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So here's another colour practice. I got a little too hasty with this one. The flowers were pretty badly done. I lost my focus for the stems, I suppose. Anyway, I hope I can become more productive... Like, at least one piece a day? ;__; I'm such a lazy bum. Music is totally pushing me on, though! Namie Amuro + Wheesung + Se7en power!

Oh yes, these little pieces usually take me a few hours. Perhaps 1 to 2 hours. All done on a single layer without the use of the eraser. Speedpaint? My reference photo was from Kristin Bradley on Flickr.

Oh, oh, and my boss brought the art team to a meeting with Imaginary Friends Studio the day before yesterday! -flails- It was so awesome meeting the artists in person and I got to shake hands with the three founders: Artgerm, Kai and Kunkka. My mood lifted quite a bit after this visit. :) Inspired by real people, indeed. I was a little disappointed I didn't bring any namecards to give in return to the ones I received. Oops. ._.

On another note, the weather's been rather odd. Thundering and pouring in the wee hours of the morning and going cloudless in the day. The sun's unforgiving rays can burn things right off the surface, I tell you. However, the grasses and trees are surviving. I enjoy the quiet walks to work every day. Sometimes, leaves rustle in the cool breeze. Other times, mynahs and sparrows hop around on the verdant grasses by the road. The sky can be so blue. I do miss the large expanse of unblocked skies I could see in Sydney though. The sky here gets blocked so often.

buruburu

Another sad little colour background practice... Oops, the sun is a tad dirty...


I think I'm slowly getting inspired to draw character art... Seeing so many awesome artworks by the Korean artists online is making my fingers itch more to create something new... I just don't know who to draw and I want to come up with more new characters of my own. I used to create characters by the dozens each week. What the heck... ._.

practise....

I figured since I have no idea what I want to draw for myself, I'd just practise on colours and stuff... Here's a little colour lighting practice I did based on one of the pictures of the model buildings from the animated adaptation of the musical CATS. I had my reference from Mr Hans Bacher's blog. :]
This was done wholly without picking colours from the original photo. x_x I've been guilty of picking colours from photos to colour my things because I'm lazy. Working off my bad habits, I kind of surprised myself. The histogram didn't turn out almost the same, but it's fun! I love the colours in this.

I've been going through his blog for the past few days, prior to attending his fulltime course I just signed up with CG Protege scheduled to start at the end of June. <3

And another try below, with one of Onixa on DA's photos for reference. She captures a lovely combination of colours/treats her photos very well. I love viewing her photographs because of the different feels I get from each.

Oh, and this poor girl whom I've been stuck on for the past few weeks. x_x I had reference for her awesome pose and it was originally full bodied, but I realise how she looked odd. Cropping seemed feasible. Is she holding onto a whip?! A baton? A baseball bat? What?? I think I'm procrastinating on this chick... Oh wait, her left hand is off. ARGH.

>> Listening to Namie Amuro's [ Best Fiction ] album now. She sounds so hawt. Well, I usually don't take English R&B well because the lyrics get way too raunchy for me (though sometimes it's unfortunate as the music is great on the other hand). Korean and Japanese work better as long as I don't search up the lyric translations. :x I suppose I go for music/beats/rhythms more than lyrics.

Health-wise, my sore eye is STILL around after more than a month. I just wish it'll go away NOW. Dammit... It's freaking me out seeing my left eye blood red in the mornings. =_= Also, I freak people out with my 'demon eye'... It's embarrassing. :(

fleur ange~

Feeling a little more artsy so I finally got around to scanning this lineart I did in January. Her head and hair were mostly done, just the body was missing. With help from my beautiful doll (a Unoa Zero), I had reference to draw her hand and stuff. :3 Unons have the prettiest hands of all dollies in my opinion.

So I messed around in photoshop with the colours and textures from cgtextures. :] I worked with a colour palette I created on Colour Lovers (though not stringently). I actually wanted to do a mirror image thing, but I've yet to try it out. Perhaps next time?

This image was originally created for Valentine's Day. ._. Rather late, I might say...

Updates~

Haven't had enough push to produce completed pieces lately... I suppose I'm stuck in an art block. :( Anyway, here are some gestures and little renders I've done with a mechanical pencil over the past few weeks. ._. The latest is the brooding statue I rendered earlier today. Wanted to observe more light/shadows and fabric folds. Badly mishapen hair on my part, I'm afraid... But I love spotting how light reflects on shadowed parts! It just seems so miraculous. -physics sloth-

End Earth character update

Woohoo, two new sketches of Ghos and Nyl's dad. Will be exploring more on the dad's look. This one still isn't there yet. Now off to cleaning up some storyboards. *Grrr... I.. suck at controlling the alignment of the pictures.

More colourful things

The latest work I did for a project at work. The original colours are more vibrant. :3 Was asked to draw three globes in a quirky style and filled with objects and each having one satellite dish. It was pretty fun to work on these. This above image is my own rendition using the original colours to showcase my work. The one to be used will be rendered/tweaked by the designer to fit the project.

Ah, have yet to scan in the gestures I've been doing. Do look forward for more sketches for the End Earth project from work. :3 I drew this sneering man in his forties and a handsome Indian mix guy. :D