Justin.

So last night I uploaded the first "completed" picture of Justin I have ever drawn. I finally have his characteristics and personality down. If you don't know, Justin is my one and only current reoccurring character/muse. I first drew him on the Pendako whiteboard and he just kind of jumped out at me and I fell in love. ......that was so cheesy...

Anyways.

I drew the pencil sketch a long time ago and just never got around to coloring it, I was afraid of screwing it up.
I was looking for a tutorial so I could learn how to do it in Photoshop without fucking up the original sketch. I found a few and they all said the same thing. It was as I feared. The Pen Tool. As anyone that has ever used Adobe Photoshop knows, the Pen Tool is an ass hole. Really. But I sucked it up and over the course of a few days working on it in tiny sessions so that I didn't get frustrated I came up with this:
Once I gotten a little practice in, the process became easier and I was able to achieve what I thought were positive results... but I was stupid and because I didn't really think that I would finish, I didn't ink it on a separate layer. *headdesk* I went back over it and carefully erased the exposed pencil lines. I then contemplated a coloring method.
Because I spent so long on the lines I didn't really want to have a stunning coloring job to distract from them. I used my same meathod of color I always do, but I was hesitant to make a second layer and multiply the lines because of what pencil remnants might remain and muddle the quality... but after seeing the results I knew I had to do something... I sort of liked the outcome, but at the same time it looked a little faded and half-assed. So I duplicated the layer and multiplied it anyway and it didn't look bad at all and I was VERY satisfied with the results. I think I may use this method from now on... which means that a ton of the older artwork on my deviantART will be inked and available in full color very soon.

Now I want to talk about Justin a little bit...

I would love to write a comic about him but I just don't really have any ideas for what it should be about. I know he will have a co-star named Gray based on another old drawing of mine... Gray may be Justin's brother, because for some reason I picture them both with blue eyes and silver hair. Justin's age is anywhere from 17 to 24... There really isn't much known about him yet sence he kind of ninja'd into my life.

I REALLY NEED IDEAS!!! If you have any plot ideas for a comic starring Justin and Gray, please e-mail it to me.



Here's a picture of Gray for fun-- I think I may finish him next:

Welcome.

Hello, and welcome to my art/bjd/web-manga blog. It should be updated every day with random information about my escapades, but don't count on it. I get on the internet at least 3 or four times a day so I might update then. If you watch me on deviantART you know my work. If you are a member of Den of Angels, then you know me as Shiro and my doll as Artemis. My only web-comic is "Life With Shiro", commonly refered to as LWS and is located HERE.

This seems like the place where I do the whole "about me" thing... which is utterly uninteresting when speaking about me. I was born in California and moved to Georgia when I was 5 or six, I don't really know. I grew up in Loganville in a rental house that was pretty much in my best friend's front yard. When I was in 7th or 8th grade I moved to Snellville and my parents divorced. I met the love of my like in 10th grade and had my first kiss at age 16. My mother found out I was gay in my senior year and our relationship hasn't been quite the same since. I moved to Atlanta to live with the formerly mentioned "love of my life" around 2007 and dropped out of college due to poor attendance. We moved out of our apartment and now live with 3 others in a cruddy duplex. I started going back to school resently to re-persue my life long dream to be an animator. I attend the Art Institute of Atlanta full time and waste the free time I do have on the internet. I get excited about small change and colorful things that smell nice. I also like to collect adorable anime figures... >.>

I like talking about my music preferences... I like a lot of J-Rock. I listen to LM.C, Miyavi, and Plastic Tree. Some more recognizable bands I like are Gorillaz, Frou Frou, Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance and Red Hot Chili Peppers. I also like E Nomine, but they are kinda rarely heard of. Blah, blah, blah.

I play a ton of video games including Soul Calibur, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, Katamari Damacy, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Lost Odyssey, Mirrors Edge, Rock Band, and Guitar Hero to name a few. I am always looking for people to play with online, so hit me up with your Wii address. I also have played WoW and am in love, if I ever get a real account I will let everyone know my Realm, Faction, and name/race/class/level. My old Toon was named Salenholm, a level 20 Night Elf Druid on Feathermoon.

I LOVE anime, but I hate most TV and don't have the money to see movies, so I usually cant even stand talking about what there is to watch. Lately I have been watching Lucky Star and Haruhi Suzumiya and rewatching Cowboy Bebop, Ouran High School Host Club and Azumanga Daioh. I love talking about anime and video games so please feel free to IM me. My name is ShiroChaan on AIM.

That's all I can think to talk about for now...