Crazy sunset this evening, the end of the world never looked so beautiful ^_^

Flirckr photoset

Photoshoppy sketch! Not worksafe. I have such a tendancy to go straight to black, really push the contrast. Made a concious effort to keep the contrast down in this piece. I also tried to keep away from details, gave it more of a loose look.

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Yay to my friend, Phil, he gave me a bunch of new music (240 or so songs). I'm so happy, sometimes I forget how much good music inspires me.

I got a set of rapidograph pens; I'm really interested to try those out.

What else. Oh yeah, we made bagels the other day. Very tasty, I'm looking forward to trying some variations: mini bagels, chocolate bagels, herb bagels, bagel holes.

Totally in a baking mood now. Besides bagels, planning on making some french bread, wheat bread, cinnamon bread, tiramisu, cheesecake ... and probably other things I haven't thought of yet ^_^

I'm gonna take it easy today. Play around a bit and draw. In the evening we're gonna meet up with my mom to do the whole Harry Potter book line thing. I haven't read the books, but my mom is so excited, we thought we'd keep her company.

I downloaded the trial version of Painter X a few weeks ago, finally opened the thing up today and started playing around. Did a rough sketch of a zombie, then started working on the background. So far I really like the Pen tool, haven't seriously tried any of the other tools yet.

Need to start refining the sketch and then I'll color it. I have no idea what style I'll go for. Black & white, low saturation colors or what. Don't know what tool I want to color with either. I'd love to do Oils, but I think that'd be too much for me on this pic. Sorta want something simpler, but who knows : )



( Zombie In The City [WIP] )

Was practicing perspective today. Drew a background from the manga Soul Eater and threw in one of the characters (I love this manga, btw!).

Now I twiddle my thumbs while the single player demo for Ghost Recon downloads. Game comes out in a week or two, Pondy is getting it for me for my bday. Yay :D

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Finished two requests, only one more to go. Feels so nice to be drawing again!

Drew a pic of my friend Susan with /her/ friends ^_^

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I really haven't been drawing at all since I got home (from house-sitting). I'm bummed; I had so many projects I was working on! I've been putting all my energy into a new client and just haven't made the time to work on my personal stuff. Been feeling tired and haven't forced myself to get past that.

So!

Tonight I get at least one request finished (3 more to go, omg so late).

Think about a schedule for my personal projects.

In other news, we started watching the Battlestar Galactica series, pretty good so far.

I got nothing done yesterday, just had a hard time focusing. So today I shall create a to do list, as suggested by the pondy.

-Finish 2 requests
-Draw for at least an hour
-Do illustration/mockup for client cuz I need this job ^_^
-Work on anatomy study in Zbrush

Hopefully I'm not annoying anyone with all these drawble requests, but here I go again! Hoping to get a lot of drawing done this weekend, so hit me with any requests you can think of! Not sure what my internet connectivity will be, but hopefully I'll be able to post as normal.

Started watching FMA again, yay! I love that show. Watched the first episode of Kiba the other day, that was good as well. And rewatched the first episode of Girl meets Girl, so cute! and silly!

Did I mention I have a Uruhara hat? Pondy keeps getting a kick out of it, feeling like uruhara is following her everywhere (oh, I sorta have his hair right now too, so that helps).

I'm doing a second set of requests, the last set was so helpful...it really got me drawing a lot.

Any character, any fandom, character etc. I just ask that it be kept to a single character and no specific poses...that keeps the pressure/stress off and I can just have fun : ) Oh, and feel free to request the same character as before, I'm game for it all!

The first request is from my friend RandomButter. She asked for Koge-pan.

Thanks!