Long overdue...
What a fitting name, I really wish I had more time to update this blog, I almost debate whether or not to make my sketch/wip posts over at my new site's blog section...but for me to do that, I would actually need to have FREE TIME to work on new art and things like that >_> and also, still love livejournal and this little blog*squeeze*. But anyways, I'll save my rants about my lovely job for kakumei_tenjou, now is a time for ART! So it's been a little while since my last post and I'm sure you're wondering what I've been up to artistically. Well I launched my site on November 25th and I'm quite proud of that, seeing an idea and a dream come to reality always feels good...
Yup this little bit of chibi was one of the first pieces of art you would see when you enter the site. To date it was one of the fastest pieces of cg art I've made, 7, 8 hours of inking in painter, while SICK(usually takes me upwards of 10 and 12 hours-must be a sign I'm getting the hang of digital inking), and 6 hours to cel-shade it in photoshop...why was I using the pen tool to shade before XD? I really need to try regular sized cel-shaded characters. Man, just looking at this, if I had the time, I'm tempted to resurrect my gaia art shop or see how I'd fare in one of those art auctions cause I really want both the angelic and nitemare mini wings, then I can die a happy gaian XD!
So in deviantart, I wanted a new avatar to replace the one I had for halloween...you know what happened next...
So I've been making making really simple looking pixel avatars right? Well the thing that got me into making the avatars was this gallery. Loved Rhu's artstyle for some time and those avatars are adorable ;___;! So I always tried making on with little success. Problem was, I kept putting in too much detail and after all, it's a 50x50 picture so it can't be as detailed as a full cg. So one day, while reading through tutorials and getting pointers from xarpiex, this is the end result. Now that I know to make a rough sketch, then outline with the line too...I gotta try making more and better ones, featuring my oc's and stuff.
So I had my site going for a little while, and every time I looked at it, I wasn't too happy. For one I tried using Dreamweaver's template option to quickly make my pages. Now I'm not sure if it's because I FAIL or am a n00b at making sites still, but everytime a section would load, the images that would make up the layout would take their sweet time to show up. That and the simpleness of the layout made me decide for a change...
So like the cut title says, you can get inspiration from anywhere and for me, it was a tutorial. I really liked the background, so I whipped up a psd file, made the background and the container sections. After that, I went with my own thing. With this layout, I said GTFO with dreamweaver templates and following tutorials only from Tutvid(good beginner tutorials but I do know something about webdesign) and decided to apply what I know about CSS.
Don't know why I was having a hard time slicing this...oh right, it was my second time slicing a layout to export it to dreamweaver. Oh well, I learn something new each time I play around with this, and big thanks to my buddy Maria for showing me how this should be sliced, cause we both know, if left to my own devices, I would have had over 9000 slices D:!
With slices ready, css files written, it was time to rebuild tranquil solace, and the first thing up was the index page...
Sometimes it's nice to remind yourself where to put your webcounter :P! So after about 2 and a half days of formatting and recoding, I give you the end result...
So nice being able to use 200x40 banners instead of tiny ones for everything. If you want to see the layout in action, GO TO MY SITE :P! Man I really need to start pimping out the place...
So while working on that, Christmas came and went....
Note to self: It's "season's" not "season" and making snowmen is fun :3!
Hopefully this makes up for my little abscence, as always, forgive me :(. In the mean time, enjoy the artistic goodies for that's all for now!
-kakumei_tenjou
Yup this little bit of chibi was one of the first pieces of art you would see when you enter the site. To date it was one of the fastest pieces of cg art I've made, 7, 8 hours of inking in painter, while SICK(usually takes me upwards of 10 and 12 hours-must be a sign I'm getting the hang of digital inking), and 6 hours to cel-shade it in photoshop...why was I using the pen tool to shade before XD? I really need to try regular sized cel-shaded characters. Man, just looking at this, if I had the time, I'm tempted to resurrect my gaia art shop or see how I'd fare in one of those art auctions cause I really want both the angelic and nitemare mini wings, then I can die a happy gaian XD!
So in deviantart, I wanted a new avatar to replace the one I had for halloween...you know what happened next...
So I've been making making really simple looking pixel avatars right? Well the thing that got me into making the avatars was this gallery. Loved Rhu's artstyle for some time and those avatars are adorable ;___;! So I always tried making on with little success. Problem was, I kept putting in too much detail and after all, it's a 50x50 picture so it can't be as detailed as a full cg. So one day, while reading through tutorials and getting pointers from xarpiex, this is the end result. Now that I know to make a rough sketch, then outline with the line too...I gotta try making more and better ones, featuring my oc's and stuff.
So I had my site going for a little while, and every time I looked at it, I wasn't too happy. For one I tried using Dreamweaver's template option to quickly make my pages. Now I'm not sure if it's because I FAIL or am a n00b at making sites still, but everytime a section would load, the images that would make up the layout would take their sweet time to show up. That and the simpleness of the layout made me decide for a change...
So like the cut title says, you can get inspiration from anywhere and for me, it was a tutorial. I really liked the background, so I whipped up a psd file, made the background and the container sections. After that, I went with my own thing. With this layout, I said GTFO with dreamweaver templates and following tutorials only from Tutvid(good beginner tutorials but I do know something about webdesign) and decided to apply what I know about CSS.
Don't know why I was having a hard time slicing this...oh right, it was my second time slicing a layout to export it to dreamweaver. Oh well, I learn something new each time I play around with this, and big thanks to my buddy Maria for showing me how this should be sliced, cause we both know, if left to my own devices, I would have had over 9000 slices D:!
With slices ready, css files written, it was time to rebuild tranquil solace, and the first thing up was the index page...
Sometimes it's nice to remind yourself where to put your webcounter :P! So after about 2 and a half days of formatting and recoding, I give you the end result...
So nice being able to use 200x40 banners instead of tiny ones for everything. If you want to see the layout in action, GO TO MY SITE :P! Man I really need to start pimping out the place...
So while working on that, Christmas came and went....
Note to self: It's "season's" not "season" and making snowmen is fun :3!
Hopefully this makes up for my little abscence, as always, forgive me :(. In the mean time, enjoy the artistic goodies for that's all for now!
-kakumei_tenjou