Back to school

 I'll be going back to England this weekend. I'm hoping the second year will be better than the first, I got a little too distracted by laziness and my nice, but somewhat noisy roomie. Hopefully I will be more organized this year, I don't like spending my holidays re-taking things.

I'm trying my best now to learn Japanese. Not for any specific reason, but for fun. I really need some "boring" theoretical work to do next to all those practical studies I will be doing at uni. Also learning new languages is kinda fun when I get to do things at my own pace.

I can count to five and write あ、い、え、う　for now, though I'm a bit unsure if my u's are written correctly when I do it on paper. I should probably have someone over at lang-8 look at it and tell me if it's all horrid before I continue it...once you drill something into your mind it's hard to get it out, especially when you mostly rely on wrist movement.

The one thing I'm going to miss at home besides my friends is training Taekwondo. I like my teacher and the people there are nice. I hope I can find some place in Falmouth that has a nice place to train it, I don't really want to quit doing it since it's not too hard on me and it's useful to know self defence.
If I can't find a place like that I might try to see if there is another material art sport there I can try out. I might check out the Aikido thing, but I never liked the price they had on their poster. xD

Boring post without drawings is boring. Will probably be having them next time. I don't really feel like drawing on my tablet these days.

Anyways~
Sayonara, Cheerio(s) for now.

on livesteam and drawings

Been staring to do some livestaems again. My friends talked me into it. I don't mind it, though it does annoy me I can't go surfing around on the internet in the middle of it all, but then again that's a good thing. I get the drawing done much faster. Did a sketchy type of drawing

Na'ima, Iriangi, Tama and Phoenix.

 My Kitsune characters. Iriangi is a ninetails, Tama is a sixtail, Nai'ma seven and Phoenix eight. They are part of a world my friend Ai made, so they can't grow more tails than what they are born with. Though they can hide their tails and/or transform into humans.
Those swirly thingies around them are magical orbs. The grey ones are Iriangi's and the Orange belong to Tama. Na'ima just learned how to make them and Phoenix is too young, so theirs aren't floating mysteriously around. x3


If I'm not online there are still some recordings on my Livestaem channel.

Xei requested a drawing of Black Rock shooter. I was thinking of doing some dynamic pose all cleaned up and shiny, but I liked the sketch with my new-found pencil tool in Sai, all thanks to Kerri. I tend to like my sketches better than my finished stuff, especially if I spend a lot of time on the sketch.

One old, one new

Undine, Ciara and Nulpi

Something I started working on ages ago. Some people might remember one of my sketchdump posts. Got tired of working on it for so long, so the sktching is rather lazy, also I didn't really know what to do with the lighting. At least I have started TRYING to get some atmosphere by playing around with a bunch of filters on top of each other to get something other than just flat light.

Karma and Karmarali

Felt like drawing mine and Ai's twin characters after watching the vocaloid video of the song Matryoshka. They look crazy enough to fit perfectly with the style.

Osaka Castle

Decided to try my hands on a bit more backgrounds, but somehow I got lazy again - no surprise, and I decided to just go with it and draw it. After all, it's practice.

My characters Kaimu and Yo, playing around with soap bubbles next to Osaka Castle.
I learned from this that it's easier to do cityscapes in photoshop. Sai is missing the flat brush that makes nice, easy and quick square buildings. Think I will try do that next time, do my buildings in photoshop, at least until I get more used to sai and find away around it since I didn't find a flat brush like that in the menu. -3-

Young Howl

Young Howl

Finally colored it. It was actually fun to work on.
You'd think that I would find the castle the biggest pain, but that was actually the fun part. The biggest pain was the hillside, followed by the clouds. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the clouds, but I can't seem to make them look right even when looking up tutorials. There is just something I do with the brushing - I guess I don't really experiment enough, I like my good old comfort zone too much. I have to start getting out of it.
Starting in the small I guess....
Will try to do backgrounds on my pictures over the summer. Even if it's just a sketch. <3

Used one of Ghibli's pictures of the castle in the movie because it was more a practice piece in painting, which I myself think was a bit failing since I didn't get the texture on the rocks and clouds exactly the way I wanted. Then again, it was something I did for relaxing so I'm moving on to the next thing now.

young Howl doodle

Watched Howl's moving castle today. I felt like doing some fanart since I never do that. I love Howl so much, probably because my mind keep mixing the Howl in the movie and the one from the book.

The thought of Howl making the castle some time after he made the deal with Calcifer. The castle wouldn't be as big, and perhaps a bit less messy, though still rather wobbly walking the hills. Howl would collect things over time, slowly adding to his castle as he needed more space for his books and charms....

Been missing drawing a lot. Sketching <3