all i need is just a love to make it worthwhile

Yes, yes, I am very much still alive, and I do pick up my pencil once in a while! It's been a busy first year of high school, my friends, but I do believe I'll be alright sooner or later. So let's start off with some of the things contributing to my business: commissions. The images above are Gaia commissions for TrinityCowgirl and P u r p l e K a r l a respectively. They definitely challenged me, the first pose-wise and the latter with its complex design. I've still yet to figure out half of the items on there.

The next is more of a personal half-project I've been working on. It's (a currently faceless-because-I-fail-at-Vlad) Vlad and a kissyface equally-copious-amount-of-fail Ria. Because I can, kay? C: And they don't have enough cute in their lives. Poor sods, I don't show either of them enough love, even though Ria's my baby and Vlad has auto-love for being wonderful&married to my baby.



This last thing is also kind of a personal thing. It's just an unfinished doodle of Ella from Happily N'Ever After, which is a fabulously addicting movie that you all should go out and see, fufufu. It'll be done when I have the time to finish it, for other things come first. C :





Last on my list is actually something even more personal: my classes (but not in proper order) for next year! I shall be taking English 10 Honors, AP World History, Chemistry, Algebra II/Trigonometry Honors, Art History, Health, Art 2 (Drawing&Painting), Orchestra, and a PE/Lab/Study Hall period. I gave up my lunch to fit in Art History and Health, because Art History is stupid and required, as is Health. :C

if you remember, remember.

LEYLA CAN HAS NEW SCANNER OH GOD THANK YOU FATHER I LOVE YOU FOR SPOILING ME. My new Brother MFC-240C All-In-One scanner/printer/copier/fax machine is made of ultimate win and beast. It scans at like, 2400dpi if it wants to (I keep it at 600) and the images turn out huge and gorgeous. o_o SO ANYWAYS. Sketch dump for you? ;D

Let's start out by introducing my new OC, Arthur Bedegraine! He's my favorite dork-glasses gay boy, and he runs a magical flowershop with his BF(FL), Zeke! 8) More on him later, he too sexy for his shirt.


Next up, Tales!Ley! From the Tales of the Rising Shadow and the Crimson Adventurous Tears of the Dusk in the Moonlight, otherwise known simply as Tales. She has a pet duck. Fear it.

Joe says:
So, basically, TTOTRSATCATOTDINTM
Osi says:
*snort* In short?
Osi says:
XD
Joe says:
Abbreviated ^^



THIS IS NYE. NYE IS SEXY. ... Well anyways, this is Nye's demon form that I doodled while babysitting. His tattoos make me glee with joy, and I'm pretty happy with the overall turn out. o_o He's too pretty.

This is the result of playing way too many MMOs. I doodled Tori (left) and myself (right) as MMO characters. It's... a work in progress. >_> Tori looks like she's drunk, for God's sake.


And finally, what you've all been waiting for, the it's-all-in-the-swish boy that EVERYONE loves and wants for their own- JAYE! This loverboy belongs to none other than Jenna, and simply put, he's my faaavorite. x33 So I drew him. >_>


These two pieces are just two doodles I was playing around with a little. They're obviously unfinished (and it kinda tells you about my sketching process), but I was listening to Hoppipolla and I wanted to draw mush ('cause I never do). So here's some unproportional Vlad/Ria crap for you! ;D


Remember my animation project? SAY HELLO TO FRAME ONE. <3


Ria/Ivirie and Asher in the corner. >_> Citadel doodles. Associated with drabbles. I loff it, sorta.

Ria's dad! Well, a doodle of him, anyways. >_> I was bored at six in the morning, therefore propotions are way out of whack. Leave me alone. D:



This piece is clustered with the following, but I think it deserves its own description. Athie and Vlad. And a lanky Ria doodle. Gods. I'm gonna cry when we have to write that out. She looks up to him too much.


And of course, an Athie reference sheet for story five. She's just made of too much win. <3

more color to sketches.

Two posts in one day?! What is -this-?!

First up on the menu is a chibi of Ria and Vlad that I submitted to dA. There's so many flaws in it, it's not even funny.
BUT I LIKE IT.
Playing around with colors again.


I NEED TO SLEEP HOLY SHIT.

Tell, not show.

SJKHJfkhsdkhdsjkfhsdjkfhsdfsjdahfs!
D:
THAT'S JUST ABOUT HOW FULL OF ART JUICE I AM RIGHT NOW.
So, not only did I find a new manga series to follow (Elemental Gelade), but listening to Hoppipolla (song in this video) inspired me to draw -- *GASP* CUTE THINGS. D:

Solike, in front of me is this thing of sketcherdoodles of early story five concepts. I mean, I think one of the more touching parts of Vlad's return would be the fact that almost everyone would be mad at him, but then out of like, the entire lab crowd, you'd just see Athie just RUN at him and hug him for all she's worth. She wouldn't give three flying fucks about any other woman he'd be with. Athie's like... the innocent little sister. :'D &She'd be all grown up and teenager-like and pretty and just... come running and crying like, "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DID OR WHO YOU'RE WITH, I'M JUST SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK! D:"

And then Ria would come out with her hairdryer.
"Get the fuck out of my house, you cheating, lying, unfaithful bastard!"
And then she'd like, fall over.
What an interesting birthday that'll be~ : D

I'm also drawing 48573574 concept sketches of s5 Ria, becauseee... I can't seem to be able to draw underweight sick people? D: Fufufufu.

two words: sketch flood.

Lalala. Welcome to Ley's sketch flood of massive incomplete crap-tastic awesome! Please don't feel obliged to even glance at this entry because, let's face it, it's fookin hooge. D: So lalala, again, enjoy if you please. :'D

DOODLES

For the first time (in a long time?) ever, say hello to Alex! I drew Andy too, but his hair I can never get right. :'D So here's Alex, Ria's trusty trouble-making cousin who's swept many a lady off her feet. He's such a player. I love him dearly.
This is from the good old days of my .hack//GU obsession! In order, there's Atoli, Kuhn, Pi, X-Form Haseo, and Endrance(lawl). Please excuse the crappiness.
Only for Sarah do I do this: THE BUTT PAGE. Hello, a page of Ria's ass. :'D There is actually a reason for this page! D: I wanted to do this DRAMATIC 4-page comic of Ziegte!Ria vs Sygro, and... well, I needed her ass for the first panel. :'D BECAUSE IT'S DRAMATIC, OKAY?

(POSSIBLY) TO BE REWORKED

There was a caption to this before I cut it to fit in a massive scan on Sarah's beloved scanner. It read, "Love, you are foolish, you're tired. Your sleeplessness makes you a liar," and said caption is from a Hush Sound song. Lighthouse, I believe. And, well, Eric just happens to be tired. Leave him 'lone, he's my favorite man child. D< Ziegte!Ria. That's all. She's definitely my favorite psycho, ever. I love her. End of story.
:'D Vlad and Ria. As demented chibis. Vlad had an "*eyebrow waggle*" thing next to him, but it got cut out. &&So that's why Ria's all, "No."
Beach!Ria. With a picnic basket. Isn't she lovely and disproportional and just LOVELY?
Lolololol Seamus. I wanted to draw him, so I did. End of story.

A group picture that I was working on before I just said, "CRAP THIS LOOKS HORRIBLE," and dumped it. Ria, Athie, and Eric. There's like, a shadow of Vlad somewhere in there, maybe. Ria and Vlad. It looks so bad, but I like it. And Vlad's hair looks like a dead rat mob and it's bothering the shit out of me, but it looked worse before. Chibi captions say, "Stop undressing me with your mind," "Ass," and "Suddenly naked? Wtf! xD."

CONCEPT SKETCHES

I decided that if there was ever a shoujo of our little Darkheart thing, Ria would look like so. & I 'm making fun of Kagome in the chibi on the lower right, because... Ria's doing the "dramatic" name-calling thing that Kagome does AT LEAST THREE TIMES PER EPISODE. No wonder I stopped watching that show. Chibi Eric with his axe. Isn't he cuuuute?
This is Ziegte! The personified virus that split itself into like, 29493483 pieces and infected random expeiments. It is an it, beause it has no gender. Is it androgynous enough?
A psuedo GU character that has no name yet! But I like her&&her swords enough, soo... she's getting posted. Stfu.
RIA'S DAD AND HER MOM IN THE LOWER LEFT FUFUFU. It's a concept through and through! I did something better of him, but I looost it.
La di da, I like drawing Ziegte!Ria too much. Such a creeper, eee.
I told you I like drawing her too much.
I was trying to do a redesign of story 1 Ria. I think it's a little better than the mop she had before. xD
Basically, normal Ria, and what-if Ria. There used to be this whole spiel on how if she wasn't a hero, she'd be this eccentric music teacher, but she likes being a hero better because of Vladdy and travel at the cost of a limb and her life. :'D But her music teacher self would be taller, fufufu.
TESSA. I have been hiding this since like, story two, but Tessa used to be a maaaageee oh she so lovely. Lookither! WHAT AN AUNT. Ria's a luckylucky girl. :'D Alex and Andy don't even know. I've been good about keeping this a secret.

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...

if you want it, you already got it O:

Leave it to me to title my blog entry after a Justin Timberlake / Madonna / Timbaland song.

4 Minutes - Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake ft. Timbaland.
(:

Anyways, since this is my... you know, art blog, I think it's time I show you some pretty pictures.
My cousin alwaysalwaysalways complains that a) I don't draw anything for her and b) my characters are never drawn happy. So with that in thought and wanting to do flowy hair, I doodled this the other day. It's not finished, but I like it because of how flowy it is. x0 So it gets posted here after sitting in my folder.

A commission for GaiaOnline user Reinik that should be watermarked but so isn't. This is just the sketch and color palette, but I just wanted to show that I have a strange obsession with weird toggle coats. x0 FROGTOGGLESONRIA'SJACKETFTW.

The last thing is MIA, but it was this reeeeeealllllly cool cockatiel I drew last night, but I can't find it! D:
Wanted to finish that one too... poo. ; ; Oh well, if I find it, I'll edit it in later.


EDIT I:
Jeez, can that get more obnoxiously bright? D: Anyways, this is the third stage of the fabulous fanart of Jordyn's character, Vlad! I whipped out the colored pencils and added in a bit of a background and some shading on the bird. I even signed it in green pencil! : D But, yeah. I attempted clothing items, and decided on a rather simplistic outfit. Travel clothes, youknow? There's still a lot to be fixed, so I may have to whip out the ol' lightbox soon and resketch for accuracy. (:

I'll need a new mouse before I can actually... you know. /Work/ on this, meaning lineart and all. Although, it is tempting to pen it... Ahem.

Still can't find that dang bird that I love so much!
I think I might move on to mammals soon. :3 Like... bunnies! And then I'll get to studying human motion and possibly delve a little into realism.
Le sigh. How I wish for some art academy to just come along and fish me out of artistic misery. :/ Someday! *shakes fist*

EDIT II:

I FOUND THE COCKATIEL! I'm rather proud of this one, and I do want to finish it. Now, see, the thing is, it got crumpled up at the bottom of my bag, so I'm going to have to work with it digitally. Woe, oh woe is me! D:
Woe needs a new mouse nao. (:

Okay, I better get to bed. >> Nai!

cannon arm, anyone?

Bwahaha! The first entry on my blog, and here we are, with a new doodle. I have issues with her midsection, but Jenna says she likes the legs, so... yeah. Ria doodle for everyone. I'm thinking of this being one of her final weapons, either used in the Diepullae plot or in the final showdown with Sygro. x0 Either way, it's a cannon arm. She's not pulling a KOS-MOS with having her arm transform into a cannon, but it's actually just over her arm. The firing mechanism is just past her hand, which grips the trigger. There's a glass panel covering the buttons and levers (which, I think, there should be more of) when they're not in use.
Wow, that's way too detailed to be on a blog. xD Oh well.

Anyways, this is much a work in progress, and there's still much to add. Still, I'm proud of it because of the angle (pose referenced from http://www.posemaniacs.com) and ... yeah! I've never drawn any of her cannons accurately. So there it is. :3 I will finish this later, I promise.
More doodles for you.
More of a concept than a doodle, for I fail at drawing Vlad entirely. Maybe someday I'll flesh the concept out...