Persistance is key!

Stupid headache.. Hasn't given up all day, though I've had advil and tea and anything else I can imagine to help. Had a nap and everything!

So here's today's picture! I was thinking about drawing Ain for a while, and i was thinking about what kind of clothes he'd wear in a modern setting.. after all, you hardly see guys running around in kilts in this day and age.

Shame.

Anyways, so I'd been thinking about it for a while, and finally I got around to drawing it when my friend Sarah thought it would be funny to make fun of Ain... by turning him into Marilyn Monroe.

PFT real men wear kilts. I don't care WHAT happens in the process of wearing them!

Though I did find it extremely amusing.

Sarah and Leah were beating up Suka today D=> bullies.

Anyhow, still fooling around with cell shading techniques and stuff, I was going to colour the lines up all nice and pretty, buuuut something went wrong in the photoshop process and I lost the chace x3 No biggie, I don't really mind black lines anyhow. Lame background, just so he had something to sit on ><

I forgot to colour his scars AGAIN, and uh.. apparently his right sleeve just vanishes somewhere. Cooooooool.

Not a fan of my new sketch book, the pages are slightly textured which makes everything I draw look a bit.. weird, to say the least, and it's slightly larger than 8.5x11 to make way for easy tearing out of pages.. also makes it fit not so great on my scanner. So nuuuupe, not a big fan XD I'll work with it, maybe I'll grow to love it. Or chuck it and buy another one.

HURRAH ME

I'm probably going to go to bed early tonight if this headache continues as it has.

Cornered!

Okay, so Uhm.. I think it's a pretty damn safe bet to say I didn't get into animation.

Couple days have passed, and now I don't feel like such a loser!

Still don't feel all that hot, but whatever, I'll deal. And I'm dealing. And my friends are awesome and supportive and amazing and uh.. not letting me feel like a loser =P

SHOCKINGLY;

I am still capable of drawing.

Which surprised the hell out of me, considering last year when I got my rejections, I was unable to draw for well over three months. I do remember that very clearly.

ARTWORKS tralalalalala *uploads*


And here we have it. I actually like it, even thought the anatomy is very wrong x3 Okay well the anatomy isn't even that bad, it's just a bit skewed on the right shoulder there..

So the story behind the art! I'd had a nice lovely hot shower, and while I was in the shower.. the sun set. What a surprise. I walk back to my room and sit on the computer as I brush out my hair. I don't bother to turn on the lights, cause.. well E-Vain is kinda bright. So I'm talking to Sarah, and telling her about this pill bug I was oh-so-lucky to step on when I got out of my shower. I'm chatting, blahblahblah, when, I notice this thing in the top left corner of my screen. I pay it a little mind, and realize it has multiple little pointy legs and is doing that creepy thing spiders do when they climb back up a string of webbing.

Spiders are cool, don't get me wrong, I like the creepy crawly nasty buggers, cause.. Well they eat the OTHER creepy crawly nasty buggers I really don't like. For the most part, when I see a spider, I leave the dude alone. On my computer, nothing but a black silhouette in a dark room?

Yeaaaa-ha-ha-haaaaah.... No. I gave a really odd strangled scream and pushed back from my computer and staggered to my feet, throwing my brush off my lap and somewhere across the room, tripping over my chair, finally managing to turn on my lamp and spin back to my computer.. and the bastards gone.

GREAT.

Guess where he was hiding? He was hiding in the little golden christmas bow I'd stuck on my moniter in December and never bothered to take off.

Jerk.

So I'm standing there, wondering how the heck I'm going to kill this thing, when my brother comes up, presumably curious as to why I screamed and caused such a ruckus. I tell him to get the spray, and I get a piece of paper, the idea that we were going to douse the ribbon in spray, and the spider would fall out in all that wonderful shrivelled curled glory that IS a dead spider, and I could throw it away.

Didn't work so well. The spray was apparently broken, so I was like.. okay, cool, I'll just reach over, detach the tape that is holding the ribbon onto my screen, and then we can stomp the shit out of it. I detach the ribbon, it falls on the paper, and the thing scurries out, and beelines it directly for me.

Gave the funny high pitched, "Oh, oh oh!", did a funny dance move, waved my free hand like a dofus before i realize that I'm still holding the thing and dropped the paper. The spider was then on my floor, so I promptly clambered away from it, right up onto my dresser, where I perched and yelled at my brother to "KILL IT, KILL IT, NO NOT THAT WAY, KILL IT!!!"

Eventually, after a lot of frightened squeaks on my end, spider became a damp splot under a piece of tissue paper on my floor.

Squish-dead.

Tada, story behind the art!

Fun fact, the ribbon the bastard was hiding in detached itself from my screen as I was sitting here typing. Heart skipped a couple beats, breath caught in my lungs, and I managed again, "Oh--!" and some frantic hand waving before it clicked that it was nothing more than ribbon.

Jerk spider!!!

I love boars

So, today was yet another crappy day >< It's just a spiraling chain of events, I'm telling you. Thought I was feeling better yesterday, being all productive like at the shop, then I woke up, came to school..

And some assface swiped my pencil case.

I'm not totally broken up about it, more pissed than anything (I was at the point where things ceased to be upsetting and just got frustrating), but I lost a bunch of time wandering around the LC looking for it, ran to security asked there, went all over the place, and no dice. Turns out honour isn't as prominent in college as I thought it would be.

Anyways, I considered going up to Andreas, but I was like.. where's the point? So I proceeded to go to first period, and.. sit in the hallway for some stretch of time.

Sarah showed up, and handed me this http://www.illustratedatcs.com/forum/gallery/index.php?n=11400, that she made for me to cheer me up.. and it even says on the back "Made just for Annie," and it worked. I was looking at it periodically through the day, because I damn well love boars and it made me feel really happy that she'd gone through all the effort of making it for me, specifically to cheer me up. I still feel happy thinking about it x3

And then Andrea showed up, who I explained why I hadn't come to see her that morning, and she hands me one of her gouache comics.. the one from christmas where she THOUGHT she asked me to close the door in proper english, but really just mumbled nonsensically at me where the only word I could understand was "Yes!" And I had a good chuckle over that. She also pulled this spiderman notepad dealer that she had brought back to toronto from home, once again.. just for me.

So those personal surprise presents this morning made the day that much more manageable with me having gone and lost all my stuff.

Anyways.. the artwork of the day.. I got this idea the moment I used the word "Piglet" in the RP Sarah and I run together. Ain doesn't like PEOPLE, but animals are a different story. It was kinda neat how I was working on this in the LC (where my pencil case got nabbed), realized I didn't know what to do with his arms, and went to class, where Sarah handed me the baby (Baeddan) boar ATC, and the little connection i drew there made me happy too.

Ainmire is now left handed (because I keep screwing up when i draw him), his scars are now the result of a run in with a Chupacabra (yeah.. screw you bear), Baeddan is seven years old, and Ainmire raised him from an itty bitty piglet when he was sixteen. Hence the reason the two get along so well!

Naaaaw, boar piggies...

Anyways, I was supposed to be working on my post >< But I think I'm actually going to do what I promised and go to bed early tonight...

8:21 Is a lie

Next time I set my own alarm to prevent waking my friends earlier than necessary... remind me to make sure the clock is current on daylight savings. Woke myself, and Sarah an hour earlier than necessary this morning.

I figured, no big deal, I'll catch the earlier bus!

The 8:21 bus i was banking on, apparently doesn't exist.

I just.. hurt something in my arm.

Alrighty then, a doodle I drew on Wednesday morning, during tea. I've settled on horns, cause they are fun. My two characters, Suka and.. Unnamed-as-of-yet. Pretty much lifted this scene right from an RP I'm in, because i had fun writing it and I think I'll have fun drawing it. When I get that far.

Still working out arrangements for saturday. It's sitting on either I get picked up in Brampton before six on saturday, or i spend the night at Chris's place (if the invite is still there) and get picked up sunday morning! Either way I'm good really, I'm just looking forward to a day in TO with my friends.

Hopefully I can finally check out that vegetarian restaurant on Oxford street I've always wanted to look at, but of course.. I'm always with the family and don't get the chance >< Brother sees "Vegetarian" and freaks out, unless it's on pizza.

Right then, I still need to hit up the bank and talk to my mom and dad about weekend arrangements!

Gonna have a shower and go play billards with the family. Wee!!

First art post 09!

Okay so technically it is not, but it is my first art post HERE of 09.

So weeee!! i was playing around with my new red pencil thinger (even though my dad bought me like.. every colour of the rainbow, including green) and i doodled.. Suka, again. So much as i love her, i really need some more ideas to doodle X3

So i wanted to try out this colouring technique my friend showed me yesterday, which skips the whole inking step and you just colour the original sketch, which i thought was rather nifty.

So.. i want to try and draw something every day (cause that totally wasn't my goal in the first place) so here i am with my first doodle. And hey, i coloured it! Much happier with my painting style now than i was last year, guess i was just trying too hard. too many shades and colours and eeeeewyness. Went back to school yesterday, and man did it feel good X3 after a month at home with my family, that really was great to see my friends again, because i missed them a lot. It was actually rather depressing that after a month away from them, i finally get to see them, and then just a few short hours later, I'm on the Go, heading back.. home.

I feel traaaaapped here!

Gotta move out @_@ for real. Not that i don't love my family, but.. this town just seems so stifling.

Anyways, got some portfolio stuff to do, a script to attempt to write, so.. I'm out!

Keeping in touch

So.. I am on yet another journaling site! Wow i thought i sucked at this sorta deal. So pretty much, I joined blog spot so i can drag over my friends who are moving away, and this is kinda going to be our way of keeping in touch =] Seems a good day to start, a sunday and all.

So, now to send the link to my friends and set up some sort of updating schedule, so we can all keep in touch and know whats happening in everyone's life =3