Totally gratuitous art project of the afternoon. And not in the shirtless sort of way. Because hey! I own several different programs that will let you make pictures MOVE. And sometimes I like to see if I can remember all that stuff about keyframes and tweeners and timing and what have you. So, totally gratuitous animation test, just because I *can ( Read more... )

Regarding the brainstorm yesterday of Tegaki and Journaling's illegitimate love child - as of last night we are trying an experiment! It's a total ass backwards workaround, but essentially I've set up an oekaki board with a comment-ish default size, the finished images of which can be hotlink pasted into comments here or on LJ ( Read more... )

Yes, yes I do. ^_^ At least, I do when prompted to, such as by the Sweet Charity auction. Gundam Wing, Zechs and Treize, totally worksafe. I forgot how much fun fanart is!

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I am, possibly drunk on tea. No, the tea doesn't have anything alcoholic in it. It's not even great tea - it's the insta-brew k-cup version of mandarin orange black tea, with four packets of whatever artificial sweetener comes in the baby blue packets, but it smells good and it's WARM and therefore I am now warm. *bliss ( Read more... )

This isn't actually the gratuitous pic I promised myself I'd do. It was more of a spontaneous random warmup because omg my drawing mojo is all rusty. And it was a total excuse to practice inking with Manga Studio and my Cintiq tablet. ^____^ Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.

( A four pack of Ulrichs... )

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...what possessed me to do backgrounds? OMG. x_x

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...in other news, I'm irritated that I forgot the deadline for the y!weekly theme, which was today, and I totally didn't get my piece for it done. rar. (It was a Lucid Dream piece. Not too surprisingly, given the cohesion or lack ( Read more... )

Yay, I thought I was useless and uninspired today! Instead, have a page. ^___^

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I'm practicing the actual professional version of how to color comic book style, which involves photoshop and NOT painter, and speed over painstaking painting, and excessive use of your lasso tool and brushes set on multiply and screen. Ideally, one should be able to knock out a whole page in this style in a few hours ( Read more... )