Thumbnails are actually pretty fun!

Did you know that when you are gesturing with a cookie, your friend will try to take the cookie from you? That was a lot of fun to waste a square on and it didn't delay the rest of my scene setting at all. ...probably was a very obvious thing but I don't do thumbnails too often. (Am going to have to start with them from here out!)

Had to show this piece of thing off since I learned the smartness of it all. Back to your regular schedules! XD

Scanner's giving me hell

I have things to post and the scanner isn't behaving for its life. Bet the darn thing has finally gotten to the 'nearly dead' stage that 10+ year old computer pieces tend to reach. That's annoying.

But, when I can get my pages scanned or photoed, I have some thumbnails for a new picture to show everyone. This one is going to be fun. I'm going to have Cera and a friend of hers sitting at an outside coffee shop, sipping on drinks and eating some kind of pastry as they talk.
Then the events of Find the Way happen. I always imagined that Valeon was being quite loud during that scene, so it's going to be fun to figure out how to draw the reactions from Cera and her pal.

...speaking of, I need to come up with a name for her friend. For the past four or five days, it's just been 'Cera's Friend'. XD Right. It's official now. Cera's Friend is going to be Haley from here out! (Until I forget that I wrote it here, anyway. Then we're back to square one...but a name will stick before you see the thumbnails!)

Cera's Bedroom work in progress

It's been so fun to work on this so far! I'm still not sure what madness made me choose that green color for her wall in this room but I've enjoyed making things match with it. Liking how this sunset looks but I'm not sure if the colors work with how high the window is, but I have a handful of pictures with nice skies to try out.

Cera keeps too clean a house! I understand her thought process though; when she gets in from hunting demons, vampires, or other baddies, the last thing she wants to do is clean house. But if you saw my room, you'd wonder how she manages to do it.

Hopefully, the rest of this will be colored in before Friday. Then comes the fun part--making the light and shadows work out through the whole place!

Bedroom Layout and Paprika study

Was quiet the past couple of posts, not talking about the drawing projects. So have both of them at once!

The good news about the layout sketch is that Art-of-Akrosh is going to teach me how to use Blender (a program I downloaded ages ago but never used) to get an idea of how part of the image will look in 3D!
All of this is so exciting!

Final layout

And as for my other project I've been posting about:

That girl needs a lot more work. XD Not sure that I followed the perspective for her...The fellow won't be too much worse when I finally put him on the seat instead of floating on top of it. >>; I'd wager that his clothes will be that little bit easier since the 'professional' style was...somewhat mimicked with the woman.
Gosh I need to watch Paprika sometime. Calling them by name would be a lot easier!

Edit Sep 1: Semi finished the fellow--there's plenty of work needed on those arms. But I'm thrilled to have finally gotten this far.

Room layouts! How fun.

I wish I could get up to drawing like I should. >< I am supposed to be playing with layouts for an imaginary bedroom--and it looks relatively easy!--but everything is just keeping me so busy right now. And I need to do about five or ten of them so we can decide which one to keep.
(...warning about that link, by the way. It's just a google image search for layouts.)

I have a pretty fair idea about what I initially want, too. It'd be easy to mimic one or two of these til I get a better idea! And I certainly will get a better idea when playing with these layouts. It's just when in the world will I get the burn to pick up the tablet again?!

That's probably just a personal problem anyway. That or I'm simply lazy but it sure can't be that now. >>;