Stupid app...

This ArtRage app keeps blinking out on me. Everytime I'm drawing it cuts off and I lose all my efforts. I think I need to file complaint, I didn't pay to put up with this crap. I already have enough to deal with right now (see last post)...

Still I was able to pull off another simple pic, of my bird again. He's just so cute, and this one came out little better than the first. Now if only this app will behave...

A quick doodle

Another one of them sleepless nights, another bouts with the infamous d-mode. It just doesn't get easier with time, eh?
A quick and dirty doodle on my ArtRage of my new pet bird, Mango. He's a conure, got green cheeks and red belly and character as colorful as the feathers. Now this isn't all that great, but think about it, I'm doing this on an iPod and u know how big the screen is.
Someday I hope to get one of them overhyped iPad, and then the real fun will begin...

So what happened?

Like the title of this post says, so my answer, in short so I don't bore myself to death, the past few years has been pretty blah. First in Oct 2010 my mom gets diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in the colon. It required chemotherapy, which we all know isn't pretty. Thankfully there was no need for surgery, but the treatment took four months, and seeing her dealing with it during the time and the aftermath was hard. And since I'm the only kid living at home with the parents(in part because I'm still jobless) I got the heavy load of running all the chores around the house(course I'm used to it but it's been doubled). And if that wasn't enough I had to put up with all her occasional emotional rollercoasters and I can't even complain about it cause I know why. So her chemotherapy went well and the cancer is obliterated from her system, recovery is another story. Then two months before the end of last year she gets shingles, and if u are wondering what that is, well chances are your grandparents probably had it so u can ask them about it cause words here is just hopelessly inadequate to describe it. Okay maybe like put yourself in the shoes of Drew Barrymore as she was being hacked to death by that laughable masked dude in that movie appropriately titled the kind of reaction u have when you are suffering from an excruciating pain.
And well this year just when I thought the storm is calming I get the second half of the one-two punch: my dad is diagnosed with gastric cancer. And in his case he needs a chemotherapy and surgery. My only response to this is one long siiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggghhhhhhh..........

All that is really helping me to relax is this IPod wi it's endless capabilities and not to mention this dreamy pic adorning the wallpaper of this device(if u don't know who it is well here's a hint: you can see him in the latest acclaimed flick SHAME):

TBC...

Back in action!

Wow, after like almost three years of idleness, I'm back. So much has happened since my last post here, I could write a novel about it. I'll talk about that later in time, but first, I'm making my first ever post via IPod, it's a lot of fun. I'm even experimenting with the new ArtRage for mobile. Gonna get used to this nifty new toy and blogging about it, among other things. For now Just a couple of quick sketch with the app:

Back from Hawaii, and then there's Fox

Yeah, I finally took that long awaited trip to Hawaii, yay, though I went mostly for my dear uncle's funeral, but still I got chance to get a taste of the lovely island of Oahu. Didn't nearly get to see all that it had to offer, but it was good enough, and perhaps I will go there again one day.

And the first thing to do after getting back from the sun and sands (and pineapples :P ) is to finish up with Mr. Fox here. Just a little paintover on the bg so it would go more with the rest of the picture which you can see is very painterly not so crisp and clean. I like things to be sketchy and painterly, not so ultra smooth or realistic. I mean, if you want a totally ultra realistic look to your art, why not just get into photography?

As always I can't say I'm finished, I'm sure I'll find something later to rework on. Meantime though I'm gonna have to finally wrap up all this fan art stuff for a while and focus on something else. I have quite a few in mind, but oh so little time and energy. I'll keep u posted on my future dream projects, that is if there's anyone who's even following this blog. ^^;

Ciao, or rather this time, Aloha! :)

Fox Update 2

Latest update:

Bunch of work done of BG (got a Britain flag image and manipulated it to kingdom come, as u can see) as well as that famous emblem on Fox's shirt. I hand-made it in Illustrator. Almost there, I think.

Picked up Linkin Park's new CD, A THOUSAND SUNS. As luck would have it Best Buy was selling it for 10 bucks!

In other news I finally got copy of ASSASSINS CREED 2 for PC, only to learn it doesn't work on my laptop, I don't have the right video card. And I cannot return it because the package is opened. >_< So now it's just sitting in the corner of the room collecting dust, and I'm debating whether I'll get a new laptop that's highly capable of playing the game (yeah, like I'm gonna really spend another $900 bucks just to play some game. Hmmm.....)

Later...

FOXY Update

I've added color on a new layer with Blending Mode set to Multiply, duplicated the color layer and set the blending Mode to Overlay which I then set the transparency to about 50%. Then I flattened it and started the paintover. *Even when I paint over on new layer I don't keep too many layers as they can hamper with the overall process, and over time you lose track of what layer is what (especially since I don't properly label the layers hehe), I flatten it after a while and then add another layer to paint over on, and repeat. In terms of color selection I just sample it off the canvas (alt+click while on Brush tool turns into Eyedropper tool). I've also ran some Liquify on the face so if you compare this to the one in the last entry you can see some difference.
More work needs to be done of course. Will be back with more.

Ciao...