And....I'm back from San Francisco.
And I did draw some while I was there. Not as much as I had hoped, but, oh well, we're not all perfect. So I'll show you what I was up to.
In Union Square, there was a collection of cable cars sitting there. I had bought earlier, when I was in the SOMA (South Of MArket) neighborhood trying to visit the MOMA *Which I never did...bah* and the Cartoon Art Museum (I saw original Winsor McKay drawings, w00t!) , I bought a Canson sketch pad and a couple of Tombow markers in greyscale. So I thought to try them out on this thing. Eh. Not bad. For refrerence I have the original digi pic I had taken before I started drawing....so I can have more fun trying to reproduce the complexity of the cable car later.
(Granted....I don't remember if I was standing up or sitting down when I took this picture, yes, angles and things are off from the sketch but that's fine.)
Then I tested them again later with a simple sketch of my buddy from my comic Moonlit Shadows, Reiner. Yes, I draw him obsessively. You're supposed to do that with your main character and what not I suppose. >_>
And of course I had tons of time to draw nonsense crap. The stuff on the right was me playing around with pose planning with the figure (not very well, mind you, eh), animation on the brain in a restaurant while my mother and a friend she hadn't seen in 6 years talked. And the boat on the left was from the window of a decently fancy (or at least EXPENSIVE) seafood restaurant
on Fisherman's Wharf...a boat. I didn't have a lot of time to do it so it's rather simple and proportions are out of whack. But I wanted to come back to the Wharf the next day, so the next day I got on a BART Train and a MUNI street car (yes, I could have taken the street car to the wharf all the way from Market, but I like BART better because its at least a little less crowded during rush hour.). I walked along the wharf, until I got to a spot I wanted to draw. It was by a little beach and pretty far down that area. And although I didn't put it in the picture...you could see the Golden Gate Bridge from it. Lovely.
I was by the water, and I wanted a quick color medium, so what better thing to use but water color, right?
Eh, I wish A) I had bought a Bulldog clip at the art store I bought the pad from, as the paper was blowing all over the place, screwing up the water color and B) that the sketch paper could have held more water before bleeding as that's why it looks cartoony at places....I eventually got tired of trying to make the water color do what I want so I screwed up some spots (ex, CA mountains are NOT that foresty) and ended up trying to use the gray Tombows and a Micron pent to further develop certain parts (It worked some places, others not.).
(Another thing I saw on Fisherman's Wharf....the largest collection of copies of Phoenix Wright ever in one place aside from a warehouse. 10 copies of the first game for DS just sitting there in a Gamestop on the wharf....and I was thinking as I looked at all of them "Not only did I pay like, twice as much as the 19.99 they're for now, I had to look EVERYWHERE for it...and here are 10 of them just sitting here??? Aw, phooey!". Hmm.)
So that was my trip art wise. But other than that....mmm...I went to Japan Town and bought lots and lots of Japanese manga from Kinokuniya bookstore there, so I'll be busy with those on and off.
And Oh, yes, the vast varieties of Asian food. I will miss that a lot. And oh, look:
The totally wicked awesome, Incredibly intricate plastic Japanese food models restaurants stick to make deciding your choice easier and what not (and they're just fun!). And one of those also increadibly, well, incredibly ANNOYING waving cats. There were like 5559384759 of them I saw in gift shops in not only Japan Town, but even downtown SF. >_>
Unfortunately, I didn't bring my camera to Fisherman's Wharf and Japantown, so those experiences I don't have any pictures about *Yes, I'm kicking myself in the arse for it*. Maybe next time as WA isn't too, too far away from CA..and hell....maybe I will go back to that area for a job. I seriously wish I could, because ZOMG, San Francisco. Such a great place. Sure, it's expensive, but the extra money is worth it for the great sights, great things to do, etc,etc.
So I'm back in WA state now, back to my summer...which I'm still trying to find a job. *sigh*. But of course that won't stop me from sketching, so you'll see more stuff here very, very soon.
Laterz.
日本語で：
来週にサンフランシスコで行った。沢山して、多い物を見れた。水曜日にサンフランシスコの日本町で行った。Ｋｉｎｏｋｕｎｉｙａで一番の本屋と思ういますね～ ＝D 本屋を入って、私の目を見張りました。 「わああ！沢山日本語の本ですね！日本語の漫画だよ～！初年ジャンプか？かこいい！雑誌！ええ、あそこで何これは？？子供の絵本ですか？かわいい！全部で買いたいです！」と思いついた。それから、三時間ごろで日本語の漫画と本が見た。。七冊の漫画と一冊の雑誌を買った。今、ドラゴンボール四冊を持つ。ヤフー! 私の休みはとても楽しくて、面白かったですね。
Hello children. Sup. Time for more stuff out of my sketchbook. Today's entry is one of those random character designs. Well, rather, it was like midnight and I had a drawing ephipany or something.
