Demoreel

bg music: paddy macCarthy by the corrs

sorry for the crappy video editingXD hope u like it^^

the mermaid wip

detailing^^

Princess Anika

This is Princess Anika^^...actually an old character concept I revived. I'm going to post her in DA once my PC is already fixed because I have doubts in my colors here in my brother's laptop...yah i'm a scaredy catXP

Ummm...in my process of drawing her~ I learned how to use the hardbrush in the lineart^^...I don't usually put lines in my drawings but for a change I didXD...I discovered a good stroke in checking the other dynamics in the brush presets^^ and experimented more on color blending.

wips

The Mermaid
A random speed paint of a mermaid version of my OC mina^^...There's a lot of things to edit in her anatomy and more details to the bg. It's still rough but I'm excited about finishing this^^.

Hide and Seek
I'm beginning to make the details here^^...I still got some problems in the fairy's face though. Hannsaki needs more practice~! I got the reference for the bg in flickr here.

Wah~ I know I should do things one at a time@__@ I just can't resist the concept I got after I saw the cave pic in flickrXD but I'll finish them in no time^^.

Btw, I hope the colors are fine because I drew these in my brother's laptop. Colors are different in laptops u know. Hope my pc is fixed soon so that I won't be having doubts in my colors.

Inspired again

Today's arting feature is Nykolai Alexander and I got inspired in more of his artworks here .
I saw this illustration also in 2dartists mag. Never thought that this was painted@__@...really cool.

fine thursday :)

My PC is still not ready for me to use and I'm using my brother's laptop for about a week already. Good thing he's not mad at me using it and it's been really helpful for me especially that I'm able to download some good music and other artsy stuffs in bitcometXD...and i'll definitely miss it after he's done installing all the softwares I need in my pc. I just wish I can install a torrent software in vista but my brother>.>...he doesn't trust me when it comes to installing cuz he fears that I might trigger a bug or some stupid virus. I'm so limited but I think it's ok since it really can help my pc become safe and sound...
but then even though i have my pc fixed, i can still use this acer since he's always gone to work~hahaXD

Ok so I decided to make a blog and this could be like my diary. I don't think somebody in a good mind would think about reading what i've been doing in my life. This is just something I wanna do to monitor how i'm doing with my love- digital painting and illustrating and of course something about life:)

So, this day I did a lot of meditation. It's not like meditation in mantras because all I did was concentrating on my breathing and how to control my thoughts. I did this practice (actually I started it yesterday after discovering a meditation audio i downloaded months ago) because I realized that I have been too much in stress lately even though I'm on vacation. I got lots of tutorials that I need to look up to and confused what to prioritize first (3d or 2d?). Not only that~ the house is a mess and I'm thinking of so many things@__@...in short I'm so overwhelmed and I need to breakaway.

The meditation was really helpful. At first I thought I was just wasting my time and thinking that I should do something more productive because I have so many things to tend to but then I decided to be more in control. Subconsciously, there's something in me that's getting impatient but i just moved on focusing on my breathing till my mind is at its meditation state.

After that, I went on to my organizer and worked on the things that's bugging me (mostly small things that has nothing to be worried of=__=) and successfully been given solutions but I failed in my online time plan~ it's just that it's so hard for me not to look at my email and see my DA for a sec to see how my pvs are doing and I'm pretty surprised that I still got some favs and new watchers^^.

And then I went on to organizing my drafting table that has a lot of random sketches and concept art. It mostly had a LOT of my circle practice drawings and I felt really great after organizing my sketches. I decided also to archive them and start on fresh with new concepts because I observed that all my drawings look like all the same...like it's not going anywhere@__@ even though I have segregated it to three parts: children illustration, random anime/pose practices, and even perspective landscape practices (way back maprod concept creation days). I felt like it's all 'old' and I need to move forward and perhaps I'm just going to check it out when I feel a bit uninspired.

In the afternoon after lunch, I went to market2 hoping that the therapy clinic (nuga best) is still open and unfortunately it's still closed>.<...i've been visiting for about 3 times already and it's always closedT__T wah~ my back needs some therapy and I'm a bit worried about it since it's been months of no therapy. Good thing God is so good to me because I can still handle some mild backpains and I'm still alive lolzXD My journey was not wasted of course. I visited japan home and bought a clearbook like folder that has metal holders to hold papers. I'm going to use it for my sketches to show for anino interview^^ (but i don't know if i'm really going to show it since I'm not good in pencillingXP). I went home alone feeling a bit tired and sick of the hotness and pollution. Again I did some meditation before I get to do my drawing practice. I did it for 20 min ( wow~ i didn't know I can meditate that longXD) and felt so peaceful after that. The ebook I chose to study first was the 'how to draw in a natural way'. It was sort of a classical view on drawing and it requires strict working time to practice. I failed in the first exercise which is drawing without looking at your paper for 3 hours@__@. I chose simple subjects in my parent's room to work on ( acer's plug, dresser, papers posted in the wall) and all were drawn badly! I got impatient for the past 30 minutes of doing this practice that I jumped on to a more interesting ebook - 'how to draw fantasy characters'. At first I enjoyed the interesting concept arts presented in the introduction of the book but then...dadadaduuunnggg~~!!! the first lesson I have to learn in order to be a good fantasy illustrator is learning the human anatomy! and the first was to understand the skeletal system@__@. I did my best in memorizing the main bones of the body and I copied the some simple skeleton models that kind of gave me some idea how important these structuring in dynamic poses of characters. Next chapter was about muscles and I never tried memorizing the muscles because it's already complicated@__@. I kind of understood how the muscles react to certain movements of the body like in the arms and torso but I'm still confused on where these muscles should go or placed in the body. Maybe paying a visit to http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/pose/ will help me to really grasp on how muscles work. I still have a lot to learn~! Oh I know maybe i'm too much serious on being realistic or perfect but it's not bad in studying this stuffs~ I think it's better to learn it early on (although i feel i'm totally left behind>.< ) and see how these studies can help me improve my drawings more^^. Ok I'm feeling sleepy now@__@...I gave up drawing at 7pm but before that I'm thinking if I'm going to make an illustration of six leaf clover characters (add on for my portfolio) or maybe some random characters of different races or character personalities. hhmmm...I'll decide that tomorrow. Last, I went to church. It was rainy. Some people got pretty wet inside the church. The sermon was good and prayers have been inspiring and motivating. Went home and remembered some special persons I miss these days and then smiled and laughed on reality. Goodnight~