Random Babble Rabble

My last semester is this spring. D:

First of all, here's my promised quickie pic of Nicolina for Derrot. I've had it done for awhile now, but just haven't been taking pics of my stuff lately. >.> So it sat around for some time. ^^;

                                           

Here's Figgy Drawing stuff:

First four are all in Conte

Master copy of Seurat

We had to copy an artist's style; don't think I succeeded. >.> They're not done, so that's probably why. (My prof's like: "Y u not eva feenish?!", but nicer) I'm really slow.

Here's some experimental thing the prof had us do, which kind of baffled me. It's tracing paper with figures drawn and colored, pasted on good paper and colored over again. o.O Yeah, I dunno what I was doing.

Other figgies-

                                                     I'll be doing this one in colored pencil.

                                                                         Conte on board

Oil pastel-not done in the least. (But at least I'm paying attention to ALL of the colors in the skin, rather than just the peach tones)

I really like the class, since I've been trying different media (conte, soft pastel, oil pastel, colored pencil, etc.) I'm trying to get back into coloring a lot more, like I used to, with colored pencils. Currently, I'm working on skin tones in my sketchbook and using a simple tutorial to help (I have others but this has the least amount of pencils to use for now). 

My three Puellae Magi. I stopped since I think the idea I have would be better on bigger paper. They'll be bursting out of their Soul Gems (EGGS) with their elements flowing around them. If that made no sense, don't worry. XD

My Tennant (Cockerels crow whenever they please, thank you) and Simm(Mr. Cycle Shorts) portraits are coming out okay, I suppose.

Babbling (in list-form!)-

+ MMO Grinder/ChaosD1 takes the piss out of the show, Paranormal State. I HATE PS, so this amused me greatly.

He also plays MMORPGs and gives reviews on them. Believe me, it's more entertaining than it sounds. This one in particular is lulzy for the Engrish he encounters. I played lots of these games years ago, so I can relate to his frustrations. 8D Maple Story is also fantastic.

+I've been listening to the Blogtor Who commentaries, and I really like the hosts' banter. They're all close to an hour in length, so you may lose patience with it if you're not watching the ep at the same time or occupying yourself in some other way (which is what I do). Dalek in particular was awesome (I thought his explanation about why a single Dalek is even there and chained up is hilarious.)

+I've also been listening to DW audio books and audio dramas since I really can't read for “fun” these days, and I want to catch up on everything. Do you know how MANY stories are out there besides what's seen in the show? And that doesn't count the short stories and comics. ._.; The frustration of being a newbie. The ones I have heard thus far seem to be of the horror genre, which is odd considering how the show plays out before Moffat. I do like how the actors get into their roles. :3

+Last DW-related thing: I've seen the first two series of Sarah Jane Adventures. Despite some cringe-worthy moments (like the music that plays Every.Single.Time. Mr. Smith shows up), it is pretty entertaining. (It's a kids show, so of course it's cheesy). But there is one villain that gives me the creeps:

D: I think he would be more intimidating if he just didn't talk. His lines are so corny, and it kind of takes away from his sinister image (yet I still love the camp). But those EYES, or lack thereof. ;_; He just needs to shut up once in awhile.

+Game-wise: I've figured out how to play DOOM again, on Windows 7 :3 Now I can cut demons up with a chainsaw whenever I want! And I've recently acquired the Myst games; should be brain-twisting.

+Sherlock and Mad Dogs (with more “moonchkins,” I hope) return in early 2012. FWEE!

As for shows that are kind of “meh”: Grimm. I was very interested in this show, but it's three eps in, and I just can't give a damn. I did see a guy with a scythe in the preview for next week's, so I'll just see what that's about. >.> (Can't resist scythes)

-Music is also coming in the spring:

Kate Bush-Nov 21, 2011

Emilie Autumn-late '11-early '12?

Silver Sun Pickups- Spring '12

Epica-March 9, 2012

Now what about YOU, Miss Happy Rhodes?

+LGBT Laughs on Tumblr - Loving this blog.

+Soft owl plushie. Why? I dunno.

-Saw a lovely WolfDog today. It bumped my hand but walked off when it saw I had no food. ): How rude.

+Lastly, have a demon dog.

Puellae Magi and Time Lords, Part Deux

Two quickies for today, more of that PMMM/DW crossover. Sort of. Kinda. They're more "polished" than what I usually post because there's actual SHADING. *shock*


Still need to work on perspective (Homura's arm is pretty tiny. 8D) And I've already failed on those panels. The laser screwdriver is in her right hand, then suddenly in her left. Oopsies. That device is detailed like whoa, by the way.
She's pretty "developed" in body but other than that, I do like her. :3

As for Mister Master and his handling of Homu's Soul Gem: (Shame on him for touching it!)
I could NOT get his face right, so it's blank. But I did look up Simm pics to study his facial structure and drew a quick sketch. Hopefully it won't be too difficult next time to draw him now that I kind of know his features. (His cheeks are puffier than I had remembered and his mouth is tiny when not smiling. Hmm, interesting. Yep.)
Oh, and KYUBEY EARS!
Strangely, "Drumming" by Florence + the Machine came on while drawing him. Hardy har har. How appropriate.

Side note: Mami has intruded into the story now. She has already died in the PMMM universe but is somehow traveling with the 10th Doctor. LOLWUT? She even has a scar around her neck to remind her of her decapitation, because I'm a bitch like that. And of course she butts heads with (10)nant because she uses primarily guns, BIG guns, and he despises them. Fun fun.
Pics of her and the 10th team (and 11th for that matter) will come at some point. :3 I already know how she and Homura will meet too.

Mine n' Yours

I was sitting in the doctor's office today. Since I didn't have any reading material, besides textbooks(goody goody), I took out my sketch book and doodled.

The bottom one was done first, and is something of a mock-up for a "pretend" title page/poster for my side fic, "Rainbow in the Dark." I kind of gave up on it as you can see. 8D
RitD was going to be about my Sailor Asclepius (also known as Aeraellyth), and "her" story before the events in my main "Shangri-La" fic. It would also feature her "wife" (long story), Sailor Enlil, who is that skull-headed person at the bottom; "Sailor" Shangri-La, who is in the background reaching out; and the spirits of the other Messianics. Only two other Messianics have official designs besides Enlil: Sailors Hel and Rati-Kama (near the bottom, first one under Messianics). The other five were in the works, but didn't make it before I stopped doing otaku senshi. They're represented by those balls.
I'm a bit sad that the fic won't be written in full, but hey, the ideas are being incorporated into my Demiurge story, so it's not too much of a loss. I won't get rid of my notes for it either (I need them for Demi anyway). Other characters are also in the story, like Sailor Aquila and her gang, and the Norns, but they wouldn't fit. >.>
FYI: "Rainbow in the Dark" is a song by Dio. The chapters were also named after song titles. (Yay?)

The scribble at the top is of Wild's Hannah and Seamine, from Legend of the Rose. I love the story, and Wild knows it, since I bug her about it a lot. :P I read it in its initial incarnation, stayed a fan during its hiatus, and am eagerly awaiting its full rebirth.
I really enjoy the ideas Wild has (in general), and think she doesn't get enough art of her characters. She puts a lot of work into them, and is quite dedicated to her craft (just look at her gallery. It has something new almost every day).
I like how the doodle came out, despite its awkwardness. :3

Dem Sketches

I scribbled. Yup yup.

First, the nice ones. I hate to admit that the only reason these two are decent is because I couldn't think of anything humorous to with the characters. Nothing seemed to "fit." D:

Venus' Sailor Avalerion

Pysi's Sailor Attulae

Then I kind of went stupid. :D

Lissa- Kaleb's pic had the title of "I'm not fluffy." So I made him fluffy by pouring syrup on him with some feathers. YAY!

Kuki- Shinju seems to be an upbeat gal who loves justice. But I think messing up in front of people can deflate an ego quick. >.>

Miles Edgeworth(and Phoenix) for Derrot
When I looked up Ace Attorney, I learned that the guys have weird hair, odd clothes(Miles does anyway), and some fans like seeing them sex each other up. Nope, never played these. :D Miles' collar bothered me though. I thought: "He could fly with that thing." And so he does. Then he becomes a pest. Yep.
Sorry, Tori. 8D No smexiness here!

Jadine- Celi with an Ara voodoo doll. This is OOC for Celi (that grin). Sorry. XD

Pure - Yolanti is snoozing on the job. Hihaye is not pleased.

Momo- This didn't come out right. I think you can kind of tell what's going on, but it's just so jumbled up. 8D I should do a proper Belle picture; she's purdy.

Dubie- Du wanted a Weeping Angel(from Doctor Who). Look that up; I'm not explaining. 8D Then she said to draw it stalking a character who is eating a Snickers bar. Well, I was going to do one of her OCs, but I drew Du instead. (based on her avatar pic I found on dA)
I did this all from memory, as you can probably can tell. 8D Yeah, that's weird Doc and Amy in the last panel.

Sakky- Hooray for bad puns! I totes cheated on this one. The outfit is complicated. And before anyone yells at me about my designs, I have an excuse. I couldn't tell what was going on in the ref. 8D *hide* I want to do a proper picture of Bobbin though, a bigger one so that the detail can be clearer.
I do like the gator. :3

Zee Coloring List

I'm going to try something different when it comes to coloring. In her tutorial, Setsu-P says she scans a drawing then prints it out to ink and color, leaving the hard copy untouched. That way, if a mistake happens, another copy will be readily available. I think this is a problem with me. I've always colored on the originals and got pissed if something bad happened, leaving it unfinished or finishing it hurriedly and half-assedly. And that's a reason why most of my pics are half-colored. >.> So, I'm going to take a page out of Setsu's book and print out my old scans. Hopefully, they'll be colored. 8D

I've already started on that Chibi Tower Senshi Meshia after printing it on good paper which can handle colored pencil.

Others (and these are OLD):
Kri's Sailor Musca
Jateshi's character (Tanzanite?)
Maria's Funhouse and Mae
Ayashi's Sailor Pessinus and Sailor Pluto (I'll have to draw in Pessi's red jar thing and Pluto's eye first) This picture I have completely lost. Thank gods I still have this copy.
Circle's Sefina: *ahem* The original agreement was to paint this, but after messing around with it, it became screwed up (holes and crinkling). The problem was the paper, which couldn't handle acrylics. It had to be thrown out. Now that I can (somewhat) use oils, I'll look for good paper and see if it can hold onto oil(after I use Photoshop to erase those unnecessary lines).
Setsu's Isis and Cyrus (I need to draw her other characters soon. LOTS of those buggers are running around.).
Luna/Lotus' senshi: Even though she doesn't do senshi anymore, I still like these and had ideas about how I wanted to color them (with a limited palette, based on their outfit colors).

From here:
Sailor Metal
Daenan and Kehai for Shai (these were getting colored, but then I got mad at them. 8D I can use the scans as a fresh start.) I'll do this for that Zai'al and Daenan(shown on dA,) pic, and maybe the solo Zai'al drawing when Shai tells me how the outfit's bottom half looks.
Gunner! Kashoku after fixing her arm.
Maybe Lucifer.

Remember those leg pictures I was doing of my characters with other peeps' creations? They'll be worked on again. :3 I just hit a slump. Same goes for the 100 characters meme. Tried to continue yesterday, aaaaaaaaand nothing came. ;_;

I need to code more of my site too. Geez, no wonder I get so flustered and slow down. o.O

A Daily Dose of Vitamin OC (Long)

5/14- Just fixing a few things.
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Note: Instead of embedding so many vids, I'll just list songs and other junk through links (unless there are only a few things I want to share. I don't want to crash any browsers).

 Whew, Blogger was down for awhile or I would have posted this yesterday. Lots of people had shitfits about the service being down too. o.O I just wrote everything in a document so that I could easily post then run when everything was back to normal. Some comments have temporarily disappeared due to the downtime; hopefully, they'll be back.

Anywaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Quick sketches. They'll be done over (I hope, knowing how wishy-washy I am) but it's proof that I'm not ignoring those suggestions. :P

Grimmy and Hollow-suggested by Ayashi: Nothing much here. I tried out several poses and I think the top left one will be best as a full-sized pic. Hollow in all of these looks submissive, eh? Well, I figured that since he deals in death, he'd be a little respectful of a personification of death. My Grimmy is becoming an OC. Oh dear.

Speaking of Death-these amuse me:

Drivetime Commerical  (patting him on the head XD)

Hidden Camera

Violet for Luna- I wanted to draw that crazy hair of hers as shown here I also wanted an excuse to draw a classy character pigging out on chocolate, sinc eI'm bitch like that. Sorry, Luna. XD

Grace for Circle- I don't know how I came across this gal. I have three images of her and know nothing about her. (Care to enlighten me, Circle? :3 I'm curious about the dude too) I was intrigued by her expression; it seemed snobby, but I liked it. XD I like the hands here, but they're BIG. 

 

Jadine's Sofya/my Sophia- Not meant to be shoujo-ai.

Jadine and I joke about our two Demiurge stories competing with one another, considering how we both use Gnostic and Buddhist concepts and have a character based on the Pistis-Sophia (and other characters have similar names). Hers is more loosely based on the Gnostic mythology, while I take a more literal approach (idea-wise anyway. I doubt Sophia was meant to look like how I drew her.) That stuff on the left is a branch.

>.>

Derrot and Momoko- I know nothing about this Hello! Project, but Derrot loves it. I checked it out today, and DAMN. This “group” has a lot of people in it. I'm not into Japanese music mostly, but maybe I can find something I like within this vast...thing, ^^;

Momoko Tsugunaga is her idol/goddess, so I found a hairstyle and outfit that I liked of Momoko's. I dunno what happened. XD Japanese fashion is so odd sometimes. I added that ribbon/cloth to make it look as if she were floating like a deity.

Momoko is cute (the real one). I tried making her look Japanese. BAHAHAHA. Failed there, but I like the peaches that fly like helicopters. (I THINK she's associated with peaches. Hope so.)

Didn't paint today. D: I'll try tonight. Here's another pic of the WIP. I mainly added the ears, more shadows and muscles, smoothed stuff out, and the blue sky background. I've started on the clouds (and they're kind of difficult). Does that nose vein look too weird? I think I should add more suggestions of the veins since horse veins tend to be visible from the eyes to nostrils.

With Flash (more accurate representation of hardcopy)

No flash (see a little more detail).

Daily Cuteness/funny!

Putting Corgi puppy to bed

Tickling Slow Loris 

WTF Kitty 

Husky: “I Love You” -  Sure, this is nice and all, but imagine hearing that howling ALL the time. Damn huskies. ._.;

(OMG, I'm becoming that lady from the Heavy Metal Cats video! D: )

Nostalgia Critic's review of Langoliers(you probably should see the movie first)

Death Metal Vocal Exercises

Perry Bible Fellowship

Music played:

Hedwig- Wicked Little Town  and Midnight Radio

Feeding Fingers Fireflies Makes Us Sick

Sirenia Sister Nightfall

Repo- Zydrate Anatomy

Chase the Morning

Kate Bush- Hello Earth

King of the Mountain

Night of the Swallow

Mastodon Oblivion

Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year

The Decemberists – Hazards of Love

Happy Rhodes Ra is a Busy God

Closer

Poe Haunted

Emilie Autumn Find Me a Man

Shalott

306

Fair to Midland Seafarer's Knot

Within Temptation Angels

Type O Negative Todd's Ship Gods

Epica Indigo/Obsessive Devotion

Kamelot Love You To Death

Pink Floyd High Hopes

Mai Yamane Rain

Blue

Jem 24

You know, I forgot about the 100 Character meme. 8D   I'll get back on that.

An Off-Day (PMMM)

Not my best day today. Nothing came out right, but at least I have some ideas. Yay?

First, my Shimo and the unnamed Viking girl who was shown briefly. Were the creators reading my mind? Did they already have this gal planned before I created Shimo? Are they watching me?! D: Or am I just being paranoid? (Yeah, that's it)
It came out horrible. But it got me thinking about how I can probably create a relationship of some sort between these two. *ponders*
I kind of like how quickie St. Joan came out. I don't like how the show included her as a PM because of the implications, but eh. I wanted to make her magical girl outfit anyway, while keeping her tough warrior aspects. (I've always admired her) Not done though. >.>

Kyuubey! This was going to be an Easter-themed thing, but someone beat me to the punch. XD I KNOW they're called Soul Gems, but I always mistakenly call them Soul Eggs. I find humorous the thought of Kyuubey laying these Soul "Eggs." Yeah, I got mad and made him derpy. I R SRS ARTIST.

I'll continue that 100 character meme. Hopefully, I can make something better this week. ._.; Nighty night.

Bunch 'o Scribbles

I should call this a scribble blog instead of a sketch blog, since that's all I seem to do these days. >.>

Lots of crap today!

Itty bitties- You can't figure out what these are; only I know. Mwahahaha! These are tiny "thumbs" for bigger pictures I want to do. (Mostly Angel Sanctuary and 12 Kingdoms stuff)

Pristiq- Nothing much, but it's a start.

Cherry/Hellhoney gal and Sophia/Sofya
For Derrot and Jadine. I'm doing bigger pictures, but these are just silly things. (Derpy Sop(fy)hias)

Hell Known as Eden- Idea for a much bigger picture of Alexiel from Angel Sanctuary in her prison, most likely tied to a pillar or wall by vines and wires.

Sailors Asclepius and Sun- Remember those V-Day pics I was drawing? This is just a preview. They're being worked on (really late), but life is "eh" at the moment.

Moroloth and Slayd- For Kristian over at Insect Kings.

Songstress! Kashoku- From A Twist in the Myth. Awkwaaaaaard. But still fun. Which form should I do next? *ponder*

I'll be checking dA later. Projects need to be done and I think a storm is brewing. D:

Crap Crappers

I had an off-day. Bad news came in the morning and I haven't been drawing much due to painting. So everything came out "eh."


First is a FAIL sketch of a hippie mermaid idea I have for a painting. (I have other ideas for manatee, gator, and angler fish types)
Her "bra" is made up of two large marijuana leaves. Yay.

Second is Shimo,  one of my characters for Puella Magi. It'll be for her "official" profile.

Aaaaand, this is gunner Kashoku from A Twist in the Myth. I am on chapter two and it has caught my interest. I know nothing about Stargate SG1 and I haven't touched Final Fantasy X (or X-2) in a long time, but the story is still understandable (thus far).
Yeah, the arms are funky. I need to work on perspective. >.> (She's supposed to be holding a gun, and not pointing with a large finger. *snerk*)

FALLEN Beauties

A couple of awkward sketches for FALLEN. (Includes underdrawings!)

I love the characters' designs (and the story, of course) and hope to work my way through all of them. These are just random quickies I did in order to get a "feel" for the outfits. I want to draw the characters in more action-y poses later on.

The first shows warrior!Arma and civi!Arma,  who is in a ghostly form/illusion for some reason. o.O Maybe Lamia's being a bitch and making an illusion to tease the leader, I dunno. (Why does it have claws? XD) Arma goes through an identity/gender crisis throughout the story, so...yeah.

The second is Lamia (that bitch!). Other than a small head (how do I always manage to do that?!), I think she came out okay. Just okay. >.>

'Twas fun though!

See the creator's dA profile here. Beautiful style!

Gimme My Throne, Ya Bitch!

Two quickies for Shai at Incyanity.

I kind of failed. XD

Let's see... the first one is of Zai'al the High Priestess of Madora. She's very ambitious, manipulative, and arrogant. But she's very intriguing.
Looking at this pose, I noticed how familiar it was. Then I realized: It's the same frickin' pose that I used for Pure's character  here. Totally unintentional! D:

The second is Zai'al and Daenan (with little dragonflies)!. This influenced the title. For those who have read all of the available chapters of "Heart of the Empire." this makes sense. :D Fun fact: I used to get these two mixed up (names). Shai had to correct me several times...Okay, it's a dumb fact. >.>

I love the story; I can't wait for more. Go read!