all made up with nowhere to go

New iconnnn~~~

Yet another crosspost, still failing horrifically at doing these in a timely manner. This post contains a moving gif of an animation I did. Also warn for potential eyeburn because of bad colour choices.

( pictures under here )

Commission details | My Etsy Shop | My Redbubble Shop

I am doing horrifically at remembering to tumblr cross-post my art for anyone who's not on there/following me on there.

So here's another one!

( pictures under here :) )

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By the way, in case you're interested, I updated my Redbubble shop a few days ago: http://www.redbubble.com/people/muladhara/shop
(there are patterns! available as many things! Hopefully soon there will be more to come!)

I spent most of today making a hat for my as yet to be nephew c: Provided it works out well, I may make more to sell in the shop.

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I also found out about a game called Ib (pronounced "eeb", not "ib"), which is a psychological horror game set in an art gallery. Seems like it might be interesting, so I'm downloading it and possibly going to have a look at it tomorrow, so I will let you know how it goes and what it's like c:

(It seems to be in the same vein as Yume Nikki, but hopefully not as depressing).

(Bang go my plans to play Vagrant Story this holiday...)

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Fanarts I want to draw:

# Dizzy
# Giana Sisters
# maybe some more Yume Nikki, since I haven't drawn any in years (shocking!)
# maybe some more SMT/Nocturne stuffs. Hitoshura is too awesome NOT to draw.

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I had a whole other post here, but I feel bad making it, and I'm not sure y'all want to read it.

I am so totally not involved with eljay any more at all. Which is why when it had the DDOS attacks earlier in the week, I thought it was refusing to cross post because it knows and it hates me.

But whatever. Today is Shore Leave Friday, and eljay is behaving itself, so I am happy.

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I've been giving myself a "holiday" this week, due to stress balls in both my shoulders (I assume that's what they are; since removing the source of stress, they've stopped hurting. Could be coincidence, but I don't know).

So I drew. And drew. And drew. And tried some digital art, but I'm just not feeling it at the moment, so it was all stuff in my craptacular sketchbook (I finish this one, though, and I get to the fake Moleskine, so we're all good. And then I will need to get a new one when that comes to an end. ANYWAY). It was mostly fanart, but I don't really care. It felt good to be drawing again.

I've also spent two days gawping at some of the some of the most wonderful concept art (courtesy of fuckyeahconceptart), and getting inspired (always happens - it is the cure for my artist's block. To some degree). And then getting insanely jealous. But the only solution to that is to get better. To learn to draw backgrounds instead of being half-arsed, or not being drawn at all.

(I spent time going through my pics for inspiration, and discovered I don't half pull some weird faces. I may have to do drawings from them just for the lulz).

I also feel like I'm having an art evolution (still trying to get rid of manga influences, and failing). The last time this happened (or felt to have happened) was a good five years ago, so it's about time, heh.

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Anyway, I should probably shut up now, because I really am rambling re: art, and I don't have anything else to say, as I'm not getting out much a lot at the moment (but I don't mind, because I am super-tired).

Currently working on this (and bitching about it a little bit on Twitter):

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On drawing this, I've come to the conclusion that Nu Mou faces are a bit like Moomins.

I dunno, I mean, I am kind of on a Silent Hill kick for no apparent reason, and yet I've spent the afternoon doodling this instead. What.

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I suppose I should get on and play Mass Effect 2 at some point in the near future. It's been long enough since I played the first game that it's been a good break. And I've possibly played enough games in between that the controls won't mess with my head.

But maybe I ought to try to finish Lost Odyssey first.

Did someone say artdump? Sure, why not?

( +10 pics, mostly original art )

Comments and/or crits welcome! Also should I make tags for my original characters? There obviously aren't enough pictures of them at the moment and whatnot, but what do you think?

(subject line not directed at anyone, it just makes me lol when Fang yells it. Although it makes me lol harder when she yells, "ON YOUR KNEES!" to something that doesn't have knees...)

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In case you missed it, old horrible art here (eljay) and here (DW) - both posts are identical, just depends where you've got me on your flist :)

Right, on with the sketch dump!

( this week has been...spammy? )

Comments/crits/whatever welcome c:

My first picture of the year!

I am not kidding when I say I was up at nearly 1am doodling it. I would have rathered been asleep, so this is probably my subconscious talking, right?

( 1 Dream Lord under here )

As I said on my sketchblog, I'd love to make a comic coloured in this fashion, but I know I couldn't do it because a) I have no ideas and b) I have zero patience.

I need to post more of my art here as well as the sketchblog instead of just assuming you guys will all go and look there.

Stuff that has happened this week:

~ I finally stopped feeling queasy/not wanting to eat from mirtazapine withdrawal. YAY SIDE EFFECTS. (My mum just about did her nut when I told her that no doctor has ever withdrawn me properly from drugs, and also that they never tell you what will happen from stopping cold).

Today I actually ate at both dinner and tea time! \o/ (Granted I didn't eat much, but something is better than nothing).

~ I've had horrible insomnia for most of the week. But I guess that is also a side effect of not being drugged up to the eyeballs. It's varied from being abso-fucking-lutely wide awake at various points to kind of rolling over more than usual and going "meh" a lot. I love insomnia. [/sarcasm]

~ I spent the entire week trying to draw James Sunderland (I think I lucked out that one time by accident) and ended up spending a lot of time drawing Pyramid Head.

(I have a bunch more sketches than are on my sketchblog, but a) spamming and b) most of them are terrible. I mean, these aren't brilliant, but they do amuse me).

~ I bought some more PVA glue and some black paper with a view to another gluing and sticking experiment for which I have a vague idea.

I have a canvas that I was given for a birthday present a few years ago. At some point in the past it got a hole punched in it accidentally (I think a heavy book fell on it), and I didn't know what to do with it because I couldn't paint on it or think of a way to fix it. Well, now I do!

(I seriously hope this will work. I don't know where it's going, or what I'm going to do with any of it, but I am having fun, and I guess that is what counts?)

~ I got nothing else because I am veeeeeeeeery tired.

Between them, my mum and my brother woke me up this morning (although not intentionally, and not at ridiculous AM, either). So I got up and I started colouring the Yume Nikki picture I uploaded to my sketchblog last night.

I actually got most of it done between then and a session in the afternoon, but started getting bored of it, so went to do something else. Which was doodling a couple of characters I made up from nowhere yesterday. The entire idea was to make up a character I could just use in pictures of whatever, doing whatever, whenever (a bit like the idea behind Stanley Lau's Pepper character).

Except because my luck is my luck is my luck, I ended up with two. So we have a guy and a girl, and she might be an alien, and he's never happy (he is also of the opinion that Everything You Know Is Wrong). Together they Fight Crime! (maybe; could be they're the cause of it).

I spent about an hour or so, just drawing her, so I could get a feel for her, and then the same for him. Except I didn't have a full hour, so I'm going to spend a bit more time on him tomorrow. And then I'm just going to draw and draw and draw, and see where the hell it gets me.

I'm also amused because they have exactly the same hair cut, but hers is longer than his (obviously).

If you check out the afore-linked sketchblog, that most recent picture is three of her and one of him.