Dreaming of Dancing Burritos

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Three years already passed since I last sat down with a sketch pad, Staedler pencil, kneaded gum and Pilot VTech pen (my art thingies of choice), drawing for at least an hour, my attention focused–laser-like–over the object slowly forming on the surface of the cheap sketch pad. No Copic pens or any other nifty drawing stuff here; I’d rather see my money spent on gadgets like celphones with built-in refrigerators.

Trivia: Whenever I draw, it’s always on a new sketch pad. Every time I sit down to draw something, it has been a long time since I used the last sketch pad, and I always forgot where I put it. I think I accumulated more than twenty almost unused sketch pads hidden all throughout the house.

My latest drawing is posted on my friendster photos. She’s my take of Ragnarok Online’s Sohee. I added some more detail to the design, though. The Photoshop shading is thanks to my brother, though. I think I really need to learn Photoshop basics–all I know how to use when it comes to similar programs is Adobe ImageReady, and it’s for wussies. I wants hardcore vectoring and stuff.

I really miss drawing, or losing myself in drawing. I miss the feeling I get after I finish one, usually in the wee hours of the morning, and I just sit there, stumped and light-headed, my gaze fixed on my line art, jaded.

That very same feeling will be gone once I wake up the next day, as I stare at my drawing again, only to be replaced with one which is almost always accompanied by thoughts such as "wtf did I do wrong," and other such musings.

It was fun.

About my bro, he also did a (non)fan art of the Ragnarok Online Assassin. His work and his treatment of my line art made me realize the importance of Photoshop. I even remember the days when we used to pore over a Japanese anime magazine (Newtype) together and arguing whether an artwork was colored in using authentic water/poster colors or Photoshop.

The arguments almost always ended in ties, since it can go both ways.

Man, I really need to learn how to use Photoshop for those nifty shadows and stuff.

-_-x I couldn’t even wield a watercolor brush.

In any case it’s been good that I was given a chance to draw again. I may draw Alice (still Ragnarok Online), Marionette, or Moonlight Flower…etc. etc.

But there’s still the long to-do list ahead of me, so meh.

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