GrayWolfShadow

So I've made it to round 5 of surprisingly enough! I've made some good friends, somehow gotten further then some truly amazing artists and am gonna do my best going forward. At this point I realize the fact that I don't have an individual central plot might hurt me... The last few OCTs i entered i was done in the first round so I figured this time i wouldn't do to much planning, just go with the flow... ironic right? So imma need to think hard about this round. Now I don't know exactly what the group has in mind for our character's promotions and trying to look up information about navy ranks has caused me endless confusion (there's no sergeants, or maybe there is, is commander to high a rank for Ruth, is lieutenant to low) so im thinking she's in charge of a few boats each with small teams, the one on her boat being her main team (on which im having twin new recruits because i though up their characters and they entertain me) that she's going to interact with most during the battle.

Aside from End Run I'm going to be doing this comic series with my cousin where i do the arts and she does the writing, so that should be a ton of fun. And since I'm learning how to make a website in one of my classes I might even make it's own website if people like it enough! I was also hoping to make a fan comic with my friend where I write and she does the art but we'll have to see if that actually gets started. I warn you, it would probably be DBZ, because I'm in a serious DBZ kick right now.

I think that's all the updates I have to give. My personal life is boring except when revolving around my art so there's nothing much to tell there. No anime conventions in the near future unfortunately.

My to do list:
     ---Art for
sketched and color started
     ---Art for
sketched and color started
     ---Art for
sketched
     ---VC3 project art (Make your own adventure comic thing)
1/5 sketches started
     ---End run round 5 entry
song for intro chosen, specific events to be being written and sktched
     ---Dupont Cobbler comic
ongoing (due mondays)
     ---Fanart
so i have adventure time, gravity falls, DBZ, and more in sketches right now, i love doing fanart and want to do more
     ---short animation
written out

I got into round two!!


So I'm gonna be trying hard to focus on developing plot and character, and keep my art up to par (if i can get  my tablet running) and hopefully keep moving forward. I have some ideas right now I'm developing and I've picked my second pokemon. Ideas being, guarding a friend gone (alleged) traitor, growing PTSD, accidental stow away in Jhoto, realizing pokemon are people too. I also want to start doing a comic telling whats going on from day one, but this will depend on how much time i have...

I'm still doing commissions if anybody's interested, the link to my info is above, or if anybody wants to do an art trade just ask ^-^

Besides this I'm doing a 100 technique chalenge, time limit is 2012 and imma try making them really good.
1. Draw an image, copy it three times and colour each differently/with different colours. Bonus!: use different media for each.
2. Draw something with a stereotypically feminine theme or style. (Flowers, pastel colours, beautiful subjects?)
3. Draw something with a stereotypically masculine theme or style. (Action, explosions, rough lines and angles?)
4. Draw something that is supposed to arouse positive emotion from the viewer (amusement, joy, sympathy). you can use both technique and the subject of the drawing to achieve this.
5. Draw something with no same colour used twice.
6. Draw a short comic of 3-7 panels.
7. Drawing using only two colours.
8. Cg a drawing, colouring it with three depths of shades and three depths of lighting.
9. Cg a drawing in black and white.
10. Draw an imaginary object.
11. Cg. Sketch, lineart, colour. Use an hour or more for every step.
12. Traditional. Sketch, lineart, colour. Use an hour or more for every step.
13. Cg a drawing using tools that mimic brushes and tools in traditional media.
14. Cg/traditional draw a face, male or female. Design a decorative makeup/tattoo to decorate the face.
15. Traditional inks. Colour with colour pencils.
16. Sketch a dynamic pose of a human. Feets can't touch ground and hands can't be on sides of the waist. No matter if you finish or not.
17. Draw something with not your usual style. Be it a mock or not.
18. A 10-frame animation. (Flash, Flash Player. Adobe Imageready, etc)
19. Do a pencil-drawing with pencil/charcoal and eraser only, and finish it with proper shading and such.
20. Draw something very detailed.
21. Work out a traditional work that has 3d elements added to it, like fabrics and plants and etc
22. Draw something very simple.
23. Draw something very small. (for example; A5/500 x 500)
24. Draw something very big. (for example; A3/2000 x 2000)
25. Draw something that is supposed to arouse negative emotion from the viewer (sadness, nausea, anger). you can use both technique and subject of the drawing to achieve this.
26. Draw anything with animals. If you usually draw these often, draw an animal you have never EVER drawn before.
27. A traditional painting using ONLY acrylic/watercolour/oil-colours, et cetera.
28. Draw something you've never drawn before, not even scetched.
29. Do several scetches of the object/organism you have the most trouble drawing.
30. Traditional draw something using colourpencils only
31. Draw a zoomed in image of a bodypart of a human, something from neck down.
32. A traditional inked lineart, coloured with one or two colours only.
33. Draw something from the bird-eye view.
34. Paint something with coffee, strong tea or any other food-substances. Go crazy!
35. Draw something surreal.
36. Draw a battle.
37. A traditional pencil-sketch coloured with watercolours.
38. Draw a nude human. No exaggerated tits or penises.
39. Take two photos of ordinary everylife objects. Try and combine the two by drawing them into a whole new object.
40. A pixel-drawing with pixels only. Atleast 100px x 100px big.
41. Draw a bird flying.
42. Do a cg using lasso-tool and fill-tool only.
43. Draw a vehicle.
44. Do a collage. Of magazine-clippings, fabrics, buttons, pins, etc + you can use an ink-pen to create effects or details.
45. Cg a drawing without a sketch or a lineart. Begin with the colours and continue with the colours only.
46. Draw a portrait of a live human of your choice. Caricature or realistic.
47. Design a decorative outfit of your liking.
48. Do a small sculpture, no more 20 cm or less than 10 cm in height. You can use clay or even play-doh.
49. Draw a drawing and colour it with three shades of one colour only.
50. Draw an animal with surrealism added to it.
51. Draw an imaginary/existing landscape.
52. Draw something with foreshortening.
53. Pick two characters (your own or someone elses), male and female. Genderbender them.
54. Take a photo, and cg a drawing on it, like the character or the drawings belongs into the photograph.
55. Draw something using only one line aka not lifting your pencil off the paper. You can do this with tablet too but it might be harder seeing how the work-space is limited?
56. Draw someone chubby.
57. Draw an imaginary/existing building.
58. Draw a character doing two things at once. Standing/breathing et cetera not allowed, something dynamic and lively please.
59. Draw a character doing four things at once. Same notes as above.
60. Draw something traditionally and Photoshop it so it looks digital.
61. Draw an anthromorphic character.
62. Oekaki, 500 x 500
63. Draw someone thin.
64. Draw your least favourite thing, presentable, not a mockery.
65. Copy a famous painting and change things to your liking but not so much it's not recognisable anymore.
66. Draw a picture copying famous styles, art noveau, children's illustrations, church paintings, et cetera
67. Open a book near you and draw what's happening on the page.
68. Listen to a song, and illustrate what it reminds you of or what visuals it brings to your mind.
69. Close your eyes and draw five scribbles on a piece of paper. Then, try to make a drawing or character out of each scribble. You can add on to each as much as you like, but you can't erase any part of the scribble.
70. Do a drawing using your feet.
71. Do a drawing using your non-primary hand.
72. Do a fingerpainting.
73. Put tiny splotches of watercolour on paper and wait for them to dry. Add lines to the splotches with a pen and see if you can make them something else than just drops of colour.
74. Draw a person with one exaggerated bodypart
75. Draw a diarylike comic-illustration of your day.
76. Illustrate a person's change of expression through a comic (3-5 panels)
77. Draw a character (yours or someone elses) in a style of another series or person. (Not your own style.)
78. Create a wallpaper for your desktop. (Preferably from your own drawing)
79. Draw something beautiful and ugly. Use your imagination!
80. Draw an image, copy it three times and colour each with a different light-source and/or type of lighting
81. Choose a character or subject and draw it in a single or three different compositions three times, experimenting with a different line type/weight/dynamic in each one.
82. Choose three different media and three distinct textures and create a triptych composition in which you experiment with rendering each texture in some way: realistically, abstractly, etc.
83. Take a sheet of paper and fill it by drawing objects and people from life. Make it a pile of sketches rather than a controlled piece. Try and colour the finished result.
84. Draw a picture without erasing anything, including the sketches and mistakes
85. Draw a huge insect with all the details visible.
86. Design five different underwear in five different materials.
87. Draw something seasonal.
88. Draw something using shading only. (Black on white, etc)
89. Draw something using lighting only. (White on black, etc)
90. Have a friend you haven't gift-arted yet? Surprise them.
91. Take three or four pieces of traditional media and make an image using only those tools. (Like for example a piece of coal, a red colouring pencil and a normal pencil. ) Eraser doesn't count!
92. Draw something that deciphers an emotion with technique and colours. Avoid drawing the face, if you must add a person in it as well. Extremes are very good, like misery, anxiousness and joy.
93. Draw character-interaction, preferably something you don't usually do (like if you normally do "boylove" then hetero-pairings would be a nice change? same applies to people who always draw girls and boys together.) also if you usually do erotica, try friendship, and if you've never tried anything steamy, now's the chance.
94. Draw an image that supports something against your beliefs. A presentable one.
95. Draw an image that has a message you support.
96. Hit "random deviant" button until you find a deviant with an original character. Draw it, and no skipping! (Show it to the person too!)
97. Put your playlist on random, pick a song, find the lyrics for it and choose a random line or two which you will illustrate.
98. Draw one of your human-characters as an animal/one of your animal-characters as a human.
99. Pick one of your old, old drawings, and redraw it.
100. Congratulate yourself for a work well done and do an appropriate image of CELEBRATION. This is obviously the final task. I hope you had fun.

With christmas almost upon us i would formally like to wish all happiness in whatever holidays you enjoy this time of year.

And I've decided on a new years resolution, that every single day of 2012 I will post a picture I made that day. Small or big, sketch or painting, just as long as it's something, every single day. And I may break it up into smaller categories, like how I'm thinking January will be fan art month (with a focus on nostalgia). On a less artsy note I've decided to loose weight as well but we all know how well that resolution tends to work.

So if you've been ignoring my random postings recently, I should tell you I've joined an OCT again, but I swear I'll do better this time

I actually would like some opinions on this one. I'm not sure how I want to go about it art wise. There's watercolor, line-less digital art, pixel art (mimicking the video games) and I'm thinking maybe digital art mimicking the game art (hard for me to explain this one, think tracing over a large version of the pixels and making them awesomer). I'd love to do animation but that depends on my time (pixel art or pixel imitators will probably be animated). And plot wise I'm toying around with some ideas, i was about to add three npcs to my arsenal when I realized three total OCs was the limit but damn it would have been hilarious to have her whole family in war. I'm thinking of adding her mom anyway... When it comes to plot I'm just going for developmental, and I have some ideas of twists to go on depending on how far I go. I'm working on making a theme song for kanto, which is just a jazz version of the original theme xDD But it may take more time then I'd want to get just right....

Lets see what else... I'm selling at Katsucon again! This time sharing a table with Doing buttons and plushies mostly, and of course commissions. Oh! and im still doing commissions right now if anybody want's 'em ^-^

I haven't posted anything from this semester of art classes, just because the paper was to large to scan, and I just now realized I left my portfolio at school i hope they don't throw them out... if they didn't, i'll post the arts soon.

I really have been getting along with my anime, but I have so many issues with flash. After I scan the hundreds of sketches imma have someone help me with the technical stuff. So hopefully I can get to doing voice recording soon.

So the summer has been lame recently. My tablet is broken and the replacement chord that MIGHT fix it never came when I ordered it three weeks ago... i have barely been drawing or doing anything art wise... i basically have been doing absolutely nothing O_O what happened to me.

Artistic to do list-
posting my already finished art, comics and animations
snape art fo meh cuz
art trade with SoundVsVision
finishing graduation present for K-A-Suku
finishing my anime theme song and ep1
fixing fav.me/d34b8yw which i actually finished
paint on a giant canvas
gift art for Dsitt7

General to do list-
pack for the move
get people to order commissions
buy button maker

I really just need to start and finish something to get me back on track O____O why am i so unmotivated... maybe i should restart the pokemon challenge to get my spirits up...

I really do need money! If anybody wants a commission send me a note about it and we can work something out!