I've started drafting page 7!

12:10 am pacific

Wow, I've been yawning a lot lately towards midnight this week. I guess my body has been needing rest so that means I'll be sleeping in a bit tomorrow. 

I've got page 7 roughly drafted and I plan on fixing the draft tomorrow as well as starting the inking. I'll also have to start page 2 of my friend's webcomic. That's not due until another two weeks but I'd like to get a head start. 

Attempt at drawing chibi

5:24 pm Pacific

The past times I've tried drawing chibi, I never knew the head to body ratio so honestly, my chibi were like little kids with young teen clothes. This time I attempted to draw chibi with the ratio of 1:2 ~ 1:4 heads to body ratio. I have no clue if the attempt passes a a chibi or not, haha. 

10 min in class charcoal drawing

5 and 7 mins studies - Lace and Grace, and news regarding my comic

7:31 pm Pacific

I'm definitely making this my weekly routine to go to these drawing workshops. Or at least one of them each week. I tried to go to both last week but ended up not going to the one during Friday afternoon.
This week will depend on how much work I need to do , both school and comics wise.
Yes plural!
I've teamed up with a friend of mine, originally an online game friend turned pretty close not-just-an-online-friend sorta relation, to work as a secondary artist on her webcomic.
As a possible result, my comic may end up being biweekly. I'm thinking I should be fine but at the same time, I'm wondering if I should change it to biweekly for the sake of building up a buffer. My current buffer is sitting at zero but usually I'd have 1 page, or more if I'm on break.
A side note, but related to my comic:
I've reuploaded them on my deviantART to include the right page size so text was legible.

Teens of Valor Chapter 1 page 6

With the location of both threats discovered, Team Q make their move to neutralize. Unfortunately, the first pair of the group meet some trouble with Mitchens. 

Rocket vehicle concept

4:22 pm 

This actually started out as an attempt to get a strand of hair off a mirror with steam on it. It was strange that the lines of cleared steam ended up looking something like a rocket shaped vehicle. Building up on silhouette I got to working on this vehicle. It's a mix of a mountain bike, Batman's vehicles and something else that I don't know quite yet. Quite interesting. 

Shin Megami Tensei Imagine Online memories

4:37 pm Pacific

This post is going to be a little different than usual, subject wise.

I found out today that SMT is closing down, though it seems like the Japanese servers will still be running.
It's saddening to find out that a game where I connected with people online for the first time and stayed with for about 2 years, is closing. My first MMO was a social mmo that was pretty generic (choose a class, fight things, turn in quests, repeat) called Dream of Mirror Online. I found out last year that it was closing down but I had no emotional connections with it since I had quit many years ago; heck I even gave away every item and gold my character had in that game to break all ties. It was some short amount of time after I quit DoMO that I joined the SMT community and it really was a great community to experience for the first time, as I was in the senior year of high school / first year in college. That was around 2009, give or take a few months. I made so many friends (perfect strangers but we were still friends).
Memories...

• I was asked by a clan mate to help him with his character's appearance; I was really happy when I was the one asked. 
• I organized clan meeting photo shoots, even though it drove me crazy trying to find a good time for everyone in at least 4-5 different time zones. (Easter, central, pacific, GMT, philippines' time zone and one other one I can't recall.) 
• Reached the lvl 90s range I believe; helped and was helped by clan mates to run Ichi Gold.
• Made my fenrir pretty strong; I don't remember to what level but he was my proudest achievement
• Collected DCMs and boy was I determined to get them like the ones from timed Sugi or timed *insert tower dungeon in lower Shibuya map*
• Joined DB clan mates in other games that they played after months of getting to know them
• finally got courage to use my mic on voice over IP program with DB clan mates
• drama and finding out just how emotionally attached I was to my friends in DB
• found out the stress of being a clan leader / sub leader (I'm pretty sure I was just sub leader but I have the faint memory of being made temp. leader before being thrown the role.)
• leaving the drama behind and joining Sorina
• making more new friends in Sorina and  in SMT as well
• joining my new clan mates in new events
• reconnecting with old clan mates in SMT and in other games they play as well
• rejoining the voice chat program with both new and old clan mates

I'm reminiscing.

When the news of SMT being turned over to a new company came around, I had stopped my activeness in game and on forums but I still made sure I signed in so my characters could be transfered over to the new company and server. But I never reinstalled. I was close once but later years of college work prevented me since I didn't want to repeat my freshman year experiences with staying up late playing games. In hindsight, I might have been able to play a little bit but risk having my work suffer. I kinda wise I at least signed on to chat with my friends. I do have some of those friends as my Facebook friends but there are only a few compared to the number of people I became friends with in game. Now that the news of it being closed came around, a massive group was made for all SMT players and I'm getting the chance to reunite with them. 

30 min Spitpaint

12:56 pm Pacific

I decided to do a spitpaint while I wait for my breakfast to more or less digest before I went grocery shopping. When I started the spitpaint, I started painting a road to a open arch/doorway but switched the point of view twice before erasing it to paint a rock and a log. But then I didn't like that spitpaint and decided to paint a thumbnail I did while I was in my perspective's class.

I still don't like the outcome as much; I guess since I have to paint with whatever comes to mind without any planning, the result won't be satisfactory all the time.

Sketchdump

8:32 pm Pacific 

I started with the intention of drawing a character sheet showing poses of one character but I drifted from that idea as I started sketching armor and other figures. I do plan on drawing all my characters in construction and emotions sheets but I really need to vary them more. As my instructors for my History of Visual Development warned, our characters shouldn't look like they're cousins of each other. 

Arms, Legs and Knees Oh My!

6:49 pm Pacific

Sorry, I had to for the post title; couldn't help myself haha. 

For my Clothed Figure class, our assignment this week was to sketch 5 arms, 5 legs and 2 detailed knees. I drew one extra for each category to get a little more knowledge on the subject matter; this applied especially to the arms since of the 5 I sketched initially, all of them were from the front or front side but none of them were from the back. I did the same for the legs study; picking an angle I didn't sketch yet. 

Since I doubt I'd be able to find arms, legs and especially knees to study from life this weekend, I decided to use a reference site that cycles through model photos with the filters you select (clothed, nude, male, female, time limit before shuffle.)