First Paint chat session

Ha ha, yeah so I was looking at the paint chat doodles by Yanyu and well thought that I give Niko's a try. So I went and registered there and it was done pretty quickly...unlike what I had thought..since I thought that it takes them a day to process the request and all. Wooh. Ah well and then I logged in and entered a normal drawing room. Well yeah and the java applet loaded pretty fast and well before I knew it I had found myself a little empty space and I was drawing this. I kinda like how this turned out. I think I might make her a character and even draw a character sheet for her. I've never done one of those.

There were these people there...after drawing for a bit I said hi to them and two of them replied back to me. Well I tried taking part in the conversation that was going on but no one seemed to be paying me any attention so I finished my drawing, said bye and left. Yeah.

Today is Tzu and my aunt's birthday. Happy birthday you guys! I love youu <3

>w<

Well I better get going. I should start working on my coursework already. Mum's get pissed off at me.

Okay then
ciao all
Mony.

Prelude to a week of half arsing my coursework :D

Oh here's a random drawing. Tried half toning here. Done in photoshop with my intuos 4.

Hmmph, my art exam's finished and well now I gotta start working on my computing and later my art and design coursework.. My art exam..well first art exam in like 7 years. Yeah, that long. I don't practice art much so I cooked up a random drawing of a living room since that was one of the questions...but the paper was soo thin that the watercolours made it go all flappy D: and an hour and a half isn't really enough. Today though I drew this girl staring at her reflection in a rain puddle (referenced and inspired from yotsubato! chap 7 cover) and well I'm kinda happy with how it turned out. And it was fun doing that too.. Well I was practicing the pose from that cover last night and well today when I saw the question..(we could draw whatever we wanted) I thought I'd just draw that. Lucky I practiced.

Tzu got her tablet today, its a small wacom intuos 4 and it looks kinda cute :3. And here're some photos of my one.

So now I should start working on my computing coursework. Planning, programming, evaluation, testing. Yep. All that. Documentaion. In like what three days? Darn. Mum says that she won't allow me to work on it after the month's over! And I have a chemistry test the day after tomorrow...and its on organic chemistry and I have to study for that.

Ah I've started reading Azumanga Daioh and I'm re-reading the thief lord. Fantastic book that. And my oh my is Azuma Kiyohiko awesome or what! His style is fantastic! And all his characters are soo epic. Heh, awesome artist mmhmm.

Well its veery late at night..and I gotta hit the sack.
So G'night all,
Mony

Sketching practice

yep yep
practice. :D
Photoshop CS 3 , wacom intuos 4.
I really enjoyed doing this, and yeah I used a reference for this. Well and I've been noticing this whole web comic movement for a while now and I must say its fantastic. There are some really really talented artists drawing their own web comics and I must say I'm really impressed with the varied styles and emotions a comic can carry. Here are two of my favourites :

The meek by Alexds1

Para-Ten by Ashwara

Ah which reminds me that I should get working on short stories to practice making short comics...hmmm

Well but then I need to finish my computing and art & design coursework projects
:\

Wish me luck you guys, the art exam wasn't held today. Though it should be held tomorrow, and the faster its over the better. Then I can begin working on my coursework.

But first I need to get a bit organized. Yep. Just sort things out and get stuffs flowing smoothly and all that. Ah well.

ooh and and inspiring music for now:

* Poets of the fall - Carnival of Rust
* Paramore - Brick by boring brick
* Rie Fue - Life is like a boat


G'night all
Mony

WIP update

Update on that WIP screenshot I posted a few days back. Yeah. I'm liking how its turning out thus far..needs some more spark to it though.

yeah

kay,
G'night all
Mony

I see a kite

I can see a kite...I really can. I can see a bright blue kite.

:D
[click the image for wallpaper size at 1280X1024 pixels]

Lavender clouds

Yep, lavender clouds. Watched a few episodes of the Anne of Green Gables anime yesterday and well I soon found myself drawing this. Really love the backgrounds in the anime. And I've really enjoyed painting this so far..kinda.. Heh, this isn't finished though, its just a wip. I wanted to enter this for the expose 8 call for entries, but whatever. Looking at all those OMFGSHITAWESOMESOREALISTICAWESOMESHIZ artworks, I figured I didn't have all that patience to go and make this all detailed and cool and stuff like that. Not that I could anyway. Not at the mo. But then thats not necessarily my aim, I'd like to draw stuffs which look more like a painting than a photo. Something I dunno, not like ultra highly detailed photorealistic/ almost photorealistic stuff...I'd like to draw stuff that'd have their own emotions and stuffs behind them and at the same time would be more stylised and like a painting and yet have a sort of unreal look, be it slightly cartoonish or semi realistic. Dunno if I'm being able to explain it that well, ah well.

So this painting was a bit of an experiment with some brushes in Photoshop CS 3. And the following pic is a sort of quick concept that I came up with randomly while trying to brainstorm the other night for a good concept to work on for entering it into the expose 8 call for entries. I know it wouldn't be selected and stuff, but hey its just for the sake of participating so yeah.

Photoshop CS 3, wacom intuos 4.



I love drawing with my tablet, pretty different from my former mouse drawing experience and so so much better. More natural, yuss, I love you tablet~

<3

I didn't have internet since Friday and so on Saturday night I found myself watching the tv. And I got to watch two episodes of Inu Yasha the final act, and wow, was it epic or what! So I started reading the manga from today..Rumiko Takahashi has a lovely style and they've animated it soo well. I've always wanted to watch it, but never got around to watching it. And these were like the only episodes I've ever watched and the opening theme is soooo good. Love it.

yeah
I'm supposed to be having an art exam tomorrow, and I just learned of that today! Maan, wish our teacher'd let us prepare and stuff...at this rate I'll prolly vomit some crap on my exam paper tomorrow..ah well. Let's see how it goes.

Okay then
G'night all
Mony

Hallelujah..

New drawing, mmhmm. I'm trying to shade using different tones, meh..its pretty relaxing to just start with a random colour for the shadows, and colour-pick your way to oblivion...with good music playing, yeah.

Only one more exam left now, and that's on Saturday. computing, age. Ah, Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is such a soothing and lovely song. F was browsing DA today, and something made me realize that now I'm in my A-levels I should actually start looking for universities ..... especially in the UK. Since I've been reading about people preparing their portfolios for art school and such. since I'm not going to go for studying art at a higher level, I should look for good universities, prepare myself and I dunno funding and results and stuff according to the requirements of the course I'm going to go for.

So I started doing some research today and learned that to apply to Warwick University, in the physics department, I need to get an A in maths and physics...must and another A in any other subject. Well, this just means that I have to practice physics and maths hard to make double sure that I get those A's...and my other subjects too..

yep!

Ah, okay then enjoy the song

G'night all
Mony

Tiana in Teal

Ah yeah. I just watched the movie on Sunday and gyaah I loved it.. LOVED it! It was just soo cool. Awesome animation, music, style...voice acting...everything! So a little fanart. I sketched it in my GRAFA sketchbook and well then scanned, cleaned the lines and coloured it up in photoshop with my tablet and well finished it last night with my mouse..since I was too lazy to bring it out of the cover..and um....also kinda scared that I'd be spotted working with my tablet since I aint allowed to use my tablet when its supposedly study time XDD...not even for navigating. So yeah.

Here's the sketch:


yeah
okay now I'm outta here
really
Good night all
Wish me luck!
Mony

New Year's resolutions...and Happy Chinese New year ..and WI

Heavens I haven't updated my blog in like almost two weeks D:
Sucks. Well I've finally decided to set some goals for myself to fulfill this year! \ But a few days ago I came across dominiquefung's journal : [link] . I never really posted my goals or even said them aloud much since I was kinda scared that I wouldn't be able to fulfill them.. And to tell you the truth after reading her journal I really made up my mind and thought what the heck! I shouldn't be sacred..aint a chicken. If I can't fulfill them at the mo then that only means that I should work harder to fulfill them!

So here they are:
1) Get ALL A's in my AS level exams. Get better at my studies and make my mum happy.
2) Learn to draw robots, awesome mechanical steam punk sci-fic fantasy stuff,
landscapes, clouds, characters in different poses. Cool stuff basically XD. 3D stuff
too.
3) Make an animated short film.
4) Learn to write better. Aka, polish my writing skills. Write short stories regularly,
like one a week. Yeah, that oughtta kick my lazy clockwork self into activity.
5) Learn Japanese properly.
6) Enter a drawing into the EXPOSÉ 8 call for entries. Just for the sake of entering
and drawing something good in the process.
7) Kick some wacky kids' butts.
8) Start learning programming.
9) Play more cool games :lol: .
10) Be a strongwilled brave and cool kid! And a better person in general XDDD

yeppers
And wow I loove my tablet soo much. My mocks are going on, but I try to draw whenever I get back from school. Tomorrow's the chemistry practical exam. The other exams were well....I dunno. I had hope that my mock 1 exams would be awesome. They aren't exactly that. Hmmph, hell the important fact is that I'm getting better at my studies. And I'll revise and stuff after the mock 1 exams are over. After tomorrow I've only got computing left and yeah, which is on the 20th..so I got a bit of a break in between.

Sho, I play the witcher! Hells yeah!

I started painting this right after I got back from school this sunday ( aka valentines day, happy * day all). These days after I get back from school, I open my shoes and run for my computer....I painted it nonstop for 1 and a half hours and then I stopped...haven't touched it since. Its still a wip though, not at all complete. Hopefully I'll complete it on the morrow...here are some of the steps:


Rough sketch with the hard round brush. Pretty random really...came from the want to get better at doing landscapes and from this pencil colour drawing I did...will post it when I find it. It was my first landscape drawing in years as is this..


Randomly painting the colours on a multiply layer above the lines. Trying out different shades.


Adding shades and more colours on a normal layer above the multiply layer with this customized brush of mine and later the airbrush opacity flow brush.


And another new layer..working on the clouds..adjusting the castles and basically clarifying and cleaning the details. yep. Click the images to full view. The tiny thumbs that my blog layout turns these pics into, doesn't do all them details justice >.<

That's all for now.
See ya
G'night all
Mony

Plus I'm in love with Asian Kungfu Generation and Ikimono Gakari...two awesome bands! Also I started reading fairy tail..sooo cool
:D

Windy Day

Yeah..did this in the oekaki at 4chan today. First oekaki with my tablet and third oekaki ever XD.

I really liked how it turned out. It really took around 30 minutes to draw this...as opposed to the 58 minutes online...I mean I wasn't supposed to draw then and if mum saw me drawing then I guess I'd be in be big trouble... *shot*

animation of process

Ah well

Done in shi painter Oekaki with my tablet.

:D

edit:
Bleargh! OMG my picture was deleted! Good thing I uploaded it in other places.

>.<
This sucks...ah well. I'll just host the pic from my dA.