Doodles #2

Sweet Jesus a new post! On top of that it's a doodle(ish) post...madness! Being on my puter has been lame lately because I need to reformat it (for the third time, pretty much once per year is the pattern so far), but I've been hesitating because reformatting means I have to give up Photoshop (along with the rest of the sexy Adobe CS4 Suite). All my files are backed up onto my external, but unfortunately programs don't work that way. *le sigh* I'll have most of my programs back eventually (I hope *knocks on wood*) and I officially can't stand not knowing what's going to make my laptop freeze up. I haven't had much motivation for anything except sleeping which I'm failing at too. I need a new job or to go to school so I can get a new job. I just don't know what to do first and the more I think about it the more everything feels against me succeeding. If anyone wants a commission from me I'd be more than happy to draw something, make a plush, make a keychain/cellphone charm/pin in exchange for money. My cousin actually commissioned a Hello Kitty pillow from me and that's what I've been working on lately when I'm not distracted. Pikachu has been finished for quite some time now...




Kimmychu actually squealed when she pulled it out of the gift bag. It took her a while to realize I had made it myself though.




There are close up shots at my DeviantArt along with all the details of what it's made of. I wish I had been able to take a picture of how well it glows in the dark though. :C The next Pokemon hair clip I'll be doing is Cyndaquil and then perhaps I'll finish off the Mews I have already cut out. Here's a little teaser for Cyndaquil...




It'll be much cuter when it's done and all the details have been added. <3

Now for some doodles! I warn you guys now that this doodle post is going to end with a lot of Animal Crossing: Wild World related things, hopefully you'll enjoy it anyway. :P

I had been searching for a game/program that will allow me to draw on my Nintendo DSi. I would actually go onto Pictochat just to doodle sometimes and I can't tell you how many silly Pictochat conversations I had with my sister that I wished I could save. Flipnote does let me draw, but it's very limited in terms of colors and what you can do. Then finally I ran into Inchworm Animation and it's like a mini Photoshop on my DSi and I have been enjoying it thoroughly.




Haunter is of course the first thing I doodled on there to test the game/program out. I've drawn Kimba/Leo and his mother not too long after. It also animates and lets you save as a flash which is something I'll have to test out someday.




Here's something I intend on making pretty in Photoshop someday for the purpose of posting onto the Tumblr, Sailor Moon Secrets. It'll be a very personal post, but I still want to do it.

I've mentioned how on Animal Crossing I play as a boy and named myself Sonikku, but I don't think anyone realizes that I actually tend to think of my character as Sonic the blue blur himself (SatAM Sonic if we want to get into specifics). He lives in a town named Knothole and rarely ever walks...it was bound to happen. When I bought the mohawk wig my mental image of Sonic on Animal Crossing was complete and I squealed with glee when I was able to color my hair blue. Here's a few of my favorite outfits that Sonikku has worn...




The top outfit is what he's actually wearing at the moment, it reminds me of a scientist (I have a weak spot for nerdy outfits <3). There have been a lot more fashions in Sonikku's AC life of course. :P Now here's how my mind sees Sonikku in the bottom two outfits.




My waifu Daisy is pretty much Sonikku's Sally in AC. I've had some silly adventures as Sonikku and have had some that influenced me to actually draw a comic. Yep...I doodled a whole comic (three notebook pages in one sitting because I was afraid if I stopped I'd never finish it) based on something that happened to me on AC. It's as silly as it already sounds. Anyone who plays should be able to get the gist of what's going on, but either way I promise I'll explain everything at the end of the comic.







I would like to actually doodle more comics about this because it gets hilariously worse for poor Sonikku. I can't describe how much work it was to clean this up...it probably didn't help that I have no scanner and had to take pictures of all the doodles in this post. Yep...that's my horrid handwriting, hopefully it's legible. In AC bug catching has taken up most of my time because the beetles are abundant at the times I play, they seemed to be helping me earn money faster than fishing and I was still trying to pay off my loan from Nook. Tarantulas and scorpions are worth the most, but I had yet to encounter either until basically what happened in the comic...at first the noise did startle me because most of the noises that meant bugs were more bug like noises like the cicadas...not rustling noises. I heard that noise and thought of this clip from Pablo Francisco as I was trying to figure out what was making the noise. Then I saw the tarantula almost as big as Sonikku's head and thought screw that and ran (I turn quite girly around bugs in real life which may have been the cause of that reaction). I did come back to try and catch it, but apparently having your net out makes them angry and they will actually attack you if they see you with your net sooooo, yeah it attacked Sonikku. You then black out and wake up in front of your house. Let's just say I have yet to catch a tarantula and I am also paranoid when I hear the rustling noise. >_>;

I hope you enjoyed my doodles as much as I enjoyed drawing them. I'm actually starting to want to do a post with my own brainchildren, but I'm still paranoid about posting them. It'd be nice to share something that isn't exactly a doodle on here. Perhaps someday.

Oh, dat delicious!

Cookie Monster's nomming noises remixed in Success'n'Mistreet by Luna C + S3RL make me happy, not to mention The Count laughing too. Aside from all the Disney albums I downloaded I've been listening to a bunch of DJ S3RL tracks after my cousin had played his Neon Genesis remix when we stayed at her NoHo school dwelling. Speaking of my cousin, whom my sister and I have nicknamed Kimmychu because of her obsession with Pikachu, she's the one who has brought me to make Pokemon hair clips.




I'm making Pikachu for her, but the only one finished, as anyone who has me added on Facebook knows, is Haunter. I'm resorting to using felt for Pikachu's brown markings because aside from acrylic paint it's the best thing I have. I have black fabric paint for the ear markings. I keep wanting to add glow in the dark fabric paint only because she's an avid raver (also nearly deaf because of it), but have yet to think of a good way to add it onto Pikachu without it looking like I threw it on there just because I can. I made a Cyndaquil pattern (for my sister since her Pokesona is a Cyndaquil) as well, but I lack the appropriate colors of fleece. It will give me a chance to make a Squirtle pattern to accompany her Cyndaquil when I can head into LA for more fleece shopping.




My Haunter clip seen here being modeled by myself. I added glow in the dark fabric paint around his eyes and am debating if I should cover his eyes completely in it as well since it dries almost clear. Poor Haunter was my guinea pig and I actually ended up sewing him together twice. He's a little frayed because of that, but I love him dearly and wear him for comfort when I get home because my Creeper is really starting to get to me. He's glued to a giant version of those hair clips that you simply bend open and closed. Shiny Mew will be his companion after Pikachu is done. C: The regular colored Mew I'm actually making just because I can. I've actually been considering making a bunch of these with and without the clips just to sell for money in something like Etsy, but I doubt anyone would buy any.

I need to add this because of how I ended the last post...




The first Ariel (I'm guessing it's for an Under The Sea area of the ride) I actually think is awkward looking and unless they have fish constantly swimming around her hair they should have done her hair like the second Ariel animatronic, but I'm hoping she'll look much better IN the ride. :P

Guess what?! :D

Nope...it isn't chicken butt. I finished Kirby!!!
 





Isn't he cute? He's as huggable as he looks.

He even has a tag which according to Captain (my sister) makes him "legit". :P




His tag is thanks to Miss Label. They are very affordable and quick to respond. I got them faster than I thought as well. It's located on his left "butt" cheek.

One more photo with me so you can get an idea of just how big he is. Sorry about all my ugly, hopefully Kirby's cuteness can overpower me.




I used Seremere's Kirby Plush Tutorial, but well...it should be rather obvious I didn't follow it completely. Especially in materials. He's aaaalll fleece...and a looooooooooooot of thread and stuffing. I also took a lot of liberties while putting him together. Making Kirby was certainly a learning process and if you look at him closely enough you can see which part I sewed first. It's part of his flaws, but I guess I'll just say it makes him unique. When I do things that have a tutorial I never seem to be able to duplicate the results. I just hope the person I'm giving him to loves him. Problem is her favorite is really Meta Knight, but I am NOT going to drive myself crazy trying to make him when my next project already looks like a puzzle from hell. It's also my first attempt to make something without a pattern or tutorial, but dammit I'm going to do it if it kills me...which it just might. D: I will admit that making these feels a bit therapeutic for me. It's nice to watch things on my laptop and lovingly sew together each piece by hand and somehow they come together to make things like Nny and Kirby.

What have I done?!!!!

I made myself a Tumblr account... http://sonikkukitten.tumblr.com/

D:

In other news...I'm already starting on my second plush and this one, I'm hoping, will end up as a Christmas gift. I was lucky enough to have a trip down into the Fashion District on Sunday to hunt for softer material for a plush. Fleece (I'm pretty sure that's what I bought) was the best and most plentiful/varied material we found. I was hoping to find that really soft material that they use for plushies these days, but yeah...no. I doubt it would have been as good a price as the fleece was. We also learned that clothes are much, much cheaper there too. Ross ain't got nothin' on LA's rock bottom prices. :P Nny is complete and already with his new plushie family in my sister's room.



My sister had wanted to bring him with us to Magic Mountain last Saturday, but with how anal Six Flags has gotten with their no loose articles on rides policy I convinced her he was safer at home. Funnily enough I had found the perfect solution to my loose articles by pulling my purse strap through my belt holes. Genius, I know. Then on every line we went into where we have been hounded about loose articles they either didn't notice or they no longer care about my "loose articles". >:[ Now, October at Magic Mountain means Fright Fest and for my sister and I that means sexy Heckles and Twitch action. To say we were looking forward to it after having missed it completely last year was an understatement. It's almost a ritual to go for my birthday at least. Colossus backwards didn't fail us, but we noticed the overabundance of "youth" in our favorite park. Past experience has taught us that during Fright Fest people don't start coming until sunset which meant short lines for us during the day and then freedom to ogle clowns all night while the lines were packed. Not this year. Got in three coasters...I would've gone on Log Jammer too, but I couldn't (didn't want to anyway).






Then as we huddled in front of the stage set up at the entrance to Gotham we finally got to see our favorite clowns. Twitch even donned his dancing panties and busted out Plan T. <3 Captain completely fangirled and then after their speech and rules they set the clowns loose and we went into Gotham to enjoy the screaming, but after scouring the Gotham City Backlot our favorite clowns were no where in sight, not to mention a lot of the costumed people that had crowded around the stage were missing. We recognized clowns from previous years, but where were their ringleaders? What truly ruined the experience was all the idiots completely ignoring the rules and shoving clowns and just making complete jackasses of themselves. We gave up and went to ride Colossus backwards again and wait to catch the next show. The halftime show although funny wasn't making up for our building disappointment. Once again Heckles and Twitch disappeared into the fog and there was still a serious lack of clowns and screaming. We found a perch to watch the clowns work their magic, but it wasn't enough and some of them weren't even trying. I finally found an event staff and asked where Heckles and Twitch were and she told me that they basically don't hang around in Gotham anymore and sometimes roamed to the other "scare zones". We were officially sad pandas and decided to visit the other scare zones to see what they were like even with the knowledge that none of us brought a change a pants in the event that they succeeded in their purpose in any of the scare zones. At the camp set up they definitely surprised us, though I think I angered one of them with my cheery hello when he popped up behind us with his hoarse "Hiiiii!". Location, location, location. The scare zones were in great areas for people to truly sneak up on you and Samurai Summit had some cute ones. I'm well aware that people dressed up as zombies shouldn't be considered cute, but...they just are okay! We can see through the blood, the painted on sunken cheek bones and prosthetics. We even found one of the people that had been down by the stage for the opening speech Heckles and Twitch gave. Our scare zone tourism done we passed by Superman to head back for the last show of the night and found Superman: The Escape completely blocked off with a sign saying they'll be re-opening in 2011. We cheered and hoped that the rumors for the Bizarro add on would come true. That ride was overdue for a complete overhaul. The cars weren't going as high on the tower as they did when my dad would bring me during those summer vacations so long ago. We found a spot by the stage, but the "youth" ruined that too. Some snot noses decided to shove and climb the railing keeping us from the stage. I hoped the clowns would make them poop their pull-ups. >:C The final show was more dissapointment, but the kids totally pooped their pull-ups when the clowns started their final scares for the night. I should mention, that Captain adores the music they play when Heckles and Twitch tell the clowns to "Get 'em!" and so after every show we would ask about it and well...the one guy we got to talk to us made us promises he never intended to keep it seems. Sad and disillusioned we headed for the exit only to encounter more "youth". Ugh...it's not so much the kids that I minded it was the teenagers. It also further proved that my birthday is going to suck. *sigh*

Bonus! Guess who I'm making...it should be rather obvious.

Inflatable Playground!

I had a birthday party to go to this Saturday and to mine and my sister's surprise it was at a place called Pump It Up! which was basically an inflatable playground. Bounce houses and obstacle courses galore and anyone who knows me, knows I don't pass up an opportunity to get into a bounce house and a three year old's birthday party is no exception. What made this time even better was the fact that the parents were getting into the inflatable fun. To see my dad racing other dads through an obstacle course is an awesome thing I'm sure myself and the other young people there will never forget. I genuinely pooped myself out and climbed the tallest slide just to sit at the top and cool down while I watched everyone below pelt each other with beach balls.





In other news on Sunday I finally built up the courage to try and make my own plush and while still not complete because I'm missing stuffing to stuff him with I don't think I did too bad for my first try.






My sister has fallen in love with him and between her and I we've named him Nny (After Johnny the Homicidal Maniac because my sister said he looked like something Jhonen Vasquez would draw) and she can't wait for me to finish him. I had to modify the pattern I used a bit because felt is much stiffer than what they suggested. I'd like to work with something softer next time because I'm hoping to make plushes as Christmas gifts, but that also means I need to get started. D: I need a nice long trip to Michael's.