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13 April 2008 @ 05:26 am
What's going on here?  

It's nice to know I can still draw in the style I came up with a year ago.
I want to do more stuff in this style. Maybe Landaluf.

Also, hey, look, flat-colored Zanoi for the portfolio layout.
Also, http://jessicacantlope.com.
 
 
feelin' kinda: productive
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
07 April 2008 @ 08:26 pm
yearghhh ah stab yew with mah bird stick  

I'll be honest, I love how this turned out. Also how my super-fixed-up Tigress turned out (I'll show you when it's finished).


Also for portfolio.

Namely, my new portfolio design. )
 
 
feelin' kinda: happy
the beat is: Stewart Copeland - 1.07 Toasty.mp3
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
31 March 2008 @ 03:07 pm
hraaaaaaa  


Yet another thing for Portfolio. Will probably end up looking very different in the end.

lol watch me salvage my sanity by integrating anything with everything.
 
 
location: the office
feelin' kinda: busy
the beat is: Psycho le Cemu - Broker
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
20 March 2008 @ 09:46 am
snowblind  
Right now I'm catching up on portfolio and totally not playing Brawl for 5 hours per day average.

Yet the following has nothing to do with Portfolio. (Mostly.)



I'm having troubles deciding on colors for this. Namely Yu's jacket. I thought it'd be green originally (his favorite color, most of what he wears is green), but then I tried purple 'cause I thought green wouldn't work. Hmm. The BG is going to be this cloudy snowy sort of thing that fades up in the corner. (I did lighten the flat base a little on the second one.) For the jacket, I'm also thinking grey, spring green, and sky blue could work, but blue is too much blue and grey is for my other pic.


My other pic.

Oh yeah, Yu has a mole now. Because none of my characters have moles...until now. Gotta go back and fix a few pictures/pages.

Logo crap )


Also, if you hadn't noticed, I posted a big fat animation post a while back that goes commentless still. I find that odd, 'cause we were on a good commenting streak. But don't worry, I still love you.

EDIT:
<--??? zomg can't decide.
 
 
feelin' kinda: cold
the beat is: Jun Ishikawa - Dedede
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
29 February 2008 @ 09:55 pm
All caught up on being behind.  

The animation I made in class. Click to watch!



All about it )

For you guys whose web I was considering, the thumbnails I made. )

Also, these things:


Yet another reptilian mascot for one of my portfolio projects that somehow turned out better than Dil, in less time. My better work seems to come with less time lately.


No idea what this is.

I didn't enter that contest I mentioned a while back for Gryphon Webzine. Nooo time. Maybe again later.

Fun fact: I did enter the Student Addys. Despite last year, when our college won eight (or was it six?), this time only one of us won. It was the guy I used to envy for some reason, too, back when I started college and knew nothing about anything, lol. All the seniors and juniors and some sophomores entered some really impressive stuff this time, so we're baffled. I didn't go to the awards myself (after hearing about them yesterday I kind of regret it), but I hear it was 50/50...really great, impassioned work, with stuff that's really pointless or low execution.

Evidently, on top of concept, our school pushes actual use in the working world. I like having that kind of mindset since most people in visual communications have nooo idea what to do once they're out there and graduated. I still kind of wish I had at least one impractical but beautiful picture in my portfolio, though. Or at least a piece of concept art in and of itself--not attached to anything else like a package. Evidently all the great illustrators at the Addys had no concept but great skills in illustrating. That kind of work feels empty to me...

I don't feel bad about not winning, but I do feel bad I didn't go Tuesday because you can't view the winners' work anywhere else. Not fair! If I won, I'd like it displayed on a website or something...even in a 200x200 thumbnail size.

There was a big debate amongst us on the balance of practicality and creativity... We'll be forging our paths!


Other cool things:

http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/ <--Interactivity, yay! Took this from [info]iza_7.
http://www.hairfinder.com/menshair.htm <--I needed this. O_O Men's hairstyles elude me! 'Til now! >D


In other news, LF updated. Go Leap Day updates!
 
 
feelin' kinda: accomplished
the beat is: N07 - K.K. Cruisin'
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
22 February 2008 @ 01:53 am
gettin' MELT  


MOOORE! )

Supercool free web design Super Effort offer, never forget. (Actually, I think I have my offer already. Concepting is to be done!...Also, inquiring into its legitimacy!)
 
 
feelin' kinda: amused
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
03 February 2008 @ 11:07 pm
logos  


I've been meaning to redo Mil's logo for some time. I have issues with colors, though. Maybe I should switch to less primary, more muted? Mil would match with brightness, though. Bright colors don't tend to look too well next to each other, though. I almost came up with Pokemon colors.

Fun fact: the weird thing on the first ones' Ls' and Is' strokes actually happened by mistake. That's why I made the one below. I dunno which I like more.



Something for portfolio class, lol.
 
 
feelin' kinda: productive
the beat is: Smash Bros. Brawl rips yeaarrgghh <3
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
03 November 2006 @ 11:45 pm
!  
Here are the Flash portfolio comps from Wednesday:


My chosen one. I need a better way to draw this dragon. Ever so slightly different pose. Bright spots mouseover will cause animation, clicking will make it move and have the thumbnails come in. Vestigial wings ftw.

The other two )

I've been starting pics spur of the moment again, ahh. I really need to do some nice art for Mil/LDLK, but I can't help it. All these other ideas. Although technically Memnir counts toward LDLK.

I'm thinking of writing Landaluf for JanNoWriMo, since I forgot the other idea I really wanted to try. It'd be fun. I think it's long enough to be 50k, and if not, I certainly can make it long enough. But I also want to start illustrating it, because it's mostly sugar and sunshine (until a certain point in the near-beginning, after which it's sugar with a touch of pestilence).
 
 
feelin' kinda: sleepy
 
 
Always darkest 'fore the mornin' light.
04 May 2006 @ 11:58 pm
n00b portfolio?  


Photos: Yay portfolio! )

So yes, semester OVER! HOLY CRAP.
I hope my motivation doesn't die now without something to regulate my days, as it has happened. I need a job...serious.
 
 
location: the moon
feelin' kinda: happy
the beat is: whatever song was just on Fresh Prince, now stuck in head. JUMP ON IT!