I’ve been doing a bit of experimentation lately, especially now that I’m able to navigate Pixiv a bit more skillfully. I recently uploaded an old oekaki of Rabid I drew, back in 06 or something… the really creepy one where she looks like she was ripped off the cover of a creepy manga, and of course, people actually noticed it there. By request of an old friend, I drew Darling in a somewhat similar fashion, but the result is mediocre. I simply can’t be bothered to draw with Tegaki for more than a few hours. That program needs a flood fill tool, and bad.
My friend, Jennifer, and I were discussing some of the oekakis that some of the game artists do; specifically discussing the way the official Megaman artist does it, and the discussion made me realize that I’ve always wanted to draw an oekaki like that, but without the anime look. To emulate the style I’d like to try, I’d have to start using thin lines in my MS paints, and I don’t quite feel like doing that, so I won’t.
To those who have commissioned me, I haven’t forgotton you. If the Summer II semester was a person, I’d be in jail for breaking its jaw right now.
I intended to make this update weeks ago, back when I finished writing the new theme that the site is using, but attempting to wait for something derailed those plans. Even so, I still don’t have much art for this update - I started my summer classes already and I’ve been hard at work studying and all that. I’ve uploaded a sketch I drew with sketchbook Pro 2008 and a few sprites, but they aren’t very good looking.
Oh right, I did do one more thing recently; I drew this picture on that Nintendo hentai oekaki recently. I’m trying to keep the number of times I draw there down to once per month to avoid getting anyone angry.
The reason the text looks so precisely rendered is because I intended this piece to be pixel art. I eventually abandoned that plan because of how time consuming it would be.
My entries haven’t been very productive here; I talk too much and don’t draw enough. Most of what I do draw is pixel art I can’t show here, but at least that’s coming along nicely. I had to redo a large chunk of animations after they were lost to a drive crash a while back, but the result is much nicer looking than what I had before. Jim has seen most of those already, and I’m proud of where things are going.
I think I’ll get a hang of this gallery system soon.
I’ve been on a soundtrack downloading fix again lately, grabbing as many soundtracks as I could for as many games as I could think of, and many I’ve never heard of. I love game soundtracks, filling my Zune with them almost exclusively.
Some of my favorite games to play were only pursued because I found a track from the game that I really enjoyed, or the entire soundtrack stood out, and some games were avoided altogether initially for an offensive or boring soundtrack. The World Ends With You has been out for a little while now, and people seem to be rushing to download its soundtrack, but I personally found its generic J-Pop and crazy… I guess it would be considered something hip-hop like? I’m not sure how to categorize it, so I’ll just file that one under “I’ll Pass.”
Arkanoid DS however, has several amazing songs that I wasn’t expecting from the game, with superb sound quality to boot. I’ve been indulging in the likes of the soundtracks of German Shmup DoveZ by Boris Nonte and my old favorite arrangement of Iridion 2 and 3D’s soundtrack by Manfred Linzner. While I primarily lean towards energetic, electronic style music, I’m a sucker for Yoko Shimomura’s earlier works and loads of Uematsu’s works. Then again, everybody likes Uematsu…
I’m a huge fan of remix soundtracks, but for some reason I don’t find most of Overclocked Remix’s archives entertaining. Remixes from the likes of Mintjam and Levo Lution tend to feel more, I dunno, lively without being the aural equivalent of lens flares and motion blurs everywhere. SSH has some cool stuff going as well, but a lot of their work seems very MIDI-like in nature, and he overdoes the distortion guitar.
Sonic games are usually guaranteed to have a great soundtrack, but lately the music has been as bad as the games themselves, with the exception of the instrumental version of Sonic ’06’s His World and Sonic Rush Adventure’s soundtrack. The Mana and SaGa series both seem to have musical quality that is inversely proportional to the quality or at least the popularity of their respective games. That said, I can’t get enough of Unlimited SaGa and Saga Frontier 2’s music, and Children of Mana has a fairly catchy set of tunes. In my searches for new music to listen to, I don’t know how I managed to overlook Rayman’s soundtrack. Rayman 2 had a mostly ambient type of music going for it, but Rayman’s soundtrack is superb.
Hm. I probably should have prepared a drawing for this post or something. Unfortunately, school is still going, and I’ve gotta get back to work. This is my first entry using the Windows Live Writer that has been on my computer gathering dust for all this time- if nothing goes wrong, Live Writer is going to be my method of choice for updates.
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