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THIS IS IT

( February 13, 2010 - 2:25 am, filed under artworks, tagged as , , , , , , , )

GIGANTIC ARTWORK POST!
still without laptop, but since I’m currently at Jacopo’s I can use his awesome computer and do stuff! yes!

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This was made at the same time as the Xivilai painting, so we’re talking about stuff that’s already two months old. Oldest joke ever, but still cute. For me, at least. :>

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stop complaining, you’re just 257 and that bedroll was pretty comfortable too

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playing with pencil shadows. naked because he looked silly with underpants.
…lol I forgot the chair
HE’S LEVITATING ON HIS MAGIC MAGIC BUTT

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I don’t even know why I made this

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Isaac Clarke from Dead Space
well this could really be anyone else with a RIG, but since I used his figure as a reference we’ll say this is Isaac

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then I played Riviera yet another time and wanted to find a way to draw the characters in my style, and this is what I got. Here we have Serene and Cierra. In case you were curious, the note on the second page is the name I wanted to give to the shrine to Serene I was planning to make, but as you already know I ended up falling in love with Malice instead.
I’ll never stop repeating it: drawing in anime style is
SO BORING

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These are the artworks for the test I’m making for Angeltower Page. The space on the left is where the text will be.
I think they turned out great 8>

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Now to something completely different. This painting is a gift for Cercatesori and was inspired from the song Rachel by Klimt 1918. It’s a very moving song written to a true story, you should really listen to it. The painting was based on these lyrics:

Death is down at the end of the street, it brings me on my knees
But I live in a world where nobody loves, nobody hopes
“Please hold me now, don’t let me fall” She says, her skin dirty with mud
“I hold you, love, like a wounded bird, I won’t let you fall!” I scream with pain
Rachel knows her blood still runs, the ground turns red so close my arms
I see the sun going down her eyes, she won’t forget to sleep with me tonight

The blood in this painting is actually not paint, it’s my blood.

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Now back to something less intense. When Cercatesori came, we spent part of the evening drawing silly stuff. Here, have a Pelipper.

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After that Pelipper, crack ensued.

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Chingling is useless, hence this pic

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penises and bowties make everything better
Mantine’s cry is hilarious
also check that sexy Lopunny out

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hi, I’m the Left Hand Snorlax

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Carnivine’s Platinum sprite is silly

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tiny wingull

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Cercatesori asked me to make the opposite of this infamous pic
I’m so going to hell

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Back to my head

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Sheila makes a comeback with a new design. I think she’d look great in a digital work, but NO COMPUTER HURR HURR
For a few days, I toyed with the idea of actually making a comic with her as the main character but then scrapped it because I couldn’t make any other characters in her same style and because I really don’t want for this to be my first “serious” comic. I don’t want to give people the wrong impression about my work, since Sheila is my only anthro character and I don’t really care about furries and such, if you catch my drift. Well. Sheila lives on, though.

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there’s no such thing as not enough Daevion

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Classic!

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this is really for my own amusement
you could say it’s fanservice, except this is not a fan art so I don’t know
I left a blank page after this one so that Daevion can cry in there when I’m not looking

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At this point, Daevion is not a derivative character anymore, so it wasn’t fair to keep drawing him with the Oblivion outfit and to have his backstory fit with the Elder Scrolls canon. He’s really my own creation, so I wanted his outfit to be my creation too.
This is Daevion’s final design. He no longer lives in a fantasy universe; he now lives in an alternate present. Alternate, because how else could he still be an elf then XD I still have to write his new backstory, but he’s the same as before as for his personality. I’ll have to draw a better reference picture with colors, but as you can imagine his sweater is crimson and grey, his trousers are grey and his shoes are black. As for his necklace, the actual design is the one under his right hand.
He looks so elegant :> I like him even more now.

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This is Hydride. Here we’re talking about another alternate present in which people are beginning to modify their bodies using cybernetic parts. Hydride - which is not his real name, of course - modified himself so to enhance his physical capabilities. He had a very strong reason for doing so. I don’t know what this reason is yet, but I know that, since he implanted a cyber hand on his dominant right, he had to learn to write with his left hand. The wires on his upper body don’t allow him to wear anything on his torso anymore, thus why he’s half naked. The rest of his clothing is very practical. As you can see, the upper part of his trousers is a bit larger than how it should be so to not rub against the wires down there, but they are also very tight on his legs and tucked into his boots so they won’t fall down. One could ask why didn’t repair his eyes so to stop wearing glasses, but he likes them, and that’s all about it.

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Concept sketches. The colored sketch is his very first concept; the glasses were added later. I spent a good day working on his design, in case you were wondering. The first idea was to make him into an enemy for Sheila, but that was very silly since he’s a human and Sheila is an anthro fennec. This idea was dropped for good right after sketching him here.
I should really write a more detailed entry about my creative process, but know that for me is very important to understand how a character feels into his skin and to have his design making sense rather than being just pretty. For this, I even spent a few days wearing wires all over me to understand how does it feel. One would think that all those wires make walking hard and tripping easy, but I found out that’s not true and that after a while you end up considering them a part of your body. I also found out that people is more prone to notice someone who walks in a weird way than a person covered in wires. How else could I have made these discoveries?
But I’m getting off topic. Anyway, Hydride will probably be something like an evil guy in his universe. He seems to be such an important character, so I’m taking my time to write his story.

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Margareth Stone belongs to the same universe as Hydride. She’s 31 and works in a cybernetic parts research center. She’s not brilliant at all, though; she just makes some components and that’s it, the big projects are in the hands of her superiors. Margareth is very average in everything, actually, and she’s not a beauty either. Her fashion sense is also questionable.
Her husband left her a few years ago because he realized his life was boring and that he could have much more. He was really one for adventure; he married Margareth before he could understand that part of himself. Margareth even let him have his way with other women without objecting, but in the end he couldn’t cope with this lie anymore. The problem is, he left his wife alone with their three-years-old child. All that’s left of Margareth’s family is her old mother and a sister who lives far away, so she had great problems in taking care of the kid, who had in the meanwhile become her only reason to live.
Luck turns to her side when a project for enhancing the brain’s capabilities with the help of technology comes to the human testing phase. Offering herself as a test subject, she has the right to work a lot less and be paid a lot more for only being in the project, with the downside that of course it’s her brain, so if something breaks down she’ll have to run to the center and get fixed as soon as possible. But even like this, the risks are not very high - she was also among the people who made the parts for that project, so she knows how the whole thing works.
So, she undergoes surgery and the top of her head is changed with a metal dome that can be opened to check what’s going on. Because of that she can’t have hair anymore, but since she doesn’t want to freak out people she always wears a wig. Now that she’s a test subject she has got enough time and money to take care of her kid, but she’s also become a lot different from before; she can now memorize and learn everything without effort, retrieve information from any part of her brain at any time and think a lot faster. So, her way to see the world changes as well…
And that’s when her backstory ends and her story begins.

You’re going to hear a lot more about Hydride, Margareth and their universe. There will be new characters and new details. For the time being, every post in which I’m mentioning this alternate universe will be tagged as “unnamed saga”. I’m going to rename the tag in the future, of course. It’s just a placeholder.

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LOOK WHO’S BACK
this didn’t turn out as planned but well it’s still cute
There would be two more pics with them but they’re suggestive so I’ll be posting them in another entry, another time.

Phew, I’ve finally finished writing this epic entry, to bed now

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you talk too much

( January 31, 2010 - 8:54 pm, filed under personal, websites, tagged as , , , , )

I’ve been feeling really depressed as of lately. My housemates won’t let me use the table, so I cannot draw nothing but sketches on my legs, which means that I cannot make illustrations for school, which means that I’m behind with my classes, which means that I’m getting more and more worried. I really tried to draw on my legs, but my back acts up after about thirty minutes. I need to buy a foldable table, but I also need help to carry it home, and people is busy, not their fault.

I don’t want to be with my housemates anymore, they won’t understand that being sociophobic is not something I can overcome by just being with people, and even like this I’m not the talkative type anyway. They think I’m just being an asshole to them while I just don’t find anything to talk about with them. Plus, I don’t want to be in the same room with them because they’re always smoking, doing drugs or cooking smelly stuff. Strong smells make me sick. I need to move alone, but this takes time. Plus the laptop is still under repair so I can’t work on websites or talk with friends as often as I want, and without a computer I can’t look for houses either.

Plus I won’t be able to see Jacopo for another two weeks. :<

BUT BUT BUT

the ep with Volkner and Flint has been announced for February 25 and I’M SO HAPPY
I just want to see them together doing stuff and teasing each other and I want to hear their voices and asfghjkasdl
The best part is that I know that even if I find them to be a bit different from how I imagine them to be I’m not going to be disappointed :D I just have fun shipping them and love their characters, that’s it

This also comes at just the right time, since I was already planning to make a shrine for them. It’s about a whole year I’ve been wanting to make a website about them and I’ve been working on it behind the scenes, but I was never satisfied with the result. It never seemed to live up to my expectations, yet I wanted to make something for them SO badly. After all, they are the only shipping I ever supported.
Then there was something that gave me the kick I needed to get started and finish everything with a strict deadline…which happens to fall after February 25, so I’ll have enough time to make the layout with a screencap from the episode and put a screencap gallery online and and and 8D

Talking about shrines, I’ve been playing Riviera: The Promised Land again. The idea was to write down Serene’s lines and make a shrine to her, but while I was playing I discovered that my favorite character in that game is really Malice. So…expect something about her in the near future. She really is a very interesting character.
The website will be named “No Future” and the layout will use this wonderful artwork of her. I still have to decide if I want this website to be a shrine or a fanlisting plus shrine.

Have a meme. Stolen from Irene, but since she skipped some questions I looked for the original and answered to some of the ones she left out, then followed her template, then got bored.

(more…)

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objection! dumb keyword

( January 25, 2010 - 12:10 am, filed under random, websites, tagged as , )

People look for stuff on the Internet all the time. If you own a website, some of these searches are bound to bring them to your pages. Sometimes, hilariously so.
A collection of keywords used from people to reach blind-dreaming.net to boggle your mind. Don’t be bothered to look them up, some of these are from some time ago and may not lead you to my websites anymore.

  1. cynthia’s boobs pokémon
    I am deeply disappointed that an image search of this query doesn’t return a page full of shots of her disembodied boobs.
  2. fearow beautiful
    fearow good
    fearow competitive

    These must all be from the same person…
  3. fearow porn
    …Oh. I see.
  4. hate is a strong word but man some people suck
    The fun fact is that I never pronounced that phrase, but hell, I agree.
  5. i will be a super girl
    ★ Keep believing! ★
  6. piplup butt
    The receiving end of Fearow porn?
  7. pokemon platinum volkner and flint gay?
    That’s a legitimate question. You’ve come in the right place.
  8. pokemon sneasel photos
    …now now now wait a minute.
  9. hairy green fruit
    Green? Nope, sorry.
  10. flies are to be lured with honey, not vinegar
    they’re best served with apples and plums
  11. sneasel i love you
    I love you too!
  12. sneasel sex story
    ok that’s not the kind of love I meant. Fearow guyyyyyy
  13. genderbend samus
    Something I should really draw.

My laptop is still dead. :<

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OH NO, NOT AGAIN

( January 9, 2010 - 4:26 pm, filed under personal, tagged as , )

HARD DISK BUSTED
AGAIN

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

luckily this time I didn’t lose anything valuable since I had a few backups here and there, but this doesn’t make it any less annoying. I’ve spent these last few days drawing, painting and trying to spend as much time with people as possible. I feel like a Sim with the sociality and entertainment bars near zero struggling to not go crazy :<

so I won’t be around for a week or two.

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the cute ice geisha

( January 4, 2010 - 4:05 am, filed under artworks, tagged as , , , )

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For Kuroda_Taiki. Froslass is fun to paint :D
also, rescanned version of the Xivilai from a few posts below. My parents’ scanner sucks, this one matches the colors of the original much more closely.

To do list for this week:

  1. At least ten drypoint illustrations for that school project. Remember that book about robots? After much thinking, I ended up changing my theme.  It would have been almost impossible to make a tiny illustrated book fit seamlessly with my huge sci-fi canon, especially since said canon is always developing. So I decided to illustrate “The weasel and Aphrodite”, a tale from Aesop. It’s about a weasel who falls in love with a man, gets turned into a beautiful girl from Aphrodite and almost manages to marry his love…were not for the fact that she’s still a weasel in her mind, so when a mouse runs by during her wedding, she begins to chase the mouse and blows up her cover. More about it later.
  2. More illustrations for school, blah blah blah
  3. A painting for Cercatesori
  4. Two more paintings. Their subjects are VERY bizarre, I won’t tell you what they are to not ruin the surprise. I don’t know if I’ll manage to finish them for this week but hey, I can try.

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hard candy?

( January 2, 2010 - 3:00 pm, filed under photos, random, tagged as , , )

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inappropriate candy packaging is very inappropriate and wrong on so many levels

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ten

( January 1, 2010 - 1:48 am, filed under photos, random, tagged as )

holy shit. now I have to get used to not thinking about 1910 every time I read ‘10. anyway, happy new year.

Here, have a look at something hilarious (especially for Irene):

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“Rotowash - a lot more than what it says [on the package]”
At least they’re being honest about it.

and what about the end of year meme?

  1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
    One thing in particular comes to mind. /8)
  2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
    NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS ARE FOR WIMPS
  3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
    My cousin Valeria had a baby in March. Man, the other day she was doing her high school homework with that weird blue drawing or what was it and now she’s a married woman with a child!
    …so the other day may be fifteen years ago, but! but!
  4. Did anyone close to you die?
    No.
  5. What countries did you visit?
    No foreign countries, again. Not even Switzerland. Boo.
  6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
    Sanity. D:
  7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
    I don’t know. I’m not one for remembering dates anyway.
  8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
    Putting my gallery and my collective online after a two year hiatus.
  9. What was your biggest failure?
    Not being by Jacopo’s side when he needed me the most. 8<
  10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
    The swine flu, and this summer I had these bruises under the armpits which hurted quite a lot. Weird stuff.
  11. What was the best thing you bought?
    Probably that Isaac Clarke figure. So beautiful.
  12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
    ?
  13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
    Appalled and depressed? There are two persons I could name. I won’t, though.
  14. Where did most of your money go?
    Towards my rather sucky attempts at not starving to death.
  15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
    A few videogames, a few exams, but usually I don’t get very excited about stuff.
  16. What songs will always remind you of 2009?
    What should I know! Stop making these silly questions!
  17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
    i) happier or sadder?
    Not happier or sadder, but probably more at peace, yes.
    ii) thinner or fatter?
    thinner, see 14. :<
    iii) richer or poorer?
    I don’t know.
  18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
    Caring about important stuff instead of losing my time.
  19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
    Less procrastination is always good, although I’ve been getting a lot of things done as of lately.
  20. How will you be spending the holidays?
    Or what remains of them - a few more days with Jacopo, then back to work
  21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
    Jacopo.
  22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
    ?
  23. How many one night stands?
    you must mean “staying up all night without sleeping”, for sure. About seven.
  24. What were your favorite TV programs?
    what’s this tee-vee
  25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
    Hate is a strong word, but I’d gladly kick some people unconscious and throw them in a dark alley if I was given the chance to.
  26. What was the best book you read?
    oh my, I didn’t read anything at all this year!
  27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
    The album Circadian Rhythm by Thurisaz. It’s the soundtrack to my life.
  28. What did you want and get?
    A camera 8)
  29. What did you want and not get?
    There was this pretty Cammy figure in this shop, and it was display only! how dare they tease me!
  30. What was your favorite film of this year?
    Probably Tonari no Totoro, though it’s not really “of this year”.
  31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
    I turned 19. I don’t remember anything else. Probably I went to eat out with Jacopo or something of the sorts.
  32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
    Not having all those problems with him :<
  33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
    One day I went to school with wires and cables all over me and it was awesome! I was a cyborg!
  34. What kept you sane?
    Nothing kept me sane. So I went insane
  35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
    who wrote this
  36. What political issue stirred you the most?
    I try to not get too angry over being under a dictature and not being able to do anything about it, but…
  37. Who did you miss?
    My parents. And Cercatesori. I need to meet you soon :(
  38. Who was the best new person you met?
    Roserade, Flare, Maze, Amy, Light_Eevee, am I forgetting someone?
  39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
    You are not always right. You are not always nice. Sometimes you’re wrong, and a bitch. Learn to pick up the signs.
  40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
    nah

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Water nymph

( December 26, 2009 - 11:34 am, filed under artworks, tagged as , )

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oh the water nymph

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Xivilai

( December 23, 2009 - 1:24 pm, filed under artworks, photos, tagged as , )

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This is the Xivilai I’ve been talking about in the last two entries. I’ve never put so much devotion and enthusiasm in an artwork. This is also the longest I’ve ever worked on any artwork, taking about 48 hours of work. I’m so proud of this.

Now to another painting, a gift for an old school friend of mine. I want to leave her speechless.

EDIT - MY PARENTS GAVE ME A CAMERA!
YAY

so I tried it out

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and it was good, so I looked for some textures

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but who do we have here?

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hello Isaac
finally I can take pictures of your awesome self

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“It’s all Daedric to me”.

( December 16, 2009 - 8:56 pm, filed under artworks, tagged as , )

The Xivilai is still in the works, but it’s looking good so far. In the meanwhile:

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melting the lock with his reality alteration skills, he looted everything he could take and headed out of the marauders’ hide

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Now that I think about it, I’ve never ever drawn him not smiling in some form.

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