I just realized that a couple days ago was this blog’s first anniversary. My how time flies. Well to be fair I didn’t use it for about 2-3 months after I signed up for this blog space.
YES! Yukarin throw bits of your victim’s corpses into the air and celebrate!
I’m also going through another sort of an art slump type thing. I dunno what to draw, or whatever I draw doesn’t come out not the way I want it to. But I wanna draw. So I’m defaulting to drawing porn. Next update will be ReimuxYukari. I’m pretty sure no one is complaining about that, unless I make it eye-searing.
Filed under: Misc.
Today has been a bad day. First of all. It’s my birthday (happy birthday to me). I never really cared for celebrating my own birthday. But it just makes you feel bad when you hear news like this on what’s supposed to be a happy day.
http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/06/25/owner-of-tachibana-shoten-in-akiba-arrested/
and
Am I being rude for placing an eroge debate link above the link of the LA Times that declares Michael Jackson’s death? Yes. I still feel bad for the King of Pop dying on my birthday. But I just feel that the slow erosion of the freedom of speech and expression to be more weighty and something to be more depressed over. Legislation of morality does not lead to anywhere anybody sane would want to be.
I have never wished I had the power to reject reality more than now.
Yes, I just drew a picture of Ran naked. It’s the first time I’m posting anything ecchi I drew because I was never really confident with my proportions and figure drawing. I drew her simply because Cho-Kourin said he thought my Ran was hot. I thought so too. Drawing this made me realize how right I always am.
hay guize! what’s up?
I really had fun drawing ecchi. I hope she turned out ok. The most effort was put into colouring the skin, whereas things like the hat/hair/tails I thought were not as important and thus did a rush job or applied a more simple colouring style. I might do more explicit drawings in the future.
Filed under: Misc.
People who come here probably have been to /jp/ enough to know this. but here it is again because this actually made me angry enough to post about it.
http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/06/23/online-dl-shop-reveals-new-restrictions/
and
http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/06/12/institute-of-contents-culture-research-meeting/
I know I’m probably really slow to this, but I always felt like everyone has probably already read about these already. Much like the UNICEF against loli case.
I don’t play many games, let alone eroge. But these two articles; if true, means we’re all taking another step forward to having some asshole impose their personal brand of moral based regulation on us. I’ve held great contempt for feminism before, but I can’t begin to even believe what they’re pulling here. Fuck feminism. There. I said it.
Trying to ban everything isn’t a solution to anything. Just like that Rapelay game. Why do you want to ban it as if to say the game causes rape? Why are you trying to absolving rapists of their personal responsibility by trying to pin it all on some game. If playing a game causes you to go out to rape and murder then you obviously have some deeply rooted problem and should go get help. Even if entertainment with any objectionable content is banned, you’d have to wonder when people like this will finally snap anyways.
TL;DR: “I DON’T LIKE THINGS THAT GO AGAINST MY TASTES THEREFORE NOBODY CAN HAVE IT! BAAAAW”
Fuck you world. Fuck you femi extremists and fuck you Noda Seiko. Suddenly freedom of expression doesn’t feel so free anymore.
(you might think that I’m sad for being angry over not being able to have expression via eroge. Well I think it’s also pretty sad to have to live by someone else’s self righteous brand of “moral behaviour” of what I should and should not find entertaining. Plus it sets precedence for further rights limitations. )
It took awhile, but I managed to finish it up. Have a lot of preparations to do as well. Need to book a ticket back to Hong Kong soon. As much as I talk shit about Canada and the bag milk….I did live 13 years here. I’ll miss the climate at the very least. Actually I’ll miss the climate a whole damn lot. HK only has like 2 seasons. Ah well. If anything I might join a CWHK or a Rainbowgala one of these days. Con-boothing! wooo!
Andromeda. It’s what I’d imagine life would be like if we ever make it to the nearest habitable planet in the next galaxy.
This took a lot longer than I thought it would because I kept on slacking off. It took maybe 17-20hours. Done in SAI and touched up in Photoshop CS2. Meant to be a backgrounds practice again, since my last picture failed.
I’m making a post just to keep this place updated.
further progress on this thing. Bah still got a long ways to go.
In other news. I decided to watch Ga-Rei Zero. I have no idea why more people didn’t really talk about it when it aired, because it’s really good. I literally did not hear about it until a friend told me.
Yomi <3. Makes my drawings feel trash. Full version can be found at artist’s Pixiv here
I rarely watch anime despite being in love with 2D, let alone talk about it on here. So now you know that Ga-Rei Zero is pretty good. I won’t spoil the plot for anyone, but I bawww’d ;_; …Made me realize that the world is pretty unfair and that bad things can happen to good people. In fact it made me realize a few more things about myself that regular brain-dead harem/fighting shounen doesn’t even touch on. It made me realize my own relationship with my sister will never be as close as Yomi and Kagura’s. And of course…seeing people who love eachother so much made me realize. I don’t really have anybody that is close other than my parents. For the first time I actually felt like maybe I shouldn’t shut myself away from people. Perhaps it’s a problem if I cannot think of anyone in my life that I would cry for if they were gone. TL;DR: I like Ga-Rei Zero, my relationship with my sister blows and I’m a big loner.
drawing tip below: (mostly me bitching, but there are tips)
Finally. I know it’s none of my business. But if any other animu/weeaboo artists read this. For fuck sake, stop drawing fucking anime characters with fucking angel/devil wings. It hurts to see someone put a tonne of effort rendering a character in excessive detail and have it be blown off in less than 2 seconds because the composition blows and the subject blows. It has reached a stage where it is nearly impossible to tastefully draw a character with wings without it looking horribly cliche and enormously retarded. Contrary to whatever you think, it doesn’t make the character look cool, or badass, it makes them look faggy, so stop it. The only way they can be made more cliche and shitty is if you make the character either pensive/in deep thought (read: poker face), or have a single tear running down their cheek.
To make a composition that doesn’t suck you have to think about what you’re putting together. Your composition should be interesting in that it walks the viewer through the picture. Or be done in a way that would make the viewer take maybe 10-20 seconds to look and admire it. Place a background, use perspective. Give your character an adaquate expression without relying too much on manga conventions or make them do something. - Try to do these, become good at them and you can create something memorable.
The last thing you want is another bishie with angel wings or whatever standing in the middle of the page looking pensive whilst plastered ontop of a photoshop generated background of random colours and shapes. It’s boring and won’t hold attention for longer than 2 seconds. Things like Magazine covers use these types of drawings because it’s a composition which affectively draws a passerby’s attention to the book.
It’s been a long time since I’ve done an original piece. Here is the WIP as per usual.
No Touhou at the moment
I’m more determined to be able to paint proper backgrounds and landscapes than to find a job, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing. Yeah. My rough “sketching” (if you can even call it that) is messy as hell. I don’t think it’s going to impress anybody who isn’t myself and my mom anytime soon.
Filed under: Misc.
As of yesterday at approximately 3:00pm. I became a graduate of the University of Toronto. It was a long day, I’m still tired, and my feet hurt from having to wear stuff I’m not used to wearing. But it was fun, they had guest speakers at my convocation and at the convocation that I attended after mine had ended (cheering for friends). I originally didn’t want to go because if it’s anything like my highschool graduation. It was unmemorable and insignificant. And I do not have family here. So it would’ve just been me at this event anyways. But I guess I really did forget about friends. As it turns out they were all there. It was good to see some of them for the last time before they go off to do their own thing in some other country.
As for me, I guess I’ll be unemployed here for a little while and draw more pictures of little girls with funny hats. Practise makes perfect.
tapped the well of creativity dry for that one. *points at post title*
its a continuation of the first one from the last post! hooo!
I decided to do a touhou short! It has a bunch of reused frames with edits…But the point really is the idea. I hope it’s cute enough. And my sequential art needs work so I figure I might try doing these 4koma style shorts every now and again as opposed to a full blown doujin…start slow I guess.
I hope my writing isn’t too awful.
