orange~

The big picture would most likely be the same even if Hillary won. What's been going on 15+ or 50+ years in the US remains the same. People pulling the strings are probably the same. It's only what appears outside that's changing.

What Trump's presidency introduces - it gives momentum to far-right movement and gives approval to all the racial, social and backward thinking bullshit Trump has spouted during his campaigning. That's the thing I'm most worried about.

I know elections were a nightmare , with 2 horrible candidates... but wow. I still never expected this outcome. Personally I cannot understand how a person like Trump can rise up to be a president. He represents everything opposite to my beliefs, but yea... People have voted. I guess these are the values many people also support. No use crying about it.

We've heard all the songs that are gonna be innit, so why even bother?

I liked the song quite a lot actually. I never really cared for Lycaon before this.. or maybe never rreally gave them a chance.

VERY surprised too. I thought they had some momentum going on. And pretty solid music too.

The new look and new logo are a bit of a departure from their previous stuff. I wonder if they're gonna pursue something different stylistically?

I'm still intrigued, even though I haven't been been terribly excited about their recent releases.

I know that I need deadlines to push the best out of me. I get stuff done otherwise too, but having less time to finish things does wonders for my work. No matter how "artificial" those deadlines might be. I guess part of the reason is that I have to commit more time to painting in a shorter timespan, so I reach a certain flow state easier. When it comes to challenges like inktober, you know it's only one month, so that may make it easier to push yourself to work every single day, where as normally many might take days off.

Then there is also the community aspect to inktober too, which I love.

Having said that, I didn't take part in Inktober, I knew from the start of the month I was gonna be too busy for this : / Respect to you guys for going through it! plastic_rainbow. I've been following your stuff on tumblr and you've got some amazing pieces done! ^^ Hakoniwa, I like your stuff too. That portrait with the sunglasses is my favourite. Mario's expression is pretty sinister too

I agree. The whole episode was psychological torture. (some physical too) He is a villain and a bad man for sure, not denying that.

But if you think about the situation from Negan's point of view. Rick and co. came out of nowhere. They might as well be some barbaric band of raiders and looters killing bunch of Negan's people and raiding their safehouses. There are probably many people among the main characters that would do horrible things to Negan too after witnessing events of the last episode.  In that sense Negan's actions seem somewhat understandable too. (still sick as fuck.)

It's pretty cool gray area, the show is at.

holy shit that episode was crazy. I didn't think I'd feel anything for any of the characters for real (you see I'm dead inside), but this one got me. I felt sick afterwards and was very tense for the rest of the episode. The vision is gonna be haunting me for quite a while. I'm glad the creators got balls to do this after the asspull dumbster scenerio last season.

Many are making Negan seem like a true villain here, but honestly this is pretty reasonable after Rick and co slaughtered dozens of Negan's crew without any real reason. From Negan's point of view Rick and co. are a bunch of savages.

@DarkWater, no worries DW, I've been mistaken as a girl many times too. Just take it as a compliment. It's fun to mess with people's preconceptions : )

lol I just realized how horrible this is:

I think the dvd cover is cool, but I strongly dislike the red hands addition to the original 3 piece artwork. Looks cheap. At first I thought it was just some fan edit.

yea pretty much a flawless Mejibray song imo. I'm glad MiA is given more spotlight again > more solos.

I remember seeing some small sample of The End-esque happy-go-lucky song on MiA's instagram. I wonder if it's gonna end up paired with this single.

It's cool but I like the "Angel"-song more, which actually sounds pretty similar

waaah~ I'm so glad you like it! :'D

little comments like this always make me want to go back to it. Actually I just quit my job, so I'll probably gonna have more time on doing The GAS in coming weeks. I'd really like to get the story to a certain point...

I've been keeping my hair tied in a knot most of the time lately. It has resulted super curly hair when ever I open it. Curls even last for a day or so.. yay ^^

It just hit me how fucking awesome this event is !! Not just the line-up, but this is exactly what VK needs to be not forgotten in the super niche crowd in Japan.  more like these thank you

^ I was actually just checking some videos of them in YT. They're cool ( :

oh right. the fucking church era Toshi. Poor guy really.

Compare Uglymouth's video to this, here they  recreate the atmospehere of their early days in a small venue:

lol, love the part where Toshi comes up with his own counter to Yoshikitty. Toshinguin. (not official name), because trying to create an image/brand yourself as a penguin with sunglasses is a cool idea.

I've been watching some old X-Japan videos few days now and these guys were really cool back then. It reminded me of why I was such a big fan of them! Toshi was a beast on the vocals, Pata and Taiji were super smooth glam rockers, even Yoshiki was fairly cool there and hide brought his crazy energy to the band. These guys were throwing TV's out of hotel rooms, kicking people during lives and there are slut stories about hide and co floating around the web.

Then fastforward, I check some recent live material........... Yoshiki introduces every song, Yoshiki does some overdramatic shit, Yoshiki and (now ballss-less) Toshi have some random heart warming conversation on the stage. What happened? When did this band become Yoshiki & co.? He was never this prominent back in the day! And what happened to Toshi?

This is cool stuff. This is one of the most promising newcomer bands imo. I know it's only because of my own taste I feel this tho, so if you don't agree I understand ^^

Nice! Dark ambient stuff is always interesting. I liked the tracks from Sketch to Lisbon the most. Sediment and Lisbon being my favourite.  Propably because those tracks got more organic sound (apart from Reactor) I'm not too much into futuristic soundscapes.

But hey, I actually got this one game project coming up that would require some ambient music. I was wondering if you'd be okay with me using some of these tracks? I can pay you too, if the project ever sees light of day. I can go more into detail if you're interested.

Thanks for the feedback!

@PsychoΔelica, why happy paintings...? : / Well obviously they're not, but saying they're paintings of suicidal and depressed tendencies makes it sound too gloomy imo. I tried making more happy things with this style, but they didn't end up looking right. I guess the topic title is a little distracting.

But yea, thank you million times for the constructive stuff! I've heard it before as well - that these works look a little sloppy and unfinished. And I agree. The thing is... I often get bored of drawing these before polishing and just decide to throw them to tumblr anyway. I need to learn some patience for sure. I've been continuing some of these afterwards and tried to give them an extra layers of polish, but still some choppiness remains... I'll probably try to find sweetspot from somewhere between what I have now and more detailed lines. Proportions and anatomy is an area I need more practice too for sure.

Here's an example of continued work:

(You can see the earlier version few posts above. Personally I like this new one a whole lot more ^^)

I trying to get back to painting. Summer has been too busy.

Most of these painting are for a certain video game project I hope to start seriously this fall.

The screenshot is from an older build.  The new engine got a bigger resolution, So I'll be redoing most of the graphics..