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First new cg of 2010

Reafu — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:47:40 +0000

My first new image of 2010! After participating in dA’s timeline meme, and writing about how certain situations keeping me from working on art, I figured it was time to change that. So while going about my day, doing random non-art things, it came to me! Since the beginning of the new year, there was tons of artwork featuring, pretty much cat girls in skimpy outfits in celebration of 2010 being the year of the tiger. So why not draw all of the chinese zodiac? So here I go…

Streaming and sketchin’!

Reafu — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:10:44 +0000

reafu on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

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!

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Reafu — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:19:40 +0000

First cg of 2010!

Reafu — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:22:25 +0000

I just couldn’t leave this one, after being super gung ho when I started sketching and inking this! I spent 20 minutes painting the moon, sheesh!

Shortcuts…

Reafu — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:34:02 +0000

It never hurts to use a little shortcut when you’re nearly done working on something. Something that you’ve been going at on and off for a little while. I love you pentool…I love you so much!

Upgraded!

Reafu — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:27:05 +0000

I hope everyone’s Christmas went well and that their 2010 is going smoothly so far! Mine was pretty good, nice and quiet, ate and drank a lot…all that good stuff! Well here’s my first(of hopefully many) posts of the new year. Remember how I posted about needing a new laptop? Well…

Yeah…It was definitely time to replace this one!

Laptops really shouldn’t be held together with masking tape…doesn’t look too nice!

Had to replace it’s keyboard…it’s been through a lot!

I wonder what’s inside?

Just what I needed! Dang…Santa’s really good!

And this one doesn’t need it’s keyboard replaced!

Gotta love them abstract destop wallpapers!

A brand spanking new laptop bag I got for my birthday. One of the problems with having a huuuuge laptop(17.3 inches) is that most bags sold in stores are too small. Thank God for Crumpler *shameless plug*!

I’ve had this bad boy for about a month now and I love it! Windows 7 is the OS, 4GB of RAM, 500GB for the hard drive, it’s fast, the screen is huge…it’s like I can see everything lol! I have Photoshop, Corel Painter and Paint Tool Sai installed on it, so I have no excuse to not update my dA page and website more often. I’m even going to go back to inking things with fineliners in order to churn out cg art more frequently. Wish me luck! Last but not least, have a work in progress! Gah I’ve been working on that one on and off since summer started last year! I almost want to just scrap it or toss it in the junk art folder…But I’m also sort of determined to finish inking this. Could always use the colouring practise!

And it continues…

Reafu — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:02:51 +0000

Shading is very important *nod nod*…but so is resting your drawing hand. My knuckles are killing me!

Holiday spirit…

Reafu — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:12:20 +0000

It’s December and time for Christmas art! Let’s see how fast I can colour this…

EDIT touched up the sketch a little in photoshop and added MOAR textures. Voila!

It’s that time again…

Reafu — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:58:47 +0000

My nearly 3 year old Acer laptop is on it’s last legs. Part of it is actually being held together with masking tape(almost tempted to take photos and show off it’s condition!). On top of that, the power cord I’ve been relying on since the battery is only good for about an hour and a half, two hours tops of standby time, has decided to fray. Now depending on how the cord is bent, sparks will actually fly while using it and the power will cut off. Now no one wants to use a potentially dangerous laptop. I know I don’t…So some promising laptops have been added to the wishlist. Just a matter of saving the money to buy one, or maybe I’ll get lucky and Santa will bring me a nice laptop that I could run photoshop on, do school work and enjoy a little gaming…

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 I got myself a black butler…

Reafu — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:50:51 +0000

Ever since about 2003 I’ve seen all kinds of photographs of people with anime figurines. Whether it was of a gundam or some other mecha or a full scale model of the popular moé character of the day, I always manged to find post-convention photos on people’s blogs or postings about new ones on sale at places like jlist. From that time on, I knew I just had to have one, but my biggest setback was usually the price. When you go though a little currency conversion from Yen to the Canadian dollar, these things could put you 100+ dollars in the hole and I’m just a humble college student! Then with anime north 2008 and fan expo 2008 I was even more determined to buy something, those adorable nendoroids and other figurines…I just knew I could give them a good home. But once again the price came and hit me upside the head. I saw an amazing Code Geass Knightmare frame at FanExpo but the vendor wanted 75 dollars for it. I guess it’s true some of these hobby shops jack up their prices during convention time…You know how they say good things come to those who wait? Well today my day came!

Everyone, please say hello to Sebastian!

I had just finished watching Kuroshitsuji and a few days after it was payday, so I just knew what I was going to buy. Had to do a little searching to find an online figurine store that had Sebas-chan in stock though.

He looks rather comfortable on my desk.

He kept asking me if there was anything I wanted him to do for me. He kept telling me about this kid he worked for a while ago…something about wanting to devour my soul…yeah…I’ll pass on that. He didn’t seem too pleased I turned him down. Not very pleased at all…

So do I like him as my first figurine? I love him! His only draw back is that some of the removable face/neck parts don’t seem to attach very snugly to his body. Not sure if it’s because their joints use those bjd thingies or what. Luckily he’s standing against my pc monitor and I don’t plan to swap faces that often(might make another photo post though!), so he should be good. Do I plan to buy other nendoriods? I sure do! Actually, I have a little wishlist of other figurines I’d like to buy in the future, so keep an eye out for future posts!

Since this is supposed to be a blog for posting wip’s/art and sketches, here’s something I’m working on in time for halloween. Since it takes a little while to ink digitally(but looks so much better) I’ve inked this with my trusty fineliners. Hopefully it will come out well for a little idea I have in mind.