Sketch Pages

Looks like I'm staring to beginning to doodle more backgrounds in my drawings. I have two drawings I quite like now, one of them is from back when I was home in January, the other one is something I doodled earlier today. Working mostly on the first one, actually enjoying doing a large drawing for once. Will see if I still feel like finishing the second one once I get done with this one.

Funny thing I seem to stuff the characters in the kitchen all the time. Have no idea WHY. Thinking back I have done this a couple times before, though those are drawings I never finished, only one ever made it past the sketch stage. I guess the kitchen is a fun place where you can make lots of things happen, or have lots of interesting things in the background.

Undine, Ciara and Nulpi
All characters belong to me, fuegokid


Candy, Blaise and Agni
Blaise belongs to Ai
Agni belongs to Kerri

Another note; got to do a collab drawing with Kerri again. Had lots of fun with it, I really do enjoy outlining and coloring her drawings. Though I should probably have remembered to send off the reference drawing of Daisuke before asking her to draw him. x3
She almost got him right in the first go, pretty good for simply relying on memory.

Original Sketch by Kerri

Yo and Daisuke belongs to me, fuegokid
Colored drawing by me

Doodles

Started sketching just to relax. Somehow it turned out a 3 panel comic like thing. Apparently my mind have decided that one of my character are going to be downright lousy at doing Oregami. Poor Daisuke. Even Kaimu is making fun of you. (Though I think Yo is wondering how on earth he could screw up a paper crane and make it into something looking like a dog...)

A doodle for my cute lil sis Zing. -3-And something I think was somewhat of a fashion drawing test using Ai.

I kinda like doing these quick outfit doodles, something that is stuck from the year I went fashion and design I guess... whatever, it's good for character design. And it's rather fun to do.

House of many ways

Just finished reading House of many ways.
It's now the next favourite after Howl's Moving castle.
As much as I wanted to like the second book in the series, Castle in the sky, I don't really like it as much as the first and third. Those two have more in common considering the writing style and feel to them.

But what I loved most about this book was Twinkle. So adorable *3* just had to make a sketchy doodle of that cutie face~

New semester

New semester going on over here. The projects they are giving us will be lasting longer and we'll have more to do, but somehow I don't like working in the spare time I have between classes. I guess I find the studio too noisy with three different year groups trying to work at the same time. I do really enjoy my silence. Working later at night, around 6-ish to be more precise, is something I find to be really nice. There are normally only two or three more people there, and they are all working quietly. I guess I still enjoy doing things in a backwards way from the others.
When they all go home to eat dinner and hang out with each other, I come to the studio after having dinner - ready to get some work done.

So while everyone else is being good little animators working I stay at home reading children's/teens books, scribbling bits and pieces of stories and designing characters.

Currently reading House of many ways by Diana Wynne Jones. Though I quite enjoy it, and the book before it; Castle in the sky, my favourite will still be Howl's moving castle, which I will most likely read again after this one. I really do love the books, but I'm not so found of having pictures at the beginning of every chapter, it sort of disturbs the pictures in my imagination.

I think the only children's books where I accept the use of pictures is Roald Dahl's books. The illustrations by Quentin Blak is so wonderfully childish, they actually play in my head as the story goes along. I don't think there is any other illustrator that have been able to make me play along with them no matter how good they are. I guess I'm just a stubborn artist that either reads the words or the pictures. Never both of them at the same time. If it has text I make my own picture. If it has a picture I don't really need the text. ...as proven when I was trying to learn Spanish. I was given a children's book. It was about a boy moving to new place, having no friends he was unhappy. He found a puppy he was allowed to keep in the end and he was happy. (or he was playing with a ball and some other kids asked to join, they became happy friends etc, etc.)
Now, to be honest...I don't think I read a single word in that book. I hardly even remember it being text in the book. All I can remember is the pictures. x3

Storyboards

At school we did some storyboards after being given a script, as practice for both making storyboards and later an anematic. I'm done with both, but I'll only be showing a few of the storyboards, will avoid putting up the anematic if possible because of the scratch track. It's me doing, or rather, failingly trying to do the voices of 4 different characters.
The storyboarding and anematic itself was fun to work with. I really do enjoy working with storyboards and anematics.