More 'shipping!

Alright... so the Naruto one wasn't that great. Let's see what I can do with someone I've always had trouble drawing: Kurosaki Ichigo and my favourite lead lady Kuchiki Rukia. Well, favourite in that almost all the other female characters in the show are complete airheads or have extremely annoying personalities (not that Rukia's much of a prize winner herself). Added some clouds to the back, too.

As an added note, I've realised why I tend to draw heads a bit too lop-sided and big. It's because I draw on (the very limited) horizontal space on my desk and tend to sit (straight up) a bit far back. Using some fairly simple mathematics, you should understand that when I see a circle it's actually more of an elipse!

A little omake

No don't get off your seat. This will be brief. While skimming some youtube stuff (checking out Pheonix Wrong clips and moving on to Tenacious D vids) I ran into some 'shippers (that's Worshippers... people who are obsessed with pairing up anime characters with each other) art on some clips. One particular artist did a fantastic bit with Naruto and Hinata. Utterly jealous... I tried to emulate as best as I could. Nope... didn't work. Anyway, the colouring was done entirely by mouse (no 'Magic Wanding') so it's quite rough. I'm also beginning to feel my character's heads always tend to be a tad bit large.

I'm not fired... yet

Isn't that surprising? I mean... surely the dumbest person would have bet that I would be canned by now. Yet here I am, coming home exhausted and hitting the bed immediately. God knows what Letterman has been saying the past few weeks. Hopefully I can keep it up for a few more weeks when my probation will be over.

Work IS piling up though. There were some bits where I was just sitting there looking through manuals and codes (scratching my head in puzzlement for hours)... but there were intense bits where it seems nobody wanted to go home. Good thing the week was capped off with a funny presentation and some blondes (that's beers, you non-Aussies).

Weekend was spent trying to clean the bird feces off my clothes that were sitting on the drying line for a week. That and the usual gamut. Stupid E-bay sellers and their horrible postage times. I was hoping to crack open some 'hot coffee' action between Misty and May (see if you can decipher the gamer lingo there). Took some time to watch Superman Returns (disappointing... Superman movies suck) and work on some backlog sketches. Man, have I lost it.

Second pic is part of the original 2nd request of my Discount Politics friend. Apparently some of my stuff is being used in a math tutorial site too. Wonder how that'll turn out. First pic is something I wanted to do about Frankie from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Hilarious cartoon. However, I saw a very good picture of the Foster's crew done by a talented artist a while back and really wanted to see if I could do well. I can't. Even the porn on the web (it's one of the internet rules, guys) seems to draw better than I do... I don't even have to mention some of the professional art I found. I've also realised that Bloo's expressions are immensely difficult to draw. Huh... you wouldn't have thought that because he's just 2 eyes and a mouth, really.

Oh, well... hope I can get more practice in.

Work is Hard... and Dangerous

So I've started working. Doing building energy modelling and sunlight stuff. Tough stuff as it's been 1.5 weeks and I've barely got a model running (no analysis yet). I'm getting worried... I don't want to be a lead weight! Hopefully not dragging my partner (currently tutor) down with me.

But there you go... work IS hard... and rather mundane. Getting up early is taking its toll and weekends go by too quickly. Holidays seem too far apart (well, they ARE in Australia). At least I don't have to do weekends. This has left me rather buggered throughout the week so I haven't been able to fulfill the number of requests I left in my 'IN' pile prior to starting work.

Anyway, in order to put up a post, I did try to do ONE request. Girls bashing up a snatch thief. I'm sorry... it just didn't turn out right. I just couldn't feel for it, despite being a victim of said crime before. Besides, it's more of a practice thing. If I have time I'll rework it.

So... terrible incident happened in Melbourne yesterday. Some guy went amok on his girlfriend and her friend right in the city (a few blocks from work) and when some guys went to her aid he shot them all and killed one guy (wounded 2 others). Got away and still isn't caught. We had to be locked up in our offices until the arvo as they scanned the city in search of the gunman. Good thing I was safely in a meeting at that time. Could have been any one of us, really. Real shame about the guy who died though. Terrible stuff. Melbourne IS pretty dangerous.

Anyway, that's my excuse for nothing the past weeks. Oh, that and the guys not inviting me out to drinks (and thereby stirring up my creative juices)!

Work? Me?

So... work? Me? Yeah... I finally got offered a position and I'm starting coming week. Frightening, huh? The thought of me with responsibilities that is.

Good news is that I'm at least in Melbourne doing something I spent 3 years working on already (ignore my numerous complaints on CFD for those years). My previous offer required me to work in Canberra and to consider citizenship. To be honest... it's not like I wouldn't do that but it's just something I'd prefer to decide on a few years down the line. Still... I'm pretty worried about starting and I really hope I can handle this.

So my updates may become more and more intermittent. Very dependent on time as it is. Anyway today's update was to let you know about my employment status. Because I don't usually do a pictureless update, I've included two things I'm working on. The first is a 'Devil who's like a DJ with turntables' as requested by the family's son. I intend to add colour in the following days if I'm not too busy. The second is another contribution to the website http://www.discountpolitics.com/ that my friend is still building up. Behold his webmaster skills. Much like me learning photoshop from scratch this fellow (the genius that he is) is also learning website creation from below scratch. I might need his assistance one of these days so I think I should keep in good books with him. I haven't added speech bubbles as per his idea, but I guess I can do that later once he's okay'ed the sketch.

Anyway I need to iron a pair of pants and a shirt. I have to meet my boss for a short walk around tomorrow morning and I really don't want to be late.