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Hit it 'till it dies
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Hello friends. I figured I'd do my half-decade update, just because it sounds cool to say it's been half a decade since I posted a journal.
- I have a job! I have had the job for over a year! I get raises! I am happy! Yay! Also bees!
- I am using bee money to build myself a new PC. I anticipate finishing it around the end of August. I will have more FPS than I have ever been able to handle in my entire life.
- Spotify has introduced me to the wonderful world of progressive metal. Also drum & bass. Life is good (and loud).
- I'm still balls deep in Monster Hunter and have been working on lore for the universe for over a year. I wish to share the things with other people. PLEASE. GIDEON IS SO RONERY.
- I still can't be assed to draw more than once a year. But I'll slam out a 40k fic describing all the nuances of my character's infinite rage in two days, no problem.
- CLANG!
That is all.
- I have a job! I have had the job for over a year! I get raises! I am happy! Yay! Also bees!
- I am using bee money to build myself a new PC. I anticipate finishing it around the end of August. I will have more FPS than I have ever been able to handle in my entire life.
- Spotify has introduced me to the wonderful world of progressive metal. Also drum & bass. Life is good (and loud).
- I'm still balls deep in Monster Hunter and have been working on lore for the universe for over a year. I wish to share the things with other people. PLEASE. GIDEON IS SO RONERY.
- I still can't be assed to draw more than once a year. But I'll slam out a 40k fic describing all the nuances of my character's infinite rage in two days, no problem.
- CLANG!
That is all.
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When good artists go bad!
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I'm 100% determined to not fill this DA up with "OH GOSH IT SURE HAS BEEN AWHILE SINCE I POSTED ANYTHING" journals since I just KNOW that I take long breaks and it's inevitable. So, uh, this is not one of those!
But yeah, I haven't felt like drawing lately. I got my new gaming rig and so I've been super preoccupied with a million new games. Assassin's Creed, Mount & Blade: Warband, Oblivion, and lately League of Legends. So if I do draw again soon, expect my doodles to involve one of these things. I'd love to play MH more, but Justin has roped me into LoL, and he was the one I played MH with all the time. I still love it to death and would play it whenever I could, but it just isn't as fun offline, and I don't have a USB keyboard so I refuse to play with other people online since ... people are kind of hard to communicate with at the best of times. But man, I do miss Jho ):
November is coming, though, so I'll probably totally disappear in a mire of Skyrim, AC Revelations and Skyward Sword. To my future self, who is too lazy to update this journal for another few months, I hope you're happy with the cobwebs here! >8(
So, yeah. Expect a few doodles soon, then expect me to be gone, and then reappear at some time, with new doodles on new things : D And maybe an actually good drawing here and there.
Toodles!
But yeah, I haven't felt like drawing lately. I got my new gaming rig and so I've been super preoccupied with a million new games. Assassin's Creed, Mount & Blade: Warband, Oblivion, and lately League of Legends. So if I do draw again soon, expect my doodles to involve one of these things. I'd love to play MH more, but Justin has roped me into LoL, and he was the one I played MH with all the time. I still love it to death and would play it whenever I could, but it just isn't as fun offline, and I don't have a USB keyboard so I refuse to play with other people online since ... people are kind of hard to communicate with at the best of times. But man, I do miss Jho ):
November is coming, though, so I'll probably totally disappear in a mire of Skyrim, AC Revelations and Skyward Sword. To my future self, who is too lazy to update this journal for another few months, I hope you're happy with the cobwebs here! >8(
So, yeah. Expect a few doodles soon, then expect me to be gone, and then reappear at some time, with new doodles on new things : D And maybe an actually good drawing here and there.
Toodles!
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A ramble about art
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So, I recently submitted that pencil drawing I did of Dave, because I finally got it scanned, and it got me thinking about the kinds of media I've been using with my drawings. Lately I've done a lot more digital stuff, because I have a tablet and I've worked with it for a few years so I'm better at it now than I used to be (as I'm sure other artists know, the zero resistance you get on a tablet is a pretty jarring experience from pencil on paper).
I like digital work because it's easily editable. You can erase cleanly, you can cut and paste things, you can stretch and skew if it isn't quite right, you can blend colours easily and have layers over layers for that subtle look. It's just, easy. It's still difficult to actually draw things of course but it takes some of the technical work out of it (unless of course you're one of those super photoshop gurus that just makes everything look like a painting but I'm certainly not one of those |: ).
Pencil drawings on the other hand, are not easily editable. If you draw too dark, or if your eraser is shit, then it's hard to get rid of lines you don't want. If you finish a drawing and you find something wrong with the overall proportion, you can't fix it at all unless you want to do it all over again. Any mistakes you made are gonna be there for the rest of time. There's nothing wrong with that of course, it's just an incentive to get better, but I really love the texture of the paper when I'm drawing on it. It's so easily to get the right amount of pressure and depth just by judging it with your own hand. And I've always done well with shading, which I think comes from the fact that I started drawing because of Zelda FFFF.
I always drew the bosses in the Ocarina of Time manual and they always have a lot of intricate detail and shading. And a lot of detail means a lot of references for proportion, unlike, say, Pokemon |: I've never really been able to draw simple things because I always do it way out of whack adfhakdjghdg So, pencil work still has a big place in my heart, even though scanners ruin it and I still make mistakes and I don't have that one totally perfect drawing yet. I don't think I ever will, really, because who's perfect? Not me. But the journey to get better is still a fun one and I am proud of the progress I've made, even though I actually don't draw all that often. I'm glad I've never lost the ability!
I like digital work because it's easily editable. You can erase cleanly, you can cut and paste things, you can stretch and skew if it isn't quite right, you can blend colours easily and have layers over layers for that subtle look. It's just, easy. It's still difficult to actually draw things of course but it takes some of the technical work out of it (unless of course you're one of those super photoshop gurus that just makes everything look like a painting but I'm certainly not one of those |: ).
Pencil drawings on the other hand, are not easily editable. If you draw too dark, or if your eraser is shit, then it's hard to get rid of lines you don't want. If you finish a drawing and you find something wrong with the overall proportion, you can't fix it at all unless you want to do it all over again. Any mistakes you made are gonna be there for the rest of time. There's nothing wrong with that of course, it's just an incentive to get better, but I really love the texture of the paper when I'm drawing on it. It's so easily to get the right amount of pressure and depth just by judging it with your own hand. And I've always done well with shading, which I think comes from the fact that I started drawing because of Zelda FFFF.
I always drew the bosses in the Ocarina of Time manual and they always have a lot of intricate detail and shading. And a lot of detail means a lot of references for proportion, unlike, say, Pokemon |: I've never really been able to draw simple things because I always do it way out of whack adfhakdjghdg So, pencil work still has a big place in my heart, even though scanners ruin it and I still make mistakes and I don't have that one totally perfect drawing yet. I don't think I ever will, really, because who's perfect? Not me. But the journey to get better is still a fun one and I am proud of the progress I've made, even though I actually don't draw all that often. I'm glad I've never lost the ability!
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Yay, drawing!
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So I've actually been doing new drawings since opening my DA up. I'm quite impressed, because usually I just forget things or lose interest or whatnot. I know it's only been a week but so far I've really enjoyed just doodling things and throwing them here : D
I also throw things in my scraps quite a bit. Usually sketches of monsters I'm going to doodle later just so I can get a feel for them or something like that. So check those out too if you're interested.
I'm also willing to do requests! Most of the MH comics and stuff I do are things that have happened while I've played but I'm more than willing to draw more Tophat!Jho or silly things like that. For example, Gaga!Jho was due to
's twisted brain |D And I can probably do non-MH stuff too so if you know we share a fandom or something, ask away :T
I think that's about it for now. I'm not really sure if I'm going to be using the journal a lot, I have LJ for actual journalling, but if anything important comes up I'll be sure to post it up here.
I also throw things in my scraps quite a bit. Usually sketches of monsters I'm going to doodle later just so I can get a feel for them or something like that. So check those out too if you're interested.
I'm also willing to do requests! Most of the MH comics and stuff I do are things that have happened while I've played but I'm more than willing to draw more Tophat!Jho or silly things like that. For example, Gaga!Jho was due to
's twisted brain |D And I can probably do non-MH stuff too so if you know we share a fandom or something, ask away :TI think that's about it for now. I'm not really sure if I'm going to be using the journal a lot, I have LJ for actual journalling, but if anything important comes up I'll be sure to post it up here.
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Why hello there.
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Walp, I'm back. I used to be Punkmonkey but I stopped submitting things because, well, I stopped drawing as much. Also some of the time I'd just trace something to colour it or something like that so it wasn't really mine to begin with, and in general it was more hassle than I wanted to deal with.
But now I'm drawing more again, and I didn't want to go back to my old DA because it's full of old drawings and old stuff and also an impressive amount of mail that I don't want to sort through. So I'm starting over. I needed a place to put all the little doodles I've been doing lately and I also have some more detailed stuff so I figured why not 8)
Expect copious amounts of Monster Hunter doodles, Dave Gahan worship, and other silly shenanigans. I'm not responsible for lost brain cells.
But now I'm drawing more again, and I didn't want to go back to my old DA because it's full of old drawings and old stuff and also an impressive amount of mail that I don't want to sort through. So I'm starting over. I needed a place to put all the little doodles I've been doing lately and I also have some more detailed stuff so I figured why not 8)
Expect copious amounts of Monster Hunter doodles, Dave Gahan worship, and other silly shenanigans. I'm not responsible for lost brain cells.
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