Do you still think that way about me now?

Can anyone give me some advice on an alternative image hosting site to Photobucket? I don't upload or use images a lot but I was just in my Photobucket a few minutes ago and unholy HELL, the adverts are BEYOND obnoxious!!! I'm usually very good at ignoring adverts - in fact, I never notice them - but THIS, oh, THIS. It was impossible!!! GRAHHH!!!

This was the first article I found through Google: https://www.lifewire.com/free-image-hosting-sites-3486329 If anyone can advise me about what these sites are like to use, I'd be grateful. I'm kinda thinking of going with Google Photos because I already have that app on my phone.

Still not finished...

Hmmm, I'm having a pretty uninspirational year art-wise :/ Just cannot work up the interest at the minute...




Doodle-scribble-shape things...




...crappy disembodied deer head (except that it looks more like a cow's head, really, a deer's head is snout-on, not forehead-on >.<)...




...a depressed, blank profile-person...




...and a plant with some... thing hanging over it.

*le sigh*

Yeah, so I finally finish the 2014 diary in July 2015... who says I don't know how to procrastinate?




And now for my new, blank-paged, not-divided-into-days book:




This is just to show you how I hope to use the pages. I won't be posting all-pictures-at-once scans like before; the 2014 diary was a slim-line pocket book and this one is A4-size.



So instead, I'll be posting individual pics as so. Self-portrait! Adapted from an old, old photograph (2005!) which was taken in Madame Tussaud's in London.

And then a dragon and a wyvern, just because:

Just one week left in the diary now!

I dunno what it is about hair; when I initially finished these studies, I thought they looked wretched, but when I come back to them, they're actually pretty decent. Well, except for the plait one, it's still a mess >:P

As in week 45, I am sorta hovering between marking this as NSFW and not. The original reference was definitely NSFW lol, but I cut it off at waist height...

( Eh, better safe than sorry - enter at your own risk><a href= )

I had to make up his head, and her trunk and the hand underneath his arm, since in the original reference they were just a big black shadow. Shadows are the enemy; they hide way too many important things. For instance, I know his wrist and hand are weird, but that part is so drenched in darkness that I'm left to my best guess as how it should look. :(

Yeah, I know the limbs and perspective are weird. I really like the way the hands/front paws turned out, though :)

Damnit. I was going to post a whole string of Sketchy Sundays but Photobucket is being a complete div and I can't copy/paste any of the image links!!! DX< So here are the direct links instead:

Week 43: http://s23.photobucket.com/user/rhondacrockett/media/Sketchy%20Sundays/SketchySunday43_zps23be01cb.jpg.html?sort=3&o=6

Every time I draw a guy's lips, they always come out so damn girly. Mind you, the guy in the reference had very girly lips to start with.

Week 44: http://s23.photobucket.com/user/rhondacrockett/media/Sketchy%20Sundays/SketchySunday44_zpsdf20bea2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=5

Studies in preparation for a... certain something *mysterious thing is mysterious*

Why is it, that when I go looking for references for certain poses, I can never find exactly what I want? I think I need to hire a pair of life-models to pose for me.

Week 45: Ok, so there is a bit of this which might possibly be considered NSFW, I can't decide. There's no genitalia on show and the atmosphere is sweet rather than sexy, but they are both naked, so I'm erring on the side of caution.

The most definitely SFW stuff first: http://s23.photobucket.com/user/rhondacrockett/media/Sketchy%20Sundays/SketchySunday45SFW_zps9e945262.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

I am well aware that the hand in the hair is grossly out of proportion to the head. I have learned my lesson: if drawing a hand holding something, sketch in that something first before sketching the hand!

And then the I-don't-think-it-is-but-others-might NSFW: http://s23.photobucket.com/user/rhondacrockett/media/Sketchy%20Sundays/SketchySunday45possNSFW_zps35bf89bd.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3

I think this may be the cutest thing I've drawn ever. It gives me the warm fuzzies every time I look at it (:) I know he's missing a thumb, btw; unfortunately, I didn't notice it until after I had stuck a piece of sellotape over it, trying to repair a rip in the page, so I couldn't correct it >:(

And with all pieces for Week 45 together: http://s23.photobucket.com/user/rhondacrockett/media/Sketchy%20Sundays/SketchySunday45_zps20fc8050.jpg.html?sort=3&o=4

Week 46: http://s23.photobucket.com/user/rhondacrockett/media/Sketchy%20Sundays/SketchySunday46_zps7926f5a1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

You know the trouble with working from references? You end up wanting to do references all the time, and not actually making up stuff yourself. So I tried to avoid references for a while... and it turned out all pathetic *sigh*

Week 47: http://s23.photobucket.com/user/rhondacrockett/media/Sketchy%20Sundays/SketchySunday47_zps661e210c.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

The ear studies are not all from reference; I was playing around, seeing if I could make it up, while at the same time surreptitiously studying the ears of my sister, my dad, the people on TV...

As mentioned earlier, I have fallen badly behind in my doodle diary. I've only completed the weeks of 15-21 and 22-28 September; October is still blank. This was partly down to un-inspiration (is that a word? that should be a word) and partly to laziness (I let myself get distracted by other things - largely TV).

Week 38:




I'm rather proud of my portrait of Ato Essandoh; it actually looks like him. Still have an issue with zombie eyes when I'm drawing from reference, though :/ As for the second half: trying to explain the concept of love to a woman who's only known sex and slavery is difficult. The title originally went on, "...they only belong to you and you to them," but it was long and awkward and I wasn't happy with it so blah.

Now week 39, I'm splitting in two, because Rhonda actually drew something NSFW! Shock, horror, I know!! Well, not that much shock or horror, it's pretty tame...

Anyway, the SFW half first, for those of you with delicate sensibilities or who are surrounded by folk with delicate sensibilities:




Just a bunch of quite uninteresting studies.

Aaaaand the NSFW half:( The children! Won't someone please think of the children! )

And for those of you who wish to see the two halves together, follow the clicky link at your peril.

I've been sleepy and sluggish all week, so the sketching got somewhat neglected and I doodled a bunch of random flowers instead. Drawing Rarebird again; I really, really need to sort out proportions of head-to-body, I always make my heads too big :(