Finished Buri Hamachi

Look at me, I'm on a roll right now.

I finished Buri Hamachi finally~~~

Video:

Aha!

I actually finished this a few minutes ago. 8D
I did this in 2 sittings, in a little under 10 hours total.
I've had iTunes on shuffle the entire time, and JUST NOW the first Immi song is coming up. Ahaha. Funny. I have 64 songs by her, and none of them played while I was painting this.

I'm very surprised and very happy with my result.
And it actually has a resemblance to her! :')

Here's the reference image I used: -LINK-

I don't know if I want to include this in my portfolio or not. I plan on having a Design portfolio, not a Drawing portfolio, so...
I guess I could include it anyway, even if it isn't very design-oriented. I could totally bullshit my excuse. :D "It's design because it's the DESIGN of her face that makes it identifiable to her fans." Pffffhahaha

This is actually the first time I learned what color her eyes are. Seriously. I'm a huge fan, but it seems like her eyes are a different color every time I see them.

She does not look like she's 32 years old. She really doesn't.

Please give me feedback~ I would love to hear what you think I should improve on!

Imogen

I'm doing a digital painting of my favorite person ever, Imogen Heap. It's kind of my first of this kind of art. I'm doing this all on one layer, which is something I never have really done before.

The bridge of the nose was the easiest part. ;_;
I have, admittedly, been using the eyedropper tool. Buuuut I don't think that matters because I think it's coming out pretty well.

Blah, I'll update more later.

New Camera + Old Art

Better quality photo of Starstruck from This Post.

Guess who just got a new camera ITWASME

It's a Sony (I love Sony), I don't know exactly what model. I don't pay attention to that kind of thing. But it's blue and it's amazing. The screen is absolutely enormous. I would take a picture of it but...that's kind of hard. Without, like, a really difficult arrangement of mirrors and such. I'd use my old camera but that bitch has been REJECTED.
When I turn off the flash, instead of making everything hella blurry, it just kind of...softens things. It's hard to explain. Here, I'll show an example.

Yeah, yeah, I have a huge forehead. I know.
This was taken yesterday without the flash. The thumbnail looks fine, but if you blow it up, you can see how "soft" the picture looks. Which isn't a bad thing, exactly. I really like how the colors came out. With my old camera, I'd be just a blur of grays and browns.

Well, here's some art that I couldn't upload because I had no way of getting a decent digital file until now.


This assignment came out very odd. It was a better idea in my head. The glass is too white and you can't even tell those are hands inside the hourglasses.


Here the assignment was to draw ourselves while we were drawing. Or draw someone else while he/she was drawing. But since I'm lonely and I don't talk to people, I grabbed a mirror and drew myself. I wear that same jacket every day. OTL


This was my favorite out of all the things I did during Intermediate Drawing. We basically had to gather up a bunch of knickknacks and arrange them with a good composition and draw them. Here I have a rubber duck, a candle, sunglasses, a sharpie, a magnetic bracelet, one of those backpack hook things, and a metal cat. Yes, a metal cat.
I liked this because it helped me see more things relative to what it's next to and to help learn to add details better.


For my Buri Hamachi video, I've taken a short break on that, but it's more than halfway finished. I'm almost done coloring all the frames. All I need to do is create a background and then arrange it in the animation.

I've started on my very first canvas piece. I'll post a WIP sometime after it doesn't look like a green sea monster (it really does). For now I'm off to play Sims.

Hello Fascination

Hey, there! Just updating with a thing or two.

The sketch for this drawing was made in early May. In College Algebra. We basically had like a week of free days. So I just cranked up Breathe Carolina and drew to them. The sketch was the result. About a week ago, I decided to finish it. I inked and colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Please note that I didn't know anything about anatomy and proportions when I sketched this. They are utterly hideous.
I have no freaking clue who these people are, they just came from my imagination. And I don't know why I dressed them in odd clothing. She's dressed for winter and he's ready for summer. And the color scheme(s) is(are) funky.

Inspired by this song: -LINK-

The background was inspired by the album artwork, and the drawing itself is inspired by the last 50 seconds or so of Hello Fascination, the "whoa-oh-oh" part. I have no idea why. My inspiration is few and far between, and from odd things. OTL


This is a (very, very rough) sketch for a drawing I'm going to do. I've already received a few suggestions on DeviantART, but I would still like to get as much critique as possible before continuing.
I plan to finish this on canvas with mixed media. Hopefully. *Gulp* I've never done anything on canvas before, but with the new supplies and stuff, I'm feeling confident that there's nothing to be afraid of. It's just really thick paper made of fabric...sort of...not really... >_>; I fail at making myself feel better... OTL

Let me know if there are any changes that could be made to make it better. :)

This piece is very special to me, as it carries a meaning that I feel very strongly about. I'll talk more about it when it's finished.

Buri Hamachi

I've seen a couple different versions of this video: -LINK-
Despite the fact that I have to get all OMG SUPER-HUGE SHOUJO EYES about it (I've been working so hard to get out of that style...), I think it's a good project to work on in order to get myself back in animation.
Obviously, it's nowhere near being finished. What you see is what I've got. I only have the lineart for three frames out of seven. So I just need to finish up drawing the frames and then color them. Then arrange it according to the video pattern. And upload it, and yay, it'll be done!

Eugh, I hate my digital art. Things would be so much easier if my version of Photoshop had the pen tool. ;A; But it doesn't, so lineart takes forever. Sob.
I may or may not decide to stay up late tonight to finish it. I feel like if I take too long of a break, I'll just give up on it. OTL

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In other news.

I just spent almost $100 on art supplies today. Correction, on canvas, an easel, and a portfolio tote bag. If the items were regular price, I would have spent over $200. But the art store (it was my first time going to this place, it's really cool!) was having a huge sale. Buy one canvas and get 2 free. How could you pass that up?

Even though I have 5 canvases, I haven't used any of them yet. ._.; I'm...kind of scared to. Two of them are the same size, so at least if I mess up on one, I still have the other one.

Oh, this easel I bought...♥♥♥
It's wonderful. I've never had a "real" easel before now. I used to have a plastic one when I was little, for my crayon drawings and such. ;)
This easel would normally cost around $80, but I got it for less than $50 because of the sale.


Sorry about the crappy photos. I plan on getting a new camera sometime over the summer.
(It didn't come with the canvas, btw, I just put it there to test out the clamps and such)

I love this easel so much. It's adjustable and it also has a little drawer on the bottom for supplies. :D

Okay, well, this post is long enough, so I'm going to wrap it up now and work on my Buri Hamachi. Bye~

Hello~

Here's some stuff, in case you didn't see them on my dA.






A hand study, Self-portrait (lol), Uhhh"Starstruck," and a charcoal drawing of strips of paper.

I just wanted to post something, I really don't feel like typing right now. .-.