drawn on iPhone 4 with Colors!, click to see playback

whoa… colours look a lot more vibrant on the laptop compared to the phone. I started this drawing with a toothpick wrapped in aluminum as an experiment (/engineer), got fed up with it and used my finger, and later bought the Bamboo stylus so this painting is just all over the place. I got bored with it towards the end so… it’s going to stay messy. :( was still fun playing around though!

not a mindless eating machine, fish are friends, not food–

“EXCEPT STINKIN DOLPHINS. THEY THINK THEY SO CUTE.”

(the rocks are a result of staring at Unigine Heaven loading screen all day lollll)

… another not so speedy speedpaint, I tried. :(

Happy 2011!! I’m probably one of the few who spent new years sober even though I was up all night too. I spent my new year’s eve packing into the crack of the first dawn of 2011. *epic music* Then I spent the rest of the day on the road with a massive headache, and finally unpacking all that crap I just packed less than 12 hours ago~

… Yeahhhh another work term. Looking back on old entries, just 2 entries ago I was talking about leaving Ottawa and not knowing when I’ll be back again. lol yeah well… here I am. -_- Doing something new this time though! To be honest I appreciate the familiarity of the city a second time around.

As for new year resolutions, hm! I guess draw more, among others. Yes yes, this is the 101st time I’m posting this drawing. Buuuut the last time I posted it looked like this, which stayed that way for 2 years until this Christmas break at home. =D I finally invested in a Moleskine sketchbook as well, and even lugged my easel and some drawing stuff to Ottawa with me. Hopefully this time I actually will draw more! The goal is to fill this Moleskine by the end of the year. JUST ONE. 104 pages.

…And in doing so, I will probably finally blog more often as well. “Orz 2 birds with 1 stone! whoo!

Learning is hard. Re-learning is harder. =\

lol wtf idk. In addition to the cat, I’ve also realized that in my years of attempting to be artistic and being a self-proclaimed artist, I never actually bothered learning how to draw the foot. (Among many other fundamentals.) I remember in gr.11 I think, I had one of those “sketch a day” goals that I kept up for about a week or two before giving up. (Laziness, lack of inspiration/creativity, school work, etc.) That little exercise was to get me to stop drawing headshots with cliche angles/expressions (and those headshots were anime, not even portraits, so you can imagine how n00b I was.) I think the requirement was down to waist at least, with at least one hand showing. Because yeahhhh I could use improvements in hands. I guess strangely enough that one week or so of scribbling did some good in hands, because I did get better and was much more observant with hands later on. But feet… DX why wasn’t it feet.

lol anyway… the point is now that I’m once again starting to (slowwwly) get back into art, after a 3-year art block, I see so many problems with myself that I used to ignore in all my adolescent pride. I always stayed in my comfort zone and never ventured outside. Even now, I am still within my comfort zone. I only draw slim pretty feminine hands, I only draw expressionless or very little facial muscles involved expressions purdy or otherwise “easy” to draw people — usually girls. If I don’t know what I’m doing then slap some random strokes and colours and call it “speedpaint”. And people! I always draw people. Well, I like drawing people, always have always will kind of thing. And just this subject area alone can have me practising for a few years with the progress I’m making. Don’t even get me started on other equally important aspects, like perspective. Oh god I can’t do perspective. I’ve only really done 2-point perspectives, isn’t that sad? =( Why have I been blinded for so many years as an “artist”? =( I either never received constructive criticism or did but purposely filtered them out. I feel inadequate. =( Please leave the artist-wannabe in her little emo corner for now.

Diana’s cat is soooo cute T___T and pretty! I want those blue eyes ): stfu I know they’re cat eyes. Her name is Taro!

On another note this is my first (complete) CG in years lol o__o don’t remember the last time I started and finished a drawing in one sitting? (I don’t know why I’m so calm about this. Years, yearrrrrssss!!!!)

The cat actually is black and white fur but I did want to make it a bit colourful, didn’t work out too well I guess. =O Christie suggested green grass! Was too lazy to overlay colours so I made cheap white grass… =O Excuse me.

IKEA tomorrow!! Yay laptop stand and bed sheets for school~