Candles

Ignore the title.

I have something I wanted to show you! My last update was so long ago that things that are already outdated for me should sound new to you. Like how I got my ukulele for Christmas. And how I got so crazy about it, and learned how to play it somewhat decently in like two months, that I wished for a guitar for my birthday and made my lovely boyfriend give me it two months in advance (I'm a bad bad gurl, nyahahaha).

It arrived yesterday!

I call her Bonnie.

Isn't it... black? Yes, yes it is.

First thing I did with it was to break a string while tuning. OBVIOUSLY. It's like mandatory for every amateur musician to break a string before you can start getting better.

It's a thing. Google it.

Anyway. I expect to play the shit out of this thing until my fingers bleed tonight. 

On a side note, for those who might be interested about how my life was going (and those who don't give a shit, I expect you didn't read this far anyway), my apprenticeship is about to end in 4 months, give or take. Aaand I've already had my job interview in my current company. They won't take me. They claim it's some kind of money issue and that they don't have the resources to employ any more people. Meh. Well they kinda pushed my ego though, since they totally credited me for all the designs and stuff that I made and that I'm totally gonna be a cool graphic designer one day (if I ever manage to find another job during Euro crisis) and yadda yadda like that.

Sigh. Wish me luck for finding the motivation to juggle school, exams, my work, guitar, drawing and applying  for a new job all at once.

Oh yeah one more thing

Just forgot to upload this old page here too. It will be the last. Until I ever change my mind about finishing it.

Can't be bothered

Hey guys. No I'm not back. I'm just here to give you a comic strip of us playing DayZ.

I drew this quite some time ago but never had the chance to upload it. I'm also working on another – more detailed and way better-looking – comic strip to upload sometime this weekend. I know I'm really horrible at  keeping up blogging, but I will try.

Also that Korra fancomic just kinda... slipped out of my mind. And now when I think of how I should probably finish it, I think I don't want to finish it. So, sorry fellas. I really am. But there are so many more pressing matters coming up in my life right now, I can't really calm down enough to dutifully finish this comic. 

These other comic strips though are pretty relaxing, because the story doesn't drag along for pages.

Pages 10 and 11

Helloooo. I was a lazy bum. Sue me. 

But I have a lot to catch up to now, so you should get a lot to read. Here are things I will explain after an sufficient amount of sleep:

Artwork presentation at drawing class in January

Job applications

LAN in a week

Christmas-y

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Btw, would you mind doing me a favour? I made a design on Threadless for an iphone case. If it gets high scores, I might win a great prize and won't have to worry about paying my bills anymore!

For all the kind souls who want to vote: The Glow Below

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it!

Art-trade

My new friend, Stalkercat, and I had a minor art-trade. She drew me an adorable Pabu and Bolin and I drew, in exchange, some bad-ass Tenzin moves. Even though I'm not quite satisfied with this one. But you can't always be fully satisfied with yourself. Right?

Pages 7 and 8

I know, slacking off two weeks and then posting two pages on the same day. I am lame like that. But hey, PROGRESS,

Art Block

I was still suffering from that fierce art block until last afternoon, until I started drawing another page for my comic. :D Yay!

Anyways, I'll post these sketches anyway so I can be embarrassed and will hopefully never ever produce crap like this anymore in the nearby future.

I always thought, though, that Bolins face is really hard to draw. How to make one look buff/strong and also cute and I'd-never-kill-a-fly at the same time?

Page 6

I totally forgot to post this here, too. OTL

I am so far behind on my comic. If only I could wrestle up more energy after work to actually sit down and draw a new page. That'd be awesome. But meh. I have to work during the summer break, and I have a right to whine!

For that sake, please, ladies and gentleman, vote on that poll over there ->

Shame on me

Oh nooo, I have started a tumblrrr. OTL We all knew this day would come. But I'm saving my blog for the really important things! Like me ranting about how much I dislike working during the "summer break". Urk.

And I'm keeping my posts pretty much synchronized. So not much "new stuff there. But hey, you can reblog my pics! Yay.

Hali Draws on Tumblr

Day 6 - BED

Failed comic-style fav book doodle -

"The girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making"

Yes, it's a long title.

Day 5 - Starting to lose it

I'm writing this in the middle of a drawing block in it's puberty. It's going to get a lot worse now and doors will be shut down noisily in heated arguments with myself. 

Day 5 - My best friend Lydia (even though it doesn't look like her, and yes, she is that hot 8D)

 Meh. I like to curl up in my bed and don't do anything. Thats really relaxing. This summer is a waste of time. D: I'm FREEZING.

Whoops.

I really forgot to upload the shaded first page of the comic? Woe me.

Well here you go. Don't worry, in a final post, when I drew all pages, I'll post the complete comic with the right order of the pages.

Polar Night

Geez, I've wanted to blog something all week and kept getting distracted. From, you know, going running because of feeling guilty from eating too much. And drawing. And watching Big Bang Theory. Busy week. However, in the time of the week that I drew, I managed to color one sketch which turned out to become the cover of my new Korra fancomic which I plan to draw.

Here the sketches that I drew in my sketchbook while I was at school:

Okay now behold, the edited version!

It's kinda not very spectacular, but it works.

I would post the finished pages (shading and speechbubble-wise) but I kinda left them on my work PC. I'm a naughty one, coloring stuff while I'm at work. Te he he he. Deal with it.

But tomorrow! Promised.

Being poor is the new diet.

I would rather buy plants and fish for my aquariums than being well-fed throughout the month. The only thing that holds me back is that I know that I will whine about not having enough money when my boyfriend hears it. And that he'll give me his "Are you fucking kidding me?" look. :D "Deeeeear... you spent all your money on aquarium stuff."

Buhuhu, but I LIKE spending all my money. :(

I hate being an adult where you have to pay for bills in the end of the month. And where you have to keep track of your contracts.

Damn you internet-marketing, for making me believe that everything that your company says is true! You're just too convincing, with your nice graphic designs and your blending effects. Robert isn't at all that easily convinced. He went to look for a new electricity provider right after I whimpered about how my new one isn't at all as cheap as it seemed to be, when I received their contract confirmation.

Anyway, because of that "accident" I have to pay 70 Euros in the end of this month. (they scheduled the bill for 30 June. Awesome guys, reaaally awesome. Usually I have about 50 € left in the end of a month, you fuckers. Now I have to live off of bread and butter to pay your fucking bill, if I want to spend some money on my aquarium-hobby.)

And no, I have not complained enough yet. I had my (oral) English exam on Monday and I got out with 83 %. Meh. If I just had noticed the backside of that dialogue sheet a bit earlier. Then I hadn't have to improvise the rest of the sheet and the discussion. But what's done is done. I just hope the written exam goes a bit better.

Jonas texted me that he'll be back to school after the summer break. But he still didn't tell me why he was absent in the first place. Fucker.

Hadn't have much motivation to draw in school on friday. But I doodled some half-naked Korra stuff. (I was so close to drawing porn actually, but I was too lazy) Still frustrated about how no one of my friends knows the series and actually likes it enough to discuss about it. There's so much I want to rant about, and so many things which are interesting in more than one aspect. /sob. forever a fangirl.

 

Good-Night sketch

I find The Legend of Korra to be quite awesome. The character is just perfect. A bit boyish, but yet very sexy! And I like about the new Avatar, that she isn't as shy and sensitive as Aang was in his days.

I'll try to find out how to draw the Fire Ferrets Team, because I'd like to draw some more Fanart. :D But for now, I only learned how to draw Korra. Messy, but recognizable.

But how does I draw facial expressionz. /o\

P.S.: 10 kg down, 8 more to go.

Chapter XIV – Forcing myself to draw :|

I was slacking on drawing again lately, and as usually it starts bothering me after a week or two of no drawing progress at all. So I looked at doodle of a character, which I drew at school in my sketchbook, and made up some kind of bigger illustration with her in it.

I shall upload the original doodle of her next week, when I can get to it.

And as usual, the sketch looks way better than the colored version. Even if this is still WIP, But I'm not sure that I'll finish it anytime soon. I still have to retouch that sorcerer pic (Ragnarok Online) and the commission with the red wizard. First thing tomorrow will be fixing that awful face that I drew the redheaded Wizard on that pic before though. It grosses me out every time I go back on my blog. D:

Despite not actually being 5 kg lighter, I will get the aquarium I wanted (160x50x50) on Saturday. I will not yet fill it with water though - I couldn't - even if I wanted to cheat my way out of my losing-weight-challenge; because I lack the necessary insurance for such a giant thing. It'd weight about half a ton and it only takes 1 m² of space for it. So it might be a bit dangerous to do this without any insurance. I would've gotten the insurance anyway, because it covers most of bad things that could happen to me or others because of me. So whatever, I will wait until I can meet the challenge requirements. /fatty

To do List for tomorrow:
clean that disgusting bathroom
fix that disgusting face
eat less than today.

Capter XII – What have I done

Yesterday, I talked to Robert about my plans to purchase a 160 cm (63") wide aquarium in the near future. Of course he wasn't so excited about me spending MOAR MUNNEH. But I wanted this since foreverrr.

So I came up with a ridiculous ultimatum for myself. It says that I won't get to buy the aquarium before I have lost 5 kg of weight. And not to buy FISHES for it (10,- € per Discus fish), before I've lost 15 kg altogether.

UGHH WHY BRAIN, WHY. I'll just never eat ever again. 8|

Because LOOK AT THOSE BEAUTIES. D:

WANT.

And a aquarium about thiiiis big:

That's not too much to ask for, now is it? ;_; /sob 

#nofoodforhali

Chapter XI - WRING, WRING

Hello to those rare people who are still stalking this blog once a while. I appreciate your staying. (even though I update rarely as fuck)

Robert and me were taking a walk together. (yes, not separately) And since he's usually got his iPad with him, we went to a place where the sun still shone. (It was a late evening and the sun was setting) Unfortunately, that very place was a huge road with heavy traffic. And there was no bench or anything to sit. But oh well. We just sat on the sidewalk and started sketching around. (well, I did, Robert was just sitting and saying "no that looks stupid" once in a while. He's so helpful <3)

This is what we got:

The building was not supposed to look that crooked.

Yay clouds

We had a small "drawing contest" in front of my apartment where Roberts bike was parked. He drew something that looked much like a paper-clip with wheels. I drew WRING WRING.
(the "W" in it was his idea though)

Additionally, I'll update you about the status of the WIP (work in process) picture I re-touched. It's still not done yet, but only like 1 or 2 hours are missing for it to be done. BUT I'M SO LAZY LATELY. But hey, I lost like 1,5 kg. :D Yay. /random

It's all not right yet. /o\

Hello Wiebke! *waves* I'll link this to her so she'll know that I'm working on it again. :D

Chapter VI – Millions and hundreds of faces

Or maybe just two.

So here are those faces I promised. Yaay faces.

Prettyface

One pretty, the other one emo.

One lucky ninja is having a pretty good time with her

Gosh, tomorrow it's back to work. Bleh. Easter wasn't so relaxing after all. Two family reunions on one extended weekend. Please kill me. x_x

At least I got nice presents for my birthday. But more on that later.

Chapter V – Running out of digital paint

This picture took me way too long. The digital paint and time I've spent fixing this face I could've probably used for sketching another million better shaped and proportioned faces. But oh well, I wanted to finish it at all costs, no matter how ugly the outcome. AND I DID. Hurr.

So based on this screenshot I took from my over-customized (note the half-naked sprites for Ebony Armor) Skyrim Client:

dat armor

... to draw this piece of shit artwork I am not so proud of. But at least I like some things about it. The overall content though is questionable.

I should probably draw more of those millions and hundreds of other faces rather than drawing one and taking a day to finish it. x_x *furious sketching*