• Sat, 02:38: sad. hasnt drawn comic pages due to stress with living situation. /tear

• Sun, 08:09: Working on blaze FINALLY http://t.co/mKfzaweU

after three years…

Ever post a comic page and beg in the back of your mind someone will comment? But no one remembers or likes your comic so it doesn’t happen?

It’s a horrible feeling…

BUT I'm sure after several months of regular updating I wont have that problem…

or a year that is.

I have a lot to do I guess pages took way longer then I expected. Anyway I started attempting to use live stream…but It fails if I try to do anything past normal quality…and so the quality is kind of poor …Maybe next time I’ll attempt to zoom it I don’t know. Also since it has music in the background , the video's aren't available in some country's due to the way YouTube is . Anyway here goes first the art for ARIES blaze , which I did because I haven't drawn blaze in his past form forever  , he was not even really the same guy , he was serious and like  ….Looked more girly …and I wont say more.

• Fri, 01:32: Manga Page Study (1) http://t.co/7CaOHuPd

This page is really cool , what I like about it naturally are the thorns. The characters perspective would look almost normal , except its tilted and the feet get really small , which is pretty popular. Looking at this I'm wondering if the main thing you need to really foreshorten is the lower half of the body to make it effective? Also I love the thorns , you can tell they are shadows because they stay for the most part FLAT , with exceptions , you get that it’s a shadow cause how at the corner of one of the church benches instead of climbing up 3 dimensionally it does it like folding paper , and she used a bit of gradient looking amounts of white here and there , which makes it almost look like it has a lot of opacity which it doesn’t…only at the middle of some of the branches and where branches cross mainly …ANYWAY I LIKE IT the main thing to learn? 1 ) how to draw gothic looking thorns , 2) Shadows need opacity even when black and fold like paper   3) Apparently only the lower half of the body needs to be foreshortened in cases? Let me try this out …  

Also cronas eyes look SICK in like a good way. This picture 100% made me believe that crona is in fact a girl after all

  Don’t honestly know I’ll have to try  it again in a more serious attempt.

this is just a crappy sketch note thingy , Blah…XD

   I guess I pretty much just love the Earl? Lol the beauty mark is awsome  , I love beauty marks …<3

Anyway I think its pretty interesting how the younger Ceial (cant spell)  looks like in contrast to his dad. . The folds on the arm of the jacket look really nice …..I wont like this picture is just pretty.

Seems to use a gradient crosshatch tone for the hair , and there's light surrounding the character in contrast to the window , which is to put empathizes on the character I imagine.

This next image on the right is by Clamp . What I like about it naturally is the eyes looks great! In this new manga which by the way makes no sense to me due to the fact that I know nothing of Japanese history…/myths   . Anyway Clamps using a closed eye sort of method , and the eyes as you can see when the pupils are shaded in they are sort of faintly shaded , and highlights are thrown in , as well as disrupting the edge of the iris so they looks SUPER shiny , awesome shojo effect. I also love the cute tiny mouth and the tiny nose. I sort of keep trying to go by human proportions and place the corners of the mouth at the corners if the eyes , but this isn't always an absolute rule at all for manga and I need to remember this…..

the motion is shown as quick by the way the hair is toned , not drawn. he lines still remain …well where the hair is. That’s a pretty good tone trick to remember.

(plus this is like one of my Fav drawn kisses in any mangas Ive read XD )

I think it has something to do that in most mangas Ive read the girl is the one with the surprised look on her face , rather then this , *AND THEIR SO CUTE!

Also the panels on the right are in the same shape that’s sort of based on a perspective from something. It looks so much cleaner then random shapes which I do a lot. Im clueless when it comes to paneling

Ok enough for now Im going …or I WOULD play video games , but my roomates having a romantic evening with her boyfriend as they longingly gaze at one another . So I guess Skyrim is for …another time. ….

HA I shall play that ninja game on my phone then…

I shall live by the pen , I shall die by the pen. Ink is my blood and my heart is full of lead .

After discovering Jonathon took me off his friends list randomly and without reason , I have decided that all promises of even so little as friendship by the male species is full of lies and sparkles. I have decided to completely vanquish away men from my life forever , and will live by the pen and die by the pen. To make up for my fail at a love life , I shall simply put more passion and love into my artwork and my comics , and turn my characters into Heroines that you admire and Bishi’s that you would dump your husband for if you had one…Yes I'm going to live vicariously through my own work. My writing….even. yes I shall develop a new pen name (one That shall remain secret ) and make sure to take out my frustrations of love novel type of novels that young adult women who have no boyfriends will eat up worse then a suicidal diabetic in a candy shop.

MEN SHALL DIE ,

ART SHALL LIVE ON AND A NEW REIGHN OF TERROR SHALL BEGIN

or something like that…well before I became a feminist , (which is strange since I typically always loved men and hated women for the most part ) I drew some stuff so let me post it …

(nothing else I liked so I’ll just post this for now)

Yeah …this is a spoiler but that’s ok , because having drawn this I'm completely motivated to go ahead and and start up on blaze again , And instead of dropping TOS , I’ll just do both , Blaze in color and attempting a more pretty Black butler like style slightly but super colorful and stuff and shiny , and then TOS in a goth shojo-steampunk sort of look.

Fuck a social life I got Internet ,

Online friends are the best , and this includes tay which is my actual Real life best friend who lives miles away now so is my online friend now….also I owe her money and she's now my blog follower

<3 YOU TAY CHAN

Im happy though when I think about it , I can get in contact with the DREAM crew again , who Ive missed but didn’t want to like…show up randomly and then disappear again…Ive been making myself scarce , But I think Im going to start making tutorials this summer , and stock up on them to put in the magazine (it’s a free online magazine if your wondering called DREAM MANGA and the artist are awesome and friendly as you can get. I'm really envious some of them have all the time in the world to draw as much as they want I THINK  well not really but they get pages done. I admit I always feel guilty that I had to drop TOS out of Dream (especially since I started it for dream) but hey , its cool , I'm going to probably submit it again and redo the pages already in it when TOS is finished , and I’ll do Blaze one shots in it maybe Idk…”

But yeah after longing to work o blaze forever , I've decided….its time to go back to color.

Its gonna be hard to do thin INK layers again I wont lie…but its nessesary for good color….also I gott avoid so much cross hatch shading when I do BLAZE. Its fine in manga but some things don’t clash well with color.

Also I need to study pages Ive liked soon and do studys on them and post what I observe and try to mimic , with results Lol…

Oh and I have my speech class final exam today , so I should get to sleep …or actuallY F THAT , I wont sleep I’ll just stay up , pay off my stuff that I can for this month , and get an energy drink while I study? ….

Hell Why not I’ll take the risk

after all

LIVE BY THE PEN DIE BY THE PEN.

So If I die by the pen in a final exam its totally ok to the main law of my new logic.

                                                              Peace ,

                                                                            Ash

I was dumped last week but oddly enough im in a pretty good mood now ,

I feel free

I mean I can do whatever the hell I want now without worrying about how anyone FEELS

I hate that ..I hate always worrying if I'm going to hurt someone. I mean I like doing what I want and saying what I want to say and not worrying about the consequences. Its nice.

PLUS ITS AMAZING OUTSIDE

I mean I woke up really late , but the twightlight today looked like a scene from an alien world. ALL THE PLANTS were big , and the mountains were completely covered in red sun , making them looking blue and purple , there were dark outlines of birds and the clouds were dark cotton candy , all the colors contrasted so wonderfully in this blended way OMFG I was gonna neel down and thank the earth for painting me such a pretty picture…T.T

And a full moon in the sky right above the mountains while the sun was setting

It took my breath away several times , I felt like I was on earth while dinosaurs still roamed the earth , I was sad I didn’t have my camera on me. Plus I went grocery shopping and I have…FOOD OMFG I HAVE FOOD YESS and ice-cream to cause there was a sell and I was like HELL YES .

Random photoshop sketch thingy …

I do weird stuff when I don’t really care if it comes out alright or not. O.o

Ive decided to give Jinx white hair instead of blond (I can do this since he hasn’t been introduced yet)  , and back to my original idea of more hair one one side , but instead of just that which is sort of repetitive on my part , hes going to have bangs that block one of his eyes his entire face will only be when its like a dramatic expression or event so it gives him that little extra UMPH , Since hes not blond anymore I need to redo his color scyme I think…his entire outft.Oh well not anytime soon , Im going to sleep I have to close tomorrow …and the next day. And this coming week is going to be finals…so yeah ..

Sleep time for me

sketched , colored pencil , copied , colored in again after pasting on page , scanned again  tweaked in photoshop (wanted to effectively see the difference that’s why I had it copied)  . If you have noticed Im going to try to attempt the white eyelash method for hair hair I seen used all the time in the newer manga that are popular like black butler and Pandora hearts. Doesn’t really make much diffrence with black hair. 

He looks girlier with white hair but hell hes a bishi , so he can be as pretty as he wants.

Grr so sleepy got to CRAM this weekend and stuff…so I need to try to resist drawing for awhile .

Goodnight world

(not in that order)

Ok well BESIDES all my homework and tests I need to cram for , I've decided to study the art style of Art Nouveau which I have put off forever , continuously found myself completely and utterly drawn towards. I've always desired to draw dreams and Art Nouvea looks like a big mess of dreams and human conciseness …But what do I know right? I know nothing . Anyway here's the book I checked out from the Military Institute.  Its like super old , and more then likely rare with few copy's left , many of the images in the book are like little inserts . Im the first person to check this book out since 1992…lmao. what a loss on all those peoples part , it has wonderful photos in it. (Ok im a total book freak I have a problem) What's REALLY weird is that I cant find the copy right. I'm assuming the 50s or the 60s because it has like maybe three colored photos…(oddly enough they are pasted into the book so I could be wrong and this book could be older) Its actually a translated version of a French book , translated by Patrick Evans . The copyright in France by Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris . Illustrations printed in France , Text Printed in the Nederland's and BOUND in the neverlends …Hell this is a rare book who am I kidding?  Im so going to Google this and see if I see any on sale .

Wow Not bad only 30 bucks. K MAYBE its not as rare as I thought , but I doubt theres any new versions of this book( I enjoy old books to much.) anyway old books are way awesome.

I would probably love to be a librarian. Sadly you need a bachelor's degree at least , and I don’t have one. To bad , at least If I have trouble getting a job after I go to art school (in like 1 or 2 years) I can try to get a job at a library right? I know I would love it , I mean surrounded by books all day and information about everything? Hell yeah…

/cough

Lord Im a nerd ….

ANYWAY I'm going to post my latest comic page now

God Im so happy , It took so long to get to this page , I mean Ive re-done this part in particular like 4 times , But due to like…Idk School , random depression , misplacement , I never got around to inking or anything. Basically I need to sketch and scan and ink rather then sketch out bunch before scanning otherwise I consider the pages out-dated shortly. /sigh I wonder If that happens to people a lot. 

MY GOAL IN ART:

I want to be able to do a manga style that has a sort of french influence and Art Nouveau style , (a dream like quality) but more shoujo naturally) this is probably why I adore the original final fantasy concept artist so much (that or hes why I love art Nouveau)

Anyway , MAINLY I want MOTION , I want to be able to learn to properly give movement to my characters, I suck at that , but Ive noticed a lot of people who draw manga actually do …probably because Manga characters tend to be sort of boxy and such. If you havent noticed I hate straight lines (I almost think the French did to but I don’t know enough about french art to say this) A lot of early perioud Asian art used movement a lot more then anything to , I also need to learn from them . They use lines in the motions where theres moment …/sigh  WELL WHATEVER it is I know something I want to influence my drawing style until I have my own.

I suck so much. Well I may never be a master or anything but I can still try to learn as much as I can to improve my average stuff….My English teacher was always telling me not to say bad things about myself , but its so hard …Oh well.

NOW WHAT TO DO…got so much homework ones human brain might explode. Oh well the sooner I get it done the sooner I can draw I suppose (even if that is like a week from now If I don’t think of it like that it will pass by quicker perhaps.

Anyway TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK.