This is a sequel of sorts of the previous “happy girl in the snow” post I made (#642).
Medium size after the cut.
Updated mini-version!
Archive for the ‘Drawings’ Category
Lovey couple!!
What the hell!! :D
From sketch to final product! Look for the TWO RIGHT FEET on the girl in the early lineart.
Line art, if you’re into coloring or whatever
Hope you like? My favorite parts are the girl’s watch, the guy’s t-shirt, and the girl’s back pocket. I originally sketched this up in the library while studying for Micro, but it seemed to have enough potential to be colored. I took the opportunity to work further with the separate shading layer, which enabled me to color the jeans in greater detail, as I could do the fading/whiskering in one layer (pretty easy) and then do the shadowing in another layer (also easy). The combined result is fairly complicated to do from scratch.
The girl’s jeans are a hybrid of two designs that Jolin Tsai has modeled on the Levi’s Taiwan site, a pair that a guy friend has, and the green-blue color used in a Miku Hatsune fanart. I think they’re kind of cute. The guy’s t-shirt is a random design involving a tree whose roots turn into a stylized waterfall. The girl’s t-shirt is a sort of cheerleader-type layout but with the word “Think” across the chest rather than a team name (no, it doesn’t say “pink”).
Maybe a background is in order …
Today was a gorgeous, breezy day, so I walked to the public Rose Garden in the Fens and studied for a few hours there, eating lunch as well. It was kind of interesting to study microbial pathogens while practically picnicking in the park, but it worked out nicely. In the process, I ended up taking photos of most of the flowers.
Martha’s Vineyard
Granada
Miss Elsie May
Michelangelo
Heritage
Here are also couple character sketches (personifications of everyday objects). The two on the left are my two current computers, and the one on the right is my jade plant. I’ve always given life to objects because of my belief that the basic element of the soul is present in every atom, thus giving all things an essence of life. The concept is somewhat related to tsukumogami, a subset of Japanese youkai which are household items which have existed for long enough to have a soul.
The names of my three computers are as follows:
Adalheidis (Ada) – old laptop (not drawn here)
Hipparchia (Archia) – desktop (left)
Swapneshwari (Swapna) – new laptop (center)
My jade plants are collectively called “Midori” (green) but don’t currently have individual names.
I have traditionally disliked the color purple, but in a recent dream, my mother (dream-mother, I guess) gave the protagonist a plum-colored dress which evoked a soothing calm. Plum, a slightly red wine-tinted shade off from true purple, gives up some of the regal aura. The dream’s dress was a very simple unwaisted, sleeveless knee-length dress, like what a younger kid might wear. The pattern was based on intricate stamp-like diamonds in blue, green, yellow, and white.
Here, I decided to adapt the color to a different sort of design which is still loose but a bit more elegant. I did away with a whole-dress pattern, reducing the basic concepts to the bosom and trim.
Technique-wise, I tried out an idea put forth in a Deviant Art tutorial I read through recently, which was to decouple shading from the actual colors. By making the shading a grayscale layer multiplied against a solid template, it is possible to generate complex patterns without having to individually shade each color, which has always had ugly results for me in the past. In addition, it becomes effortless to change the color of the dress on a whim. I have included here the final drawing as well as a version which removes the solid color layer to reveal the shading. It actually looks quite nice (or nicer) as a white dress.
I drew a new picture for the “biography” page, because the old description there was really stupid.
After struggling with lighting 3D models, I finally came across a nice and simple tutorial that explained how to set up a basic three-point lighting scheme. What a difference it makes … . Eyes are still creepy though.
Swift 3D v6. Temporary eye texture from renderosity tutorials (by nezbitten)
The main exercise was the head, so here are side and front views in wire and flat shading:
The back of the head is deformed because once I drew in the hair, it was no longer a priority. Swift 3D is somewhat more difficult to use for this purpose because it is difficult to “grow” a mesh bit by bit, and the polygons are strictly triangle-based, as opposed to quadrilaterals as seen in other programs. Large arrays of triangles are just conceptually much harder to visualize in 3D.
I fashioned this head out of a box which was 4h x 2w, duplicated across the midline.
This time it’s bears!
People who live with their pasts can write memoirs and autobiographies. I only live with the present and the future, the past lingering as a volume of knowledge in the living moment. That’s why I think my equivalent of a memoir is more like a simple present introspection, although the difference is that the introspection is more ‘closed’ from outside characters. When I hear the wash and noise of silence, or when I am sleeping, that is when this inner world is most apparent, and that is what I’m depicting here. Since I am so young, this short and simple diary-style introspection should suffice.
This five-page illustrated diary entry sums up my life, which is on a cycle of obligation and fulfillment. During the obligation segment, a large clump of things I need to do but that I can’t seem to commit to build up, and during the frenzied fulfillment stage, I finish them one by one (or release the ones that have expired). While the obligation stage is full of stress and a looming shadow, it is also a period during which I flit from one thing to another, learning as much as I can. Fulfillment is made possible by the disjoint skills I hone while distracted by other things. It can take months or years for me to understand how something I’ve learned how to do is relevant to fulfilling my promises. But at some point, everything just comes together. I just have to have faith that my instinctive investments will culminate in a grander art in the end.
A card for grandma .. a boy reading under a hydrangea-colored cherry tree ..
A card for mom .. a mother phoenix and her two children ..
Not a card at all =P ..
Nisu+Faxu+Juliax3
Don’t you wish we could live our lives like this?
Nisunie looks like Waldo .. but Waldo is hot (?!) so w/e.
P.S. I hate feet. Feet suck.