Art, mostly

I, ah, should've mentioned: SPX is this weekend. The shindig's right down the road from our apartment and we all have weekend passes. Anyone also attending/selling? I would like to see you guys!

I did some small paintings to give to a few of my Favorite Artists From the Internet. I scanned them in before I handed them off.

( some small wood paintings. I am no good at real media. )

Painting is hard! D:

(icon made from beatonna's comics-- you need to read them if you haven't)

S-sorry, I wanted to have this done for the weekend, but there was more artstuff than I'd anticipated. Watch out if you have a slow connection, there's a lot of images here.



( art x 20something -- dinosaurs, original characters, lots of girls, a pseudo-tarot card, a bit of fanart )

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Argh, I'm so sorry to do this, but I'm going to turn off anonymous posting for a bit. Spam bots have been getting onto my journal lately, hopefully this'll dissuade them. :/ I'll turn it back on in a few weeks and see if it gets any better.

I just turned on the 'human testing' option. It'll make things harder for anon commenters, but hopefully this'll get rid of the spam bots.

[EDIT] WAUGH, I think I broke the server ;_; kreggan help mee Ee, fixed! :DD

I realized I've only been making friends-locked entries lately. S-sorry, the only interesting stuff I've had to talk about lately have been work-related (I make a point of never publicly talking about any job), various-private-project-related (one of which will hopefully be less private after next week-ish?), or have no art (I don't like to make public non-art posts). I didn't realize that anyone even cared until I got a sad comment from redhotpangalin the other day. (sorry I didn't mean to leave... ;_; also, pangolins are pretty great.)

I spent yesterday evening scanning in a bit of art from the past month or so, but I'd like to splash some color on some of it before I go posting the lot. Maybe over the weekend?

In the meantime, I colored something! As in colored-colored something. This hasn't happened in months.


( IT'S THAT ONE BIG FLAMING LION THING THAT I DRAW SOMETIMES, AWESOME )

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I unfortunately do not have Leopard installed on my computer, so I can't run Spore. BUT for a short period of time at the beginning of summer I was living with yenian (hi, Mike!), who has a gaming PC on which I played the hell out of Portal and the free version of the Spore creature creator.

He just got a full version of Spore, AND HAS BEEN KILLED REPEATEDLY BY TRIBES OF MAWS AND DEWINS AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Youtube links: tribe of silly looking dewins || getting killed by maws
(they all have ghetto'd out wings because it was the free version and wings were not available)

( my spores, let me show you them )

PREPARE TO BE MILDLY UNDERWHELMED

( I've totally been doing nothing all day but making buttons D8 )

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HOW SLEEPY AM I

SO SLEEPY

OH MAN HI PEOPLE WHO WERE AT CONNECTICON IT WAS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU! :D Sorry if you were looking for me, I was holed up in the hotel room doing work for most of the con. S--sorry I didn't put anything up publicly about my going, I mostly helped at Ananth's table when I was at the convention, and I knew I wasn't going to have much of a presence. I will be at Otakon though! And for some reason I have a table, that's suprising!

On a selling-things-at-Otakon note, we've been watching Battlestar Galactica lately at the apartment, and we're up to the beginning of the third season. (p-please don't spoil anything in the comments ;_; ) I've finally put those buttons together that I've been itching to do. Feel like helpin' a gal out?



( some variations )

I'll do a post with the prints I'm doing for Otakon later. XD I can't promise much. :/

Hey, guess who has an internet connection again! :D

The move (oh yeah, we moved-- I think I failed to mention that one) went pretty terrible and rocky, but we (and the tomato plants!) made it! We're more or less settled into the new apartment. I might friends-only post the new address, if you guys want it for non-creepy purposes.

There's not much to mention from the past month or so that I'm really at liberty to mention. Although my paid account apparently ran out, so I'm down to six random icons and my journal doesn't have its cool maw background anymore. =_= If someone wants to pay for a year-plus-icons, I'll draw you an icon...?

Also, this happened:


AHAHAHA you guys are awesome. XDD

My scanner's pretty busted until I figure out how to force it not to run through Rosetta, so it's been hard to scan things in. I do have some art though, if you're into that kinda thing.

( Some original character sketches, a stupid comic, another page of The Alphabet Meme. )

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That's about all I got. Here, let me quickly reiterate everything everyone's been saying on LiveJournal: Wall-E, Dark Knight, Dr. Horrible= very yes.

I'll be forward here; I don't usually paint. Because I don't use it often, I'm not especially strong with real media and anything I say about real media should be taken with a grain of salt.

With that in mind, I did a small summer pinup painting and documented the steps I took. WANNA SEE? :O



( LET'S GO TOGETHER )

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John, Conrad, Ananth, and myself were down in DC for the past week apartment-hunting, immediately followed by my accidentally leaving my phone charger at Ananth's house, returning to my full-time job, and preparing to move. Sorry if I've been hard to get ahold of recently!

ALSO: JESS AND SHEENA, apparently your package arrived just after we left for DC! D: We did finally get back over the weekend and the cookies kept perfectly well. There's maybe four left now, you make the MOST DELICIOUS snickerdoodles. <3 And thank you so much for everything! <3 I need to send you guys something, you're so nice to me!

This weekend was James and Lisa's wedding! (Congratulations, guys!) It was great and terribly nerdy in all the good ways. I love going to geek weddings. Now all the rest of my unmarried geek friends have to try to outdo my other already-married geek friends with their geek weddings. I look forward to it!

For the occasion, I made an appropriate card.



( that was the inside-- this was the outside: )

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I feel that I should mention: I'm going to the MoCCA Festival with Ananth, The GeekNights crew, and possibly Conraaaaad, for Saturday only. I'm just going to be a spectator, so if you want to chat or anything, you're going to have to pick us out of a crowd. You'd be best off finding Ananth, he's far more recognizable than I am. XD

Also, kaisilverwolf! Thank you for the sweet card! You have the cutest stationary <3 <3

PSA: IN CASE YOU'VE FORGOTTEN, THIS JOURNAL USED TO BE CALLED DHIO.

Sorry for the silence in replying to journals and comments recently-- I graduated, then drove all around the east coast for a few days. I'm at my parents' house at the moment, doing boring car-related things, catching up with my folks (and their cats), and working.

In the meantime, as promised, I've gone and renamed the journal and revamped the layout. It's not spectacular, but I actually put some solid time into the background image. (The star things are supposed to be bugs, but they can be snowflakes or whatever you fancy. XD )

( full background image behind the cut )

I also went and saw Speed Racer with ananthymous. Verdict: RAINBOW ROAD: THE MOVIE. Also, I totally and somewhat unexpectedly enjoyed it. And it wasn't entirely based on the two minutes this dude had on screen.

I am uncomfortable with the number of movies I intend to see this summer. I hate seeing movies, what is this.

[ETA: WHAT, REDOING THE LAYOUT AGAIN? Jeez Aido what the hell's wrong with you.]
[ETA again: D-dammit, I hate CSS override. Why isn't Tranquility II compatible with backgrounds? ;_; ]
[Last time I swear: Two versions later, I think I've got it mostly down. D-does anyone know CSS well enough to tell me how to add a person's default user icon in the header?]

I just finished my last in-person final, and I can count the days until graduation on one hand. Well that's scary as hell. Now I have to become a real person.

After a short consultation with my friendslist, it's been decided that it's time to rename this journal. In a bit, DHIO is going to turn into aidosaur. I never wanted to name this journal after one of my characters, it just happened that Aido and Kaido and Yuko were taken at the time and I couldn't think of any other options. I'd like to redo the layout of the journal at the same time as I rename it, so it'll probably be after graduation when I have a free day.

I figured I'd mention, I'm a registered marrow donor now! That's cool! I can't legally give blood because I weigh as much as a toothpick, but they don't seem quite as picky when you're giving bloody boney bits. I gave in a cheek swab a few weeks ago, they're supposed to give me a ring if they ever want me to donate. @_@

OH RIGHT, ART.

( Assorted life drawing etc. in fountain pen. Vaguely NSFW for exposed breasts. )

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( A bit of tegakiE stuff )

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( OH MAN, FINISHED ART? )

S--sorry again for the long hiatus. I remember when I was about to graduate high school, I was inflicted with chronic "senioritis." As my college graduation draws nearer, I am finding myself inflicted with a serious case of "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT WHAT IF I DO SOMETHING WRONG THEY'LL NEVER LET ME GRADUATE, MUST WORK HARDER AT EVERYTHING."

In any case, sorry for not being really active on the internet as of late.

I have an art post, but before I go on, some recommended reading:

• Vinland Saga has some undeserved obscurity. If you like semi-historical comics about Vikings being manly, this might be the thing for you.
• Admittedly, I have not played Portal. But I seem to know just as much about it as a person who has played it, and if you have, I guarantee that you will find this article on the design of GLaDOS fascinating. Warning, there's spoilers.



( Nearly 30 assorted images, sketch/tegaki. Original, Battlestar Galactica, Patapon, Phoenix Wright. )

In lieu of both having left my sketchbook at work and not wanting to draw on looseleaf, I spent the better part of the evening ignoring Patapon and doodling on my Tegaki.



( Art x20: Avatar, Katamari, House, OldInternetMeme, FFXII, Phoenix Wright, Original Characters. )

[edit] ohjeez guys I'm sorry, ananthymous and I have a made a complete mess of the comments. We're going to bed now, I promise.

Finals are a'goin' on and I'm half way through. While doing illustration work, I've been listening to the His Dark Materials trilogy on audiobook, and it's goood... it makes me real glad I never saw the Golden Compass movie. I just finished listening to The Subtle Knife and it'll probably be long after finals until I get ahold of The Amber Spyglass. I'm surprised it's been marketed so heavily as a children's story, there's so much violence and politics and espionage and character mortality and morally grey areas, I don't think I would've been able to handle it as a kid. In conclusion, I want a daemon.

I finished my Book Illustration final last night (see also: this morning). The assignment was to do a children's book cover, I chose Aesop's Fables. (I've actually been wanting to to an Aesop's Fables illustration since high school, so this was a good chance.)


( Bonus points if you know the story. )

While I was breaking from working, I cleaned out my LJ a little. Mostly, I deleted over half of my old icons and uploaded a few new ones. It feels nice to have some new icons.

7 hours of sleep in the past two days: not the greatest.

Also, if anyone spoils The Amber Spyglass for me in the comments, I will be very disappointed.

Hey, can you do me a favor? Tell me who this is.

Don't peek at the comments before guessing!


BAHAHAHA HE LOOKS SO GROSS <3 <3
Done in ink washes and acrylic because I'm too lazypoor to go out and get watercolors and I can emulate the look of watercolors with acrylic washes pretty okay.

If you're not from the US, you probably won't know who he is.

Also, any suggestions? This is for a class assignment, I want to tweak it some before I start finishing it. I'm not great at this kinda stuff. -_-

[edit] Hey, everyone! He's finished, thanks so much for your feedback! You guys were a great help. <3

It was Mike Huckabee, most of you guessed right. Th-thanks for having confidence in me, I never know how well I do when it comes to caricatures.or anything haha

( older edits )

owwwwwwww

( a million tegaki whatevers. some various horrible fanart. (PW/Bleach/Disney/Pokemon/House) )

Sunday is the 10th of February, and if you live anywhere around the internet you probably know about this Chanology thing. (And if you don't and want to know, I'd suggest reading up over on sheepyrai's journal or Luka's blog. They've been my internet-journalists.) I'm certainly not going to be participating in any of the protests in any way, but if you are: be careful. I'm so serious about this.

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I've gone and made a Tegaki account. Ohman, that place is great. It's so freaking simple, go make an account. I've only really produced scribbly crap, but it's so dang fun.



( A few more, nothing special though. )

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I think I promised a doodle-dump two or so weeks ago? S-sorry about that. I've even had these pictures all uploaded. I'll put up a bunch now, but I don't think I can do all of them. M-man, I can't keep up with the doodles I've been producing--

and be warned: there are sketches of dissected cadavers and preserved fetuses mixed in here somewheres. I don't think they're anything explicit, but don't say I didn't tell you so.

( Mostly original stuff, a little bit of fanart. A hojillion pictures, slow internets beware )

Jeez, I need to get up early tomorrow or something. =_=

I gotta get over this irrational fear I've acquired lately of posting things on the internet. C'mon, no one's judging you. Well, not too many people, anyway.

S--sorry for disappearing for so long. I hope everyone's New Year was okay? Most all of my time has been going towards School and Work, I've been especially boring these days. Ananth is in India visiting family for a few weeks— our communication is usually pretty minimal as it is, but we've been having to get by with a 3-5 minute phone call every several days. I miss him terribly.

Before I go posting art, I need to say one thing: eto is my Patron Saint of the Internet. I've been too weird and busy and neurotic these days to even think about poking AIM and usually barely even Livejournal, but thank you Jess, she sent me snickerdoodles and chocolate oatmeal cookies and a scarf that had a MAW EMBROIDERED ON IT and Sheena thank you so much for the picture, no one ever draws Pythias how did you know it was just what I wanted you guys are so great, the greatest, really I am so serious.

Also: woodooferret, I got your card! :D Thank you so much!

I have so much art to share, I've filled up over half a sketchbook since the last time I've posted, actually. But it's late, and I need to get up early tomorrow. So I'll post some now, some later.



( I draw myself too much. )

I have this terrible fear that if I ever start making posts that don't include pictures, people will stop liking me/being my internet pal/watching this journal. Which, ah, makes it less and less of a 'journal' these days, I suppose. I've probably mentioned this before, but that's why I post once every two weeks or more these days. (I HAVE GREAT SELF-ESTEEM YOU SEE.)

I'm headed home tomorrow, for a bit. I've been promising various people all over the east coast a visit but that's not going to be possible this time around. ._. S-sorry, guys. On the upside, I'll get to see my parents, my parents' new kids (the cats), and MEGAN AAHH I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH ;_; There will also probably be a Special Celebrity Guest some time in there as well.

Ah, I'll get on with the pictures.



( Art (x15), mostly original characters, one piece of fanart. Lots of babbling, you can ignore that. )

( Extended non-spoiler babbling about Phoenix Wright 3 character design(s) )