A Journey to Freedom

Listening to this album makes me want to make a platform-jumping game with a rabbit-girl character.
Mediocre gameplay but tries to tie in storyline to the gameplay.

Yeeeah. If I could code my own games and get permission to use De De Mouse's music, I'd work on it in a heartbeat.

* * *

Not a lot of drawings done lately. :(
Should have taken my sketchbook to Japan. Every time I go there I'm just so... recharged!
It was strange to hold my tablet pen again.

M4 (Part II)

So long since I last posted. :(
I'm ashamed at how I can even keep promises I make to myself.

Welp! My interview process went well.
I freaked out and quit towards the end, because I was anxious about my drawings sucking, and the usual pattern of freaking out. I didn't get all my drawings done, but they were happy with what parts of the task I had completed.

Over the past month I've found a bit of clarity in what path I want to pursue in the gaming industry:

Character Design

I've always loved character design. Studying them, and picking apart the designs with my eyes.
I would love to be able to pursue this professionally. I feel kinda shit saying that, because I have such a long way to go. I'm not even being modest in saying that. I love everything about video game character design.
I've been looking into courses and I can't seem to find one that suits what I'm looking for. I want to get on the illustration side of it, but all the courses I can find are aimed towards 3D characters. I'll have to think about what path I want to take, or look at online courses... I know I'll get lazy if I'm not in a class room learning enviroment though. Hmm.

Character design articles I ate up recently:
AC3 Connor
ME2 Thane Krios

Over the past month I've become really obsessed with Mass Effect. It's just... so good. I didn't think I liked galactic sci-fi much, as I'm not a hugh Star Wars or Trek fan, but this series... is fantastic. My adoration for this series might be coming from my love for Bioware games in general, but...
idk.

I really need ME3. ;;;

Also, from today I think I'll try watermarking or signing pics from now on.
The Jaqen H'ghar semi-realism portrait I did a few months ago was posted to his fanpage on facebook.
When I saw it I was of course really flattered, but kind of concerned how they found it.
The poster at least credited me as "chimyra", which is actually a bit alarming because I didn't post that picture to the chimyra dA account.

It wasn't art theft and I was happy that they did mention me as the artist in the post, but still, it was a bit of a freaky moment. Seeing someone post my thing made me feel like it wasn't mine anymore.

The Long Way of Drums

Colouration somewhat inspired from pie bald pythons.

Ah! Amazingful day.
I met up with a couple of local indie game developers over coffee today who are looking for an artist to help with their games. I was anxious and freaking out over the weekend when I made my portfolio to show them. I've never made one before, and it's made me realise how much work I haven't done. For a long while now I've been meaning to explore drawing environments, but nope, no work to show in that department.
So.
That must be rectified.

Despite crappy portfolio, I feel like the talk I had with the developers went well. :D
They gave me a task to do for them to test my abilities and see if what I do is what they're looking for.
I'm excited about what they've asked. They want 3 creature designs for a fighting game (pokemans styleru) presented in a minimum of 3 styles with two environment designs.

I am.
Sho exciteddddd. When I got to tafe afterwards I just scribbled out my ideas. tbh, they suck. But I got down what profile of creatures I want to create. I came up with four, so either I can aim high and try doing one extra than necessary (and potentially seem like a try-hard?), ooorrr if the work load is too much I will drop one. The monsters I want to make:

Lizard, flying type, fierce appearance,ranged attacker - has tiny limbs that aren't that effective in melee.
Fur mammal, fights with long claws or fangs, cute but tough look , quick melee - high evasion?
Aquatic, silly, frivolous natured, tank - either has a shell-like armour or just general high defense
Horned, elegant, fights with psychic/telekinetic abilities

Only have sketches for the lizard type so far. It's a winged Chinese dragon-ish thing. I'm thinking making it have centipede legs. Or just maybe, like, six? Will have to sketch it out and see if it's ugly.

Sighhhhh. I want this lizard one done by tomorrow. But I'm also behind in a lot of my tafe shit. Brahgud.
oh well. brehg.

Updates are all on neptune blues.
Yep. I'm not going to link them. Back to laziness it is.

Power

Experimenting with an old style I developed when I had sketchbook pro - I don't even remember the proper name of the program. I can't find it :( it was free though, and pretty gewd.

I want to try harder with my 3D shit. I've got another animation assignment coming up and it's got me worried.
I finally gave Sculptris a go. I made an Arishok head.
Arishok Bust | But it doesn't look like him 

:(

I really like this program but my laptop can't run it smoothly. I was talking to a techy friend about my laptop and what I could do to speed it up (I barely understand how a computer works) and we discovered I have one of the lowest ranked drivers available on the market. It's incredibly shit, but it's efficient enough and is used in laptops to lower the price... fair enough. I did buy this on special. hnng.

So, even though I can't run it very well, I want to use Sculpris! Very much. I've been watching "tutorial" vids on yt, and mang, some people have really done exceptional things with this program. For me the most impressive thing about this program is that it's open source. Fuck yes!

Anyway.
Heh.

Not much else besides the 3D thing lately.
Some of that style revival again | revamping Lancelot | King of Beasts


This damn song. I've been meaning to put a doodle to it for a while.
I also want to draw something to Iron by Woodkid, but I think I've over exposed my ears to the song now. It doesn't make me jive like it did when I first heard it.

Revelations

Some days
do you ever feel like dropping everyithing and saying,

"fuck this"

and quit?

I feel like that all the time.


Yeah, I'm gonna go far in life.

Sayonara Rolling Star

This week is the last week of term 2. How time flies!
For the past month and a half I just haven't been working on my assignments. My enthusiasm went on strike and my willpower doesn't have a back bone to stand up to my lazy side.
Thus, last week and this week are complete hell for me. I've got overdue assignments I'm working through getting submitted and I'm nearly done with them all.

For my DESIGN GAMES class we've got a group assessment to design game bosses and enemies.
Our group is aiming for a distinction so we're really trying to tick all the boxes with ours'.
Bosses:
Cerberus busts | Cerberus | Cerberus alt | Hades busts | Hades WIP | Zet | Helga (Hresvelgr)

When the holidays are over though, I'll be working on Venus! Last Friday I sat down and recorded her voice bank. It's a really simple thing to do but it just takes ssooo rooonng.

By the end of July I want her debut song made with a PV and uploaded to YouTube!
But I still can't decide what her debut song could be. Decisions. NGH!

Edit: Wow. I love this guy's style and character illustrations.

Kaja Kaja Goo

POLYSICS + wanting to do something colourful = ^

This was really rushed, but I've proven to myself I can still do weird cartoony quick doodles.

Labyrinth of the Moonlight

Jaqen H'ghar! Reference pic.

Realisms is something I've always wanted to work on, but I'm usually too shy to try. I don't know why.

I really struggled with getting Tom's eye right.

Here is | me struggling | with realism

I started this at around 8pm, and only just finished. How retarded is that.

Trish

Finarry! A Trish with a face I'm happy with!

I've always struggled with getting it right. I want to portray her personality through her icy stare and devilish smirk.

Anyhooooo.

On a random whim today I decided to google if there are any local life drawing classes around.

As it turns out, there is! At the Art Gallery of Ballarat~

I want to sign myself up. Using photo references just doesn't compare to having a live model to work from, I've found. When I did fine arts, my life drawing class was my favorite. Also because my teacher was great.

Yesterday I got a portait-ish thing done.

whips: the sketch | the pretty much finished

My classmate asked me to draw him as an Assassin. I thought he was joking until he followed up on it a couple times. So there it is! My friend Josh, garbed out in Mentor Ezio robes.
Because Revelations Ezio is my favorite outfit. 8Db yesm.

I don't know how I feel about how it turned out. I'm still on a crusade to use more colour in my works. Even today's DD I tried using colour, but I ended up changing it and reeling in the range. The original background for it was explosive red and yellows - it was weird to look at. Ho hum.

Mage Pride

I only had an hour and a half to make sure I had a doodle uploaded today. I feel like I should have more to show than just this scribbly Fenris.
I think I spent half the time just getting the sketch done, then rushing the colours and everything else. Picking colours is difficult for me! I remember I used to slap around anything and be happy with what I'd do, but now I feel like I have to keep ajusting the colours until they feel "right". Bother bother!
I wanted the DD today to be mega colourful. Maybe if I had more time to plan this Fenris colouring I could have done something better?

Since my last post I've done some small doodles and a few effort-y ones.

I started a group on facebook for drawing challenges, sort of like the oekaki competitions.
Every week I'll set a theme and people choose whichever medium to create and produce something in relation to the theme. The first week was kind of a success! I was really happy that people posted~ I was worried they'd be a bit shy about it, or think it was dumb.

For the first week I set the theme as ANTLERS.
This was a challenge for me, as it should be, because I don't think I've ever drawn deer or proper antlers before. I did some study sketches and then one effort drawing.
Study1 | Study 2 | Hunting for Witches

Antlers are tough! I think I ended up with something moose-like in the end.
This pic was also some practice with two source lighting.

This week's challenge is Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.
I want to make an animation of colours blending and recreate an old oekaki.
I need to upload the test animation I did with primary colours, but here is a fail doodle I did for the recreation:
Doink
I wanted to redraw an old oekaki where I used these colours to draw Leopold.

And now for some TAFE shit.
Anoobis! | ANOOBIS WITH CULUR!
For an assignment where we design game bosses. Our game is about a phoenix who seeks out other phoenixes (phoenixi?) in mythological, underworld-ish places.

Lately I've been thinking more and more about character design, which started before we got this bosses assignment. I've always liked character designs and studying them. Is this a passion in life? I'm not confident with creating designs, but I like recreating them - close enough?
Fenris' design has always interested me. I was thinking about it last night (it was brought on from this weird suprise obsession with Jaqen H'ghar) and today had the itch to test myself if I could draw his face yet.
Started in Paint | Mapping his hair now | Then finishing off in SAI:

Random shout to Mar-ER - her fanarts are AWESOME! The way she uses colour is sick too.
I want to learn from her, but I will resist. xD I want to stubbornly stay true to myself and find my own way of colouring, however she does use techniques I've always wanted to test out! Ahhh, eventually.
Maybe when I finally get some vidyas for Venus out.

オバアチャン

For the first time in a while, I really feel in the drawing groove. There's less effort involved when I want to draw something, but as always I'm not drawing as often as I'd like to be. I'm still a crap person.

Derrrrrrr-p. Okay, no more neptune-blues links! I will not be lazy anymore and will post using thumbies for all pictures. I'm so great cause I try.

Very rough storyboard for an animation idea for my 3D class.

First doodoo | Almost done doodoo
The reference image of Yusuf.

...linking takes longer. But it's something I will do from now on. Cause I'm on a crusade to slay lazy.

Tavern Music

I want to try drawing surrealist stuff again.
Also want to work with a smaller canvas again - I'll have to figure out what dimensions I like.
I could go back to the 300 x 400? 400 x 500? The old one I used to stick to.

WELP, CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT.

All drawing updates are @ http://neptune-blues.deviantart.com!
When I figure out the new dimensions I want to go back to linking individual pics again. Just linking to neptune-blues feels lazy :(

Prometheus

Female ver. of Kaim Algonar?

Mizèrable

All because I found this today.:


It revived my highschool days of obsession with this man.

Venice Rooftops rmx

^The worst, most fug Shao Jun assassin doodle you will ever see.

Tenrai Fortress

I said I wanted to be more active. So what do I do? I don't post here for 26 days.
YEAH PROGRESS!

Errytang for the past month is on neptune-blues.
I've been keeping my uploads up-to-date there, at least. Yay?

Just Be Friends

Gotta get back into drawing animals!

I've had some mega inspiration lately. I've oekaki'd and drawn some detaily stuff to test myself, and I really have forgotten so much. I have so much working to catch up on in my drawings.

By the end of the year I want to have two animations!
I found this today:

I used to worship pu-sama's style and for her Final Fantasy fan arts. I haven't checked her work in years, and I had a random impulse to type her username into a url search. Her style has evolved and taken a different direction, from what I've seen. She's so inspirational~

It'd be awesome to get to this level of animating, but I will stick to easy shit in the meantime. I want to become a Flash animator, but it might be worthwhile to investigate animating in AfterEffects too. Just a though :I haha?

I have so much work ahead of me.

I keep neptune-blues updated now! I'm a bit proud of that... /vain.

THINGS TO WORK ON:

* Human anatomy - I will use posemaniacs.com and other model reference sites to improve.
* Animal drawings - get back into doodling Starbit critters, and stuff. Will have to google references for certain animals, like weasles.
* Realism - both traditionals and digital, I want to improve. I was looking at zemotion's deviantart gallery and the photos are stunning. I will have a go at replicating, but it will be very embarrassing when I upload it to neptune-blues.
* Colouration - I forget how I used to colour. I used to have a mission when I coloured something, like an obective? I don't remember how I got into this set of mind, but I want to get it back.

Butterfly Stroke

So far I'm pretty boring with my drawings this year.
I feel like this DD is a small revival of my old style though. Had to rush the colouring! Splashed these. Always, tree women. Whyyy?

Yeah.
Need to remember how to colour things again.

Neptune Blues has been updated!
This blog is ugly.

Bloom of Crimson

I will force myself to draw.

Victory

On such an X-Men and Marvel kick right now.

Won't Get Lost

* The style of today's piece is inspired by Jeremyville.
I was flicking through the FB page and inadvertedly studied his style too closely. I enjoy his style and use of symbolism, and guess I wanted to give it a shot?

Drawings like this make me embarrassed. This sucks.

ATHF Theme [RMX]

Hawlla.
This is a piece of shit. But I have to try to draw something.