I’ve been neglecting my sketch blog for the longest time I ever neglected any other web place I have… ^^;
I’m going to start doing daily sketches to post here more often.
And also share some pictures that I’ll take of my daily life.
Hopefully you’ll like it. ^^
So here’s one sketch. 🙂
He’ya all!
How’ve you been?
I know I’ve been quite abscent… But Univ is quite killing me at the time…. *lucky thing is that I’m only having one exam!! YAY!*
*Ahem..*
Lots of things have happened, good ones, excellent ones, neither good or bad ones, bad ones… and HORRIBLE ones… Yeah… exciting isn’t it? Well, not to me… My heart isn’t handling this load of excitment that well (psycologically I mean…). I would be really glad if I could have some time of peace… like… 6 months would be nice… ^^;
I have loads of Univ works to do until next friday, and some projects to finish up until next monday, AND there are more projects coming up to finish ‘til the end of this 1st Semester…
At first I thought I was actually enjoying being there… but…. now I realize that I’m actually HATING it… I’m located in a small village, with mostly old people, that aren’t nice at all (specially the employers that SHOULD be nice… they’re the worst ones…)… My housemates are childish, spoiled and stuborn…. My degree colleges are not bad, but I don’t feel very close to them… Something is holding me back to not trust them at all… (dunno why though… but I trust my guts…)
I’m just hoping that the next semester will be better… at least the classes that I’m supposed to have seem a lot better and way more interesting than the ones I’ve been having so far…
I’m hating Programming and Game Math with all my strenghts…. T___T (but I’ve always hated math, and I never liked to work with MDOS… which can explain a lot…)
My drawing classes SUCK as hell… and I seem to be the last art student in my class (all others came from technological, scientific or multimedia high school courses….), and one of the few remaining girls… (and judging from what I’m seeing so far… It’ll end being just me and another girl like me…).
My hands FREEZE up in classes, and I just can’t write/draw… and in the outdoors I tend to forget I have a butt (because it’s so FREAKIN’ COLD that I can’t feel my bottom…), my nose seems like it’s going to break if I touch it without being careful…no matter how many layer of socks I wear, my feet seems to be deep into an ice cube pool… (same goes to my hands, even though I always wear 2 pairs of gloves.)
And summer is going to be the complete oposite… like… now it’s -4 ºC during the day (and it can go to -11 to -15 ºC during the night), but in the summer, it tends to go to really high temperatures during safe hours in the day (meaning from 15h to 19h-20h), going from 35 ºC to 45Cº… and not cooling down that much at night (sometimes it only cools down 3 or 4 ºC….)
SO YEAH!!! I’m not that happy to be studying where I am… I feel like we are being used as “lab rats”, and that they seem to have actually never planned the course at all… it looks like they’re just going with the flow… They never teached in such patterns, and they mixed two distinct courses into just one (Programming Games and Designing Games), making it difficult to the ones that applied to this degree as designers (because we don’t get a thing in the programming part), and also to the ones that applied as programmers (because they can’t draw at all).. and instead of following the concept that other universities around the world applied successfully into this kind of degrees, they decided to make one of their own…
So the thing IS… I’m actually planning on talking to my degree director, as so to ask for help to apply as an erasmus/socrates student to either: England, Japan or USA (Atlanta Art Institute). Because I really don’t want to keep studying in here… It’s degrading and not stimulating at all…
Anyhow… That’s all the news for now…
I’ll try to keep in contatc.
Keep checking my youtube account —> Weura’s Channel for some videos of my drawings, and some drawing tutorials.
Take care!!!
Love you all! ❤
So my mom just decided that maybe I was right to want to go study abroad in the USA. She wasn’t very kin into letting me go all alone to the US.
But it seems that when she was at her Hair Saloon, one of the girls thee said that I shouldn’t be taking this new course from Mirandela, because although the Bacherlor here may value a lot, it won’t have ANY outside this country. It won’t even be recognized. So she gt al scared and paniqued. The girl then said that I could try getting a scholarship to Macau… the thing is…. if my mom was afraid of the cultural diferences between here and the US, she should be even more considering Macau… Like… let’s face it, I LOVE asian countries and culture, but it would be a LOT harder to go there to study, than going the the US…
I’ve searched the possibilities of schools that the Art Institute has..Well, there’s at least one Art Institute College per state. I was looking at Chicago Illinois, but it was too far away from the only person that I know that lives there. So I searched for the Atlanta Art Institute College, and if I actually go study in te US thi year, I’ll probably go there.
For now these are only ideas, although my mom sems to be more serious about this option… she want’s to know the fees (which are REALLY high….), what financial support can I have and how do I apply to those, and when should I apply to the entrance in that College.
So yeah, now I’m getting to be happy. It’s going to be more difficult than if I stayed here, obviously, but even so, I know that it will be better and at least it can guarantee me some aknowledgment from the companies that I can try to apply for later.
I only need an averag C grade to apply, the rest will b checked on my interview there.
I guess the worst part is applyig for the financial aid, finding the money to go there, and get all the documents needed… The rest I guess it’ll be a piece of cake. 😀
Wish me luck guys!
Yeah. it sucks when you just get the job of your life, and someone just makes it all to get you fired… it happened to me… T___T
Back to ground zero… :s
Anyhow… my computer is dying *literally*, and I hope I can at least sell some works out to gather money to buy a new one. Although things aren’t going that well in what comes to sell my works… T___T
I need money… and I need a new computer…. *cries*
Meanwhile…….. I’m still waiting for my lazy mother to decide if we are going this week or the next….or right in the last day as it is usual in her, to go to the university in Mirandela, to take care of my appliance to the course…
And I’m kind of getting impatiente here… She was all excited about me going to this new course, and now she’s all around that it might not be so good, and that I won’t get a job in that area here in Portugal (she still believes that I wanna keep living in here…. poor thing…), and that I shouldn’t get too confident about it… like… I know I must be realistic… but hell!!! No way I’m gonna be THAT pessimistic!!!
She hasn’t even told my father about the POSSIBILITY… gosh!!! She so gets onto my nerves!!! >____<
I believe that she simply can’t accept the idea of me going away from home at all… even if it is inside of this doomed country.
Well… meanwhile I’m sticking with this old stupid computer, while my mom refuses to borrow me hers…
Take care everyone!
Indeed it is!
A friend of mine found out that the course I wanted to take in IL Chicago is going to open this year!
Just exactly what I wanted I guess! At least from the info I saw they’re teaching what I want to learn. 😀
Thank you pal!
It’s not too expeensive, but still I’ll call for help from the state, ‘cuz the most expensive part of my course is not the course itself, but the resourses, books and medias (materials – digital and traditional). ^^;
The best part about it is that it’s in the north of my country…meaning: beautiful monuments, SNOW, patrimomy, the most beautiful sighs in all of Portugal, and HEY! It’s in the oldest city of Portugal: Bragança!
I never thought that I could actually be excited about staying in Portugal to study, but I guess that I am because my mom is also trying to get employed near there, and also because that way it’ll be easier for me to adapt, and later if I want I can make a post-graduation outside in other country. 😀
No, really, I guess now I’m really feeling relieved. And I’m probably going to enter this year. I still have to contact the colege and go to my high school get some info that I need, and maybe still in this week I’ll still go to Bragança to apply to the course.
The only thing that doesn’t make me so happy about staying is… the hard Praxis… T___T
Really, I’m shit scared of what I might get….
My mom is all excited over this new event *she didn’t want me to leave to a foreign country alone and so soon*. When she heard about the she went from a blank face to a huge smile (that nearly killed me from laughter), and said: You goota take that chance! And right tomorrow we’ll call them, go to your school to get your grades, and then still in this week we’ll go to Mirandela (Bragança) for you to apply! *and she kept going* You’ll love that place!!! It snows in the winter! The cold is not as bad as in here, although i can go to negative temperatures it is not a wet cold like ours! And you’ll love people in there!!!
I couldn’t help but laugh at her excitment all over this even. It was funny, because it almost seemed as if she was the one who was going to apply to that college and not me. XD
I’ll try to keep on track with the news!!! *specially if they keep on being this good!*
Been absent for a while now….
Gomen ne…. m(._.)m
Anyhow…
I just got a job, althout it can be frustrating and somewhat tiring to promote a trade mark of beauty care, at least I get paided even if I don’t sell anything at all, since I don’t have to sell, if I do, great, if I don’t, it’s ok. It’s not my job to sell at all.
Anyhow… I haven’t been drawing at all in these days… I’ve been busy with intervews and searching for jobs and so on…so I’ve been neglecting my art for some time now…
My PC is freaking out lately, so I probably won’t be doing anything in Photoshop until I get a new one, or at least get to borrow one from someone to keep on working…
I will be sending *finally* those commissions that should have been sent in February or something… *gomen ne*
Into some other news… A friend of mine convinced me to participate in the portuguese version of American Idol, *Ídolos*. So yeah… after years without singing at all, I’ll be participaing in a show that requires good skills, carisma, and some GUTS! XD *I’m gonna die for sure*
I’ll try to keep the pace up with the news!
Foto por Gabriel Garcia Marques
AMIZADE E AMOR DEFINIDOS
NUMA SIMPLES FOTO…….
‘Aprendi que um homem só tem o direito de olhar um outro de cima para baixo para ajudá-lo a levantar-se’.
(Gabriel Garcia Marques).
Apenas um momento no qual vale a pena repensar as nossas acções do dia-a-dia… 🙂
Here’s a work I’ve been putting my hand on too slowly… like… I think I started this more than a year ago… and it has already suffered so many changes you won’t believe. And the changes will keep on, until I decide to actually finish this… T__T Its taking WAY TOO long…
And here’s a sketch I did moments ago.
I liked it enough to share here already.
Maybe I’ll finish it. If I have the patience…
These are my OC’s from Tales of Gyrtu Vaeros (the girl) and Cale (the guy).
This story and characters are very dear to me, and have a lot of meaning into them, so please do not steal them.
For those who already know them, you might find those outfits weird. Well… they are are not always on their regular outfit… The one that Vaeros is wearing is her Queen outfit. *I know that it’s a little…stripped for a queen… but I just don’t care!*
Cale’s outfit is not the King’s.. since in here he’s not yet the king. 😉 He’s just a the personal Queen’s Bodyguard. And yeah… he got a sleeve ripped off. And also his hair is longer, and kind of different.
Anyhow…
I should keep on sketching… maybe I’ll grab onto the comic itself. 😉
And then, once I feel ready and inspired again, I shall finish properly my trades *which WILL close for a long while*
Wish me luck!
Up until now this has been my personal blog where I would ramble about anything I wanted *I will still ramble… yet only in portuguese…* But I decided that I should also make this blog my Sketch Blog, where you can follow my works in progress or simply unfinished works that I’ll probably never touch ever again…
Hope you guys enjoy this.
And for the portuguese people that might see my rambling…
Lamento… mas é para isso que este blog foi feito inicialmente, e é a minha forma de me exprimir.
AS for now I don’t have any sketch to post, but I shall work on those… I haven’t been drawing since March or so… so you’ll probably find some more flaws in my work, and more things to be improved. Please bear with me, and give me your support. ^_^
You can start by voting on my poll! 😀
Anyhow… I need to get back to my trades, and I need to gather money to send those commissions..and also to keep on track on taking care of my health that hasn’t been so good lately… T___T *had a crisis again today…*
If you want to help me, you can always commission me…
I shall leave here (as well as on my dA page) the pricing list. (keep in mind that those are only estimates of prices… it can vary depending on the time and difficulty of the work…)
WEURA-CHAN’S JOURNAL
THE BORING STUFF:_____________________________________________
*I reserve the right to decline any commission request without question.
*I reserve the right to adjust the pricing on a request before I start the commission, depending on difficulty / time scale etc.
*You are free to use your commissioned piece as you see fit, for layouts etc. You are not required to link back or credit, but it would be appreciated. However, you may NOT claim the piece as your own. I reserve the rights to the artwork and you may not make money from it.
* Copyright of artwork creation will be mine, however, you still hold the main copyright over your original characters. Please do not remove / modify the watermarks / signatures on the artwork.
* I have the right to use your commission art for non-profit purposes (ie: advertise / promoting the site / service etc).
* I will show sketches of your commission before I proceed so you can still tell me to fix things up. After I start working on them, no adjustment shall be done.
* The artworks will be either hosted on DA, my website, or posted straight to you via e-mail, depending on your choice of receiving your commission, and my availability.
* Additional cost will be included if you wish to have the original artwork (in CG if I have sketched first on paper, and also applicable to the study sketches for either type of commission) mailed to you (a.k.a postal service).
* Do not expect your commission to be done so soon.
This is important because I am usually occupied with other works. If you need your commission to be done by a certain date, ask earlier and notify me in your first request note.
* Payment will only be asked after the product is done and before it is submitted to you. (payments via normal mail or transference via paypal (veraluisapeneda@gmail.com) Which means, you’ll be able to see the commission before you pay, but you will only have it AFTER you paid.
* In any event that should you wish to cancel your commission when I have already started it, I have the full right to sell it to anyone else. If it has your original character, I will include the character owner’s credit to you.
*Regular commissions are NOT to be used for anything like:
Book illustrations, covers, or any other publishing that depicts the artwork or for any profit you may hope to make.
Regular commissions cover NON-commercial use only. You may not make prints of my work to sell. I still hold legal rights to the art. Commissioning me means that you are agreeing to those terms.
*All commissions are NON-refundable.
Please consider this matter carefully before deciding on buying a commission.
Here’s what I do accept as a commission, and what I do not (since there are things that i can’t draw, or don’t accept at all…):
Will do:
Original characters, Fanarts (not all. Please ask me first…)
Chibis, Cute characters
Erotica type pictures, Mature content (but still, ask me first, it also depends on what you ask)
Portraits
Mystic animals (although not too furry… 
)
Will NOT do:
Mechas, Vehicles, Robots, Armours (if too complex), Firearms
Anthro
Comics (I might think about it, but believe me it’ll be WAY too expensive…)
Overlay complex characters, realism (unless you want a portrait), Abstract
Disfigurement / Distortion / Pedophilia, etc…
(things I can’t tolerate)
Now that you know what I will accept and not accept doing, I’ll go to the prices list.
These are just rough estimate of what I might ask, still, bear in mind that these are only examples. I am always open to different kinds of character work and can work out pricing with you as such, depending on what you want.
Some variants that factor into the price are: level of complexity and detail, medium (color, line art, pencil), number of characters, background, etc. Once you have described what you want, I will then give you an estimate of what it will cost, based on these factors.
I typically prefer to take payments for my work through paypal (veraluisapeneda@gmail.com), and will send you the finished product as a high resolution JPG file (in case it’s a CG)/the original work after I receive the payment.
Have in mind that the pricing that follows does not include the shipment price, that I might ask in addition to the commission itself if you want the original sent to you (I will probably ask for $10 for the shipment as being A4, and $40 for A3 size).
PRICING_____________________________________________
All of the following prices are rough estimates. Be aware that the prices may increase depending on what you’re asking for – detail, time scale, difficulty, etc.
All of the prices are listed in European currency – € and American dollars – $
Traditional Works
BUST:
pencil/skecth €10 = $15
inks/colors €15 = $22
FULL BODY:
pencil/skecth €20 = $30
inks/colors €25 = $37
ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS:
pencil/skecth + €5 = $7
inks/colors + €8 = $12
CG (DIGITAL WORKS)
The prices for CG’S are ROUGH guides, They will varey depending on detail, time scale, difficulty etc.
BUST (WAIST UP): €65 = $95 / extra character + €50 = $73
FULL BODY: €85 = $124 / extra character + €65 = $95
If you are interested in commissioning me for this kind of work, you are welcome to contact me either by email (veraluisapeneda@gmail.com). Please in the subject write Commission, or I won’t open it.
Or via deviantART Note.
Note (e-mail) me with your request:
Your:
Email address.
Form of payment.
Type of commission. Bust, waist up etc.
Most Importantly…
Give me as much info on what you’d like as possible, If it’s your own character for example…
Name, age, Image references, personality traits, bad habits, specific tattoos, earrings, clothing, body type, ANYTHING that is relevant.
Colours for hair, clothing, eyes, or any other important feature.
I need as much info as possible to work from, to make sure you like the end result. If I am able to work on your commission, I will respond with further questions and details.
Thank you for your time reading this info.
EXTRA INFO
I’m sorry if you think I’m asking too much for my works, but I don’t have a job now, and I desperately need money… I want to go live to Switzerland and I need money to go there, to establish a life and to keep with my studies.
These prices were suggested by a person that usually buys this kind of stuff. That person gave a deep look at my works and lent me a hand to do the pricing list, since I don’t have a single clue for how much I should sell a work… And since I don’t want to rob nor to be robbed I asked for his help.
I hope you understand…
Thank you once again for reading…
WEURA-CHAN’S JOURNAL
THE BORING STUFF:_____________________________________________
*I reserve the right to decline any commission request without question.
*I reserve the right to adjust the pricing on a request before I start the commission, depending on difficulty / time scale etc.
*You are free to use your commissioned piece as you see fit, for layouts etc. You are not required to link back or credit, but it would be appreciated. However, you may NOT claim the piece as your own. I reserve the rights to the artwork and you may not make money from it.
* Copyright of artwork creation will be mine, however, you still hold the main copyright over your original characters. Please do not remove / modify the watermarks / signatures on the artwork.
* I have the right to use your commission art for non-profit purposes (ie: advertise / promoting the site / service etc).
* I will show sketches of your commission before I proceed so you can still tell me to fix things up. After I start working on them, no adjustment shall be done.
* The artworks will be either hosted on DA, my website, or posted straight to you via e-mail, depending on your choice of receiving your commission, and my availability.
* Additional cost will be included if you wish to have the original artwork (in CG if I have sketched first on paper, and also applicable to the study sketches for either type of commission) mailed to you (a.k.a postal service).
* Do not expect your commission to be done so soon.
This is important because I am usually occupied with other works. If you need your commission to be done by a certain date, ask earlier and notify me in your first request note.
* Payment will only be asked after the product is done and before it is submitted to you. (payments via normal mail or transference via paypal (veraluisapeneda@gmail.com) Which means, you’ll be able to see the commission before you pay, but you will only have it AFTER you paid.
* In any event that should you wish to cancel your commission when I have already started it, I have the full right to sell it to anyone else. If it has your original character, I will include the character owner’s credit to you.
*Regular commissions are NOT to be used for anything like:
Book illustrations, covers, or any other publishing that depicts the artwork or for any profit you may hope to make.
Regular commissions cover NON-commercial use only. You may not make prints of my work to sell. I still hold legal rights to the art. Commissioning me means that you are agreeing to those terms.
*All commissions are NON-refundable.
Please consider this matter carefully before deciding on buying a commission.
Here’s what I do accept as a commission, and what I do not (since there are things that i can’t draw, or don’t accept at all…):
Will do:
Original characters, Fanarts (not all. Please ask me first…)
Chibis, Cute characters
Erotica type pictures, Mature content (but still, ask me first, it also depends on what you ask)
Portraits
Mystic animals (although not too furry… )
Will NOT do:
Mechas, Vehicles, Robots, Armours (if too complex), Firearms
Anthro
Comics (I might think about it, but believe me it’ll be WAY too expensive…)
Overlay complex characters, realism (unless you want a portrait), Abstract
Disfigurement / Distortion / Pedophilia, etc…
(things I can’t tolerate)
Now that you know what I will accept and not accept doing, I’ll go to the prices list.
These are just rough estimate of what I might ask, still, bear in mind that these are only examples. I am always open to different kinds of character work and can work out pricing with you as such, depending on what you want.
Some variants that factor into the price are: level of complexity and detail, medium (color, line art, pencil), number of characters, background, etc. Once you have described what you want, I will then give you an estimate of what it will cost, based on these factors.
I typically prefer to take payments for my work through paypal (veraluisapeneda@gmail.com), and will send you the finished product as a high resolution JPG file (in case it’s a CG)/the original work after I receive the payment.
Have in mind that the pricing that follows does not include the shipment price, that I might ask in addition to the commission itself if you want the original sent to you (I will probably ask for $10 for the shipment as being A4, and $40 for A3 size).
PRICING_____________________________________________
All of the following prices are rough estimates. Be aware that the prices may increase depending on what you’re asking for – detail, time scale, difficulty, etc.
All of the prices are listed in European currency – € and American dollars – $
Traditional Works
BUST:
pencil/skecth €10 = $15
inks/colors €15 = $22
FULL BODY:
pencil/skecth €20 = $30
inks/colors €25 = $37
ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS:
pencil/skecth + €5 = $7
inks/colors + €8 = $12
CG (DIGITAL WORKS)
The prices for CG’S are ROUGH guides, They will varey depending on detail, time scale, difficulty etc.
BUST (WAIST UP): €65 = $95 / extra character + €50 = $73
FULL BODY: €85 = $124 / extra character + €65 = $95
If you are interested in commissioning me for this kind of work, you are welcome to contact me either by email (veraluisapeneda@gmail.com). Please in the subject write Commission, or I won’t open it.
Or via deviantART Note.
Note me with your request:
Your:
Email address.
Form of payment.
Type of commission. Bust, waist up etc.
Most Importantly…
Give me as much info on what you’d like as possible, If it’s your own character for example…
Name, age, Image references, personality traits, bad habits, specific tattoos, earrings, clothing, body type, ANYTHING that is relevant.
Colours for hair, clothing, eyes, or any other important feature.
I need as much info as possible to work from, to make sure you like the end result. If I am able to work on your commission, I will respond with further questions and details.
Thank you for your time reading this info.
EXTRA INFO
I’m sorry if you think I’m asking too much for my works, but I don’t have a job now, and I desperately need money… I want to go live to Switzerland and I need money to go there, to establish a life and to keep with my studies.
These prices were suggested by a person that usually buys this kind of stuff. That person gave a deep look at my works and lent me a hand to do the pricing list, since I don’t have a single clue for how much I should sell a work… And since I don’t want to rob nor to be robbed I asked for his help.
I hope you understand…
Thank you once again for reading…
Aqui está mais recente desenho por encomenda que fiz.
Totalmente pintado em aguarelas, formato A3, e demorou cerca de (juntando as horas de trabalho) uma semana a completar desde o esboço ao trabalho final. ^^
Quem estiver interessado contacte-me: veraluisapeneda@gmail.com
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