Painting Witch Hunter Robin

Witch Hunter Robin was one of the first animes I followed way back then. For some reason, I really liked Robin's character design, so I drew her a few years ago. Since I recently downloaded the trial version of Painter 11, I decided to give coloring another go for laughs and giggles through trial and error. Here's what I have thus far:

Here's the original drawing I did, with the retarded title scrawled on the side. GROSS rofl

Turned it black and white and raped the levels with Photoshop.

I used the outlines as a painting guide in Painter, but I turned it off here. Starting the eye!

Eyes kind of finished. Left side is zoomed in quite a bit, so it's a bit fuzzy. Right views are either at or below 100% zoom. Her face coloring is still everywhere at this point.

Cleaned up a bit in terms of getting hair area cleared, but I still need to erase some more of her residual FACEEE

Turned off the drawing outlines for now, so some of this might not make too much sense. I'm having some issues with the hair, obviously! Of course, it's not close to finished yet, but I've already messed with the left side of her head for quite a bit. And I like painting outside of the lines, so I'll still need to erase that that stuff later on. Her face is still outside of her face! =D

That's about it for now. I have no idea how to get the hair to look better, and my face lighting is still a bit WRONG, but this is still pretty fun nevertheless. I looked at some resources online, which is helping a little bit. I'm a bit happier with my original sketch than the coloring job, but oh well! I've been on a bit of a hiatus in terms of finishing up the hair, but that's because I'm getting slightly discouraged at how awful it's getting. :D. I am also apparently retarded at drawing curves with a mouse as well! That doesn't leave any room for excuses as to why I haven't erased the stuff to the right of her chin, however.....

To do:
-Clean up stuff outside of the lines, which is actually a lot!
-Fix hair
-Finish up neck and collar
-Final touchups
-Decide what to do with the outlines. They seem to work better on the face than they do in the hair with the coloring, but I dunno.

WE SHALL SEE WHERE THIS ENDS UP....if i ever finish it O.o
XD WOOT

Organizing My Folders Means Discovery

For the upcoming semester of school, I've finally decided to organize my folders and stick my College folder into the Documents folder. Before doing so, however, I noticed that my documents folder was disgustingly cluttered and that I had picture and music folders within my documents folder, despite the presence of C:\Users\Jenny\Music and C:\Users\Jenny\Pictures (and C:\Users\Jenny\Piccys.....don't ask).

Ahh, jmol. Why do I still have you? Ahh, hidden folders, why do I still have you set as visible?

So while I was cleaning out my documents folder, which included both reorganizing and deleting old things that I no longer needed or knew existed, I stumbled upon some writing I did back in the day. It pains me to say that my vocabulary and writing skills have declined precipitously since my early high school years, not that I had much MAD SKILLZ to begin with.  

I'd say the most amusing part was trying to remember what the fack I was thinking back then. I don't even remember writing half of the stuff I did.

And here are the contents of a random text file titled smoke.txt (wtfack a poem? But I hate poems.):

who are you, the silent brooder,
to whom the shark-fin waves speak?
For your heart is that of a churning maelstrom
And your smile slow and twisted,
like a too-soft banana skin
slowly being peeled back,
curling over like tendrils of smoke
over a sluggish metropolis

The sharp scent of your cheap cologne
cuts through the stagnant air on a summer evening,
much like ink bleeding through a diner napkin
I sense impatience--or perhaps it is just play of thought--
playing through your cloudy mind,
tapping out its irregular, staccato rhythmn
from a slick, lacquer red heel,
stiff straps lined with worry-wrinkles

And your vacant stare is that of the blind man
as you look to the tall, cigarette smokestacks
before a hazy sunset of some rich exotic incense
And the sun is a dull lantern
behind silk screens and screen doors

A single moth the color of white paint peeling from
cracked wooden walls
toys with danger
as it dances in the candlelight

.....WHAT?

Here's another trippy one:

It rises from the ashes
of a metropolitan wasteland.
It floods minds with flourescent light,
opens UV-protected eyes,
clears the fog off weather-insulated souls.

Upstairs, a great mind turns,
mechanical heart ticks away into the future
as neon lights and falling confetti
float in serenity
beneath the luminescence of time.

The man realizes that the great Moth
will die in burning passion
as it pursues destiny,
as it seeks the light.

And so
the man,
confetti in
his hair, his ears, his eyes,
stumbles into the chamber of darkness.

Did I hate buildings or something?
I also found a story involving an axe and yellow plates. But that one's a bit long, and I kind of want to go through it first. O.o TRIPPY SCHIZZ, and I didn't do drogas!

Anyways, organizing adventure: mild success.
Rule of thumb: If you don't know it's there, delete it. Of course, this applies to stuff you saved as opposed to important stuff.

Fail Comic 03. Babby Beaver

Yet another fail comic to quell my boredom and waste space on the interwebs while fueling more retarded fads! I need to hire a writer. And an artist. :D As usual, click to enlarge! This one might need it.

 03. Babby Beaver

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That's not really a bad song. In fact, the chorus always gets stuck in my head. D=
Also, I guess that font doesn't like apostrophes. :D

Fail Comic 02. Do the Right Thing

Here's #2 of le fail comic! *cough* Also, I don't think my dropcap formatting is really useful in 1-text-line posts, so I'll just fill space with some more text!

02. Do the Right Thing

(Click to enlarge. It works better than Extenze)

Fail Comic 01. Weedy Pot

It's fail comic time! And I cannot express the fail of this first one. With great chagrin, I present to you, COMIC #1! (That line should have been read à la Mark Dacascos, the Chairman of Iron Chef America.)

01.Weedy Pot

(Click to enlarge)

Sidenote: I never knew that Mark Dacascos was a martial artist and movie star. Woah. DAIKON KARATE CHOP!

Playing with Painter 11

I was poking around and stumbled upon the trial version of Corel Painter 11. It's apparently capable of epicness, but unfortunately, I lack the mad art skills to test this out fully. Still, a potential adventure was awaiting, so I decided to mess around with the program. At first glance, it looks a lot like Photoshop, minus your photo editing features. Instead, you can find a smattering of what you'd expecting from a painting program--oil pastels, acrylic paints, watercolor, liquid ink, and many more. There's also this handy color mixer palette in which you can actually dab on paints and mix them around. Fancy!

So yeah, mouse = hard.

Playing around with a face. I realize the eye is all wrong, as are many other things, but hey, I'm no artist. =D You can also see some of the fancy features in Painter here.

Honestly speaking, I barely knew what half of the settings were for each brush tool, so I just played around a bit with my mouse. You can do much more with a tablet in terms of pressure, tilt, and whatnot, but I don't have one. I had no idea which brushes would suit my needs best either, so it was pretty much trial and error all the way through. The program crashed several times throughout my short adventure (good thing there's a recovery folder for salvaged work), but otherwise, I had a good time. All-in-all, the basics to Painter are intuitive and fairly easy to figure out if you've ever used Photoshop before. Of course, there are many other features and settings that I haven't yet figured out or discovered, but that's for another date and time! And as expected from the name, this program is better for creating paintings than Photoshop is (though some apparently still prefer Photoshop).

I wear war paint on weekends and non-religious holidays. Of course, I still count Christmas as non-religious, and no, 2938402384 people and I did not just steal a holiday.

Hey, look! I added color! Except I cheated and did it in Photoshop.

Adventure concluded. I'm still looking at some other people's work with a smidge of envy.

Also, I am enjoying the wee hours of the morning a bit too much. Still, my screwy sleep schedule has never been much of a surprise. This reminds me: CLOCK AND BMAL1--WE'RE NOT JUST HOMIES WITH THE SUN! I did a presentation with a friend on the regulatory role of the CLOCK/BMAL1 transcription factor complex in the circadian molecular oscillator as well as the roles of RACK1 and pka-alpha. Of course, I don't remember the details, but I do remember names and the little motto/saying we came up with! Unfortunately, this research project--and the allure of the products of modern technology--aren't helping me sleep at normal times. I clearly need to set an alarm for midnight and have that trigger the release of sleeping gas into the surrounding environment. OR I could go to bed at increasingly offensive hours of the day until I finally wake up to a syrup-less waffle breakfast at 10am. 

Mass Effect 2 Kasumi Wallpapers!

So... I went and made some wallpapers! Here's the first round of Kasumi wallpapers from Mass Effect 2, based off the Kasumi wallpaper over at the official site, because she's one of the cooler female characters. She's pretty, from what little anyone can see of her anyways, with a cool personality to boot. I won't complain if she won't complain about her too-perfect genes, unlike some people! Honestly, though, I found Miranda less and less attractive as I went through the game, and her romance scene was pretty much the only one without some kind of character development. Although, if it did, it would probably play out with Miranda complaining about being genetically perfect, Shepard making a move on her to make her shut up, and then her continuing her rant in sign language as she's being kissed. And now, this brings me to my one request: Kasumi romance in Mass Effect 3, please?!

Anyways, I made a Dark and Red lipstick version. I realize Kasumi's lipstick is actually more of a purple color in the game, but I felt like painting on some red. Version 2 of the 1280 wallpapers are a little different than version 1 in that you get a slightly larger Kasumi. It is identical to that view you would get if you were to display the 1800x1440 version, but the edges are cropped to fit. And I only have one resolution up for the Rain version of the wallpaper because I kind of ended up doing that after finishing up the others. More importantly, why does this now remind me of Heavy Rain? I have not played the game yet, but I admit that the posters make up a good 50% of my desire to play it, which doesn't quite work if I don't have a PS3. Rambling aside, don't forget to zoom in on the images if you're not right-click saving from the links!

Please credit and link back if posted elsewhere. Hotlinkers will be lasered by none other than the M-920 Cain and then subjected to a risky but prize-filled evening with Jacob. Enjoy!

Rain! (With Red Lipstick)
1280x800

Dark Lipstick Version
1280x800 - Version 1
1280x800 - Version 2
1800x1440

Red Lipstick Version 

1280-800 - Version 1

1280x800 - Version 2

1800x1440

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Bombing the Toilet

Taco Bell.