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Went to Supanova yesterday. It was very very crowded and that made the convention a little unpleasant. It cleared up a lot by 4pm though and then it was pretty fun walking around and talking to all the artist alley artists etc. I picked up some indie comics, most of which are terrible. This is a convention tradition for me - either my hopes for Australia comics are unquashable or I'm some sort of masochist. It's a fine line. I haven't read them all yet but so far the gem of the crop is Drago Bentley: Space Detective.
I spent some quality time with the Cintiq 12WX and 21UX at the Wacom booth as well - no thanks to the people hogging the machines to dick around and this one really crazy old lady who kept talking to herself. I had to wait like an hour to get to the 21UX. It was worth it though. I did a bit of sketching on both sizes and the extra screen real estate the 21UX provides is genuinely worthwhile. The 12 was nice but felt cramped. It was a valuable experience.
I let a little kid take over on the dragon I sketched/coloured on the 12WX. Ten minutes later he had a small crowd of admirers who thought he was some kind of child genius. xD They even took photos, haha. I didn't say anything, it was too amusing. I may have encouraged them.
ANYWAY. This is the ACEO post, as promised!
I finished this and a few others from forever ago.
I tested a satin glaze finish on this one but I didn't like the effect. I guess I'm stuck using a gloss spray but I'm not really a fan of that either.
Got a little carried away with the green, I think.
Pile of veeeeeeesss. Leafeon is not present because a) I was too lazy to fit it and b) I don't like Leafeon. Never have, never will.
I DO like Leavanny though. Adorable grass/bugs!
...and another just in case you didn't believe me the first time.
Blitzles! I find it interesting that the colour of "electric" is now blue as well as yellow. But hey why the hell not. Blue is sort of a more scifi/serious colour and I wonder why the shift? But probably it's just because they got. sick. of. mf. yellow. EVERYWHERE.
A while back I started sketching these steampunk brass horse automatons. I've yet to sit down and work out how I'd like the mechanics to "work" but I like them in general. They're part of a bigger weird steampunkery thing I've got going whenever I feel like it (anyone remember the gundogs?).
Never really noticed how I favour "portrait" compositions until I started painting ACEOs. I think I've been trained into it from years of using a sketchbook as I do. It's probably a habit worth breaking.
I spent some quality time with the Cintiq 12WX and 21UX at the Wacom booth as well - no thanks to the people hogging the machines to dick around and this one really crazy old lady who kept talking to herself. I had to wait like an hour to get to the 21UX. It was worth it though. I did a bit of sketching on both sizes and the extra screen real estate the 21UX provides is genuinely worthwhile. The 12 was nice but felt cramped. It was a valuable experience.
I let a little kid take over on the dragon I sketched/coloured on the 12WX. Ten minutes later he had a small crowd of admirers who thought he was some kind of child genius. xD They even took photos, haha. I didn't say anything, it was too amusing. I may have encouraged them.
ANYWAY. This is the ACEO post, as promised!
I finished this and a few others from forever ago.
I tested a satin glaze finish on this one but I didn't like the effect. I guess I'm stuck using a gloss spray but I'm not really a fan of that either.
Got a little carried away with the green, I think.
Pile of veeeeeeesss. Leafeon is not present because a) I was too lazy to fit it and b) I don't like Leafeon. Never have, never will.
I DO like Leavanny though. Adorable grass/bugs!
...and another just in case you didn't believe me the first time.
Blitzles! I find it interesting that the colour of "electric" is now blue as well as yellow. But hey why the hell not. Blue is sort of a more scifi/serious colour and I wonder why the shift? But probably it's just because they got. sick. of. mf. yellow. EVERYWHERE.
A while back I started sketching these steampunk brass horse automatons. I've yet to sit down and work out how I'd like the mechanics to "work" but I like them in general. They're part of a bigger weird steampunkery thing I've got going whenever I feel like it (anyone remember the gundogs?).
Never really noticed how I favour "portrait" compositions until I started painting ACEOs. I think I've been trained into it from years of using a sketchbook as I do. It's probably a habit worth breaking.