Finally the lineart is finished! After having Corel Painter X crash on me and having to start over with Paint Tool Sai it’s finally complete. After working with Sai for inking this sketch I can say the program is pretty comparable to Painter and not as finicky when it comes to crashing, which is a very good thing.

I always find the colouring process to be the most enjoyable part of creating digital artwork.

Inking…not so much. A little less tedious with music though. Should do some pen lineart more often!

My favourite digital anime artist revamped her website a little under 24 hours ago! The simple layout and colour scheme has me inspired to get cracking on designing a new layout for this site. First I started playing around with patterns in photoshop and I have a think for pinstripes/scanlines…but then that’s been done to death. Going with the damask pattern I’ve been using for other layouts and armed with custom brushes and fonts, I went to town! Last time I designed I layout I used grays/green/orange and blue(so many colours, so little time), this time I think gray/pink and white is enough…keep it as simple as possible! Here’s a larger screenshot for your viewing pleasure.

Also…having 50 billion scroll bars sucks…just sayin’!

I will get this lineart finished if it’s the last thing I do! And never again…will I digitally ink a character with drill hair…at least until I develop god-like inking skills!

And now I can make colouring process videos! Just a matter of learning to add music and other stuff and I am SET FOR LIFE…well not really, but I’m still proud of myself! Of course the finished product of this can be found at the gallery!

So I decided to change the look of my twitter page…

And then my plurk page…

And finally my deviantArt journal CSS. Man…there’s something about those damask patterns that just give things a sort of “classy” and “mature” air to layout designs. I wonder how many other internet hangouts I will apply to damask patterns/textures to my layouts for. I think I may have created a monster, a damask monster!

Been having a little trouble getting the procaster to work since I made a livestream account. Well after making a few forum posts, I learned the problem was my screen resolution, so with that in mind and being a little bored…you know what I did!

The end result! I’ll definitely stream more often and when I can figure out why photoshop lags with the procaster, I’ll stream myself cging something!

So halloween has come and gone with me managing to produce not one, but 2 PICTURES!! Now this may not be much to some people, but since 2007, something has always prevented me[work] from finishing or starting a holiday image. So I’m glad that didn’t happen this year! Here you can see the first design ideas I had…

Now I’ve been curious for a long time about how people print out their artwork for conventions and the like. Now that I’ve learned how to resize images for different prints and things, these two will be the first victims test subjects! Might even send one or two out to friends…

Well that’s it for me!

So today is Blog Action Day. The idea is that through blogging, people can spread awareness about issues like climate change, global poverty, environmental problems, world hunger and all the other topics that should be of importance to everyone.