eye to eye

This post is very Robin Hobb heavy. I'm sorry, but I'm almost done with Fool's Fate, and I'm so incredibly obsessed right now it's not that funny XD


The Fool. Who is like now one of my favorite characters of all time. He is amazing. I don't know how Hobb does it, but the Fool is very enigmatic, ethereal and confusingly beautiful, while also at the same time being completely human, with human faults and issues and feelings... UGH!!! So amazing. His only strengths are really in his razor-sharp tongue and wit, and that's all he has to protect him from the world.


The Fool as his appearance in the Tawny Man books - Lord Golden, spoiled and decadent nobleman. Another facet of an enigmatic character, one very necessary.



Some sketches - Fool as Prophet, some Fitzes (I like the one on the left the best!) and a possible Prince Verity.



And my favorite XD I'm such a loser. Fitz and the Fool (as Lord Golden), they have a relationship that is beyond anything - beyond love, sex, friendship, romance... all of it. I.. I know how the books end, but I can't accept it, because I think they deserve some peace together. fskjafhslkdj. I like how it turned out, a LOT, and I hope to eventually do a nicer Fitz/Fool picture. GEEEEEEE.

EDIT:

My attempt to give it some color. Painter and Pshop. I'm so embarassed at how dorked out I am over these books and THESE TWO, especially the Fool. D8 sobsob

I need to rant about the books for a bit, and I can't think of any better place for it, because no one reads this really, so I feel more comfortable just blabbing stuff XD

I knew already I was getting somewhat emotionally wound up in these books from the start, and now that I'm near the end, my mind has been totally taken over! I haven't had THIS feeling in such a long time, though it is both a blessing and an annoyance - I can't even think straight about other stuff, but it gives me a sort of delight and joy. Though I think the ending will disappoint me greatly... ._.

Oh well, in my own mind I can make up what I wish to see happen eventually. It's kind of weird how much I'm being fangirly about this XP It's embarassing but pleasant. I might have to re-read the two series. I might read the Liveship Traders books just get a bit more Fool in my life, even if he appears as someone totally different.

I wish I could create a character so wonderful. I wish my own characters could sometimes spark these feelings in me :[

Summary: I'm NUTS!! And kind of obsessed. There will be more art of them soon, I promise~!

not in mind

I decided I wanted to put up some stuff from school. Actually it's kinda old - done way back in Fall 2007. But I still kinda like them, and I feel like posting to get the meta entry off my first post. Hee.

First 5 done with homemade egg tempera + pigments.


Prehistoric palette - burnt sienna, burnt umber, charcoal, chalk white, yellow ochre.



Medieval palette - all of the above, plus ultramarine, terra verte and malachite. This one is totally my favorite (and everyone else's too, lol)


Baroque/Renaissance palette. All of the above plus some others I can't remember.


Modern palette - using synthetic pigments like pthalo blue, viridian, etc


Contemporary palette - whatever I wanted.


Next two are encaustic. (wax + Pigment on wood) Encaustic = biggest pain in the ASS EVER.


Wound.



Infected wound. (+ asphaltum)

They had a whole description behind them, but I don't really feel like blathering any more.

talk about fail

So since I host this blog on my own webspace as opposed to Blogger, I can't use their specific customization features. So if I want to NOT use the built-in designs I have to edit the HTML/CSS myself D:

God damn it. I fail at HTML and CSS.


Oh well. Someone told me Blogger is the Geocities of today's blogging, I guess I'll just roll with it, lol! Maybe I can at least make a few changes. Hmm.

Sorry for the metaposting.

steadfast i walk

Sorry for letting this flounder for some time. I'd try to make a promise to post at least once a month but I never seem to get it together. I haven't been drawing much lately - job takes a lot of energy from me.

I also de-linked this place from my website. Even if it is pretty damn easy to find anyway, I like having a least a little bit of separation from my budding professional life and my for-fun non-professional life.

I've managed to squeeze a few things out to post here, though.


By the way, if you have a Blogger account you can Follow this blog from your Dashboard, just add the URL.



These are a little old. Icons I made for Felix (top 2, Felix and Zero) and for Phim (bottom 2. Griffin and Hades). I've considered offering these as a commission special...


Sketches - Glenn redesign, some old characters including the re-emergence of Kudain Furikudanji, omg. (ps someone buy me a LJ rename token, i hate my weeaboo LJ name but I'm too miserly to change it D:)



Ten doodles thing from deviantART. I think my favorites are Arch andUniverse.


First draft of "the beloved", only failed because I thought the pose was kinda boring.


Some fail of Ivan. Trying to get the hang of the inkwash thing.


I bought some Yupo paper. I'm not sure I really get the point of watercolor paper that is waterproof. I kinda feel like I'm being massively trolled. But it DOES make the colors SUPER bright and rich, even if the color wipes right off if you so much as look at it wrong.

It was meant to be Axel floating in water, sorta. Psychology, ugh.


More fooling with Yupo. I-I kinda like the effect, actually.


Liss said the only character of hers I haven't drawn is Owen, so let's take care of that now :3 I've also thought about doing some inkwash commissions since my inkwash pics seem to be going over really well on DA.


Urgh, just fooling around, wanting to digital paint.


Hekat, from K. Miller's series Godspeaker. Hekat is nuts, and this is how I would envision her. I know her hand is messed up, and Mijaki don't wear sleeves :|


More Chari. Pose somewhat referenced, at least for the arms, from this.





An Artist Trading Card of Purya. I'm thinking about redesigning her a little to be less of a cultural approrpiation poster child :/

das unbedingte

It's time for another update! Last update of the year, woo! I've had this blog for two and a half years. Wow. I'm impressed I could keep it up this long. I really like this blog, I hope I can continue with it in the future. I had a sketchblog many years ago that lasted maybe over a year or so before I quit. But it's fun to post stuff I wouldn't normally post, so here's to another year. Enjoy.


I found that when I had to listen to lectures online for my Kosher & Halal foods class, drawing while listening helps. And I like doing speedpaints, they're fun. Not my photo, make no claims, etc etc. Just for practice.


My first foray into Illustrator in a long time. I love molas, could you tell?


From oCing with Felix. Fericksu, I miss you ~


Second thing done in Illustrator; a new opening for my site. I like how it turned out, but maybe not for my opening page, so it may change. Still, I find Illustrator to be really infuriating coming from a painter's perspective.


Saw pictures of interesting Nepali dress and wanted to get the same feel with the colors and shapes. I guess it's not meant to be anthropological, because I admit my failure of knowledge about Nepali clothes and designs, just meant to be optically appealing :p


Tiny sketch. Human Axel, with massive sideburns to make up for the lost ears. I got a new scanner, and this is one of the first things I scanned - not too sure I like it :/ meh.


For those of you who don't know, I started fencing. I'm terrible at it. Rhys would be better. Here's Rhys in a lunge.


Not a great pic, but it's something. I'm mildly obsessed with Magic Knight Rayearth again. Hikaru and her dark heart counterpart, Nova.


Mildly obsessed? Ok, I'm a bit nuts for it, forgive me some nostalgia and happiness. A new design for a slightly older Hikaru. She dresses like I used to dress when I was 16 :P


New Umi. They describe her as being beautiful like a model, so ok, I made her tall and lanky with legs that go forever and some stylish duds.


New Fuu. Wanted to get away from the shy-librarian look most people would assume for her, and just give her some casual clothes and some modern glasses.


Rayearth, Hikaru's Rune-God/Mashin, in his wolf/lion form. Horns + animals that don't usually have them = instant win, in my book.


Actually part of a gift for someone, but I assume they don't look here anymore so I feel safe sneaking it in here before I actually send it to them ;D


Sharks were my dolphins when I was a wee pupa. This is not a good representation of one. It looks like a unholy hybrid of a black-tipped reef shark and a common dolphin.


Sketch of Iibe, who is Jormei's wife... I have plans for her, I think~~~ She doesn't pla a role in my main story, but I thought about writing Jormei's story as a separate entity. *plots*