her sharp personality. So for Tina, I looked up pictures of Megara, from Disney's Hercules to give me ideas for how I would pull off a more angular eye shape without looking ridiculous.

Also, something I noticed in the Swan Princess that I never picked up on before.. Adding eyelashes to characters eyes just gives them that much more depth. So when I doodled Suka tonight, I tried to give her eyelashes to look less flat and pasted on her face. AY FINK IT WORKED! Which of course, in turn, makes me happy.

Everytime I draw Suka now-a-days, she looks worried and unhappy. And is healed. I'm having far too much fun with this healed version from the RP, when in her world her disease kills her and she never really gets the chance to show off her face... Half a face is so hard to express emotions with! I like drawing her full face >< Oh well, I think I'll go and try to draw a happier Suka, and maybe play with my green marker, when I dig it up.

Tomorrow is my least favourite day of the week and I have the startings of a headache! Oh glorious.

And I am out! 10:25

Midnight Projects

I have really been having the most rotten string of luck lately. It has been a loooong seven days! Last Monday I crashed my bike into a bunch of bushes due to a dusty path and a lack of traction on said dusty path for my tires to cling to. They just skidded out from under me and left me with an interesting collection of cuts on my hands and a massive carpet burn on my knee. Oh and a sore shoulder, that too. I picked myself off the ground and finished my trip to school, needing to attend class.

I was stiff all of Tuesday, but I dealt. Wednesday however.. I got hit by a car that knocked me clean off my bike. I smashed my chin on the curb, picked myself up, prepared to continue on to class and had to stop because I was bleeding all over myself and hadn't noticed. Some witnesses saw me get hit and came over to help me; One of them called an ambulance and I was greeted by a lot of police officers and paramedics who asked me a lot of questions and took me to the hospital, even though I insisted I didn't have the time, I needed to get to class.

Turns out my whack on the chin was worse than I thought, even with the massive amounts of blood on my hands. I had to get three stitches put in, and tomorrow I get them removed. I'll have a lovely scar and had to stay home from Thursdays classes because I could hardly move, but my muscles are no longer sore and aching with every move I make; my worst injury is my chin and my knee (that I whacked again and the scab likes to split when I stress my knee too much). Within a few more days I should be right as rain!

Anyways, a doodle I made today during my lunch break. This is Rebel and Ninja, who I very much missed. Me and my friend opened up a new RP and I knew right away I wanted to use these characters again, as the RP I HAD introduced them to, died. I'll also have a chance to RP Yukio, though he's mostly going to be a plot device as he's too unstable and I can't control him on his own. He needs someone to obey.. and I think we've worked this out.

Right, so this is pretty much a process thing cause I had a large number of sketches for this idea.. I like drawing up inch tall thumbs of what I'm going to draw, generally just the bodies, maybe hair, props, clothes, but tiny things. I wanted to practice it on a slightly larger scale and then wound up drawing it to finish.. I don't normally do an actual mock up, but it happened because I got carried away. Then the final drawing, inked, cleaned up, flats and shaded. As usual I'm probably going to get bored and paint in that as actual painting, but I think I'd like to draw Tinette and whatever is underneath all those multiple multiple cloaks these two are wearing.

Posted mostly for the benefit of Corrin x3 because I know she enjoys things like this.

Haha! No, I don't feel any different.

Wow what a busy week!! I finally got something finished x3 Actually, I got quite a few things finished...

I've already informed everyone about my job, and this is what I do on my lunch breaks! I doodle. I work with a girl named Alysia (pronounced Alicia) and every day, weather permitting, we go outside for lunch. I draw, and she reads a book, and we don't.. really talk to each other at all XD because we're social like that.

Anyhow, the results of my week came up with these doodles, numbered in the order I drew them. I spent all of friday night and today working on colouring them, so I could put them up here 8D

I named them all, but yeah...

1. Suka. Because while I was talking to Alysia, she asked me if there was a character I drew the MOST, and I was like... Oh yeah! However, opening my sketchbook and flipping through, there were.. no pictures of Suka. which surprised me. Well there was one, but it was RP related, and after she got healed, which doesn't happen in her original story. So I spent the lunch doodling up a Suka that didn't come from the RP.

2. Ninja. You know, I've NEVER drawn a picture of this girl that I've liked =/ I'm not even that keen on this one, but at least I've finally designed her an outfit I'm okay with. Painted this to be a profile picture for a new RP I'm stepping into =] Ninja hasn't changed much from her original design, probably because I never settled on a design I liked. She always had short red hair, she always wore the ninja headband thing, and I never settled on anything for her. Except, she's always been insanely hyper and happy and treats EVERYTHING in life like a game. Leads to some tense situations, but whatever she can't take care of (she's very capable) Rebel can handle. Normally.

3. Rebel. I cringe whenever I say these names XD But there's no way I'm changing them because they were created around their names, and as lame as they are.. *Shrug* I'm still okay with them. Rebel has gone through three redesigns, this being the third. His first design was TERRIBLE. He had short short hair that stuck up everywhere, and looked like he was twelve years old. He also looked like a generic anime character. His second design was very good (at the time), however I was unable to ever, ever replicate it. He had red hair then, and orange eyes. Ah, and yes, he was human at that point. When I stumbled across an unfinished picture of Ninja in my file, I knew right away I wanted to use these two for the RP. Rebel has always been a deserter for the sake of his little sister, and the pair has always been parentless, but turning him into an elf made for a more interesting back story. It also let me change his hair colour and make him a lot older than he looks (I'm thinking he's 50-60 years old). And I'm very fond of his hair XD That I didn't change from his second redesign, even though that design was heavily anime influenced. Same style, different colour. Kept his clothes practically the same from his second design, though I scraped the short little cloak and I gave him longer sleeves and more practical gloves x3

4. Dailan. Another design I struggle with.. I don't know why, but I never feel compelled to finish anything I start with him. Hence the flats! I guess I just don't know him well enough yet. His design will probably change a few times before I get around to actually using him in my story XD

5. Kara and Ainmire! I wasn't going to move past the flats on these two... but I really really wanted to colour Kara! She's new, as I posted a few back, another design I salvaged from my file. Ain is Ain, not much to say there, except I can bet he's willing to do near anything to get Kara to focus on someone other than himself. These two were coloured really quickly, seeing how fast I could speed up the process without making it look like a slop. I.E. I was being lazy and I'm trying to make it sound good XD

6. RP Suka! It's nice to be able to draw her full face every now and then. Yeah, character with half a face.. is DAMN hard to express emotions with. So technically the pose she's in isn't really possible, but I liked the way it looked and decided to play the perspective card and not touch it! I enjoyed colouring this one a lot, and also made it my new Gaia signature. I don't know why I bothered XD I hardly post on Gaia anymore. I drew this after my previous drawing turned into a horribly messy scribble and I reverted to drawing something I was more comfortable with!

I like number three and six the most of this batch =] Probably going to start making this a habit, drawing all week then colouring them and posting them on the weekend. It's funny that I've drawn more during work than I did during that one week off I had at the start of summer. Every day when Alysia and I sit down for lunch she asks me, "So what are you drawing today?" which leads to a new doodle. I had three others I did't put up, because I wasn't feeling it. I'll give them a run again next week!

I started inking about two weeks ago when someone told me she'd love to see me colour something inked, just because. Well I tried it.. and I realized it saved a bloody shit load of time to just ink things right away. It also preserved the integrity of my drawings, not reducing them to awful smudgy messes, and even with my terrible scanner, they were that much easier to colour. I don't pencil things much anymore, skipping right ahead to my marker, still working on my line weights and such (though I'd probably have more variety if I used a larger marker, .3 is just too much ><) and have found a system that works very well for removing my blue lines. My next target is to actually learn how to use the non-photo blue pencil Xd but it's so hard to SEE, I forget where all my lines are!! XP. I'll work on that.

Saving up for new equipment!!

Also over the course of the last week, I turned 19 =] Nothing special, hell, I didn't even tell anyone it was coming because I kept forgetting, but when it finally came about it didn't end. On the day of my birthday, I got 18 posts on my facebook wishing me birthday wishes, Chris, Corrin, and Jason texted me, Alysia remembered it was my birthday from when she'd asked last week, and I came home and got cake and presents. The day after, I got belated birthday wishes from a few friends, and came home to a present mailed to me from my friend living in Sudbury =]. The following day, my grandparents stopped by to give me some money (and a candy bar, because Nanny thinks i'm getting too skinny) and we went out for dinner, all together. And yesterday, my dad bought me a bottle of mint chocolate baileys to mix with my hot chocolate. It's supposedly very tasty!

It was an awesome birthday, even if I spent it working and sitting at home on my computer.

Thanks to everyone who remembered <3 It meant a lot to the person who forgot it was around the bend =]

I'm tired

This is Kara :B

As soon as I closed the file, all of my exhaustion came back in one heavy hit and I'm tired again.

Anyways, I made it a goal to get better at inking things, and then.. never inked anything. Way to get better thar Annie *thumbs up* Also discovered that inking and scanning has just about as many benefits as just penciling and scanning x3 I really need some better way to scan my stuff than importing from paint...

Anywho, like I said, this character is Kara. I decided to include her in my story, because I forgot she existed and I need some more females other than the lead x3

Kara is from a really old picture I drew way back in July of 07. I drew this picture when I first created Ain, and just assumed he was a total playboy. He seemed the type, but it turns out I was very very wrong. I took her outfit from another character design from a story I did nothing with, and decided the lead for that story was undeserving of the nifty outfit I gave her.

Kara was nobody important, just a hanger on, a floozy, a blonde, and a slut. She didn't even have a name.

THIS Kara is much much better, she's high energy, very in your face, laughs at just about anything remotely funny, and spends endless hours teasing Ainmire for whatever she can come up with to tease him about. She loves Ain, Ain doesn't reciprocate, but that doesn't stop her from constantly expressing her feelings anyways. She's got a big heart and Ain's rejection doesn't get her down, because she knows that deep down he DOES care about her.

In his own special way :B

Oh, and she's got a spitfire temper. Ain's the level headed one in the relationship here >...>

TWICE IN A DAY?! lozer...

THA'S RIGHT, I'M POSTING AGAIN TODAY

So I was sitting here colouring this thing up
quicktime.. and I was thinking about how I planned to get the file to my sister, who was not online, but in bed sleeping. I'm running options through my head, I could upload it here... Where she would eventually find it.. or I could upload it to photobucket and offline message her the link... Oh but damn, I really wanted to give her the file =/

I'm thinking to myself, "Isn't there some way to give someone a file without them being online?"

And it hit me...

"Yes you stupid shit, It's called E-MAIL" *face/palm* I seriously question my intelligence some days. Today is one of them.

ANYWAYS, my sister asked me if I could make a cartoon of her for her. This wasn't the background I was planning on using, but HEY, I'm so smart I shut down photoshop before I was finished and didn't save the psd file.

Greeeeeeeeat, hope she likes the red and purple dots.