I was about to sleep when I suddenly had the urge to try doing helmet designs again. I'm still not all the way fond of my helmet designing skills, but I feel like I somehow hit a breakthrough. D: I think it was me slowly realizing how stuff connected in 3D space. One of those things I wish I was better at catching onto. >_O Agghhh... Oh, well - one step at a time. The bottom are the pencil sketches that I did before the grey blob-attempt version of it above.

Random digital doodle of the day. The colors are totally wonked out 'cause I decided to play with all the filters. >__> They're just layered funkily.

The rest are some traditional medium stuff I've been messing around with:

The top one is seriously strange, especially the face values and shapes are funky and I obviously had a bad reaction and tried "fixing" it by drawing over it with pen ink... making it worse, actually. >__> I tried doing something weird with my paint and values this time so it all went to mud. Better luck next time? P :

The 2nd drawing is something I did while I was at FurCon, it was a commission for someone who wanted me to draw their fursona on top of a nqx green blade model helicopter. I did a few other commissions, however, this was one I particularly liked and I forgot to ask for the copy of the other one I liked from my friend. >__< Oops... I'll get it another time, though since he's my classmate.

While working on the commission at FurCon, I realized that I have a habit of basically putting speed lines and random, abstract shapes whenever I get nervous about the background. =__ = I feel like it's a problem because I'm using it like a crutch instead of something stylistic. You can see the same problem in the human doodle below. D: Abstract lines because I messed up somewhere and want everyone to not notice the mess-up area.

The third one is a doodle I did to make a fake ad for myself for the next con I'm going to. I covered up the words because I don't like looking at my advertisementing... go figure. =__=

While I was doing the traditional media, I had this brain pop sort of a moment where I realize more and more that I think I enjoy working in traditional media a bit more than digital media. To me, the concept of throwing stuff onto my page and then praying it dries and stays the way I want it is part of the excitement I love about traditional media. I can just throw random things with a pigment or whatever can make a shape on the paper and sometimes I get super happy accidents. Happy accidents just don't seem to occur to me when I'm working on Photoshop, though. I think it is just my brain being very used to traditional media. To this day, drawing on my tablet is still a bit of a brain boggle, like I have to forcibly re-wire my brain to make it make sense in my brain. Maybe that'll pass with age, though? Mysteries for five years from now...

At the same time, digital media is so much faster, especially when it hits that point where you're waiting for the paint to dry. And I think I like my digital media results better, it just has more content availability in the time I have. Instant gratification, I guess?