Daaku-San

It's my birthday today, and I'm very happy to have gotten a brand new Fujifilm S1000fd from my folks as a gift. It's a wonderful  professionally styled digital camera (albeit not a digital SLR, but hey, I'm not complaining) that can capture up to 10 megapixels and has a 12x zoom. The panorama mode is a very nice feature that I've never had on any other camera in the past, and has me very excited about the possibilities.

Well, I'm going to be cleaning up my page a considerable amount here in a tad bit. My Deviations are rather sloppy, so I believe I'll throw quite a few into scraps and organize my Photography a bit better. I'm looking into vector art now, and I'm quickly finding that inkscape's bit tracer is the the only way to do lineart on the pc. :p Inkscape is rather amazing, especially for a free program. I've always loved doing computer graphics, and vectors are right up my ally, especially since they are so clean and work wonderful for logos and cartoonish characters. I'm also still fishing around on art styles. Plus I need to get back to my photogra

Well, I've been trying to adapt to a slightly more realistic style in the past couple of days, and I can't seem to make anything I draw look right now. =p It's a tad frustrating, to be frank. One problem I'm having is creating a masculine look to male drawings. Every time I try to tackle a male face in an anime/manga format it ends up blowing up in my face and looks rather disproportionate or silly (at least in my opinion). Of course, that's what practice is for! A little bit of practice in art can go a long way, as graphic design and my works with acrylic paints have shown me in the past. Technique, style, and knowledge all come with pract