Contrasts

 Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a highly popular anime that I ended up watching as well. The sketchy lines used with drawing the characters (especially the eyes)...they're quite unlike the usual "clean" look present in other anime. I like that raw feeling more than really clean lines, so I also tend to do the same when I do my own drawings. A certain degree of sketchiness versus clean lines (such as those needed in 2D fundamentals eeewww)

But the best and most defining part of Madoka Magica, in my opinion, are whenever the characters enter those labyrinths created by Witches. The style then changes (sometimes drastically) and each labyrinth has a different look. The clashing of the simple and cutesy characters against surreal backgrounds make the realms of "fantasy" and "reality" more dramatic and mysterious.

These images are from only one encounter, but because it's the first one, it's definitely one of the most memorable. Those puffy things with moustaches are really cute, although once they bring out the scissors and have visible eyes it might be nightmare fuel for some...

Brainstorming styles

Today's Creative Thinking lesson is about brainstorming. One thing that caught my attention wasn't the sometimes ridiculous ideas people thought of, but the different styles presented. Be it the various levels of neatness or the number of pictures used...

Even people doing the exact same problem end up with really different outcomes. And that was what I found most interesting~

Not vulgar

Testing blogger app on the phone...

Anyway.

Lines in the shape of a shooting p***s that I drew - and I don't care even if it was for school work.

Couch

A drawing of my ex-couch from 2 years ago (drawing class homework). As much as I find drawing things like these really uninteresting, I feel that it's kind of easier than having to be "creative"...whatever being creative means.

I still despise still life drawing though.

A meaningful puzzle?

Saw this in Esplanade MRT station on the way to school today. A Singapore Cancer Society thing. I ended up trying to find words in it, and saw things like "LUNG", "LIVER" and other organs related to common cancer risk. Maybe it's because it's a puzzle, so it ended up drawing me to it compared to other posters and stuff.

Not everything has to be coloured

Currently no idea for what picture to use today, so I'm just casually using two pages I just completed. The comic is supposed to be in full colour, but sometimes I'm lazy or actually felt that the scene has more impact being in black and white.

Sometimes black and white really fit a scene better than having colour (though I was told that colour is more appealing, which was the reason I'm doing the comic in colour in the first place.)

It's also quicker to complete.

So I was thinking of going back to black and white for future comics.

Not everything has to be coloured, I believe. Even if there are coloured parts, it doesn't mean that I can't have monochrome scenes, right?

Two at once...

...because my ideas usually come in bunches before the drought.

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I usually eat Japanese snacks bought from Daiso. It has nothing to do with bias for Japanese stuff (I don't like sushi and sashimi and many other things) but one of the reasons: a large variety of flavours, including strange ones and not just the conventional ones like cheese, barbeque, etc etc.

I like takoyaki, and it makes me happy that this snack has a takoyaki flavoured type.

The large variety of flavours among snacks and sweets...it's all really interesting, but I probably won't even go near like...99% of them.

And this second picture is of two figurines I own. Their heads could be taken out. So that means I could switch their bodies around.

And so I made this teenage girl and adult working man switch bodies, resulting in things like the man wearing the female school uniform as well as having a ridiculous girly pose.

After all, there's nothing wrong with doing things like that. It makes things more interesting (for me, at least)...