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Ruhewolf — Xi for June 2006
Published: 2006-08-01 04:56:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 1164; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 11
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Drawn during Fundamentals of Drawing/Fundamentals of Design today for fun. I haven't drawn Xi in a long time, and I was starting to miss her comparatively cheerful face (compared to Raiko anyway). I'd forgotten how fun she is to draw. Electric-blue hair just looks cool. ^.^I was originally going to put her in a full kimono and hakama, but then I started thinking about the fights in XMA and the dao and how I want to learn to use that sword since I've lost my taste for using katana*, and the above came out. I actually started doing the fight sketches before I finished her, thus the toplessness, since, to be frank, her breasts served well as point references, particularly for the first and third sketch. That, and I think she looks really cute like that. *shrug*
The fight might be a bit hard to follow, but it would realistically work. Believe me, I got a few stares because my legs were twitching or my hands were moving in order to make sure everything flowed. Xi has a fighting style much like me, emphasizing high kicks and momentum. Fun to do and to draw. I was originally going to have a Soul Calibur-esque color trails for the swords, but it looked like they'd become lightsabers, so I nixed it.
I'm really starting to love coloring in photoshop like this. So much easier than I had thought it would be.
Time: Probably three hours total, though I have no real idea.
2H on 50lb sketch paper, Photoshop 7.0
*This does not mean I dislike the swords, they just don't suit my style of combat
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"because my legs were twitching or my hands were moving in order to make sure everything flowed."
Ah! I do that too when I'm drawing. I'm sitting there with the sketch pad on my lap and suddenly I realize that I'm mimicking whatever expression or hand-motion I'm illustrating. Huh.
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Yeah. I see it in a lot of other people at school, so it doesn't get nearly the attention it used to. Still, using one's self as a model is cheaper.
College makes you appreciate the meaning of the word "cheap." *wallet cries*
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Heh. Being jobless and carless at sixteen (with starving artist parents) also makes one appreciate that word. Yay for crying wallets...?
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Don't feel bad about the lack of a job. I didn't have one until the very beginning of senior year, only kept that one for a week. Not counting that one, I've only been employed for a total of six months, seven on the 14th. Something my brother always razzes me about.
Of course, I haven't caused anywhere near the property damage he did at my age, which necessitated a job. -.-;
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Heh. Yeah, but I really hate asking my parents for money, considering that (between the four of them and also my grandparents) they're endevouring to pay my way through a private highschool they can't really afford. Also, I want to have some money in the bank because paying for college, car insurance (they'll give me the family beater car if I pay for registration and insurance), etc is going to fall largely upon yours truly, given the whole private school thing. But I'll figure something out eventually.
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Things do work out, I've found. Keep an eye out for scholarships, at least. That's what saved my fiscal bacon.
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Yeah...scholarships. Well, it helps that I play viola. There are all sorts of scholarships out there for that, thank god.
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