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The other day, I drew a bit with my friend on iScribble. Before she hopped on, I drew Aang from avatar for the first time. I think he turned out nicely.

Once she hopped online, after our crazy art session, this is what we ended up with. Unfortunately, you miss out on most of the awesome that took place before.

Kamina Carrot!!!!!

So while roaming the internets, I stumbled upon http://www.iscribble.net. iScribble is a website that allows you to paint chat. You can chat and draw pictures with people online at the same time. Drawing with strangers make for some interesting collaborations.

I enjoy chatting to people, but I enjoy drawing with others doubly so. While the “drawing” software is a bit archaic compared to some current oekaki boards, I find the group nature very entertaining. I’m sure a quick Google search will yield many other paint chat sites and there may be better ones out there.

Anyway, give it a shot if you haven’t, and if you wouldn’t mind gettin’ some awesome group draw-age, free feel to drop me a message!

It’s that time again. I’ll be working on a picture, not as complex as last time, and will be focusing mostly on the coloring. Hopefully, you will see an update from me every couple of days, depending on how motivated I am.

Once again, I begin with a sketch.

Yes. It’s quite horrid. I’m mostly putting my ideas down on “paper” to get a physical sense of things. Once I figure it’s worth drawing, on to the next step.

Another sketch.

I started with a nice light brown background, and fleshed out another sketch with some darker brown. Black and white is so 90’s. And besides, I want to avoid using heavy lines in the the final product. Therefore, it’s better overall if I avoid sketching with high contrast. As you can see, the pose has changed. I changed the feet to fit the “feel” of the picture. Since her upper body seems so genki, it’s only right that her feet are happy as well. I’ve never really drawn big floppy hats in the wind, so hopefully this is a good enough of a representation.

06/10 - So now I’ve started to fix up the lines. I was originally thinking I would just paint over everything, but it I caved in and decided to add some solid lines. While doing so, I’ve been correcting some oddities and drawing her parts on different layers. (arms, hat, face, etc…)

New one hopefully will replace this one soon.

06/12 - Argh! I hate drawing feet. If the perspective is off by a few degrees along any of the 3 axes, the foot ends up looking disjointed. I’ll… fix it later.

!@#$!!

06/16 - I think I’m done with the lineart. I’m more or less satisfied with the foot, and the cape part doesn’t make too much sense, but I think it won’t get any better. I think it’s time to add some color. The whole carrot thing was a spur of the moment thing. Why not, right?

So much joy...

Plopped some colors in. I think I have a terrible design sense. Feel free to give me color suggestions!

06/17 - As odd as it is, I’ve decided she’ll be flying around in the daytime, mostly to make coloring easier for me. I thought the purple was a bit harsh, so I made it a less angry color. Pastel colors seemed like the way to go.

SHADOWS! I’m quite convinced now that I simply have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to shading anything besides skin. I think I should simply cel-shade everything. Bleh. I imagine there’s some sun in front of her, but my shading is wonky even with that knowledge.

06/19 - I’ve done a little more cleanup and strengthened some shadows. I’ve also plopped in some clouds, meaning that I’ve begun to lose my interest in continuing this piece. Heh.

06/29 - In the end, I’ve proven to myself that I don’t ever really know what I’m doing. I gave her some horrendous makeup, and finished adding lighting effects that couldn’t possibly exist. Regardless, I think I’m finished and I prolly won’t be working on another one until my self-disgust fades. Hope you enjoyed my downward spiral.

As I was working on my History page, I couldn’t help but sift through my comics at my old site. There was a 2 part 14 comic long segment called “Korean Discipline” in ‘04 and ‘05. Essentially they are just one shot comics involving a father and his son. At the time of creation, my friends found it deathly funny, and I still find them pretty amusing. I’ve decided to post them here so they aren’t lost to the dark corners of the internets. Enjoy.

By the way, in no way do these comics reflect my life. Honest.