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character series #2 - daevion

( July 17, 2010 - 7:49 pm, filed under artworks, tagged as , , , )

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two out of four, let’s keep going

ALSO AAAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU ORSETTA

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UPDATE

( July 12, 2010 - 12:12 pm, filed under none of the above, tagged as , )

This morning I bought a new mouse, but it sucked so much that I ended up opening again the old one to see if there was really nothing that could be done.

TURNS OUT THERE WAS

the component themselves were working, as evidenced by the fact that, once I opened the mouse, I could use the switches to click. The problem was that, since the left button is subjected to a lot of stress when I paint, draw or play, the trasmission part connected to the plastic body had worn out so much that it was pulverized in places and it was no longer reaching the switch. I put some duct tape on it and now it makes contact again :D

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WHEEEEEEEEEE

ALSO TONIGHT I MET DAEVION: YESTERDAY WAS A BAD DAY, BUT NOW I’M HAPPY

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ISSHU

( May 12, 2010 - 4:39 pm, filed under videogames, tagged as , )

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It IS a faraway region, just as I thought! :D though the name reminds me of a sneeze, lol.

The starters…well, usually my reaction to all first-stages is “meh” but this time I really like the Grass first stage. I bet its final evo will kick ass. The Fire swine is also cute. What’s that thing on the right? It looks like a Piplup and a Bidoof really loved each other.

The playable characters ROCK
but I think they both look like girls! a girly girl and a tomboy. This makes me want to play as the male character. I’m not sure though - I really like the girl’s design too, especially her hairdo. If I pushed all my hair through that hat they’d look exactly like hers, down to the same exact shade of brown :o what should I do aaaa aaaaaaaaa

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT BLACK AND WHITE

also in other news I NOW OWN FLINT’S PANTS LOL
they arrived in the mail a few minutes ago! I found them on a catalogue a few weeks ago and went all LOL THEY’RE PERFECT
They look almost identical to his except for some details on the back and two additional pouches on the bottom, but it’s fine, they’re almost unnoticeable and I love extra pouches anyway. It’s already on the comfy side, it will become baggy in a few weeks of usage.

To clarify some things: I’d cosplay him, but mostly for my personal amusement. I’d go to a con if someone else was going with me dressed up as another character, though. If that’s not going to be the case, then I can always go around wearing Flint’s pants for the luls. They are my kind of everyday clothing, after all.

Now I need to get the other parts of his outfit :> The sandals are easy to get and I will be able to use them this summer anyway as I currently own only one pair of shoes and they’re army boots, not the best choice for going to the beach XD The belt and the wig are not an issue, now I don’t know about the armbands and the collar but they look like something I can just go and buy.
The t-shirt should be easy to find, but…my sister allowed me to try out her yellow shirt just to see how I’d look and omg. omg. I just got reminded of why I never wear anything under men’s large. D8 However, Flint’s shirt IS clingy…what should I do?

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FINALLY

( May 4, 2010 - 12:59 pm, filed under artworks, tagged as , )

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THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST FOUR DAYS.

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Spark Needle

( March 9, 2010 - 12:57 pm, filed under websites, tagged as , , )

It’s been more than a year since the first time I wrote in this weblog that I wanted to make a website revolving around Volkner and Flint from Pokémon. Today, that website is finally ready. Its name is Spark Needle, and is the largest shrine I’ve ever made.

Writing these lines give me an incredible feeling of accomplishment that can only be compared to the one I got when Angeltower’s Frozen Truth Version was released back in 2007, and it’s also a bit like reliving the day after the first kiss or after the first time making love. It also saddens me a bit that I will no longer have to nurture this website; I think it could be the same feeling a parent gets seeing their children growing up and leaving their house. It’s a mysterious thing.

Putting aside this emotional stuff for a moment, I can say that Spark Needle is my biggest feat yet, both on the personal and technical front.
With the death of Internet Explorer 6, the web is finally ready to bestow the true potential of PNG transparency and fixed backgrounds applied to elements other than <body>. Spark Needle’s layout features four types of fixed tiled backgrounds with the same pattern in different colors; when scrolling the page, the eye is tricked into believing the background is always the same with only the colors changing. The top looks very simple, but it features scrolling elements on a fixed background, and this is where trasparent-background PNGs come into play. The text on the navigation buttons has a trasparent background as well, and the hovers are pure CSS: there is no other part of the image, it’s just the background color changing into red. This makes the layout lighter and the coding cleaner.

For what concerns the content, the fact that there are 21 information pages should say everything. If gedit isn’t failing me, the total word count for all of these pages is around 14,000, and I was being concise. Other than a lot to read, there are also game pictures, artworks and screencaps from the anime.  308 screencaps, to be precise. Scary, I know.

Most of the fanstuff section has content you should have already seen if you’ve been following this weblog, but there are also some new things: two unpublished fan arts - which would be the suggestive fan arts I was talking about in my last artwork post, mind -, one short fan fic which is really about their friendship so you have no excuse not to read it, and 13 icons I made yesterday. There is also some submitted material :D

and now I can sit on my butt and feel accomplished.

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Best birthday ever

( March 5, 2010 - 10:50 pm, filed under none of the above, personal, tagged as , )
  1. DP166
  2. Everyone gave me very beautiful and meaningful presents
  3. I just found out there is a demo from the new album from Thurisaz and it’s so amazing I actually came

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post-DP166

( March 4, 2010 - 11:29 am, filed under none of the above, personal, tagged as , )

I accidentally exploded in front of the computer.

Edit (and a spoiler)

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two years after

( February 25, 2010 - 12:03 pm, filed under none of the above, tagged as , )

I just watched the ep. The one with Volkner and Flint. I’m sweated, shaking all over, I still see the pictures behind my eyes.
It was so beautiful. They were just as I always imagined them to be. Their story was the one I imagined for them. Their voices were just as I expected them to be. Even the way the moved.

Continues under here, spoilers

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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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Xivilai

( December 23, 2009 - 1:24 pm, filed under artworks, 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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