Also ouija finished

BTW
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hisashiburi

Weegee willies! (OUIJA..... don't mess with it!)
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Hoy polloy!

After a nearly month-long hiatus (1.5 month general illustration hiatus...) what is this? I feel like I might be back on track....

don't worry bout a thing

Des studio 4: catalogue...
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Erm yeah. My head hurts, I'm goina bed.

Kids With Guns

Another FB Profile, w. the susukino maid dress.
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WIP that shouldn't have happened with my todo pile, but... did.
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HURM waiting for my finger to dry so that i can keep typing. I wish I could just throw some crap together but I can't. Call me a perfectionist... and masochistic... at least class starts at 1 tomorrow!

Date Night

Things never go the way you plan them to, do they?
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A little something to get off my chest. This is why I don't do romance... too many extraneous circumstances, lol.

URHM BACK TO WORK.

Superfast Jellyfish

Illustration HW, reinterpreted...
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I don't quite think that's what we were supposed to do.

SIGH so far off the bandwagon that I can no longer see it on the horizon.

Sunday Work

US & Canada, of APH, and a skit from Colbert Report.
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| Julia, Tony & Enough Rope from the Aus electorate.
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Errr re-levelled this & added texture coz it looked a bit washed out...
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HRM been feeling very political this weekend. Finishing the last work on Adamo while eating chocolate, watching back episodes of Gruen and Chaser, unwinding from the spin with some Daily Show & Colbert Report. Thankyou IVIEW for making it all available at my fingertips!
I used to prefer John Stewart but Steven Colbert's done a few really good ones recently. They're both lovely, really. John should watch his weight.

HMM so I'm gonna teach myself to draw things that aren't cute, spongy cartoons at some point. Again. From scratch. Look forward to it!

siberian breaks

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

crying lightning

We Are Scientists - After Hours.
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:>

End of a long week!

I'm a bit of a cartoon.
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Yaknow, I'm kinda happy that way! :> But I do need a haircut. I promise you next time me and the last Miyazaki heroine will be INDISTINGUISHABLE.


While I work on toning the pages of the one-shot for Adamo, which is what's taken up my time recently, I can't help but get carried away in the back stories for these characters who appear for maybe 2 or 3 frames.
This must happen a lot to people... I spend a lot of time on it or thinking about it, so it sticks in my head.

Then, while I'm slacking off at work, stuff like this happens. *LOL*


Actually, it's really NOT...
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I kind of thought of Mr. Emohair confiding in possibly his only friend about his lovelife. In my mind, she somehow misinterprets that Emohair is sleeping with a HIPPIE STONER. Because she's a sassy little cat, she would probably say something like, "Oh you don't know where those girls have been. You might catch something."

PFFFFF

YEA I KNOW! X> I really really wish I could do the deadpan Too Cool face that they all have. I can't draw ppl without personalities. XD XD

HERE HAVE AN IGGY!

HYEAHHH
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I was so tired the other morning in class that I couldn't stop drawing bags under eyes. But somehow his face grew into this weird sleazy smile... enjoy your free cartoon cigarette, mr. Featherweight Champ!

Damien Rice - Delicate

And no you can't have my number, coz i lost my phone

Two different texture renders. 
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PHEW. Well there were a few things that I struggled with with this... actually, IDK, I feel like pictures aren't taking me nearly as long now (must be all my slave work toning, which I've selfishly done with the same splodgy style as I do everything else). Which is good! I make snappier choices faster & have a faster turnaround.

I decided to make that picture above mostly Green & Brown. That's the colour scheme of our family house (plus white) and I thought it'd be a nice change. I don't ever use green much, really... had about 3 pics in a row that were all blue-yellow? HYEAH.

Anyway I finished them in two ways, one with a halftone filter applied to a flattened version of the whole image, at 70% transparency or so, the other with the usual paper texture that I've been using lots of lately.
Problem with the paper is it just looks good multiplied, you don't want to use it any other way... and that means the colours get darker.
Not a problem with most pictures as my colours tend to be pretty light & vibrant (I err on the pastelly side if anything... coz my screen is quite dark.) But this one lost some of the whites that it needed, like around the lightbulb... so I did the halftone thing.

I really like the poster feel of old paper texture, but, idk, halftone filter is so much more vibrant. I was gonna switch the DA edition to paper just a moment ago but stopped myself.

HNMMMMM


What's been taking up 80% of my time? This. 
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Although, now that I know it's all that urgent, I'm open to not spending 5+ hours every day working away at it... work ethic! Don't abandon me now!

Now that the story is written, I keep having these ideas about how to expand/explore the characters and this is also bad. It gets to where you see more there than there actually is, and can't look at something fresh.

 ALSO! Sigur Ros is awesome.

ALSO! Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name is doubly awesome!

Leaving you with a quote from Dylan Moran...

Lady: Oh look at those men. One of them is trying to DOsomething...

BLAaaah!

It's one of those days!!

...but it is also CANADA DAY somewhere out there.



Happy Canada Day, eh.
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I really, really, really wish to find a way to make people pay me to draw them pictures. Instead of asking me for things, and expecting them. Coz, yaknow, these things don't take up time or anything. '__'

Espresso Coffee

Barista!
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I wanted to continue in the vein of my Chimneysweep pic, maybe make a series... so I thought a bit about what other professions I could cover. It's not exactly traditional or representative, but I couldn't help thinking of Coffee Baristas, people who make Espresso coffee.

It actually really surprises me that in America (and other places?) Coffee is just this filtered watered... thing. Here in Melbourne we (thanks to our Greek & Italian heritage) take pride in taking our espresso seriously, and taking it European.

The range isn't quite as expansive, the drinking culture is different and the names are too, but I gotta say... Melbourne makes a mean coffee.

These Baristas, the magic men behind their magic machines, are the epitome of the cool mystique of these hospitality places. I actually have 1 day's training in making espresso... steaming the milk and all that. XD So I know what it's all about, man.

Anyway. I inched away at it last night (while watching Gone With The Wind... I'm one of life's Scarletts *SIGH*) and more today but didn't have the energy to go to colouring stage.

LINK
LINK
LINK
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Some colour refs I'm hoping to use.

Progress~

bad photo... project in the works. :>
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WHOAH. Latest Hetalia fanart, finished shading & posted on DA.
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Shading (& typesetting) for an entire comic.
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So that's stuff going on, now that all school & work responsibilities have finally disappeared! I'd avoided my laptop parking station for over a month because it seemed a pain to use. I had a long hard think about what made my laptop comfy to use and rearranging things made a huge difference.
Also I can walk in and out of the room now without shelves in the way, as they're by the window now. MUCH better!

I want to er... start another blog... '__' project type thing. So far I've committed one ink drawing a day to it, so. IDK if I'll link it to this blogspot.

Elite Fours in Rocket Uniforms!

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I had a job in the great north woods working as a cook for a spell...

It's actually a bird, diving.
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Looks like a blue line in orange lines though, doesn't it? Problem: Colour theory states that warm colours are closer. But oh well... it needed to pop.

Also!



A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be~
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'scuse the double-posting. Haven't decided really how to separate postings, anyway....


SO SO SO. Term begins afresh in about 9 hours. It's terrible isn't it? even though I didn't get all the epic things done that I planned to do (due to a small case of SOCIAL LIFE and a large case of GAME/NET/WANGST getting in the way) I'm still kind of happy, sorta, kinda, discovering some stuff that I've seen people do and being endlessly fired up by the stuff I see out there. Mainly through being routinely made to feel totally worthless next to some uhmayyzing people! XD That's all good.

Butt hurts. Too much Tropes. XD gawd... time to sleep.

Autumn cold is here~

Autumn coming.
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No tablet. Facebook graffiti feature. :>:>

f

finally...!

chinese food indigestion

Gallipoli Aus!
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Baby Eng & Wales the monster kids
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Aus Outfits: Brunswick (Melb), Bondi Beach (Sydney), Roadworks man.
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Aus looking smart! Start of a sino/aus relations comic.
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NASU girl. Kind of based on Yume Nikki.
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Yeah. What I wouldn't give to have enough time (again) to do more than this... baaad underlit photographs of stuff that's going on in my lil' sketchbook and elsewhere. Am not dead, but perpetually engaged in homework. Shall be on my easter break soon though~!

Learning Japanese

Learning Japanese vocab
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Trying to remember my vocab sheets with the aid of hetalia.... lol. Probably it's not working...