~allnighter effort~

Holidays make me laazzyyy

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:38:30 GMT

I probably shouldn't be posting at this hour, and no doubt I'll be regretting it tomorrow. Shall probably spy tons of small mistakes and etc that'll haunt me for a week.. but whatever.

'Cause fruity illusionists posing as a moe 'assistant' is EXTREMEly ______!!!!!!

All he needs is a little lacy lolita headband.

I should seriously stop 'expanding' when I freestyle paint .. this is seriously getting out of hand OTL .. doodled spontaneously when I was supposed to test out a Photoshop function that I wasn't aware of prior. Leo totally started off as Kiku (Japan) before Mukuro taunted me in my ear. *sighz He's also missing the Millefiore badge thing on his left XD .. oh well. Blame Byakuran.

~~Must draw Mukuro in his hooker boots next.. asdlfkj~~

I think my brain imploded D::

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:41:41 GMT

Errrr .. Randomly, I wonder if anyone else went and YouTubed for pineapple documentary videos. OTL;; They were exceedingly educational. >D>D>D

Moving on, I've just discovered how big of a LJ-noob I am D: Ever since MSN crapped out and their client refused to work despite being overinflated with a whale's worth of bloatware, I've been using Pidgin as an alternate. Pidgin doesn't tell me when I get new emails in my inbox, so I'm more or less dependent on my own initiative to go check. ~~Which equals nil due to my short attention span.~~ So this all led up to the discovery that zomg not all LJ replies get delivered to my LJ-inbox. Aka replies on comments on other people's journals. OTL So sorry if I didn't answer to anything recently, don't wanna necro old posts lol.

NaNos.

Just two this time, one of which I went over a few times so its almost print quality instead of speedpaint.. again OTL;;

Theme: none. Its an old character though. I think I only drew her once before. Evil priestess blahblah.

Theme: action..?? The clothes are very much WTF in this. Think the parts I like best in this are the bg and the tip of the sleeves. HE HAS RAZOR HANDSSS.. OTL

So what have I learned from these two?? USE PALETTE KNIVES D: Then I'd be less tempted to 'fix' things.

Phail NaNo

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:01:14 GMT

So sefeiren and I were all fired up this month to do some NaNoManGo-derived stuff. Basically a speedpainting/doodle per night with a random theme each time. No actual manga, since we're lazy and its too much effort. We started on the 4th, and there was a skip on the 8th, and then it all went downhill on the 10th. Seriously, it really only takes one skip D:
I ended up refining some during the off days, its easy to tell which OTL;; Really gotta stop going back, it destroys the meaning for speedpainting. *sigh*

Theme: none. I just tried to design Khel's court clothes when he was a kid. Kinda like it, kinda not. The girl on the right may or may not be teh fiance.

Theme: painter style. Nameless someone who started off looking a bit like Qein;;

Theme: manga panel. I lazed out on this one, and it shows. Left: Khel. Right: Qein.

There's more but will update later.. They're stuck on my TPC which I used to draw these. All are a bit color corrected since the laptop's screen is horrific at depicting saturation values. Mukuro様 in the Magnet pic had fluorescent blue hair when I transferred the psd over to desktop OTL

D: No moar~!!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:40:27 GMT

Seriously. Too much touchups on this. For better or for worse. ~~I seriously don't even know anymore;;~~ This is IT. Bloody version of Magnet v10069.

Preview::

Minor fixes; nail color is correct now, background isn't so dull, although I keep second guessing myself on that one..Next time I'll just go for a giant blood stain in the back;; OTL

**Edit
Forgot sefeiren asked me about larger version of the "muku-lace" lol. Here it is..

It just looks complicated when its painted and cut in. Link if you use it please, I'd like to see the pretty pictures it gets used in ;_;~

***Edit
1280x720 Wallpaper version here due to request ~! I had to crop off the top and bottom or it wouldn't fit D: ~~lol I fail at wallpapers~~

TAT Thankyou everyone for the kind comments~! ♥♥ I'm so glad at how well this is received! OTL
~~A bit bulldozed over by the amount;; haha~~

Demo Reel 2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:19:46 GMT

XD Posting this everywhere, haha.

Anyways its finally done!~ I've spent a long time agonizing over every detail, encoding especially drove me up the wall~! I read too many tutorials about the 'best settings', and eventually ended up making up my own~ OTL

Covering my bases (aka breakdown)::

Toot and Puddle, Jimmy 2 Shoes, Wayside, and The World of Quest are the property of Mercury Filmworks. All scenes are animated using Toonboom Harmony.

Patches is from my 2007 graduation film.

Music soundtrack is ナミダボシ by PUPPYPET

moe-ness and general 69 goodness

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:18:01 GMT

Meh. Another Reborn! CG. Tried out the grayscale and color overlay method. Didn't like it. I'll take my old fashioned straight on painting method, thanks.

骸様 looks very young here. Taking place sometime after the Estraneo Famiglia wipeout, ready to take on the world, 骸ちゃん?

Blah. Got feedback halfway while working on this that Kakipi, aka Chikusa, aka the hat-wearing kid, looked like he's pregnant. Something about the arch of the back and plus his shirt flying up in front of him. Ended up changing his pose D:

I hate background painting.

Vocaloid, KHR!, Magnet!!! and lolita hats~

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:48:52 GMT

D: KHR! has ate my brain. That and Vocaloids. Hetalia was more for the pretty fanart~ although I admit I haven't been able to keep up with the latest episodes. Shall have to remedy that later.

I've been absolutely suckered into tegaki (手書き) raving. Holy shit.. I'm almost afraid of logging into YouTube now for fear of endless hours of watching one tegaki after another. They're addictive!!!

【腐向け】【手書き】骸救出 10年後捏造【6927】【リボーン】 This one is one of my favorites D: Its so sad but so much ♥ Its 6927, aka MukuTsuna ~ The art is awesome too~ Kinda puts me to shame; my leika for my 4th year film was nowhere as polished as this!

I've been watching a lot of Vocaloid songs too, NicoNico is always good to go for the originals, plus the onscreen comments are pure crack~ Miku is a mainstream favorite, but her voice tends to be a bit too high for my taste. Randomly about Miku: HOLY CRAP T_T Why is her coloring so similar to my character Khel!!?? Her fanon male version "Mikuo" Is almost a carbon mirror of Khel @_@ asdl;fajfl;sj

Honey - NANAMEUE ALL☆STARS - Based on the Taiwan version and choreography by 王心凌, which is in turn based on a Korean song "Summer Dance" by Lee Jung Hyun @_@;; What a circle XD

In anycase, the Vocaloid version of Honey has really smooth animation, it makes me get interesting mental images of the Reborn cast doing the dance steps~ Mukuro and Chrome in place of Rin and Len? xDD Oh gawd.

Allin was surprised that Gakupo isn't my favorite Vocaloid; he really isn't, but he's growing on me like a fungus~

Seven Weeks War Is UTTER crack. Vocaloid x Hetalia, with Kaito as Austria and Gakupo as Prussia. Its too damned catchy.

Magnet - Kaito and Gakupo - The song that started the whole mess which led to this post. D:

10069 is my OTP~! I just had to fit them into the Magnet theme @_@;;

The sketch; complete with neon pink gothic lolita hat, hearts and veinpops.

The initial 'finished' version, aka the deviantArt version.

And lastly, the final 'bloody' version. XD This is the one that remained true to the original sketch with the bloody eye. The original sketch was done before the lastest chapters of KHR! came out, so the last known appearance of Mukuro had him all bloody and defeated by Byakuran in chapter 169. Epic chapter, epic chapter number. The wings are also brighter with glowy afterimages. I'm not sure whether I like this version of the wings or the dA version better. I'm tempted to reupload to dA with this version, but not sure how people who've already favorited it thinking its a nice non-gorey picture would take it. =\

**Edit The older version of 'bloody' 10069 magnet got overwritten and is replaced by the new and final one~ So you're spared how horrific it was. Huzzah~!

MUKU-LACE. I actually spent a day and dedicated it to making a lotus flower patterned lace just for Mukuro. Just for that tiny lolita hat. A bit overboard? Perhaps. But somehow after this CG I'm craving a picture of lolita!Mukuro now. Lotus flowers from the lace are also reused in the background; they EXPLODE xD

Recent stuff~

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:40:52 GMT

Been on tinychat lately .. It kinda helps to motivate me into the mood when I see others drawing/stuggling/cussing at their canvas. ~~Companionship in misery.~~ Results of my efforts in the following.

Request for cousin. Its him as a c-rock guitarist. LOL c-rock.. crockpot... *dies* The guitar = annoying to do. I got finicky with the details as usual and basically shot myself in the foot when I started detailing it.

OH GAWD. Cordierite. I really suck at coming up with titles. This almost ended up being named -Cardinal of Blueberries- *headdesk* I never meant for that gemstone thing on the shoulder to stay. It was a brief moment of zomfg what do I put there to make it look like court regalia?~!! Anyways.. he's Khel's eldest brother.. yes its a guy *headdesk*. I actually avoided writing anything gender-specific in the summary on dA, oh gawd. They're not very close. Probably met a dozen times at the most in their lives. I don't even have a name (still) for him. OTL There's probably something in the database I can use though. He's a politician.. those markings on his face are part of court drama.

Original doodle done in MS paint::

LAWL Looks totally different. X_X

Reborn rant:
ZOMG Mukuro COMES BACK~!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥

It kinda makes me all sad in a way since they wouldn't be rescuing him from Byakuran's clutches all bloody and pretty and moe~ Especially since the last time he appeared was in chapter 169, which more or less epically canonized 10069~ ~~ booo ... I shall have to hunt down more 10069 doujin!!

Compiled doodle dump~

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:11:57 GMT

~~Or rather, a halfassed attempt at making it look like I've done more over the past few years than just MMOing.~~

Its all from 2008 and onwards, the ones prior are too messy to organize, not to mention I couldn't be bothered to copy and paste 250+ scribbles around. MSN scribbles. That's right. *is shot* My trail of fandom obsession can be tracked easily by the contents.

Sadly, I had to scale it all down by 50% after I was done putting them together.
Sample in original size:

Warnings for crack, suggestiveness, boyxboy, and stuff that might blind you.
Fandoms/Series: Code Geass, FlyFF, Naruto, Original stuff (Katalyst, Patches), random series I don't recall the name of, Death Note, WoW, LotR, MacrossF, Bleach, Reborn.

Somewhat large filesizes, 1000x600 D:

Re~~p0rn~~ only at the end ♥ Must. Draw. More. 69.

AN 2009 - Prints

Mon, 25 May 2009 22:50:07 GMT

Thought I'd post more another day.. but I got bored~

I only ended up with four new prints: one original and three fanart. They took me way too long. The other print I brought was that old Fullmetal Alchemist print I tried to sell in AN2006.

The sketchpaint I started sometime mid-March to get me back into the groove of painting again. It spanned across several days; I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the background, and since I was painting on Chesede-TPC, the colors were a bit off. Khel! Its been a while since I painted him. There were only three prints of him, but I was surprised when he sold out. One guy even asked me to autograph his copy ; - ; he was also the only one to ask for an autograph ~~ego curls and shrivels~~

First serious fanart in a long time. I experimented a lot with my painting approach in this one. Used mainly Painter's palette knife to paint. The background .. was . horrific. It was incredibly pink and purple, and looked horribly like I'd lazed out of doing a serious job and simply used a Photoshop 'dusk/dawn' gradient on it. >_<; Somehow I managed to save it. Its still not as good as it could be, but at least its not searing my retinas now. Kyuubi's tails were actually color coded in rainbow colors around the color palette to help tell them apart. My lameass nick for this was 'fruitloops' and 'cheerios'.

I'd meant to actually do a more serious Code Geass fanart instead of this one, and perhaps with the original sketch I would have sold more prints. However I do like how this turned out. There's a whimsical feeling to it; at the end of the series, it really makes this one seem sad.

The last print specifically done for AN. And also the fastest. X_x Figures it'd go that way. It also sold out in the smaller 8.5"x11" size, and there were actually people asking for more of the smaller ones. D: ahh Lulu. That Knight of Zero!Suzaku bought this one xD it made me squee muchly.. and probably scare poor Suzaku muchly;;;

Lastly, the FMA fanart I pulled out of an old backup DVD that held my noob art. Apparently Vic Mignogna was a visiting Guest at the con, which is the reason why I guess people actually bought out the few prints I made of it.

I almost forgot these. XD They were done the day before I went to Staples to print. Specifically drawn to be sold as bookmarks.. Perhaps I'll upload uncropped versions of them later. There was a spazztastic in-progress screenshot which coincidentally had Lulu look like he was leaning on Madara xD Now there's an odd couple~ they have frightening amount of similarities between them now that I look back on it. eek

All in all I guess it was okay for my first table experience. I guess I'd have more prints at the next con, and would know what prices to go by. I didn't take any commissions though, and am glad I actually broke even without doing them.

AN 2009 ~ Aftermath Cosplay Pics

Mon, 25 May 2009 22:41:57 GMT

This is gonna be a big one~

First of all: cosplay! There were so many awesome ones, I really wish I had time and motivation to cosplay this year myself. I managed to catch/flail/get people to stop and pose in front of my booth, some of whom made me squee more than a bit xD Sadly I didn't have my actual FlyFF!camera with me, and had to make do with my crappy cellphone camera, which is rather grainy and stuff. And also the stupid overhead lights kept providing glare >:X.. Here's to hoping that the various people I've exchanged contact info with at the con would remember to send me links to their higher quality versions. X3

Going in chronological order ...

ANBU D: there were a whole group of these guys ~! My phonecam was so blurry T__T

Lulu XD! the FFX one Apparently she's in fashion design and she had this whole weight distribution thing for the belts figured out~ it was mighty impressive and the details were amazing *_*

Dosu~! I rarely see people cosplay outside of the main characters.

Dx My evil bookmarks of doom cut off Reborn's face in this one :X I didn't realize until he ran off =\ He had the small green lizard on his hat too T_T

ZOMG~ Soutaichou and his vice-captain whom I can never remember the name of *_*;

. . .
*dies* ♥♥♥♥
These two were way too awesome T__T<3 Emperor/Pope!Lulu and Knight of Zero!Suzaku~ They had all the details down to the little ruby eyes Lulu designed everywhere~ The Pope!hat was being carried by someone else I think.. XD too bad I forgot to ask the Lulu cosplayer to pose with it on~ D:
Height of the moment: Suzaku bought a Bloody Emperor print from me D:~! That made me squee for a long time afterwards xD! I want more pics of those two now ; _ ;

Ciel!

Yoruichi-sama.. I also saw a Soifon running around, although it didn't occur to me at the time I could have taken photos with my cell ~

Dark and Krad; now there's an obscure fandom that I didn't expect! I did a double take when I realized they were twins too!

I have no clue what fandom/game this is from but its awesome D:

Sneakshot of those ANBU from earlier xD! Now with more of their group~

Euphy and her Knight D::: I wish I got a closer shot of the earmuffs xDDD ahem Princess Leia buns XD they had little pearls embedded in them @_@

Sora and Kairi D:! They had matching mirrored little crowns, keyblades and wings. I think Kairi's wing is hidden a bit behind her tho~

Another Sora, with Riku this time xD~ This Riku couldn't really see D:~ Sora was leading Riku around XD!

Another series I have no clue of D: But looking awesome enough that I wanna find out.

Ciel and Sebastian; haha I didn't realize I caught Sebastian blinking XD!

Minato! The only one that passed by me D:

I seriously need to watch Ookami one day =\ .. almost didn't realize that's what they're from.

>xD Grimmjow and Aizen!!! T__T<3 too awesome. My only regret is that I couldn't find an awesome Byakuya Dx!!!

Hellsing; I don't recognize the character on the left but its the jailbait werewolf kid on the right xD!

zomg~ This one had a backstory in it. On Friday my partner and I were walking over the bridge back to our hotel, and we saw this Sebastian leading Ciel around by the hand xD, in that butler-~~milad~~milord posture too >xD. We kinda burst into semi hysterical laughing a few feet after we passed them. Haha I hope we didn't scare them too badly. But this picture also had Greil and the Undertaker as well >xD So its a full set of my favorite Kuroshitsuji characters *-*

Royyy ~~ tama-chan AMV comes to mind

RIKU~!!! there needs to be more happy Riku in the game T_T

D::: ♥ Itachan. Another story: A fellow artist was going around the tables doing trades; this was on Sunday so various people were swapping. She, the artist, had a box of pins, and wanted to trade them for my bookmarks xD! She thought my Madara was a Lelouch, but when I told her who he was, she took a closer look and was like OOHhHHh xD! And I kinda went the same when I realized she had an Itachan pin in her Naruto pin-pack ♥ And then I realized just who was standing behind her and was kinda gesturing dumbly look look !! D:: And Itachi was somewhat bewildered, I don't think she knew what we were going on about >xD. My fellow artist came around the table and we took happy pics :3333 xO I hope she sends me her higher quality pictures of Itachi XD!

America! XD D: I'm not too sure who that is behind him though D: There were also Italy and North and South Italy, they had those hair curls; but they moved too fast for me to catch them D:

America also gave me a gummy American soldier xD~

That's it for the photos, there were others but it'd make a ginormous post so I had to stop somewhere. Stopping here for now, I'll make another post later about the actual prints for AN.

Too hungry to give a damn.. insert title..

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:51:14 GMT

.. Fridge raid in T-2min...

First off: going to AN'09 this year.. with a table..finally. I anticipate much head aching, belly aching and butt aching. Feeling rather uninspired despite the fact that I finally actually got a table.. there's a first time for everything.

Feeling rather spread out at the moment.

Death Note - Took another turn due to the movies.. somehow I'd only watched the first movie when it initially came out, and skipped the rest. The fandom's kinda .. stagnated. So.. not sure about the reception for fanwork for it at AN.
Shaman King KangZengBang!!! - Takei Hiroyuki's continuing it!! Since March or so. Moar Hao-hime please~
Naruto - kinda kept up with it.. or rather, read only the Itachi bits and became thoroughly disgusted with the Sasuke-asskissing. But Minato made an appearance in the last few chapters \o/ Although that has to be the lamest confrontation ever. Or maybe I'd been too spoiled by fanfics of how it'd turn out.
Violinist of Hameln - zomg its finished!! T_T; And I didn't actively keep up with it so it came as a surprise. LUTE~!! There was a 4panel with Bass being a perv and poor courtesan!Lute getting spun about by his obi .. But can't be bothered to find it just now. There's a sequel for VoH already: Shchelkunchik. In which the art went from classicly-appealing, to somewhere along amateur doujinka. I honestly wish he didn't update his style. >_>;;
Kuroshitsuji - I am dying (no pun intended~) to draw more Greil >D! He's ever so awesome. Plus, he has Lelouch's seiyuu, Fukuyama Jun. He's psychotic and his habit of trying to grope/get into Sebastian's pants, and his little clippers/deathscythe is pure win.
Bleach Musicals - D: That's right. Not the series, but the musicals. Taichou Boy Band here. Aizen and Gin ♥♥ duet here Rewatching it several times kinda makes me wanna do another Bleach cosplay. But naaaa.. its been way too overdone. Although.. perhaps arrancar? >D Now there's an idea.. Although I'd be much happier with an actual group.

Art-wise.. >__> errrrrrr.

Full on CG. Originally intended to be a warm up for my AN prints. Somehow went a bit out of hand. 4000x3000~ pixels !@_@
Moved Khel a bit to the right and fiddled with the composition.. Added the magic light effect.. which looks semi-cheesy but I can't be bothered to do anything more atm. What else.. Smoothed out the background a bit.. Was tempted to add in flaming architecture on the left and hint at some further buildings in the distance, but it looked crowded as it is.

Doodlepaint.
Byakushiii D:: Looking somewhat femmy here, but better than the quick doodle I originally had. He looks good with and without his kenseikan~

Nothing more to update.
Must. Have. Food. Nao.

BBB...(been beyond busy~ ..)

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:02:33 GMT

Got totally ran over by work since the previous post..

The subject (or one of them..) of this post is ... ALIEN hat. That's right.

Backstory: The parents visited a weekend ago, and before they came, mom informed me she'd knitted me a hat. Suffice to say, my twisted animator's brain fed me some rather nightmarish mental images of the dreaded horror. Something like a sock hat perhaps. I hate sock hats. So I told her, half jokingly, that unless it has bunni ears then I don't wanna see it. So Saturday comes, and mom digs out of her bag, the hat.

I think I shall let it speak for itself.

Proudly exhibited by my awesome bunny with the electrocuted/melted together fur.

It looks like.. some kind of alien hat. Words cannot describe this.. .. thing. The ears are thin and triangular.. I guess mom didn't take into consideration scale of ears vs head. It looks kinda like a mutated snail if you squint. *_*;

And since its Halloween.. or just past.. I had nothing to wear (again) cept my ol' Bleach cosplay. Which is definitely much too overused by now. I was putting it away and practicing teh correct way of hakama-folding, ~~too many wrinkles today, the 7pleats were near invisible~~ when I realized that put together like so, it looks kinda .. neat in a nerdy otaku way.

A CG since I'm guilt-tripping a bit over the long hiatus in updating...

Done for Sorien for his hack forums. Was meant to be a header for his blog but then he went and made himself a forum.. so now its... the sole image in the entry page. Based it off of his FlyFF character, since that's my initial mental image of him. The shirt came out awfully alike to a Uchiha shirt; but I didn't want to do a FlyFF costume since that'd be.. a bit out of context. Data on the multi-displays are actually from a screenshot of Fiesta.bin that I'd opened in olly. hinthint*sori, multiclient plox~

And lastly D8.. ~~rambling on a crapload of different tangents here.. but whatever its been a while.~~ scribbly doodles for fun from msn.

suzalulu is n00dly

R.R forever~~

HAPPY B-DAY Lawliet ~!!

And that's all for today.

non-traditional 'raf' art

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:01:24 GMT

D: Semi-late for the previous week's concept, which was Mayan. A bit of rantage first though..

I'd been trying to tie in my stuff with Katalyst whenever possible, and lately while browsing my old old severely out of date database, I realized I had the stereotypical high fantasy races thing going there still. Blahs to the early influence of TSR books and Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance and such. Giants, elves, dwarves, trolls, etc etc.. they were all there.

/headdesk.

Somewhere along the past few years, thankfully, the world development process itself for Katalyst had kicked the majority of that jargon out the door. Now the criteria was for intelligent races that perhaps drew from one or two of those old high fantasy roots and modernized.

I had a moment on the bus to work where I had a mental image of Khel trying to take community transit because he was trying to avoid official crap, and a .. troll kind of person boards next to him, slacks and shades and all. So all the little old ladies and schoolkids are staring at these two non-conformities... and then Q catches up to Khel on the next stop and snarls wtf at him. At which point my brain just went lawl.

Soo.. deviated way off topic actually.. my takes on something that's 'trollish', with a touch of mayan. Scribbletacular .__. Only two this week; I tend to draw these only in between scenes or when my brain goes numb from too much mouse clicking at work.. and the past week has been a bit busy.

At first I tried to go for something feline in the face. But now I don't think I like how the muzzle/jaw turned out. Its a bit too wide for my liking. This would be a hunter, I guess :X

\o/ Shaman-type. This is the one I envisioned boarding the transit with Khel. >D Imagine him in a shirt, slacks and little round pink sunglasses. Uber.

I liked the shaman guy so much I colored him out of boredom. *shock* ~~Well actually I was waiting for my partner to get online so we can grind exp but that's another matter.~~

Quick color design paint dabbing. Much blaaahhs if you zoom up.

Lazier and lazier...

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:10:06 GMT

Taking a page from Sef's book .__. screw cleaning up scans, I'm just going to leave them as it is if its more complicated than a simple leveling.

A few Khel stuff left over from the last entry that I got too lazy to finish scanning. The first one has Byakko and Arune's as of yet un-named little familiar/umbra critter. Nobody ever gives raccoons any major roles The second has Khel's head cut off on the top pic T__T; maybe I should get bigger sketchbooks.. but then again, I'd hate carrying them around everywhere. Third one is much blah. I think the one on the left is the one that began the current line of costumes I've been doodling. It looks like a lot of weight on the upper arms from all that drapery, but screw that xD this is fantasy.

Onto teh so called Emperor stuff..

I've been trying to expand a bit onto my multitude of secondary and supporting characters, if only to flesh the world out a bit more. Cerin Di'Lore was a bit difficult at first. There's this kind of omniscient presence that I wanted to instill in him, in particular if he were to be the acting leader of an empire. I think I'm screwing myself over with the current political structure for the Akhyr Empire; there are so many counterbalances for power set in that I'm not too sure myself how the country would act to various situations..

Cerin's .. scepter of power, lets call it for now, is a dreamweaver type of device. The royals of the First House of Di'Lore have the Aspect of time Espera; whereas "Espera" is crudely defined as supernatural gift inherent in the blood, and an Aspect is a faction or subdivision of it. The finger guards on his hands serve as a tool to manipulate strings of possibilities on the confines of the dreamweaver, and bring them to reality.

It all sounds so grandiose till I get to the actual costume design. And blast it, tangents everywhere!!!

I ended up not being able to decide on a diadem for him.. he'll probably end up as a 'hat' person and change diadems at every occasion.

Random sketch of some girl who's totally out of place in the entire thing...

And the sole drawing I did for this week's concept: Celtic ..

It feels like Arune, cept Arune has a raccoon familiar thing and not a raven.

Ever so slowly...

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:33:37 GMT

I'm getting way too lazy to scan stuff and resize/crop for the net. *_* At any rate, there's probably only one more backlog update left till I get to the current pages of my sketchbook. Not that there's much there.. >_>; I'm not that good of a costume concept designer; I get bored halfway through and start doing other stuff. Got a scene recently at work though, with a lot of camera movements. So I'm anticipating a bit of render-waiting time during which I can properly procrastinate to draw.

Onto today's bits and pieces...

First off, some random guy who looks decently perturbed at the thing I put him in..

Yay onto the main stuff::

Courtly clothes?? OTL Perhaps a bit plain, but I can always add on textures later.

>< His face is rather off model here.. ah well.

There IS a purpose for wearing long sleeves into battle, I swear D:~ !! It, uh.. helps to condition spell casting movements >>;; D'ilell fights with metal fans. The splines separate into individually maneuverable rune pieces; with it, he can structure complicated spells on the fly~

Khel in normal clothes~ yay. I seriously need to work on getting him to look consistently the same age.

Blah, scans are rather messy but its too much trouble to clean up the sketchbook binding areas.

And I just realized I'd skipped a few pages while scanning Ah well, it'll be added in the next update I suppose, along with the emperor doodles.

blahblah.. I lied.. massive backlog maybe..

Sun, 18 May 2008 05:09:53 GMT

I came to the realization that .. my Blogger url is given out to coworkers and teh 'business' people in the industry. And hence can't load it up with personal art, scribbles, ~~pr0nz~~, and general fanart-gasm. Sooo.. upon giving it more thought, I think I'll use LJ as an art dump xD; One, being too lazy to finish developing my site. Two, wanting to get back to art blogging and stuff again.

I'm still a bit iffy about posting stuff on Photobucket, at least for now -- wary about where they're ending up at. Not to mention Photobucket has a rather annoying filing system..

Anyways.. on with the clutter backlog

Mainly Kanna/Khel and Serike~ Oh and a few retarded animals. fun.

The three more detailed ones are crossposted on my blogger.. I'm contemplating moving the rest over if I ever get around to coloring any of the ones that are already there.

The last one is officially a zomgwtfbbqboredom! sketch page.

Quick post to check if I can hotlink pics from blogger <w<

Sun, 18 May 2008 04:32:35 GMT

WHEEEEEEEEEE

**Edit.. guess not <<

Head over to the actual blog thing for a full version ..too lazy to organize and upload onto photobucket. Link somewhere in the previous post.

@_@ mm its been a while

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:36:31 GMT

What's with all this new crap on LJ >_>; Can we upload images yet? *clicks Insert Image*... Looks like a no. Interesting Photobucket option though. Maybe I shall put it to good use. Although I'm not sure as to when Photobucket starts deleting shit randomly. Hmm I'd use it.. except I'm not too keen on not knowing where all my stuff will end up, and plus Photobucket is disorganized as hell. Maybe I'll start linking from blogger? hmm And oh. That brings me to the point of this entry after the Raf-IceAge.

\o/ Yay I now have an art blog~! Starting since... a year ago. *cough* This LJ one has too much rantage to be considered much of an art blog anymore as it was originally meant to be. I might still post art stuff now and then, but its no longer my main art journal. Not that I update the Blogger one that often, but at last I do update it xDXD

Anyways, linkies:: http://eliphae.blogspot.com/

**Edit ~ Think I'll change the BG now and then to various msn scribbles xD seems entertaining. Therefore.. BG of the update: Luluko~! Long live Luluko~~ (Code Geass for those currently residing under stones) and YES its canon <3

zzz too troublesome

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:08:43 GMT

Figures I'd be finally updating while procrastinating on work.

The site died cause I haven't had time to put out the new layout yet.. and didn't want to pay for webhosting when I had nothing new to display. It'll be back later, hopefully.

Over the past year I've been working on.. Patches.. my 4th year film. Yay.

No actual concept work, the following is something I'm doing for the yearbook and doesn't really relate to the actual presentation/style of my film =X

They're gijinkas really. Or rather, humanoid versions of my characters, a stuffed bear and a dust bunny. Aka, Patches and Bunni. Somewhat corny in terms of plot, friendship blahblah. But yeah there it is. That's what I've been doing. ~~Oh, and FlyFF of course..~~ That's all :x

Random thingie

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:49:16 GMT

@_@; a certain pervy knight sent me this.

Your Birthdate: July 8

Watch out Donald Trump! You've got a head for business and money.
You'll make it rich some day, even if you haven't figured out how yet.
A supreme individualist, you shouldn't get stuck in a corporate job.
Instead, make your own way - so that you can be the boss.

Your strength: Your undying determination

Your weakness: You require an opulent lifestyle

Your power color: Plum

Your power symbol: Dollar sign

Your power month: August

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

D: Lies I say!! Lies!! Or rather, I think the key phrase here is: "if you haven't figured out how yet." <<;

AN

Sun, 28 May 2006 06:31:49 GMT

After a long exhausting day, I'm back home again with a building migraine. As much as I'd like to go again tomorrow, I doubt I can work up the energy to.

Anime North 2006. Ugh.

Backtracking a bit, Friday wasn't bad. In fact it was pretty decent as far as the first days of conventions go. Pre-registration check in only took around 20-30min, we roamed around the building, AA, and the Dealers Room. They had these round plastic fans with pictures on them that I really wanted. But despite numerous trips back and fro between the hotel and the congress center, I never got to find where in the Dealers Room they originated from. We missed the lineups for the Masquerade and the Kotoko concert, and ended up having to wait for the following day, (today), to get the stickies for them.

And that's where the whole thing went downhill.

Saturday was a gigantic mess of lineups. First we had to get the stickies that'd land us a seat in the actual thing. There was the Kotoko and the JRock North in one, and then the Masquerade. The first took half an hour or so and the second an hour. Then came the massive lineups for actually getting into the room to see the concert and the Masquerade.

OH MY GAWD.

The Kotoko concert started from approximately 3-5 (the timeslot was a bit wavery). But by 4:30, the line still hadn't gotten to us yet, so we basically gave up and went for food. Of course, after that we went right back to lineups, this time for the Masquerade.

W. T. F.

This baby took three hours and more to grind through. Apparently the Kotoko autograph signing ran over time (wtf they couldn't move the damn thing is beyond me; apparently the two events were taking place in the same room), and the Masquerade was delayed. Three hours into the wait up line, some retard volunteer went over the line telling everyone to stand up, and that those who remain waiting won't be getting a seat in the Masquerade. So now we're not allowed the freedom of .. sitting. o_O;; is this stupid or what? I'm sure that violates the rights of freedom or whatever Canada has in regards to that. A few minutes after this, another guy in a suit ran past bellowing like a bull on stereoids: everyone sit down NOW. Apparently some guy lost track of his 14 year old daughter and the con people had to locate her within 20 minutes or else the police will be called and the building closes and everything gets shot to hell. Towering stupidity. Somebody brought up the point that nobody ever made the masses in SkyDome sit on their rears for an unestimated length of time whenever a kid goes missing. The hilarious part is when one of the volunteers let out the fact that the girl went missing with her 16 year old boyfriend. Oh. Sweet. They're probably doing something nasty in that room with the blow-up doll in the window that could be seen from across the street.

I'm sure the father must have been appreciative of the.. cooperation and .. concern that the convention staff were giving him. I do wish that the father could have at least compensated the 300-400 odd people who were left to sit on their asses for hours while his precious daughter is getting caught with her boyfriend off somewhere. Pizza would have been nice. That girl should have been marched down that hall in a walk of shame. I would definitely join in the booing.

What drives me mad the most, is of course that pompous jackass who initially ran past the line telling everyone to SIT DOWN. I'm sorry Mr Matrix guy wannabe, but you seriously fail in customer service. You do not treat people who are paying your organization in order to see each other perform in an area that you're paying off by their paychecks, like this. We are not dogs, we do not answer to sit down or osuwari like a trained mutt. It would have been amusing if the entire lineup got up there and then and left the convention entirely.

Left and right of me, in the center of the seated masses of people. The line doubled back outside and then looped in the parking lot, I believe.

I find no motivation to return for the final day tomorrow. My batteries also died on the digicam halfway through the Masquerade (when it finally got running), and I got mega-awesome blurrs from the distance and the moving as well. Hopefully next year I'd actually be able to get a table and a hotel room. Sadly, one of the best highlights this year had to do with the Jrock music video screening. We had a super laggy laptop and chugging images. But we got free stuff..a shinkensen pass and a pair of pencil caps that I traded for a fuzzy pink Hello Kitty bag. I still have to go back and find who some of those Jrock bands are.

This has to be the worst convention in years.

...

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:48:23 GMT

It seems everytime I come back to LJ its due to some large event that makes me want to rant a lot. Nonetheless nobody really gives a shit anyways to what I say in real life, so I guess this is a good an output as any.

I like FlyFF. I wouldn't say its the ultimate superfantastical zomfg meaning of my life, but it really is what kept me sane the past few months of work on the animation project.

I guess I can justify half of that on the community, and perhaps, on my guild. There has been ups and downs, but I can say its not much and I don't really give a damn when shit happens. I realize that we weren't really the type of guild I'd imagined a good guild to be. There's just so many fucked up things about it that I can't even pretend its half-way decent. Whiners, scammers, plvl beggers; they've all had their time. But what really annoys the shit out of me is the fucking hypocritical son of a bitches who exist to make life miserable. The community is fucking sexist. If you say youj're a girl in real life, apparently you get all the hot shots, the best items, the best treatment, and ofcourse everybody sides with you because oh my fucking god whatever comes out of that cesspool you call a mouth must be holy words of doom.

I try to be fair, I never abused my guild position as Kingpin, not even when some jackass dissed my mother; I ignored the retard and watched over a guildie who underwent his Ringmaster quest. I could have kicked that bastard so fast out of guild he wouldn't even see his fucking guildcape disappear. And yet what do I get in the end, I backup another guy's refusal to come back to a place where he's been had his ass handed to him by both a guildwar with a guild thats 20 levels higher and by the surrounding aggressive monsters, and I get the entire guild flaming me. Sure you can power level him back his exp, but what does that do to a person's ego when you say, "Oh, sure whatever, I'll get back your puny exp 'cause since you're obviously so low level that it doesn't matter that two hours of work just went down the drain. Oh, psh, you reject/ignore my offer? Well then screw you *insert >_> ascii faces*, no power leveling for you." I guess I could have been overly presumptious about what the other guy thought, but there is such a thing as independance and self-pride in achieving something for themselves.

What irks me more are the hypocritical geniuses who go defend the very person who had been a jackass to you. Why? Because apparently they are 'nice'. I love how that term is used. Nice is when a person is a total snotnosed brat, who apparently is high level and therefore he deserves major ass and bootlicking. Nice is a person who utterly ignores and rejects a proferred olive branch and answers you with an "I'm too good to acknowledge your existence, low-life" sort of air.

There is no such thing as neutrality while being friends to both sides. You end up being a traitor to both ends.

I like FlyFF too much to quit. Not to mention I'd be letting these things win against me if I do. But its when times like these that really make me wish to go back to the old days in Phase1. I liked FlyFF better than ROSE for the anonymity. I liked being guildless without the sense of being tied down. But at the same time a guild keeps you sane and having fun when you're at the higher levels.

Sarcastically, its nice to know that when a girl throws a tantrum and goes off to sulk on another character, only to return minutes later, is welcomed back by the entire guild. Yet when a guy(?) tries to stand up for someone, they become ostracized and flamed.

I'm probably taking this way too seriously than I should be. But although the excuse that 'its just a game' can be used many times throughout this rant, to rebutt it, really, every poly character is a real live person. I've just been flamed and insulted by numerous people who were friends or close to me for months, it isn't a happy state of being. Perhaps quitting the guild might provide me a fresh breath of air. But at the rate the higher hierarchy is being built.. I have my doubts. I could turn to WoW or maybe even back ro ROSE. But they don't have the same feeling.

Giving myself a day or two to cool down and sort things out.

I hate this restless sense of perpetual waiting.

Flyff fanart goodness results in photos???!!

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:43:55 GMT

Long story short, Clan Exorcist was revived!! However shortly, with only *counts*.. Luc, Sef, and myself;; ... and our alts. But then ROSE went to p2p. And miracle of miracles, FlyFF is back ♥ with a rather vocal GM. ;;;; Things were good, there were actual events: race to lvl 50 in one month, and most importantly: Halloween fanart contest. AHAHAHAA ;;;

I came, I saw, I conqueored. (Probably not quoted right but whatever;;)

Psykeeper Khaen =D

To tell the truth, it wasn't finished;; .. Khaen's missing the psykeeper headhear/coronet thingy; and I also forgot to include the skeletal bat wings;; the costume could have also been better... Ah well XD;;

Closer up. (The anatomy makes me wince when I look at it too long x_x;;)

The result of that was me getting scared out of my wits by GM Chris popping out of the earth beneath me during skill lvling. (might post screenies of that later;;). I was on my assist at the time; and I honestly thought he was another freshly KO'd person wanting res. OTL. So we ranted, and after a few days, I got this in the mail =D.

ZOMG I can't believe he used FedEX. They're so freakin expensive. This one guy next to me when I went for pick up was trying to mail two books. The fees came to over $130CDN. He was looking all calm about it too. >_>;; I was also prepared to pay the duty taxes O.o;; but surprisingly and happily Chris paid them already XDXDD;; or rather, it was said to be billed to sender >D>D.

Byakko =O!!! gishkishenh and rakshar gave him to me ;_;.. they give me a lot of things TT_TT;; *dies under heavy heavy guilt anvil*... He's so fuzzzzzzzzzyyyyyy >:O He also has a mini-Byakko. Which scares me a bit;;; He's also wearing a bunny hat I fanmade for DOGS: Twins =D.. I didn't want a pink and black hat, as green-blue and black is much better x3.

Byakko with Athrun plush!! also from gishkishenh+Iris;; a mass majority of the following items to come are from her;; *dies* .. photo focus isn't very clear 'cause I still have trouble using the focus thing. X_X

XDXDXD Teh plushies on my bed!;; Along with my paopu <33 I wonder if this is the first time I posted an image of Riku-Paopu?? hmm;

XOX;; More presents from Tark >w<;; Athrun looking rather intimidating; I think the camera flash is a bit strong here *_*;; and zomg he's skinny O_O.

Close up.

Zomg size comparison *_*;;; Ultimate contrasting character design for DQ >D

Originally I had a few shots of Kakashi next to Athrun. But the size relationship and the pose made him seem ultra pervy. Three words: Line of sight. And yes this is taken on my desk;; .. the cans of coke are actually less than normal;;

XD!! Wallets!! I never used to have very interesting wallets; the fuzzy round coin purse was as flamboyant as it got. But then sefeiren surprised me w/ the Itachi on the left (after we agreed pics only on bdays;; *insert guilt anvil*). I also have a .. keychain w/ chibi-Itachan inside x3 fufuufufuu. The other's from the twins again *_*;; (gaaah Tark;; gaah Iris!!;; ~~@x@ ~@x@~ @x@~~) Much Athrun love XD;; I guess I fangirled him a lot ;; and a lot of Haros ;; drawings of the two are a bit pixellated from the zoom out;; but ah well xD.

Last photo before it becomes overkill: my work area OxO;; zomg the clutter;;;

Fwarrr;;;;

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:15:17 GMT

X3; Getting in some art before I start the naROSE screencap spam >D;

Somewhat with more feeling than the random doing-nothing pic from the last last last.. ;; . post. Really need to get rid of that hunched look x_x; blearghh;;

OxO don't believe I've posted about this yet..; there's a shirtless version at the site XD; hover over the 2nd pic to get rid of the shirt >D; Altho the shirt was added on last.. X3; but its still fun >D

And finally a non-Khel pic. =_=; Qamaris =D!.. May respell his name later on.. but sticking with the current one since I've had it in the database for so long;; Setting for this; I'm imagining sometime when he's still young and has no idea where his father went and why everyone thinks the guy's such a traitorous jerk and stuff;; XD; May scan and post up an image of the guy later. o_o;

>O So recently I've been playing naROSE..;; and currently is higher than I've ever been before, and decently rich in a non-hacking community =D. Trying to sell off rares is a challenge *_* but if I do manage to get rid of the damn sword I dropped, I'd be 80-90% close to getting my clan x3. Exorcists is coming back =D!!! And hopefully there'll actually be people to populate it -_-; otherwise it'd be just sad.

So some pics; I've finally found how to make pretty screencaps =D; "/noui"; aka no user interface. X3; Quite good, but only when you're not in the close vacinity of a monster. o_o;

Fairy <3.. Caught it while it was descending on me >D; pretty <3 This was in the Goblin Dungeons.. o_o;; I also got another fairy which dropped down on top of the first shortly after. Incredibly odd. Fairy count: 10 on 3 characters *_*; 7-main, 2-Laeh, 1-Jalon.