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Dec. 24th, 2007 @ 04:15 am My yearly emo xmas card
Current Mood: mellow
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Mike Tilly Xmas 2007
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Have a good one.
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Nov. 27th, 2007 @ 03:32 am Art! Another speed line experiment
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I don't know what madness made me think hand-drawn speed lines were a good idea. Obviously a few simple Photoshop tricks can do it much better. Now I only have to figure out how.

My 365 sketch project died, btw. Pushing myself is good and I have to do that, but not by forcing myself to create art I'm not satisfied with. I'll try to create at least one serious image a week instead, and a bunch of sketches I won't feel I have to put up just for the sake of it.
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Oct. 22nd, 2007 @ 12:00 pm 365 Day 15
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More face and character experiments. For some reason this kind of variation is easier for men right now. :/
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Oct. 21st, 2007 @ 09:00 pm 365 Day 14
Current Mood: lonely
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Oct. 20th, 2007 @ 09:00 pm 365 Day 13
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A friend's Exalted character — Zahara.
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Oct. 19th, 2007 @ 12:10 pm 365 Day 12
Current Mood: sleepy
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Fem Fortress 2 continues with a thumbnail sketch of a female pyro.
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Oct. 18th, 2007 @ 12:00 pm 365 Day 11
Current Mood: frustrated
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I don't know where I was going with this. Some kind of clothes design I guess. Meh.
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Oct. 17th, 2007 @ 03:33 am 365 Day 10
Current Mood: hyper
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I want to draw more varied faces and personalities. So I tried some various men.
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Oct. 16th, 2007 @ 03:30 am 365 Day 9
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Female scout concept for Fem Fortress 2!
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Oct. 15th, 2007 @ 03:18 am 365 Day 8
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I present to you the god of writing. He should have more writing on his scrolls, but it's too much work for a sketch. And besides, I'm behind as it is.
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Oct. 14th, 2007 @ 01:15 am 365 Day 7
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This is a concept for a short comic I'm working on. She's inspired by Caerula Sanguis from Battle Angel Alita: Last Order. A little too inspired, actually. I made this to try out how to quickly shade my comic and also to stamp on some cool pattern on her kimono using Photoshop, so I don't have to draw it over and over.
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Oct. 13th, 2007 @ 09:00 pm 365 Day 6
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The new Changeling is pure awesome and might just bring me back to the World of Darkness, which I promised to leave behind a long time ago. Here's some kind of electrical Changeling. The concept doesn't really come out in black and white. He's supposed to have dark eyes with pupils like arc lights, for one thing. Also, the perspective is off.
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Oct. 12th, 2007 @ 03:49 am 365 Day 5
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I missed a day of sketching, so here's an older drawing I had lying around. It's a warstrider design, but it got a bit too rounded and featureless, so I didn't continue with it.
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Oct. 11th, 2007 @ 09:00 pm 365 Day 4
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I got the new Sidereal book today and felt like drawing some crazy kung fu. I've used a mysterious Sid with a head scarf over his eyes like that in my games before. Not seeing but still seeing somehow is usually a cool thing. Also, ever since Caerula Sanguis appeared in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, I really like chinese flexible swords with my martial arts.
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Oct. 10th, 2007 @ 02:21 am 365 Day 3
Current Mood: giddy
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The much anticipated Orange Box is released tomorrow, which is like christmas to me. I'm taking the day off from work to play Episode 2 and all. To celebrate this, I've done this Team Fortress 2-inspired sketch. TF2 is an awesome game in all respects. I especially admire the character design, technically, gameplay-wise and aesthetically. However, although Valve have outdone themselves in nailing the classes as the quintessential archetypes they are, they're almost all white males. The Demoman is black and I guess there could be a woman under that pyro suit. However, I've had this idea to redesign the classes as females and I've begun with the easy ones. First out is the spy — half femme fatale, half TF2 spy. There will likely be more of these.
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Oct. 9th, 2007 @ 03:29 am 365 Day 2
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It's only day two and I already worry about following through with this project. Just so I won't take this too seriously all the time, I'll include some fun stuff too. Like this chibi-Mononoke.
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Oct. 8th, 2007 @ 03:24 am 365 Day 1
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This is the start of a 365 project, inspired by my friend dissolvegirl's 365 project on Flickr, and motivated by my wish to develop my art. The idea is to post a sketch daily for 365 days, no matter what, to push myself to make drawing more of a habit and get a bit better at it.

The first sketch is in fact also inspired by dissolvegirl, who told me to "draw something pretty", so I made a try at a portrait of her. I'm not good at portraits, so this doesn't look much like her, but as a quick head sketch I'm quite happy with it.
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Feb. 7th, 2007 @ 10:50 pm Pan's Labyrinth <3
Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack - "Long, long time ago"
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If you have any sense of wonder in you and you appreciate a dark, gripping fantastic tale that doesn't follow family friendly Hollywood standards, go and see Pan's Labyrinth (trailers here). I bet I'll look back at it as one of the best films of 2007. The film's sad lullaby theme has haunted me ever since I saw it.
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Dec. 22nd, 2006 @ 12:39 am Have a Mirthful Yule
Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: Fredo Viola - "The Sad Song"
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Scroll or click to see it all.

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Aug. 16th, 2006 @ 12:01 am Space racing & barbarians
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Current Music: Cosmic Baby - "Space Track"
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I don't think highly of tv, but recently I've found two excellent animated shows. First, Oban Star-Racers, a french-japanese anime. Very charming and well made. Watch the Oban_Star-Racers opening at YouTube, why dontcha.

Secondly, there's Korgoth of Barbaria, a gritty spoof on that kind of fantasy Conan takes so seriously. Korgoth takes only violence and scoring with rescued damsels in distress seriously. There's a hilariously violent Korgoth clip at Youtube.
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