LimeLife

It hasn't been long since I've updated here, but it's been a while since I mentioned anything about my personal life, which isn't anything of extraordinary, but I'm excited so I'll share it.

First, the job hunt has finally come to a close. I'm working at a local supermarket, in the bakery. It's not a glorious job, but it's a job and so far I really don't mind it. The people are nice and I've enjoyed decorating cupcakes with cute little decorations on them. They really give you freedom in how to decorate them, as long as they're appealing and all. Having the three months' experience in decorating cakes (albeit two years ago) really helped in actually getting the job. I would've been in produce otherwise!

Second awesome thing is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) that begins in two days from now. I've got the book's premise planned out, and now I'm working on the written outline. Only on chapter thirteen though! I'm worried about not being prepared for it, but it's still exciting.

Thirdly, I've received all the books I ordered on Amazon a couple weeks ago. They're all on writing, four of them from Writer's Digest, and one an independent publisher. The titles are, respectively, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (by Renni Browne & Dave King), Plot & Structure, Beginnings, Middles, & Ends, Characters & Viewpoints, and From First Draft to Finished Novel. All of these are new, but I also have a sixth book about writing that I've had for six years and only recently started to read (half done now, as we speak), called On Writing by Stephen King. Everyone has been talking about it, authors have suggested it to me and I've heard nothing but good feedback from it. And now that I read it, it is every bit what they say. I highly recommend it. Doesn't matter your skill level. Pick up the book. Read it. Now.

Fourthly, I've switched my degrees from Graphic Design to Web Design. All the classes I took will transfer into Web Design, and the course schedule only changes after next summer. So I don't waste time or money with this transfer. I'm definitely more interested in it as well. If I can get good at Web Design, you can bet that there will be an official site for my stories and art.

New babies have faces!

As mentioned on my DA profile, I got a new story idea during orientation at work. And they've done nothing but run amok in my head. Here's a quick sketch of their heads at the young age of 14 ~ 15 (girl and redhead are 14 and the drow 15.) They have faces! :'D

It's Not Me

Was experimenting with trying to evoke emotions from simplicity, and tried to incorporate some Graphic Design stuff in it. >.> The anatomy sucks.

Speedpaints and updates

I think I update this a lot, what do you think? XD

Anyway, I got some time after school and working on planning my NaNoWriMo novel to doodle something, and made a quick speedy portrait of Talimyro, one of the characters from my novel. And yes, it's a dude. He's supposed to be prettiful. :'D




That aside, the painting of Elian is going slow. After a friend critiqued it, we discerned it was fail. It's not so bad though! I'm going to do some more studies with drawing people and then redraw him. The killer is the perspective. It has to match the background, otherwise it'll look extraordinarily goofy. I'm looking forward to it. :]

Moar Sketches >:D

Hello:D

Here's an update on the Elian painting (will work more tonight, since no word from clients and I got time to kill.)



Next, here's a quick sketch for a friend on our RP. Dira's getting some lovin'. :'D


Aaaand here's something for a client. I'm sharing because I kinda like it. :'D I need to work on drawing the same face at an angle, though. :/ Still waiting on the client's feedback though. If it's accepted, these'll have flat colors and go along with a character sheet for this character. First time making one of this particular type (front view, back view, two headshots.) It's pretty fun and exciting, and I couldn't have had a better subject either!

Another WIP

Atmospheric Reference is "Empire City", a beautiful painting done by gamefan84 on DeviantART. I like to keep inspiration near me when I'm working on stuff. There's more than that painting that's inspiring the atmosphere of the painting, but this is the one I had open at the time. (here's the link to the original, so you can drool over it: http://gamefan84.deviantart.com/art/Empire-City-155103601?q=boost%3Apopular+desert+city&qo=2 )

Since this past summer, I've stopped painting in color. Instead I've been painting in gray scale before applying color on a layer above it. It's helped a LOT with learning depth, but I'm still not "there" yet. I think this is a good time to test my coloring skills and try to paint in just color while still establishing depth that the gray scale paintings provided.

And yes. Another work in progress. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll even finish this before getting another idea.

Dira WIP

I need to add to my portfolio, and since right now my strength is in creatures, I'm going to refine a painting idea of Dira in her true form. She's too much fun, I swear. 20-30 hours is the goal, only working when homework is finished. And also, I'm going to start working on owed art here shortly. :)

Sketches

This is a sketch of a RP character I created for a role play with a friend. ^^ She's a b****, pardon my language. She just. Really is. O.o


A WIP of a gift I'm working on for a friend's upcoming birthday. They're not her characters, but it's more of a "lift your spirits" kind of painting. The composition is horrible, but I don't feel like painting more than a bust. Regardless, I hope she'll like it. She could really use some spirit-boosting!