James - sketch-

Working on a new drawing of a character from my books, James. It's the first time I've drawn him full body in...gosh, a year? Two? Poor boy's been neglected. Tsk. Anyway, I don't know if I'll finish it, but I enjoyed drawing him for what time I did. It's relaxing to work on something personal between commissions and school. ^_^

More sketches

Was going to enter this to a contest, it ends in 2 days though. I'm not sure if I can make it. D:

Concept of a race for my books.

Coreth and Puppy :D

This is for my friend again; I made the characters look a little too young though. >.>;; Sorry about that. Hope she likes it though!

Cheater!

Just a sketch of my character (left) and my friend's (right) playing poker. Coreth (the one on the left) is a half-Guardian, the 'Guardian' being a malevolent spirit that's bloodthirsty, manipulative, and attached to Coreth's soul. This is sort of a joke, Coreth using the Guardian (which isn't really visible) to see what cards his opponent has. :P

This is also a gift to my friend, who's been having a rough time lately. Hope she'll like this, even though I don't have time to do something more refined.

Drawing from Life

This article explains why it's so important better than I can: http://news.deviantart.com/article/126906/ Additionally, I can't speak for myself too much here since I have only started heavily referencing life for a few months now. However, I can totally say that it's improved how I draw a hundred percent.

That's all for an update. I'm getting over the cold, though there's a wheezing cough that's being kind of stubborn, but other than that I'm great. I'm pumped and ready for my exercise class tonight! Woot.

Also have math homework to catch up and try to keep on top of, need to outline the next couple weeks' assignments so I can manage my time well enough to finish commissions in a timely manner and continue the never-ending quest of part-time job hunting.

Anyway, that's it~
Yukimi

Insomnia.

Blahh... I'm unable to sleep at the moment. I got a cold, have a class tomorrow - or rather, today in about 8 hours - and I can't sleep worth anything. Campus is 45 minutes away and I'll be driving there for the first time. So. I'm a bit nervous. I need to be up at 6 am to get ready and leave in time for class. It's been three hours of tossing and turning until I just decided to get everything packed and ready out of sheer boredom. Then I turned on my pc, browsed DA for a few minutes, and decided to speedpaint myself into sleepiness.

Which kind of worked, but not really.

Anyway, this is what I whipped up in about twenty or thirty minutes. It's rough and silly, but I had fun hah.


Airships for the win!

Anyway, sorry for the mini rant. I'll try and sleep now. xD

~
Yukimi

WIP

Work in progress~
This will be a portfolio piece. Hoping to get more creature designs all polished up and whatnot.
(Plus I really liked the sketch xD It was begging for color.)
Hope you like it~

Sketch dump~

As promised, sketches~


First (above) is my brother's UO character (Ultima Online). I drew the hat wrong, but oh well - I'm glad he liked it though. He's a beast tamer of sorts. hehe
This one is Sywyn, a character belonging to Nadezhdavasile, a friend on deviantART. c:
Sketch dumppp~
Gotta love Richard, from Looking for Group. Read it. Laugh. Be pleased. (And be sure to watch "This is War" and "Slaughter Your World" on youtube for Looking for Group.)
Couple other sketches, no real reason for them lol.


That's it~

Besides sketches, my cousin recently made a simpler system for DnD-style RPG, and it's addicting fun. Was up until 1 am last night playing. My character's freaking stupid. But at least he's strong and fast. Never lost a health point. 8D

Hope everyone's week has gone well. My weekend is planned primarily as a break from going places all the time and to apply for a job or two. Or three. We'll see what's available.

A doodle of my Shape-shifter, Turnlabius Arthelian.

I've a lot of other sketches to scan in later today~

I have a blog!

I've decided to make a blog for sketch dumps, random art, speedpaints, what have you. I have a deviantART page (in fact I'm moving stuff from my gallery over here.) After discussing the pros and cons of how to use DA and what a blog could benefit, it makes sense to use blogger for dumps and silly stuff than deviantART. DA has become popular, which is great, because art directors are likely to search it. If one stumbles on my page, what do I want them to get from it at first glance? That's what spurred this blog.

So, introductions to anyone who accidentally stumbled here, I'm Yukimi Mills, an artist and writer. I think I'm still at a novice stage for both, but I'm having fun improving and working toward my goals. I have a cat, two fish, and if I could afford it I'd have Starbucks' frappeccino's(sp?) every morning. :P

I'm also a full time college student, beginning my second year toward an Associate's in Graphic Design. Even though I've noticed lately I don't much like it, but oh well. It's practical. After that I'm looking forward to getting an Associate's in Business Marketing. That sounds more fun, for some reason. Bah.

Anyway, I'm stoked to get things started. Hopefully tomorrow I can get some work uploaded here~

Over and out-
Yukimi