It's been seven months since I've updated or even accessed my blog; oops. It's been two semesters, and now we're at the final week of the Fall Semester. Tomorrow is Jury and then I'll be off for three weeks (albeit working a lot more).
There hasn't been a whole lot when it comes to art, but it's been an interesting road since Spring Semester. This has been a year of changes.
Anyway, hoping to keep updated on here.
Yukimi
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
...
It seems my pen, pencils, and stylus aren't wanting to cooperate with my mind. I can't draw worth anything today. Going to keep sketching anyway, practice is the only thing that'll make it all better.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
...
"Sometimes it is alright to walk into the future with your eyes shut. One day, however, you must open your eyes and move your feet, for the world does not turn on its own."
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Reading...
Notes acquired from reading - In a story, it's best to keep the dialogue as free as necessary, and avoid making it sound "forced." Show, don't tell. Don't give away insights to an event through telling, just show it. Avoid redundancy errors, such as elaborating on gestures and speech to restate that a character is such and such. Allow the reader freedom of imagination and give them the benefit of the doubt, trust that they "get" and "remember" details. All noted, but to put them in practice will require a lot of...well, /practice/. o__o Looking forward to it fosho. Must prepare for this year's NaNoWriMo, after all.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Still here!
With all the chaos and hectic-ness that has become my average day lately, I've forgotten about this blog and neglected it along with all the other places I visit. O.o
What's new?
I'm glad to say I'm close to finishing the last of five dragons I was commissioned to illustrate for a collectible card game in the making. I'm very excited! After that, I will begin and finish the five commissions from deviantART. Looking forward to painting something different from dragons. o_O
School is too much of a mess for me to even find where to begin. I'm just going to say that I have five weeks left and I'm counting every. Single. Day.
Lastly, I've got my first issue of ImagineFX magazine and it's absolutely inspiring. :D I did one of the workshops and thought I'd share that bit:
Well, that's it from me, for now. I'll try and update this soon. ^_^
What's new?
I'm glad to say I'm close to finishing the last of five dragons I was commissioned to illustrate for a collectible card game in the making. I'm very excited! After that, I will begin and finish the five commissions from deviantART. Looking forward to painting something different from dragons. o_O
School is too much of a mess for me to even find where to begin. I'm just going to say that I have five weeks left and I'm counting every. Single. Day.
Lastly, I've got my first issue of ImagineFX magazine and it's absolutely inspiring. :D I did one of the workshops and thought I'd share that bit:
Well, that's it from me, for now. I'll try and update this soon. ^_^
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Getting there....
I think I'm almost done. At least, I know I'm done with the background/foreground. o_O
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Slow going as ever...
Driving me crazy.
All of this (except the obvious one) is zoomed in at 100%. See how far from finished this is?? x__x
Friday, January 14, 2011
Resolutions
One of my resolutions this year is to finish reading my ever-expanding (if slowly sometimes) library of fiction novels. I started with 35 books to read this year. Now I'm down to 33. I've finished Plea of Apollisian from the Abyss Walker series by Shane Moore, followed by Brisingr by Christopher Paolini.
A little summary on my thoughts (or should I say critics?) of the books.
Plea of Apollisian was a good book, with good characters and an interesting story. It's simple and an easy read (although the battle scenes are, in my opinion, slow moving due to over-description.) The only thing I didn't like was how I felt little to no attachment to the characters that died. I kind of liked Victor, but I didn't know him enough to mourn him. I just winced when he died (he was killed rather painfully, if I do recall.) Overall, a good story and I look forward to reading the next volume (AFTER reading all these others books.)
Brisingr was very, very good. I'd like to start with saying I have a love/hate relationship with it. It's a fat book, no lie. It's seven hundred plus pages that, really, could probably be condensed and not lose its flare. However, that's me being nit-picky. Every scene - necessary or not - was written beautifully. Paolini has grown as a writer. There was no scene I disliked - order and if they could've been cut is debatable, but I didn't hate the book as I plowed through the description. The biggest disappointment, really, was probably the lack of feeling a climb toward a climatic point.
Let me reword that; not lack, just not noticeable. I didn't feel any tension until the last one hundred pages. I did cry for Oromis. It was very hard to hold it in since I was at work; but by the time I got to my car, I just sat there, stared with tears in my eyes. Paolini really wrote well. The build up might not have been as good as it could've been, but it still hit hard when everything played out. I loved it. So, in the end, I still recommend this book, tenfold.
Looking forward for the next installment.
I do, however, want to note one thing.
Since when did Eragon learn what a gazelle was or seen one? I mean, I understand how the "like a gazelle" simile works in conveyance, but it threw me off a bit since I haven't heard of any gazelles living in Alagaesia. 8D I'm being picky again, ignore me! Still love the book :D
-Yukimi
A little summary on my thoughts (or should I say critics?) of the books.
Plea of Apollisian was a good book, with good characters and an interesting story. It's simple and an easy read (although the battle scenes are, in my opinion, slow moving due to over-description.) The only thing I didn't like was how I felt little to no attachment to the characters that died. I kind of liked Victor, but I didn't know him enough to mourn him. I just winced when he died (he was killed rather painfully, if I do recall.) Overall, a good story and I look forward to reading the next volume (AFTER reading all these others books.)
Brisingr was very, very good. I'd like to start with saying I have a love/hate relationship with it. It's a fat book, no lie. It's seven hundred plus pages that, really, could probably be condensed and not lose its flare. However, that's me being nit-picky. Every scene - necessary or not - was written beautifully. Paolini has grown as a writer. There was no scene I disliked - order and if they could've been cut is debatable, but I didn't hate the book as I plowed through the description. The biggest disappointment, really, was probably the lack of feeling a climb toward a climatic point.
Let me reword that; not lack, just not noticeable. I didn't feel any tension until the last one hundred pages. I did cry for Oromis. It was very hard to hold it in since I was at work; but by the time I got to my car, I just sat there, stared with tears in my eyes. Paolini really wrote well. The build up might not have been as good as it could've been, but it still hit hard when everything played out. I loved it. So, in the end, I still recommend this book, tenfold.
Looking forward for the next installment.
I do, however, want to note one thing.
Since when did Eragon learn what a gazelle was or seen one? I mean, I understand how the "like a gazelle" simile works in conveyance, but it threw me off a bit since I haven't heard of any gazelles living in Alagaesia. 8D I'm being picky again, ignore me! Still love the book :D
-Yukimi
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