Hahaha! Finally got Photoshop today, and a bunch of other neat surprises!

I’m Raging Crow, by the way, just a nickname thing going on between my brother, sister and me.

Anyway, so I finally get a letter from Singapore Post that I have a package waiting for me.

Inside that package? Adobe Photoshop Extended and a bunch of other goodies sent by my good friends in California, Okashi Studios.

Finally, right (I’m saying that in an excited way)? I was so excited. Open the letter…and I find out my package is being detained at Immigrations and Customs, which is a good hour away, maybe more, from where I live!!!

Bah, okay it’s not really the end of the world, just a big inconvenience. I wanted to go and get it today, but today’s Sunday, meaning ICA is closed. Hopefully they’re open tomorrow because I know, sure as heck, that they aren’t gonna be open on Tuesday. <_<

So yeah...I ordered something from my Cafepress store too...because they were gonna charge me a $5 service fee to send a cheque of $9 to me xD Might as well buy something eh? I just hope it doesn't get stopped at Customs again, and hopefully I won't have to pay duty/taxes either. It's being shipped by UPS, so maybe I won't experience the same inconvenience of living so far away from everything again. xD

PS.
I don't celebrate christmas. I'm Christian, christmas isn't. Don't say, 'You don't celebrate it? Gee that sucks' or wish me a merry christmas just for the heck of it either.

Thanks.

And since I'm bored, enjoy this random conversation I had with the guildies on Dofus.

Still haven’t received Photoshop, but hopefully it’ll arrive next week! Anyway, I haven’t been very productive this week, heh, this is about all I’ve got aside from work related art that I can’t show. It would appear that uploading through Wordpress somehow lowers the quality of the photo, but alas, I can’t do anything about it since I don’t have Photoshop.

And since I don’t have a lot of new artworks, here are some speed paintings of my friends that I finished a while ago.

In other new, my copy of Final Fantasy XII Greatest Hits arrived a couple of weeks ago from Play-asia.com. Been playing it ever since. I’ve missed this game so much.

Mhm, I haven’t updated in a while, so here are 50 more gesture drawings! Done for something called the Spartan Camp over at the Conceptart.org forums. The idea is to basically work at 50 gestures, be it from imagination or observation, during the week. I think this should be some good practice for me. I’m also still waiting on Photoshop to arrive, so, sorry if you were expecting some digital art. These will have to do for now.

Gestures 1 through 18 were referenced from dancing zombies. Yes, don’t worry, you read that right. You can find their hilarious dance videos at their Zombies Website

The rest were referenced from photos I took as well as from images I found through Google.

Been working mostly on art for Okashi, but managed to squeeze in a couple of sketches on ideas I’ve had during a break. I probably won’t work on these again for a while since I have only 1 day left on my CS3 trial, and I’ll be using the remaining of that day to finish up my work!

Today’s gesture drawings.

A speed painting of my friend, Peter. I’m about an hour into this this right now…

That was the exact same reaction I had when I ventured into the Conceptart.org forums! There’s so much talent in those boards.

Anyway, here are some gesture drawings I did today.