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Okay, I screwed up on my airbrushing and sanding. Anyways, some things I've learned...

-Spray in thin layers
-Make sure paint in thinned like milk or near water fluidity.
-Don't overspray to try to compensate some area
-Don't use brush to try to smooth out bumps or else you'll end up having to sand off everything. Which I DID and ended up having to sand off the paint on the body.
-During sanding, I discovered rubbing alcohol removes acrylic very easy.
-Sand with water
-Sand at lower grits first to remove all scratches, than move to higher grits afterward.
-Vallejo Primer and Acrylic primer does not sand very well.
-Gesso paint should dry completely before sanding


Clay lesson
-Don't condition and not touch clay after a while. It gets really dry and hard to work with.
-Try to fix all problem before baking as baked clay is super hard.

Somehow I ended up working on just the nekoatsume and not my nitori figure...But I'm trying to learn on the stuff before I can screw up my figure. Also I've been watching video on Mold/Resin Casting which might be useful for me if I don't want to ruin the original polymer clay model and use duplicates to paint my figures with paint that's not acrylic. Acrylic has too much plastic look.

Here's my progress so far:

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Clay sculpt


After baking


After sanding


After airbrushing primer

I did airbrush acrylic, but screwed up...so I'll take photos once I respray the body.

Airbrush

Jun. 7th, 2015 10:46 pm
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So I'm still trying to get the hang of sculpting. I've even baked some clay in the oven and sanded it down. SO TEDIOUS!!! Because I'm gonna use the oven again and its not worth baking just one thing, I've started another cat sculpt! Some progress here:





Anyways, I tried gessoing the first neko with paintbrush but it there was too much paint brush texture and I had to appy more gesso and sand it down. But I have no patience with it drying and end up scraping off the gesso that the clay showed up. The best method is to spray primer, but I bought the wrong one. I needed water-based acrylic primer. After researching, I've decided I should just buy airbrush! Since I want to have even coat on my Nitori figure as well. This morning I did a lot of research on airbrush...and well spent 200 buck on a set and supplies on Amazon. I learned I can just use Acrylic Airbrush Thinner with my existing acrylic so I didn't have buy more color. So I hope that will work out! I never tried airbrush, so I'm excited to try something new!

When it comes to new hobby, I do get addicted haha. I bought a lot of material for my Nitori plush as well during my plush making phase...


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Listing projects I need to focus the coming months
-NaNoRenO - a one month March project to complete a otome game or visual novel using Poyo yo! Demon.
-Chinese New Year art
-K fanarts for prints (3 sets maybe)
-touch up speedpaints
-touchup second printing of Try

-Finish Darren Shan!!! 2 more volumes to go!!! (I've been reading this since what High School?)

Ill add more later.
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I've started to add some values for the screentone at last haha... I think I'm going to go light with screentone for this like most shonen manga do. But then I sometime overdo it because there's environment lighting to think about, like a sunset to create dramatic mood. Ah my shoujo-ness....
Hopefully I'll convert them into screentone soon and then start reworking the dialogue and having it edit. (LOL i like doing dialogue last.)


Gah...this week has been stressful in terms of the meaning of life what I'm going to do in the future. My art progress etc. Career choices. Graduating or not graduating... So much left to do before school ends and Fanime beginning!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!

Going to sleep early! Which is 1 am.
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After weeks of already finishing the lineart, I finally scanned it and leveled the lineart.
Too lazy to screentone~ T_T;;;;

Oh gawd, I hope I get this done in time...
But I'm so unmotivated to do screentoning ):

And fanime is coming up so sooon!! My plans are to hopefully do:

-Skip Beat - Ren/Kyoko? Or Ren/Kyoko/Sho
-Natsume Yuujinchou - Natsume, Nyanko-sensei, and Natori...with yokais...
-Gundam 00 - Groupies
-Code Geass - Lelouch/Rolo (i have it drawn already...need to ink)
-and maybe Dragon Ball haha...So addicted to Gohan!!! It'll probably just be a Gohan print...

Do you think those are popular enough? :-/

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