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Ahhh I tried my best~  This is my take on three of the bird monsters from Maple Story. I realized I never drawn animals before so I thought I'd start with something cute; and I've always loved those three birds! (among a lot other mobs from the game- I might pick a few and draw them too <3) I decided to make them look chubbier than the first sketch  (link)  and I quite like the way it turned out~ This is how they look like in game: (images from hidden-street.net) And I recorded some of my linearting as a test: I want to experiment more with colors for the next arts, please bear with me! Although I think that in the end, I'll always like bright ones ;u;

I'm posting this here so I could find it easily later if I needed to read it again XD Anyway, this is good read to anyone so enjoy too! Joe Madureira posted this status on his facebook page  " Do you really want to be an artist? Or a successful working professional? Believe it or not there is a difference. I’m not usually a soapbox type guy, I don’t like instructing people, and I think I’m a terrible teacher. But hey, it’s Friday and I’m in a strange mood. So here goes: I’ve noticed that a good number of my fans happen to be aspiring artists themselves. This is for all yo u guys. I get asked constantly: “Where should I go to school?” “What classes should I take?” “What should I study for anatomy?” “What pencils and paper do you use?” “Should I be working digitally now instead of traditionally?” “How do I fix my poses? Learn composition? Perspective?” “When am I going to develop my own style?” “Who were your influences?” “Teach me how to draw hands!” The list goes on…...

Edit: just updating it with the silly gif I need more animation skills xD It's something /o\ Phew! Finished! From  last post , my new ID/ avatar kind of thing for my deviantArt and elsewhere XD Pixel art is a lot of work but it was fun as well~ it was kind of therapeutic. I really enjoyed! I've read most tutorials on this list  [link]  plus some others I picked randomly on google. I've used both Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop CS for it. (Binary tool on SAI and pencil tool on Photoshop for those who doesn't know what tool to use - like I didn't ;u; ) When I resized to 50x50 (dA's icon size), I thought it looked strange so I increased some of the contrast to look better on that scale: (I also changed the mouth shape at this point) But I screwed something by not saving in the correct file size (maximum is 50kb for avatars) and in the end I kept the original mouth and this is how it currently looks: Ahhh I don't know when I...

A change for my avatar on deviantArt It's my first attempt at it and I'm still reading tutorials about it ~ Yeah, dithering? I'm just making a random pattern.. as long as it looks good at a 50x50 size will serve my purpose though lol I think I will animate the mouth, making it switch from blank to smiling but dA's avatar size restriction is 50kb so let's see if it will be small enough ;_; Anyway, I just wanted to update the blog : D Untill next time~! <3

Because I wanted to draw animals, I thought I'd draw those lovely birds from MapleStory :D Just a sketch, but I really look forward to get this done! I guess now I understand the thrill of drawing pokemons and such, hahah. I loved them harpies since the Leafre area came out, so many years ago. I also wanted to fit Tino on the background because it's a cute bird too. Drawing little creatures was more pleasurable than I thought! *u* I want to do more of this~ I'll always like MapleStory for the cutesy and pixelated art. Although their recent CG artwork is pretty stunning too! Ahhh they got some amazing artists!! I've been reading some pixel art tutorials so I'll post some pixel art tests here soon~ I want to change my icon on deviantArt badly!

heh, it is finally finished!!! ;o; Progress shots are in previous entries:  sketch  and  lineart I promissed I would do something more colorful, but I can never control the saturation in those situations, lol. Anyway, a slightly different version than the one I'll upload to dA.  In this one her hair looks a little more purple while the other is warmer and pinker. But only a little. Not that relevant of a change, but I liked both ways ;u; I wanted her hair to look a little like soda~ I want to draw an animal next. Looking for references *u*

I'm just gonna accept I won't be able to livestream because it's so troublesome to me T_T I had a second attempt on it and it was fine while I was live, but I think the length of my video was too long and it didn't record successfully to my channel >.> I thought it would be interesting for viewers that weren't able to join live to see it later, or myself, to keep track if I am getting better at all. Oh well This means I'll post more progress shots here I guess. XD Health wise, I feel terrible. I think I'm taking a while to finish those.. Berry queen went through some changes~ Actually now that I'm almost done outlining, I'm unsure of how I'll color it XD And this is another one I sketched up.  I wanted to draw a sincere looking person, haha. I know, so vague but this is what I came up with. I hadn't drawn short haired ladies in a while. I might be addicted to long hair, I like drawing them :3 Until...

How could I?!?! After a day at the hospital, I kept thinking of.. berries. Yes, I am sane.. I think!!! The same character I drawn so long ago, around the time I got my tablet:  queen's debut~ AHHH I NEGLECTED YOU, YOUR HIGHNESS. I AM SORRY. Thinking now, I noticed it would be funny if she was some sort of forever alone royalty lol My silly sketch of the day. I don't know why, I've been wanting to work with less colors these days :3 For this one I'd use 3 or 4 colors and its shades, but my thyroid has been really hard to deal with so I hope I have the willpower to finish this drawing, even if it will look rougher than the usual lol. I'm happy to draw something at least a little different than the usual. But it's so pleasent to draw smiling people! It's like a therapy, it's like my own smile...

Ok I'll just start by posting this, based on the sketch I posted the other day :D ( Juna ) So I had plans to finish and post this on sunday (march 31st), for Sakamoto Maaya's birthday. I failed in making it on time but I had a good reason (will explain later), but hey! here it is :D Super happy to finally make an Arjuna fanart~ I think I managed to capture the feel of this anime. Sakamoto Maaya is one of my most favourite singers, and some of this soundtrack is sang by her. If you have a chance to hear it, do it! It's composed by Kanno Yoko so it's guaranteed epicness. I promisse next time I'll make something more colorful :3 I didn't finish it on sunday partially because my health isn't doing too good (I had been neglecting my hipothyroidism D:) and because I had just done reading the Wizard of Oz. I downloaded a whole bunch of books in my iPod and I read myself to sleep everynight. After reading it.. I might have discovered how a child feels l...