[EVEN IF I NEVER OWNED GB ADVANCE]
I was not into games at the exact time. I have everything else even the bulky first generation GB!

Anyways after posting [THIS ARTICLE] on my two different styles and mentioning it on my [DEVIANT ART POST], I got some insightful replies and messages on it I just had to rant about it a little more. I mean, people paid MORE attention to my styles than the person who actually DRAWS them... WAY TO BE FAIL SELF!!! So to regain my rightful status of being THE artist I paid attention to the REAL differences between VF style and DM style.

First off I didn't explain clearly WHY VF style became my primary style. Answer is simple:

Because VF style is much more difficult to express expressions, it made me become more expressive when I'm in my sketching phase even if I'm drawing in DM style. Since it's what I draw initially, it just naturally became my default. Even if I've been practicing and developing DM style ever since I got interested in drawing. If the two styles were humans of the same sex... it would make one hell of a drama-tastic romance story.
Is my sketches always this colorful? YES. I usually use about minimum 3 layers of sketch before even considering inking. Because I color Vince's hair in flat black, I only need to know the general direction of the hair/air so I purposely left that out FYI.


Here's VF style Vince; all familiar and friendly(?)...



And I kid you not it's the same Vince, just in DM style. You don't see those band-aid eyebrows anywhere.

As you can see, DM style is MUCH more easier to draw facial expressions and angles just because of those stupid eye balls! Because of it I try to make everything more realistic and try to make the lines thinner accordingly. I just don't have to exaggerate features on this so the hair doesn't defy gravity (as obviously).

Now with the VF style, the lines are MUCH more bold and pronounced to fit the simplicity and lack of delicacy in the eyes. The white-out side against the black shadows needs to be placed a bit higher and curved more to express that joyful arrogance, and to really let the viewers know he's looking down at you, the lower eye lid must be drawn in or else he'll just look like he's facing straight forward. The chin/jaw line needs to be thicker for the shadow effect and eye shape needed to be modified and made larger for more impact. Without the actual eye the focal point becomes lost so I need to really make them stand out. To show he's tilting his head back a bit TO look down at the camera I ignore gravity and let the hair act like a movement/direction line. By making majority of the bangs flow towards a certain way it makes a subtle movement to the head that suggests it's titING back even if it's a still, and it naturally creates a eye flow towards the face/eye area. When really the hair SHOULD be flowing like it's in the DM style. Also the mouth is another area that needs to be exaggerated to show the EVIL in the smile. The emotions are expressed usually by the dilation of the pupil/iris and quite obviously VF style doesn't have the benefit. Facial wrinkles and creases are HIGHLY looked down upon human forms in art (the reason why I despise realistic 3D human models... unless you go Blizzard/Lucas quality you just don't have enough on faces... the one thing I absolutely DESPISED about FFVII Advent Children) but in VF style I am forced to use them for expressions and for age. In the story line of Verardi Famiglia he's mostly 21 ~ 23 range and because I make the eyes larger than it's supposed to be he looks younger automatically. To counter or buffer the effect I need to add wrinkles in places or else he'd look like late teens easily. I completely ignored this effect when I first using this style thus he looks WAY younger than he really was.

[IN THE END]
So here you are, the more OBVIOUS comparison and more in-depth description between the styles. It came out more like "how much thought and effort you need to put it when you don't have eye balls" description than anything else. When there is so much thought process involved, why haven't I noticed the pretty obvious differences you ask? Well, because I never draw a same character with different styles! Vince will stay in VF style, and other characters used in DM style, stays in DM except for maybe special occasions like these. But I do thank people who pointed out the differences for me to be curious enough to find them out my self.

Thank you for reading!

[MAIN TITLE IS A BIT MISLEADING]
Beware. Happy 13th!

[ORGANIZATION AND CLARIFICATION]
If anyone bothers to look on the tag list I have, I changed around things quite a bit. The reason for the sudden organizing is that I want to finally get into... routine. I think it'll help me with my future and I read a very insightful article on Behance Network about organization and how creativity driven people can use it for their benefit. I updated my profile too, for a constant notice but from now on:

"Records of World Damnation"
Sires Black's Online Journal

UPDATED EVERY TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
with random rants, findings, essays, personal reviews, comics and pieces of her life
all while trying to take over the world!

So I made sure the tags are all understandable and useful for a long time. If you find ANYTHING you want this grammar-stupid to write about, read more of, or interesting/funny things you find online, comment or message me ANY time. Thursdays are my reply to comments and message days so if you don't get a reply real soon the chances are I read them and waiting until the last minute to reply. I love reading comments so please do so without hesitation!

[VF STYLE vs DEMO STYLE]
Yes I finally named two of my main styles. FINALLY. From now on I'll reference them as these. Since today is a GREAT day to start my articles(?) I decided to cover a pretty essential part of my art career. I think I'm one of the rare artists to have two different styles used both at the same time (not including realistic) and used very randomly so I wanted to just rant about it here.

VF STYLE is taken from the title "Verardi Famiglia" since this style was first used and only used whithin this web comic. It eventually went beyond it's borders and finally became my default style. I was going to put a better title but I found out it was too late. Heavily influenced by Jamie Hewlett's "Gorillaz" style and Tim Burton characters, the eyes are colored pitch black or white. Without the distraction of the eyes, the expressions are purely dependant on how I express the images with facial movements, angles and colors. ( continue reading... )

[THE SEPARATE ENTITIES]
My good friend mentioned a good point; why not keeping a style and sticking to one?
I've been contemplating that ever since VF style was in effective. Hell I was even planning on not using the style out side of "Verardi Famiglia". It really does make my art unstable in it's own way and I won't have a set trade mark.
But I realized, both styles represents my self. If you don't know me in person you'd be amused how much fun I have with just arguing with my self and debate about things. I have two pretty polar opposite "sides" that likes different things. So embracing both styles is like embracing my self as it is. So I have finally made the decision to trash the possibility of picking one style to stick with. Also it CAN be a benefit to have different styles. Now, it's up to me to choose wisely which to use when. The hardest part!

[SO WHAT KIND OF EXCUSES DO YOU HAVE THIS TIME EH?]
Stop talking to me subject title.

Anywayz I am finally back after... a bit over three months? of my absence. In internet time I should be dead by now but here I am, hoping to be back into business with updates and hope to start posting regularly once again! But since I'm covering three whole months of full of holes, a lot of the entry's will be under LJ-cut. For reader's convenience (aren't I NICE?!) I ended up summarizing a bit for each section so if you'd like to read something that sparks your interest, I am more than honored :D

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[ESCAPE TO THE WILDERNESS]
With more people than I usually see every day! The irony! I enjoyed the little vacation beside a pretty lake. Sadly I was more excited to find a new show on DVD to watch... can't I get away from media for even a sec?!
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[ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE, AND LUCK COULD NEVER BE THIS SHITTY]
No. I know people have a LOT shittier luck than I do. But in MY world, when nature and coincidences tries so hard for me to not enter this animation contest was fascinating. Fascinatingly HORRIBLE.
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[PUBLISHER ISSUES ARE ALWAYS A DRAG WHEN TRYING TO GET A BOOK OUT]
So "The Odd One Out" is getting it's due date pushed back again and this time I'm just self publishing. Why the sudden change? What's my future plans?
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[BRAND NEW HEADER]
This is I think THE most useless bit of news on this entry. If you've seen my journal layout there's a big traffic billboard size customizable header and since summer is kinda over in my head I'm all ready for AUTUMN BABY!! So I know it's a tad too early but here's a Halloween image for the season. Stores already had f-ing CHRISTMAS things up on shelves months ago... I'd say I'm late.


Click to enlarge. Maybe, maybe... *sniff*
But see? I am too happy to go on about gloomy topics. It'll give me more things to write in the future LOL. I'm just happy to be back :D
BTW I had no idea what I should do on the 4th panel. So have some Vince.