Finished a quick painting!


Adobe Photoshop CS3 painting using a [beautiful] Wacom Intuos4 L

So, as always, it's the usual character. Which isn't me... but with some similarities.




In other news: I'm very busy, but still trying to find time to build up this portfolio.

Burning question of the day: Why were computers grey for so many years? Such a random nasty colour. Not pure and white, not sleek and black, not any pleasing colour... just grey. Why is that?

I have literally only just managed to see the film that everyone [online] seems to be going on about. I suppose Paris's mere existence in it put me off... until an interesting window of opportunity appeared. A fast link to a super HQ version of it. So I got curious.

So, the film is utterly diabolical. It really is. I had to pause it a few times at the beginning from the second-hand-embarrassment alone. Then I lightened up, and really, I'm not sure if the film actually got pretty damn good as it went along, or if I became desensitized to its idiocy. Like a foul stench. By the end I loved it.

...but I don't normally end up loving foul stenches...

Mm. Anyway, one song in particular needs an absolute shout out, if only for the kinky fantasies it provokes in me. It involves, er, some random girl who I really don't recognize... and Sarah Brightman. Who, I know is like 50, but seriously, she's hot as fuck in the film. Providing she was in costume and singing, I'd let her do dirty dirty things to me. I really would. X|

My apartment's just been broken into.

I know this for a fact.



I've just got home, vaguely tipsy, to find something... ( damn strange. )

Fuck my life.

I'm not even anyone to be following.



ETA: A recent Work In Progress. 'Fanart', which I never really do anymore.


Nina and Arika from Mai Otome. An awesome Anime.

Their usual look:



Hmmmm....


Has anything strange recently happened to you? Your stories will make me feel better. :P ::screened::


ETA 2: Yeah, I've checked all the rooms, including the ones I RARELY enter. That includes the horrific boiler room with the blown light. Against better judgement.

ETA 3: WTF does 'ETA' mean?! I'm certain I knew before, but I can't bloody remember and now it's just habit. Idiot.... .........ETA ETA ETA ETA ETA "EDITED TO ADD" - awesome.

I laughed for two seconds, then watched the rest absolutely horrified. I hate turtles - their heads and necks just look zombified dongs with a fucking mouth. I don't know why the nasty creatures even exist still. They're truly disgusting. And... I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY HAD DONGS!! Or that they could make noises. Bloody hell.

Anyway, watch it. It's not long, and most find it funny. Unless you hate turtles, then it's a horror film. The turtle fucking a shoe. 0.0*


ETA: Slugs too. No way. The have huge glowing dongs behind their heads. Who knew!!

So I just saw The L Word finale, and I have to say it's not nearly as awful as some poeple have made it out to be - but the ending... left me feeling like a riteous idiot. What's with the glamorous smiles, huh? HUH?! It makes no sense! Perhaps Chaiken wanted to be David Lynch with her TV show, but I can't help thinking she failed miserably. Those last ten or so minutes were diabolical.

Shame... on... her... and her coke habits!








^ I found this and laughed for a good long time.

( Read before you have a heart attack )

So I'm now one of those sad cases where they have no scanner. Or, rather, I do but it's unreachable. Photoshop has literally died on me and I have no idea how or why. I went to scan in several things that I'd been working on, only to find the Blue Screen Of Doom appearing every time Photoshop finished loading. It's sort of freaking me out. The ultimate downside is this: I can't reinstall the program as I've managed to lose both the disk and the key thing that says it's mine. >.<* Shocking. Truly. It looks like I have to buy it all over again... which is just stupid.

So I've uploaded two doodles I did recently. The one above having been done on a scrap of paper I found under my bed while failing at getting to sleep and the one below having been done on the back of an envelope, found in my bed (I tend to read my mail in bed). Not bad for doodles, I think. They're far better than I would have mindlessly done a few months ago. I don't think I'm stagnating anymore, which is an awesome feeling.

Now if only Photoshop would work. Damn it.



I'm feeling terribly sorry for myself.

Hello all. I've decided to inform you that I had a nightmare last night. A terrible one involving axes and sausages. This is also an art dump! Yeahhhh!






On a final note, I'd like to share this with you:



I saw this on my Friends page and found myself tickled. When I was a very small person, I had a raging crush on this man. To this day, I have no idea how and why. His name is Gabriel Byrne... and I am amused.



ETA: Whoa now. Has anyone seen the latest L Word episode? The season 6 premier? SHOCKING, I tell you. If you've seen it, tell me what you thought.

Fate has just BUTT RAPED ME!

AGAIN!

I like to think of myself as a purely lovely honest sort, and by that, I do not deserve such fateful butt rap-age! My butt is my own! And no one goes near it!!!

So, really, from the beginning. Last night I was on the phone for a good long while, engaging in an amusing conversation about how it it had recently occured to me that, yes, Ghandi did also defacate. (A recent epiphany)

And while said conversation was ocurring, what happened? I was on the laptop. A popup... popped up. I clicked it down. Another one popped up. I continued laughing about the defecation, while clicking these bastards away... and generally being stupid. But oh no. Oh no no no. I decided to restart while my computer was in the midst of being VIOLATED!

I turned my back on it.

Now whenever I turn it on, I have five minutes before it turns itself off again. I've spent nine solid hours trying to fix it and its bastard disease. All I've managed to do is spend £80 on antivirus stuff that doesn't work, and figure out how to use the Internet on an ULTRA SAFE MODE with disastrous graphics and no everything. My files are seemingly gone. Thankfully almost everything that's important is on the external hard drive which I won't connect while there are such diseases.

Whyyyy did this have to happen, hmm? I've given to charity!!!

*breathes*

Interestingly, the diseases are only on certain partitions. The safe mode seems, rather safe... o.0*

I have a new phone.

I don't know how to turn it on.

The manual is wrong. There is no such button! o.0*



So not cool.

I made a hairy cone.

Bow down to me.



New 3D software of the sort I have never before used. Oh the nerdgasms! It's like learning Photoshop all over again!! Only... slightly less retarded. Obviously. LOOK AT THAT HAIRY CONE! It only took me five minutes. And look at that little tiny green one - yes, that one. I see it as the little tiny baby cone. It's all about poetic puberty. Genius.

Um, of course that big hairy cone was meant to be a CG portrait of Julia Roberts... but hey. Whatever. Still genius.

Character designs for the latest comic-thing I decided to start doing. Something easy enough not to interfere with the other stuff. We'll see how it goes.



Anyway, I thought it best to have a friendlier newer public entry than The Fucktard Report. Totally.


ETA: OH! Something hilarious! Involving GHANDI!! But... but I can't say it in a public post -- and I'm too lazy to do a different post. D:

So... I've been on DA a fair bit recently. Trying to build my page up. But something I've noticed has really started to get to me. There are some truly amazing well known artists on there, whose work I've actually followed for years (I nearly had a nerdgasm when I found them on there, then suddenly in dialogues with them) and they generally don't watermark their work. I mean, really, truly amazing artists. Then there are the potentially amazing artist, who already produce work at a very good level and have a great many viewers. Do they cover their work in a huge monstrous watermark? No. Then there are the general okay, though slightly inconsistent artists who also have their tiny group of fannish viewers. Watermark? No.

Then there are the fucktards that can't draw for shit, that you've accidentally clicked on (on a DD page no less!), and their drawing of a ZOMG!!!111 SUPA HAWT GUY KISSIN ANOVERRRR GUY!!! MANGA MANGA MANGAAAA!!! YAOIIIIII!!!!111 They're getting off on what the picture looks like in their heads. If they opened their eyes, they would see that, yes, one eye is in fact nearly on the end of a nose. The hairline also shouldn't be that low---OH, and... y'know... unless the unfortunate guy's a monster/mutant... the thumb should be beside the INDEX FINGER? Not beside the PINKY?! Ugh, but my point? They watermark. Yes they do. Hey? 'Artist' that can't draw? YOU'RE TOO OLD TO BE DRAWING SO BADLY AND DELUDED INTO THINKING YOU'RE THE LATEST BOTTICELLI of the DIGITAL ERA!!

*breathes*

IDIOT, BE BETTER!

Ugh.

Why, for the love of all that is even remotely sane, would they watermark their diabolical digital steaming shit, hmm? It's like it's mocking me for having had a finger spasm and clicked on it. It's like it's saying, "Oh haiii bb. You clicked on meeee. I know you don't like meeeee... but you can't have meeeeeee!!! No stealy!!!!!"

Like I would even fucking favorite you, you disastrous parasite. I would shoot myself in the proverbial balls before I tried to pass you off as my own.




So, it's safe to say these people annoy me. They annoy me enough for me to have just addressed their shitty pieces as one big whole. In fact, let's just give alllll those pieces a name, shall we? We'll call it... Dickie! Hrm. So I had to do an entry about Dickie. I do feel better now though, though I seem to have lost my mind a little.

ETA: Oh! If you're one of those people then... I'm sor---actually, I'm only sorry for my foul language. I still stand by my inflammatory words. Maybe you can explain to me, the arrogance of these watermark wielding idiots, hmm? Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying I'm amazing. Even the amazing guys aren't saying they're amazing. That's the whole point. Once you wield watermark, you're saying you suddenly have something EVERYONE wants, and that you need protection. A little tag of the name is fine... a little copyright sign - whatever. But that huge fuck off watermark?

It's just not right.

I'm doing a public post for once, so the potential Friends (or scary stalkers... that still don't comment) are reassured that I am alive. :)


I'm late submitting the commission, but it's not a big deal. I just wanted to meet a deadline for once. Ha. Ha ha. I'm not posting what's done so far, though. Supersticious reasons. The bloody thing will catch on fire in the scanner, I'm sure. But I make strange decisions. For the piece, I decided to learn from scratch how to colour with Copic Markers and also how to properly ink using nibs and brushes. I mean, really. That's the stuff to do when time is not of the essence.

Here are some recent sketches that have been done as warm ups. I'm thinking I should finish them.



The cop picture's in non-repographic blue (I had to change it a bit so it was all vaguely visible). He's stolen a sweet from a little kid. Said little kid is very hard to draw, and the third picture is me figuring him out. The angle's a bitch. I hate that angle. I never really draw that angle, and you can see why. But they're all very quick testers. I think I'll finish the cop (&boy) picture and post it.

First picture shows my progres with the markers and the new inking. So close, yet so far. D:

ETA: The Russian adverts on Livejournal make me laugh. I enabled them. Also, there are many more features for the Russian speakers! ZOMG. Statistics etc. Oooo. Maybe they actually mentioned that in the news messages, but I don't read them. Because they're boring.

ETA 2: But seriously. What do kids look like? Children are impossible to draw. I know they have HUGE heads and short stumpy limbs and puppy fat... generally, but... is that enough? No, the drawing ends up depicting a fat midget. Like, seriously. What the fuck.

So I just read it... late, I know... but I read it. And I had a huge nerdgasm. It was so tantric. Very mindblowing. I'm still in the throes of it and can barely type.

Also. Agent Brand and Beast are totally hot together. Agent Brand is a hot-ass alien and I love her shade of green. I always knew Emma and Kitty were hot for each other too, in an 'I hate you and am trying to kill you' way. The drama of it all was hot too - and aw, Emma who never cries, cried for Kitty. Emma should teleport into the big-fuck-off-bullet and go tantric with Kitty. Ease her pain.

Now I'll re-read and continue with the drooling and 'gasms. Then I will find fanfic and continue with the 'gasms. Mm.

So I was meant to work on the website today, which I did, but not for very long. Instead, I worked on the picture below. I figured there's no point even finishing the website when there's so little finished coloured art to put up. Or even just finished art for that matter. Heh.



It was all fine, until I got to colouring the arm. I... well, it... I don't know. I mean, the slight hints of muscle were coming out all wrong, so I cursed and put two hours worth of detail into it. Which I will then mostly paint over... as it's not meant to be nearly so defined. Ahhhhh, but the muscles! Really, it's terrible. They're bastards. I've accidentally/stupidly merged the medial and long head part of the tricep, as well as the brachialis and bicep. I feel like an idiot. -.-* An idiot even more for caring... when I'm just painting over all that nasty stuff anyway.

But hey! It's me with my new haiiiir! V. short. I got sick of spending an hour on my hair everyday. Now it's just, like, ten minutes max. Spiky. Myes. But now I'm thinking of growing it extra long. Like, really long.

I don't know why.

Moo.

ETA: Rough clothes - trying to figure out colour.... hrm.

I've been seeing some funny stuff lately. Thought I'd share.

Funny Thing #1: Girls as Guys

And they're models! Freakin' hilarious. It's from America's Next Top Model. Cycle 8.

Skip ahead to 6:00



( More of models as guys! Haha! )

LOL. Seriously.



Funny Thing #2: Tegan and Sara are FUNNY!!!

Around the time of The Con. Seriously. The album is so damn good, and the clips? Hilarious. The first one had me nearly peeing myself I was laughing so hard. Nice, right? Yeah. Nice.



HAH! It's... the wheezing... and the stroking of the pie... that really gets me. Hahahah! Also, Tegan's WTF expression (the twin on the left...) at the very beginning was the same one I had on an unfortunate date. Look at that expression! The poor girl - whoever she was. Can you imagine being on a date with the other person looking at you like that? *snorts* Girl? I'm sorry, okay? I shouldn't have looked at you like you were a fish with three heads telling me you love me. I'm sorry. But, still, it's so funny!

( More Tegan and Sara hilarity )


Poor Sara. Poor pooooor Sara.





Funny Thing #3: Xena: When Fates Collide FTW

Now then. NOW THEN. Less funny... just totally cool. And we gots da moosic which is da BOMB. Ahem.



Funny Thing #4: The Wild Party

Again. Not particularly funny. It just rocks. A million thanks to tamoshan for uploading such a great video. (Still trying to find the soundtrack... >.<*)



Make Me Happy at 3:34. I'm obsessed with that song. OBSESSED. Although, Idina acting all slutty never fails to rouse me. *cough* Maureen *cough*

I've forgotten everything else that's made me laugh lately. Until next time!

I... have a disease. I thought it was over... but damn it, this video rocks! The drama of it all. Ohhhh the drama!










Edit: Now from hot, to EVEN MORE HOT!!

Hahaha! Lookeee! New layout!

Freakin' finally, I say. I was never so keen on the last layout, but I felt sure I would start to like it once it was finished. Only, it was taking SO MUCH WORK... and it was still ugly. I'll continue working on that CG painting, and incorporate that into this header. It'll also be good for my portfolio.

Ironically, this layout's better and it only took me about forty minutes to do - all the while I was laying in bed and using one hand, while I held the pillow under my head with the other. o.0* The Ugly Layout had 50+ hours spent on it. Seriously. That's kinda sucky.

light_spectre            light_spectre            light_spectre            light_spectre            

Oh, and hey. An ANIMATED HEADER! I've not ever seen such a thing on LJ...

It's still 'under construction' - i.e. that painting not yet finished. Also, there seems to be a weird bug with some copies of IE7 that causes the page to be all WEIRD. So far, it seems fine in Firefox, and I've been told it's fine in IE6, most IE7s, and Safari. If it looks weird to anyone, let me know?

Weird, as in, sidebar at bottom of page, and the nav bar partially obscured... and the header not fitting. Weirdness.

Hmm, I swear most people have headers of other people...

Look! It's... Lumiére! (Finally I did a little work on my damn epic header...)




And a slightly more finished... and higher resolution version (50% done):




I've only just realised something... y'know, halfway through this whole header thing. Work on it at a higher resolution? Yeah? No, that just occurred to me. You see, little Lumiére down there (or, rather, up there) was too small to do any worthwhile detail. So I transferred her (Me!) to a higher quality canvas (500%)... and hey, it really works. I feel so terribly retarded for not doing that with the others. I've had resolution issues with them all. The worst being Idina's eyes - notice how one eye is bigger? But it's half a pixel difference! Well, oh boy, are things going to change.


*cackles*

I drew this at tonight's dinner party while being all angsty-angsty. Funny how people were so wanting to say something, but thought better of it.



I pulled out of The Ball last minute. I mean, really. REALLY. What else was I meant to do?