音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Let me call this weekend a nostalgic mode of Biohazard 3. I've done 3 rounds in total during the past 2 days, which then make a total of 6 times clear in this game. Since I used to play on the PC version and just switched to PS1, I still need to do it at least 5 times in order to see all epilogues.
While it's just hard for me to get a S rank! The hunters are there so I can't dare to do no-save runs, and I can't go across zombies/etc without getting damage.. °A°

But I simply love the feeling of radio control! （*´▽｀*）

While the main topic today is about what I've made on this Friday -- purely on a sudden impulse, although what actually I finished is entirely different from my initial concept (which is not strange at all!) in terms of the global make up.
Based on Suga Shikao's "Loveless", what appeared in my mind was mostly "cold" stuff, especially rain -- so I get to include an umbrella (and for a moment I was trying to dye it to be like the one from Biohazard)! As for the choose of character, from I → C → Y → L and finally → M. I also tried to integrate a little aura resembles Makise Kurisu (it's so true that I can't stop masking it with a beautiful strikethrough!!).

The background was supposed to be with a more abstract background made up by line art and this kind. Just because recently I've got a few inspirations on Photoshop, when I played around to arrange some candidate photo references my mind was changed. I wanted to draw a more real background and try out the new Photoshop techniques.
The brick path, similar to what I did in the previous: shadowing + blurring on the strokes with an overall grediant; the flowers/trees were kind of new to me: an irregular shaped brush with colour/size/space jitter did the job; the sky was of the most fun, because of the crepuscular rays (the first time I drew it from scratch)! However, I couldn't get the proper effect for a just-stopped-light-rain feeling (need to find more examples, maybe I'll try it out next time..).
Obviously, doing such a background is fun, and of more freedom as an existing photo can't be fitting into the fore character for most of times, even it does fit, it's not easy to post-photoshop it.

The result doesn't look bad, while the PSD file is over 400 MB before being compressed (the fault of flowers?!).

The Lingering Tune
↑ The title is ambiguous(?) as usual. So I'm thinking maybe it's time to introduce sone "background" about my girls! xD

When I saw the calender I was relieved, seems I still have time to fill up the hole I left in this month. I was distracted seriously during the past 30 days and thus had left a big span. Now look at the screen shot I had for my unfinished drawing, which was made on March 29; today is April 29, it's exactly one month!
Yet I had never left an artwork untouched for that long...

I was dealing with a couple of incidents that were much more troublesome than using solely a knife to stab zombies. Troublesome, I'm not completely negative here though. I'll come back to this topic later on, but now, time to close the span of my top priority!
-- it doesn't mean I'm going to write this post using all '<span>' instead of '<div>'. ^^;

My ex-unfinished work was pending at the make-up step. It was tough. On my mind, I did had the idea of a detailed attic room, and I actually had it on my draft. But to transform a piece of real drawing pencil doodling into photoshop was a pain. In the previous screen shot, you can see I did have the "base reference" ready in layers, but I was worrying about how to arrange them altogether as a whole.

When I came back after one month, though, I didn't think too much and finished these small props first. Then, I began to play around with them. I in fact had drawn an attic room view in background, but it looked bad, so I kept modifying the rendering gradient until its opacity became 100%, in which the attic background wasn't visible any more. The gradient only fill-up was amazingly fitting well with the characters, although looked a bit unrealistic. So I wasn't sure how I should proceed. Should I continue working on a drawn attic view?

For a short moment I tried to just use the gradient since I could finish it right there, but a few days ago, after googling a couple of anime background pictures, I though I got the idea on how to do more detailed post-rendering. It's hard to say in words though; after brushing/blurring/photoshop-effecting, I did get a better looking attic view as the background:

I don't have a 3D model with light source (maybe I should make some in future), so the lighting effect may look weird, but at current stage, I'm quite satisfied.
By the way, I eventually decided to omit the celestial globe (which was appearing in my previous screen shot) because I was too lazy to draw it.

Once the attic looked okay, I was finally of more desire to do the global lightings and other depictions, and then blend the characters in.

It definitely looks better than a simple gradient only background! :3

However, I wasn't aware of that I spent one additional day to figure out a title. This time, everything was ambiguous. It's not clearly from a song, though KOKIA and Akira Yamaoka's melodies contributed a lot. My idea had changed so much that even I myself got lost.
I ended up with the title "Fragmented Reflection", but it's not directly linked to the drawing itself. My girls have their backgrounds, which I hadn't got the time to tell!

After "a literary moment", it was my second time doing a full size background (I think others such as "Marionette Fantasia" don't count as that's mainly a big single object). Full of uncertainty, but it was really fun. Maybe next time when I'm out of drawing ideas, I can remake of existing works to improve both the characters and the background.

In my high school PE class, for a few weeks we were asked to perform a technique of passing the basketball to the basket, regardless whether or not you love this sport (apparently I don't care it at all and my degree of interest was negative). No matter how many times I see the demo, either I could do with my hands and I couldn't run properly, or I could run but I lost the ball (at that time I even had the impulse to punch my PE teacher on her face, why didn't she just leave those who having no love with the stupid orange ball alone?).
Not only in my high school, I had trauma in all/ PE classes, from elementary school until to the first two years of undergrad, nor I'm a fan of any type of sports so I never watch Olympic games or so. I know my body is poorly coordinated. I can bump into the table/chair/etc edges while seeing it's right in my way (it's strange that I've never hurt myself while handcrafting -- maybe it has nothing to do with body coordination).

SO GOD KNOWS WHAT MADE ME TO BEGIN SOME GYMNASTICS TRAINING! (on the scale of my hands though.)
-- Hope I can increase my AGL eventually. (´∀｀;)

Last words:
Today when I was talking to someone, I got this idea: if I happen to have two (male) cats, I'll call one "Chris" and the other "Leon", similarly, for females one will be "Jill" and the other will be "Ada"!! :3

At the very beginning, let me state this first:
Cello has to be the most erotic instrument, and here is why:

Cello is written as チェロ in Japanese,
チ is 1000, and エロ is erotic,
so Cello => チェロ => チ+エロ => 1000 times erotic!

Following the same logic, why I'm specially fond of violin is probably because:
Violin => バイオリン => バイオ => Bio => my major (・ω・`)

It also answers my love in VAIO laptops: VAIO => バイオ.

Before I continue with more stuff like this, I'd like to claim,
I'm really serious throughout the entire post!

Seems I'm getting into the habit of listening Dvořák's "Dumky Trio" every day, and suddenly on this Friday, instead of exclaiming "this is delicious!", my brain was echoing "My Goddess, this is just erotic!"
-- Especially the cello.

For a lot of times, except the solo pieces, cellos are likely to be overlooked. Yes, there is something low behind, harmonising the entire music; but of more detail, it's hard to tell.
Most listeners don't have perfect pitch, nor are they analysing every single piece measure by measure.
Even in small scaled chamber music, cellos are still less noticeable compared to piano and violin, although better than in a full size orchestra.

Dvořák's "Dumky" perhaps made me paying 120% attention to this meek instrument for the first time. Unlike other pieces that I know, here, I can't stop following the cello part. From the beginning to the end, without being distracted by the other two shinning stars. Of course, I can mostly follow the violin part as well, but I tend to lose tracking in the piano part for quite a lot of times. Although I don't know why. Just let me believe that there must be a kind of spell bringing cello to the top!

Recalling that I ever said I didn't (and I still don't) understand why a guy could think this albinoid image is erotic. To judge whether or not being erotic can be fairly personal and subjective, so no doubt my senselessness toward his mind.
Therefore, I wonder how many people have the same feeling as mine?

Maybe people use "sexy" more frequently. I have my alternative that is "delicious".
Since the moment of switch from "delicious" to "erotic" for "Dumky", my brain started another topic:
what is the difference between "delicious", or "sexy", and "erotic"?

Google didn't give me satisfying answers. They say these two are basically the same, with subtle difference "physically". But all of my thoughts against the explained "physical context" led me nowhere but the third definition, "18+".
Obviously my last word (or term) can't be used to describe a piece of music. So there has to be a way differentiating these two,
platonically.

I clearly can sense the difference, yet I don't know how to explain verbally so I'll give a few examples here.

>>
Mozart's "K. 502" is sexy, while
Dvořák's "Dumky" is erotic (as described above);

>>
A decently designed web page can be sexy, while
its HTML/script source code is way more erotic (as the combination of various tags make up the visual display);

>>
the definition of e looks sexy, while

doing t-test in with a little typing is indeed erotic (as I don't need to worry about any human error during the calculation:

>>etc., etc...

-- Hope I'm not down the rabbit hole to figure out such an abstract thing! xD

Furthermore, I also want to know when people feel something is erotic, do they have the same physical change, such as the hormone level? Such emotional feelings are all triggered by the brain, through the stimulation of what you see/hear/touch/etc.; the brain then releases corresponding waves, passing through different cells relayed by synapses, and eventually increase/decrease specific chemical(s) that change our body's status... so when I get the platonic feeling of "erotic", does my body reacts similarly like people who have the physical version?
-- The project to decipher the human brain and body and the connection might be never complete!!

See, science definitely has a lot of more fun than history or politics!