some assholes

Hm. I forgot about this thing. Drawn in late January, I believe.
It was supposed to be a quick sketch for fun, but I ended up spending a bit more time on this than I wanted... It's ok...

Sooo yeaahhh I always draw dudes that look like TOTAL ASSHOLES FOR SOME REASON. I mean I can't even tell which one of them is the bigger asshole in this drawing. I think the shorter one is, because I somehow gave him a lazy eye WHOAHOHOHOHO it's bothering me so much now but not enough for me to fix it. Maybe I'll just black it out later.
It's a pain drawing more than one person in one illustration because you have to make everything at least a little consistent... like making sure one doesn't have a giant head... or suddenly having a drastic change in drawing style... But it's fun to draw multiple people, even if they don't directly have some sort of interaction with each other (like this one honhonhon). I especially like to put people in contrasting fashion styles ~(⁰▿⁰)~
Anyway, there are multiple things wrong with this...
Proportions... clothing.................................
I mean, the shorter one's jacket is missing a vital zipper in one area (which you probably won't be able to recognize if you don't know how double-breasted jackets work technically, or don't know fashion too well, or don't draw a lot of clothing...)
So let's not worry about all those trivial things and move on ok.

January 2014 iPad dump

I got an iPad for Christmas and I have no idea what you're supposed to do with it. Most of the time it's just been a $600 manga reading machine, and in December I doodled two things on the Moleskine app with my finger (which sucked really bad).

Moleskine app seems cool because it's a digital version of the actual Moleskine notebooks on the market. But it doesn't give a realistic drawing experience (in my opinion), it lags, and the brush ranges are pretty limited. I later downloaded SketchBook Express for iPad, which is produced by Autodesk.

With the addition of a stylus (which came free with a phone case my mother ordered for her Note3), I was finally able to produce some not-so-bad sketches. Yay!

Leftmost one is a bunch of random shit just to try out SketchBook Express and get used to drawing with a blunt stylus and without pressure sensitivity on an iPad.
Of course I always have to draw some questionable males.
Then I moved on to drawing eyes and brows or something...?? I like drawing different eye brow shapes, but always go back to normal shapes...
I also like drawing mouths so... some mouths invaded the page.................... BUT THEN SHIT GOT WEIRD AND I DREW SOME UNIDENTIFIED GLOPPY STICKY LIQUIDS?? Cause I like to draw sticky things. But I didn't realize until after I finished that it looks a little... uh... .___.;;

Middle one is the same guy from when I tried to test a new drawing style but failed.
Tried imagining what it would be like when his hair was at different styles/stages of length.
It's quite fun drawing him (°∀°//)

Rightmost one is based on a "ninja" request my friend had. But I guess in my mind, ninjas are j-rock stars with laser vision??
I drew this while I was getting my hair colored at the salon ROFL. The hair was fun to do. I mean... drawing his hair was fun to do. Not sitting there waiting for my hair was fun.

Soo I think SketchBook Express has the ability to be quite a powerful iPad drawing/painting app. The free version allows three layers and has a pretty wide range of brushes. I just haven't found the right time to sit and properly try to draw something.
I know there's also an app called Procreate that's around $5 in the app store. We're going to be testing the app out in my digital fashion illustration class, so maybe I'll see if I want to invest or not.

Happy February!

新年好

(I actually ask you view the full size version of this one because the details killed me and this tiny version shows nothing...)

Sooo Happy Lunar New Year 新年快樂 stuff yeah yada yada.

I'm so over red and gold for the next five months......................................
The only thing I like about this drawing is the gold nugget (cause I colored that first GAHAHAHA) and the 新年快樂 because I like the border... yeah...
Uhhh let's see... Let's start with the dude.
Soo I drew him first. Yeah. I don't know why he looks so stoned. And the girl looks stoned, too, but we'll talk about her later. Yeah idk man, somehow he just came out looking stoned. Don't look at the pattern on his shirt cause it's not consistent LOL;; and uhh yeah. I gave him an undercut cause I'm really liking undercuts lately.
The girl also came out looking stoned god dammit why idk.

Ehh I was gonna talk about them separately but it's not working so I'll just randomly blabber.

So I really don't like drawing traditional Chinese-y things 90% of the time. I was kind of dreading doing this, but I wanted to do something nice for my grandmother in China. So... I drew this. But because I get so bored with Chinese shit, I tried to modernize it a little. I kept iconic things like the gold nugget, red envelopes, and lanterns. But I wanted to update the two characters a little. So the dude has an undercut hairstyle and piercings (in red and gold cause y'know Chinese). I gave him tapered trousers instead of Chinese-y pants, but kept with a Chinese shirt (I don't know the real name of those things because lol I'm a terrible Chinese person) and shoes. His lantern is a little more simple than the girl's to look a little more masculine.
It was harder to modernize the girl because I guess when you think Chinese girl, you usually think very traditional? The hair is still kind of classic (like the girls you see on CNY posters with those two dumb buns on their head) and I kept her makeup sort of traditional with pink eyeshadow. She has very faint pink lip gloss (if I made it any darker it looked weird). I really wanted to update her outfit instead of giving her a typical qipao, so only the top looks like a qipao. One side is a floral design and the other is a plaid. The red sash ties into a ribbon on her back. Her skirt is the same fabric as the guy's shirt. And I gave her some black boots with a red heel. Her lantern also has more detail than the guy's.

It's not that I hate drawing Chinese things... But it does tend to bore me a lot...

Anyway, Happy Lunar New Year. Go rake in those envelopes, mo'fuckas!