Things I've Noticed.

I got a forehead like a dinner table, looooool.

I told Tommy that I was going to do something a bit silly with today's portrait, but I was actually ONLY JOKING D: but then he took me seriously and said he'd do the same thing

SO THEN I HAD TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE

I kept moving my head. If I ever go back to Dr. Sketchy's, I am tipping the model so hard.

About a half hour, chillaxing before bed, listening to history podcasts while I work. Time for a new angle on this mirror, I think. Gotta stop giving people views all the way up my nose. Say hello, boogers!

Lololol.

New Year's res, remember this blog.

Trying to get better at painting, lately. I love doing 2D stylized art, but I've kind of ignored things like painting for awhile, so I'm trying to get back into it, especially because at work we've been having to do more realistic textures.

For starters, self portraits. I expect I will get very sick of looking at myself.

The first one, from yesterday:


The second one from today:


I'm trying to loosen up my brush strokes, because I have this tendency to smooth everything until it looks sort of cel shaded, while also being economical. Tomorrow I'm putting a time limit on these, because I sort of just painted until I had to take a potty break. I will also try to stop being slack jawed.


Oh my lord, Posemaniacs. I like to do at least ten minutes of 10-30 second drawings, just to loosen up a little before I start anything.



Ahaha... I love this character, I really do. I use her in a friend's tabletop game, as a female robot version of Sun Wukong. It's not really her fault, as she was commissioned by a rather silly man who wanted a little sex appeal for his martial arts school's advertisements on the telly, and instead got more than he bargained for with Hou-Zi, who is generally disrespectful, immature, exceedingly arrogant, selfish, and if she could, she'd fling her own poo. Used as brushpen practice.

Sharks and ladies

Oh man, recently I went with some friends to Dr. Sketchy's! Careful of that link, it's not... entirely safe for work. It's basically a place where artists can go and draw models that are far more interesting than the ones you typically get in school. It was actually the first time I've drawn a human from life in like... five years, so I was incredibly rusty, but I enjoyed myself.

These were my two favorites from the evening. I purposely went with a cartoonier style with these two pics, because the model was so cute and her outfits really seemed to lend themselves well to it.



... Yeah, I have nothing to say about that face to the left. I'm not sure what's going on there and I'm the one that drew it.



I do really want to go back to Dr. Sketchy's, but the problem is that it's always on a Monday night, when I typically want to get to bed early for the next day's work, and I live a good solid hour from Baltimore, driving.

Also, I am a tiny little suburbanite and Baltimore at night scares me a bit. Even when I went there with a group of friends, it was pretty scary. Then when we left Dr. Sketchy's, there was a POOL OF BLOOD on the sidewalk.

...

Seriously. A pool of blood. That area of Baltimore is supposed to be fairly safe, and a friend of mine who lives there said that sort of thing never happens. (I would sincerely hope not.) It makes me wish there was a similar sort of life drawing gathering in my area.

In less bloodied news, another friend of mine has been toiling away on a screenplay that he hopes to see animated on TV one day. It's an impressive bit of work, do go see it.

I'm really fond of the character named Naur, and did a fast concept for him:



On the right you can see what kinds of sharks and shapes I was generally thinking about, along with what I remembered of the character's reclusive personality and what would be appropriate for a simplified 2D character design that would not make the animator's wrists fall off in the deepest grips of carpal tunnel. I admit that it was my own wrists that I was thinking of, because some other friends of mine (I swear I am not trying to make myself sound popular) want to get started on animating it ourselves, even roughly. I partially want to do it to keep my hand in with 2D animation, since I've only done 3D lately, and partially because I really do hope he can pitch this to a network one day.

More art to come soon, I've been in a doodly mood lately.

Day ... what is it now, 5?

Whoops, forgetting to post things here! This one is actually two days old.



Hmm... think I'm less fond of this one than the others. It's a Peugeot 207, and I have no idea how they drive, but I want that car just because it's so gosh darn cute.

I'm working on some character designs for a Flash animation I want to do. Gotta remember to speedpaint -and- design!

I think snails are awesome.

You know what's hard to paint? ROCKS.

I should possibly work on rocks tomorrow. With the way I handled working on plants, don't be surprised if I end up posting a picture of a quarry.