Awriiiite, my next entry for AVAT is in the Art Portal! Just in time. Heh.

Well, nothing else to say really. So here's a little drawing.
Yay, dancing

Round one of AVAT (the entries) has come to an end for a few days now. To be honest I didn't even expect to make it through round 1. I had a really cool idea in the beginning. Spent about two days on the lineart alone.. But when it came to colouring I kind of lost heart. I wanted it too realistic (not my forte), it had a pretty intense background (something I'm not good at either) and I gave up. For over a week I didn't really work on anything.. But the deadline came closer and in a last energyfit I pooped out Soft Steel. Pooped it out in a good way of course. I'm pretty happy with it, although in hindsight I would have done some minor changes if I wasn't so eager to put it up online.
I didn't notice the similarities with the Iron Giant untill afterward. Oh well.
Anyway, it was rather surprising to find myself in 4th place. I'm curious about the next theme, and even more curious if I'll make it through that one too.
Herp

Also, I thought it would be fun to put up my earlier idea for this round, so here's a tiny version of the sketch and lineart:

I didn't exactly get may advice on my cry for help in my previous blog post.. Except for a shoop da woop, which was okay in it's own way.

Anyway, with a lot of tinkering (and help from my little bro) I got my pic together in Flash. Hurray for The Hare.

Also, I seem to be making a habit out of drawing specific little things for these blog posts. Decided not to break that habit.
Tired but happy faic!

Holy fucking fuck I'm THIS CLOSE to a full-blown breakdown which would then involve the throwing of my laptop, breaking of my tablet and eventually falling to the floor, sobbing in my own spit and tears.

FYI: rant ahead.

I'm so extremely tired of really not knowing shit of most drawing programs. I wanted to create a smooth and clean full black drawing. At first, I just simply started out in photoshop, even though I know well enough that if I just draw in that program, lines will never be very smooth and clean (for the record: I'm looking for a vector-y like drawing, here. But I don't know jack shit about working with vectors), but I did it anyway. As expected, the lines came out too squiggly and 'soft lined' for my tastes, so then I thought "eyy, folks draw in Flash all the time righ, that shit looks spank, let's try that. Again." (Yes, I've tried that before and it resulted in roughly the same breakdown). So I tried that. It didn't work. Mostly because I have the feeling my knowledge of that program is about a limited as my knowledge about.. fashion. Even with google by my side. My biggest problem there was not knowing how to simply change the opacity of an imported image. Or at least it didn't work. Sad.
So I became really desperate and turned to something I know only brings destruction, pain and sadness: Illustrator. There I had a problem getting the brush tool to work, and after I found the problem, I still had problems with it. Fuck, I can't even explain what the hell that thing was doing.

I'm now pretty irritated and it's a bit of a dent in my pride, but if anyone has some good tutorials to make a clean (vector-y?) drawing over a hand-drawn sketch in either flash MX, Adobe Illustrator CS or Adobe Photoshop CS, it is very welcome. You can view the picture that I've been talking about in my art thread.
Thanks for any offered advice and uh, also for reading this rant.

In the meantime I drew a very sad picture of myself, which made me a little happier.
whoop

Well, I've always been relatively prone to identity crises in the past few years, mostly because introspection comes about as natural to me as digesting. Of course, when you draw things, those identity crises can spread to that habit too, since 'art' is often percieved as lying close to your own personality. Which it is.
So, I had another one of my identity crises after drawing another one of what seemed my standard, boring, personality-lacking people-faces that come so naturally out of my pencil. When I draw, it seems I instinctively draw human figures, shapes and faces, all in kind of the same way, even if they're different. And sometimes I get fucking sick of it. I don't know if it can be imagined, but I draw nearly every day: on the bus, on the train, on the tram, in class, before I go to bed, and if those drawings are seldom something more than human figures and faces and shapes because they've become your standard 'doodle'.. it can become annoying. I don't even have the feeling I choose to draw them, it's just that wen I put my pencil on paper it seems they flow out uncounciously.
And then, of course, my annoyance grew and I started hating how I structure my sketchbooks. Which is to say: not. I know what a good and interesting sketchbook looks like, then how come mine always seem to look more like loose sketches glued into a bookcover? They seem flat, inconsistent, boring and unstructured. So I did what I do best.. and wrote almost two pages of ramblings in it. What probably won't make it a better sketchbook.
So now what?
Wait untill the mood passes and then start drawing overly muscular human figures again.
BACK TO THE START BEBEH

Oh, hey, look-e-here. My first real naggy blog-like post. Glad that's over!

I got a brand new set of kiddie markers, faldera!
And it says they won't dry out without their cap.. for FIVE WEEKS. So, they're pretty badass kiddie markers.
If you want to see the first drawing I made with these: Markerfaaaaaaaace

That was pretty much all.
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Me too what? A DeviantArt.
Derp.
I'll upload a lot more stuff on there than I will here, it's easier to maintain as an online portfolio.
Anyway, that's about it, and there you go: http://hannedw.deviantart.com. Feel free to visit, of course.

weeee

Yup. So I have an account on Newgrounds now. My brother insisted I post some news to make myself known, but I have no bloody idea what to write. So, for a little introduction, I guess:
I'm an student at the academy of fine arts and I study animation. I'm in my master years at the moment, and I have a few shorts on youtube under the same name I have here. They're all pretty classic, we mostly still animate with pencil and paper. The last animation I did with flash was about half a year ago (that's this one, by the way) , since I now fancy the classical way. Maybe this newgrounds account will make me put in some effort though.
I'm mostly drawing comics at the moment, and as soon as I find out how to actually make my website look like a website, I'll begin a regularly updated webcomic. Which must be pretty damn soon, actually!

Anyhow, that's a short introduction.
I plan on submitting some content soon, but since my laptop crashed a few months ago I lost a shitload of .swf's and flash files in general from older movies, so I don't know what kind of content that's going to be yet.
We'll see!