++ Wanna Be Startin' S O M E T H I N '

そしてこれにつづく...

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So, instead of rotting away my brain during these long holidays, I decided to pick up some anatomy books to read again. Back when I started out drawing, I read quite a few how-to-draw, drawing techniques and anatomy books. It was a few years back when I read them, so I'm not sure how much I actually got out of reading those books. But now I've motivated myself to pick up my slack and start reading through some books thoroughly to improve myself.

Currently I'm reading Figure Drawing For All it's Worth (1943) by a man called Andrew Loomis. The book is simply amazing. His writing is so in-depth yet is easy enough to understand without any worries that you'd be confused or lost in his descriptions. His approach in detail is really effective too, emphasizing to the reader that they should draw the way they feel most comfortable. Loomis gives very clear guidlines to follow yet allows for enough creative freedom from the reader that they are able to apply their own styles to each "lesson" he gives. The diagrams he draws out too are very well done, motivating the reader to continue reading and aspire to Loomis' talent. I'm definitely going to stick to his books for the time being, to get as much out of it as I can. I've got my hands on his whole catalogue, so there's quite a bit of reading to do, but I honestly don't mind reading his works. Though it's going to be a very thorough workout! For sure! hahaha.

...And so let me leave you with a quote I read recently,
"The best time to plant a seed was 20 years ago. The second best time is now"
We should all work our best now, so that hopefully we can look back on ourselves in the future to see how much we've grown.
I wish everyone luck for the future! (:

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...この醜い脳裏

++ Back to What You K N O W

Just a little update

Not much really happened

But let's see where this gets us

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So after this whole convention and artist alley thing happened, I've pretty much been drawing everyday. I want to get back to how I used to draw, not necessarily the technique but the familiarity i had. I used to be able to pick up a piece of paper and sketch happily what I had in my head, but now its a bit harder than that. I'm getting a bit rusty, I hope. I mean, I technically haven't been drawing for a half a year and a bit on paper, so of course I'd expect something like this. Too much digital i think.

Anyway, not much else worth noting happened, except working a crap-load. Ugh, it's getting a bit much lately, but I'll cope with it.

Hmm, let's end with a little "25 random facts about me" thing a friend gave to me:

1. Most important thing in my world is my family. Friends are family too!

2. Music and drawing are my life, dancing is my wife.

3. My favourite colour is red.

4. My goal is to own a multi-million dollar earning company.

5. There's only four people I'd turn gay for in this world; Usher, T.I., Robin Thicke and Me! (No I'm not gay you ASS)

6. I'm a deep thinker. I can spend days thinking on the most random of things; from what I want to eat tomorrow, to how life began.

7. My mind is creative, it's just that my hands don't listen.

8. I learn new things everyday. Even the smallest of things can give the biggest of lessons.

9. Still misses Japan.

10. Sometimes I think I'm too smart for my own good.

11. I'm only doing this cos I'm THAT bored.

12. I wait all day, then I wait all night.

13. I'm soft and smushy on the outside, but on the inside I'm a mother fucking killer.

14. I keep a lot of things to myself, A LOT.

15. I never show how pissed I really am. I always stay happy, even on the shittest of days.

16. I've always craved to get into a fight. I sometimes feel like I just want to fuck someone up.

17. You don't want to see me when I'm angry.

18. If I ever get angry with you, you really must've done some fucked up shit to get me that pissed.

19. In my whole highschool life, I've only ever been truly pissed at someone once. Every other day I spend smiling.

20. I forgive people easily. The person I was pissed at that one time during highschool, I forgave the next day, we good buddies still =]

21. When it comes to friends and family, I always remember things to the littelest thing. When it comes to school, I forget the minute I walk out the class.

22. I used to have a lot of dreams when I was younger. Nowadays I hardly ever get one.

23. I'm an aspiration type of guy. I always make goals and do my best to obtain it.

24. I love cats! But, I'm also allergic to them... T__t

25. I'm glad that this things over and done with =D


OKAY ANYWAY, I'm now honestly thinking I should delete this later. HAHAHA

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Haha, that wasted too much of my time

I could've done something more useful to me

Well, I'ma go shower now anyway

- OverDose

++ Long Live The G A M E

Today was fun

So much to say

But I'll keep this one short...ish

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As I mentioned yesterday, I went to the con today! Hahaha, wasn't expecting much to come from today, but in the end I really enjoyed myself. I'm not the type to be really into the stuff that happens at a con, like the cosplays/screenings/sales/competitions, but the thing that really caught my eye was watching as artists drew their customers.

I spent a majority of my time there talking to the artists that were selling their stuff there. I really feel inspired to look at the works of these people. I really admire how they can do something like that. How they draw these pictures and get them professionally printed to sell at the con. It may not be career thing, but I really enjoy looking at those that take it as a hobby and genuinely love drawing.

I really wish to be in that position one day.

Two artists that really caught my eye was a 24 year old guy and a 16 year old girl. I talked to them two the most, and learnt a lot of things from the. The guy was doing portrait drawings for his customers whilst the girl was selling postcards, prints, stickers and other things like that. I really like the drawing style the guy had. It's something similar to how I want to be able to draw, so I'm currently keeping a close eye on his progress. The girl is a real inspiration. She's so young and she is able to manage her own stall. Also, I actually really liked her drawings, ended buying quite a bit from her, hahahha. I also managed to grab both their emails, so I'm happy about that.

Okay, so now that you know I spent most of my time at the artists section, let's move onto what I bought there.



First, I bought quite a few things done by the local artists here. They really inspire me, so why not? I bought 9 postcards, 2 posters, 1 original drawing and a local artbook. I am really proud of buying the GunGrave Artbook! I've been a fan of Yasuhiro Nightow for a long time! I love his Trigun and GunGrave series. He served as one of the inspirations during the time i was still learning to grasp my drawing abilities. Hmm, oh and I also bought a DVD called Takeshis', a movie made by Takeshi Kitano about himself. I am a huge fans of his movies and I own a boxset of all the movies he's directed up until Zatoichi, his 2003 feature film which won numerous awards internationally. Takeshi's came out in 2005, so I haven't got it yet. I'm really looking forward to watching it. Oh, also, I really loved his "Dolls" movie. If you haven't heard of it yet, I suggest to look it up. It's a really touching story(ies).

Okayy, I guess that's enough or today.

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Hmm, was that short?

Maybe not short enough??

Pfft, yeah I tried my hardest, so it better be short!
- OverDose

++ Let's Stay T O G E T H E R

Wow, so a month has gone by

Haha, I try and try to update

But I always fail, hahaha

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I think the reason why I don't get to updating my blog as often as I'd like is because I tend to blog on a bit tooo much, and it starts getting a little laborious to type it out. I guess I'll start practicing to type a little shorter, maybe on the more interesting things rather than anything I can think of. Hahaha.

Okayyy, well, a little catching up.

It's been an alright month. January, the first month of the new year. It wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped but it was fun. Well some things that happened this month (from the top of my head):

Paintballing
Work
Birthdays
Shopping
Work
Got accepted into uni!! WOO
and work

Oh? I already mentioned work? Well, maybe that because IT'S MAINLY ALL I'VE BEEN DOING THESE HOLIDAYSS.

Omgsh, how lame hahaha.

Rolling in the cash, but to be honest, I'm starting to miss having a free weekday where I can just do whatever I want. It's starting to become the weekends that I'm looking forward to. You know? One of them monotonous, boring, every-day routine type of lives.

Well, with uni starting in the coming month, maybe things will start changing?

Hahah, I hope so.

Okay well, on to some news I'd like to talk about! =DD

YAYYY

Soooo, I'm doing a new drawing, something that I'm liking how it turning outt. It started out as a sketch I did just for fun a month or so ago and I liked it enough that recently I decided to pick it up again and start colouring.

I could go through the whole process, but I don't think I'll get too into it. Anyway this is it:




It's so fun to see how far I've come since I started drawing about two/three years ago. I remember struggling to draw pictures the way I wanted, there'd always be something making it look really bad in my opinion. The face, the arms, the legs, the hips, the hair, there'd always be something that would really bug me. But I can now start saying that I'm glad with the progress I've made and I hope I can continue like this and maybe I can really start doing things I'd be really happy with within the next few years.

Okay, I guess that's enough for today.

Byee~

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I got this new kick-ass addon

For Firefox that makes it easier for me to update my blog

Hopefully it'll encourage me to start updating more regularly =DD

- OverDose

++ Slowly But S t e a d i l y

Ok, well it's nice to have a nice relaxing evening after a hard days work.

Spending my time infront of my photoshop and drawing away.

It feels good to finally be be able to draw freely~

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So, I decided to spend a little time on some drawing today, just to relax a bit. I always enjoy drawing. Simply love it. It always gets me in a good mood, watching myself construct something from paper and make it into my 'own' thing. It's a nice feeling =D

Anywaiz, onto the picture~!

I've had this pic sketched up on paper for about 2 - 3 weeks now. I've just never decided what I wanted to do with it, so I just ended up scanning it up and doing a bit of work on it in photoshop. Eventually, I started colouring the pic in.. and now I can't stop. I want to get this thing done! Not in a bad way, but what I mean is that I think it's gonna look great when it's finished =DD

So yeah, here's the sketch I scanned up about a week or so ago:


And this it wat it ended up looking like after I decided I wanted to 'spalsh' on some colours to it:


Looks pretty horendous right? D=

Yeah, I think so to, hahahha.

Keep in mind that the next few pics is spread over a time-frame of a bit more than a week. I'd just randomly jump on my computer, open up the file and do a bit of work on it, save a .jpeg version of the pic before closing it. So anyway, from here I knew I had a hellova lot of work left for me to do. First I had to fix the bridge of the nose and the bit around the eyes, I had to make it narrower and more defined. Next was the lips and the cheeks. Now that was really hard. I'm not really good at colouring in lips, so I spent ALOT of time on that part of the colouring. It was HARD, like REALLY HARD T___T.

But in the end, I kinda fluked it, as I will show you:

So now it's starting to look a little better. But I'm nowhere near the finish line yet, not even half way there. From here, I noticed something a little off about the picture. It took me a while, but I eventually realised the nose was a tad bit too long, and the eyes were a tad bit too big. After adjusting that, and slightly reshaping the lips, things started looking a little better. Now I had to start fixing the shading and highlights. Smooth it out at places, increasing the shading, increase the highlights, etc. etc.. basically making it look a little better on the eyes. I ended up having to recolour the lips, I thought it was a little too reddish for my liking. I wanted it to have a more natural glossy colour, rather than the cheap lipstick look. Being honest though, I preferred how it looked before rather than what I have done with the lips now. The colours are correct now, but the way it was coloured doesn't look as nice as how it was before. Bah, overall I'd rather have the correct colours than have it 'look' nice but with the wrong colours.

So yeah, after all that work, this is what I have ended up with:


And that's what I've done on the picture so far. Although I've had this picture in the works for a little over a week now, I've probably spent a net total of about 4-5 hours on the actual drawing. I'm gonna spend a lot more time on it to get the rest of it coloured in too. Kinda looking forward to it, hahaha.

Oh, and I think you might know by now who the person in the pic is meant to be. If you do, then a cyber cookie for youu =DD

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RANDOM STORY

On Saturday (the day before my bros wedding) me, my mom, my aunty and my cousin (who's the same age as me) went to another wedding that was being held that weekend. So the wedding was a bit weird for certain reasons and things happened, but I won't get into that 'cos that's not the point of THIS story.

Anyway, after eating the food being served there, my cousin wanted to head to the back of the hall cos they had the cakes plated there on a few tables. She grabbed me by the arm and we kinda had to push our way through the crowds to finally get to the cakes. Honestly, some of the cakes looked kinda boring, so I didn't eat many of them, but one of the ones I did pick out tasted quite good. So, about half-way through making our rounds on the cake tables, my cousin spotted a friend of hers and skipped off to go talk to her, leaving me to stand awkwardly by myself, holding a plate of cakes my cousin collected for herself and watching as she talks happily to her friends. I didn't know what to do, just standing there, so I sighed and had a little look around the place.

Next thing you know, I'm just standing there going "What the hell!!" in my head. I think I almost dropped my plate when I noticed, but omgosh, who wouldn't? My cousin was just happily talking to her friends and not noticing what I was looking at, or even notice my reaction (if I even had a fairly noticable one at that).

Sitting behind my cousins friends, to the side of the hall along the wall, by herself was (I kid you not) someone that looked EXACTLY like the person I am in the process of drawing. Yup, she looked like Nocchi.. cept with glasses..

still..

glasses are good though D=

Well, atleast SHE looked good in them..

>__>
<__<"

Anyway, I was just standing there almost speechless(?) (possiblly starstruck? bahahah) because she honestly looked EXACTLY like her. If she was put in a Nocchi look-alike contest, where even Nocchi herself was a contestant, I think she'd come first. Bahah, I mean EXACTLY exactly. Plus, she's my favourite member out of the three of them. So I was in shock. SHOCK!

She looked so lonely, sitting there by herself
D=

Bahahaha.

RANDOM STORY /END

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I almost laughed at myself after that event, LOL!

It's so lame, hahah. I'm sucha dumbass xDD

Now... how would Nocchi look like with glasses on? hmmm...

- OverDose