Drawing: Eyes

I don't know how this happened. But whilst researching Nestle's coffee supply chain I ended up drawing... drawing eyes. 

I tried to draw a girl from the side... I did one eye and couldn't do the other (because it was at this super weird angle) so I gave up and just erased her other half of her face. I really like drawing eyes... I think they're the most expressive feature; so in lectures and stuff, I always try and draw eyes but they never come out right when I draw without a reference - I can only copy =[ 

My sketchbook full of eye drawings + a random chibi at the bottom right corner (he didn't turn out right either x_x)

I will work harder on drawing eyes =D

P.s. sorry about the crappy quality... I don't have a scanner so I took a photo and I'm too lazy to clean it all up on photoshop =X 

Luffy

As usual, I got super bored from revision... no new news here. I've always wanted to try and draw One Piece characters (if you haven't read the manga or watched the anime... I strongly recommend it, it's a bit long bit you'll catch up eventually). I started watching the anime since last October (I think), I only started to watch it when I got to uni. Then I was up to date by December-ish... and have been since. Being utd (up to date) at the most epic bit is the most agonising thing. Especially when you accidentally read a spoiler on Wiki... so before the epic arc, I knew what happens at the very, very end. I still cried like there was no tomorrow though ='[

With some anime, you have to go though about 10 to 20 episodes until it gets good (like Bleach... it doesn't get super exciting until quite a while) but OP, you only have to bare through the first five-ish episodes or so and it gets good =] Now I'm utd on the anime... I decided to pick up from the manga... that was even worse than catching up on the anime. Because the manga is only about 20 to 30 chapters/episodes ahead of the anime... now I'm utd on the manga... and watching the anime becomes meaningless because I know what happens... the life of anime and manga... *sigh*

Besides my super ranting about One Piece (which you must read/watch)... I tried to draw Luffy in the process of procrastination. At first I wasn't going to post him, because as I went onto blogger, I saw all of Miranda's drawings and they're just too amazing! I hope Miranda's web comic goes well because I really want to read it =]

I drew Luffy on paint. I realised that drawing on paint is the most difficult thing, it's worse than photoshop. But it's actually way fun =] The best tool is the squiggly line tool, it's so annoying but it's cool at the same time. I messed up Luffy's hair. The top strand in the middle: it was too big, then I tried to fix it and messed up. And I messed up the bits on the left too. By the time I realised, it was too late for backspace. Paint needs more undo buttons. Also... I started with Luffy's eyes, did the nose, then the mouth, then hair (outlined the ears), then hat, then ears. But after I did the hair... I realised his mouth was too wide or his eyes were too close but too late for that. Then by the time I got to the hat and ears, I obviously got lazy =[

Next time, I'll work harder, and draw his body too =]

Monkey D. Luffy

Random revision: the Easterlin paradox: increases in per capita income (GDP per capita) do not increase happiness. The hedonic treadmill: high incomes just produce greater apirations/desires. 

Sam The Samurai

The other day, I was bored out of my mind in the lecture (and sleepy - I don't think the cold & flu tablets were non-drowsy) so I started to draw. I wanted to copy Naa-chan and draw a comic too. I love Naa's ninja-chan! So I wanted to do something similar and draw a samurai-san! (plus I watched a film about samurai's last week).

Unfortunately I wasn't blessed with an artistic talent and I don't have the time to finish a whole storyboard (though it would have been cool - and I have actually half planned one). Reminds me, I should actually get working on the Purple Peace comic too...

I apologise for the bad quality - I don't have a scanner at the moment, so I had to take a photo on my webcam

I had fun cleaning him on photoshop

A darker looking Sam - I got a little carried away on photoshop ^^

P.s. I named him Sam just so there's an alliteration: Samurai Sam-san

Old sketches

Today I got a lot of my old stuff out and I found that A3 sketchbook. A lot of the stuff made me laugh, my drawings were sooo bad. 

The above statement does not apply to the picture below. I found this ichigo and inner hollo ichigo picture that Na drew me =] 

This one is even dated. It's all the way from 2007. I think that's year 10 or 11, when we were all quite into Fruits Basket ^^ All of these pictures are rather embarrassing but it's all just part of the memories =] 

I think this one is from last year or so. This is the chibi version of Micky in Tri-Angle - I think. It looks a bit weird but I quite like this one ^^ 

I have two versions of this ^^ This is the paper version  (there's another one in my sketchbook) 

I've never finished this one. I couldn't do the head. Also his legs look too fat.