Long and busy weekend (included studying for GMAT exam blahhh), so just tiny little updates today. Worked on shading and backgrounding for my wee comic page. Lots of problems that I can see, but I've redrawn the damn thing 4 times already and I can't just roll around on it forever. So long as I learn from it I guess.



And the friday daily sketch thing was an 'overweight pink devil with baby blue horns'. Everyone else chose a male character. Again, mine turned out silly, and not finished (because stipple can go stuck it), so I kept it to myself. >>

Yesterday was an insanely busy day at work and then I came home and my raid was like YAY ICECROWN so no I didn't produce anything worthwhile at all.

Mwahahahaa I am ashamed. Oh well.

Stupid comic thing that worked better in my head and...



well there was a challenge in one of the other subforums to draw a beast with a giraffe head. I think mine's more of a neopet.... I wasn't sure they'd appreciate it in the same thread as their monsters so I'm keeping it to myself >>

LAST NIGHT I WAS TIRED OF EXISTING. Seriously I got home from work, ate ramen and crashed into bed for 3 hours. I don't even know why 9.9

Sorry it's nothing good. Maybe tomorrow ._.

Oh.

Uh.

Spoilers? lol

I get distracted easily. Sorry.

I went back to some sketches I did earlier and worked towards finishing them up. Only expected it to take half an hour so of course I was at it all night. Most of it went into.....Malloryyyy.



Then I was like 'gee I wish I understood the anatomy of this thing' which is quite difficult when I don't understand anatomy of anything. Try not to think too hard about it.



And next in line in 'things that I owe people', a character belonging to someone with a heavy anime/manga influence. This is mostly me trying to figure out how to draw his hair (it's really...something else). And making fun of my flailing.



Then I was like 'I can draw comics' even though that's a dirty lie.



And then a drawing of Emily that's far too static and blah for what I wanted to use it in, but it's ok for screwing with colors I guess.

You can't make me draw relevant things!

Though I do like it. See if I can finish it tonight, since I was told I need to work faster. >> lol

Well I'm back from vacation, and my boyfriend went home, so I have stuff and space for my scanner again. Hurray space, boo end of vacation and missing boy.

Had lots of time yesterday, so I sat down and finished the blood elf, on the prompting of an unrelated third party. It's ok. There are pieces of it I don't like now, the morning after (like the figures floating in the back, lulz), but really it needed to be finished, so now it is.



What I really wanted to work on last night and couldn't because of the belf. Made a quick compositional sketch idea before bed. Really like it. Maybe I should do a painted and a vectored version.



We were stranded in the airport for 8 hours thanks to your friends and mine, Delta Airlines. I'd bought myself one of those cheap crayola watercolor sets, for lolz. To keep myself busy I painted a little girl who was playing with a little farm set nearby.



Had another compositional idea, for a sort of fawn thing. And then it got weird. Didn't like the end result enough to even clean it up, but I like the idea anyway.



Scribblings that may amount to something, I'll see if I can piece it together by the end of the week.




Another compositional idea, with some very harsh perspective. Not sure if I'm that brave. Sorry if it's just a jumble of lines to you.



And gestures! Because dammit, more gestures. I still don't know if I'm getting any better by large leaps and bounds, but they're kind of fun at least.

Today is some more gesture. I think if I'm being consitant this brings the total count up to 360? I guess I may as well try to press my way to 1000, huh. Still bad, but that's what I get for ignoring life for a week. I lost my purple sharpie. I guess the dark blue looks too much like the light blue. Will find another color next time.




Complimenting me for not making Emily a twig will result in a morally and anatomically ambiguous Mallory. Also I finally got Emily into that stupid pose I've wanted for a while, entirely on accident. And I suck at men. YAY.



And brainstorming for an idea. Basically, how does one make an earwig cute? Well, big beady eyes, sheep fluff, and a bow, duh! Those pincers are for a-huggin now!

Because it's totally relevant to everyone everywhere, I made a mess of my notepad at work and was like 'oooooh'. I think I have a use for the result. HA.






Also more gestures. I still really suck at them. Who'd have known.

On the upside I'm more confident with sharpies. So I scribbled out a bit of an idea. One's sort of a basic splot of a moon environment, the other's a quick light study from a photo taken of Buzz Aldrin on the moon. You do not fuck with Buzz Aldrin. He punched someone in the face in 2002 for calling the moon landing a fake. Bad. Ass.

What an amazingly unproductive weekend.

(hey, you know it's going to be a good day when your sole source of joy is your first dentist visit in five years that ended in a declaration of no cavities and perfect floss technique. lol)






Why do I always forget this?
Today's inspiration:

http://www.remindblog.com/