Epistaxis: I dunno.. I'm not the best at improving my pictures. I tried to improve the picture by listening to everyone's crits. I just thought that I improved it enough (to be somewhat better than the original) to move on. I don't like spending weeks on improving a single picture.
I know I'm not pushing myself too often. Since 2009, I've been doing "adult" stuff. I work AND study at FIU as a computer science major. I prioritize those two before doing anything else. I have to push aside non-important stuff like hobbies, and drawing isn't an exception; it's my favorite hobby but it's not important in my life. Way back in 2007, I had a lot more free time to draw (I uploaded the most pictures (about four drawings a week) on DA in august 2007 than any other month). I spent most of that free time trying to improve my coloring/anatomy. Nowadays I only have 3-4 hours to draw before I feel tired (and i only update my DA twice every 4 months) . If I did a lot less "adult stuff", I would push myself a lot harder than my currently craptacular effort.
I've been studying male/female anatomy for the past week... it's going nicely I think.
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Oh hay. I am currently working on a flyer for Animazement 2010. It was a request by one of my friends. This is what Eric wrote to me via email on May 7th:
"Oh hey. Marci wants to know if you can do her a really big favor. She is going to be making flyers and she says she wants (in her words) your "masterful art skills". She wants to know if you could design a logo that says ANIMAZEMENT 2010 and it be at the top, and have little chibis be along the bottom, leaving her room in the middle to make her flyer. She says the chibis don't have to be itty bitty. She says be creative, and that she will work around your chibis. But a variety of chibis is what she wants. A catgirl chibi, a gothic lolita chibi...you decide!
Oh and Marci says to put your signature in the bottom right hand corner, cause she is going to mass produce these and turn them into flyers for something going on at our anime convention this year.
But yeah. Marci realllly hopes you can do this. She says she needs it no later than the 20th of this month."
Here is the in-progress flyer. I know that my friend Marci is going to put in the text, so I intentionally left it out.
![[Image: flyertemplate.jpg]](/image.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fimg263.imageshack.us%2Fimg263%2F2962%2Fflyertemplate.jpg&hash=399da6c40d355495ccaf2183d81a6df7)
Dunno why the picture is so bright. The original picture is in CMYK format. Unfortunately, it gets converted to RBG format by the image host. I asked a non-TSR member why; he told me that the internet can't display CMYK pics. It looks a lot better in CMYK format:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9008/cmykcompare.jpg
I'm just wondering if the composition can be improved. Is it cute? How can be it cuter? I dunno.. help a poor idiot out. I have to finish it up today, so I would appreciate any speedy crits.
Also, I got bored so I sprited one of the chibis. I even gave her the "creative" name of Nina. She is one of my OCs now. =3
![[Image: ninloli.png]](/image.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fimg121.imageshack.us%2Fimg121%2F5229%2Fninloli.png&hash=ce877447fcde0525efd49505c4efcd23)
I haven't sprited since 2002, so it kinda sucks. I probably made a lot of noobish mistakes. bleh..
I know I'm not pushing myself too often. Since 2009, I've been doing "adult" stuff. I work AND study at FIU as a computer science major. I prioritize those two before doing anything else. I have to push aside non-important stuff like hobbies, and drawing isn't an exception; it's my favorite hobby but it's not important in my life. Way back in 2007, I had a lot more free time to draw (I uploaded the most pictures (about four drawings a week) on DA in august 2007 than any other month). I spent most of that free time trying to improve my coloring/anatomy. Nowadays I only have 3-4 hours to draw before I feel tired (and i only update my DA twice every 4 months) . If I did a lot less "adult stuff", I would push myself a lot harder than my currently craptacular effort.
I've been studying male/female anatomy for the past week... it's going nicely I think.
[/whocares]
Oh hay. I am currently working on a flyer for Animazement 2010. It was a request by one of my friends. This is what Eric wrote to me via email on May 7th:
"Oh hey. Marci wants to know if you can do her a really big favor. She is going to be making flyers and she says she wants (in her words) your "masterful art skills". She wants to know if you could design a logo that says ANIMAZEMENT 2010 and it be at the top, and have little chibis be along the bottom, leaving her room in the middle to make her flyer. She says the chibis don't have to be itty bitty. She says be creative, and that she will work around your chibis. But a variety of chibis is what she wants. A catgirl chibi, a gothic lolita chibi...you decide!
Oh and Marci says to put your signature in the bottom right hand corner, cause she is going to mass produce these and turn them into flyers for something going on at our anime convention this year.
But yeah. Marci realllly hopes you can do this. She says she needs it no later than the 20th of this month."
Here is the in-progress flyer. I know that my friend Marci is going to put in the text, so I intentionally left it out.
Dunno why the picture is so bright. The original picture is in CMYK format. Unfortunately, it gets converted to RBG format by the image host. I asked a non-TSR member why; he told me that the internet can't display CMYK pics. It looks a lot better in CMYK format:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9008/cmykcompare.jpg
I'm just wondering if the composition can be improved. Is it cute? How can be it cuter? I dunno.. help a poor idiot out. I have to finish it up today, so I would appreciate any speedy crits.
Also, I got bored so I sprited one of the chibis. I even gave her the "creative" name of Nina. She is one of my OCs now. =3
I haven't sprited since 2002, so it kinda sucks. I probably made a lot of noobish mistakes. bleh..