der fahrstuhl ist sehr bequem. (: nicht!

Title translation: "The elevator is very comfortable. Not!"

The only logical reason that I can think of for that title is... well, my friends were making fun of the German word for elevator, "fahrstuhl", which literally means "riding chair", and their little song is stuck in my head. Ohboy. D:

Anyways. I'm in a pathetic art slump right now, so it's like... grawr. I can't draw anything half-way decent, but... I gotta go to a theme park tomorrow, so maybe I'll grab a huge purse and my sketchbook and like... go nuts. Lots of people having fun there, right? : D<3 And I'm not going on -any- rides because I discovered about three summers ago that I do not. Like. Rides. So I'll be chilling with Sarah on the land down un-dah!

But! I do have stuff for you! XD
A Gale doodle. Is all. :< Disappointing, I know.

Otherwise, Jordyn and I were looking around for actors that we could giggle about being our OCs in some sort of movie or something, and I found a -perfect- Ria reference. Reika Hashimoto is my new hero, man. I printed out a few close-ups of her face, but like, my block is like, "NOPE NO REFERENCE FOH YOO!" We also talked about Jared Leto as Vlad and... Cillian Murphy as Baron, and we've yet to find a sick-looking bastard for Sygro.
And Ria still refuses to talk to me. D: She's in my head, she's awake, but she's pissy. :< Poor dear. I do feel kinda bad for torturing her, though. Only for the rape bit. Everything else was coming for her and her big mouth. D:

ich weiss nicht meine kunst.

Title translation: "I don't know my art."

Gods, my 2-year-old German grammar is so pathetic and dramatic, I think it's the most hilarious thing ever. XD I just try to pull together words I know to make a coherent topic, I swear!

Anyways~
I've been doodling a lot lately, mostly like, face stuff. Eyes, noses, lips, and I've recently moved on to eyebrows. Semi-realism is so cool in so many ways! Like, instead of big-eyed "cute and pretty" (Janice knows.) characters that all look the same minus maybe some body things and hair styles, you can experiment and make people awesome. XD I love awesome. Awesome kicks ass. So like, this is what I've figured out so far about myself.

• I don't like drawing the upper lip. At all. I might make a gesture line to indicate its there, but I don't like it. It bothers me.
• Semi-realistic eyes for the WIN. Are you serious? Who wants real eyes when you can have natural mascara 24/7? 8D !!
  
• Noses. Are. So. Much. Fun. They're really frustrating to get at first, but after that little period of awkward trying to figure things out, a lot of experimenting can be done to like, totally make characters different via noses. Win.
  
• I gotta re-learn face proportion. I literally learned it out of a Western-ized Shoujo book by Christopher Hart and now that I try to make my eyes less HUGE and blown-up ish, it's kinda hard for me to position everything. And, you know, noses aren't sideways check marks anymore, so that's throwing me off, too. ._.
• Eyebrows are fun. xD<3

Soyes. And now for what my sketchbook looks like, yay! : D
I draw Ria a bunch, just 'cause I'm comfortable with her design and she's fun, and I've actually gotten annoyed with the old way of drawing her hair. XD And she smiles a lot more in my doodles now, too. x3<3

die neue klamotten, und musik fuer dich

Title Translation: "The New Clothes and Music for You"

For the past two days or so, I've been toying with the idea of Ria in casual clothes, just meandering about and doing the whatnot. xD Working on the house, maybe! You never know with her. You start to feel kinda bad for the poor lass once you spend some time working with her. :<
Just a little bit of pose stuff here, it's not even that clear on the scan, but 'tis Ria on a couch. XD I wanted to let her have some sort of remote control, but my bio teacher was passing out papers at the time, so I couldn't. :< This, though, is something I could see her wearing just around. Jeans and an off-the-shoulder top and some form of necklace. Or sweatpants. I imagine she's a big sweatpants person. xD ANDLOOKIGOTHERHAIRRIGHT. Sorta. XD

Now, for music! <3 I got lots of new little tracks to share.
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
Anberlin - Dismantle.Repair (Acoustic), Dismantle.Repair, The Haunting, A Whisper and a Clamor
Lola Ray - Automatic Girl, Slave
Copeland - Coffee, Priceless, No One Really Wins, Hold Nothing Back, Brightest

ich zeichne, was ich will.

Title translation: I draw what I want.
(I actually pulled that together on my own, and babelfish said it was accurate!)

The title sounds a bit more serious than the current issue I have is, but hey, if it lets me practice German before the exam... yeah. Anyways! Today was a bit of a weird day, because I can't find my writing notebook, but I carried my sketchbook around with me all day. I really don't like people looking through it because most of the sketches in there are shitty and unfinished, but most importantly there's story concept sketches and even some boobies. Most middle school students can't handle that, so I tend to keep my stuff to myself.
Today, though, I had three people actually look through my sketchbook. I got the first one away quick enough by saying that there was just really crappy stuff in there, but the second time was in tech and it was Karen that grabbed it. I'm generally very close to my personal items at all times, but Karen is Karen, and it was just her and Kristen around anyways, so... yeah! I didn't care, but I told them about the boobage about ten times. When they got kinda close, I flipped the page for them, but I think Kristen caught it and she got that... look on her face that's kinda like, "Oh, whoa, that's weird, I don't approve," expression that she gets sometimes. I about snapped but we were in the middle of a movie on the electric car, so.
Basically, I had my sketchbook raped.
And there's this one really bad doodle of Ria and Eries in a position that could look kinda funny at first glance unless you know that they're out to get each other. D: So I kinda like, don't like showing that to people. I really need artist friends at my school. ; ;

AHEM. EMO-AWAY.
Time for the actual art portion of this stuff. (:Here's the good portion of my Lily page. She's a strategic observer and skilled spearwoman, but enjoys gambling a little too much. She usually hitches rides to new places to escape debt and charms some helpless young man in letting her live with him. Surprisingly, she's never slept with any of them. She hasn't admitted to it, anyways.
Lily is from the same RP as Pierre and Pleefle. xD
And here's a colored, finalized Irvine doodle. :3 This is my useless succubus! Andyouknowwhat? I LOVE HER. >D BWAHAHAHA.

...
Hem. Anyways.
I'm gonna DDR and finish my homework now. <3 Gig tomorrow. x0 Wishmeluck, I'mma try a solo.

sketchbook madness.

OCD thing about posting a lot. Already stated. :3

Anyways, I have three things today! Two new OCs and one underdrawn comic villain. Let's go in alphabetical order.
Appervel! He's a bit of an awesome wizard psycho. :3 I should draw his henchmen. And he's in love with himself, go figure.
Next on the list if my new succubus, Irvine. Despite looking like a slut with a giant axe, she's actually a prude and a scaredy-cat (read: comic relief). She's more useful for reading than anything else.
Last but not least, it's Pierre and Pleefle! Pierre's a clueless, slow, and silly young wizard who actually knows more than he lets on, while Pleefle was his sister's mistake. Still, he carries the animal around and plays with it- she enjoys the attention.

That is all! 8D

( whot, no Ria sketches today? O: )

Introducing: JOE THE MAGNIFICENT

Quick update because I have solo fest in the morning (meaning I play my violin for a judge x0) and I need to get up early so I can shower and get dressed and the whatnot. D:

Anyways, we have a new Biology assignment to make a comic strip about stuff that has to do with blood cells, so I made a comic about a white blood cell named Joe the Magnificent! He's a flamboyant wimp that gets credit (Gilderoy Lockhart, anyone?) for stuff he didn't really do on purpose. This is page one out of three and not colored (but it shall be by Monday), and there might be a title page if I feel up to it. x:
Remind me to start sketching Lily and Pierre.

EDIT:
I finished the comic. xD

sketches galore! not.

I have this funny OCD thing about updating frequently, so I looked about my desk and found a few doodles that I should probably finish soon, but don't have the time to.
Whoops?

Anyways, let's start off with something I'm actually mildly satisfied with- the Ria reference sheet! It's not very detailed, but it's about as accurate as something needs to be. 'Cept I should have made her hair curlier. Let's not ask when this was drawn, 'cause I won't be able to tell you. XD
I do rather enjoy the little expression I doodled. There was actually a caption I cropped that said, "WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING?" Good times, good times. ;D
Now, this next doodle is somewhat of a self-portrait. Note the somewhat. Actually, it's a bandwagon challenge that I should really get to soon. If you can't read the text, it says, "Prone to weird situations, like getting caught in a Disney-style bear trap with a paper expression in hand." I love how weird it looks, honestly. XD
Should reeally get to finishing that.
Oh well.
For now, comic page! : D


In other new-- ooh! My hair's all soft. <3
... Ahem. Anyways! In OTHER NEWS, I managed to superglue my hair to a clip today. How? Well, it all started when my mother was UNAWARE OF MY EXTRA SHELVING (floor) and stepped on a clippy. I superglued it together today, but then I had to leave for a choir audition, and, you know, being impatient little old me, I shoved it onto my head to look spiff.
Came home to discover that a strand was rather safely secured onto the clip. Needless to say that I had to cut it Obviously not a very big deal, but... Yeah. I think I oughta go to bed. XD

anatomy study. [MATURE WARNING]

I've been pondering on putting forth an effort to change my style from the weird anime thing I've got going for me, because honestly, I look at artists like Jordyn ( this pile of doodles cracks me up ) and Twelfth, who have these awesome semi-realistic styles that I admire so much because they can convey so much emotion and I get really jealous really quick.

That was the hugest run-on in the history of run-ons. So shoot me D:

So anyways, now that I'm home from Quebec, I whipped out my mother's anatomy book (thanks to her for being a doctor) and just got to doodlin' skulls and bones and the whatnot. "So," you may say, "why the mature warning for a bunch of bones?"
Because the second one has boobies, and I don't want to offend a bunch of five year olds for studying the human body. : D Hereyouallgo.



And as a final note, I'd like to show you this. Why?
a) It's the best thing I've drawn all weekend.
b) I finally figured out how to crop stuff in PaperPort.
c) Hair should be flowy.
d) LOOK, YOU CAN SEE HER SHOULDERS.O:

IDEASIDEAS.<3

So this isn't a picture post. Sorry. D:
Basically, it's almost midnight, but I have to get this idea down somewhere or I'm gonna explode. x:

So I have an idea to like, display all of my awesome experiment fighters (becausehonestly, I've never drawn all of them accurately. There's a pretty spiff sketch of Saturn in my notebook, though...) and I feel like they need it.
So I was thinking something in the style of this picture, except like three times as aggressive and with WEAPONS ftw! Like Ria's cannon prototype! And I might attempt Adderson's guns. >> 'Cause he's awesome.
Butyeah. I'll try to sketch that while I'm in Canada! (More info on the Canada trip later. :3)

Oh, and I lied.
Updated page layout for you. Enjoy Claudius and Mortimer goodness! Evie's namesake is coming in on the next page. :3 She's just a less awesome/younger version of this girl here.
Remind me to re-attempt the comic script. XD

getting to work now.

Good morning, Blogger! ;D It's actually about 4AM, but whatever. I feel mildly inspired to work after getting /really/ close to beating Via Infinito on FFX-2 (which is basically a 100-level dungeon). Got a game over with a Mega Tonberry, though. D: Oh well. Spent the rest of my time maxing out Rikku's Black Mage dressphere on the highroad, so the session isn't entirely wasted. :3

Anways. The reason I even shut off my PS2 was to work on the second page of my webcomic (first page, initial planning/plot). That didn't come easy to me at all, because I did the first page about two months ago. x0 So after doodling a while, I needed to get out of the drawing Ria stage and get INTO drawing Claudius and introducing Mortimer. For all those curious how I re-inspire myself to draw, here. Shouldn't even be considered a sketchdump. Lots of unfinished faces and anatomy-lacking poses, some random faces, a scribble about how I like Claud's hair, et cetera. Kinda gets my hand working again so I can actually move onto the more serious stuff.
So maybe the three or four of you that follow my blog get to take a peek at the next comic page. It's nothing special at all- tilted and uneven and a bunch of floating figures- but it's the initial plan. XD And no, you're not supposed to read my handwriting. D<
I don't know when this'll be finished. >>
What's a blog update without an update on this drawing?
Obviously I took out my lightbox and cleaned this up a bit. I decided that the dove will be some sort of tropical bird, but that's still subject to change. Vlad's right (our right) leg bothers me, so that'll be fixed very very soon. Otherwise, this is all you get. (: Bwahaha!
*coughhacklecough* ; ; Still haven't gotten rid of the stupid sickness...

draw something original, darn it.

I only have one work for you all today! It's another RiaDump, but I kinda like this one. x0 I even bothered to color two of the sketches. So, here!
I think I've finally got a look for her hair. And, you know, Iduno, but I never saw her as very pretty. Her mindset always applied to the way I thought of her, "average, nothing special," but I'm starting to see that she has a little bit going on thur! xD The dress sketch will be justified in something I might employ later with Jordyn, but we'll see. Anyways.

I finally ordered a new violin bow and shoulder rest (and a new Suzuki book ftw), and now I gotta just wait for that to come in and coax my dad to get me a new mouse. :/ As for the Vlad art I'm working on, that's stuck at stage three. I might actually whip out my lightbox /now/ and work on it, though...