Painting

I finished something, hurray!

The colour layers took away a lot of the value. Totes got lazy on the wings, but wings are awful. FFFF the skin was so beautiful in greyscale D: D: D: Besides the legs, I do really like the drawing. Need to work on flowy, lovely hair though.

This blog needs more man. Mostly naked, probably. Mmmmm, Muscle study. Lean muscles. Ahahah.

I've been playing my DS lately. Pokemon Diamond. It's a pain to level in that version. Only one more evolution and my dex is complete, lol. I tried to play more Kirby's Epic Yarn, but a power outage ruined my efforts before I even completed a stage. I have pre-ordered Golden Sun 3. FFFF Excited. Seven(?) years since the last one, haven't actually finished Lost Age though. I finished the game to see the ending but I refused to save clear data until the Dullahan was dead.

Cake Balls

Cake balls. From Bakerella. To be honest, I don't like them. Melting wafers are pretty gross (Not even remotely chocolate flavoured!). Angel food cake isn't so hot either. Next time I'm getting chocolate, I don't care if it melts. In fact, I threw out the cracked open one so I wouldn't have to eat it. At least they look decent. (Like truffles, but truffles are like 100x better. I'll have to whip some mint ones up during the holidays, I think)

But, everyone at work liked them. The ones I brought in were all eaten. I'm ruining their diets apparently. The family likes them too. I don't bake for just myself, since I could never eat it all, and I really don't have the motivation if it's just for me.

I'll have to make Hello Kitty ones next time, but with white chocolate.

In art news, I really have to cross-browser test websites before I decide the coding is pretty much done. Internet Explorer should learn to stop sucking, seriously. Now I have to throw in fixes. I'll have to make a point of putting Best Viewed in Firefox on the main page. Since it is.

Progress and Kirby

More Rydia progress. Not looking forward to painting all of the patters on her clothes. Though, I should probably just make a brush or a stamp to make it much, much easier. Her other boot and cape are the big parts left to paint on her, and also the background. I have some complex lighting planned, so I hope that goes over well. Colouring will be simple, after all it will just be overlays then rendering.

I recently bought Kirby's Epic Yarn. So adorable, and I am certainly not disappointed. The graphics are really unique, every texture is fabric and plush, some platforms even squish as Kirby walks on them. The difficulty is pretty decent, I've had to replay a couple levels to get gold medals and all of the treasures, and I know it'll just keep getting more difficult. Not since Kirby 64 have I been this pleased with a Kirby game, the handheld games after Nightmare in Dreamland were far too easy, though I really did enjoy Amazing Mirror. Canvas Curse, not so much.

Friday is my work Halloween party. I don't have a costume, since all of my pieces are in storage, but I am going to be making cake balls. I've had the ingredients for them sitting around for a couple of months, and no reason to make them, so now I do. I hope they taste good, since melting wafers are not the tastiest things in the world but chocolate melts far too easily.

Life Drawing

Did some life drawing yesterday. It's been about a year since I last did some. The model was great. It was quite fun, though I was the youngest there by far. I think I need to pick up some non-old person hobbies/a job with people closer to my age.

I've put a couple more drawings after the jump, since one contains artistic nudity.

First Post!

A painting I am working on of Rydia of FF4. A cross between her DS art and her After Years art.

I am currently playing Rydia's Tale, FF4: The After Years. It's a very nice throwback to the earlier games, though, it would have been better if I could buy all the chapters at once, instead of each on separately. I also just bought Final Fantasy The Four Heroes of Light, also a nostalgic style game. Very cute character designs. I don't like not picking targets. But the crown system is neat, they all have different hats. But I definitely do not like how spell books take up space in the very limited inventory. I am always juggling what I have in there.