Current location:	Melbourne, Australia
Current mood:	sleepy
Entry tags:	visual art

As I was saying
...before I got sidetracked by this brilliant game called Line Rider...and study (but seriously, Line Rider is a big event in terms of using flash to explore the potential of softward interactivity- big enough to score an entire section of YouTube videos based on it, as well as an article about it was written in TIME- not only that, but it was an idea I myself had in my head but I lack flash skills...) anyway, I was saying that during this exam period, before I came down with a case of the dumb, I was doing some quick doodles on the scrap paper that my printer had produced while it was having issues. As I was doing about one a day, I thought I might post em here because...I want to. But as a gesture of...deference to your thusly preempted objections, I will place them behind a cut.

Okay, that was just pure wanker. Forgive me. My brain is numb.



As you can see, the text scanned through when I adjusted the levels, and I decided to keep it that way because this was supposed to be a scrap. It was done on the back of page 5 of my neuro-embryology notes (axonal pathfinding and chemoattractive/repulsive targets- a couple of questions which were asked about it in the MCQ, yay ^^). I won't bother explaining the pic except to say I wanted to try some perspective- and then perspective anatomy as my spatial ability, frankly speaking, really sucks. I can't begin to say how bad it is.

Anyway, this I thought was a nifty representation of my academic position- precarious, but at least I had a tenuous hold on my position, or so I thought at the time.

By Saturday though, I was going nuts. I was doing a complete total cram harder than anything ever before and during one of my breaks, I remembered that there was this one self-portrait caricature thingy that I've wanted to do for quite a while now. Hence:



Yes, this is me imagining that I'm like one of those cram-school candidates from Japan (as if!) Although that said, until I shaved yesterday morning, I was looking about that dorky. It's actually a pretty accurate representation...for a 5 minute scribble. Not surprisingly, by the end of Saturday- the study session of which went into the wee hours of the morning, I was completely bushed.

So it was time for something totally unrelated.



Don't ask me where I got the idea to draw this from...because trust me, it ain't pretty. Besides, everything about the contents itself are pretty generic enough for me to get away with being non-specific. Let's just say that the addition of the denim hot-pants makes this pic a whole lot more wholesome than the original.

I actually really struggled with this one. It wasn't so much the body or the arms (note the way I drew the hands is uncharacteristic of my style- I was experimenting), but the head that really got to me- as I have no experience with rabbit heads. I kinda screwed up the eyes, and then the head looked all misshapen, so I got sick of it and started shading the lot in pen. So you get that- two hours later (see what I mean by lack of focus?)

Then my brother points out to me today that the head still looks a bit flat- he has a good eye. So I fix it but I've already uploaded the same pic to the VCL twice...bah, it doesn't matter. Despite the flaws and the sloppiness of much of it, I've taken a liking to this pic (and the bunny).

And yes, I know I left the shadow out, but I haven't figured what to do with it now. I may very well leave it at that.

And now, I must leave it at that for my brain is more than numb, it is starting to hurt from my being awake. So I think I'll turn in for the night. No distraction pic for today that means...well I tried but I had to scrap some attempts because they went all off the rails. Besides, no point trying to flog a dead horse.

*falls unconscious*