黃雪華

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2011-07-28T22:19:00.000-07:00

So after years and years of drawing/inking with mouse and trackpad, I finally got a tablet. It's a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch, and I love it to pieces. The pen function is pretty fluid, and I've been pleasantly surprised to find that I actually can crank out work much more quickly. The four programmable buttons have been awesome as well. I've set them to toggle between two essential drawing tools, and the save and undo commands. This alone has cut down so much time.

Initial tests aside, my first tablet piece:

Fuck. Yea. Best $47 I ever spent.

But the tablet is not without a few drawbacks. The Bamboo also has a number of multitouch gestures, very similar to the ones found with Apple's Magic Trackpad. However, while the gestures are just as intuitive, they are by no means as smooth. There have been times where the tablet was a bit slow or hesitant with some movements. But overall, it's been a great investment. Inking and Flash and coloring in Photoshop has never felt so...analog.

recent months

2011-04-23T19:58:00.000-07:00

damn, has it been a few months already? a few things since then:

-small device certified

-reading, reading, reading

-promoterboaters and detractortrailers

-one to ones!

-workshopping it up

-creative foundations! (finally!)

-obsessed with rilo kiley recently

-ipad 2

-tttumblin. a blog for my arts and crafts.

new parakeet! meet pearl.

i'm still this bird's bitch.

me + richard <3

01152011

2011-01-15T19:11:00.001-08:00

more photoshopping. felt like sharing this.

when i can't sleep and it's 2 am

2010-12-14T22:42:00.000-08:00

I draw silly self-portraits. My favorite of the batch.

12012010

2010-12-01T20:38:00.001-08:00

YEYAH.

possible tattoo sketch

2010-11-25T22:58:00.000-08:00

A sketch I did earlier for a possible tattoo. I've been thinking about getting one for a while now, but have had a lot of doubts. Also, I refuse to have anyone else's art on my arm other than my own - so of course whatever I end up with will definitely be something I've created. However, I'm extremely critical...if by some chance I do like some piece I've done, it's rarely for longer than a week before I want to erase its existence and do something better. (I think it's a side effect of the brutal critiques I went through in art school. I have little attachment to anything I make.)

And if you know me, you know I have a peculiar fondness for octopi, which leads me to the above sketch. So far, I like it a lot more than any other sketches I've produced, so we'll see how I feel about it in a week or so.

"Admitting one's flaws."

2010-11-19T20:32:00.000-08:00

flash+photoshop | ~2 hrs

I think the fact that I've started drawing again is a sign of how stressed I am these days. Nothing to piss and moan over really, just lots of work and not enough down time. But I'm absolutely in love with how my illustration style has progressed. Still a very digital process, but bringing in more hand rendered elements. I know textures are a sort of cheap trick these days, but the difference they make is totally worth it.

Someone remarked that my human anatomy looks too "withered, wrinkled and unrefined."

Fuck off. I'm an excellent draftsman. If I wanted to do anatomically perfect illustrations, I'd work for a medical journal.

11042010

2010-11-04T00:59:00.000-07:00

Spent a few days in Saint Louis with the family last week - ended up bringing back two new(old) roommates:

These guys have been with the family for just over four years now :)

People often ask me why I named the cockatiel Google. And really it was my dad who named him. The then-unamed bird was the runt of the litter when my sister and I walked into the pet store. There were four baby cockatiels in the pen at the time; Three of them had the standard yellow and gray coloring, while the fourth had no yellow plumage at all. My sister, fresh from homework assignments on punnett squares, ran over to the pen, pointed at Google and cried, "Ha! Heterozygous recessive gene!"

We journeyed home with our new bird and presented him to our dad, who asked why did we pick such a runty cockatiel. We started going over possible names, mostly suggestions that were based on his coloration more than anything. But dad shook his head and said that we should name the bird Google, and hopefully he would "grow to be as big as the search engine."

(FYI, he's still kind of small, but thanks for trying, Dad!)

the abstract

2010-10-27T10:12:00.000-07:00

The Cheese Monkeys

2010-10-03T20:34:00.000-07:00

hot soup for a cold morning.

this week's guilty pleasure: the angelina vs snooki catfight.

haircut

2010-09-26T17:24:00.000-07:00

That's the word of the day.

"That is how women feel about shoes."

2010-09-23T21:16:00.000-07:00

Oh, Dylan Moran.