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Found this nice plugin that allows you to play mp3 files in blog posts after reading an art blog post. So not wanting to be possibly the only blog out there that doesn’t embed music into posts, I went ahead and installed the audio player. It’s a welcome change to how things are usually done. Do you find listening to music helps when drawing or doing specific hobbies? In case you’re wondering the name of the song is Cyber Dance(a remix version) and it’s from the Disgaea2 Arranged Soundtrack.

In other news school is done and now I can finally get back into sketching, cging and revamping the look of tranquil solace!

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.

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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’!

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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!