being busy

Well, I can make all kinds of excuses for not being able to update this blog, but there's one thing that explains it all:




early Christmas present by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



or




handshake by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Yeah... a new baby decided to drop by in the middle of Dec 2010 and was busy preparing and taking care of her lately.


Anyway, here are stuff I've created since the last update:

train by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


snow by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



moment by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




light bulb by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


and the latest:


dog by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Update

Once again, it's been more than a month since I last updated this blog. I have been busy lately so I wasn't able to update Japanese blog as well.

The latest illustration is up only in Pixiv since it was for a contest. As a result, I can only put a link to it:
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14061391

It's viewable for members but non-members can view a thumbnail.


What's different between last and this month is that I got Vray for Cinema 4D. As a result, I could have better render for my 3D CG. However, it's taking longer than usual to get use to it :3



Anyway, other stuff I did besides it:

I used Vray for this as well:
Illustration/3D CG:

operation room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



space by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


A test using Vray:

model room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



city at night by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


It was just a joke:

42 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




Photography:

rasberry 1 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



rasberry 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


rasberry 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Update

Oi... it's been close to two months since I last updated this blog.

However, these two months had been pretty hectic that there was not much development in art.


Anyway, here I go:

Illustration


Sorcerer by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4
IllustStudio
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Textures: Sozai Jiten Vol 19 & 24, Lace Sozai (Japanese commercial photo/texture stocks)
~a few days



water by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4
Photoshop CS2&3
Illust Studio
3 days

Photography

strawberry by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


orange by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Canon Kiss X3 (S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS)

Hmmm...

forgot to update this blog in a while- three months to be exact since

1. I didn't have internet for a month since I moved to a new place
2. I was away on my wedding ceremony/honeymoon
3. away on another trip
4. sleeping and eating
5. Preparing for a big wedding party
6. busy with another big event of my life at the end of this year (secret since I don't know if it will work out). :D


Yeah... so my life has been a bit of hectic lately since it changed so much since Feb.


Anyway, since I can't put all stuff up since Feb, I will just put illust and photos that represent what I did since Feb.


Here I go from oldest to newest:

Illustration

Revolution by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


dive by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


botched illustration


3D CG

bug by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

3D CG models
LAMP and others

Photography


flower 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



flower 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




sky 10 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


More are present in my deviantART gallery and folders.

photos

sky 8 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART









神戸湾
Kobe Bay, Japan
Lumix TZ7
Photoshop CS3


I forgot to clean the lens before I shot these

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Wallpaper: flowers

Before the wallpaper (for personal usage only), sunrise I took this morning with a mobile phone:



and wallpaper:

flowers by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

I combined the wire frame and render I made with global illumination in Photoshop.

This is the first time I created stuff from polygons and painted directly on 3D CG using the Body Paint function in Cinema 4D. Hopefully, I improved a bit in my 3D CG skills.


Cinema 4D R11 studio
Photoshop CS3
~3nights（1 hour of rendering(Global Illumination)）

A practice similar to this I did a few nights ago:


For this one, I didn't make from polygons but just changed the shape of a rectangular cube.

2010

began with a lot of photography and sorting out old files.

I sorted out things from 2003-2009 to see its progress:

2003-2009 MEME by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

The last doodle of 2009:

I just used Photoshop to practice a technique I saw in a book earlier on that day. Of course, it didn't turn out the way I wanted but sort of got the idea of how to go about certain graphic.

and the first sunset of 2010:

1-1-2010 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Anyway, here I go with photos I took from 1/1/2010 to this weekend since I didn't update this blog.

Spec. info:
1/1/2010 photos:
Food:
Canon Kiss X3
Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro USM
Photoshop CS3

rest：
Canon Kiss X3
S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS
Photoshop CS3

Aquarium photos:
Lumix TZ7
Photoshop CS3

Otoso, sweet rice wine called mirin with herbs.

Ozoni with white miso:

Kuromame (sweetened black beans):

Kazunoko (herring eggs):

gomame (small sardines):

Nishikitamago (sweetened egg):

Kamaboko (fish cake):

Kobumaki (kelp roll) with salmon:

Forgot what this was but chicken thingmy:

Dog:

I eliminated some photos from 1/1 since it had sea cucumbers. I think many people are not used to seeing sea cucumbers as food so if interested, please look at:
http://daydreamingsky.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-1387.html#more
for sea cucumbers my family found on the beach to being on a dining table if interested.



Kaiyukan Aquarium shots (more photos are in my Japanese blog):

Dolphin playing with water:

Fish in a staring game w. me:

seals that are too fast to be in a photo:

but bothered to poop:

and play with a diver who is cleaning in middle of poop above:

Sunfish:

Whale shark:

Shot with a different screen mode:

School of sardines:

Jellyfish:

Jellyfish by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Strange...

It seems as though not many people liked broiled fish- especially those people in the US or Europe. I wonder why :D


haha cultural shock- I guess.



People like whole fish as a whole in Japan after all.

Anyway, I'm currently working on next two wallpapers at the moment. I got a full schedule until six months later so it's being worked on slowly.


It seems as though SciFi drawing I was planning to create is not turning out that way but more like a modern piece of art. I might switch the order of wallpaper categories I declared earlier.


peek-a-boo:



I am using IllustStudio, Photoshop, ComicStudio, Cinema 4D and gosh... I use a huge amount of softwares at the same time. It's just that I didn't have IllustStudio when I started creating this piece that I drew line art in Comic Studio. Then, I still didn't know how to shade hair in IllustStudio so I used Photoshop. Cinema 4D is for 3D CG I'm currently creating at the moment.

Wips of Nature themed wallpaper I'm working on (which will be released after one above):
I changed from my gray to color painting style to color it in abstract style I saw people using in some places. For this piece, I want to create more depth to the piece than those I did before by using different color temperature and saturation of colors instead of making it blurred like I did before.

I decided to add something I imagined a few days prior:
and didn't like it so I changed its shape:

still didn't like it so I changed it to:

and decided that it still sucked so I started painting random stuff:
and still continued...

IllustStudio 1.0.10

Photos from the weekend when I went to Ako （赤穂） for oysters :D

Photos were taken with Lumix TZ-7 and edited with Photoshop CS3. I edited out faces of people to protect their privacy.

Ako is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, famous for salt production and Ako Ronin.


1 for 100 yen=$1.12 (today's exchange rate)

Five BBQ oysters (500 yen)

They are cheap since it was eaten outside of the fishery place- right out from the bay.

The photo is kind a crooked since I pieced together two photos and would miss the details if I cut them properly:

This place had a fishermen taking out oysters from their shells. Oysters were probably from oyster farms in bay.

Tanks in other places had scallops, crabs, and more oysters.

This shop sold fried octopus on a stick (200 yen), oyster clear soup with noodles (300 yen), fried oysters (3oo yen per stick), BBQ scallops (300 yen?), and BBQ oysters (100 yen each).

This was how oysters were BBQ (I asked for permission before taking this photo):

And... ta-dah!

They were yummmmmmmmyyyyy!!!

After oysters were taken out from their shells, shells were dumped by:

for fertilizer or something?

Anyway, after eating BBQ oysters, I went to a place called Umi no eki (海の駅） (Sea station) right nearby to eat more.

I was really tempted by this sign at the bottom, which basicalled said, "Oppai yaki" (Oppai- slang for boob and yaki is stuff that's usually cooked on a hot metal plate or frying pans)

They supposedly named it that way since oysters are called as "milk of the sea" and yeah... boobs have milk.

Ordered fried oysters (ate the one on the far end before this photo was taken):

yep... hot and yummy:

and... the rumored Oppai yaki which looked like normal okonomiyaki but with two oysters in it.

It was soft and chewy. XDDDDDD

The shop nearby looked like this: