Jap children go well

[ns_tulkas]

Talk to me. I desperately need someone to pour out my attention and love to.

I forgot to mention the biggest thing that happened to me this weekend. After --let me count-- 8 years --8 years?!-- of the same stylish but intrusive eyewear, I BOUGHT NEW GLASSES! 2 PAIRS! One is still being assembled, the other, is the one pictured below. I'm getting

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[frenchpony]

It's a little hard to see what the glasses actually look like, but from what I know of your face, the shape will probably flatter it.

[ns_tulkas]

I like them. I think it's the fact that they're used to the old glasses. A couple of months and people will say they suit me. Or not.

[templa_otmena]

Why do I always spend precious hours on hours a night on these posts?
You know that we're all the same. These past two terms I have probably spent more time checking over LJ posts than I have editing essays befpre handing them in. Such is life.

You got new glasses! I think that the green ones are very funky, actually. My glasses are pretty muchthe same shape but a kinda red/pink/maroon colour. Is your hair as dark as it appears in your userpics? If so, even better!

I love it when you post your work in your LJ- is the illustration-inspired-by-a-recipe your homework from Sunday night? Love your friend's work too xXx

[ns_tulkas]

My hair is dark brown, but it's stained red. I colored it last month, I think.

You just reminded me I did absolutely no work on my seminar paper this semester. I have nothing! THIS IS NOT GOOD!

Oh the green ones are great. I personally love chunky eyewear, but after 8 years I needed a change. Plus every time I would take them off people immediately told me how great I looked without them and that I should get contact lenses. I got the feeling they were too chunky for my face? Now this. People are fickle.

That illu is the one I wrote about getting done over the weekend Sun. night. The ones I wrote I hadn't done that were also for Monday I didn't post about.
Thank you but she's not my friend. She's a friend of a friend, just someone I know. She used to be a Broadcasting major (ie after effects, videos...) and changed to Illustration this year. She's blossoming, really.

[templa_otmena]

I love chunky eyewear- I triedMy hair is dark brown, but it's stained red.
Ooooh, sounds lovely- I have never died my hair- would love to... may mention it to my lovely hairdresser next time I'm in and see if he has any ideas.

*head desk* REVISION!

[ns_tulkas]

I just do it at home with a color kit. It's easy and not messy at all (I have short hair) and cheap. I'm appalled by how much they charge at the hairdresser for color. But I do dream of one day going to a hair stylist, one that knows just by looking at you what hair cut and color will make you look like a goddess. Like on one of those makeover shows... *sigh*

UGH! You know why I'm writing this at 2:50 AM? Because while I had THE WHOLE DAY to do my HW for tomorrow I didn't start until 21:30. Why? WHY?!

[paperflower86]

I hope you're not cross with me if I say that I too like the lineart better than the colored illustration.

It's always a tricky process from a good sketch/lineart to an equally good end-product so-to speak. I'm having trouble with that myself at the moment, with that animal book I'm working on. The sketches look great, the finished illustrations not so much. It's really difficult to find the right transition.

Btw, can I ask what did you use to paint on? It looks like some sort of fine-grained wood or papyrus...

[ns_tulkas]

I don't mind. I think it's because the color puts a spin on the scene; just linework it has an eerie feeling, like there's something more... The eye completes the depth and the color flattens the background... I figure I need to integrate more green in the brown and vice-versa, and maybe a splash of complimentary colors (probably didn't translate that right. Green to red, blue to orange, you know). My teacher says that the pitfall is not starting the sketch with color. Then you're building the shapes with the color instead of drawing black lines on white paper and then having to "fill in" the spaces with color. It's hard for me to work with shapes, I always start with linework, so my idea is to next time start off on colored papers, do the linework in different colors... We'll see.

I painted it on a wood panel, your regular cheap sandwich board. I liked how there were lines in it that reminded me of the bamboo trees.