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

Summer

It's summer and whilst most people are outside having fun or doing things I'm stuck at campus until July. Fair enough I will get my piece and quiet to do some of the homework I have been set over the summer, but it really is awfully boring sitting alone in a place that becomes more deserted every day while everyone else is home having fun.
I could at least get some nice weather so I can go sit outside doing work....

Earlier doodle I did in terms of some kind of "what I'm wearing today" thing. First one is from 16th, the other one is from 26th (today).

 web cam pics of sketchbook because scanner decided that since the ink it's full the scanner shouldn't work...idk what's with that thing, but here, have some flipped drawings. :E

And then comes a doodle I'm not really sure I like or not. More cartoony looking Fuego, but somehow I feel her eyes might not be entirely the right shape. (And let's just pretend the back of her hair is not a mess and the pigtail looks nice.)