Tegaki E

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So I somehow found my way back to Tegaki E. My last entry was some few years old, so you could say it was about time.

I've missed the nice feel of its sweet oekakiness and they even added an opacity control while I was away. Feels good man.

So, come say hello fellow tegaki persons, you o/.

Living dead girl

Sudden inspiration to paint stuff close to my heart: L4D zombies. Rule #63 of the Smoker again, to be precise.

This also reminds me, I need to arrange myself a day or two to finish the Huntress-model I started a while back, yes sir. Been figuring Hammer again out a bit, but still haven't tried out the Source rigging stuff or any means to replace the original Hunter with my own. So, yeah. What was I saying?



Also a very Helghasty G.H.O.S.T soldier. Derp.

Hunting ghosts

(B&W here.)

Hey, I got a free month for EVE from the EVE buddy program \o/. Thanks, you know who you are.

I've slept a lot, though badly and still not enough. Been a few especially rough weeks for me.
I feel like I wanna draw, paint, model and animate my brains out, but I can't find the strength to do so. When I get home nowdays I just sleep, shoot zombies/mine ice and fall asleep again. Then it's off to school again.

Guess this modeling fever has something to do with Avatar too, finally did see it and even though the script stubbornly refused to surprise anyone in any way with shallow characters having locked alignments like straight out of a bad D&D game, the special effects were pretty damn neat. First 3D movie for me, even.
Also, this is probably a spoiler, but I lol'd how it was neatly implied that a betrayed tribe is won to your favor again just by having the coolest car/pterodactyl/something in the neighbourhood :D. That's how life works, kids.
Too bad love stories make me twitch still, they all remind me of all the wrong things. Still, I have to say that I liked watching the movie, no matter how strictly it was done by-the-book. A solid performance, if nothing else.

And all in all, I did manage to start a little project a few days ago:



Inspired by the Smokette being done by the dude(s) over l4dmods.com, I wanted to do something with the hunter. Work in progress, she still lacks rig, any kind of materials and I thought I'd do morphs for the face, even though the hunter in L4D doesn't have any facial animations. Just to refresh my memory on morphs. We'll see where this goes, at least I could refine a hi-poly huntress out of this, if not a model for the game.

Also, there's this thing about System Shock 2.

Should've turned left at Albuquerque

Some days ago, after getting the ~28,000,000.00 ISK for Hurricane battlecruiser, I got gateganked randomly at Tama while passing through. I got to sit/float in my new Hurricane for some hours only. They even podded me - my first time, that - lost a bunch of implants there, a fistful of millions to the solar winds. Goddamn, if you ever run into people from Involuntary Confinement, do steal their underwear.



Yes, I realized afterwards that the system I got killed in was indeed the very same that Hitler "got podded every time" :D. (The youtube-video in my previous entry.) I should've remembered just why it sounded familiar, before jumping into 0.3.



But hey, at least these are pretty sweet.

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Also haha, I just noted that I've been receiving some traffic from Rule34 website. Okay, after pondering about it for a while I guessed it; seems that my female Smoker and Hunter & Zoey have somehow found their way up there -- and directed from there, I found out about this little project :D. Awesome.

The ____ is a spy

Ooh aah, zombies soon (+ additional Valve Time). Left 4 Dead 2!

If you somehow missed it, preordering L4D2 had some interesting effects as revealed in these next few screenshots:

..just rawcking mah axe.


Getting there..


Yes. Bills hat for Team Fortress 2, yay.

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The new, bluntly suggestive zombies. She looks like she's trying so hard! The L4D2 demo has been under some serious gaming for these few weeks, everything seems pretty much as hoped for; it still feels like home, but everything's more polished and just a bit different to feel fresh.

Hrrraah, can't wait for versus <3.




Not related. Really.

Zombies plz

Well then! Some of you have probably wondered why this took so damn long, I mean, it was bound to happen someday. Here it is now!


Also found this pic of Smoker-tan I drew about the same time I did Hunu-tan. She felt like she was missing something back then, maybe teh funnies, but after giving her colors last night I guess she's ready for the world. Bill, beware.


orz

Level up

So, I got my rig updated. I can finally shoot zombies with every possible eye candy there is without my PC choking up all the time!


Miss Internet.





With that look on her eyes, she'll probably take him as far as Valhalla.
..I dunno, this just somehow got me thinking of Valkyries.


The motion blur looks pretty neat, especially in screenshots. Featuring Miiz as bouncer.


"Shit. You did all this?"

Facts of survival

Here's one for all the L4D-beginners. It should be obvious, but here it is once more: keep your team well informed, it just might save your life and nerves.

Wanted to try my hands on making a random L4D-poster, kinda just blindly chose this old pencil sketch and started building stuff on it. Nothing too planned here.

This was also extremely useful.

Mai waifu meme

Found this on the internets, could't resist. Zoey, mai waifu!
I've got a serious hair fetish.

The empty template is here.
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Also, if interested in Yamaoka'ish music, try out Liminality albums by these guys, who seem to be giving out Silent Hill inspired ambient for free. Just scroll all the way to the bottom for the SH-stuff. Some of these do capture the atmosphere nicely.

Also, also. Next weekend isn't going to be too cheerful for me, I'm off to see my grandpa starting tomorrow, quite perhaps for the last time considering his much weakened condition. He's 89 now. I don't know how to feel about it..he has lived a full life, something we can only hope to achieve some day, it's hard to feel too bad about the natural way of life when there's no reason to, really. But it ain't gonna be a party either.

Midsummer

I spent the midsummer at Old home and regained huge amounts of sanity. I so badly needed this break from everything to spend time with my family (also getting to know my semi-sisters a bit more again) and friends.

I also got my hands on a functioning scanner, so now I'm armed with a set of old & new scans from my sketchbook. Hunu-tan here is from just a few days ago, spawned by some quiet morning hours spent staring out the livingroom window, watching the rising sun color all the infinite green of trees into something quite pretty. I wish there were more trees and birds here where I live.

Family, small towns, friends, midsummer<3.
(okay, so I couldn't avoid a few of those dreams I wrote about earlier. But I'm getting used to them, in a way.)

Right 2 die

Finally did this (also found on DeviantArt) and with it, tried the other style I'd like to use (okay, a wee bit simplified here). Maybe. The brush isn't custom yet, but I'm not sure if it needs to be after all.



Actually now that I've tried these two different things with a thought, I think I'll try to combine them somehow.

We'll see what happens.

The end of the world

I've pretty much always toyed with this kind of sketchy line and messy colors -style and I'm still not so sure if I wanna do things that way. It does feel natural to me and I kinda like the result also..yes, it could have something more - contrasts, details - but it would lose something in exchange I think..damnit. Run or shoot, run or shoot? Where's Bill to tell me "both!"?
This is also an issue of yet confing a good 'scratchboard tool' for photoshop, I might be interested in that kind of results also with the lineart.


So yeah, this here is an attempt at grasping one of the possible styles I'd like to do a comic with; testing it out a bit with familiar Left 4 Dead characters.