Playing and Planning

I have been wanting to really hone in on my drawing technique and style so that I could start drawing up plans for myself, characters, or other projects; and at the same time I would have some cool artwork to share with everyone.

Fear and woe of imperfection has always stopped me from drawing in the past, but now I'm just going to embrace it and have fun! So, I randomly doodled a self-portrait of how I wish to dress to get ideas for a new wardrobe. I really love, instead of loathe, how goofy the arms and legs turned out. I am a goofy person so it works!

Also, I just received a new doll in a trade and I want her character to be a dream version of me at 12 years old. It would be great to make a tiny doll outfit based on this doodle! I hope to scan and get the color scheme down. I will post it once I do~!

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Damn it feels good to be back.

Today in art class we were instructed to bring in a small item that we would then translate into huge proportions. I couldn't find anything of interest the days prior to class. I thought I'd just leave it until the day came. Well I woke up this morning almost forgetting about needing an item, and still couldn't think of anything. I thought, perhaps an eraser, a button? I felt those were too simple. I then agreed, because I was running late, to try and pick up an acorn on the way to the bus. As I am desperately looking, well not too desperately, I notice a perfect specimen. My own zipper! Duh! The teacher was intrigued, I was nervous, and so I began to draw still life again for the first time in a long time.

He wants me to keep working on it, even though it's on newsprint (that's another story), and I'm just bewildered as to how I was able to do this. It's not perfect, but it's like the closest to realism I have ever drawn. It doesn't make sense since I haven't drawn like this in over 7 years. Now I feel like never stopping.

Evey Miyazaki

I drew my new BJD character Evey Miyazaki, who is best friends with Hitomi Yaguchi. Came out of left field really. She's adorable though! Too bad my Blythe doll shares the same first name. (o . o ) Not sure what to do about that yet. ( 0 ^ - ^)  This Evey is my slightly geeky, closet hopeless romantic, Halloween loving sweet heart of a girl. She and Hitomi love dressing up together, cute things, and, corny enough, Harry Potter. That's not the inspiration for the round eyeglasses though. I can't wait to have them both together, like really.

My vision has become clear.

Normally I have a really hard time drawing what I see in my mind. That includes drawing things like faces with two eyes...a nose...entire head and hair, whatever! It leads me to never want to draw because I get so frustrated. But! Recently I've been able to translate onto paper what I am looking for in my characters. It's the strangest thing. There was a trade off though, of course. I cannot play Call of Duty right now to save my own real life, let alone my in-game one! Jack of all trades, master of none. That's me. Eh, but I'll take it. Drawing is a better skill anyway. The reason I mention this is because I never thought I'd fill up the "Drawing" category on this blog! Guess I was wrong. I drew(I can't stop apparently) Hitomi, my AE Mu, today.

I also took some pictures of Amalgam...which led me to think I should sell him. Yeah I am lame, but Amalgam's not in this mold anymore. Yeah Amalgam is still around, still my lovely boy, but the Wintery's not working.
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HE'S FOR SALE!

Ok!

Crobidoll Jerome is Bikou, Prise is a Supia Roda(?), and Amalgam needs to be more realistic. Does that mean I'm going to sell the Wintery head? Probably. ( . _ . ) Anyone else who reads this and is in the BJD hobby knows that what was previously said is like written in sand rather than stone.

But look! I drew up a more mature Amalgam! What mold does he look like though? I don't know! I would love to get a Minimee done, but I would need to draw specifics better and I do not think I have to ability.

Happier news? Look at these fweckles! (Puki fees belong to Kirika Dawn.)

Movies and newses.

I upped the ante on my Netflix so I could feed my romance fix faster. Yeah recently I had a random urge to watch squishy love films. Random, that's me.

Looks like I will be redoing a face up which I am mostly happy about and determined. Sometimes a sculpt just gives you a hard time. The thing I dislike most is when lips do not have much definition. It's then easy for them to turn out looking like a duck bill or a sour face. ( > x O) So I'm dedicated and ready to fix this boy up RIGHT!
Rohava's boys were completed yesterday and are on their way home today. Ryu's are really handsome, crush.

Now about my dolls. I have a huge array of stories and possible characters collecting in my mind. It's a bit frustrating when you just want all of them in doll form now! It's impossible unless you're wealthy. I think because of this two characters are morphing into one! Bikou and Prise are becoming one. I am leaning more towards Prise though, since the story I created about her is more elaborate, and I also already have Prise's counterpart, Amalgam. The look however resembles Bikou's. So I'm saving to order a Crobidoll Jerome who I think can be Prise...but he maybe Bikou....or both...or neither. I seriously don't know. However I drew this up last night, and it surprised me. It's Bikou and it's Prise. What the hell!

 

Paradise is out there.

Well, I'm a big fan of Wolf's Rain and I finally finished watching it last month. It's so good, so smart, so sad. Ugh soooo sad (ToT )/. Anyway, I'm talking about it again because I finally decided to upload the drawing of Bikou, my own fan fic character from the series. I want her in doll form so bad but haven't been able to find a mold that fits. Which reminds me that I still have to fancy up that Souldoll LilyC. to sell! My poor Bikou. As I watched more of the series I saw the episode where they come across a native tribe that takes care of all animals and especially wolves. I thought it was a perfect scenario for Bikou's story. Gosh I'm just thinking about all the characters now and getting sad. Haha. Ok, ok. Here is the drawing and I hope she becomes a reality, as best as she can be, real soon!