Language doodles

Just a couple sketches based on when I'm learning/talking with Japanese on Lang-8.

 

Some people are a bit harsher and straight forward than others.

I appreciate both, but prefer a softer approach.

Uhm. yeah.

I can't pull good looking thinking faces.

I always end up looking bored.

Adventure time

Been having this habit of drawing adventure time style lately.
I drew me and some of my classmates.

I ended up as a vampire with a random ghost hanging around me. I didn't really do much with the boys, except making one of them a bit too small, but we figured that was because his sword was too heavy for him. (And I'm sorry for spelling your princess Kaycee's name wrong the first time around.)

So yeah, vampire self. Whose vest once upon a time was red...
Because she gets out of control with her eating she have a sliver cross bracelet to keep her powers suppressed and it causes her skin to be less blue than other vampires. Her urge to eat is so bad that if she spaces out she will start chewing on random people around her. If the hunger gets strong enough she will even be eating the color pink, however, since it's a lighter (and less filling) color than red that will not keep her hunger at bay for long.

Her default expression makes her look bored/sleepy. It doesn't change that often since the bracelet is making her whole person a bit spaced out and dull, but it doesn't really take much to tick her off if she haven't had food in a while. Though she seems to mainly let her (mostly short lived) anger outbursts out on the ghost that travel around with her.

The ghost is a guy with a sakura flower on his head. He doesn't seem to be saying anything but "UUUOOOUUUHHH" and other ghost sounds while he floats around. He has taken a liking to the dull vampire girl, never straying far from her side.

Character: Zen

Before the summer holidays started I made a character. He was supposed to be a vocaloid or something, but I ended up making up all sorts of rules for him, and I decided he'd be better off as my original character. At the time I simply named him "No.17", and he was to have no other name.

The only things about him was his as his system ran out of power, his color would grow darker. I made a little drawing of him, but when I went home for the holidays I forgot to bring it with me home.

I really liked the concept, so I decided that I would draw a reference for him, even though I knew I couldn't remember him fully. (In retrospect I did remember quite a lot, but the first drawing is still the one I like better.) Adding the white as the 'turned off/out of power' and working out how he would read memory cards and such was quite fun, but I keep finding slight logical problems with some of it. His number also changed to 15, which I think I am actually more happy with.

 

Now that I have both drawings I am currently working on fixing things up so that he can make some more sense, starting from the bottom (more or less). Just because none of my other characters know everything about him and realize what he is capable of doesn't mean I shouldn't. So I have started with how he is built. Mind you, I am not in robotics, nor do I ever plan to be, so I am just having some fun with this.

I have decided that he is mainly a soft silicone like material on the outside, covering up the wires on the inside and he is put together similar to a ball joint doll in terms of of the joints. So if his elbow broke down you'd have to replace that part of the arm. The silicon stuff would make too much a mess and look really ugly if you started fiddling around with it, so in the robot recycle it goes.

I am keeping the off button locates at his neck, so he still hates hugs. The power plug have become some mishmash between the two, because it looks more fun to draw that way when you plug him in to recharge. Bunch of wires everywhere =D

This would be as far as I have gotten to with my dear little green glowing guy for now. There will probably be a lot more working on him before I end up with a more or less final result. But that's the fun with making a character, you get to know them and find out what works with them and what doesn't.

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-