Monday, February 25, 2008

Scribbles V

Mini comic of the DGM series; showing the domestic life of Kanda and Lavi. Lavi tries to cook, but what on earth does he use? Heh, I'll definately ink this one and then colour it. Might take a while, but I'll get to it.
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Left to right: Levante's aunt, Ue and Aein (younger). Ue in uniform, which I will post detailed designs of later.

Aein, Blithe and Edel again. With scary doll-looking eyes in the foreground! I know it sucks to see b+w pictures (and poorly scanned ones at that) on the blog all the time, so I'm trying to see if there is an alternative to this situation. A scanner perhaps, and no more photograph+upload? Or I could ink these images, but I already have a huge backlog of stuff to be completed.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Scribbles IV

I would have inked and coloured this, but I'm simply too tired to do this after an entire day of revising for my midterm next wednesday. The boy at the foreground (with the neck-a-chief) is called Clementine Edel May, but just goes by Edel. Then the girl on the left is Blithe, and the characters in the background from left to right are Phys, Aein and Monday.


Top to bottom: Monday, Blithe and Phys. Monday and Blithe are siblings whereas Phys is their cousin. (Blithe and Phys look very similar to one another, which causes some confusion; does Blithe look like a boy, or does Phys look like a girl?). Both Phys and Blithe have orange hair colour, except Blithe has green eyes whereas Phys has blue. Monday has a shock of pink hair with brown eyes. They all have Bauhinia as their surname.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Scribbles III

Image of Lavi and Kanda as children, and wearing strangely designed outfits.I don't know if I want to finish this, since I started it in 2007 Oct and never had the motivation to continue. Drawn and coloured completely on Open Canvas.

Just a draft copy of an image in intend to draw of Aein (left) and Rue (right). It'll have a white background, with minimal colour and emphasis on red. Aein and Rue look so similar to each other (and I have a reason for that). Aein has light brown hair, is possibly an unintentional sociopath; whereas Rue has white hair and is openly and conciously viscious with his actions. Both of them are constantly confused about other people.

The subject was...

The day started fabulous. The weather was delightfully cloudy and grey. I went to work (after bailing out yesterday) and got a lot of things done. I ordered my graduation sash. I finalized most of my statement of purposes. I finished my Renaissance Scholarship application and handed it in. And I managed to have lunch with an old friend of mine. Then I went home and found my roommate.

My roommate #1 has to be the most inconsiderate being alive. And I know for sure I won't miss her when I graduate in three months' time. Horrible, aren't I? But she keeps taking/using my stuff without asking, and she's constantly blasting her crappy music out loud when I'm trying to study. She throws her trash over to my side of the room and her clothes all over the floor. And then there are those awful phone conversations she has with her friends and they are both loud and annoying. Especially when she does that baby-voice thing with her boyfriend....who she is currently cheating on (roommate #2 and I know about it because she was so obvious with the cheating). The other day she was on the phone with her friend and said that the main reason she was staying with her boyfriend is because he has a job and a stable source of income. That's the only 'good point' about him she came up with. Can you say, gold-digger? Such a two-faced, superficial and incompetant person (I'll explain why these adjectives are suitable later). I'm not even going to do anything about that situation, because I know it'll end in disaster. You should only attempt cheating if you're mentally meticulous ad great at organisation. She has neither of those traits.
Roommate #2 is good, so no complaints here. We get along perfectly fine.
Roommate #3 is the new girl that moved in this semester. Personality wise, she is nice, but she is a semi-slob. I say 'semi' because whilst she leaves the most astronomical messes, she does know how to clean. The problem is, the doesn't clean often. The dishes are piled up in the sink until the end of the week (and the kitchen smells like rubbish by then), and she leaves her crap everywhere. I don't know how one person can leave their toiletaries in both sinks, or how one can use up three towel racks. Or how one can use up to three pans just to make a sandwich. I don't want to be mean about the clutter, but I'm starting to get a migraine (and I suspect a stomach ulcer) over it.
Heh. But then I can comfort myself with the thought that roommate #1 lured #3 to live with her next year. Ahhh, how interesting would that be? Das ist unglaublich!

Monday, February 18, 2008

Scribbles II

Left to Right: Phys Bauhinia and Aein. Phys is Blithe's cousin, and is the same age as her. They actually resemble each other alot (heh), and their mothers were twins. Phys, Blithe and Monday (Blithe's elder brother) currently live with Phys' mother.

Left to Right: Clementine Edel May, Blithe Bauhinia and Aein (OLD drawing, with character designs from 2006).
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"Rainboots". Kanda and Lavi as children...to be inked and coloured soon.

V+DAY=...?

My main V:Day illustration...go and check out the full version at my DA site. I don't submit much stuff there anymore, but I do like to share with the community once in a while. I was supposed to have a V:Day card tradeoff this year, but unfortunately I ran out of time and resources (in other words, I am too poor and I am an undergrad student with a very full course load).
And here is the counterpart to the Allen V:Day drawing, but I decided against submitting/finishing this off. The design of his (yes, HIS!) outfit doesn't match Allen's as much as I thought it would. Ahh...I love designing little dresses like these. Totally unwearable in the real world, but I can be a dreamer on paper, can't I?

I went and watched the Vagina Monologues the day after V:Day. I would highly recommend people to watch it, no matter which theatre troop is performing. I watched the one my roommate and other college people were in. Whilst acting at the college student level isn't exactly steller, the strength of the writing and the vulnerabilty of the interviewees made the entire production very powerful. I proudly admit that the Comfort Women segment almost made me cry. Other touching stuff include the women in South Asia who lost their faces due to acid attacks... I can't believe that such things are going on around the world (I knew about them, but to hear other people act it out and to know that these stories are from real people...a completely different experience).

End of Weekend

Just a colouring test to see how I deal with different levels of shading. The answer to that is: not very well. I need to practice more. And plus, I ended up with a completely different colouring style than my own. But then again I drew this in a style that doesn't resemble mine either. Hm...is this a sign of illustration-bipolarism? (I made this term up).
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Anywho, I watched Dexter on CBS yesterday....I can't afford cable in school housing and watch the non-censored version on Showtime. But then again, I wouldn't want to watch the uncut edition since I can't stand blood and gore at that level (hence I am not buying the DVD sets). I like what I saw from the first episode, but you never know how it turns out. It could end up like Lost (I have no bloody idea what is going on anymore) or the Sopranos (...).
President Day's weekend went by like a breeze, and I ended up doing nothing. Of course, some poor soul wanted me to go out with him for lunch, but I really wasn't up for it. Too damn sunny. And then I got invited to go on a brief weekend trip up in Pasadena with family friends, but I didn't feel like being exorcis-- I mean, go to church. Pft.