Feh, Meh and Shmeh all share the same linguistic root

I wasn't going to make a post today/tonight because I've spent the day out and about with my family. And it's been really nice, spending time with them. I picked up comics, we went and had starbucks frappucinos (Jack tried and Iced Americano which turned out to be nothing more than Iced Black Coffee and she almost puked) and then we had dinner and a few drinks at the local club. It was a lot of fun.

In other news, I've been finding it difficult to make the effort to do any art. I'm still sketching a little, but I've been feeling really dejected about my art recently - everything I produce is pretty crappy and I'm really not happy with it. I used to produce crappy art and find myself pleased with it, but recently I've put pressure on myself when it comes to improving and I'm not getting any better.

So I just thought I'd share this image with you. I think I put the line's up a few days/weeks ago. It's for a competition at one of my clubs on deviantart. There are some parts of this I really love, but I find once you get into the colouring stage you start to get really bored of an image. Oh well, the basic shadows have started to be laid, we'll see how it comes out.

On the bright side, I came on deviant art today and I had four brand new comments on my work by people I hadn't even bribed. That made me feel good. It's not much, but it's something to keep my spirits up since they were all pretty positive.

Later,

- Nat

We're a team on a rollercoaster ride

So this is about ten minutes (and a few days) late.

Just a brief, crappy visualisation of how I've been feeling in my life right now.

I've been at work all night, now I'm going to finish watching Veronic Mars, eat my soup and go to sleep.

Until next time,

Nat

Computers don't make life easier...

We're starting a podcast. This is the really rough cover image for the show - in case you missed it, it's called taking up space.

Don't have much to say. Buy yourself a head set and set up skype and we'll let you on the show. Enjoy.

I lied, there will be no real post tonight.
I went to the football with mum and dad. Raiders kicked butt. 'Twas good.

Working hard I see

Todays picture is brought to you be your friendly, neighbourhood woolworths. There were a lot of us on tonight and not a lot of work so Keilani, Tahni, and Danielle were all drawing. I did a five minute thing and left it on the table. Joking, I told Danielle to colour it. Came back, and Keilani had coloured it and signed it.
I thought I'd throw it up here to share.

Only worked today, nothing interesting.

Until next time.

Nat

Yawwwwwwwwwn

So, no post yesterday. Why? Well, I went to see the TMNT movie once again with friends (its good, you should see it). Then I brought comics. Then I ran home and went to work. Finished at ten. Met mum and dad for a drink, then came home and went to bed.

No real post today. Why? Today I went paintballing for a handful of hours. Got very shot up (think war zone) then had nacho's and chocolate fondue at Emily's house. Now headed for bed (planning for much pain in the morning).

Don't hold your breath for a post tomorrow either. As above, probably much pain tomorrow and work. Gotta work.
Also, not feeling really arty. Think I'll just do some work on my animation... maybe.

Should be back monday... maybe... maybe is a good qualifier :P

Later,
Nat

Feel my power

It's called firebending. If you don't know what it is, then you haven't watched 'Avatar The Last Airbender' and you're missing out one something great. Seriously. Go watch the show. Right now - download it or whatever. I'll wait right here... back?
Okay, so this is an Avatar short which is very funny, you should watch it also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znKaZgdknFc . See, good stuff. Avatar is fun.
In regards to my picture, hmmmmmmmmmmmm, an fire bender with a scar on his eye... where have I seen that before? It feels familiar... (if you haven't seen 'avatar then you're not going to get the reference and I pity you). This was just a five minute pen skecth. If I ever drew its seriously, I'd like to give his torso and clothing more movement - I'd really like to draw a bender sort of spinning. A few little mistakes, but not bad for the energy I invested in it.

Didn't get up to much. Mostly spent the day starting on the inks for an Eragon fanart for deviant art. I'm doing a lot of fanart at the moment (I don't know if the above expressly counts though). Didn't get up to much. Mostly slept.

Good times.

- Nat

Canadians, they walk among us.

Another hit of Harry Potter fanart today.

Nothing to say. Sorry.

- Nat

No TV and no beer make Homer go something, something...

So I spent a large part of the day finishing this image off. It's my hogwarts dorm room.
God it took a lot more effort than it should have, ultimatley I like the way it turned out.
Once I've drawn the wand properly I'll post the completed student page up at my deviantart gallery.

Nothing much happened today. That was nice.

Until next time,

Your friendly neighbourhood Nat

Rest in peace pinky toe, you shall be avenged

So todays image is a neo-Nath and neo-Neil image. They're looking kind of futuristic and shooting at each other (read below for an explination on that). I really like Neil's pose; it's has a bit of movement to it. And I did like Nath's until I drew Neil. The background was just me cutting out shapes and filling them for fun. Not much to say on it really. If Neil's head were smaller or Nath's were slightly larger then this would be a better image. But there is something interesting about this.
Maybe it's just me...

And yes, I'm sorry, I took a few extra days off before coming back.

Life's been really difficult at the moment - I feel like I've been through the blender and chucked out onto an incenirator. I got all the school stuff done but I've been left feeling really frustrated and flat.

Had a really nice night on thursday, went to see TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and then spent the rest of the evening in my room with my mates reading comics and talking nerd talk. Chris (http://kraden.deviantart.com) skecthed out a five minute picture of Assasin-E and Samuri-N which looked freaking awesome. I hate talented artists :( but seriously, it was a real compliment that he wanted to draw it. A-E is based on Emily though - his girlfriend - so that might have had something to do with it.

Easter was nice, just spending time with my family.

I've been fighting almost non-stop with my best friend recently, which has leaved me feeling like I've been to war. And to top it off, an associate 'friend' seriously offended me several times yesterday and I had to walk away before getting into a fight - I wanted to punch them. And I've been learning things about a person I love that I didn't want to know. They haven't let me down or betrayed me, but it makes respecting this friend difficult - which sucks.

I don't know, sometimes it feels like there's so much pressure on me. Some of it I put on myself, some of it others put on me. It makes me want to curl up - but I'm tougher than that, I think. And things could always be worse.

To top it off, it seems that all the kids at work have done drugs except for me. I don't feel any peer pressure, but WTF!!!? when did it become so common for kids (most under 18) to be doing casual drugs, and most of it's the hard stuff.

Man life can be hard to comprehend. I'm 20 and the values of the world have changed without telling me. How much 60 or 80 year olds feel?

...Something to think about; yes?