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Month: August 2014

Three-Dee Thursday #3: Dominion Storage

Posted on August 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

This one’s less an art project but still something I’m quite pleased to have designed and made.

John and I have been playing a lot of Dominion lately. We now own five of the sets – Intrigue, Seaside, Hinterlands, Dark Ages and Guilds.

These boxes take up a fair bit of space on our shelf!

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Due to the amount of space they take and how much fuss it can be to shuffle around all these boxes when we want to play, I decided to work out an alternative solution for storing all the game components.

Solution? Binders!

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Back in my Pokémon trading card days, whenever I was in a pinch and needed new storage for cards, my mum would make these sleeves out of ordinary A4 protector sleeves. They wouldn’t fit the Pokémon cards perfectly, but they would be good for sticking a bunch of duplicate cards in one slot, which most off-the-shelf card sleeve pages wouldn’t allow.

Multiple-cards-in-one-slot is exactly what I needed for Dominion, so I decided to make my own sleeves!

To seal the plastic together, I borrowed an old device of my mum’s – it’s a contraption with two heating elements that when pressed down heat plastic between them to melt the plastic and create a seal. It’s designed to seal up sandwich bags and the like, but also works on other plastics.

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I measured out the height of each card and made horizontal cuts along the sheet protector on the front of the sleeve. This gave me pockets for the cards. Then I sealed the sheets to make 9 pockets per sheet!

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For one sheet I sealed it in quarters – this way it can fit a larger stack of cards or even a stack of the mats used in Seaside

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But for other components I decided to use these zip-up sleeves.

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Finally I printed out some labels with each of the card names. If I did this over again I think I might try and match the label to look like the name section of the card, and put the sticker up at the top of each pocket.

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My first prototype used a normal document binder, but I was concerned that traveling with the cards would allow for cards to escape! So I got these zip-up binders instead. This way it keeps any potential escapees confined to safety.

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Posted in: Crafts | Tagged: board games, card games, dominion

TMBG Tuesday #3: Birds Fly

Posted on August 20, 2014 Leave a Comment

windshield

Just a quickie for today’s post. I started working on it pretty late and the rushed-ness shows.

Also it goes to show I’m just as bad at painting the interior of a car as I am at painting the exterior. Putting the steering wheel on the left felt a bit weird too!

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: birds fly, car, they might be giants, tmbg, watercolour

Not-Mega Monday

Posted on August 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

So I finally stopped procrastinating and started on more Megas for today’s post. And I drew a Mega Manectric I was pretty happy with.

And then I realised I’d made a rather large error.

Can you spot what it is?

manectricmistakes

If you compare this with the WIP of Tyranitar from last week you’ll notice that I’ve not laid down both strips of tape in the middle of the paper. My awesome Manectric sketch is completely misplaced! Luckily I realised before inking. You can see here that I’ve started to transpose the sketch further to the right, starting with Manectric’s snout. But as for getting finished art up today, wel’p, I don’t think it’s happening.

Oh well, there’s always next week!

Posted in: Watercolours, WIP | Tagged: houndoom, manectric, mega evolution, pokemon, watercolour

Simulacrum Sunday #3

Posted on August 17, 2014 Leave a Comment

So I was lazy and I spent most of the day playing Dominion but I did work on what was probably going to be my post on Thursday, but I didn’t get a change to draw any Diplomats in Hats but I do have some old from-life sketches I can use to cheat my way through today’s required post.

Here is my buddy Connell (you may remember him from his series of guest posts that he provided in Blaugust 2011). Although largely a Nintendo Fanboy I managed to capture evidence of him enjoying his new Sony Vita. I sketched him while we were at a house-warming party. I think pizza must have arrived before I was able to finish drawing his left arm.

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No progress made on Megas. Might wake up early and work on them while watching the VGC finals.

Posted in: Line Drawings | Tagged: friend, pen, portrait

Sketchbook Saturday #3

Posted on August 17, 2014 Leave a Comment

Posting this on Sunday. I know, I’m bad. I’ve not really made the time to arts this weekend, so I’m feeling a bit stressed that Mega Monday may not get a post.

Anyway, to Sketchbook Saturday. Here are some of the sketches that led into Friday’s drawing, and also some various critters that have turned up in my sketchbooks as of late.

sketch3  sketch2sketch1 lucariosketch5sketch4

Posted in: Watercolours, WIP | Tagged: chun li, critter, fan art, lucario, monster, sketch, street fighter, watercolour, wip

Fan-Art Friday #3: Street Fighter/Sailor Moon

Posted on August 15, 2014 Leave a Comment

bunheads

Alternative titles:
Street Moon
Sailor Fighter

I drew some girls with bun-hair thingies!

Posted in: Digital, Line Drawings | Tagged: chun li, crossover, fan art, sailor moon, street fighter

Three-Dee Thursdays #2: AVCon 2014 Trophies

Posted on August 14, 2014 Leave a Comment

This week I’m showing off the trophies I made at AVCon!

Once again, these were made of laser cut acrylic. The dragon design was done by design-team member Dima. I worked out the trophy design from that.

The overall look is simpler than last year’s – I had a bit less time to mess around with the designs.

Here’s the first prototype:

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And here are a bunch of completed trophies!

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This year I sent a bunch of the laser work off to be done by a local business. They were great to work however the cutting side of the acrylic seemed to pick up dust or discolouration or something. It was rather disappointing to find the finish on some of the trophies wasn’t as nice as I’d have liked. I also found out just how drastically the thickness of acrylic sheets can vary and how different laser cutters can have noticeably different kerf widths.

Posted in: Crafts | Tagged: avcon, dragon, fabbing, laser cutting, maker, trophy

Wheezing Wednesday #2

Posted on August 13, 2014 Leave a Comment

Yep, I suck at the accordion.

And what should I expect, being as I never practise the thing?

Anyway this week I just couldn’t coordinate left and right (even though the left is just an alternating bass pattern) so it’s another lame offering from me. Hey, maybe I can make this one song stretch out for the whole month.

Moonlight Densetsu: Melody. Piano Accordion. Sheet was posted last week if you want to play along.

I encourage you to just skip this and not even bother listening. It’s hardly good – I’m just putting it up to fulfill my posting quota for the month. Hey, at least Blaugust made me pull out and “practise” the accordion!

http://ale.chenonetta.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Densetsu.mp3
Posted in: Music | Tagged: accordion, recording, sailor moon

TMBG Tuesday #2: Hovering Sombrero

Posted on August 13, 2014 4 Comments

HoveringSombrero

Don’t be burdened by regrets or make
Your failures an obsession
Or become embittered or possessed by ruined hopes
Remember, when you take yourself for granted
Feel rejected and unwanted, know
You’re never just a hat
You’re never only just a hat, you know

I keep coming back to this song whenever I’m feeling down. It makes for a good mantra. But I also think that the passage I based this week’s painting off is just so pretty. I often wish this song were just a little bit longer.

Deciding to do this as an animation was a last-minute decision! Excuse the messiness.

Posted in: Uncategorized, Watercolours | Tagged: animation, clock, hovering sombrero, mink car, they might be giants, tmbg, watercolour

Mega Monday #2

Posted on August 11, 2014 Leave a Comment

Well I was hoping to get all of the Generation 2 Megas done for this week but unfortunately I only managed to finish Ampharos and Scizor (Heracross was actually done last week, as I paired it with Pinsir).

Scizor

Heracross

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My excuse for not posting Houndoom and Tyranitar is that I’ll be pairing them with Aggron and Manectric, respectively. Since they’re part of Gen 3 I’ll hopefully be able to share them with you next week! Here are some progress photos to prove that I’m not completely slack:

HoundoomWIP TyranitarWIP

Doing all this art this month has been awesome, but it’s also been pretty taxing. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get all of the Kalos Megas done during the month but worst come to worst I’ll just put a couple of Pokémon up each week and stretch out Mega Mondays past the end of Blaugust.

Posted in: Watercolours, WIP | Tagged: ampharos, heracross, houndoom, johto, mega, mega evolution, pokemon, scizor, tyranitar, watercolour
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