2023-02-01🌱
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2023-02-01
First post here! I just write anything that comes to my mind. If it's your first time here, you should check out this page first!
Inspiring stuffs
Minami new song
- Minami's new song Rude Loose Dance is DOPEEE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86GZpO_ZeU
- I really enjoy the rhyming, idk what it's called but it feels fun to listen the rhythmic quality of the lyrics.
- The lyrics really fits the story of the manga (Record of Ragnarok) but also stands on its own.
- I feel it when the protagonist gets up and try to reclaim her ranking. The MV artist Kazuki Oekaki did a good job. I really like the animation and storytelling here.
take's new art
- take🌱's new art for NisioIsiN ♥♥
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KEPcuFMbkQ
- this one is incredibly stylish! Her ornamental and pattern design is just next level.
- I like her art since Katanagatari. Her shape language is a bit too stylized for me to directly learn form, but nevertheless she's one of my big inspiration in visual design and stylized graphic elements.
Cipher Academy
- Speaking of NisioIsiN, the art in his new Jump manga Cipher Academy is really close to my taste.
- 📝 Artwork is done by Iwasaki Yuuji
- I'm too smol brained to understand every puzzle.
Fun story
- I blew some compressed air into the Wacom pen's nib hole. Something changed, the pressure sensitivity feels different... Was it dust or something else clogging in there? Even though after cleaning it's kiiinda better (tapering is a bit easier), I had to do some slight change in the CSP pressure curve.
- It took a few hours before I got used to the new settings. Luckily it's just a small change. I'm glad that CSP has pressure settings for individual properties.
- I'm kinda scared of changing tablet now. I did try using a 8192 pen for a little while (I'm using a 2048 one now), it was really good, I can change from thick to thin relatively easy, I expect that it can offer more possibilities in shape design. But it was kinda hard to control the opacity or flow level. If I ever switch to a 8192 permanently, I suspect that I would have to adjust the Opacity curve to simulate 2048 pen.
Work and Art
I'm still working on commissions! 😭
Doing commission is really challenging. There are so many problems to solve. I might have spend over 50 hours each on the 3 pieces I'm working on now orz
One big reason is that for each new problem I encountered, my brain feels so foggy and just refuse to work.
When I finish an artwork, I'll probably have a page for each piece to review the process, the difficulty and list out things I like and dislike about the piece.
Some sketches
- I typically do not share these kind of random sketches on SNS since it shows my sloppiness. I do a lot of these because scribbling is a very fun way to procrastinate (but srsly I should do this less often)
- I recently had a sudden click in my brain regarding feelling the form. A lot of thing suddenly feels intuitive now, I don't really know why.
Favorite art of the day
- this artwork by kaede_idoit🌱
- https://twitter.com/kaede_idoit/status/1617524964747542535/photo/1
- I love the framing and composition so muchhh.