Spring is the WORST

Cracking open the books today, nursing a wicked sinus headache. My eyes are watering, gah!

Pokemon from last night:

ratty-catty-ta

GOLURK

I can't wait to be done with this semester, I want to focus my full attention on book learnin' and ass kickin'.

dream diary

I completed Yume Nikki the other day, what a pleasure that game is. There is one simple goal; find everything. You really get lost in the trippy visuals and haunting looped tracks. Throughout the game you collect "effects" that transform your character.

This is the protagonist Madotsuki with the "frog effect".

I've been steadily adding more pokemon to my collection, don't forget to check them out.

all junk, no stuff

Yeah, so I've been doing a little too many non art related things lately. Mostly playing minecraft, going to the aquarium, enjoying spring break, and being a bum. (And beating myself up for not doing more art.) AH WELL, I've created a tumblr to fuel my ADD anyways. What can I say? I need somewhere to reblog funny GIFs!

I've been trying to muster up the drive to get drawings again, and had a few small revelations. First, I'm WAYYY out of practice. I was thinking about how I've come to this point, and I realize it's because all those stupid computer doodles I used to do all the time. Let me elaborate; drawing is not just a skill, it's a practice.  Before I went to art school I drew purely for the fun of it,  mostly lots and lots of small digital drawings for website like Gaia Online(back when it was go-gaia) or Livejournal. Even though I rarely did large scale colored illustrations, this practice was still invaluable.  The motions and flows of working digitally is an incredibly unique experience, that can't be mimicked in any real media. Experiencing the action itself, even just doing a huge sheet of scribbles, contributes to your technique.  I find that since I've started attending art school, I actually draw a lot less. (Which I'm trying to remedy!) I focus all my energy on the illustration, on the end result. Between illustrations I do very little sketching, and when I do it usually has to do with my current project. This is BAAAD, BAD, BAD!!! You need to do those stupid little doodles. They don't have to mean anything, or even see the light of day! The practice is what counts, and it shines through very strongly when you go to work on that large piece.

Another realization I've made that is sketching is the most important thing you can spend your time doing. Pencil sketching is the basic bottom step in drawing, and being able to do it well is an asset. Of course it's a given that the basics are most important. Mastering sketching clean, beautiful images seems so daunting.. My new resolution is the create at LEAST one sketch a day. (In pencil!)

Last night I was hoping to draw, so I asked some people to name pokemon. I drew them totally from memory, and well, improvised a lot. I haven't played a pokemon game in quite a while, suffice it to say my memory of them was rusty.

Check them all out here! And Yes, I'll be adding more!

i think i derp'd

I'm finally making the leap... I'm deleting World of Warcraft (and any other video games) from my laptop and using it primarily for art related stuff. Honestly, it wasn't a very hard decision since the "cataclysmically" large patch 4.0 was too large to install anyways. (Unless I did a clean install.. But, dammit, do I really need another reason to play WoW?) As I was purging I found a few old scrap drawings that I never finished.

In other news, me and my boyfriend have really been riding this pony buzz. He bought me some hilarious and cute MLP toys for Valentine's Day, and I've been particularly entertained by the "bubble blowing" Pinkie Pie toy. I really amuse myself sometimes.

PONKY POO

From the sketchbook: 

Meanwhile, my owl obsession continues...

Every once in a while I find myself googling or browsing for random owl products. What am I becoming?! I don't know, some kind of owl person I guess. For a long time I used a pseudonym on and off the internet. ( "Shiro" ) Don't ask me why, I'm sure I had some weird reason. Well, I'm embracing the accountability and notoriety that come with using your real name on the internet now. Despite all that, I still find myself tossing around possible aliases in my head. The whole owl mania has inspired the name "Owl Toast". (Based off the name of a pub in MA, "The Toasted Owl".)  I'm still trying to figure out an application for it, but in the meantime I'll just continue ogling cutesy owl merchandise.

Pikachu

I have always been/am/will be obsessed with Pikachu. FACT. I've drawn so many incarnations of Pikachu ranging from disney-esque, realistic, to monstrous "dire" version. I'm not really sure what inspired me to, but here's some sickeningly cute chibi Pikas I doodled up last night.

Just to keep with the Pikachu theme, this is a drawing I did last semester: