Hothead

Thanks to Ad, the Hell's Medic for the prompt! This painting was done in my Embodiment journal (and bled right through onto the other page ... I was a bit heavy handed with the gouache) in-between university drawings. It's a self portrait, while at the same time representing the element of fire.

I used gouache, Daler-Rowney pearlescent liquid acrylics (which I've taken to collecting) and good old fashioned inks.

I will get to uploading some university work soon - it'll be a long post but it's a needed one!

October is a special month

... not only because Halloween is stuck on the end of it (and last year was spent with my duvet and the Most Haunted special on Living TV), but a few significant things have happened since then. On the sixteenth, I'll have been on Crash Mania for a year. Still a relative newbie compared to you old fogies, I know, but it still seems like a long time to me - especially as this year's been going so quickly!

I've also been running this blog for approximately a year. I know, the first proper published entry is in November, but I originally joined in October:


See?

Also, October is the month when I generally notice winter's settling in. The weather wasn't bad today, but there was a chill to the air, and the evenings are getting rather darker. Speaking of settling in, October is also the month where - if I'm in a new place - I start to relax a little. New school years, new sixth-forms, new college. I do like this time of year.


I've finished with the Fine Art taster for the course now, and have started on Design. I much prefer Design, I feel, it was quite hard for me to originally get into Fine Art (especially as we were given the topic of Architecture ... buildings sure aren't my strong point). Anyhow, here's some of the Fine Art stuff I've been working on for the past couple of weeks:






I feel the collograph (first photo) worked the best. I also really liked the photographs as well, they turned out pretty awesome just for reference shots.


Now - other work I've been doing. I scrapped most of the old Tita Gasman lineart I did for Korusan as I realised it wasn't working out that well, and started a new piece. That, hopefully, should be done soon - I'm really happy with how this new piece is turning out. I'm recording myself CGing it, so a video'll go up the same time as the finished piece (therefore, no, you're not seeing a preview - ahahah~)


Remember when I mentioned I was doing work for CMTV? This is what I did for Episode One, and don't worry - there's more where these came from:



It's a lot of fun to work on these member portraits (or as I nicknamed them, 'cornersprites', as I imagined they'd appear alongside a name-bar when introducing a character). I also have a few more pieces for CMTV to do, but they'll remain a surprise until Episode 2 is released. *ssssh*


That's pretty much all that's significant. I did do a small lolita-ish themed drawing, but hopefully I'll be writing an article to go along with that (it's not often I discuss fashion so this should be interesting) when I get the time to.

See you guys a little later!

Nine-Nine-Nine

First off, if you're going to make a big thing out of 09/09/09, I wish you a good celebration. :3







Here are a bunch of real-life studies I've done over this past month. Two are incomplete, but I liked the way they turned out regardless. I'm not a fan of the last one at all but, as my new college tutor says, you shouldn't throw anything away. I used charcoal (and a little chalk) on said disliked piece, and I don't think I've quite got the hang of it yet. The first one is probably my favourite (closely followed by the second).

All-New Art College is going rather well (and I'm getting practise in making packed-lunch ... maybe sometime this year I should try making a bento, they look interesting). We're going on a two-day field trip to Ironbridge tomorrow (we're not stopping overnight, we're just going there on both days) so hopefully I'll have photographs and drawings from that visit.


If you, the reader, are back at school this week - and especially if you're just starting at a new place - I hope this year goes well for you.

ポリリズム の 家族

You have nooo idea how long it's taken me to write this. I seem to have come down with temporary blogger's-block, but I'm doing this knowing I'll feel proud of myself and accomplished after I press 'Publish Post'. *grin*



This is Paytotheorderofofof2, on YouTube - one of my favourite video-bloggers. Watching her videos - especially her 'YouTube: Most Rewarding Thing' video - actually helped me get the confidence to do my first v-log (remember the 'sketchbook' videos?).

She kind of reminds me of someone I went to college with.




And this guy inspired me to think about filming my own 'nostalgia' video. It isn't filmed and up yet, I'm still waiting for a few things first, but it'll be up. If you get a chance, go watch some Nostalgia Critic episodes - even if you didn't watch the movies or TV shows he reviews, he's hilarious.

... I just need to draw the Angry Video Game Nerd now. >.>




Poririzumu no Kazoku.

Unfortunately I haven't kept this piece - it really wasn't one of my best - but it has a strange childlike charm to it, I guess.


I've put a couple new links in the Links section under a new heading - Awesome Series. Take a look at them, a lot of hard work goes into them, I enjoy reading/viewing them, and - as the heading states - I think they're great. I like supporting fellow artists. *thumbs up*

May? Yes, you may.

It's Bank Holiday Monday next week, as well as my art exam, so I've got a busy week ahead! The rest of May will be spent revising for the rest of my exams - as well as having a paid part-time job alongside charity volunteering - so I probably won't update a lot this month or in June at all. I'm a little tired even now, so I'll keep this fairly short. Anyhow. *claps hands*





I'm actually pleased with it for the time it took (however, the nose needs a bit more work done to it.)



Second up is this owl, inspired by Ravenari's works, as part of my Animal Forms unit (my exam unit):



I'm also quite pleased with this, although my fingers ached for a while afterwards because of how hard I was pressing down with the pencil crayons. Eep.


Also, before I go - I changed the Quote of the Month for May! Take a look >>>>

Stephen Colbert in 6 Steps

... only towards the end he looked a little less like Colbert and more like Harry Potter (especially with that oversized timer). Ahh well.

But anyhow, I got "I Am America (And So Can You)" for my birthday and found the reference image, and wanted to have a go at drawing it. *shrug*

In Which Polyrhythm is an Adult

So, earlier this week I turned eighteen. I actually do feel eighteen, which is a little strange and unexpected, but ... nice. Not scary.

Me wonderful mum and stepdad surprised me by taking me out on my birthday night to one of my favourite restaurants, where we shared memories of when I was at nursery through to Year Six, and good giggles were had. Tonight we also went out, as my stepsiblings and my stepsister's partner came with us, and that was brilliant too.

Everyone: *munch-munch-talking-about-XboxLive-and-games, how-everyone-on-their-headsets-is-being-dead-aggressive-and-such*
Stepsister: There was this one night, when Mum was getting up to go downstairs and [partner] and I were on the XBox, and the first thing she heard coming from our room was [partner] saying "Get back in your cage, slave!"
Everyone: *MEGALOL*

See, I'm even laughing now as I type it.


Oh, art? Just a couple pieces right now, including my first anthro piece (for Smaz of Crash Mania's birthday) and my last ever portrait of myself I did when I was seventeen.




So, first off, this is the Crash x Tawna piece I did for Smazzum. I'm pleased, as it's my first anthro piece. Ever.




The last portrait of myself I drew when seventeen. It's ... it's so BEAUTIFUL! *sob*

*falls over*

I'm sorry. I don't feel up to writing about each of these pieces just yet, 'cause my brain's tired out. I've finally finished sitting my mock exams, and they take the energy right out of you (never mind what the real ones do to me, I'm usually outright incoherent afterwards). Just that yes, they were done traditionally but had to be edited digitally slightly because the camera doesn't really bring out the quality. I am very pleased with both pieces, but I wish I either had 1) better photos, or 2) a working scanner.

The Azumanga fanart comes with a drawing video. I can't explain much more than that.





Drawing Tomo Takino





Drawing Ayumu Kasuga 'Osaka'




Drawing Chiyo Mihama