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Woo! Fails were made! 

Some stuff I was able to fix others not so much…I think I did ‘ok’ for a first video attempt(s). Hahah, looks like something from…the 80’s. I think if anything could be said about the video it’s ‘whelp. There’s only one place I can go after this. Onwards and upwards!’ Unless I just keep making mistakes…uh. But I’m learning! So less mistakes will happen, yeah? So, yay?

 

Wag says: What manner of monster is this?

 

(Be warned, my first video…it’s a little cringey and not of great quality.)

While I’ve been busy-boding away at developing some animation I’ve been doing some video production stuff as well. Mostly in the form of filming the art I make. Either on the computer or at a desk. 

Animation takes time to make and all that. So I wanted something that was a little less time constraining to put out there. Hence, time lapses and art with commentary videos. 

Since I’m still developing art wise they’re gonna be hit and miss but I will strive to only upload those ones which I believe are good and have some value to them. Even thought that value is not great. It’s a start. I can say I did a thing and if I can say I did more things maybe someday I can say I did a good thing. Then later, a great thing. Yadda yadda, personal creative dreams.

I like the idea of getting over the fear of failure and instead just doing it. Just thinking, ‘yeah, it’s crap now, but if keep up at it it’ll be less so later on.’ Actions cures fears after all.

 
Sleak says: Never sweet the obstacles, kid!

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Current learning focus
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DrawABox (Currently in Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses, and Boxes)



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Animation
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Character rigging and basic animation. Doing this a precursor to developing my own short comedy animation.
:bulletred:Warechu (Neptunia) rig and dance animation 
:bulletred:Teen Titans (Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire) Walk Cycles
:bulletred:Wag-Tail (original character) Rig and walk cycle
Project
:bulletblack: Short animation project


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Arty Farty to do:
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RWBY character 'Upgrade to level 99' designs.
:bulletred:Weiss
:bulletred:Ruby
:bulletred:Blanc*
:bulletred:Yang
* Currently working on.

MLP-ATG-Alumni weekly drawing
Currently weekly draw streak is at 16 (Best is 16)


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Wow!

June 15th…12 years is a long time. That’s how long I’ve had an account with DeviantArt for.

After so long I feel a change is necessary. It’s time to get serious. If I’m going to improve my art than I got to be real...the way I’ve been doing things have been a gradual improvement over the years...but I’m not getting any younger. I feel an ardent want to improve, to be a better drawer. To be an excellent artist. (Like Bill and Ted!)

 

Circus: It was this big. I swear.

 

It’s been pricking my mind for a while now.

If I’m going to improve I need to make myself responsible for improving my art/animation. In the likes of daily drawings and daily learnings. Along the way I shall keep my progress posted (on my new Tumblr)...in a sense that maybe help others.

Also, dropping the handle name Wag-Tail for AnimatorWil (‘cause professionalism!). Wag is still here though ^_^

 

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Current learning focus
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DrawABox (Currently in Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses, and Boxes)



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Animation
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Character rigging and basic animation. Doing this a precursor to developing my own short comedy animation.
:bulletred:Warechu (Neptunia) rig and dance animation 
:bulletred:Teen Titans (Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire) Walk Cycles
:bulletred:Wag-Tail (original character) Rig and walk cycle
Project
:bulletblack: Short animation project


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Arty Farty to do:
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RWBY character 'Upgrade to level 99' designs.
:bulletred:Weiss*
:bulletred:Ruby
:bulletred:Blanc
:bulletred:Yang
* Currently working on.

MLP-ATG-Alumni weekly drawing
Currently weekly draw streak is at 10 (Best is 10)


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Me On The Web!
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Newgrounds (2) Icon ultramini by linux-rules Newgrounds
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Wow!
I was kinda blown back with how many views my Nora Valkyrie Levelled Up piece got with the first 24 hours. It's pretty much slowed down now. But I was honestly kinda shocked and thinking...'who the hell is lookin' at this thing?' It's sitting at around 650 at the moment and I think I got about over 400 in the first few hours after posting it. I was happy with that with a 'weee, I did some good art worth lookin' at!' :D It also got a little traction elsewhere with 100-odd on my newgrounds.com, and some viewership on my twitter. I'm rather chuffed with that ^_^

It'll no doubt take first spot from either Cooker Biter (from 2005) with 848 views and Scary Part (from 2011) with 818 views at some point in time.
Week 308 ATG - How to Grow Up Also did rather well in it's first day or so, racking in around 100 to 200 views. Which is pretty cool ^_^

Working on some Youtube stuff as well. Nothin' amaze-a-balls. There's a vid or two I've got almost done with some and art with narrative stuff. Been working on it on and off over the last month or so. Kinda crappy first attempt. But altogether, I'm happy with it. Will post it with another vid (a animated intro/hello to youtube one) once I get that one done too. 

Also thinking about getting a tumblr account and posting stuff there as well...Ah. Things!

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Animation
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Character rigging and basic animation. Doing this a precursor to developing my own short comedy animation.
:bulletred:Warechu (Neptunia) rig and dance animation 
:bulletred:Teen Titans (Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire) Walk Cycles
:bulletred:Wag-Tail (original character) Rig and walk cycle
Project
:bulletblack: Short animation project

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Arty Farty to do:
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RWBY character 'Upgrade to level 99' designs.
:bulletred:Weiss*
:bulletred:Ruby
:bulletred:Blanc
:bulletred:Yang
* Currently working on.

MLP-ATG-Alumni weekly drawing
Currently weekly draw streak is at 8 (Best is 8)

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Check List

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Check list of things to do!

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Animation
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Character rigging and basic animation. Doing this a precursor to developing my own short comedy animation.
:bulletred:Warechu (Neptunia)
:bulletred:Teen Titans (Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire)
:bulletred:Wag-Tail (original character)
Project
:bulletblack: Short animation project

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Arty Farty to do:
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Focusing on :iconaonikaart: AonikaArt's Couples - poses chart as reference for these exercise pieces using League of Legend Characters.
:bulletred:Miss Fortune x Gangplank
:bulletred:Fiora x Garen
:bulletred:Katarin x Talon
:bulletred:Riven x Zac
:bulletred:Udry x Janna
:bulletred:Jinx x Draven
:bulletred:Rengar x Nidalee
Star! Star! Star! All Done!Star! Star! Star! 

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Phew. That was sure a long 30 days. But it's done, dusted, sighed and posted! Just a little reflection here for myself.

Took most time: Day 6 - In Space
Had this idea from the get go of the prompt and I knew I wanted to go all out and make it something really awesome. It was rather easy as I pretty much just brushed and blended black/white until things looked right.

My favourite: Day 2 - Moving Pinkie Pie 
Based on Hater's Ballad from Wander Over Yonder. The song, dance, and the lighting up of the stairs I really enjoyed and wanted to try and capture that here.  

Most Challenging: Day 7 - Go Karting.
Artistically, everything I did for the training grounds was to be straight forward and not so ambitious that it would take half a day to complete. However this one I needed to draw a vehicle; which I have never done before. So it was quite interesting referencing, researching and trying to pull off the colours to ensure that the picture still had a bit of a 3-dimensional feel to it.

Most used character: Twilight Sparkle (5 pieces) Scootaloo/Apple Bloom/the rest of the mane 6(2 pieces each)
Did rather alright trying to pull out a different characters for each piece. Since body shapes were pretty much the same (If a little inconsistent due to my skill) I wanted to do a different one each time so I was always thinking what made them them. 

Afterwards thoughts:
Throughout the whole I always had Viziepop's speed draw videos going on. Which is where the streaming lights on some pieces of artwork came from :P Though admittedly I can't do them as well as she can ^_^
One thing I felt I didn't do too well during this was reference how the characters were put together. As I drew on what I already knew and tried to make some good art from that. However, some pieces of artwork I felt would of came out a lot better if a spent some time doing some research and reference to get them done well.
What I did like was the trying out of different things throughout. There's a bit of pencil art, some cross-hatching, and just general 'lets try this out and see what it looks like' Not to mentions I managed to pull off aaalll the prompts - woo yeah! So I'm rather stoked to have accomplished that. 

With this done I'll move back onto finishing my couples drawings of League characters :3

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