Drawing Again?

This blog has been neglected and I am so sorry! D:

Just for the sake of updating (I suddenly feel like it. I'm not gonna question it, haha), here are two drawings I've got done within the past month. Haven't been drawing much at all but hoping to get some creative juices spilling now that Sammie and I are working on Project Draweekly together. Basically we're drawing every week together, according to themes! Even though an oceans separate us we can still do projects together. Yay. :3

So Week 1 was for us to draw a redhead and Week 2 was to draw her boyfriend. Here are my results. Week 3 and 4 have merged because of GASP assignments.

Campus life is being tedious lately. I'll be honest, I really prefer Taylor's before the sudden spike in population. I reach campus at 7.30 and parking is already almost to the tiang elektrik in Zone H. Last year if I reached at 7.30 I could still grab a spot in the entrance area. Parking woes aside, assignments are reasonable. Some subjects are more bearable than others. I can't wait to get to UniSA next year and choose my own electives.

Suddenly feel very tired. Could be from the climbing I did earlier today (and yes, I climb regularly now wewt) but dunno, it feels somewhat emotional. Last week I listened to Jet Lag, that new Simple Plan + Natasha Bedingfield song and I teared up wtf. It's not even a slow sad song it's all upbeat and pop rockish. @_@ Oh, hormones.

Hopefully I'll post more stuff in the near future. I want to be active blogging again. :D Also since that Perry is back from the shop I'll be able to take more pictures. Here's to having the drive to get back into this.

Meow meow

Umm what can I say.

It's the second day of holidays, and I'm just a leeeetle bit bored. xD

Today I:

Played Sims2.
Watched 10 Things I Hate About You.
Downloaded a movie download program.
Now waiting for a movie to finish downloading.
Wheeee.

Pre-exam drawing syndrome

Last drawing until finals are over.
I hope.
Click for full view!
From left to right, Zatie, Faris and Sharif from my AfterParty universe.
Ngehehe. I can't help myself. This new colouring style is FUN FUN FUN.
My backgrounds still suck like last time though. Blargh. Ah well. Lots of room for improvement.

Had a dream this morning that zombies were out to get us all. Scary dream. I was the one who ended up driving the car away from the freaky moving corpses. And my skills are still in parent-probation status. Bah. That's what I get for sleeping after sahur. Hahah.

I'm done with IHC, halfway through MS and IMC.
Hmmhmm.

Feeling kinda cooped up. Like seriously cooped. If anybody invites me out lepaking after finals, I am all for it baby. :D

And I really want to watch this. I've missed Disney's more traditional methods. :)

1899

Been wanting to draw this for a long time.
Yeah. I have a habit of opening GIMP2 and drawing all-the-way whenever exam seasons come along. Unconvinced? Dig through my older blog posts, most of the drawings I post are usually produced during exam periods.
What can I say, I like to get creative at inconvenient moments.

Anyhoo, Sharif and Mimo. Sharif's the dude, Mimo's the kitten. Not the other way around. xD Part of my AfterParty universe.
I have to start cracking on that project.
Y'know what I need? A deadline. Like assignments. Only then I'll be able to see a story idea through properly.
Sigh.

Guglielmo Marconi - the first dude to send wireless signals across the English Channel. Gotta admire his dedication to his work.

Koala this

Me: So what are you going to name the koala?
Fira: Joe! Hahaha. No lah.
*pause*
Fira: But it does kinda look like him.
Me and Jovenne: Yes kinda. xD

So now the koala's name is Joe. Haha.
Oh and just for the record Joe is Fira's boyf.

Here's something I drew just after I finished the Kookapenguins story. I just found this amazing way of inking on GIMP2 and I couldn't resist attempting a full-length group drawing. I am on a roll! Being emo does things to your creative juices. I've even written a song and figured a tune out for it on the piano. I feel so ... accomplished. Hahah. Still a wee bit emo. But accomplished.

What a feeling.

Anyway, a little bit of explaination. During NS, Yen and I had a little brainstorm about a little soap opera with y'know, people our age. Local people. We came up with overdramatic plots and everything. We called it The Breakfast Drama. Of course now Yen's always busy and I've got college to think of. But I still toyed with the idea. I tweaked a lot of stuff, re-vamped characters and plotlines. So here're the three main characters to Afterparty (yes, I changed the name).

From left to right, Zatie, Faris and Sharif.
Don't ask about their poses, come up with whatever background story you like. I just thought it would be fun to draw it that way.

Guess who?

For Nad, 'cause I happen to be in an art-farting mood. ;)

EDIT:
And here's yet another drawing. What do catfish eat?

Oodles

Finally got to colour this drawing I made more than a month ago. This is Reina, from my Dime Trap story which is still a work in progress. The story, not the drawing. I'm going to draw Fever real soon.And, here's a five-minute sketch of a young Rolf. Probably around 14 or 15, about the time when he started becoming a pain in the backside. xD
Anyway, I've finished reading Sir Thursday by Garth Nix. My favourite of the Keys to the Kingdom series so far. When I first started reading this series, I lent the books to Tarsha and she pointed out that Arthur, the lead, had a lot more sense in his brain than most other fictional main characters. I re-read the books, and it's TRUE. He actually thinks about things. Before doing them. And the things he worries about are so very realistic. The best part? He's a sweet guy who's humble and does his best, even when he doesn't want to, and he has BACKUP PLANS. And (yes, more kata hubung) when he gets the power (i.e. the Keys) he actually uses them to their fullest extent (except towards the end of the series, because ... gah, just read the book). Instead of flailing around like a lunatic with no clue what he's doing. The thing about Arthuer is, even when he's flailing like a lunatic, he does it sensibly. xD

If he was older (he's probably around 13 or 14 ... not very clear EDIT: He's 12! Holy CRAP. D: ) I would totally have a fictional crush on him. xD Can't wait to read the next book.

Oh, and in case I don't get to tomorrow,

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI
Maaf Zahir dan Batin

Have a good one and make sure you don't overload on the food. ;) And happy duit-raya-collecting!

Untitled.

From left to right, top to bottom:
Lusia, Coyle, Shayna, Elizar,
Jerrica, Windy, Portin, Lewie,
Torres, Scout, Favid, Rolf.

Characters from the Untitled Story In My Head.
Nad's met some of them before, haven't you, Nad?
And I just want to say, yes, I know Coyle and Shayna are freaky-looking.
And I love Rolf. I'm his number one fangirl.
xD

Question.

What do you want to do before you die?
Lookit the links section under my c-box: The Buried Life. Four guys, with a list of 100 things they want to do before they die.
Check it out.

Other news, I've completed Unnamed Story Draft version 2.0. Now all I've gotta do is re-write it all in text that is actually recognisable to human eyes, clean up the rough edges and actually start on the journey of producing this thing.
I'm really excited. I've been waiting for a story idea like this since I was 10.

Sketchy colour cards.

Messing around with Bamboo again. This was lots of fun. I'm hoping to get most of my other characters done this way too.
These are two from that one story idea I've been carrying around in my head for the past month. I've actually got the whole thing planned out now, thanks to Mira. xD She gave me the missing piece I've been looking for the past week.
So yeah. Elizar and Lusia. Both my characters. No stealing. :D

On another note, school starts again in two days. Lovely. *forced smile* I really miss everyone, I miss all my friends, I miss talking to everybody ... but I really, really don't want to go back to SPM madness.
It's catching up with me.

Groupies.

Characters from a story I'm hoping I won't abandon. I'm in the middle of plotting it right now and figuring out what the characters are supposed to do and stuff. :) Left to right, Elizar, Jerrica, Rolf and Windy. It's an alternate dimension story with magic and stuff (lol, am I fantasically lame or whut. xD).

Again, messing around with Bamboo, trying to see what works. I managed to get some kind of coloured pen quality to this, and I intend to try some cell-shading in the near future. That's an interesting colouring technique, and I want to give it a shot.

Doodlings

Since that I am now able to use a scanner (insert happy-dance here) here's something I doodled a week ago. I'd just gotten myself a set of coloured pens, and wanted to get used to the feel of them. So here they are. :)

From top left to bottom right: Rush, Kip, Drunk Bunny, Capsicum, En. Katak, Semi-Fictional Squirrel, Yam The Ayam, Apple and Grapefruit.

Capsicum, Apple and Grapefruit are part of this character I made up in Form 3 ... Nad, Hannah and Iffah will remember him. x) Peach, The Happy-Unicorn. Capsicum's his little sister, and Apple and Grapefruit are his best friends. I'll draw and scan a drawing of Peach and his twin brother, Ricot, sometime in the future.

And now, I have to sketch out a rough draft for the drama script next year. I'm pretty excited about it. :) Will write soon.



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