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Ultimate Mission got its layout upgraded! Look at the brand new navigation with those little flashing screens. I always forget how much I love to make sprites :> The fonts got changed too.

I also solved the problem with Soaring Dread’s navigation by removing it completely and making that fanlisting into a single-page website. The logo was also remade and is now classier. I think.

This should do it for step four. 8)

Have some random crap

I LOVE HOW THIS TURNED OUT
the pose was taken from a screenshot, but everything else is original

tiny sprites are tiny

man I’d so like to make some animated sprites
I think I’ll start out with something easy like Volkner and Flint talking and then I’ll move to Daevion casting spells or Samus walking. I’d also like to do something with Pokémon but I really don’t know, I thought of Sneasel slashing but I don’t really know how to make it loop decently. Suggestions?

The Fearow fanlisting is now open! I’m quite proud of the illustration on the right, I should put that much effort in all my art.
I SHOULD DRAW MORE AND MORE AND MORE

also the Hall of Changes got a new layout which may be my best ever so far. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

I’M PRODUCTIVE AS OF LATELY

30+ IN CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY FUCK YEAH. Especially because much of this success was determined by me making a large painting inspired from the work of Francis Bacon. The teacher was so impressed he even gave me a free book. So apparently my childish and anatomically impossible drawings are worth a 30+ and a free book. In your ass. :>

Even though I shouldn’t be taking such people too seriously, maybe I should really try and write down my views on art, especially as to why I deliberately choose to draw roughly and mostly ignoring anatomy. It’s not like I’m not able to make beautiful realistic drawings, you know. I just found a bunch of old stuff including a self-portrait I drew at fifteen and man, it does look nice. I’ll be scanning all that old stuff from 2004-2005 - those drawings that got lost with the HD failure and some which went lost ages before that (including the Sneasel pic who graced the very first layout of Angeltower Page). I’m also rescanning my old Pokémon comic whose pages seem to be currently located in the dark side of the interwebs - I even found some unpublished pages, so you may be in for a surprise.

And talking about comics, I’d really like to make another Pokémon comic. I’ve already been planning it out. It will be a comic divided in three or four short episodes each one focusing on a different aspect of the relationship between Pokémon and people.
The first one will take place before Pokémon and people became two different species and it will be about a little girl and his grampa. The old man discovers he can keep his niece’s life energy in a ball he created out of an Apricorn, so they play together with this toy - except that, with the passing of time, the old man becomes more and more scared of his child outgrowing their game, and ends up becoming eerily obsessive…
The second one will take place in the present and will be about a Trainer and a Fearow who fall in love for each other, thus compromising the whole training system and posing some interesting question on their relationship.
The third one will be about a “real world” girl playing Pokémon and getting emotionally attached to the creatures.
I do seem to have a predilection for real weird stuff. In case you were asking. :P

Also, I just got approved for the making of the Fearow fanlisting! Yeah Fearow. It took me a whole ten years to understand its greatness |D Sneasel is sticking to the position of favorite Pokémon ever, then Mewtwo, Porygon-Z and Fearow in no particular order. The fanlisting’s name will be Soaring Dread and it will feature an illustration of mine in the layout. I PROMISE IT’S GOING TO LOOK NICE

As for the new Hall of Changes layout I changed idea three times, then got what looks like my best layout ever. It looks so awesome that I cannot believe it was me to create it. It will feature Samus and the Orion Nebula! What can possibly go wrong? :D

Anyway, this post was really about…ME SINGING KAZE TO ISSHO NI. DUN DUN DUUUN. I would have posted Niji ga Umareta Hi too but the laptop mic wouldn’t record the high-pitched scream at the end which was supposed to show my leet singing skillz. Hahaha. As you will have understood by now, the recording is quite low-quality, but I’m so awesome so it should not be a problem. SARCASM.
Here’s the recording. My voice does sound weird in places but that’s because by the “ikutsomono deai, ikutsumono wakare” I was crying like a baby. Kaze to Issho Ni always gets to me. :<

Let me end this entry with my latest weird dream. Involving me saving a beautiful woman with long fair hair by a number of weird situations throughout some really colorful and detailed worlds. And having hot sex with her afterwards. Ten times. And because this dream was half-lucid, I could make her boobs larger whenever I wanted to. My dreams are, indeed, better than yours. Live with it. XD

THESE ARE THE DRAWINGS I MADE WITH IRENE THE OTHER DAY

Our absolute favorites! My Sneasel is ugly but Irene’s Toxicroak kicks ass :O

Our favorite legendaries. Irene was drawing a Giratina in the beginning and I went all I THOUGHT IT WAS DARKRAI and since she kept getting Giratina wrong anyway she changed to Darkrai, haha
Mewtwo does not approve of Darkrai’s (invisible) boobs.

Our favorite bird Pokémon, they actually look like they’re fighting! While we were drawing this some kids came over and said IT’S A MULCHCRAW, IT’S A FEEFAHON and we were all what

My Houndoom is all high and mighty

I cannot remember why we even drew them in the first place but seriously, that’s a huge Absol. Or a tiny Arceus, your call.
ABOUT THE ROCK IN THE MIDDLE:
Irene: Why didn’t you draw Absol’s other leg? Fill in the empty space with, I don’t know, a rock?
dubiousdisc: Here’s a rock. *draws a rock*
Irene: This rock is a Geodude! *draws eyes and mouth*
dubiousdisc: But he’s disguising himself as a rock, so he’ll have a sign saying, “I’m a rock”. *draws the sign*

WE HAD SOME FUN

but I also have other stuff!

If I were a character in a fantasy world (Oblivion?), I’d be like this. With bow and arrows and daggers, no, poisoned daggers! I’d be a rogue-type character basing on speed and agility rather than brute force, so I’d be equipped with light armor; but because I’d anyway be wanting to kick people right in the face, I’d be covered in spikes to hurt them more. However, I’d be completely devoid of any magic power because seriously, try to imagine ME shooting fireballs and thunders from my hands, I’d look very silly in the least. I KNOW I GET WAY TOO INVESTED IN THIS STUFF LEAVE ME ALONE

I spent the other evening with a special friend of mine. Two friends of him came over; I ended up talking about Pokémon and stuff with one of them and he asked me to draw some. My friend even brought me his old sticker album to give me some references :)
I tend to prefer Charmeleon over Charizard because of the latter having a lame design but hey, I like how this turned out. also I was asked for it so um

These were quite random but they still look good somehow

I think my ability to draw with a single line depends entirely on how confident I feel.

This was made the following day, when me and my friends were having a quite interesting discussion. I won’t openly talk about who this friend is as I haven’t yet shown him my sites and don’t know how he feels about that, but well. He’ll see as soon as I decide to not be an idiot for once.
This wingless mecha-bird is way smaller than it looks - about a third of an A5 paper, smaller than my hand.

there was something else but I forgot

THIS WAS ONE HELL OF A DAY

I went with Irene at the Pokémon Event in Milan’s Science and Technology Museum. It was about giving away Shaymin and showing the 11th movie but hey, I was there for the gadgets and all the Pokémon nerds

and believe me, there was PLENTY of both. We came that the event hadn’t even begun and there already was a line which was so long it went all across the square in front of the museum and kept going on in the street. Amazing. Plus I think I spotted a person I used to be very close friends with when I was fourteen or the like. And he lives in my hometown in southern Italy, about 900 kms away from Milan. Yeah, I thought I was just imagining things, but I saw his little sister and dad too. Very awkward. Then we got in, and I never saw them again. WHAT.

This was taken right away when we got there, so just think about how crowded it got later. we took some keychains, a Giratina figure (the one Italy didn’t get on the preorders because we just have to suck), a balloon, oh and Shaymin too. I couldn’t get any because of me owning the US versions but I couldn’t really care less. also, there was a silly game in which the kids had to answer some Pokémon-related questions with animal cries or something like that and we were seriously considering getting in as SKUNKS. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME

then I got all electrified and decided to call Jeel to join us in the awesomeness but he wasn’t there to answer so I called Cercatesori instead. He was chilling out on the beach, but Irene’s better than the sea! :O
then we decided to draw epic Pokémon battles on my sketchbook and they were epic indeed.
KIDS WERE CHEERING
I must scan them asap

MEET THE LEGEND
PFFT I SAY
WE ARE THE TRUE LEGENDS.

then we went to the cinema and waited for the movie to begin, we had some fun in the Union Room and it was actually sweet to draw together until some douchebag came in and began erasing everyone’s drawings and writing “:°°°°D”. Ah, the Internet morons. Someone’s needing a heavy spanking here. Assholes >(
Then we watched Giratina and the Sky Warrior and woah. I wasn’t expecting anything great but it turned out to be a fine movie indeed. If just they cut out all those crappy CG cinematics and kept going traditional all the way, because some backgrounds and visuals were actually pretty amazing, especially on a big screen. I have a newfound respect for Shaymin now because he’s such a dick and I like that in a Pokémon. Best part, Shaymin screaming like he was being butt-raped and Brock going “IT’S REALLY HUGE!” in such a voice lol, I was laughing so hard I couldn’t even breathe
also it was only me or Zero and Newton do have quite a shipping thing going on? they had some scenes in which I couldn’t help but wonder. Also Newton was such an adorable dork :>
Seriously though it was a beautiful movie with a nice story. I almost cried at the end and this is coming from miss tougher-than-a-sailor so :(

then we went off to explore the museum since the visit was free for us and it was pretty cool, there were some awesome things on display:

A BOAT

A VAPOREON-POWERED LOCOMOTIVE
fuck yes there were boats and planes and trains and

I’ve been meaning to do that since forever and now it’s one thing less my before-I-die list

GOD I’M IN LOVE WITH THOSE THINGS

Irene is superior and sexier than those trains.

I dare you to look wackier than this.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, A MAGMARIZER!

then we went back to the Pokémon section and omg, are those shirts? we ran to get ours and we got the VERY LAST ONES. GOD.
we put them on (missing my only chance to look at Irene’s boobs XD) and then

IT KICKS ASS
even if it’s ridiculously huge, ok I like shirts to be large but this is too much even for me, lol
also this shirt confused many a kid, they thought we were of the staff and hahaha

IRENE’S LOOT and mine too but whatever
the Giratina figure is fantastic
fun fact: I got wounded while trying to open the keychain’s bag. SUDDENLY, BLOOD ON MY FINGERS I’m such a disaster

it was mid-afternoon when we finally got to eat. I hadn’t eaten anything since the previous evening and I was quite hungry :O we had a nice meal with ZUKANS
Irene got the Feraligatr she wanted and I got Entei and RAIKOU :D

it was awesome man
also, check out Irene’s version too

After months of development, Advanced Blanket is finally up. Say hello to Miranda (look for her full artwork in there, I’m not posting it here too).

YOU CAN’T IMAGINE HOW ACCOMPLISHED I FEEL RIGHT NOW.

Weird feeling, being free from exams after two months of working nonstop. It’s like I can actually do whatever I want for a while without feeling guilty for not working on school stuff! :D
must…not…procrastinate

SAID WHICH, A FEW ARTWORKS

These are taken straight out from that character design exam, so ignore the notes in the first one. Her name is Sheila and she’s a spy. I quite like her as a character, so I might keep her for some comics in the future. also, she’s so cool she has no feet!!11
seriously, what was I thinking

it’s incredible, I’ve been playing Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind since I was seven or eight and I never thought to actually draw the little guy. I don’t get why there’s so much hate towards him. :<

AND WE’RE BACK
this is also an accurate answer as to how can I draw so much of him

Now this one has a bit of a story. I drew the original lineart in my sketchbook in January, re-drew it on watercolor paper later, left this second lineart untouched for about two months, finally colored it some weeks ago and left the finished drawing to rot on a pile of paper in a corner. Then some days ago I was looking for something in that mess and the drawing fell right between the table and the wall and had to retrieve it making a hook out of some steel wire and a ruler, losing a screw from my glasses in the process. Insane, I know. Anyway, I guess it was worth the effort?

Next post will be about my Platinum team.

DEAR GOD I GOT 27/30 ON THE BIG EXAM
VG BROUGHT ME TO THE JAPANESE RESTAURANT
MAJO WROTE THE AWESOMEST FIC ON THIS PLANET JUST FOR ME
I GOT APPROVED FOR THE SUPER METROID FANLISTING

A TRUCKLOAD OF WIN ALL OVER ME

HAVE SOME ARTWORKS TO CELEBRATE

RANDOM STUFF ON PARADE AND A FLYGON

VOLKNER

A GAY DRAWING LIES IN BRIGHT SHADES OF ORANGE

1. It’s got the greatest intro cinematic in videogame history. In my opinion, that’s to say, but I don’t remember seeing anything more gorgeous than that.
2. I remember someone writing that it’s got some songs you’ll find yourself singing along to although you really shouldn’t. Who it was? The IGN reviewer? Well, he was right. Be damned the intro song.
3. Chun-Li’s legs seriously creep me out.
4. I’d hit Crimson Viper so hard.
5. My hands are way too small to play any fighting game without a proper stick. MY THUMB’S BLEEDING FROM THE INSIDE D:
6. When we got the game, VG said he wanted to play with Blanka and I wanted to try Viper out. We ended up going Ryu vs Ken about fifteen times.
7. By the way, it’s only me or Ken keeps getting hotter as the series goes on? Look at him now. seriously.

BRB, GOING TO GET MY ASS KICKED

The Hall of Changes is up :D this was faster than I thought. I’m personally pleased with the result; hope you’ll like it too. Have a look around.
I also edited Blind Dreaming’s index page to show the domain’s recent changes (pun not intended).

now I can sleep a happy night