Final Project Idea

Use FFMPEG to get a video from youtube, give the movie a border (maybe attempt at subtitle text) using ImageMagick and recompile it.

The video is in Japanese but I want to put a copyright signature in the corner that is visible throughout the video.

Rosa Moonlight WIP

A small WIP of one of my pieces called Moonlight. Or something else...I'm not entirely sure what I called it at the time. Done in Paint Tool SAI and the idea is just to have the skyline and then the red area at the bottom will be roses. I have a feeling I'm going to hate drawing roses with a passion by the end of it. Working on it a little more, I really like coloring moonlight skylines. Blue and purple clouds look really beautiful to me.

Pokemon Fanatic

Been going on a little drawing pokemon craze since Pokemon White/Black came out. By all means, call me a nerd I don't care but I've always loved the pokemon GAMES. Not the show. The GAMES. I think the games are the real money maker and not having to listen to terrible English voice actors is a definite plus. I like that they keep the same essence of pixels as the first ever pokemon game but have slowly been moving onto 3D. There was a bridge that you need to walk across to get to another city and it's 3D winding and circulating around itself and over traffic was amazing.

Tutorials

Basic Bash Tutorial this was a tutorial that I Followed in the beginning until he was going to do an example where he didn't explain what he typed in and it was super small so I fell behind. It was sort of a bummer since his previous videos were actually well instructive on the terms using in it and whatnot.

On the other downside the tutorials I find have instructions that Cygwin can't follow with so lovely it is officially screwy.

Video Cygwin Notes

A few notes for myself on Shell

• The shell is a program running within the terminal.
• There are many available to run in the terminal.
• Each shell has a certain style of how it presents itself in the terminal and different patterns of working with input/output. 

Bash Shell

• One of the many shells available.
• Usually a default shell.

Layout of Unix

• / = root directory
• /bin = Programs found here
• /etc = Configuration and data files.
• /dev = Lists attached devices such as files.
• /home = Users home folders stored here.
• /lib = Library files program depend on.
• /tmp = temporary file cache.
• /usr = programs accessed by users. 
• /var = variable file size cache for temp files.

Navigating Directories

• cd = change directory
• cd /  to go to the root directory.
• cd.. to go to the parent directory
• pwd = Print working directory (of what you're looking at at the time)
• ls = lists files and folders (warning that it might list alot)

Commission

Just a commission I finished for someone. She wanted her character and another together. This was for someone from Deviantart but I was paid on Gaiaonline. It was nice to talk to her since her art is pretty amazing already. I was really happy to be able to do this commission.

Hourglass Counterpoint

These are a few sketches that I decided to ink and color as practice and to also determine who gets what color scheme. All characters belong to a story me and my partner are creating call Hourglass Counterpoint. Still a WIP.

Published

The book I helped work on is coming out May 24th. I'm pretty excited, although all the pieces I worked on were from last year. It's nice to see how much I've improved over time. My parents said they ordered 10 copies that I have to sign and send to all my relatives. My hand is going to hurt when it's over.

http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Fantasy-Manga-Ali-Ueda/dp/0062004700

Happy Birthday Fool

So I don't have the inbetween but I thought it'd be nice to have another in between process. Basically with this it was obviously for my friend. (No her name isn't really mango it's just a nickname). But here is once again and initial sketch (always done in either blue or red) then inked and colored. There wasn't much to the background since I didn't think that far ahead nor had that much time but I was still able to give it to her on April 1st. (And yes I do notice that the arm is a little too long in the sketch. Clearly I fixed that.)

This is my friend's 2nd self persona and one of her original characters (that is extremely popular on deviantart.)