Mini-Update 2

I had my hair cut. :3

But then, I had the most horribly god-awful breakout of acne I have EVER experienced, so no pictures. >:

Also moved back to the Philippines. A lot of things changed here in the year and a half I’ve been gone. The little area which was mostly quiet and suburban is not getting its ass kicked with urban development. Buildings are going up, houses are filling up the empty neighborhoods and bringing all the noisemakers with them. I think there’s twice as much exhaust pollution here now than before, and before was pretty bad. Not to mention that traffic has gone to a ridiculous point of inaccessibility. Feel free to shave an extra two hours off your day solely for traveling. And bring a mobile toilet in your car.

Know what I miss about the Philippines? The roaches. The goddamn roaches. How could I have lived without them. -w-

I also missed the food. Since I’ve been dieting, I’ve been craving more vegetables and seafoods, which the best my pallet can handle are Philippine cuisine. Been trying to learn to cook those kinds of dishes, but the states usually isn’t equipped with the same exotic ingredients you can find here.

But besides that, things are going alright. I’m in more of an art mood than I was before so maybe I’ll be able to put up more drawings and such and maybe even get back into working on commissions. Lots of big projects at the moment, and perhaps I’ll be able to get to work on the rest of my blog pages for commissions and my portfolio.

In the meantime, I do sketches of mah buddy Luke cause it was his birthday recently and I dun give him enough love. >3>



~Taddle

Mini-Update

A lot of things happened, a lot of things going on that I would have a journal full of meaningful and riveting tales…but that would be for a time when I can calmly collect my thoughts long enough to do so. Lately I’ve been mostly distracted by vidya games, mostly TF2 and, recently, Killing Floor.

I mostly play Pyro Dodgeball nowadays, which is a good alternative to the ‘run and shoot and watch your ass get blown up/backstabbed’ style of regular TF2 play. Oh, you still get blown up – you’re airblasting rockets and nukes at each other after all. But it won’t require as much concentration and organized teamwork. You basically got two teams of Pyros and a rocket spawner. The goal is to outlast the other team by making sure you –DON’T- get blown up by rockets by way of simply airblasting incoming projectiles as per traditional Dodgeball, or, taking a twist by actually distracting the opposing team by way of airblasting them around the map, either into a hole, pit, fire, or just constantly juggling them enough to distract them from protecting themselves. Voogru is one of the better game servers with an excellent community behind them and a variety of gimmicky maps. If you wanna try your hand at it, you can visit their forums here: http://www.voogru.com

I’ll make a more detailed journal soonish.

P.S:
I had a semi-good sketch available, and the realized retarded Sai didn't save it. ):< So this will have to do for the moment.



~Taddle

Cold Butts

The cold season’s rolling along and I can feel it. It was only a week ago we were still in the ninties, and in the course of a few days quickly dropped to as low as sixty degrees. Might be just the cold front coming in, but I can already remember the stinging winter bite from last year’s freak weather. Lucky me huh to experience one of the coldest temperatures Tampa has ever went through in decades. I mean…it never goes below sixty in the Philippines, never! At least from what I can remember, cause I get cold easily and the only times I ever get cold is when its been raining for a long time without sun.

Also learned that my years in the tropical climate has pretty much made me cold-blooded. I freeze even in air-conditioned rooms- I can’t handle being in temperatures below 75 for too long. >.< I’m pretty sure when I used to live in Chicago I wasn’t this picky about temperature, but dang, it can’t even touch the fifties without me going “HOLY CRAP ITS COLD!”

So now’s the time for sweaters, scarves, and cuddles. I personally don’t mind the wintertime for the last one. <3



~Taddle

Blog Overhaul

Not a lot new to report on, besides the obvious blog overhaul. It took an entire week to recustomize the journal. CSS guro I am not, but I sure as hell can learn how to work with it. Just takes a lot of time and testing and understanding which code does what. Not to mention putting up the images; those took a bit of time as well. There are still some tweaks, like the pages the buttons direct to and possibly adding some junk on the sidebars (cause I love putting junk XD), I’m pretty much happy with it.

I also (shamelessly) added a Donation link, the idea of which I got (shamelessly) from Kilplix’s own blog. XD; Considering I’m on my last five bucks, it would be a reasonable action to put it up. And because I HATE asking and begging for help like so many other artists (who may or may not require such cash for certain circumstances), I’m just going to place a handy little button right there letting it be up to whoever would be nice enough to contribute. I wouldn’t just run off with a half-hearted thank you though…I plan to return a commission to every person that donates as a way of thanks. I can’t seriously work to offer commissions with my schedule right now, but a return gift for kindness is perfectly manageable.

Trying to study nowadays. Might go on till the 19th, when I take the actual test. When I’m not studying I’m trying to apply for college. I think its my best course regardless of whether I pass or not since some of them do offer services to help students get jobs, as well as providing that housing for them (and I really want to get out of this place asap). So keeping my fingers crossed for that.

To finish off, here are the full images of the buttons on top, featuring the leaders of the Serion Homeworld Army Retrieval Squadron. Enjoy!




~Taddle

Coloring Tutorial + Hiatus

Firstly, want to thank mah best bro Luke for kicking me into keeping up with my blog. Really wouldn’t have bothered a few weeks ago and probably still wouldn’t have until now. I love you buddy. <3

Secondly, I mentioned it because I won’t be updating for the next few weeks. Studying, nursing test, hoping to pass this time, intense times like woah.

And to make sure I satisfy all my possible procrastination outlets and do nothing BUT study for the next twenty or so days, I made one picture I actually took the time to work on enough and be happy with the results. I haven’t done that in who knows how long- most of what I’ve submitted has been largely rough sketches and hastily-colored things. Its also a ward and a reminder that I really only have one chance in this, and I need to make the most of it.

So peace out peeps. I’ll be seeing you soonish.

EDIT: While I'm at it, I made a little walkthrough on it. Hope it helps!





~Taddle

Music Blog 1

Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view

Push me up against the wall
Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra
Fallin’ all over myself
To lick your heart and taste your health ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...

Blood loss in a bathroom stall
Southern girl with a scarlet drawl
Wave good-bye to ma and pa ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view

Soft spoken with a broken jaw
Step outside but not to brawl
Autumn’s sweet we call it fall
I’ll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...

Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...


Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Gryphon's stripes are annoying. I need to make a reference for her someday.

~Taddle

Uniforms

…kay. So I suck at dedications. It would appear that Miami life is hectic and riddled with so many unforeseen forces that its difficult to keep to the things I usually love to do. Like drawing. The fact of the matter is, people –hate- sitting around for any extended period of time. To them, it’s a waste of life, and, to a degree, I agree. After all, not everything I do is unproductive (although admittedly I have let myself be slave to games lately. Damn you, Luke.). But also this means I don’t get a chance to sit down and relax long enough to have the inspiration to seriously get down and create something I can be proud of. And as of now I should be concentrating on acing my exam so that I can finally get somewhere in my life and get the people complaining about my uselessness off my ass.

But this is only half the reason why I’ve not completed the ConceptJam, and would rather put the task away for another day. The characters I’ve created, I very much would like to further explore their potential when the time comes. It just doesn’t seem that now is the time.

The other half would be interpersonal problems with certain people, all of whom are great and I count myself fortunate to have met, but somehow leaving me with a lot less confidence in myself that’s led me to question a lot of what I do and whether I’m honestly a good person to be with or not. It seems I get the same reaction a lot when it comes to my somewhat ‘acerbic’ humor…unfortunately, I don’t know when to draw the line of when a joke would go too far, and it ends up making people actually believe these jests and think of me as a rather mean person. Not that I normally tend to care enough about it- you can say that all my life I’ve walked on eggshells, trying not to mess up everything I do and never doing good enough to satisfy. Other people’s feelings are at the bottom of my “Give a Damn” list, but when it comes to people I consider friends, it something that bothers me greatly when I find out I’ve upset them in some way without intending to. I end up more often than not simply throwing my hands in the air, muttering, “This really isn’t worth my time,” and leaving them to their butthurt. But I still wonder if I was the one in the wrong or not. I can’t always do the right thing, and at least I have the balls to admit it and apologize, but it always seems a mistake from me is intolerable. And it takes time for me to recover enough to move on from it.

In other news, my aunt had surgery recently for a muscle tear in her shoulder. Been bothering her for the last few months now and finally got it done. Been helping take care of her as well, and for the moment she’s doing quite fine.

I’ve managed to do a few drawings now and then, just cause some people seem to like the little sketches I leave for my blogs.


I was working on a character for the Samurai Duelers League, as they’ve recently revamped their group and are starting a fresh new season. It’s a perfect opportunity to try out a feudal Taddle, who just happened to be a sort-of ninja to begin with. Although in this era, she’d be a real ninja under the guise of “Kageshin”, which is “Shadowheart” in Japanese. Muchos gracias those lovely people in the Artist Tree and SDL chatrooms for the translation. <3


Er…Wen-M had a contest involving people to draw themselves in group uniforms. It was a passing attempt but didn’t have time to work on it much. XD; Yay fer draggin' nerds around~

~Taddle

ConceptJam! - Day 1

Lord knows I have a ton of under-developed characters I’ve been dying to work on, but alas, I can only choose one for the time frame I’ve been given. So I’ve decided that, since I wasn’t going to stick with the convering-Jemilie-to-a-harpy-OC idea, I would have to create an entirely new character from scratch, which was perfect. So here is the harpy girl from a few days ago, the protagonist of her own yet-to-be-told story, along with her mentor/sidekick Ametris. I haven’t thought of a name for her yet, but at the moment I’m going with Clair Vu.

Right now I’m simply getting the basic concept of her down, but she’s still got a lot of refining to do. I want her to lean a bit for an American Indian-ish type of style, and that requires a bit of research. Ametris needs a little work- I want him to be an example of a harpy that has gone into the advanced stages of their devolution but still maintain a small part of the human aspect in that beastial form. He –might- be anthropomorphic, but I would rather him be as he is now, but with the capabilities of being able to stand upright somewhat and use his forelegs like regular arms and legs.

Stay tuned as I’m under dedication to churn out at least one concept sketch a day for this event.

~Taddle

ConceptJam! Aug 17-30

This is part of ArtistTree's first ever Concept Jam.

About the Concept Jam
A two-week long event starting from August 17th to the 30th centering around a certain theme, from which artists from all walks can participate in conceptualizing and refining ideas surrounding that theme, to result in a finalized creation at the end. The point of the Jam is to challenge your creative prowess, to be able to take ideas and put them down, work on them to make them as close to satisfyingly perfect as possible within a given deadline.

If anyone is interested (and for those of you interested in working in the art industry), I’d highly recommend joining the Jam, and any future Jams that would happen henceforth. You can read up on it and sign up here: ConceptJam Blog . It’ll be open for anyone to join within the first week. The sooner you do it, the better!

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~Day 1

Sketchblog 1

Even though I really love you, I'm gonna smile because I deserve to
It'll all bet better in time.


Another Lapith, Skiver, made a while ago and the first original Skvader Lapith I've thought of besides Kalulu. At some point I'll be exploring on their race and other things. I've been working on getting their concept down for a while now.

~Taddle

Wild Fun Tiemz

I need to get used to posting here at least once a week. ^^;

So! The first real entry will start off at how much effing fun I had at my friend’s birthday/going away party. FUN. It was small and yeah, full of a bunch of usual chill college kids, but they were damn interesting people –INFINITELY better than the gay crowd my cousin decides to be a part of, no offense- and I had a blast getting drunk. XD;

Beach party at night? Even moar awesome! <3

Hair after beach party at night? FRIGGIN AWFUL. DX Ugh. I wasn’t really prepared to go to the beach at night. Luckily my cousin warned me that people actually still do party after dark and helped me look for a suitable bikini. Bikinis are pretty damn expensive, especially if they don’t have the size you need. And more often than not, they WON’T have the size you need. -_-; So kudos to her.

So in the meantime, I’ve tried to do a few sketches. Mostly random things, just getting back into the feel of drawing and doing quick things that don’t really require too much concentration or patience.

One of the few races that I created a while back with a friend. He was trying to figure out races for his RPG and I sort of worked a lot into this harpy type of race. Basically born as humans, they eventually get more birdlike with age, more bestial and more feral, but with far stronger elemental abilities. The first harpy character was actually going to be another Jemilie clone, but I didn't want to make Jemilie too much of a universe-hopping character and tried to make a different character entirely. Some very bouncy redhaired youngin changing far too fast for her age due to her constant meddling in elemental arts.

An example of a Lapith princess from another race I created involving shapeshifting alien rabbits. Sort of derived from the concept of Moon men from Yaiba if anyone remembers watching/reading that anime. Its pretty friggin old. XD; EDIT: Fixed her extra pair of ears. Lapiths are born with four ears, keep forgetting. XD;

~Taddle