It was my first attempt at proper fantasy art and it took me so long to finish it, not only because of school and work but also because I wanted this to be better than anything I've ever done and thus, I raised my standard too high.
I hated to make Van any longer and let down the experimenting - and it ended up in this :
Van liked it and I hope to make more commissions in the future. Now that classes are over, it should no longer take me a year to finish them.
- Laboratory:The living room
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat | Powered by Last.fm
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deviantart )The series of drawings I made for the 2D collection are online at last - and available as prints !
I also posted an older work a few weeks ago and forgot to advertise it. Here it is :
- Laboratory:The bedroom
- Mood:
hungry - Music:The Prodigy - Breathe | Powered by Last.fm
For those who haven't followed me on Facebook - I submitted today two pieces for the Northern Ireland Skillset Media Academy Awards - a website (screenshot below) and a video (below too). I primarily made them for college assignments but lecturers thought they were good to be make it for the biggest media event in NI. The first prize is £180 - good extra money, so fingers crossed !
The video is a new version of Halloween in Derry. And there is one more version here.
- Laboratory:The living-room
- Mood: busy
- Music:Ladyhawke - Manipulating Woman | Powered by Last.fm
And I got a Distinction! - the best mark :O I was amazed, but at the same time, I didn't feel like I deserved it. There were other guys in this group who were way better than me. That mark's still encouraging though - and also, it feel really great to see your comic pages printed on high-quality A3 sheets :D
Since they have been officially assessed and marked, I could publish these two babies on DeviantArt for you to see and read:
As I said on DeviantArt, I won't be able to produce more pages in the near future. On the one hand, I have lots of college projects to complete. On the other hand, the teacher wants us to work on theme-oriented short stories that will be published in an anthology for the 2D Comic Festival in June. The theme would be fear. I have a vague idea for a story but I don't feel I'll be able to finish it in time - 6 weeks is way too short for me. When I overheard two classmates (and really talented drawers) say they weren't good with Photoshop, I offered to do the colouring for their work as an alternative, as I'm pretty good and comfortable with digital colouring. So much for the opportunity to get a story of mine published and noticed but I have to be realistic... Also, collaborations are an excellent way to start in comics and I feel it would be a more successful team work than the one I'm doing for my HND course. At least because I'm getting along pretty well with these two classmates - we even went together for a drink on thursday night.
- Laboratory:My bedroom
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:Abney Park - She
On a completely unrelated matter : I've just come across this article about the last Harry Potter movie, which is already reviewed as 'disappointing'. It says it's got too much emphasis on the Harry-Ginny romance at the expense of all the major plot lines (the half-blood prince, Voldemort's story and Dumbledore's death). As if we hadn't enough of supernatural romances after Twilight... *sighs*
- Laboratory:The living room
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:Watching "Scrubs"
In the meantime, Heaven got 7 favourites in one week ! That's not a lot compared to other (more successful) deviants but still I'm grateful and that cheered me up for a while :)
That and the cat returning to my room, and reading Watchmen - I know, it'snot really funny but it's freakin' brilliant and it's got enough to take my mind off that darn job.
Enough ranting - I'm gonna have a walk and try to capture a moonlight while the moon is full.
- Laboratory:The bedroom
- Mood:
crappy
I’m trying to design a logo for myself as part of a college assignment. I came up with this a couple of months ago but the teacher says it would not be appropriate to promote myself as a web designer. Not corporate enough, maybe ?
The thing is just below. I took my inspiration from Tolkien’s brand and based the design on my initials (MJYM) – figure them out ! ;)
Any constructive feedback and suggestions would be really really appreciated !
Also, for the same unit, I must pick the three best of my works - drawing and photographs included. I know for sure 2 Guns will get the gold medal, but who will get silver and bronze ? I can't make up my mind and need external opinion. All my works are in my DeviantArt gallery.
I thank you all in advance for your help :)
- Laboratory:The Living Room
- Mood:
thoughtful - Music:Watching "Scrubs" on TV
Actually, I took this photo and enhanced it with Photoshop a long time ago but I kept putting off uploading it to my gallery. Plus, I didn't intend it for the 100 challenge originally until found it could fit perfectly for Entry #7 (Heaven).
I'm working currently on more submissions. Enjoy this one in the meantime :)
- Laboratory:The living room
- Mood: busy
- Music:Watching "Scrubs"
And also on my dA page, a devious journal entry, in which I wonder whether I shall go on Facebook or not...
- Laboratory:The Tech
- Mood:
tired - Music:Goethes Erben - Schattendenken
I have a lot more to say but I am tired and so is my Tablet PC. Plus, I need a shower before going to bed.
Enjoy, and good night !
- Laboratory:My bedroom
- Mood: tired
- Music:Al-pha X - Streets of Derry
Full list of themes here
And now, to bed !
- Laboratory:the living-room
- Mood: sleepy
- Music:Watching "Scrubs"
I could try a new way to clean the pencil sketch without using the Eraser tool (I did use it a little bit though) and fuzzed it with a Gaussian Blur - and it all turned out pretty well. Not too bad for a drawing I made about an aborted novel project...
- Laboratory:the living-room
- Mood: sleepy
- Music:Watching "Suspiria" on TV
I finally found a background pic I like too.
Now I can focus on the commission for Vandal - an Exalted woman warrior with a harmonic sword. Quite challenging stuff...
I also wrote a new Journal entry. You can comment on it here too.
I also wrote a new Journal entry. You can comment on it here too.
- Laboratory:the living-room
- Mood: pensive
- Music:Watching "The Masque of the Red Death" on DVD
Actually, I found out only last week that you had to join and choose a list among many variations. I'd written Variation 1 in my sketchbook ages ago and jot down some ideas, but I eventually chose Variation 2, which had more interesting themes.
( The 100 Themes list (Variation 2) )
I'm already done with Theme 1 (Introduction) - which is also my Deviant ID. We'll see where my inspiration for the other 99 will take me to. Now - to lunch !
- Laboratory:My bedroom
- Mood: hungry
- Music:Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Firstly, that's what you get when you decide not to ink the sketch manually and keep the raw pencil sketch lines as lineart. Nice experiment, but a real bitch to work on !
Secondly, I couldn't find a background. Of course, nothing screams "werewolf" like a full-moonlit nightsky but I felt it needed something more. Plus, I wasn't inspired to draw the background, so I used a photo like in the ol' good times - a shot of a Derry street, which I inverted, darkened, cut out and stuck a glowing full moon on (said photo was a daytime shot!).
That's not all, but I've got to hurry to meditation.
- Laboratory:my bedroom
- Mood:
rushed - Music:Bullets and Octane - Cave In
I made this drawing last summer. 10 months later, I finally give it a Photoshop makeover and upload it on dA. And yes, it's Gerard of My Chemical Romance.
Hardly two minutes after the upload, it gets two faves and comments !! o_O Things are going too fast in this digital world. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
kerydwenn was right - fan art is the best and quickest way to get noticed on dA.
kerydwenn was right - fan art is the best and quickest way to get noticed on dA. - Laboratory:my bedroom
- Mood:
groggy - Music:Enter Shikari - No Sssweat
http://minamzi.deviantart.com/
The old "Larys" gallery is still opened but I emptied it entirely - deviations, journals, contacts, messages, etc... It seems like DeviantArt is not able to delete accounts at the moment. I'll be patient, but it kinda bothers me to have an empty account still around there.
As for the new gallery, I've only posted graphics I've made for school so far. I kinda like some of them and wanted to show my progress with Photoshop CS2. I hope I'll be able to upload more personal stuff later.
In the meantime, feel free to visit my gallery. Feel even freer to comment my works, fave them and friend me - I'll appreciate more ! :)
- Laboratory:The office
- Mood:
high - Music:Muse - Glorious
