What the...

Slight rant :/

Yo, I barely had time to sit today, it's bullshit :/.

I had to get on the roof to clean the gutters, even though I said I was busy. (AND my brother could've done it, Not to mention how HIGH our roof is...And how flimsy our ladder is....)
I had to help with groceries, even though I said I was busy.
My younger brother wants to learn how to DJ, so he got a mixer thingy. Guess who had to help set THAT up :/.
I woke up kind of late, because a headache kept me from sleeping last night. :/
People kept BUSTING INTO my room all day from random crap :/.

Needless to say, I didn't have much time today, not to mention I kept getting interrupted. So...The quality of today's study really sucks :(



Blue profile stock by ~psylight69 on deviantART



I'm kinda bummed because the model in the stock photo was really attractive and my crappy painting didn't do her justice :/.

Oh well...I guess I DID learn some stuff while I did it, so that's a plus.

Original stock photo:

People these days :/

Gah...I'm still so busy! But I had about 45 minutes (or something) today, so I decided to pout the time into one drawing. Just because I'm really liking the result that gives me. The scanner squashed the image though! And it's 11pm and I'm already too tired to open Photoshop and fix it :(. I can assure you it looks a little better than the scan shows though.



I know, I know, it's not the best drawing you've ever seen. And it's only ONE :/. I need more time to myself :S.

On a side note as well. There's this dude that gave me a llama on dA the other day. Then he said he found my blog on my profile. THEN he starts telling me that he back-read all the way to when I started this blog :P. And he says that I got a lot better since I started, so I was like "thanks" and I told him that practice and studies really help etc. THEN he starts cussing me out saying that there's NO way I made progress from stick figures, to here with ONLY practice! He thinks I'm doing some secret trick that I'm not telling him or something :P.

Some people just don't get it.

Bye! :)

Time Sink :/

I'll write a post now even though it isn't that late, just because I've been SO busy today, I don't think I'll have time to later :(.

My mom worked me like a slave today, because we have these REGENERATING TRESS at the side of our house. Seriously, last year i DECIMATED these tress, roots and everything. There was NOTHING LEFT except soil. And somehow, they came back :o.
But yeah, I was doing that from the time I woke up, till now, and basically had no time for myself today to do any figure drawing or anything.

So in my tired state, I worked a little on my work in progress from before. Taking into account the advice that I got! :) I darkened some of the values, pushed the saturation a little, and did some weird background crap :p. I also tried applying some of the colour theory stuff I read about...But I'm not sure how obvious that is.

It's not much, but it's better than not painting at all I guess?

I dunno if I still want to finish this xD. But I kind of do, so I can have an icon to use that I made myself :).

But if not, I can include in an art dump. Because that's what all the cool kids do :p.


Before:


After



Take it easy, and tell me what you think :)

My birthday!

Sorry about the silence! I was relaxing over the long weekend, taking it easy y'know? But I WAS drawing! I did something a little different, and skipped the gesture drawings I normally do to warm up. Instead, I jumped into 10 minute figure drawings, and it turned out great! I can get a lot more done in 10 minutes than I do in my usual 5, so I think I'll try that for a while, WITH the gesture drawings :).

Unfortunately, I didn't scan anything I did recently :(.

On the plus side though, today is my birthday! :) I'm officially 19 years old now, woohoo!

To make up for the lack of art though, I bring you this. The most metal video on YouTube.



See you soon! :)

Survival

I just survived my first week of school. So now I only have...One...Two...Three...One million more to go! :( I'm proud of myself though, because I managed to draw and stuff during the week :) Despite having a new schedule :).


I won't post my drawings from the past couple of day's this time, but I WILL show you a painting I started today! It started off as a study of a photograph, but while I was sketching I thought to myself "It's been a while since you last painted something from your imagination man". So I closed the reference and started this :P.



Please tell me what you think of it, and it what ways I can improve on it :). I plan to cover the missing eye, which is why it isn't painted at the moment :P.

And in other art related news. Everyone seems to be excited about Wacom's new product. The Inkling. After watching this video about it though...I personally don't think it's all that practical :/. But maybe that's just me. Tell me what you think :)




See you next time :)