dubiouslog

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. :<

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.

Notice anything new? :D It was time to upgrade that logo. This one spawned from a talk I had with VG in which I asked him whether I was needing a catchphrase, and he came out with this streak of genius. Then I accidentally doodled a cute fennec. There.

Even though the logo change is actually related to those projects I was talking about earlier, I’m still not ready to write about them in detail. So, the rest of this entry is RANDOM

Current obsession: fennec foxes are too cute for words. When I finish with the university I want to move with VG and live with a fennec. I’m dead serious. I’ve never had the chance to live with an animal, but if I think about which one I’d choose, I wouldn’t take a dog because I’m just not a dog person, but I wouldn’t take a cat either because even though I like cats I don’t think a cat could ever tolerate being with me. If you think about it it makes a lot of sense. I’d never take any animal that must be kept in a cage because in my opinion that’s just sad, it’s about keeping a living thing like a possession, it’s not like actually sharing your time with another creature. Then I’ve read that fennecs are domesticable :O they say they are bright, playful and affectionate with people. They are the kind of animal that will cheer you up if they see you’re feeling down :3 and they’re quite intelligent too. I’ve read that a downside may be that they are nocturnal but haha, so am I. They’re perfect for me. I just have to wait a few years.

Silly professional deformation: you know you’ve spent too much time working with newfangled technologies when you are surprised by the lack of a text box in your suitcase to find your underpants without having to look for them manually. Even though it would be awesome.

Sudden Internet pet peeve: why is everyone using birds for logos? Birds are the image of freedom in its purest meaning. It breaks my heart to see them bastardized into a symbol of social network slavery.

you know what? Ubuntu is a great system and stuff but its scanning utility simply sucks. And if someone tells you that’s just “difficult to use” is lying. I know how to bypass horrible interfaces, I mean, I was using The GIMP five years ago when it had the most confusing interface ever conceived, and even like this I often ended up fine-tuning everything until I had a perfect preview only to get an ugly mess of an actual scan. In the end I gave up with setting everything up before scanning and had to retouch everything afterwards, but doesn’t it defeat the point of having, you know, scanning options?
The funniest part is that this utility’s name is XSANE. yeah. talk about my mental sanity.

Now with the artwork:

Let’s start from the artworks I made for this exam whose results I’ll get to know on Monday. This was supposed to be a background for some cartoon. No, it’s not really going to be used in a cartoon, but still :B

A cartoon-esque Death Valley. This was made on black paper, so you know why the colors look that way.

Another idea for the Death Valley. There would be more sketches but they’re not really worth looking at, so.

The final work for the exam was about choosing a song and making some evocative backgrounds inspired by the lyrics. My song of choice was Pearls of Light by Within Temptation. Tons of better songs out there, but you know how it goes, its lyrics were short enough to have each artwork match some part of the song and they setted both the scene and the mood, so.
This one matches the first part of the song: “After the cold, the darkness in the heart of the forest”.

“Where birds are singing for the newborn sun”

“In the womb of the leaves, on the branches of the trees
Lies the treasure in the morning, the pearls of light”

“Carried away by the traculence of my world, I got lost in the search for the enlightment
The blue rain covered my roots and I forgot where I came from”
quite my favorite. the teacher liked this one better than the others too. Her only critique was that the huge difference between the lighter drawings and the darker ones could make people for which I could be working in the future object that they don’t look like works from the same person. Well, here I was experimenting a bit with techniques, but she’s right. I need to work more on consistency.

random doodles ahead
(hi there Flareon)

PARASOL WADDLE DEE

I’m in ur interwebz
maeking ur teeth rot

Do Sparkies look like mice? VG says they do. I’m not really getting it.

you may be forgetting something Meta Knight
aren’t you forgetting something

I don’t know if this should be cute or scary
By the way, up until now I thought Kirby was the one fandom completely porn-free. Well…I was wrong. Now I want to poke my eyes out for what I saw/read because seriously. Kirby porn. What may be next? Smut involving a phone and a cube? D:

AND NOW, FOR THE MONOCHROMATIC STAINS ANIMATION PROJECT
HERE COMES THE MAIN CHARACTER!
who is way too handsome to die after only three minutes. :( I’M SORRY

that’s it
oh and I’ve added a link to JaN aka K aka Kane aka … ’s blog. :D

Should post later and should post more. I’ve got a few issues I’d like to write about. Also read: you’re going to be bored. :B

Service information: Majo, I’ve added your blog down here. :) Remember that though I don’t comment that much (if at all), I always read what you write. Go you!

Also, as for Blind Dreaming I just added a joined fanlistings directory. Now every time I spot a new fanlisting I won’t have to wait until I’ve finished working with the whole site (which by the way will take a lot longer than previously though, but meh).

But this wasn’t what I wanted to talk about. See the pencil submit button? While I was developing it I did a thorough search in the web for tutorials, just to see how other people dealed with the issue of working with 3D in a mainly 2D editor. I didn’t find anything especially useful for my case and I ended up developing my own technique from scratch, but I can’t pass on this great tutorial about how to create a mechanical pencil with Photoshop. It’s impressive to see how the pencil comes to life in a very plastic way; it can really be seen taking shape as more effects are added. Also read the ending comments, they summarize in a few words a very important idea in graphic designing.

Now my main idea was to end my post here but another issue came up while writing. It’s been less than a week since I’ve started working with Wordpress and I’m liking it as a publishing platform, it has everything for my needs, a neat coding and a neat concept, but let me say one thing.

Categories and tags. Aren’t they quite the same?
From what I’ve learned, categories should be used for filing the posts, while tags should be used to make a visual map of what your weblog is about increasing in size as you have more posts under a specific tag. Still, if you set the category list to display the number of posts each category has, they both give the exact same information - except categories can have a hierarchy and tags can’t. And while I’m at it, I wonder if someone has thought of an interlinked hierarchy system.
For example, let’s say I want to post about the making of a certain video game: I’d want to file it under “development”, and have the “development” category have a sub-category called “videogames” with another sub-category with the name of said game, so that if I later want to write about the making of another video game I can just add a new sub-category under “videogames”. This works with the current hierarchy model, but let’s say that some months have passed, the video game has been released and I want to review it. Where should I put the “review” category? Under “videogames”? Under the name of the game? They both have as parent “development”, but I’m not talking about development! If I reverse the structure and have “videogames” at the top, the name of the game as a sub-category and then “development” and “review” as third-level sub-categories? Yeah, and then if I want to review more than one game? Do I have to create as many “review” sub-categories as games I want to review? that’s just plain insane.
The only way this would work would be to have every game category linked both to “development” and “review”, which are single categories and not duplicates like in the last case. The whole system wouldn’t work like a tree spreading into branches, but more like a city plan where roads cross each other and all that matters is the distance from one place to another. This also leads to another issue, the idea of having a distance between categories that can show the relation between the subjects. In this example, “development” and “review” could have a medium distance from the name of the game, but two games from the same producer could be very near the one to the other.

Really, I’ll have to see if someone has already thought of all of that and how to put this into code.

Finished working on this big beast. I thought this layout could be like a preview of the one I will make for Blind Dreaming but seriously, how am I even trying to surpass this? I guess I’ll have to use another color scheme cause this layout is way too gorgeous for a simple preview.

Pointless bragging aside, this is it. I’ll be posting some new artworks later. lol some, actually it’s more like 21 new drawings, but whatever? you’ll see.