Finding the right laptop is soo..hard =_=

It really is. Earlier on I stated that if I ever got a laptop, I'd get a macbook pro, but the truth is that its not feasible for me to get one. Plus while I do like mac OS X, I'm also a windows user. And then I'm a gamer. A macbook pro 15inch costing $2,299.00, just doesn't cut it. Here in Bangladesh, they cost even more. With that price I can get an awesome gaming laptop that'll eat up any game I throw at it. But then that's where another problem comes in. Gaming laptops are hard to choose from...I mean I love to play and well I'd want my laptop to be capable of handling most of todays games at high settings. After a lot of searching I did find some great laptops within my price range and neat to look at. BUT..but, *sigh* they aren't available here!!! WTF is available here?!?! Not even a good Sony Vaio model...all they have here are mid range HP pavillion notebooks and some other stuffs that I don't care about. This really is going to be hard.

Though I must say there are some sweet laptops available nowadays, outside of Bangladesh that is. Or maybe there are more laptops available here, only I don't know. Wish I knew. Ah well, at the mo, I can't be bothered with thinking about laptops. I'm aware of the stuffs in the global market now and I aint googling for laptops any more at the mo. I'm tired.

They have great desktop stuffs here, but I must say I'm disappointed with the variety of laptops available here. Ah..someday..someday. Like my desktop is awesome and all, but I was hoping to find a good laptop. Maybe I will. Who knows right.

Anyway here's a little something I drew in Photoshop today, he he, was trying out the rough brushes around the end of the default brushes list. Well I kinda like the outcome. It kinda looks like water colour on a thick and rough paper.



I used Photoshop CS 3 and I use a mouse as usual. Texture from : link

Okay ciao all,
gotta sleep
Mony

Happy holidays! And, I made an animatic

Happy holidays people! Look I made a drawing in that facebook graffiti app! And I don't even like facebook and hardly ever go there. I just followed this link an artist at dA embedded ya know, and well I ended up in the facebook graffiti page. So instead of watching the replay of her drawing, I just went and drew something, guess its probably because I haven't been able to draw anything aside from animation frames and stuffs these few days. Well why you ask? Because..because I'm entering the GRAFA Logo Animation Mini Challenge yeah :D.

So I had to open a thread and show my progress, as I go along. We are four participants so far, including Zubuyer (admin, founder,awesome artist, a good friend and basically a really nice kid)who is one of the judges too XDD ( but he says he's doing it for fun so yeah :D). Well I'm not doing this for winning or anything, though that GRAFA notebook does seem to be nice, but I'm doing this for having fun, and learning and getting better at this in the process. yeah. Ok here's my animatic.



And here's my thread since I'm too lazy to post all those images and stuffs here again.

Okay people, wish me luck. I haven't been able to draw much nor read much, nor study much... I'm a lazy bum, someone please knock some sense inta my head D:

I gotta finish this and study for my exams too.
yeah

Till then Happy Holidays, and ciao.
Mony

P.S.- I finally got my hands on Mirror's Edge and damn is it awesome! Its is soooooooooo coool, prolly one of the best games I've ever played. And the 1st person point of view just makes it all work so well, also the graphics are drop dead awesome! Just too good. Well I'll play it regularly after I'm done animating my entry. G'night all. :D

I got a GRAFA excellence award!! w00t!

Ahem, I'd firstly like to thank The ALmighty, my parents, my friends..my pokemon toys..yadda..yadda yadda..for this great honour..lol I sound like people when they get an award...but then I actually got one! I got a GRAFA excellence award!!



yuss, in all its glory...woo
Awesome. I was soo stoked, like never..never in my dreams had I expected such an award to just plop into my mailbox ..this is, I dunno, I'm really honoured! Thanks a lot to the guys over at GRAFA

Now, I gotta haul my arse off my pc and actually practice drawing stuff..like everything *noobiiiie* and learn 3d stuff properly..and study properly and...and ..practice writing..programming..animating..japanese!!! o_O..and the list goes on

Well, whatever, thanks again Zubuyer (he be the admin and founder of GRAFA)
Really appreciate it!

Yeehaw,
that's all for now
ciao
Mony

Exams are over :D and sketches...

Yeah, I sketched these with a gel and a ball point pen..pilot ones to be precise. Texture by Bashcorpo, here..I think I might make a proper character outta this girl..or she may just randomly keep appearing in my sketchbook. XD

Exams are over..whew
What a relief.

Anyway, I keep forgetting to post new stuff here. My mind wanders too far sometimes..especially after watching Howl's moving castle. It's just sooo good..I'm lost for words, its just ..breathtaking. Ha ha

yep
Inspirational music at the mo:
Sekai-no-yakusoku-Jinsei-no-merry-go-round
:)

Also, tomorrow I've got a rehearsal for going up and down a stage to get a certificate I suppose..pretty silly, I mean why would anyone need to rehearse for that? Beats me, ask our school, they know it all. And on Wednesday we've got a sort of O/A-level academic excellence ceremony thingy, talk about turkey, I get an academic excellence..something award or something like that. XDD The stuffs our school comes up with.

Ah well anyway, my holidays are here, whoopeee..

So I've got a lot planned to do this time, hopefully I'll get to do all that.
I feel lightheaded now..I'll write a proper post sooon ..am trying to learn some three-dee stuff :3

Ciao all,
Mony

Physics exam...

So today was my physics precambridge exam...and shiittte, it was weirdd. That's the one word that actually defines it. That's okay, as long as I can get a good enough grade to be allowed to register for my AS level exams for the may/june session I'm happpy ! We weren't even taught all the stuff in class! And I just barely finished the syllabus last night..yeah

But next time, I kicking some serious arse! Hell yeah!

Chemistry and English exam this Thursday and then computing and then holidaaaaaaaaaay!

The problem with me this time is that I've been too worried about whether I'll be able to register for all my exams for this may/june..well I've had enough of that! No more effin worries for me thanks, I aint worrying! I'll pass em all, no sweat..

:D

Okay
that's all
ciao

Oh and, here's a wip:

Pure maths precambridge tomorrow!

Woot
So tomorrow's my pure maths precambridge. I'm starting to get mechanics and all that, but I still have problems ..darn it. But that's okay. I'm not gonna wish that I had started earlier since its not really going to help me feel better or be able to do more maths for that matter. I'm just trying to understand the concepts and use my head properly, he he. I haave to do really well and I believe I can and so I will! Yeah!

So yeah,
I gotta go now. More updates soon,
ciao
Mony

Artworks from art class

Class work..took me ages, like a week, done on and off in art classes. Didn't do anything on it after I got home. But I did fill in a li'l of the black bits once while waiting for Udos (my li'l brother) to finish bathing one day. Used Tzu's 0.7 mechanical pencil to sketch this since my ben10 one's lost T^T (hu hu hu, though I got a new pilot one today)..need to buy another ben10 one. Well, I want to buy at any rate. And then inked over it with my trusty pilot V10 and v5 grip. My V10 grip finished just before completion and so I had to ink some the hair and frame using a ball pen, another old V10 grip (which finished too) and then my V5 grip. I kinda like the outcome.



Inked over pencil sketch. Strawberry awesomeness XD. OMG, like I actually drew a teddy bear?! While doing the sketch I realised that I couldn't really draw a proper teddy bear and I'd lost my phone so could search the internet for reference pics and Tzu's phone didn't have internet either. So I began rummaging around in my bag and found the wallet sized prints of my favourite artworks and lol I found that I had printed this cool pic of cuson's and well so took ref from that picture for the bear.

Well, atleast I get to draw, If it weren't for art class we'd (me and Tzu) prolly die outta boredom during our free classes. I don't get to colour stuffs or draw for fun much since I kinda don't feel like it and don't have that much time to either.
Here's a sketch of eraser boy ( a kid Tzu doodles pretty often these days, chomping erasers..decided that it was time for a little fanart, he's too cute):



Eraser boy (c) Tzu

lol, had fun. This was done in my art copy which is pretty large like llx16 inches per page, so scanning was a pain, especially for the strawberry picture thingy, like I had to scan in part and use Photoshop CS 3 for merging em all using the automated photomerge script thingy there, pretty useful. :D

Okay it's pretty late now, need to shtudy, ciao.
Mony