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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
08/06/21 10:58:03 PM
#391


Progress so far.

Edit: ugh it went sideways again.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
08/06/21 9:36:32 PM
#385
I just realized I have a few GBA games I bought that are entirely in Japanese. Must have got it from a previous Comic Con.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
08/06/21 9:35:47 PM
#390
I've drawn half a face and hair so far. Now to decide whether to continue, play FF14 or sleep.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
08/05/21 5:55:03 PM
#388
Eliza-Schuyler posted...
DO IT IMMEDIATELY I LOVE THAT

Thats insane! I actually like the ears the most in this.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
08/05/21 5:51:47 PM
#383
Itachi157 posted...
Yotsuba was great for me when I was just starting out. Very entertaining too. I think the next one I read after that was Ika Musume. Then I read all of what was currently published at the time of Nisekoi and To-Love-Ru/Darkness.

What was the first novel you read when you were learning. I want to know the level I should be aiming for around about.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
08/04/21 10:31:53 PM
#381
Tried to read through a manga I had but didn't understand more than half of it. Gonna find a different book thats slightly easier.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
08/03/21 10:33:37 PM
#380
Homework half finished. I actually lost some of my files recently so I gotta redownload and reprint.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
08/03/21 10:30:29 PM
#384
I want to draw something more disturbing or unorthadox.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
08/02/21 10:54:20 PM
#382
Bump! Started on the face but it irked me. I ended up rubbing it out a few times before settling on one face shape.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
08/02/21 10:53:43 PM
#379
Didn't do much today! I did watch a few Japanese videos. I'll put more effort in tomorrow.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
08/01/21 8:41:16 PM
#381
FabIe posted...
Here's the logo I made for my instagram


Thats so slick! Is that a golden apple with wings?

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
08/01/21 8:40:49 PM
#378
Itachi157 posted...
I would just plagiarize one of the ones I "composed" in Ghost of Tsushima.

For my own Japanese activity the VN I'm reading right now is pretty boring. Almost dropped it to pick up another one but I do that too much, so am powering through it.

You can make them in Ghost of Tsushima? Always been wanting to play that. Good thing I put it off since the PS5 version is coming out.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/31/21 10:16:58 PM
#379
TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/31/21 10:14:41 PM
#376
Looks like we have to make short Haikus for homework this week!

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/30/21 9:27:01 PM
#375
TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/30/21 9:26:34 PM
#378
Started a new picture but it was basically an outline. Not sure what I'm gonna do with it lol.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/29/21 10:10:19 PM
#374
Rimmer_Dall posted...
You find some funny shit down the Touhou rabbit hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrjxsiYsscg

EDIT:

Man, this guy is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnTX1KA6jDA

I think I've seen this channel before. He does a lot of music in public places.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/29/21 10:09:34 PM
#376
Eliza-Schuyler posted...
omg wow, that looks incredible. im excited to see the finished product


Wow, loving the dark vibes here.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/28/21 8:11:51 PM
#372
I downloaded an App called Kaizen. You can talk to an AI and practice speech, so far its kinda meh for me. Anyone else tried it?

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/28/21 8:09:50 PM
#373
FabIe posted...
I'm not doing much drawing this week. Working on painting this absolute unit for this week's session.


OMG! Is that a miniature?

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/27/21 8:47:30 PM
#371
Need to buy more paper soon. Should do that tomorrow.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/27/21 8:46:50 PM
#371
Finished my homework, Im feeling like things are getting slightly easier. I'm happy with the improvement so far.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/26/21 8:42:52 PM
#370
FabIe posted...
Don't feel bad about it. If you post some progress we can give you some feedback.

I'm gonna either draw more detail in it or start on a new picture.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/26/21 8:42:25 PM
#370
Got feedback for homework from my Sensei. Should go through it tomorrow.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/26/21 9:18:00 AM
#369
Watched a Japanese movie called Blue, Painful, Fragile (Or Blue, Painful, Brittle ) and holy shit it had some of the most intense scenes and acting I've seen in a long time. The way it was shot and the actors involved did an amazing job.

At one point, two of the actors were looking at each other for a whole minute not saying a word and I was just frozen with how much tension it was putting out. A good watch overall, so glad I saw it.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/25/21 11:53:12 PM
#368
My girlfriend helped me with some Japanese today. She was on my back for not studying enough and I agree, need to push myself.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/24/21 10:26:51 PM
#367
Shading turned out to be well uh, shit haha. I erased most of it, causing me to have to redraw some lines again.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/24/21 10:25:24 PM
#367
Hopefully we'll be finished with Keigo. I'd rather move on from it now and go back to it once I learn standard Japanese more.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/23/21 10:11:06 PM
#366
Class in the morning. Totally smashed all the homework. Was actually a lot this week.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/23/21 10:09:38 PM
#366
Whew long day today, been putting detail into my characters armour but its not turning out well lol. Maybe I'll try shading >_>

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/22/21 9:28:58 PM
#365
PerseusRad posted...

I get frustrated sometimes because I can tell things aren't correct, but I feel like attempts to fix it fail, and I can't always use words to properly discuss what's wrong with it. In this case, I feel like the arm on the right is at least a bit off, maybe it should be angled higher? It could be the elbow is too high or too low, but I'm not good at judging it. In a sense I went backwards from some of my previous things, where the poses were made at bit more dynamic. I tried to have to correct my lines less in this instance. It kinda worked.

You really changed a lot of the coloring for the final part. Not that I'm complaining, it's pretty interesting to see the differences.

This looks lovely! I think personally the right arm should be shorter as I cant see where the joint is compared to the left one? Apart from that it looks amazing.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/22/21 9:27:56 PM
#364
FabIe posted...
Ill just bump with the version i put on my instagram



It cut off the image from the top and bottom idk why

Wow those colours. Now I understand the importance of them, they really do give it life.


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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/22/21 9:26:40 PM
#365
Rimmer_Dall posted...
SpiritSephiroth posted...
The thing I did to progress quickly was I read even though I couldn't understand. It's exhausting but it works.

A few tips for this process.

1) Don't look up every unknown word until you reach a stage where you rarely encounter unknown words. Instead only look up words that look familiar (this means you've seen it enough times that you're starting to recognize it on sight) or that it feels like you should already know.

2) Mix reading challenging material without furigana and easier material with furigana. The challenging material will push your limits and force you to learn kanji. The easier material will help you get used to reading for fun and for long periods of time while also letting you develop instincts for how to properly read kanji with context sensitive readings (like when to read as and when to read it as ) as well as letting you catch when you've been reading things wrong for a long time or mixing up similar looking kanji. So read without furigana until you get tired, then read with furigana until you run out of free time.

3) Don't get stuck. If you don't understand what something means or which reading is the correct one even after looking at a dictionary, just ignore it and move on. You'll understand it in the future, so just keep going for the low-hanging fruit.

4) If you get bored with whatever you're reading, switch to reading something else. Otherwise you might find yourself starting to hate reading.

I'll give this a try! Was just finish up part of my homework so I'll read some now.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/21/21 8:54:32 PM
#362
Rimmer_Dall posted...
https://syosetu.org/novel/214736/

Gotta share this one. I read a lot of fanfiction, and this one is currently sharing the top spot with the best fics I've ever read (and it shows because this fic was published just last year and it's already the most liked and top rated One Piece fic on the entire site).

Anyway, plot. It's a pseudo-crossover/SI with One Piece and Touhou. Over 40 years before Luffy's adventure starts a girl who ate a devil fruit that gave her the power of Houjuu Nue meets Kaidou, and together they join the most evil pirate crew in history, the Rocks Pirates. Hijinks and crimes against humanity ensue.

The comedy is absolutely top-notch and I've burst out laughing several times. The fic feels almost like something Oda could've written with how good the quality is

Reminds me that I got to start reading like this, but my Japanese is still low level. Need to persevere.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/20/21 8:48:20 PM
#360
TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/20/21 8:47:56 PM
#360
Okay finishing off the quiz then onto other homework.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/19/21 7:55:23 PM
#359
Itachi157 posted...
Change it to some anime character and I'm sure they'd know it

Funny story that. A lot of the anime lovers dropped out of our courses fairly early on. Most of the students in my class are more older and aren't very into anime or videogames (Except for one girl who literally works at a famous videogame company) and a few other guys.

Other than that, most of the girls who liked J-idols like me have left as well, gone back to China/Taiwan/Korea ect.

If I did someone like Goku or Naruto, most of them may recognize it though. So thats a good idea actually.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/19/21 7:21:01 PM
#359
Yeah, might start posting on imgur myself again.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/19/21 7:18:48 PM
#357
Doing a quiz on a character in Keigo that the class has to guess from the pieces of information I reveal about them. I chose Ayumi Hamasaki. I hope they know who that is, she's pretty damn big in Japan.

Although whenever I speaak about famous Idol groups, actors, actresses, singers ect, they never know who they are >_>

Edit: Maybe I should change it to Gackt. Hmm.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/18/21 8:35:40 PM
#356
Thats kinda scary, but I guess they're more lenient on foreigners in businesses? Its good to learn though but first I want to learn normal Japanese.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/18/21 8:33:57 PM
#357
Thats amazing, and I also love the colours. Brings so much life into the picture!

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/17/21 9:07:27 PM
#353
Bump! Heatwave coming today. Also we're finished with the Keigo section in class for now. Happy we're going back to standard Japanese to be honest.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/16/21 8:26:58 PM
#352
Feel so guilty, didn't get anything done today. Was too hot and I felt so tired argh!

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/16/21 8:25:55 PM
#351
FabIe posted...
All finished but I don't wanna spam your topic :D I'll wait for someone else to post a bit.

You can post it whenever, feel free to do so! I didn't get much done today.

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TopicITT: Japanese Studies
SpiritSephiroth
07/15/21 8:39:00 PM
#350
Finished the particle homework but Im not sure if its 100% as usual with this. Just gonna submit it and hope I don't get too many wrong.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/15/21 7:36:28 PM
#349
That elf picture is incredibly detailed, good work!

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/15/21 3:39:45 PM
#343
FabIe posted...
Oh ho ho I love it so far. I think gamefaqs flips images from cameras that are too long or something.

Here's one I'm working on too:



I'll be working on her some more tonight. I even made myself a watermark.

Nice! especially love the colouring.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/15/21 3:34:58 PM
#341
Eliza-Schuyler posted...
oh wow! i love it so far

Thanks! I'll pick it up again tomorrow. Time for Japanese studies.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/15/21 3:21:57 PM
#339


Not finished with this one yet.

Edit: I don't know why it flipped sideways again. Anyway its supposed to be my Warrior of Light from FFXIV.

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TopicITT: Drawing progress
SpiritSephiroth
07/14/21 6:49:33 PM
#331
I want to post the picture I'm drawing but its still too light, I think I need to darken the lines.

PerseusRad posted...

Havent drawn much recently. This was another lesson thing. I messed up the preliminary part, and accidentally misunderstood the second part. So the proportions were broken from the beginning, and it didnt recover from the second. It happens though. I feel the desire to show off even my mistakes, to ensure I do better next time.

Wow, this looks so good!

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