Ayarane Project

Another day, another iteration. This one has +1 Numair.

I think my office chair is haunted… well, at the very least, it’s OLD. I’ve had it for nearly 10 years, and the foam covering the arm rests has almost entirely torn off over time. It’s also creaky as hell. Anyway, I transferred over yesterday around 8pm to work on this, and dinner arrived just as I finished setting up… a couple blinks later, it was 4am! And then 7am… and then 9am! WTF. My chair freaking put me to sleep! o_O So much for trying to go AFK at least once an hour, sheesh. (As for the spaghetti… fortunately it resurrects easily via microwave. :P)

But, as you can see, I actually did get something done.
I’ve missed drawing Numair… and, for once, I actually drew his crossbow as it is supposed to look like (with the gold ring). This just leaves Haruko, Yoshi and the villains and then final cleanup… wee~

A little solar highlight on Yggdrasil and…
…oh, hi Hikaru~

I’d opened up Painter with the intention of working on this during Craig Ferguson and next thing I know I’m all “blah de blah, herp a derp, OH IT’S 3:30AM I THINK I MIGHT WANT TO DRAW NOW” and then I just power on like nothing happened. Actually, that’s been the norm for ramen, now that I remember… and the timestamps on the JPEG exports corroborate this. I really do get more stuff done after midnight.

It’s weird because then I start wondering where it came from… it’s not like it’s last-minute work for a class. I know I’ve always been a bit of a night owl, but… I like being able to sleep at night, too. :|

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Oh! While we’re on the topic of Painter…
Painter 12… wha? It’s out? about damn time I was wondering what happened to the beta, so I went to Corel’s site to see if there was even a tease about that… only to find it’s buyable now. Seriously, it came out yesterday. Who knew? (Corel isn’t too big on pimping their stuff beforehand, it seems…)

I was going to plunk down the monies since I did say I would actually buy the thing rather than torrent (for one thing, as of 11, Corel now gives you both the Windows and Mac versions on one disc, which will make outfitting Dinah SO much easier), but I’m going to sit on my hands for the moment until I find out if 12 is as much a trainwreck as 11 was.

If you don’t recall, Painter 11 was so, SO awful, namely in that it pretty much destroyed the idea of layers and was pretty crash-happy and I ended up going back to Painter 10 for the Windows machines. This, of course, made it a huge pain to outfit Dinah since 10 apparently does not work with her version of Mac OS X, but 11 did, and that’s kind of boo and… yeah. So, hopefully 12 is made of MAXIMUM NO-SUCK and I can spring for the upgrade pricing. >:D Or even better… deviantArt is likely to promote the hell out of it with their events and such, I should just go through them. XD

Now with more villains! Aha… I need to grab reference sprites for the lesser ones, I made Phreeoni look like a freaking Wobbufett (sp).

I think that concludes the wireframe part. Tempted to paint the Yggdrasil BG before I ink this time. It reminds me of those rare instances in which I got to paint on giant canvases… as clumsy as they were, it was also pretty awesome.

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Pizza Wednesday = price drop on “X Lovers” specs = hi, Pizza Hut.
Classic Hand Tossed, I missed you~
As much as Pizza Hut is all about their novelty crusts, sometimes you just have to go back to the root of it all. Hand-tossed Pepperoni Lover’s, hell yeah. (Also? The crust ends are useful for scraping out the bottom of this ranch dip jar. Hah!)

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You know what else is good? Sleep. Sucks that I work best late at night and end up sleeping through the day, and sometimes I end up dream walking for some strange spiritual reason.

The ramen flows. How long has it been? :P
Had to do two resizes just to get to this part of the wireframe… which is a sore understatement compared to what the final product will be. >_>; (Well, of course it is, it’s the freaking wireframe phase) Holy crap I predict a mess of drybrush up in here.