I had an interesting and overall good weekend, actually. Haven’t had one in a good while, so it was well enjoyed. A small group of fellow artist friends of mine headed out for a local bubble tea place we like to hang out at, to chill and doodle a little. Got to talking with one of my friends and we both agreed that one of my biggest flaws is that, well, I draw way too slow for my own good. I got out of that bad habit in my figure drawing class, and I’m getting better in my animation drawings speed wise, but when it comes to drawing my stuff (as well as drawings for story boards for some reason) I just don’t feel like I’m quick enough. Which is the primary reason behind me being a little shy to take on commissions. So I’m gonna start working on fixing that problem. My latest doodle was just a small attempt at getting better at drawing fast, the sketch took nothing, was probably done with the line work in under ten minutes and fought the urge to add much more detail. I have a tendency to nit pick my drawings to death. Came home and threw some quick inking on it, scanned it in and poured some quick color on it. More of a doodle, but eh, I feel it’s not too bad for a quickie. I’ll probably have to do a lot more of these to get better at it. This semester I’ll really have to drill myself on getting faster. I did come up with an idea on what might help though. Some friends of mine used to push me to try making a comic of some sort in the past. I’m thinking if I made my own web comic I’d be sort of pushed into drawing things faster and I might better myself for it. Still just sorta tossing the idea around in my head, but I’m thinking I might go for it.

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Just got my new tablet in today. My old tablet started to die on me near the middle to late last semester. Well, tried to fix it with a friend of mine and it ended up just putting the final nail in it’s coffin. It’s been tough trying to find another one in my price range, mostly because I stick with Wacom tablets. Last week I got pretty lucky, I stumbled upon a site that actually had a couple refurbished Intuos 3s in stock. They were exactly the size I wanted and by some miracle, they were actually cheaper than my last tablet, which was one of Wacom’s lower end Graphire 3 series. I had a little trouble getting it through the site, but surely enough, it arrived. And since I had my new tablet, I gave it a nice and quick run through openCanvas with this doodle. I seem to be doing alright, not too rusty I suppose. Just a little something I did for fun mostly. Now it’s back to work, hopefully I’ll be able to work out something nice with my shiny new tablet.

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Just throwing a partial scan of this drawing I found that I started last year. I was really getting into it, set up a back story for this character and a whole race of people he was related to. Then Odin Sphere came out and as I played it I found that the background I came up with for my character was near identical to that of a character in the game. So I got discouraged and put this one away for a while. I’ve been looking at it recently though, and I think I’m going to finish this. It’s fairly large, so scanning this one will be tough. but I’m not even sure if I want to color this one. I just want to finish it. And I figured I’d should say so here, because I feel like it. That and work has been grinding me into the ground removing my drawing time from me.

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Through a little testing with a friend of mine, the conclusion of my computer’s utter refusal to work was most definitely caused by the power supply. Perhaps I’ll crack it open and take a few shots to show the burned components within. We think it might have taken the motherboard with it, hopefully that’s not the case, but we’ll see. I’ll be swapping it into another case soon t see if perhaps I can salvage it, otherwise I’ll be on my laptop only for a good while, as I definitely do not have funds for repair. I still need to repair my car for cryin’ out loud! But anywho, I figured I would make a post to show that finals did not do me in and that the side effects are starting to fade. I also figured I would post up a quick scan of a badge I did for myself while at a convention with some friends of mine. I’m actually fairly happy with how it turned out. I’ll be posting some of my assignments from class. I figure I spend so much time working on them at school I may as well put them up here. Just got some pieces back from last year too! A few things may trickle on here as well, sketches and stuff. I’m also working on new stuff as well, so I’ll actually have something to post on. Heh, well I’m off to catch up on something I missed so terribly during the school year. Time for some wonderous sleep!

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My computer died. Again.

Yeah, not too happy about that one. This past weekend it decided to stop working. I just got it back up and running after it died this past summer too. Seems like I just can’t get a break with that machine. I am hoping though, that it’s just something simple. I did some quick looking around in my machine, and stuff appears to be receiving power, but it won’t turn on. So if it’s simple, I just have a bad power switch. If it’s something else, then I have a real problem on my hands and no money to fix it. However, I may be getting a short freelance web design job, should this thing really be any problem that’ll get me some money to fix it. Just for the time being it’ll be a little tougher to keep up with things on the net and I won’t have access to my original files. So for those people trying to contact me, I may be slower than usual, and I apologize for that.

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Playing Persona 3 today when I got the urge to doodle something. So I saved, got up and started doodling. Couldn’t really produce anything really all that great, but I started going through a few old sketchbooks I had laying around and decided to post a few old sketches. Mostly because I haven’t posted anything in a while. But hey, at least I’m posting stuff, even if it’s old. I did find an old drawing that I forgot about while flipping through my older stuff. That’ll go up as soon as I finish it. Anyway, here’s the sketch. It’s pretty rough but perhaps I’ll go back and touch it up later.

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Right, well the past week of school has given me a good punch in the face. So now I gotta pick it up a little and get caught up, so for updates and such, they may still be a bit scarce for the time being. I am, however working on a few commissions, so I’ll probably be posting those up as I get those finished. I’m also trying to figure out what I want to put up here. In the past it’s been almost entirely my “anthro” illustrations and such, but I’m considering putting up some of my other things. I don’t to entirely all things furry, so I figure perhaps I can set up a few more galleries and put up more. Just tossing things around in my head. Oh, and so as not to feel like I’m updating without posting something, I noticed earlier this week I hadn’t put up my “serenity lost” piece. And I figured that since I had put this up in my DA gallery that I may as well put it up here. Even after the tearing apart in critiques, it still has a few things I like about it, so why not? Well, better shove off and get back to work. And for the record, Rez is not good for productivity, but I still have to recommend it.

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