Last night I had some time to kill after programming for a bit. I decided to do a simple sketch. With my last two sketches I focused on speeding up my drawing process, even if it would lead to more inaccuracies and perhaps less detail.

Taking a look at the news

I opened the MSN news application this morning to find only the usual load of negative articles. The media is full of drama like always - that is why I usually ignore it. Small things that I would deem insignificant (like one man mockingly name-calling another) are made headlines. The media also seem to focus on publishing tweets nowadays. Obviously a lot of rude things can be found on Twitter. /nobigdeal

Just the other day, ANN7 made headlines about the tweet of some bird woman in the Natal (apparently she said something rude). The next day when I switched to the channel, the news reporter said "even more comments have been made on Twitter about the tweet by the bird woman"... I mean seriously? Was it not expected that people would comment? =D>

Like the old saying goes: no news is good news. Have a great day! /bye 

It has been a while since I have drawn anything. I didn't really plan on drawing today, but as I was sitting in my room, listening to Veela and the rain falling outside, I sorta just started. The drawing was (of course) a very quick one, but pretty fun to do.

We have been having a rainy week in the North West. It has been cloudy most of the time which is really welcome since we had a heat wave a few weeks ago. I love gloomy and cloudy days and hope that this weather will continue in the coming week. /please

Our campus is currently full of first years. The seniors will probably be returning this week so I expect some more life forms to be dwelling around here soon. /bye

On most TV channels you cannot get excited about commercials. The Japanese people however are known to mostly be the exception to most of the world's expectations. So yeah, my first blog post for 2016 will be about Japanese commercials. Sounds boring? I promise it is not!

If I had to summarize Japanese commercials in one word it would be strange! Most of the time I have no idea what is being promoted (until the end) - even though I understand the language somewhat. /nobigdeal

Things I like about Japanese commercials

• What I enjoy most about the Japanese commercials is that they are (for the most part) funny and quite surprising. You are always confused by them! :)
• They avoid confrontation as far as I can tell. I haven't seen any commercials that say "we are better than other brands" or "our product is 40% better that the leading competition".
• Some of them are anime-styled! How cool is that...
• The sounds and images are mostly based on artistic fantasy of completely unrelated to the product. This adds to the surprising effect I guess.

Anyway, check of the video that I've attached to this post! Sayonara! /bye

I did another drawing with my laptop mouse when I got home from church this morning. I decided to draw something a little darker with some bright colors that would attract attention. I'm a sucker for blue and drawing faces, so a blue-haired girl in a black cloak was the most obvious choice.

Some thoughts

Drawing with my laptop mouse isn't really super comfortable, but it is not that bad to use. It is obviously a little bit slow to use when compared with a graphics tablet. /nobigdeal

After finishing this drawing, I realized that it looks a lot like Konan from the Naruto universe! Best be off now. /bye 

So after a little bit of working today, I decided to draw something while I was sitting in front of my laptop. I decided to draw with my little Logitech M325 mouse. Of course I did not expect anything too good, so I just kept things simple.

Drawing thoughts

What I really enjoy about digital art is that creating vibrant color effects are easy. I used Adobe Photoshop CC to draw so I could use layers, loads of different brushes and some filters. Anyway, the drawing started out as a girl doing some kind of face-palm pose. Then I turned her into a type of angel-like woman by giving her wings. I played around with the background for some time, but then set on creating a type of space atmosphere. :)

I haven't picked up a graphics tablet yet, but I'm looking forward to doing more digital art soon. Think I'll watch some Psych now before going to bed. /bye

For some reason I always like to draw on Thursday nights or Friday mornings. Anyway, I decided to do some toony drawings today. I thought that I would try a few different cartoon styles and see how it goes. It came out okay I guess. It was definitely fun drawing the characters!

Some thoughts about the drawing

I started off with the girl holding her hat on the right of the page. I drew it a little bigger than the others for no reason really. The nose looks a bit strange, but the idea is there - some kind of country girl. She might be standing in a field or in a garden. Next I drew the character at the top of the page. It reminds me of the older Disney kind of cartoon characters. /hmm

I then drew the little girl who is sitting on the rock. If you've played Don't Starve before, the character might appear very familiar. Finally I drew the woman spilling her wine. She has probably had too much to drink and now has trouble keeping on her feet - thus the strange stance. /blur

So it is around 1:00 AM here and I better be off to bed. /bye

It's been a while since my last post. I haven't drawn much during the past couple of days and have been spending a lot of time implementing a variety of econometric models for quantitative trading research that I'm doing. So I did a very quick drawing (maybe took me 10 minutes) this morning of a face that I decided to post on my blog even though it is really just some messy lines. 

Things happening in real life

December is here

So we have finally arrived at the last month of the year. Everyone seems to be getting ready for Christmas and vacation. The stock markets aren't doing particularly well, which is a little different than usual for the last part of the year. I expect some bullish (upwards) movements soon though. /nobigdeal

New Hitman film

My brothers and I decided to watch the new Hitman movie tonight. I thought it was much better than the previous film. It was actually quite decent and something I would definitely recommend to those who enjoy action films. :)

Taking a break from HotS

I've been playing Heroes of the Storm with some Twitch streamers for a while now. I really love that game. Everyone seems to be playing the new Cho'Gall character now which is a little irritating though. I won't be playing HotS for the next few weeks as I will be focusing on more serious things. Not that online gaming isn't a serious thing. /hmm

Exercising thoughts

I have been totally skipping on exercising the past few months. So I plan on running again every morning. The hardest part is making it become a habit again I'm sure.  

I'm hoping that December will have some interesting happenings. That's all for this post though. /bye