A late-night doodle that I uncharacteristically decided not to delete for once because I'm not utilizing the idea of my blog enough... Which is for me to track my personal progress and thoughts, etc.

I've been trying out a lot of new art programs lately. Mainly because of the fact that Photoshop is such a heavy program that it has a high risk of lag and takes too long to start up sometimes when I just want to do small doodles. So far I'm favoring MyPaint (the one I used for this doodle) and FireAlpaca. Both are fairly lightweight programs, and are free.

MyPaint doesn't have a canvas limit and no paintbucket tool, so that's why the edges are all strange and rounded in the bg. I feel like I slightly favor MyPaint because it has no canvas size - it just makes doodling easier and faster without me having to worry about size as I usually tend to draw really big and sloppy. I also like that MyPaint has more brush texture options and such. Sadly, the hot keys are very strange (b=open the brush box instead of just switching to brush mode O:<) and some of the shortcuts are if anything... inconvenient...

The character on the way left and the top right corner is named "Rohan Badal". I drew him earlier... P: Basically, he worked as a waiter through some of his studies, so I wanted to draw him in uniform. He also was a nurse for about a year before quitting because working at a hospital was too depressing for him.

The top messy doodles is of a girl named "Ballari" who is Cameron and Rohan's adopted daughter. She's tomboyish - like one of those spunky girl types? Haha... I dunno. She's also deaf, so the two learn BSL to speak with her. She can talk, though, but has a bit of a "deaf accent". And she reads lips, but it's obviously not as reliable as sign language communication with her, of course.

The character in the middle is named "Darius". He's actually this character with a different look. The character becomes an actor in the future and is one of the main cast in some teen, supernatural show where he plays a "bad boy". The punkette girl (named Gabriella Bannes) is supposed to be another character from that show (her real name is Rosa Aguila)- I'm still working out her design. I'm still working on this with my friend, Yevie. We're hoping this goes somewhere to be a fun webcomic about the show itself. XD

Basically, the show has it's own concrete story and stuff, and the cast for the show talks about it and stuff in side comics and such. My friend and I thought it would be funny because it's sorta like poking fun at the ability to look at yourself from an outside perspective and poke fun at it like a creator would for something. That, and the characters they play aren't the same as their real selves which also means funny commentary.Yeah... we thought it was fun. P:

I noted that I'm not very good at drawing characters with darker skin like... at all. The last time I tried to paint a black person, I ended up painting them in a way that made them look pasty. I worked on this for a bit and I think I'm getting closer to getting it right, but not quite. : / I need to expand my horizons and draw less people who are white and Asian because that's all I seem to draw most of the time. >___> Aahh...

Her hair was actually a lot less painful than I imagined it would be. Since the hair was sort of all over the place, I just made up a lot of the stuff and took a biiig leap of faith as to where to put what shades. It worked well, I think. But I'll of course experiment some more on that. :V

She's supposed to be my character Felicia, but I think I messed up. Not much of her character really came through in the drawing because I got really obsessed with making it look good instead of making it look like the character .=__= Oops. Also, I need to do a texture study on denim material some time... That jacket looks like a plastic blazer or something to me. O_o;

Aaaanywaayss... First three things are commissions I did for some people at Fanime. Fanime was a nice experience and my partners and I made a very great amount of profit considering this was our first time selling, and the fact that our spot was in the back corner facing a wall. =___= (I'm still a bit miffed on that, but oh, well.) The last one has WEIRD colors because it was made in CYMK in order to better accommodate for printing. I swear the blue is NOT that obnoxious in the real file. >_<

My favorite is probably that Link as Kamina one. I wasn't very sure how to execute it since the guy said he wanted the iconic parts of the gear that Link had like his sword and shield. P: I really wanted to show that shield design, but when I positioned it in a way to show off the shield, the pose did not seem as dynamic so I gave up on that thought. D: On the furry commission, I'm going to keep in mind that I need to draw more lizards and stuff. That dragon took me SO long and I'm still not really fond of it. >__>; Agghh... At least the guy liked it.

At the moment I'm planning on selling at Japan Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in August. O: It's realllyy pricy, though, which is a big downer, but I hope it will go will if I go, despite it being their first time as a convention. XD Hopefully that will go over well! O:

One last thing is this cup I doodled. :V I'm a bit sick at the moment and without much to do so I told myself to draw whatever was on my table. It's not finished, especially since I spent a lot of time on the cup handle. Turns out I'm not very good at drawing cup handles. O___O I also realized how much black there was on my table. =___= It was a pain in my rear end to separate all the black objects in terms of shape and stuff. I think I mostly got it. If I wanted to continue this some more, I think I would have gone back to render those wires a bit better. 

I am SO mad at myself.... =___________= I spent a looong time trying to re do it but ended up just using the same thing and deleting the re-do. URGH. Oh, well... but I guess that happens~.

Fanart of Marshall Lee from Adventure Time on a giant cream puff~ :) One of many prints I have set up. >__> I need to get to them faster. I mean, they only take a couple of hours each, but the level of procrastination I'm pulling is just getting ridiculous.

 Fake movie title sequence for class. Uh... I think I seriously messed up on the character. OMG WHY. TT____TT

Weird note... the preview is the right shade but when you zoom in it gets like a bazillion shades darker than it's supposed to be. O_o; I don't know why that is...

Doodle in my sketchbook.

ANI 28 - Ball Bounce

Ball bounce for class. Two very similar balls... One was just more foamy in texture. My issue is that i think I need at least one more frame in the first ball roll. It looks like it suddenly picked up speed from nowhere. O_o;




Second one is a leaf fall and a brick drop. The leaf honestly looks more like a fish swimming through water but uh... I'll take it. I'll hopefully find some time another day to do more with the brick. I originally planned to break it in half, but I was getting tired and I was at school for almost 24 hours just animating and doing other work.