Wolverine, birthday

I finally finished the oil painting I was working on of Wolverine! haha it was nice to get my ass together and just PAINT again for once! getting myself started is always the toughest, especially with oils since it's a very time-consuming process. but I did it, and I finished. I think. well...either way, it'll be auctioned off at Otakon. :D

Studio, rough WIP:
yaaay my studio space is filled with Hugh Jackman hotness for the time being~! haha he's the only celebrity I think is good-looking. no joke, the rest seem so fake! XDD <3

If I was my normal lazy self I'd leave the painting like this:
but there was still something off. he didn't look angry enough, and I was NOT gonna show another cruddy cop-out painting like last year!

Finished version:


I put a lot more work into it than I normally would have, and I think it paid off. I started out hating it, but in the end I guess it turned out all right for someone who sucks at painting. lol XDD;;; still think I could've done more, but as I said, I'm not very skilled with oil painting anymore. I need more practice!

also, it was my 20th birthday yesterday, and my amazing boyfriend sent me this beautiful bouquet of my favorite flower, lilies! <3

so I had to do the obligatory artistic photo:
They're SO pretty, thank you honey~!! I love you so much! :D <3

Champloo

finished the Samurai Champloo fanart! :D Here are its stages:

Sketch:


Lineart: (pencils)
Color: (Watercolor, and some color pencils and copic multiliner)DeviantArt Link Here!

I guess it turned out all right. I enjoyed doing this! :D haaaa I wanna watch Champloo again sooo bad, but alas, must continue with the Otakon preperations... :p

Sketchinz

lalala...just rough sketches this time 'round. I can't really sketch cleanly...this is just to show just HOW messy I get. XD;; lol

I have a hard time sleeping lately, so I've been doodling more to try and help get to sleep. this was done at around 3 or 4 am. >__<;;


Rough ideas for Demeter, a character that's part of my idea for the Thesis project this year. She will also be the only human main character, so it makes her design all the more important. I always have such a hard time coming up with characters nowadays! The most 'finished' looking one on the bottom is what I ended up with, but it'll probably go through many more changes still.



YAY Samurai Champloo! <3 I LOVE this anime, it's probably my favorite. I haven't drawn a fanart of it yet though, because I was always scared too. Motion is so important! XD;; It was tough. I'm probably gonna finish traditional watercolors/copics with this one so that I can auction it off at Otakon. :p


UGH can Otakon...like...not exist plz? >___<;; I'm so behind it's stupid. I just don't want to go...next year I don't think I will. It's not worth this aggravation!! >__<

Russia

some WIPS and the final of my Russia piece for the Otakon Auction.


Lineart:
Copic colors:
Watercolors:
I screwed up big time on the watercolor part since I was working with cardstock, which is horrible with watercolors. I just wanted to make a minor correction to the face, when all hell broke loose and now there's like...this fold on his cheek because it got too wet and got dark and I tried to correct it with my white ink yet still keep it looking fine and blended...and well, if you don't look at it from an angle it looks fine I guess. :(

Normally it would be no problem 'cause I can always fix it like I did here, but this is supposed to go up in the Auction, and now it probably won't go for as much as it would have. bummer.


dA Linkage to the pic.

wips and revelations

starting to get out of my "I hate drawing" mood a bit, which is good 'cause it's starting to be crunchtime for Otakon! >___<;; ugh I really don't want to go, but it's a necessary evil. anyway, here's a WIP of an image of Russia I'm doing traditionally so I can put it up in the Art Auction. :p

Doing it in my more 'Anime' style, because...well, these are Hetalia fans we're talking about. 'nuff said.

although I myself like Hetalia, I'd much rather see it like this. obviously other's would rather not, since this image has been pretty much ignored. I expected it, but hopefully it'll do better as a print at Otakon, instead of with the idiots of dA.


I sound very bitter...that sucks. but it's so true, I've just felt bad about art in general lately so it's no surprise. :(

A doodle while waiting for the train because MTA is notoriously horribly late ALL THE TIME. It's of a future Ember.


A revelation occured when I was drawing this. I realized that the decline of my love for art started when I stopped working on FT. it makes perfect sense, it was my greatest muse. so from now on I'll try to do more FT art, and work on it more. maybe I'll even do a side comic or two, and think about starting up an actual site. hopefully that will make me feel better.


listening to MJ's music and watching Pitchmen all the while doing this stuff doesn't help much...loved those guys. <3 :(

Sketchy Bizo

Was looking at Sean Gordon Murphy's Hellblazer art a bit earlier for some inspiration. Consequently, it is also my awesome friend Sam's birthday tomorrow, so I drew her fave charrie from my comic for her like I usually do....haha, but with a little different flair. I hope she likes it! XD;; <3



lolz he's sketchy in the literal sense now! XD;;

color, and lilies

colored the sketches a bit, and I finished a painting I was working on for my Tante Inge's 80th birthday tomorrow.

This has gone through numerous phases of one mistake after another, but in the end I think it turned out allright.


and just quickly colored these guys, nothing special.



lalala...I got nothing much else to say. I need to start working on new prints and paintings to sell at Otakon. gah! crunchtime is comin' up.

Forced Out

I haven't drawn and inked something since school ended, nor have I had any desire to for a long time to come. It's probably been my biggest art block to date, and I knew it was time to force myself out. So I just made myself draw without thinking or worrying, and these came out of that.

Somehow, when I don't think about what I'm drawing, it always turns into Zila.


again, not really thinking, but I guess this shows just how much I want a puppy! lol (it's a mini Australian Shepherd, though in reality it'll most likely be a Corgi lol) <3


This definitely made me feel a little bit better about...drawing. I'm gonna try to color these...maybe I'll also CG the last one, who knows. I probably won't have that kind of ambition though! ^___^;;; lol

All-American

The All-American Girl. (done while listening to today's pop music LOLZ yay) XD;;


Another Oekaki, done at Cimetery. I like drawing weird figures. I got nothin' else to show, I haven't really been drawing at all. :(

I hate to say it, but I think I need to find a new oekaki board. Cimetery was where I first did digital work and learned most of the skills I have now. However, ever since it's been revived, none of the old artists have come back and no one comments. It's very banal. I miss it, but I think it may be time to find another home. I just don't know where...all my other boards are now non-existent, Cimetery is all I know that's still around! :(

digitize it

I've been doing more oekakis and digital sketches recently, really just trying to get my hand drawing again even if it's just a little bit. I've been in quite the artistic rut recently.

so let's start it off with one of my guilty pleasures lol! XD;;


can't wait to follow his career, it's gonna be awesome. :D <3

another guilty pleasure of mine! An un-moe Germany, from Hetalia. (the style of the series makes me sad, but I like the idea of it enough.) :p


I may be biased since it's my nationality, but Germany is awesome. haha


A big reason why I haven't done anything is that my computer was running at a snail's pace. I bought another gig of ram, and now it's like a whole new machine!! <3 I just wanted to test out Photoshop's improved performance, so I doodled Lyra. ^___^


lol I dunno, maybe she caught Cygnus peeping on her bathing. XD;; <3

none of these took more than an hour...I don't really have a high attention span in the summer. I want to do paintings and illustrations, but I just can't bring myself to do more than silly sketches of dogs and fanart. ugh, not good when Otakon is right around the corner! o___O;;

doggies

I'm new to drawing dogs, but they're easily becoming one of my favorite subjects. They're a huge challenge for me to get right, but that's what makes it so much fun. Dogs are beautiful and unique, and I just can't get enough of 'em!

I love my new sketchbook. It takes watercolor washes beautifully, and what better way to break in a new sketchbook than go to the local dog run and do some sketches? <3


Drawing them from life was proving to be difficult, so I took pictures and did most of these that way, still referencing the running guys all the while. These were the practice sketches I did for my Corgi comic. I had never seriously drawn a dog prior to this, save maybe once or so.



My dog books just came today, it's filled with so much information and beautiful pictures! I'm happy I purchased them. My favorite hobby is studying the different dog breeds, and now I have two great resources at my disposal to learn even more! <3


An oekaki I did just now over at Cimetery:

I love the Saluki, they're always so beautiful and elegant!

ah, how I want a dog so bad...oh well, that won't be for a few years! Until then, I'm content with studying them and learning much about these awesome animals. :D

TOUCH sketches

The sketches for my Touch allegory project.

First one, I tried to do a literal translation. I quickly realized that wasn't gonna work for me.


...so I went nuts. still, there was something off. (I may turn this sketch into a digital piece, I still kinda like it.)


and here's the winning sketch:


Tom made me change the whale, or rather said to make more 'sense' out of it. so I made him a pterodactyl. I still like the sketch better than the final, though.

the final:
In the end, it's okay. I made a TON of mistakes along the way, but I'll take it for what it is. I wish I had taken progress shots of it, because the ink b&w was WAY better. it had a cool drybrush thing goin' on. but what's done is done, and this project was a HUGE learning experience.

the dA link, with the original allegorical text.

...so my class with the feared Tom Woodruff is at an end. It was one of the most challenging experiences I've had, but I learned so much about myself and my art, and about appreciating other art forms. The chair of our department is feared by most in the cartooning department, but it's really unjustified. Tom's class was the most fun I've had working so hard in a really long time. I'd love to take it again if I had the chance, I'm gonna miss having a class with him so much. <3

Unapproving Jazz

FAIL.

but...umm...anyway, I've been posting some of my art from Tom Woodruff's Drawing class on my dA, so you can check that out if you want. <3

firecloud.deviantart.com

prep work

I would like to upload stuff here more often. I have tons of pages from my sketchbooks to scan in, I just haven't gotten to it yet.

I like to draw on regular printer paper a lot more now. gives more freedom to just do whatever without having to worry about people seeing it. usually comes out better if I have that mindset.

so here's some prep work of an Okami fanart illustration I'm working on. I start off with warm-up doodles of whatever (in this case cygnus, lyra, and an aussie shep puppy <3 ), then go on to little thumbs, bigger thumbs, gesture study, etc, etc...


lolz doggie butt. <3 I'm debating whether the final should have that or not. XDD

summertime means job hunting, but the market's so dry it's proving to be incredibly difficult for me. here's hoping I can at least make a buck this summer! ^__^;;

Houndoom WIP

Finally done with my schoolwork, so I continued a picture I've wanted to do for SO long now!

here's a work-in-progress:


Houndoom, use Fire Fang!

still got a long way to go on it, but just thought I'd show the rough. wanted to do an actual painting...a charchoal + acrylic, but I think I'll save it for another time. :p

aaand here's another WIP:


pretty much finished with the main Houndoom, but for the BG I'm planning on making a whole pack of 'em among a rockface and grass, as if you encountered them in the wild. haha, I'd hate to be camping and bump into a pack of these guys. XD;;

hahaaaa....Dobermans = LOVE. they're so...sleek and badass. <3 I've really been on a dog kick lately. XD

wheeee here's the finish:


lalala....the deviation link is here: http://firecloud.deviantart.com/art/Houndoom-Fire-Fang-121359026

this was fun to do. I'm glad I have time to do things I want to now! ^___^ <3