*yawns* Today is the All Saints'.

[keire_ke]

Lazy days are good. *stretches* Thought for some reason they never fail to give me a headache. Must be the sleep. Too much of it gets to me real fast.

Apparently something major happened on the main campus and the lecture centre is out of commission. I hope they won't be able to fix is before Wendesday. I really cannot be bothered to go to the lecture tomorrow. I have that assignment to finish and all... (yeah, riiiight).

Only a month and a half till I go home for Christmas! Yay!

From "Into the Light". Pencil and Photoshop. (finally got off my lazy ass and finished!)

Happy anniversary merula31 and darthliterate!!!

Comments

[gwy.livejournal.com]

Aw Duo looks really really wonderful, i love his face! Aaw makes me wanna hug him!
Great job!! *hugs*

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *hugs you back*

[ashenskies.livejournal.com]

ooh pretty! ^___^ background's perfect this time - it looks sort of like the world around Duo's tilted on its axis and stretching down into infinity, but Duo's unaffected and cool as always, standing on air. ^_^

though there seems to be something slightly off about the proportions of Duo's head and body - I think his head's a little too big...? *squints* it looks fine on first glance, but if you look at it longer... hmm. sorry, can't give you anything definite. maybe it's the contrast of colour that did it.

speaking of that, I like the contrast between the colour of his body and his clothes! *beams* reminds me of Morpheus - the new one, the white one at the end of the series - in The Sandman. and his hand and face and body and hair are all perfectly done in terms of detail. (: the expression! XD and the pose... *sighs happily* beautiful.

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

*grins* I would half-expect him to do so, in case the world ever did go off.

It might be. I am looking at it now, and thinking that he is a little too slim for his own head. *ponders* Need to pay more attention. *smacks forehead*

I discovered that plain pencil pictures are damn good. *nodnod* There's so much you can do with just grey!

[ashenskies.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* sketches with pencils of different shades can be more real than pictures with colour - grey sketches feature in one of my latest fics. colour sometimes cartoonizes things. I love sketchy pics best, even more than watercolour... you know that red-goldish pic you drew of Heero and Duo? that had a sketchy quality to it, which contributed to the overall effect.

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

That's very true. Unfortunately. *hides*

It was made of an actual pencil sketch, while most of my stuff is first inked. It's a constant pain in my side, the fact that while my sketches look really good (I can sketch almost anything, and it will look good) the finished picture is merely nice. *sighs* Oh well. *gets down to practicing*

[ashenskies.livejournal.com]

personally, I tend to leave my drawings in sketch form, because once I start defining the lines it ends up looking fake. >_< if you really want to ink the picture, but don't want to lose the sketch quality, have you tried using different thickness of black pens to go over the sketch lines? three common nib thickness are 0.7, 0.5 and 0.4, and I have a 0.38... or you could use one pen and vary the number of strokes.

no, no, I wasn't referring to your pictures when I mentioned the colour thing. colour does cartoonize things, but the way you pull it off is okay - you use shades, and not entirely block colours, and the overall effect is a good one. especially that gold-red picture, that was a brilliant example of good colouring. ^_^

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

I have a rapitograph, which is 0.18. I like it a lot, but the line thickness is one thing, I lack skill in the lineart department. It takes practice. x__X

Colour is a difficult thing to pull, nevertheless. Glad you think so. I really like how that picture turned out. ^___^

[ashenskies.livejournal.com]

ack, that is one fine pen. o.O I'd be afraid of breaking the nib if I tried using that. well... practice, then. (:

*nodnod* I gave up working with colour. ^_^ glad you didn't...

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

What I'm really looking forward to, is getting a tablet. *fingers itching* I played with one a little at work and I can tell it helps. *nods*

Happy you think so. *beams* Maybe you reconsider?

[ashenskies.livejournal.com]

a tablet! the stuff of art gods who colour on the comm. ;_; getting one anytime soon?

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

*grins* Christmas. I can't wait!

[ashenskies.livejournal.com]

Christmas! I weep. ;_; you lucky, lucky pig. >_< uh, in a nice way.

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

*grins*

[regina-sama.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous pic, Kei-sama! *o* He looks so sad and lonely... ;__; I hope Heero's somewhere in the shadows there, ready to jump out and frisk him! *hee* Great job. <3

~*Regina*~

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

*coughs* Heero is being the beneficient of the show. Tied to a chair. Having a mental breakdown. *grins widely*

Thank you! *hearts*

[merula31]

I'm thinking of Sin City for some reason... the bricks and the whole atmosphere suggest it... how very cool!

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

I didn't have SC in mind with this, but I really do think it's fitting. Dark, spooOOOOooky... *grins* Thank you!

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

That is a gorgeous pic of Duo, hun. I would normally say that I prefer colour pics but your use of b/w here really adds to the atmosphere, and I think colour would not have given the same effect.

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

There are some pics that absolutely cannot colour, of the effect would be lost. *nods*