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: New logo for the new year : More than a week late but still good Wednesday, January 13 2010 So I wasn't too pleased with my last drawing, and when I can't seem to get something right, I draw Cilvia. Cilvia never lets me down. My only major concern here is that she looks a little too young. Other than that, this is what Cilvia looks like. I think she turned out right and I think the water sprite that I have been putting off for so long also looks pretty juicy. I could have kept going on him, but I think I would have ruined it soon after I stopped here. As for the subject line, this drawing was practically done last Monday. I had numerous computer hardware issues to deal with over the past week and I would like to say that they are now resolved. Well my new video card likes to drop me out of dualview mode when I turn my TV off and I had to reinstall my tablet driver BUT OTHER THAN THAT I think I can be happy with drawing again. My next piece has 9 characters in it. Still not breaking the Valkyria record, but it's damn close. : the last time this year, i swear! Tuesday, December 29 2009 My initial concept for Luciliae was very simple: -glasses -blue hair -sort of alien-looking Just about every time I drew her, I had strange animal/elfish looking ears and I always hated it. I never wanted to make her look like a furry...but then I saw Avatar! If James Cameron has taught me nothing else, it is that aliens are furries. So this time, finally, Luci has special ears. ![]() That's a whole lot of build up for a whole lot of nothin! I would love to be able to animate sprites day after day, but I just can't stop illustrating. Maybe I'll post the pre-sprite animation for what I am currently working on. I had to take a break from sprites because I wanted to draw Luci again. Overall I'm not even sure if I like it. I want her to have some kind of face marking. : Zetch is crouching again Friday, December 18 2009 So after I "finished" Tomoe's stance, I realized how much I wanted to fix Zetch. I changed a lot so I had to go back and redo his crouch animation as well. I added some more frames and just touched it up in general. The left one is the new one. ![]() I have an idle animation for his crouch in mind, but I'm not sure if I want to do that now or move on to his stance. : Takin a little break from sprites... Wednesday, December 16 2009 "Blue Girl" finally has a name. I decided I wasn't going to force a name on her since she is not part of Rudra and the less I think outside of Rudra, the better. So here's a quick (for me) portrait of Luciliae. ![]() That's loo-SILL-ee-ay in case you were wondering. Hell, I was. I had to look it up! Her name comes from the flower "Glory of the Snow." It's quite possibly the manliest naming convention I have ever used. Here we see Luciliae barking orders to her subordinates on an airfield on a planet far, far away. I'm just going to call her "Lucille" for my own reference. : MORE FRAMES Wednesday, December 9 2009 I wonder if updating with little sprites like this makes my site a little less interesting to look at...oh well! ![]() *EDIT* The image on the left has 8 frames. The one on the right has 12. I'm going to be honest, I'm mostly posting this here for comparison's sake. The skirt seems to be bouncing a little oddly. : some more progress Sunday, December 6 2009 I decided that before I got into the heavy animations, I wanted to get the 2 most important characters down first. I started working on Tomoe's stance. She is always listening to music and always dancing. I hope to have double or maybe even 3 times as many frames in her final stance, but for now this is the meat of it. ![]() : Here's what I've been up to... Sunday, November 29 2009 ![]() Originally I had a stance, but I decided to fix him up and I like the look above much better. Here's that stance: ![]() : Aegis and leaves, together at last Wednesday, November 11 2009 To celebrate Martin finally giving me the Persona 4 t-shirt he promised me a year ago, here's some Persona 3 fanart. ![]() I always feel like my backgrounds are too blurry and sloppy, but I also use them to make something a little more "painterly." I'm not sure if this is really final but man that's a lot of leaves. I think the face looks a lot better when zoomed in completely. : Get a haircut! Thursday, October 29 2009 Looking back on my first major attempt at Painter while working on this next piece really shows how far I've come. ![]() Everything about Tomoe is big. Big hair, big zippers, big attitude, and most notably...a big heart. I probably spent a good third of this drawing just working on the hair. I don't think I'll draw her hair down next time. I like how it came out though. I'd like to think every drawing I do gets a little shinier. |
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