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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!

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Sad stuff

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,

100 Posts - 7k Views!

Thanks for 9 follower (probably actually more (stalker) :D) and almost 7000 views! This is my 101. Post, and I am very proud of myself for keeping a blog alive.

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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

I was giving up my sleep for this

Drawing Video

Yay, I finally have the promised video of how I draw the Holy Koi picture! 8 long hours of drawing and editing were squeezed into 5 short minutes for this. (credits to my boyfriend Robert for mixing it together <3)


Note: How I added the main texture, that stretches over the entire drawing, isn't shown in the video. I wanted to spare you the flickering of me trying out various kinds of texture overlay effects.

I might change it with a video of better quality later on, but I wanted to add this before I go sleep, so you'll have to deal with the 480p version for now.


Today's challenge: My favourite place

And we all know where that is. (and where I am going to hop into in a minute)

Started drawing it on Tegakie.com; then, getting frustrated with the limitations of the color pallete, and ending up fixing major mistakes and finishing it in Photoshop. 

Gosh, how I hate that there is no "pick color" on Tegakie. I always forget which color I used. I use half the time I sketch stuff there, for finding out which color I used for which part of the sketch, and which transparency it had, etc. etc.

I'm very un-stealthy.

I played Assassins Creed today on my boyfriends PC while he was constructing parts for his Quad-Copter project with his little friends. I guess they had some kind of playdate! And I was this close to going crazy, due to really hard missions, where one mustn't be detected whilst approaching the target.
Gosh, that took so long to finish. But now I have the Altair Armor, and I'm looking very attractive with it on. Well, Ezio does.

Anyway, since we've gotten incredibly early off of vocational school (10 am), I could manage to finish another page (the sixth one!) of Polar Night. And I even went to work to scan it on the fabulous scanner they have there! Oh, I'm awesome.
Well I'll try and shade the page tomorrow, and upload it with the video I recorded of how I drew the "Koi Korra" picture. So stay put for that.

Todays challenge: Draw your favourite food. I did it on Roberts iPad, using the App "Paper", so you can't really see what its supposed to be, because of the sketchyness. (Also because I am incredibly bad at drawing food and actually making it look like the food it's supposed to be.)

It's supposed to be curry rice with peas, peppers, corn, onions, various other vegetables, and scrambled eggs.

Labra-doodle

Today's challenge was drawing my fav animal. The choice was easy and most obvious.

Rainbow-Kittens.

No. The ACTUAL challenge today was finishing this &%(§/$* fifth page.

Damn, it is getting harder and harder to keep on drawing in a regular pace. But it's worth it. At least I tell myself that when I'd rather watch The Big Bang Theory all evening instead.

It's nice imagining to have a finished comic soon, though. So I shall keep going. Even if it kills me. ;~; And my sex life.

But I don't mourn the latter. x3

30 Day Challenge

I find myself in delightful pChat sessions with some rather talented new friend: Stlkrct

It was so much fun that I stayed up until 1 am (now) and decided to take on a drawing challenge with her as my motivational partner! (because without one, I'd just not do something like that)

This is the challenge:

And this is the Day 1 pChat doodle:

This is supposed to be me, but you and me both know very well, this is SO not looking like me. Where's the chubby fat, where the greasy hair and where are the glasses?! (At least the dark circles around the eyes are accurate!)

Well I'ma tell ya. I lost some weight, I SHOWERED and I wear contactlenses! HAH. Whatcha gonna do 'bout it now?

Boy, this orange juice must have had alcohol in it.

Hey, but as a sober side note, I forced myself to finish that fifth comic page today! You know what that means; tomorrow I'll force myself to even SHADE it and then upload it for you! Yay me!

Oh lord!

Thanks for 1000 views this month! (and it hasn't even ended yet! :eager: ) It's funny because I only have 5k views in general. xD;

Woah, woah, woah!

I got the title "Aikos Favourite" this week on http://animexx.onlinewelten.com/fanart/ !

Picture of proof (for when it's not on the front page anymore) : 

I'm the one with the rainbow-fishies in the thumbnail. :D

Woah, this is awesome. I never thought drawing a bit more for one month already pays off like that. I've got a lot of amazing response at deviantart as well! Most people are eager for my new fancomic to progress, and I keep disappointing them by taking very long for each new page. ;3; /sob But they're still with me, mostly!

Damn, I have a roll with drawing lately. I just hope it doesn't go to waste anymore, when I feel unmotivated again. ;-; I'm really moody.

Since I am a girl.




Duh.

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This is the latest page, I just finished it today.

I gotta focus on drawing more pages away from school from now on, since the summer break will eliminate the opportunity of drawing when I'd have nothing better to do. Oh gosh, I cannot figure out why I decided to work through the whole summer. This is going to be horrible.

BUT HEY.

I just booked a 12 days trip to the greek coast of cyprus in autumn. Awesome snorkeling time lies way ahead of us. Waaaaay ahead. /sob





Snorkeling. Pfffrt.

What a word.

Mako is a real hotty.

Always with the lame puns.

Stayed up late, AGAIN. To draw this hot piece of junk:

I guess I'm on a drawing roll. <3 I like the Korra fandom. it's sooooooooo motivating.

Zzz. sleeeeeeeeeep. /want ;_;

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.

Fancomic Update

I just realized I haven't blogged this yet. :D It's late, so I shall go to bed! I'm so sleepy all day, but as soon as I get home - cleaning, drawing, blogging, chatting. Lol. I feel not sleepy at all. Scumbag body. :C

Page 2 and 3 of Polar Night

Oh and some nice song I'm currently listening to.

Holy Koi!

See what I did there? However, I'll just quickly dump this here and then go back to drawing again. Even if this took me 8 hours already. ;u; But I have to train my drawing muscles!

Video WIP

There will be a video. And there will be a finished version of this, COMING SOON. :D