These headphones rock.

Really, these are the best headphones I've ever had in my life. I take them frickin' everywhere.
When I was inspired, I think I was listening to "In The Dark [Tiësto 2010 Remix]" by Tiësto.

Yes, I have sunflowers on my wall. :]

I'm also making a speedpaint video for this. I'll be using the final painting as my ID on dA (I've needed a new one for a while, and all my past ones have been photos of my face. I figure it's time for a little bit of variety 9v9).

I live in my dreams.

Here's a WIP. I've been working on it for a day or two.
Basically the idea behind this is inspired by the music video to "Must Be Dreaming."

"Must Be Dreaming" was the first song that I ever heard of Imogen Heap's. It's easily my favorite music video. I listened to that song on repeat for weeks after hearing it for the first time. For this, I must obsessively thank my friend Clancy, who introduced me to this song. It kick-started my fandom (or obsession as many would call it 9v9) with Imogen Heap. Oh, my goodness. This song brings back so many great memories~

I still love this song, even 3 years after the first listen.

This particular digital painting is inspired by the part at 1:50 (music video) where she opens the door with the fish, etc etc.~

Someday I kind of want to do my makeup like she has it at the end. ;w; Just because that would be awesome. I'd walk around with my eyes closed and people would think I was looking right at them ahaha~


So yeah, I was doing a bit of this on Livestream.


Oh, and, uh.
I never mentioned.

I got a new tablet.

;w;
I finally got it last Wednesday. I. LOVE. THIS. THING.
Seriously.
I wasn't sure if there was really that big of a difference between my Bamboo and this intuos4 that I have now, but ask;ldfjdlaskf it's SO MUCH BETTER. Omg it's amazing. Really.

So hopefully I'll get this painting finished soon.

Pixel practice.

I want to do more animation. :I

I'm almost ready.

Project #4 of 5 projects for school work. It's about halfway done.
The ones I've decided to include are:
- Imogen Painting (digital)
- This
- "Eyeclock"
- Book Project
- Self portrait

I think this provides enough variety just in my summer work that I should be able to go in whichever direction I decide to go. I'll be doing my self-portrait on canvas with paint (gulp).

My portfolio needs to be whipped into shape. I think I have a good foundation, now the next step is to build upon it.

I'm terrified.

Please hold me. ;_;

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.

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

asfj;aslkjf;lsj


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~