dubiouslog

One year ago I opened this weblog, so…happy birthday, I guess?

I also just noticed the number of artworks I’ve been posting here since then. Take a guess. 50? 100?
181.
Holy shit.

Anyway, I stole a meme from Kate. These song memes are just so hilarious, with their silly questions. Anyway, it’s one of those memes in which you put your playlist on shuffle (in my case, my whole library) and then every song is the answer to a question.

1. Where do you live: The Enemy (Dark Tranquillity)
   I live with my enemies! …sadly, that’s actually true. :(
2. Describe your first love: La Tregua (Klimt 1918)
   A truce from the ugliness of it all. Is it true, Jacopo?
3. What is your favorite thing to do: Haven (Dark Tranquillity)
   I love to invite the darkside in, into my haven. It somehow fits.
4. Describe your current love: The Promise (Within Temptation)
   Fuck, that song is about a lover dying D:
5. What do you like to wear: Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
   I wear stars and planets, uh uh uh uh uh
6. What is your challenge: Keep the Car Running (Arcade Fire)
   and it’s quite a challenge considering that I can’t drive
7. Who are your friends: Sunset Coast (Rayman M Soundtrack)
   Are my friends characters from the Rayman universe? That would almost make sense.
8. Describe how you look: Destroyed (Within Temptation)
   LOLOLOLOLOLOL
9. What did you do last night: Midway Through Infinity (Dark Tranquillity)
   That’s a pretty close guess.
10. What is your goal in life: The Canyon Behind Her (Dredg)
    But I already found the other half. Or does it mean that I should fall into a canyon?
11. What do you do when you’re angry: Forever (Stratovarius)
    I stay angry forever. Which is also why I never get angry.
12. When do you have sex: Lance Battle (Pokémon Soundtrack)
    But I don’t even like Lance anymore.
13. How do you want to die: Cold (Lacuna Coil)
    Hypothermia D:
14. What do you say to your parents: The Howling (Within Temptation)
    Hey mom! Hey dad! AWOOOOOOOOOO
15. Where do you hang out: Heroes to Us (Kalmah)
    I hang out wherever the heroes are.
16. What do you think of society: Paradise Lost (Metal Gear Solid 4 Soundtrack)
    Makes a lot of sense.
17. Describe your most recent heartbreak: Indifferent Suns (Dark Tranquillity)
    He just didn’t care.
18. What is your excuse for everything: My Wings (Lacuna Coil)
    I couldn’t call back because of my wings. Yeah that will work.
19. What are your thoughts on a Friday evening: Revolvers (Hearts of Black Science)
    I will kill you all on a Friday evening
20. What is your unanswered question about life: Mother Brain (Super Metroid Soundtrack)
    Is it gone forever?
21. What is your favorite color: Cassiopeia (Dragonland)
    I’d like that question to be asked more often only to answer with something completely unrelated, like this.
22. What is your advice to those less experienced: Survive (Lacuna Coil)
    The best piece of advice ever.
23. What would you rather do right now: Laughing Octopus (Metal Gear Solid 4 Soundtrack)
    Just…no. Google her name. D:
24. Describe your best friend: Viva Violent Fellow (ONE OK ROCK)
    hahahahahaha
25. What’s under your bed: Fall of the Hammer (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Soundtrack)
    This is the theme of the random encounter with a monster, so I guess it’s time to check what are the dust bunnies up to.
26. What is your most prized possession: Symbols (Thurisaz)
    ???
27. Where will be your honeymoon: Under a Glass Moon (Dream Theater)
    So ~romantic~
28. What is on your to-do list: Cry for Eternity (Dragonforce)
    It would be fun, though.
29. Where would you rather be: Gemstone Temple (Rayman M Soundtrack)
    A nice place where to be.

All I’ve been working to lately are school stuff and these three gift artworks that I’ve yet to finish

but today I maed a snaek

oh noes, it’s a snaek!

A big thanks to the anonymous guy who sent me that lovely clap message on 11/09. It looks like it ended up in the Spam folder because Gmail is conspiring against my happiness. If you’re out there reading, thank you!

I accidentally a bunch of user pictures. Do whatever you want with them (except claiming them as yours and selling them).

This is a robot which doesn’t make any sense, as per usual. Hello weird robot, I hope you like your wheel.

Check this out: drypoint illustrations!

This is that weasel I was talking about a few weeks ago. Although I like the result, I may just go with a pencil illustration for the fanlisting layout. It would look a lot more precise on the very small dimensions I’m used to work with (this is barely as large as a postal stamp).
Though my teacher told me that she could make me try metal incision, which apparently allows for a much higher precision in print. Basically I could
show off my skills with tiny artworks without losing any details. That would require a different kind of equipment, though. I can hope, ok?

This is an illustration made for a book which will be presented on this class’ final exam. I’m following a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk theme with robots because you know how I am. I’m titling it “Electrical mind”.

abrupt change of tone: this is the cutest thing on Earth
awwwwww

I had the swine flu and it was underwhelming at its worst, thus proving that the media can really manipulate people down to their very fears. It’s not a revelation, but it’s also not an unfounded lament from a black Myspace. I only have to think about the conversation I had with one of my housemates. When I said I had the flu, she started going on about how I should go to the hospital as soon as possible. Well, I can just imagine the face of the doctors if I told them that I wanted to get hospitalized because of a few lines of fever and a sore throat.

Anyway, let’s get to this entry’s real reason. The other day I was archiving my artworks and, among the other things, I came across a number of forgotten Volkner and Flint sketches. They were either unscanned or left unfinished, but still too adorable to never see the light of the interwebs.

Judging from the looks of it, this must be about a year old. I don’t even recall drawing it, but it melts my heart already. The anatomy makes no sense, but Volkner’s expression is just awwwww.

This one should be from February 2009. I think I couldn’t get Volkner’s face right and gave up in frustration. Now that I look again at this one, they also have no nipples. :o Why was I drawing this, anyway? Looks like an excuse to draw naked man torsoes, but uhhhhhhhhhh it’s not like you wouldn’t expect that from me. 8D

I had big plans for these, but lost interest somewhere during the process. The second one was even on watercolor paper, so figure that. They are still somehow cute.

A PHOENIX WRIGHT/POKÉMON CROSSOVER. WHAT HAVE I DONE. Although I must say that it almost makes sense. I’m sure that Gumshoe and Flint would get along.

I could say that these sketches re-ignited my love for this pairing. Sorry for the awful pun but there was really no way I could avoid it. Do you know if there’s any English speaker out there who has made some decent fan art of them? I am so isolated that I almost feel like I’m the only non-Japanese to care about them :(

In the meanwhile, have some random stuff:

No complicated animations, just a tiny blinking fennec that could kill you with its cuteness.

You just know that I’m becoming obsessed with a character when I start posting meta like this.

On another note, yesterday I finally built up the courage to scan the Myuutsuu no Tanjou booklet. It’s a rather delicate item so I feared to cause damage, but it seems that it went better than expected. The intention was to put it on I AM², but this got me to think about what I really want to do with that website. As much as I love Ai as a character, my real object of interest is the complete Mewtwo saga. So I may turn that shrine into a full tribute to that arc and leave the fanlisting go. Too bad though, I kinda liked the name. Hmm.