Chocolate and strawberry icecream

So, tomorrow I'm leaving for the UK. I'll be spending the next week with my girlfriend in Wales and I can't wait! But I do hate planes, and I'll have to take two to get there and two to get home. Also, the trip will take me more than 12 hours. The great thing about traveling is that I can always draw. So I'll bring my sketchbooks and the Vanderpoel book and draw a lot. I bringing my sister's camera, so I might actually post photos when I get back!

And here's a study done in PS because I'm too lazy to scan.

Strawberry milk with chocolate chips

Time for another update. I don't see the point in including all the croquis sketches, so I've once again just randomly chosen some. So here you've got croquis, café-sketches and sketches drawn in class.

Awesome news! I sent THE Bobby Chiu a mail last weekend and told him how he and his CHIUStream had motivated me and in the end gotten me the job I now have. And he replied my mail! I can imagine he's a very busy man and I didn't even dream of getting a reply, but I did. But that's not the end of it; he read my mail on the CHIUStream last Friday! I was so happy and I felt even more motivated.
Just thought I'd share that.

And now I'm off to the café again.

Strawberries dipped in melted chocolate

Uh...
I thought I'd wait with the sketches 'till after the croquis later today, k? So now I'm updating because I've added colours and basic light on the Riko-pic from the last update. I'm only working on this in the mornings now, from 6-7 am, so I'm getting up at 5am just to draw what I feel like drawing. The rest of the day is practice/work.

Chocolate pie topped with five strawberries

I've got a job now! As the illustrator of a story going in a biweekly magazine for Christian children. The pay isn't bad and the story is really cute so far. 83

Other than that? Aicon was a week ago and it was the worst con I've had a stand at so far. There was no air-conditioner in the room we were placed in and it was never announced that there were art stands there at all. It sucked, so that's the last time we'll have a stand at aicon. We will, however, continue to have stands at desucon.

There's a reason why I don't blog often and that's because there isn't much going on in my life that would be interesting for other people to read about. The number one reason I have this blog is because I need a reason to actually scan/take pictures of my sketches and such. I would post this in dA journals, but the naked people I draw makes that difficult.

Today even the blog isn't really going to motivate me to walk over to the scanner and scan, so I'll just post a digital lineart instead.


Simple drawing of my OC Riko. I wanted to draw something simple where I didn't really have to think about environment and perspective and such. Yes, I was in a very lazy mood.