Sami - Picture Book

Merle Zimmermann

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Fuumin-neo, my neopets pet :) One of my Ranaef drawings. Ranaef is a character from Demon Diary, which is made in USA by TokyoPop. He is looking determined in this one. Ranaef smiling brightly. Happiness is good ^__^. Sami says 'Hello!': My first drawing of Sami. This came after I practiced drawing Tails for my secret project only it didn't work too well -_-. But Sami is super excellent too :D Sami sits resting on a crescent moon mobile: Mobile Dreams was CG'd before it was scanned, so you might have seen it already. Sami is looking at some Tarot cards here, but they are disappointing for him : / I spent all day playing computer games instead of doing work. Yaaaaay `^__^' Sami had cooked a piece of toast with butter, but somehow a bite got taken out of it x__X It was Soooo late, but I drew anyway ^__^/ Sami is sleepy too! The true Toast Eater was Sami's friend, who came to visit but couldn't resist the delicious slice of toast's sweet aroma :D Everyone was getting ready to go on vacation, but I wasn't sure when to say 'goodbye'... Here's Sami arriving at his house, which is a copy of my house only with Sami living there instead of me ^__^= Sami's friend took a picture of Sami while they were outside looking at the plants, but a butterfly landed on Sami's hand! Sami is inside, but there is nothing to do! Try to think of something while looking in the mirror? This is a presentpicture for one of my neighbors from school ^^ Guest-Art of Sami: Teeka, from http://teeka.fo.cx/, drew me today (June 28th, 2004)! She is so awesome'' Present-Art for Teeka: So, I was totally greatful, and tried to make a fanart of her! This is my first try, but I will probably make a second attempt later today or tomorrow ^^ Sami went for a walk, and sat down next to a well to take a break, but suddenly...!? Here's Ren! Since I hadn't tried to draw a rabbit before, I spent this pagescan practicing after I did some thinking about them ^__^; More Practice: After I found my eraser again, I started drawing posecharacters, but when I drew the cat on the far right, the page was full : D I'm not sure if I should say Sirrh or Sirrah, though. Even More Practice!: Someone asked to see what the secret hidden sketchbook pages looked like, so here is another one. You see, I make a scribble drawing with little rectangles before I try to draw it actually, unless I am copying a previous drawing. I guess it is because I am not very good yet to just draw without a model :( Presentpicture for Ren: I drew this picture of Ren after all of the practice ones were done, but I added my selfdrawing in the lower left later. I'm not so happy about how Sami's tail turned out when he was taking the brownie camera picture : / I need to copy more good-artist pictures so I can learn it into my pencil. I love my plastic eraser though ``^__^;; Sami is all wet x_X: This I drew after I got rained on at the bus stop. The notes at the bottom are my secret plan for getting a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, and maybe a Nobel Prize from that committee (in that cool Swiss Bank Accounts country?) *totally not sure where the NobelBase is : P Another sketchpage, but this time all of Sami..! Sami puts in a circuit board, but results are sketchy x_X: Training Week at school, in the Marker SR^^; but Sami is left there all alone since everyone else was a Laboratory TA ''; There was a lot of clock, and I wanted some thing nice to drink, but there was only icky coffee -_-;; so I drew a drink instead :D After going to the hotel to pick up his cape, Sami wasn't sure if he had forgotten something else too, although I think that I need reference pictures to draw cars and things x_X;; Armed with his cape, he returned to the computer center where there were many rectangles of different bright colors, now that I tried inking and coloring with my new gel pens ^__^;; But I wasn't sure I liked it better colored, so I drew it again with the pencils and inked it just with the black gel pen ^__^;; Plastic Erasers <3 Pentel ^^; So I will probably draw it again tomorrow in pencils and not ink at all since I like that sketchy look too XD

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(I decided to move them down here since the main part of the page is about the drawings and not what I say x_X;;, so now it's easier to look at them right away for you :D)
This is my Japanese-style picture gallery!
Since I had made some drawings of my Sami avatar (and other things) in my diary, I scanned a bunch of the pages and made picture files from them. Here they are, as "low" quality JPEGs. Maybe someday I'll CG these, particularly 6a, 14, and maybe 15 too. Since I do not draw very well, I am sorry if it hurts your eyes when you click on these : (

I put an ALT tag on each picture to explain what it is for those of you who do not care for graphics browsers ^__^. If you have a PC and use Internet Explorer, you can leave the mouse over the picture's icon for a little while, and the ALT tag will appear.

July 6th: I scanned some of the pictures at school, and the scanner there wasn't as sensitive to the pencil ink, so I messed with the gamma and brightness and contrast to try to make them as readable as possible on my really sweet IBM-P72 monitor that can handle 1280x1024 at 80Hz ``^__^; If you know about processing images, ask me and I can drop you the originals (or if it is really bad, rescan them from the book).

August 28th: I drew some more yesterday and today, and here they are :D but there was some difficulty with the computer and scanner x_X;; Also, I'm going to be a Teaching Assistant at school, so I won't be online in realtime as much, but will probably draw more :D Here's to improvement *clinkscup*
Most of note today is number 23, which I colored with gel pens. Also number 24 was inked after sketching, then pencil-shaded some more!

Please note that I set the resolutions for these high on purpose so that you can use a graphics software on your own computer to scale them down with resampling and they won't look fuzzy like the pictures that are too small and need to be scaled up ''; If you use PC it might not look quite as good as it's meant if you let IE rescale the images without resampling ;-;. I like Irfanview to look at pictures on PC, and ACDSee on Macintosh if you want advice ^^;

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