dubiouslog

Gift for PKergirl :) Again, game palette plus two more colors. I’m considering to make sprites out of some of my drawings, too :O these are so fun to make
As for Spenser with Fearow it’ll probably take some more time as the Ranger sprite palette utterly sucks and I’ll have to make a better one myself.

For Majo, inspired by T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land; A3 size.

Fun fact: this was actually supposed to fill a whole A4 sheet. I colored it and all, then went away; when I got back I noticed how out of proportion it was and cut away the lower half of the drawing. Also, her boobs weren’t large enough :|

This looks so much better in real life, you can’t even imagine. Much more colorful, also here you can’t really see the detail of the green body feathers. Man, am I needing a decent scanner. Anyway, this means a lot to me. If you were asking: yes, the model is me - just with a different hair color.

As for my other projects: I’m making a fanlisting for Fearow :D how could I not notice how awesome it is for so many years. FEAROWWW
its name will be “Soaring Dread” and its layout will be sky blue with a drawing I’m going to make myself as there appears to be a shortage of decent Fearow pics

I’m also making a screenshot gallery for Dark Claws but it will take some time. I still have…five episodes and a movie to download. I should also get to buy the Sneasel TCG cards and the new plushies and figures, well, it’d help if I had a camera to begin with. I never noticed how little stuff I actually own until I had to move out two weeks ago; all my stuff could stay in two suitcases, two bags and two boxes, and it mostly was my Pokémon plushies and my art stuff. Unbelievable.

If you hadn’t noticed the note on Blind Dreaming’s index, I’m also making a new layout for the Hall of Changes. It’s going to have a huge top image on a dark carmine background and a reddish-gray content box. I still have to decide what I’m going to put in the top image though, but I think I’ll end up with Samus again or something Pokémon-related. It’s a fanlisting collective, after all, IT HAS TO DISPLAY MY OBSESSIONS

Also, I put online a little something on Blind Dreaming. Don’t ask if you don’t see nothing, it either means you’re not paying attention or you can’t just because of your screen. I don’t know, sometimes I have weird ideas.

so hey stuff was done!

The weasels fanlisting is up and running. Man, what a weird development process. I mindlessly finished the whole layout in a single day, sent the application, received the approval, decided I didn’t like neither the layout I made nor the name I gave it, left it hanging around for ten days and then re-made the whole fanlisting from scratch in a single day again. Well. At least now I actually like the result.

Also Dark Claws got updated twice in two weeks because of a very nice person sending me loads of Sneasel-related stuff. :D NOW TO GET THE NEW SNEASEL PLUSHIES AND FIGURES

Blind Dreaming’s new index’s only missing a decent artwork. I already made one but it ended up looking too sloppy and not very related to my usual themes anyway, so I’ll have to think better. I’ll let you know as soon as I’ll be finished.

Advanced Blanket’s in a very advanced (lol) stage of development. The layout is gray and yellow just like in the index page, but it ended up getting a cyber/steampunk feel to it, there’s rust and scratched metal and bolts everywhere. Also that dark yellow became more like dark yellowish-orange to match. Currently, it’s only missing the artwork - which will feature two female robots. Specifically, a cute household robot who wants to turn on a rebellious and transgressive robot which was deactivated and rotting in a dump. YOU KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING, ISN’T IT. It seems that characters about to do something incredible and meaningful are a constant in my art. That and the theme of rebirth, too.
Other than that, I only have to make the banners and write the about me, which seems to always be the very last page I write in whatever project. Heh. I hate writing about me.

and now, I’ll be working on that damned animation exam

I found a hi-res version of the Japanese Myuutsuu no Gyakushuu. Guess what that means?

I CAN FANSUB IT
YES YES YESSSS

and I’m at a good point with that too, but as my Japanese is not that good I don’t know what to do with some sequences. Is there someone out there who knows enough Japanese to write down some parts of the script for me? Do you know someone who could be of help? Please let me know and ask around because this is very important. Also because once I’ll be finished with the English sub I’ll fansub the whole movie in Italian and I’m sure there’s people here who don’t want me to give up with this project.

Also, I updated Dark Claws with the two Sneasel pics I posted some time ago and Blue’s devamped Sneasel sprite.

I did write the page about Sneasel and the kamaitachi and it’s not a rip-off of the Trivia on the Angeltower Dex Sneasel page! I wrote a lot more about the kamaitachi itself and found more similarities between Sneasel and the Japanese demon.
This also makes me think that I should really make a fanlisting for weasels. weird that nobody has thought of that before, I believed they were a common favorite among people on the Internet :O

On other news, I’m at my parents’ home right now. Yesterday I had a long talk with my mom about school work and she told me a lot about how to improve (in case you didn’t know, she’s an artist, so she does know). I was also doing a drawing of some eggs on a cloth as a school assignment and she joined me, and it was very interesting to compare the results; hers was based on clean lineart, mine on masses and shading. Even the way we held the pencils was completely different - she kept the pencil from the top and moved it at a 60° angle from the sheet, I kept it from the tip and moved it so that the left side of the hand would constantly touch the paper and get dirty. Too bad I had to paint over mine as part of the assignment, I’d very much have liked to post both drawings here.

Now I’m going to the optician. I think my sight has gotten worse recently. :|

So you all know about how much I’m concerned with artists’ rights and you know how much I get mad when I see artworks re-used without the author’s permission. On this matter, I just found a short yet precise page about copyright issues. A quick read, but a good one for sure.

Now to the artwork!

HI THERE SAMUS, HOPE YOU DON’T MIND BEING OBSESSED OVER
in case you were wondering yes, this was made with a tablet at school. This makes also me think of how much I have recently improved. I mean, look at my first attempt in drawing her in armor, and that was made about two months ago! :O

faceless Samus is faceless

KAREN, MY OTHER LOVE
This was made without reference, so I may have gotten some details wrong. I like her face though.

there has been a shortage of Sneasels, I hear. Let me fix that.

Yesterday I was writing a page for Dark Claws about Sneasel and its relation to the kamaitachi, the Japanese weasel demon. I couldn’t find any good image to put in the page, so I made one myself; I’ll show you the finished page later. Anyway, I really like how this one turned out. KAMAITACHI GO GO GO

Also, as for Clear Bell I went back and added a revamped Suicune sprite to the codes page. :) Again, scroll to the bottom of the page to view it.
Talking about fanlistings, I’ve actually chosen the name of my next collective. It will be called “Hall of Changes”, as a reference to a zone of my favorite dungeon in Oblivion. Sure a step forward from Yuki no Namida as a name, isn’t it? I’m planning to make the first layout dark crimson and purple, reminiscent of the deepest area of Brinstar as shown in Super Metroid.

You may have noticed that I’m feeling better. I guess I’m recovering from my failure.
By the way, in the end a classmate of mine found my pencils. :)