http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:lightblinded-analog&section=today deviantART RSS for by:lightblinded-analog en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:39:34 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/25706471/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/25706471/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:25 PDT
Now let's see if I can finally start using this page for what it was meant for...

Oh, and while I haven't given up on being a writer, I think maybe this page isn't meant for samples. I don't have a whole lot of need for critiques, as much as I just want general opinions of completed work, so I'll save that for private activity.

Oh, and as part of my "fresh start" I'm clearing the slate on collabs. From now on, art I work on will be originated solely by me, or at the very least at the request of someone else. Collabs that start from someone else's sketch, well... that's gonna be rare. Most people work at a scale larger than I enjoy working on; projects that are too large tend to seem like I will never finish them, with few exceptions, so I've pretty much given up on working at any scale larger than 640x480 pixels.

As for *what* I will post, art will come in multiple formats. Doodles and rough images (not posting anything that has less than 2 shades of grey, and usually it will be in color) will be at least once a week provided I've had time to work on them. Everything else won't be updating at regular intervals unless I have a batch of pics to put up. If I do upload them, expect them to be more or less twice a week occurences.

Photos will be uploaded all at once provided I can find an easy way to upload multiple photos; otherwise they'll be posted once a day when I have the time to get to the library for it. Yes, that's right, I'm an amateur photographer now. In the event that anybody cares to order them, I'll look into selling prints. Though I don't really expect that, and don't know how it works yet, I could use a source of income, and I've learned I have to stop providing work I do for free all the time, or I'm going to end up a starving artist. I am told I have a good eye for composition, so I'm encouraged enough to attempt this if I actually get a real request.

Other than that, I don't have a lot to say...

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/22922660/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/22922660/ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:12:30 PST
I guess it wouldn't hurt if I uploaded a few of the things I've been working on... they're really tiny, though. I'm not much for pixel art; in fact I pretty much hate doing it. But working with a decent brush on a small scale, now that's something I can get behind. I'm using the same techniques I used to make the last character design I uploaded, just I'm a bit more used to using them now; that was pretty much a first attempt.

I'm still going to do landscapes as well, I'm just working on getting the right perspective and feel. I had been attempting to learn and use someone else's graphical style for that, and I just wasn't succeeding the way I wanted to - it might be because I'm using different tools, or it might just be because I'm not that other person and therefore don't have the relevant skill, but either way I've decided I'm going to have to pursue my own style without copying others as much as possible.

It occured to me, though: most 2D artists working with real media do their work on a 1:1 scale that suits the size of the media they work on. So why shouldn't I draw at a scale appropriate for the pixel medium that still looks the way I want it? Thus I started adjusting to the style I've adopted. It works for characters only right now, but I will eventually extend it to landscapes. I just have to figure out what size is the maximum I can tolerate.

If I don't update with new work today, I'll update on Thursday or Friday.

I'm sitting classes out this semester, there wasn't a whole lot of interest, and what classes I was interested in taking were either inconvenient or not available due to lack of demand. Dammit...

Oh, and I'm still looking for a job. But that should've been pretty obvious.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/19864874/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/19864874/ Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:45:47 PDT
Part of the reason for this is I'm studying what others do, in an attempt to reach some sort of "higher level" of art. Futility, thy name is Passion.

I also have other hobbies (music, writing, game design), which are proving to be fairly fulfilling but time-consuming as well.

And of course, having to drive someone to and from work, taking them shopping and/or doing their shopping for them, and other such activities have been eating up a lot of my free time (which isn't helping me get a job either, but I dare to say I'm still spending my time in a way that's better, on some moral level, than pushing shopping carts around all week long).

In any case, I'm lucky my current occupation as a "care-taker", as it were, allows me a relatively large amount of downtime during which I can pursue game design in text form. I have a concept for a pen and paper game I've been working on - this time a totally unique one of my own creation that is somewhat of a genre-bender - that is actually mechanically sound and feasible at the same time. Hey, maybe somebody will play it someday, instead of listen to me babble on about it! But nobody cares about that yet.

Today, I also came up with a fun story idea that will hopefully develop into a project I can justify spending time working on. It seems like a solid plan, although at the moment I only have an outline, and things often look better on paper than they do... on manuscript paper. We will see where it takes me.

So, to sum up what I've been spending my time on:
- Building decent decks in Magic: The Gathering, because apparently I still enjoy it.
- Ferrying around a sick friend, to and fro from different places, at different angles.
- Designing a pen and paper game
- Wondering if I'll ever get to play a creative role in making a video game
- Haphazardly writing one story that used to be two
- Suddenly coming up with another story idea (which is really, really cool, and seems as if it won't need to merge with another one to be a solid one)
- Trying to plan next semester's classes around the possibility of work
- Looking for a job with variable hours that I have some control over, that pays at least $8-10/hr. and has benefits at some point
- Letting my video games collect dust
- Wishing I had cable, a new piano/hookup set, and a gamepad, all for my computer
- Wishing I had a Tablet PC
- Studying old/new artwork and thinking about doing some of my own
- Being sorta bored of TV
- Wishing I had more games to play with my friends

Well that was a fairly pointless post. Hopefully I'll post something of substance soon.

Oh, and here are a few of the things I'm looking at for classes, in case anyone wants to suggest I should go for one or the other:

- Novel Writing/Fiction Writing/Science Fiction and Fantasy (pick one)
- Painting
- Another Design class, maybe
- Photography (not high on my priorities, but it would give me an excuse/method to take pictures of stuff for art references)
- Some sort of sports-oriented class that's noncompetitive (would make exercise easier, but still sucks since it'd be a group sports thing, and I'm required to take one at some point for my degree)

And I'm sort of interested in Archaeology, History, that sort of stuff, as well as maybe some more Liberal Arts stuff since that seems like a sound job option to keep the rest of my interests funded (assuming I can actually get hired somewhere, jeez!).

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/18739280/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/18739280/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:14:56 PDT
Come on, guys.

Sure, I'd like to be able to say I got as far as I have without relying on anyone else, but let's be realistic; you can only reinvent the wheel so many times before you get tired of what's wrong with your work and go learn how others worked around the same issues.

Especially in a place like this, when you see a good artist you'd like to ask a question of, you probably want to leave a comment, and then if you do actually decide to go ahead and try, you'll probably spend a lot of time afterwards hoping and praying they'll get back to you.

Unless of course you're somebody well-read (like, um, a journalist) who offers to blog about them in front of everyone - then a few of them might jump on the bandwagon and give you a lot of interesting trivial information about themselves. So, okay. But in my experience, the majority that goes along with it do it just so they can increase their own popularity, and a large majority of the rest of them refuse to do it because that's exactly what it looks like (which, while it'd be an acceptable and valid form of self-promotion, doesn't mean it's not attention-mongering), so that's really not fair either.

Bleh... anyway, I continue to mumble into the depths of the internets.

School starts in approximately 11 hours. Figure I'll have to post up something soon... I'm still working on Moonshaft's thingagummy, er... damn, for once I have to complain about the name chosen for someone else's creation. I just can't spell it. Anyway, the whole elf foresty-place scenery will be getting some attention in the next day or so. Been putting it off again; I think it's just the scale of the piece that makes it hard to finish.

Or I'm just being flippant. It happens. Hope nobody's too disappointed with me now. >_>;

Oh well. On the upside, with school starting tomorrow, I may meet some interesting new people!
Or a bunch of plain, mumbling fools who remind me of what I'd be like if my IQ were about 50 points lower. Okay, that's sort of mean, but after all, you never know who will be giving you the awkward looks when you walk into a classroom on the first day of the new semester.

Oh, and squirrels.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/18321243/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/18321243/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:44:03 PDT A) Fail miserably
B) Get delayed
C) Be ignored
or
D) Otherwise take more than a reasonable amount of time to see through.

First off, I wanna say I've restarted the project of coloring Moonshaft's Gwahilorn, Heiianir (the first attempt, scaled down, can be seen in my scraps). By restarted, I mean I went back to the lineart and decided I could do a much better job on it if I started from scratch. I know it's a really old project of mine, but I promised I'd get it done and I'd like to see that through. And of course, you really can't rush art, now, can ya?

Second, I've got another original landscape in the works, hopefully much better than the last - it'll be more detailed, and the quality of the workmanship overall will essentially be much higher.

Neither of these two projects will be getting posted before the end of May, as I have things coming up like school and I've been very busy trying to find a job. I also have another personal project which takes precedence over both in terms of getting it done. Needless to say it's one of those things I won't be posting up here. Such is life. But I'm not a career artist yet, so they'll be done when they're done and no sooner.

As for character concepts (which are at the moment easier for me than landscapes but still harder than writing), I'm taking a hiatus from doing them. I love the fact that at any given moment I can sketch out the form of some random character's head, but I need to study clothing a lot more before I'll really feel confident about my designs. My biggest sticking points (or so I feel) are textures and minute details, so I'll be working those issues out before I upload another one. Unless of course someone asks me to do something special for them.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/17918966/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/17918966/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:10:44 PDT
So yeah, this one's got a landscape for ya'll. That's almost nifty.

I could use some development in this area, as I'd really like to do more landscapes but haven't the foggiest idea of how to improve. Though that doesn't stop me from trying...

Links to tutorials or something would be nice. Then again, so would just comments or discussion.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/17654204/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/17654204/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:58:51 PDT
What I made? It's a drawing. If there's a deviation around here, it's *me*.

I'm back by the way, at least for now.

I used a two-pixel brush for all but the most tiny bits of this; the rest were 1px. Except in the cases where there's fill. You see the fill? That's a large brush.

You know, I am multidiscipline by nature. I should write something one of these days. And not confine it to a journal entry. Right?

Well, we'll see. I consider myself a better writer than an artist at present.

So it's time for me to go now - I almost quoted Shakespeare.

Salad!

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/17412340/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/17412340/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:04:56 PDT
So, I went to some awesome places, crashed on people's couches... yeah, 'twas fun. If I had a camera, I might show ya'll what I did and where I went, but as I really don't feel words are enough to express my travels, I'm not about to say a word yet. Except that there was lots of snow. Compared to warm places where I live. Yup.

Also, cats!
Friggin' cats. Sleepin' on my suitcase.

So: this was fairly obvious, but it appears my penchant for writing is limited mostly to rules and concepts for games. Which isn't entirely a bad thing, but it means I'm going to be putting off any novels for awhile as I'm working on what I'm good at for the moment.

Not to toot my own horn (but rather, to play my own piano), my art style's improved a bit. If my scanner actually worked with my new computer, I would have something to back that up with. Until then, enjoy my arrogant boasting! Er, wait, that's not what I meant to say. And yet it fits so well...

So: in any case, scanner's not gonna get used again any time soon, which means neither is this place. Journal. Thing. Well, the journal might get used... I don't have to scan in text after all. But yeah. No pics. Although I'm thinking I might try putting some tablet-only art up soon.

And, that's it.

Cool new games:
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Brawl, if I ever get to play it. I'll try to remember to check back in a week and say I did, 'cause I prolly will.

J Sandwich, ovar.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/13588289/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/13588289/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:08:20 PDT
I'm kinda bored outta my skull, and noticed the journal here hasn't been updated for... almost half a year. Wow. Note the significant lack of entheusiasm with which I point this out. That's because I really haven't done anything worthy of being called artistic for quite awhile! (My excuse for the past week was that I was not home and it was too damn hot at any rate. Actually, that's my excuse for this week and next week, too).

On the other hand, I do now have a shiny new computer. Which means I will probably be posting something up... eventually. It really depends on how much free time I have - I am basically starting my life over from... well, I can't call it scratch. It's more like I cracked open a pie, drained out all the goo, and then filled the crust with something different, baked it, and burned the crust. Lovely yet disgusting. And admittedly kind of stupid, but you know me. Some things never change. Like my mood; it's still Content.

Anyway, some notes on my art:
I've been practicing a little here and there. I've actually declined in skill level a bit, but only from lack of use. Sort of like how I stopped having super-reflexes in video games after I took a few months off from playing them for the first time - I was grounded >_<. But again, ages ago. Moving on.

On the upside, thanks to teh new compy, I now have a much larger, sharper, wider screen to work with, and a lot more memory to work with (yay max capacity!) - and this has actually made my drawing implements more accurate. On the downside, two of my art programs got jacked because I lost their install CDs. But no worries, I still have what I need the most. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not just using this for drawing. Which may actually be part of the reason I'm not producing any real art, but still - I am also brainstorming and writing for a book of sorts (no expectations about it being published, ever, but at the very least if I ever need to sell out, I'll have something with which to buy things that I can eat).

Now, let's see... anything else? Meh, not really. I do a little work here and there on a certain game creation project, which anybody reading this has probably already heard of (and therefore I won't mention what it is) - nothing technical, it's mainly oversight, consulation, and errand-running. Mostly consultation. Actually, I'm just going to shut up about it now. The main thing is I'm not getting paid. There, burst your bubble, didn't I?!

I need a job. That's um... the sum and substance of what I *should* be doing, but unfortunately I suck too much to get one right now. Or something. Hell, I don't know, maybe I need a tan? Anyway it is getting to be light out now - almost 6am. Suffice it to say I won't be getting a job in the next 24 hours, short of a miracle occuring (and if THAT's a miracle, this world's miracles suck). Hoo-boy.

... why do I feel like saying "I want to go home" when I *AM* at home?
...

Meh, random sentiment. Needs flipping.
Okay, see you peoples some other time! I have shit to do... yeah... shit... blargh.

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EDIT: Looks like I'm probably not going to update soon. If I do, it won't be anything major. Anyway... I do have classes finally. Art classes. An Art class, to be specific, and no more than that. Perhaps now I can finally start turning my artwork into something worth looking at!

I jest. It's entirely possible to become a good artist on your own. It just goes faster if you have a teacher.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/11308381/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/11308381/ Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:45:19 PST
That's all I had to say. Rock on!

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BEING DONE
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- "World of Mana" fanart project/composite*
- PSU-based original character/costume
- "Color-inspired" desktop graphics
- Cursor set - "Shell Ice"*
- Icon set - "Runes" (indefinite # of entries)*
- Life-to-art sketch/CG (for a friend)*
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TO-DO
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- Hoverbike design
- "Armor" Sketch and/or CG
- Ode to Gamelan
- Teriyaki Chicken (perplexing, ain't it?)
- etc.
==============

That's all I wrote, people!
- "the absence of something can indicate its existence"

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/11274639/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/11274639/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:30:42 PST I've now officially survived for 21 years (by some people's standards). 5 more months, and that will be officially-official, by everyone's standards. Congratulations are in order, people.

I thought peoples would be interested to know what I've gained from being around fer so long. Well, I'll tell you. For starters, I made a lot of new friends just before the New Year (in the time of the past month and a half, I've gained about 6). I've also learned quite a bit, including a lesson which I feel everyone ought to learn at some point in their life - which is, if you're going to judge yourself, do it based on what you haven't done yet and want to do, rather than what you've already done. And then make it a point to get it done. You could call it motivation. I simply call it a good idea.

I've posted my New Year's resolutions elsewhere... yes, I do have them, but no, they're not horribly relevant to anyone's interests. Or major.

I'm still working on various projects (creative projects), two of which have been in the works awihle, and the rest of which are short-term visual art, and such. Of course, requests are always appreciated, as they give me something to do in the time that I'm not feeling creative enough to come up with side-projects to keep me occupied and inspired whilst I have writer's block, or whatever the analog of that is for artists who come up with stuff to draw based on unfinished stories that float around in their heads. That said, here's a list of the requests I've already accepted... things I've started on are marked with *'s.

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- "World of Mana" fanart project/composite*
- PSU-based original character/costume
- "Color-inspired" desktop graphics
- Cursor set - "Shell Ice"*
- Icon set - "Runes" (indefinite # of entries)*
- Life-to-art sketch/CG (for a friend)*
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Which of these will actually see daylight on dA, beyond the two that are partially already here, I don't know for sure yet. I may not post the Life-to-art sketch, since I don't want to embarass anyone by posting their likeness - without specific instruction to do so, at any rate - though I will be sending it to that person as soon as it's done, and it almost is. That "World of Mana" composite is the same thing as the Seiken Densetsu composite I made mention of in my previous entry. Not that anyone who regularly comes here doesn't know that already.

I don't know why I even bother updating this thing. I'm pretty sure there are maybe five people who read it. I'm gonna make one more new entry after this, at some point, and then go back to silent mode. This update is purely just because it's New Year's, and I wanted to make sure everyone knows I'm not ignoring my dA account. I think we're done here, except for me stating - for my own reference - what's on my to-do list that isn't on my mind on a daily basis.

TO-DO
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- Hoverbike design
- "Armor" Sketch and/or CG
- Ode to Gamelan
- Teriyaki Chicken (perplexing, ain't it?)
- etc.
==============

That's all I wrote, people!
- "the absence of something can indicate its existence"

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10865091/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10865091/ Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:09:05 PST
I'm holding off on any updates until after New Year's. This is mostly 'cause I'm probably going to wind up getting interrupted before I can finish anything, and then by the time it's done it'll be that last holiday again, and I'll have to leave the apartment and go celebrate elsewhere (I always get dragged along for things like that). I like holidays, but I hate how the festivities prohibit me from having a schedule of my own, when I don't feel like staring at a TV screen to watch a ball drop slowly. I hope someday they just replace it with a laser-light illusion of the same thing. Maybe then it'll go faster 'cause they won't have to worry about breaking the damn thing.

Again, requests are appreciated. I need more work to put on my to-do list.

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Projects/Ideas in the works:
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- Seiken Densetsu Composite Sketch* (request)
- Hoverbike design
- "Armor" Sketch and/or CG
- Ode to Gamelan
- PSU-based stuff
- Desktop-sized thingy* (request)
- Teriyaki Chicken (perplexing, ain't it?)
- etc.

= *denotes current work
= (request) denotes a request, obviously.
=====================
Requests are there just for fun. They'll be done when they're done, but so long as it's in my ability to complete them, they WILL get done.

Please, no villains or obscure characters (unless they're really cool obscure characters). I have an easy time doing stuff from games (my earlier pic of Sasha, in my scraps, notwithstanding) but I'll draw just about anything, as long as I know (or am informed of) what it is, and it isn't obscene.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10478723/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10478723/ Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:16:38 PDT
A few quick words about the works that are up at this point in time - I'm sure I'll add more without changing this journal - and then I won't talk anymore today:

[-]A Coupl'a Heads[-]
This one was a proprietary sketch for a personal project that I'll probably never finish. I think I said that in the comments, too. That being said I've fairly well given up on it, since there doesn't seem to be any hope of doing stuff with them without reincarnating them into some other tale I have to tell. Probably will return as either a cameo, once I start doing art again, or as themselves in a story that revolves partially around them.

[-]This Almost Killed My Internet[-]
I think I got the title right. Not that it matters.
I was trying to color this one last night but it didn't go so well. I got feverish and quit. I think I'm probably sick. I don't have much to say here, except that if people are going to bitch at me about design, I'm just going to point out that I'm the artist, and I know best where it applies to my own work. Then they'll really have something to complain about.

[-]Shell Ice Cursor[-]
This is a cursor, for those of you to whom the concept is still new. View it, download it, use it, or trash it. I don't really care if you don't like it. I'd like you to think I was glad you were using it, of course, as I do rather like the design myself. But then you'd have to actually tell me you like it, and people just never open up enough to do that, or anything that might seem remotely like a compliment. So in lieu of that, I'm just glad I was able to make it. It's nifty.

So, this note has about finished up. There are two sketches, one of which I'm proud of (I'm proud of anything I do that has foxes in it) and the other one of which was just a doodle, and I have no real attatchment to it. So there you go. That's the last of my rants. Hopefully for a long time. Buh-bye.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10335881/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10335881/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:34:14 PDT I'm working on a few landscapes now, one will be CG'd by the time I upload it, the other will likely remain a sketch. The heads, btw, like the other sketch, will be placed in my Scraps once I get ample opportunity to replace them with something better.

And just to shed some light on my policies overall, it's not typical of me to discard (any part) of a person once I find a replacement. That makes it sound like I have a corpse fetish or something, huh?

Oh well.
I wish CSS were available to non-subscribers...
Not that I know how to use them or anything.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10308103/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10308103/ Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:19:10 PDT
Everyone on my watch list, has, of course, been viewed to their fullest most recent potential, though I'm certain that has something to do with why I have been lazy about updating, but...

Anyhow, I like what I've been hearing, for the most part, so I'll continue to do what I can. Still peeved about the massive CG work I started on over three weeks ago, but I've been working on bringing the quality of "painting" up to code. Tiny houses are actually the hardest thing to color adaquately, but I imagine it would help a lot if I had a faster processor... this computer I have to work with is fairly old (by standards of my old one it's brand-spanking new, though).

More to say at a later date. As always. J out.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10271608/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10271608/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:37:29 PDT
Anyway, I've got some good news, and some bad news. The good news is, my friends are more sane than I am. The bad news is, they're also repeating arguments that have happened all around the world already, thousands of times over, and I just want to smack them all in their heads and tell them to stop.

I don't expect them to listen to me, but going and doing something is a lot better than sitting on my ass worrying and trying to work the odds, so for once, rather than ignore the problem, I'm going to attempt to fix it.

More to say later.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10258865/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10258865/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:44:25 PDT
So, no one is probably wondering where the hell I've been, and what's taking me so long to get stuff online. It's called delays, via other people's schedules being more important than mine. I think - for shame - I have given in to more schedule delays than are deserved, this week. Again.

I'd like to rescind my earlier statement, about my art becoming more bleak. Oh, it will, but not to a deep degree, not a one such as what I was babbling about earlier. In other words, this will be the kind of morbid that's fun - i.e., aliens popping out of one's chest, as opposed to a posessed deer head mounted on a wall, swiveling around and working its mouth. Have fun with the nightmares, kiddies.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10239337/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10239337/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:22:00 PDT
Honestly, I've made it my home for many years, and I think I'm gonna move on, now. I'm tired of the scenery.

Like I said, I'm gonna be changing up my art style. I meant to be home by today to scan in the stuff I've been working on, but I had a longer-than-expected stay and I'm having to compensate for it - thus two updates in one day. As if anyone cared enough to complain. Heh. You'll see another one either late today or tomorrow, depending on what I feel up to doing once I *do* get home.

From here on out, I'm not really sure what my stuff is gonna look like. But I do know I'm beginning to care less and less about making the art simply look *real* and more about making it look *right*. I expect a little bit of the cartoony (yes, I'm blaspheming by speaking that word), and a lot of CG-heavy stuff when I have the time to do it. This basically means, I won't be slacking off when it comes to art. No shortcuts. Every method I use is gonna be one I like, not just the easy way out.

Congratulate me, I'm pious.
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Game, Set, Match!

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Also, I think my art style is going to take a shift, to the morbid/cute spectrum of things. From which it will promptly fall into the apocalyptic end of things, and never return.

World, your safety net just disappeared.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10208109/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10208109/ Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:49:13 PDT This time it's actually in my deviations... I'm planning to CG it, so it stays there until I finish with that.
And I did do more to it on the computer than just scan it, in the way of correcting lines, so MEH.
It stays where I put it, for now.

And, if anyone says otherwise... well, barring admins... too bad.

Alright, announcement: I'm goin' away for about three days. Don't think anyone'll miss me, but where I'm going there's a computer with Photoshop on it so I might just CG my latest work while I'm there if I get bored.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10178118/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10178118/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:35:18 PDT
Dancing around the subject, as always.
Um... pointless journal update, for the sake of wasting time. Yup. Really. No announcements to make... or anything.
Damn ASCII artists... always taking shit and... redrawing it.
With symbols.

I should get into that.

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Just curious... I'm probably not going to be doing anything CG-ish to my existing works that are in scraps, so should I just call them "finished" and move them to deviation status?
Anybody?

As for the "collaboration" I was going to be posting - last week? was it that long ago? - I'm still gonna do it, but it's passed WAY out of its timeframe, so I might be getting back to it at some other point. Again, it seems, my life is catching up to me no matter how many times I try to run from it or where I try to escape. So things are gonna be a little janky around here from now on. Sorry if that makes it hard... but if I could solve these problems I would.

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Beyond that, I'm about to link up some humor, as soon as I figure out how. Those crazy google ads are at it again!
(Note: Would someone please tell me the proper way to stick images from my photobucket into the journal? This thing is pissing me off)

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10136117/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10136117/ Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:09:17 PDT Sasha!

So, this one isn't bad... I will leave my comments in the area they belong, artist's comments, under the picture. I'm thinking I'll try to keep this area rant-free.

More work to be posted soon, I just have to find the time away from doctors and the like to do it all!
... that's all for now. Enjoy. ]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10084424/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10084424/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:53:15 PDT
Anyhow, I'm working on something I'll mention later.
The lack of a cursor request aside, I've loaded myself down with an appropriate amount of work, I'd say. Yep, I'm close to cracking from all this stress, which can only mean I can now do my best work! h00rj!
*grin*

Okay, that was a little childish... but I don't see the need to apologize for being a little zany. It's one of my points of intrigue after all. Or at least, I like to think so. Mwahahaha!
... I depress myself.

But yeah, I guess it wouldn't hurt to say what I've been doing this whole time. So here it is: I've been watching GunXSword, I'm up to episode 16. It's a rather nice anime set in the future, full of mech battles and sword-wielding fools and drama, but it's also sort of dark, as the main character is somewhere between rational and insane. Then again, if someone killed your wife at your wedding, you'd go nuts, too. It takes that kind of tone, but I've yet to see it through to the end, so I'm likely just at the turning point. With only 26 episodes, it's rather short, but I think I'll be fairly impressed with it for simply lasting as long as it did. I'ma go ahead and reccomend it.
(Update: This series was awesome. Kudos to the creators.)

So, in lieu of having actual work to post up, I'll just say this: I'll be done with whatever the hell it is I'm doing by Sunday night. And if I'm not, I'll brick myself. *bricked* 'Nuff said. Sketches in progress are also expected to start getting finished by about that point, but we'll see what happens, won't we?

On a side note, I'm damn slow, but I haven't been lazy. Well, much, anyway. Apologies either way.

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Oh, and I'll still take a request for a cursor. ]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10047323/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10047323/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:49:21 PDT My sketch... still ain't done. But I did get at least halfway done before I realized I need to work a little harder to use my own style and not just do a copy job, sofar as my fanart goes.
So I'm starting it over.

Since it was kind of stupid to start a poll-thing in one of my previous updates, I might as well give it away now. I was doing Advance Wars fanart. Any artist who's seen the concept art for that game could tell it's a little bit difficult a style to work with. So that's what's taking that so long. Anyhow I'm gonna keep the other games on the list in mind... I wouldn't mind drawing Grandia III's "Excise Omega" monster again.

Also, another dissapointment: I haven't finished the lineart yet for the previous work I started last week. But that will get done as soon as I can pry myself off the internet so my computer can dedicate its attention to running Photoshop. Afterwards I'll post it up, and then later I'll CG it.

I guess the deal is, I have a set amount of artwork for a month now (that's 12 pieces) and I need to get at least two or three done a week. However, I think I'm going to drop the weekly requirement I placed on myself to have all three done. This is suitable because I have other stuff in my life that will just interrupt it anyway, so I need to work around it, not get caught on it and jumble up my schedule.

This means that around the end of each month, to the end of the year, I'll be uploading what basically amounts to bonus art - i.e., four works that might not have gotten done in the weeks I started them. It's a little gimmicky, but it's better than doing nothing with stuff I don't finish on time. Right?

Anyway, I have at least proven to myself that if I take my art seriously, I can do a good job, and not get stressed out. Well... not by the artwork, at any rate. All in all, though, that was kind of the point of this schedule-thing. I've been working towards a little more self-confidence.
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Oh, and one last thing: I'm going to accept ONE cursor request. I'll try to get it done by the end of next month. I'm really busy, or I'd take more.
(Update: YOU PEOPLE! MAKE A REQUEST!!!!)

We'll see how this works out.

Everybody enjoy yourselves, now!

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10036893/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10036893/ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:11:27 PDT Yeah, well... I should.

Stuff blew over again. If I have lucky stars, I better hope they don't kill me. I've been overusin' 'em if I do, and well, if there's a deal made, no one's come to collect yet, so I guess I'm screwed.
Thank you, you bright-burning balls of pixie dust, for my somehow-not-sucky-enough-to-make-me-emo life.
Oh, would you look at that. I've gone sure contemplative.

So... birthday party for my dad yesterday went rather well. Unfortunately, he had really bad timing. In addition to it being the calendar date that it is, I was just feeling lousy overall because of something I did recently that turns out - so far - to not be a big enough deal to stress as much as I did. I was also screwed up because of something else that happened to me, for seemingly no reason at all. Which again, made me panic.

Then, someone I care about gave me this, to help:
"You worry more than you should."

She's right.

That about sums up what I needed to talk about. Thanks to everyone who's listening, for letting me rant.
... 'bye for now.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10027686/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10027686/ Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:38:29 PDT It looks like I'll be dissapointing several people today, which is more than I usually have on my agenda at any one time. I can't expect anyone to forgive my retardedness, but... hopefully I didn't f~ck up so badly, and things will blow over like usual. -.-
I wish I didn't have to rely on that so much of the time...

So needless to say, no time to finish my last two works... which is a shame, because I'd already started on the last one while I was waiting for my compy to be freed up so I could CG the one I'd already started... so progress = sketches are done but not uploaded. Those of you looking for cheerier words had better read my previous journal's words of optimism.

As a result, expect further posts either later tonight, with me telling all about my wonderful day of making up for forgetting shit AGAIN...
or sometime tomorrow, demonstrating that yes I do my work, it may be late, but I always get it done. As always.
Gah, I am such a fecking retard.

Also, not to make anybody concerned - because I know it will make at least one person worry if I say this, but recent pains have indicated to me that yes, I am sick, and therefore sometime this next week I'll be going out to try and get help for whatever the hell it is that's wrong with me...
So if I get no further works done, at least I have a good excuse.

And no, it's not a horrible flesh-eating disease, it's not coughing up blood. Nothing that bad. I can't go and leave a corpse behind until I'm at least 50% robot, after all. Then my ass can face the wrong way and I can complain about it while I wait to respawn.

But no, it's not deadly or debilitating, so don't worry about it. It's just busy-sick, and I expect to be back in action by Wednesday or so.

Good wishes for everyone, once again. Late.

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10019269/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/10019269/ Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:29:08 PDT I suppose, despite all the complaining I do, this place isn't so bad... but it's still not where I'd like to be. Nonetheless... now I can work on my lineart, and then finish off project number two on my list - I still have to finish number three afterwards... no going easy on myself, after all - by CGing it. The project, by the way, was a sketch with a name, but since then I've erased lines, and added them, and now it's not what it was going to be, so the name isn't gonna match what was in my previous post about it.

So, a little lack of surprise never hurt anyone, but I don't think I'm going to reveal just yet what my third project this week IS. But I have made up my mind, so everyone can hate me for not telling for a few days now. Lol, haters.

I can at least tell you guys it's gonna be video game fanart, though. I DO get tired of drawing original stuff all the time - not that I don't WANT to - even though there really isn't anything posted up here in that category aside from the fox-puppet/girl sketch. So! With that in mind, people are free to play a little guessing game as to what game the character(s) is/are going to be from... since I love those pointless little guessing games, after all (no I don't!).

So here are the games I'm likely to attempt doing fanart for:
- Bomberman (i.e., BM64 and The Second Attack)
- Grandia III (notes this has been done before as a study)
- Advance Wars DS (ooh, that could be fun...)
- Seiken Densetsu 2 or 3 *can't fake watercolor worth a damn*
- Sonic Rush (No, I'm not gonna draw Sonic)
- Golden Sun (try not to speculate, you'll only get mad)
- Final Fantasy 7 (ha! HAHAHAHAHA! no. well, maybe.)

Since I don't know how to make a survey, anyone who cares enough to guess will just have to post a comment. Ha, irony!
~>'.'<

All games listed are copyright to their original manufacturers, I have no intentions of taking credit for the actual character design or anything like that, I'm a total uncreative bastard, blah blah blah, etc.

If what I just wrote down here is legally incorrect or incomplete, SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL ME SO I CAN FIX IT.
*grin*
Still, there should be a rule. If it's fanart, and listed as such, that little tagline should just be presumed. Meh~

Update sometime today or tommorow! w00t!
(As if I have fans.)

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9989777/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9989777/ Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:40:45 PDT
I know I did.
So I'm over here playing RO.... I really need to get cable at home.

At the least, I've got my first sketch scanned in and ready to CG back at home. I decided I'd just mess with the pen tool in photoshop, rather than wait for some good, gracious person to give me a copy of Flash.
I really wouldn't mind being able to say I went out and bought it myself, either.
Because that would mean I've improved to the point where I don't need it. XD

Anyway...
Should have a finished CG product up just after the end of the week. See you!
(Update: I'm a horrible liar. This project has been nearly discontinued, but see my latest rant for status on it, I guess.)

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]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9959197/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9959197/ Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:38:57 PDT This is the end result that didn't change.

This week's update checklist:
- One sketch [ ]
- One cursor/icon [x]
- One other [ ]

Monthly goal: 12 works, 3 per week.

'Nuff said.
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OH! -.-;
I nearly forgot. Progress!!!

Work in progress: Sketch of "girl"
Completion [====== ] ]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9956062/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9956062/ Sun, 03 Sep 2006 21:03:56 PDT
Man, I gotta do something about the frame rate on this thing...

Actual sketches for artwork are still in progress! Please have patience...

I'm thinking I'll make the "shell" cursor style a set and make some of them for the other... thingies.
--Update: These are probably going to be discontinued if I don't finish them before the end of the year...
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Short journal entries, ftw!!!

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9940997/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9940997/ Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:29:19 PDT
Also, my one work that's actually -done- or at least finished to reasonable completion is sitting in my scraps. I didn't think I did a good enough job to dignify it with an actual listing on dA, but if someone wants that to change, I'll do it. Just lemme know...

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Currently working. More updates to come... ]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9927074/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9927074/ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:51:14 PDT

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9923346/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9923346/ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:09:19 PDT
Onwards for blog-like rant!
So I got to thinking it'd be about time if I came up with some flashy avatar to post up here. I'm kind of sick of having the dA logo on everything I post, just because it's default. I'd use my stereotypical flaming Kirby, stolen from a popular webcomic, but... no. I prefer my own stuff. It's mine.

Speaking of which... I've been spending a large amount of the week playing the piano. I've made a lot of progress on a song I've been developing for awhile... now if I could only get it recorded so I'd have sheet music...

Thus, my art has suffered for me, it seems. I've been too busy with the piano to draw, so... time to do a little reverse therapy on that!

Meaning, I'm off to draw now!

]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9876067/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9876067/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:37:54 PDT I hope...

Drawing for now, since my main audience (person) is not online to talk to me, at the moment. Heh. Progress shall be made! XD
*holds up pencil stylishly*
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Now then...
OMGFISH!!11!1

NOES! The madness has returned!!! XD

Wait, what? You mean I was already talking to myself anyway? Hooray, I'm insane! XD

Much <3 to any lurkers out there browsing my one scrap drawing. Content will be posted up soon though, I guarantee!
Say hello if you think I need to work faster!
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Call me an ass, and I'll hurt you. With words.

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]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9826732/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9826732/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:29:47 PDT
I'm planning on doing maybe three a week. It seems reasonable to me. ]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9726918/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9726918/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:48:58 PDT Oh, and once my artwork is up, give a bump if you like it. ]]> ~lightblinded-analog http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9726887/ http://lightblinded-analog.deviantart.com/journal/9726887/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:45:47 PDT You'll probably be dissapointed.
I'm lazy.
Okay... intrusions. I mean introductions.
My name is clearly displayed way up there, in the top left. Like everyone else's. If you want the rest of my name... no dice. Like some of my artwork.
Yep.
Lazy through-and-through. Sorry.

Let's see... I'll try to stick to mainly talking about art for now. I like Sonic the Hedgehog and Seiken Densetsu as bases, though the latter is just pretty and my real work looks nothing like it as of yet. I'm quite a gaming fanatic though, so a lot of other things influence me. To regress, anime is nice. I like it. Though, I prefer it when it's done digitally (read as "well") or by people who *get* it, like CLAMP. On the other hand, there are things I like, and then there's DBZ... I don't like it, not so much, no. I do however like manga, the style in which I'd do things if I were Japanese and as much of a nerd as I already am. Personal tragedies aside (laugh if you've seen my early/failed attempts), I haven't really learned to hate any kinds of artwork... although Picasso is difficult for me to enjoy - however I understand it - and I don't really think 3D renders can qualify as art unless they're at least 20-30% surreal, and maybe intentionally slightly Anime-ish and/or cartoony (and it has to look GOOD). I'm not really into morbid art either, so for the like-minded faint of heart out there, count yourselves lucky. This is a safe haven. For now. No promises, though.
(Update: Morbid art = I use my best judgement on this)

Tools that I use:
Photoshop - needs an update badly! ;~;
Painter Classic - I said I was poor, didn't I?
Flash MX - well, I would if I had a copy... *wh1ny pl3a 4 hlp!*
Wacom Tablet - NEED... BIGGER... PAD... *emo cutting gesture*
My TV - Nvidia rocks for dual-screen support.
Scanner - Yeah... umm... I like paper. Sorry, hippies.
Printer - I have yet to print something out for inking, but I plan to.
Hands! - Yes I use those, got a problem with that?
Advice - Unlike some of my friends, I welcome critics. Just be constructive.

Whatever's in my future, for now I'm content to draw whatever I feel like drawing, and maybe post it here. Therefore, the occasional morbid and/or creepy crawly concept might pop up once in awhile. Apologies.

Rant's over. Fox's tails and other fluffy things abound.

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