tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29295767238830063472024-03-13T04:47:26.326-06:00Mind DumpZachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14594893608412698064noreply@blogger.comBlogger578125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929576723883006347.post-55906759505402421582016-08-07T09:27:00.000-06:002016-08-07T09:27:17.087-06:00The End: Moving On (Thank You!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Well... I think we're nearing the end of this blog's usefulness. With my final semester looming and real life after that, I really need to start getting my art out there in ways that people can find me. I'll continue on <a href="https://zachheckert.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> (which I've begun posting on!), and probably <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zachheckert/">Instagram</a>. If you have no interest following me to another platform, I completely understand- Thank you for being here while I've struggled and pushed to improve. </div>
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Here's a final pose and render on the character I've been working on. I'm still trying to figure out materials and textures, and I'd like to do a more exciting pose, but that will come soon!</div>
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Some materials and pre-pose.</div>
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This next was a progress shot on the character's hammer.</div>
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This is one of the things I'm working on next. He's a big punching punchmonster.</div>
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So there you go. Thank you for everything, and hope to see you soon.</div>
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Zachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14594893608412698064noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929576723883006347.post-63860675411324320282016-07-23T20:29:00.000-06:002016-08-07T09:32:46.658-06:00Independent Study Week 4: The Wire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Despite the remaining two weeks of independent study, it really feels like things are happening quickly. I started another character this week. It's coming along, but I'm still embarrassed by how it's looking, so you don't see it yet. Here's progress on the demon guy;</div>
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Kaitlin tells me his toes look like Cheetos. I feel like compared to the rest of him, his legs are lacking something. I can't decide if I want to do shoes or armor on his thighs. That will probably be decided this week, in addition to building him a war hammer. I also aim to have the other character in a presentable state.</div>
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I got together with some art friends yesterday and it was a really good time. We had great discussions about work and drawing and it really got me pumped. I drew some stuff in my sketchbook I didn't hate. Is the slump coming to an end? I certainly hope so.</div>
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Here's a thing I'd like to finish. Behold the Psychic King, a giant alien entity from beyond the edge of space hell-bent on enslaving humanity. We find our hero at the apex of his rocket jump, the climax of this duel: When he presses a button, his blade's turbine spools up and the boosterblade carves in twain all matter unfortunate enough to stand in its way. Wind whistling through his ears, he knows there's only chance to strike the vulnerable brain of his foe before losing his mind to the crushing mental influence of the King. He prays his timing is correct and pulls the trigger.</div>
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This next one is an edit by me. I drew it with a pen in my sketchbook as seen above, but I moved the jumper for the sake of the design. I'll probably go with this instead.</div>
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The rest of my sketchbook from yesterday:</div>
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There you go. I'm gonna do some cool stuff this week! Wish me luck.</div>
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Progress on the work in progress. I hope to have him armed for the next update, and maybe textured. That would be excellent!</div>
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I did a one-hour study from <a href="http://www.characterdesigns.com/2007-fenaissance-fair-costume-photos-part-02">this collection</a> of photographs. I wish I had the line work, because I felt it was much more spot on, but apparently I closed the document without saving, so this is all you get.</div>
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Finally, I have some sketchbook stuff I didn't hate from this week. I've noticed that I have to slog through about an hour of warmup nonsense before I start doing stuff I like. I need to make the time to squeeze in more sketchbook, since I'm not going to finish this one by tomorrow. I'm not even halfway there!</div>
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Hi. Today (Now yesterday) Kaitlin and I are going to a friend's wedding, so I took the day off. She'll be here to pick me up any minute, but I spent the morning scanning in some of the images from my figure drawing class. Honestly, I was a bit disappointed as I flipped through these. I remember doing some really killer stuff, but most of these weren't at all impressive.<br />
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Truthfully, I was also tired of scanning 5 images in the big (but not big enough) scanner here at school and then stitching them together. There's a few really nice gesture drawings I didn't upload and a couple other charcoal studies I didn't want to deal with. But whatever.</div>
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This was the final project. I did a pretty initial drawing and, in typical Zach fashion, ruined it when I tried to render it out. Probably my biggest frustration was the mess I made of her hand. I managed to salvage it to what you see here in the last 15 minutes, but this could have been the best drawing of my life. Maybe next time.</div>
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I love the poses with the chair. I noticed many of my classmates neglecting to use it, but it provides such a great measuring tool for getting things proportioned correctly.</div>
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That's all I have for today. My sketchbook is still struggling, but my demon-building is going well. Expect more of that soonish!</div>
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Zachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14594893608412698064noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929576723883006347.post-89311092723181033252016-07-11T08:19:00.000-06:002016-07-11T08:22:24.126-06:00Dark Times: Slump City<div style="text-align: center;">
It's been a busy couple weeks. I scanned probably 8 sketchbook pages for upload, but when I opened everything up to prepare them, they were't really good enough to put here. I'm just under halfway through my current sketchbook. I won't finish by the 18th (or 17th, I can't remember when I hit the month mark). So far, it's a bit of an embarrassment in there! I've been slumping pretty seriously in that department. I really want to push myself out of this soon.</div>
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In other news, independent study is going fine. Today marks the beginning of the 3rd week. The first week I spent working on a previously mentioned project for a client. Last week I finished the basic sculpt for my first character. This week I want to do a detail pass and extrude clothes and armor. It would be ideal to finish this guy so I could do a couple more, but this is going slower than I anticipated. Hopefully things pick up! Expect more of this guy soon, as well as stuff from the figure drawing class from first block.</div>
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Oh, as a sidenote, I'm using a great tutorial from <a href="https://gumroad.com/ikameka">Kurt Papstein's Gumroad</a>. Check him out <a href="http://www.artofkurt.com/latest">here</a>. He's great!</div>
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Now I have to go do homework until Kaitlin gets home! She's at a baby shower.</div>
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EDIT @ 5:40 PM: I just realized that his big punchy right arm doesn't seem to connect to his body properly. I didn't notice it until now! Also, his head design is kind of silly and I think lost the magic of the original sketch. I may have to revisit this one!</div>
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It's true. I've <i>FINALLY</i> got second block classes set up! Independent study is happening! This means I can drop a class Fall semester and still graduate. Won't that be nice? I'm hoping to take some of these sketches to a finished state and build them in ZBrush. If I came out of summer 2016 with 4 or 5 (or 3 or 2 or 1, let's be honest) finished characters that would be aces. Moving on!</div>
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Today is Thursday? A week from now my figure drawing class will be over! I've done some nice drawings and will scan those in to show you. I'm posting today because I finished a sketchbook, the last in my 3 pack. My new one has 100 pages compared to the Moleskine's 60 and is significantly bigger (9x12 inches vs 7.5x10). This larger size is what I typically use, but I'm concerned that after having filled 3 smaller ones I'll have a tough time finishing in a month. I had forgotten how massive 9x12 is!</div>
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In this first one we have the punching guy. Punching is a theme in my work, I think. It's great! I want to work on him a bit more, but we'll see. I seem to have a hard time finishing pieces...</div>
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Recently, I was going through some older stuff I had uploaded to this blog (circa 2013). It's <i>terrible</i>! I'm shocked by what I thought was viable upload material. So much of what's on here from that time is basically scribbles. It's nice to see that I've improved, especially when it can be difficult to feel that improvement in my regular day-to-day. </div>
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I have to go to bed, but here's stuff I've sketched on the bus and between figure drawing poses in class. I haven't done 3D for weeks and am still working on getting my second independent study squared away. Glancing at these again, I feel like I missed something. I'll have to go look. There's two weeks left before 2nd block begins. </div>
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Also, I can't stop listening to <a href="https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dasein"><i>Dasein</i> by First Fragment</a>. If you're into deathmetal, give it a listen.</div>
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Zachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14594893608412698064noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929576723883006347.post-41971350057948662082016-05-22T11:50:00.000-06:002016-05-22T11:50:03.914-06:00Sketchbook Dregs<div style="text-align: center;">
We've almost got the summer's second block scheduling woes squared away, which I thought would be nice, but it's turned out to be the least of my worries.</div>
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The figure drawing class has been a frightening nightmare. We had an assignment due this week and I spent 8-10 hours struggling to complete it on time. Because of this I had no choice but to get behind on sketchbook. I spent most of my day yesterday and a few hours this morning catching up! It's nice to finally be where I should, but I'm concerned the next assignment will throw a wrench into things again. </div>
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Here's the last of the sketchbook I was talking about last time. This new sketchbook is off to a rough start, which I'm actually okay with because I had a really nice couple weeks. I'll get it back.</div>
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Well, I figured out my class schedule... Kinda. I'll be doing independent study with a couple teachers during the second block to meet the credit requirements since the blessed 3D portfolio class <i>didn't carry</i>. Even if it had carried I couldn't take it anyway because figure drawing is at the same time. Scheduling woes, scheduling woes.</div>
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Today is just a sketchbook dump, since I'll be finishing my sketchbook today. There's only a few pages left, I'll have taken exactly a month to finish it! I haven't worked on my 3D guy for days and days. I'm almost done UV mapping, but Perry's figure drawing class has been a nightmare. I should be working on stuff for his class right this moment, but I needed to do a quick blog post. I aim to have the 3D character UV mapped by the next time I post. I need to find a sliver of time to take care of the rest of that.</div>
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Hello! I'm starting summer school tomorrow! I <i>think.</i> I need 19 credits to graduate this December and I've ever so carefully built a schedule that meets that demand. Unfortunately, one of these essential classes didn't carry, so I'm 3 credits short. The art department isn't offering anything I can take, the much anticipated Zbrush/portfolio building class has a time conflict with figure drawing, and I appear to be locked out from digital media's upper division. I'm going in tomorrow to knock heads together and make them fix it. I'll be quite put out if I have to stay an extra semester to take a single class. Oh me oh my.</div>
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I was talking to my friend Samuel and he suggested I post what I had so far from my current 3D project. It should look familiar to those who saw what I posted last time...</div>
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This is a 1 hour study from a girl I found on <a href="http://melmade.blogspot.com/">Mel Milton</a>'s Pinterest page.</div>
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Sketchbook has felt weak to me the last couple weeks, but here's some scribbles I didn't loathe:</div>
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Hoping to have the rest of my seams drawn up and uv's mapped on the 3D guy next time I post. It would be ideal to have textures in, too, but I'm not gonna get too greedy!</div>
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You guys, everyone <i>hates</i> my portfolio site! At the time of this writing there have only been 550 views. Nauseating! I need to draw/add pictures of sexy ladies or something, yes? No, I only draw deformed men, semi-cute monsters, and truckloads of killin' tools. But I just need cool portfolio stuff to draw in the masses, which is something I'm working on. I actually have 2 things I'd consider portfolio-y in this post. And then there's those coupla weapons from the last few posts. What else, what else. Oh, I'm still waiting for the Summer class to appear online, that should generate some portfolio. After that I'll set up Artstation and get back to Instagram and Twitter. I just feel obligated to manage that stuff and respond and communicate! I respond to <i>EVERY</i> comment on this blog, and I'd have to do the same elsewhere! That's a lot of strain added to my feeble grey matter. I'm sorry, I'm rambling. I have to go to the bathroom. Also- I'm not sure I mentioned this last time, but I <i>did</i> add a link to the portfolio site on the right hand side, under my profile picture (mobile device users- I'm not sure where you can find that if you can't see it. I'll look into it).</div>
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Here's a guy I added some polish to. I'm finally pursuing my lifelong goal to finish something I started. You can see how this began life <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_H_mB-oaGdWCMznLHezbnBQL__ttv7oq8CnfBblESS0aM_C7bpQ4yedrwKYCie6RPljZUpGxhvIa6zVxQquaE7NNoI5OEmwpdRPfriCP8ZKhL3dGtEhXFhUIiBGqSETdCr1nnH4pRPCs/s1600/02-16-2016c.jpg">in this sketch</a>.</div>
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This next brute is from last time.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwNw0PJ14sKwDn2Div5vDAChvextUQNC6wNmEwvVvG3FdmyPIWda5-YBnIZCFhVp3qYA9FSEE1DI1rjH0psfuDnHI4_sqW3_m_odjij4oBOkwzKCAPZMLHeOOb8oqm6z5ov4qSDN_2L0/s1600/04122016a.jpg"> Remember this</a>? I painted him all up and gave him scary teeth. The better to eat you with, my dear.</div>
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Then I've got some sketches from my new sketchbook. I was happy about the guy in the upper right because Kaitlin said he looked good. Also, a guy with a ridiculous beard.</div>
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I threw together that guy with the horn from the last image in Blender and painted him up real quick. I got cranky because I couldn't hide my hideous geometry with a nice texture. This was more practice/prep for my next thing than anything else. It's not quite as stylized, which I don't like, but hopefully I'll be able to get closer to my initial sketch next time. I don't know that I'll get around to that 3D guy I've been talking about for the last few posts. I have something else I like more that I want to start on. If I'm going to be dumping time into a model, it will be that one. I'm hoping to have that modeled by the next post.</div>
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Here's the last of my current sketchbook, going to start a new one today. Hoping to also draft out a prop and start modeling a character. Maybe I'm an idiot for never realizing this, but it's not just painting that can benefit from working large to small, general to detailed. I think this approach works well when modeling in 3D, too. I've been looking at past posts searching for a character I want to model and invariably there's a complication that would make it difficult to build. I think I'm getting stressed by the micro level before really looking at and approaching the macro. All complicated shapes started life as basic primitives and there's no need to bite off more than you can chew! So while I still intend to finish the character I started a couple posts ago (I started re-UV-mapping it yesterday, actually) I want to start another one (probably the "SLEEVE" guy from the first picture here) and a non-swordy prop.</div>
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Hey! Long time no see. It's been since MARCH 20TH 2016! So much has happened since then- Kaitlin had a birthday, I had strep throat, I registered for Summer <i>and</i> Fall classes (the last time ever?!), we finally saw Star Wars (which I liked a lot!), Dark Souls III came out (which I can't afford/play), etc. Life has been busy.<br />
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I've been putting this post off for weeks because I promised you that I'd finish painting that character from last time. I actually started but was having a very difficult time getting it to look how I wanted. It could have been I was painting with only the vaguest sense of color scheme. With my rudimentary feel for color, it was certain death. I also need to uv it again before painting, just another step to worry about. I want to complete it, but I was sad that I'd been neglecting my blog for weeks.</div>
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A couple weeks ago, I was playing with a custom action in Photoshop that was feebly attempting to be the mirror mode that Photoshop <i>still</i> lacks and I came up with the sword sketch this model was based on. I finally finished painting it today, so here it is! There are a couple spots that could use some polish, so maybe I'll revisit it. The top two views were rendered with perspective present, so I included a third view with no perspective (flat from the side). 978 tris, 1024x1024 diffuse map.</div>
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This next one has a cool sword I'd like to model and a character with a flaming head I'd like to model. I'm saving him for a summer project. Also, that really ugly guy in the bottom left!? It's depressing.</div>
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After I put the above 2 collages together, I've been on a roll. By the way, when I say that I'm not tooting my own horn, it's more a description of how I feel when I draw. Drawing while slumping is a frustrating thing to do, and with these next ones I just felt really good about everything. On this first one, I really like the monster at the top.</div>
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That's all I got! Hopefully next time I've got that character finished, but if not there will be more 3D. I really need to branch out from bladed weapons when it comes to props! Treasure chests, potted plants, braziers, etc.</div>
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I finished a sketchbook over the weekend and decided to post what I have. I'm trying to paint a character in Blender but it's been an insane week. I got him all UV'd, I just have to finish the dang thing. But since I'm starting a new sketchbook I thought I'd post the completed character (FOR REALS) with my next collection of sketch pages. I will not post again until that point!<br />
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Hi! This post is so long in coming because I got wrapped up in making a sword:</div>
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I just snapped a screenshot because I deleted the camera and didn't have time how to figure out how to light it and render it properly. Modeled in Blender, 512 diffuse, painted in Photoshop. I don't know the rest of the information (polycount, etc). I don't even know where to look to find it, but I guess it could be solved with a quick Googling. Maybe next prop. Probably more bladed weapons until I'm more familiar with Blender.</div>
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So yeah, in the end I did change my major on Tuesday. I'll be getting a bachelor's in science with an emphasis in arts and visual communications and an associate's in associated sciences. I think. It's a huge mouthful and I'm still unclear. I'll graduate this Fall, but I'm being cautiously optimistic until it's over and done with. I was planning a pretty grueling Summer of training but I guess I have to take classes now. Hopefully, they too will gruel me.</div>
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I've noticed I seem to be slanting the same angle every time. I think I have some excellent bad habits that enable me to lock angles into the same spot every time. I need to break this. Everything is slanting the same direction. And in this first sketch, one of the bald guys and the bottom-left person-monster appear to even have the same collar on their coat. Freaky!</div>
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This is a character turnaround I hope to model in 3D sometime down the line. It's kind of stupid, based on a doodle I did in my notebook during a call at work.</div>
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I removed the Twitter and Instagram apps from my phone because I found myself sitting on the toilet for like 20 minutes. That's okay to do with a good book but not with social media. I'm concerned about all that stuff- It's weird that we feel like we're accomplishing something as we scroll and scroll and scroll down an unlimited wall of information. I don't think I'll be avoiding them forever because I think they can be great networking tools (and I'm not sure Twitter will survive the month!), but for now I feel like cold, hard practice is a commodity too valuable to surrender to a frivolity like endless internet perusal.</div>
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We may have found a way to complete school this fall. More on that when I know.</div>
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I just found out a local library is having an art contest. Maybe it would be fun to enter? I guess I'll go get started after I make this post! The deadline is the 29th, so I'd better get crackin'!</div>
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This first montage is sketchbook stuff. The pen was one of the last pages of that Moleskine sketchbook I've been jawin' about since early January. It held together pretty well. I'm still not sold on it, but my little sister bought me a nice hardcover one and I must say I'm liking it so far. It's bigger and hardbound and the paper fits perfectly into my scanner. I wouldn't say I'm a convert yet, but the paper is very nice to draw on. The blue pencil were from the busride home today. The first 5 or so pages in this new one are disastrous. I feel like I may be slumping somethin' fierce as far as that's concerned.</div>
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I doodled this next one out a bit before bedtime late last week. It was a nice decompression sketch and I thought it didn't turn out half bad. I didn't use reference, so I basically put shadows wherever I wanted. I need to work on that.</div>
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I lunch sketch from today. I <i>did</i> have a reference for the lights/shadows, but it wasn't very helpful. I was too lazy to find something that would have served me better.</div>
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Kaitlin is going on a business trip Thursday, I think this will be the longest we've been apart since we got married! Everyone knows when you're alone in your bedroom that's when all the monsters come for you. </div>
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Hello! I'm here to post pictures I drew today. I really need to do some 3D but I'm moments away from finishing my sketchbook and I'm just trying to get rid of the last coupla pages!</div>
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I may try to continue adding visual interest to this first one, but I like how it looks right now! He's like a cyborg warrior guy. I used reference for this (my own arms and quadriceps). There's a picture of me at the bottom of this post, you can see for yourself.</div>
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I showed Kaitlin this guy as I was drawing him and she suggested I put him in an environment, a scene. So I did! Eheheheheh! I excel at being an obnoxious husband.</div>
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This is a picture Kaitlin took of me earlier this week when we were celebrating my birthday. We walked to the dollar theater to see <i>The Good Dinosaur</i>. I thought it was too sad for a birthday movie, but I like watching movies with my wife!</div>
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Today I am 26 years old. It feels weird to type that. The title of this post has a 5000 in it because that's the goal I'm setting for myself. Years, you see. I figure I'll have gotten fairly good at art and played through all the games in <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000644658/games/?tab=all">my Steam library</a> by then. Probably not all because some are not games I'd actually play, but I'd like to play a lot of 'em. Hopefully Kaitlin decides to live to be 5000 with me or I'll be lonely and sad. She is the best wife.</div>
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Hey! I'm here posting again this week. I, uh, don't really have anything finished, but I'm planning on finishing at least one of these things. I'm posting to become accountable. I don't know if it will work, but it's worth a shot. </div>
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I've been super busy lately. I'm working on a couple projects with friends and I'm also trying to work on personal stuff, too. I should probably direct my energy into those particular assignments (and perhaps homework even before <i>that) </i>but I'm not!</div>
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Here's some sketchbook stuff from the last couple days. Really it was just from Thursday, I won't lie to you.</div>
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This guy started from a hideous sketch (which I can't seem to find, maybe I'll go dig through the billion emails in my trash, hold on. Ah. Found it.) I've included the sketch beneath. Anyway, last post I included that one guy's head? It just flowed out in like half an hour. I thought it would be simple so I just picked a sketch I was feeling good about and started going to town on it. This is what I have so far, but I'm hating it, honestly. I get so clunky and stiff and lose the magic when I try and polish stuff up. I think this might have potential but it's going to take some serious willpower to try and figure out how to be loose and fun and hip and cool and still polish this off. This really doesn't feel like me right now. I think the bit that exemplifies this the most is the elbow of his right arm (our left). In the original, it's more stylized and pointy and fun. I seem to have lost that. I tend to drift too far towards "Serious and realistic" when trying to finish. Gotta find a workflow that allows me to avoid that.</div>
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I thing I doodled out a couple nights ago. I want to add some grunge and damage and stuff before I call it done. Also, it doesn't appear to have any weapons on it currently, which many (i.e. me) would view as inappropriate.</div>
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Kaitlin and I make goals for the new year and I take them ridiculously seriously. I come up with a strict and insane plan for what I want and set a couple goals to do that. I can't do more than 3 or 4 simple goals because my minimalist mind is immediately overwhelmed and I roll and weep in a puddle of tears, but I try to make those few goals goodins.</div>
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The moment Steam told me that <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/367500/">Dragon's Dogma</a> was available for pre-purchase on PC back in November, I bought it and anxiously awaited mid-January for its release. Videogames and I have a tumultuous history and for the last few years I've been extremely cautious with them so I can focus on art and more important things, but it's a game I knew a lot about and was keenly interested in experiencing.</div>
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I made an exception and put "Play Dragon's Dogma" on my list of goals for 2016 so I wouldn't feel guilty for gluttonously gorging my brains out on it. Kaitlin sagely pointed out that such a goal probably wouldn't stretch me too much and might actually be <i>counter</i>-productive, but allowed me to leave it on my list.</div>
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I realized over the weekend that I had wasted some serious time on something pretty trivial. With technology there to support us in everything we do, it's fascinating that we insist on using it to be lazy blobs. I haven't finished the game and I'd really like to, so I'll allow myself to play for a couple hours on Saturday mornings while Kaitlin sleeps in, since taking a break every once in awhile is important. But that's all.</div>
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It's interesting to see how a few weeks without strenuous exercise of my art muscles makes me cranky and unhappy. The moral of the story? Do more art? I don't know.<br />
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Credit: I did a study on <i><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/575334921126065656/">this</a></i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Toppi">Sergio Toppi</a> on this top one.</div>
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Credit: <a href="http://evanerichards.com/">Evan Richards</a> (sometimes NSFW) for <a href="http://evanerichards.com/wp-content/gallery/birdman/Birdman011.jpg">his study</a> of the cinematography of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdman_(film)">Birdman</a>, which looks cool but I've never seen.</div>
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Zachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14594893608412698064noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929576723883006347.post-63079081274897230582016-01-28T09:31:00.000-07:002016-02-18T19:18:43.894-07:00Special Anniversary Post: 3rd Year - Portfolio Site Is Live!<div style="text-align: center;">
Whoa, it's hard to think that this blog has been part of my life for 3 years now. It's gone through several changes in that time, most notably the amount of posts per day/week/month. I can only hope the slightly different approach to posting has led to an increase in quality overall. Since I haven't posted in awhile, I'll treat this as a normal blog post and then proceed with the standard yearly review. </div>
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<b>First and foremost</b>, I have to tell you the secret I've been whispering about for the last few posts. I decided to stop stalling and launch my portfolio site. I've been working on this for several months and will be switching the current images for more appropriate finished compositions as they happen, but I think it's time to stop messing around and let it go live! Click here to visit <a href="http://zachheckert.com/">zachheckert.com</a>.</div>
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Some of these are older pieces that will be getting some attention since I've learned some things since they were started. Those will be swapped out as they're improved upon. I have other works in progress that I'm trying to finish up. I've had kind of a rough start on doing artwork this year, despite my new year's resolutions. There should also be an increase in 3D work soon, too. I'll still post here, but I'll try to collect the best stuff I have over there.<br />
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I'm too lazy to go back and see if I talked about it last post, but my aunt and uncle gave me a card to Utrecht for Christmas. I bought some fancy Polychromos pencils (y'know, I'm thinking I talked about this last post after all, but just humor me) and a Moleskine notebook. They make some good drawings, but a downside I've found is that since it's not spiral-bound, it's difficult to scan stuff. I draw all over the page and am <i>constantly</i> getting into the spine, making that part horrible to scan. I really like the materials it's made of, but it's a bit too soon to tell if it will fall apart before I finish it like the cheap ones I normally draw on. Here's a handful of stuff from the first half or so.</div>
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This first one? There's a guy with that big gun that says C-42. I'm modeling that in 3D at the moment!<br />
And the guy on the bottom with luscious hair is wayyyy stupid. What was I thinking and shame on me.<br />
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What the heck, this guy's stupid arm. It's even labeled "My stupid arm." What was I thinking and shame on me. Also, the guy on the furthest right only got into this image because I liked his hand.</div>
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My anatomy is disastrous. I've basically not been working from reference <i>at all</i>. It shows! The guy on the bottom left (who was also posted to Instagram) has noodle arms, and the guy above him has the opposite of noodle arms (big meaty meat arms). I don't know how it works. What was I thinking?! Shame on me!</div>
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I have no <i>current</i> issues with this one, except for the space scooter is facing to the right which I find irksome for some reason. I may become upset by these characters later.</div>
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That does it for recent stuff. Here's the year in review, with stats from last year in parentheses:</div>
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Total posts: 556 (510)</div>
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Total page views: 32,510 (24295)</div>
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Total comments: 1414 (1225)</div>
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Total followers: 30 (30) [Like last year, there's some weird numbers involved here. Google+ says I have 63 followers, but I don't think those people see or follow regularly.]</div>
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Total coolness improvement: 0%<br />
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<b>JANUARY</b><br />
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I picked this because the faces looked good. They mostly even resembled the reference I was using, which I felt was a big step forward. Nice!<br />
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<b>FEBRUARY</b><br />
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This one was competing against a sketchier sketch of the standard monster fare typically found on the blog. I picked this for diversity, to show that I'm capable of doing something more naturalistic. I also felt it showed growth over <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLlvEtw8oN7zDWTHUs4zADxADZvrYmKY-R1K6vTvyOGJKOegEhzXedfZPqTbWNzOoU1JKwq3rQNdhpT5C5LaAQTeuA2ItLHXRDa1ucFdGiIxi511F6v4YeSCTMZZvDiCneYf2k1kXLIE/s1600/March3.jpg">other faces I've attempted in the past</a>.<br />
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<b>MARCH</b><br />
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I like the guy in the upper right. His face and hair are what earned this image the right to be shown here. The guy with 3 eyes is cool too, I guess. His body doesn't really make any sense, but if you don't look down that far you'll be a-okay.<br />
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I think that the armore is the reason I chose this one. I like it. I also like the fish chainsaw sword.<br />
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<b>MAY</b><br />
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I chose this one because it was sorta-kinda-finished, even though some stuff needs work. That's fine. It's actually on a pile of stuff I need to improve.<br />
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<b>JUNE</b><br />
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This was another contested spot. I chose this because I really like the drawing. I feel like this character could go somewhere. His design is simple, but I'm into it!<br />
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<b>JULY</b><br />
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This was the final for my figure drawing class last summer. I put this one in to show, once again, that I'm capable of doing something outside of monsters blowing each other into gibs.<br />
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<b>AUGUST</b><br />
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This was a study from a film still. I like it because I only spent an hour and it was a definite improvement over the preceding study I did. I have fond memories of this one, even if it's not totally representative of the source material.<br />
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This one turned out pretty cool in general (in my opinion), but I like the guy with the ridiculously long arm and the sword and beard. His body is kind of funky but I feel like the musculature is believable-ish. I felt it showed progress over other stuff.<br />
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Some 3D. I like this mostly because of the arms, though perhaps not the hands. That might be the only reason I like it, actually. This one goes on the growing pile of "Tune up and get it onto the portfolio site" stuff.<br />
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<b>DECEMBER</b><br />
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This one was picked because I like that I did it in an afternoon. It gives me hope that I can get stuff finished quickly. I'm hoping it means that there will be more, despite the relatively slow pace of January.<br />
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So there you have it. Another year, another dollar(s). I won't lie, this has been kind of a frustrating month. I've felt a bit slumpy and have lacked motivation. I've got some plans for how to reverse this, though, so you should hopefully be seeing nice junk soon. Thanks for coming to my blog and looking at the stuff I draw. Even though I only know a couple of you, it's cool that you can all come and visit. Hopefully all this posting is helping you in some way, too.</div>
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Hi, everyone! I'm a busy boy! School started, I've been sick and not going to class, and work has been fine. Christmas was great, and, uh, I can't remember the things I was going to mention. Oh yeah, here's something I learned Monday. There were hiccups in my school schedule and I'll be graduating with my bachelor's degree in Gaming and Animation in Spring 2018, a <i>year</i> later than I planned. That will mean that it took just shy of 8 years to get a bachelor's degree. I think that whole four year thing is a bit of a myth, unless you just bang your head against whatever you knew you wanted to be when you grew up when you were 17 years old and do 18 credits a semester.</div>
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Anyway, it is what it is! I'll try to be positive and make the most of it. Peradventure I may be an artistic power house prior to my graduation. Anyway, school is probably okay. I'm not sure since I've been sick and missed two classes because I was desperately trying to recover. I spoke with teacher (he mysteriously taught<i> both </i>classes I was absent from) and he just said to read the syllabus (which I diligently tried to do today but the classes don't apparently exist online yet). That's all, no more school talk in this post UNLESS YOU REMIND ME PLEASE DON'T</div>
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So! Some exiting stuff this post! Here are some sketches. These are from yesterday and today and maybe Monday, I can't quite recall through my feverish haze. Maybe they're from last month. And the two leftmost characters seem too similar. Whatever</div>
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And my current project! It's a demon I've built in 3D, based loosely on an idiotic little doodle I found completely hilarious at the time and knew, "I must model this!" but in reality it was kind of a weak reference. It's UV'd and ready to be painted! I'll probably get to work on during my breaks tomorrow. And if you think this is dumb, I included an earlier attempt I did last month for laughs (with facial geometry straight out of the late 90's) beneath. I may be posting less, as per <a href="http://zachheckert.blogspot.com/2015/11/bizarre-friday-post-and-news-about.html">this manifesto</a>, but I've been working, honest!</div>
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Something else- My aunt and uncle gave me a gift card to Utrecht and I bought some really nice pencils (better than Prismacolor? Maybe. <a href="http://m54.blogspot.com/">My pal Rod</a> gave me one before and I used it until was a tiny nub) and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moleskine">Moleskine</a> sketchbook. Moleskine is all the rage, but when I can get as many pages for a third of price I'm hesitant. But I've always wanted </div>
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Last thing- that secret thing I've been whispering about will be unleashed upon you all on the 28th of this month, which is this blog's 3rd anniversary. It's basically ready (I haven't worked on it much since my last mention of it) but I'm lollygagging around. 28th is the day, come heck or high water.</div>
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Hi! It's been awhile, hasn't it? Finals are over, I passed all my classes (unless some horrible post-semester grading algorithm rears its head and destroys me), and I have a couple weeks to work on projects. </div>
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You'll remember that last time I mentioned that updates here would be happening as I finished work in order to force myself to get stuff done. I can't say that I've necessarily used my time the most effectively since my last post (I'm currently playing about an hour of videogames per day on average, which is too much right now), but I've gotten some things to a state I'm calling "Done!"</div>
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Also, I'm working on another semi-secret thing that I hope to share with you next time. It blossomed out of a school assignment. That's odd in itself, as most of you know, since I <i>despise</i> school and have a hard time jumping through hoops and being a student. But that's just about ready to be seen. Keep an eye out for that.</div>
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Here's what I've done:</div>
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This is kind of my finished version of <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX976JsR1Tux6MfZiif1AjAbmfbdOA1vadbFwB5nv7-NdHJiYnXMUaHSqrlCpg9-i_taOHQxq3TncBnnNzIoNkxa8Q1ajpt58j0RR6oa1b1YA8hA5QZrPakE-oIK1WvN_bfOSuZicJ7-Y/s1600/GATLING2.jpg">the guy from last time</a>. Below that, an earlier draft can be seen for further comparison.</div>
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This next one is nice because of the speed it happened. I scribbled it out and then sat down and painted it in a couple hours. Most of the time when I try to finish stuff I hit walls. Maybe I just really liked the sketch (which I included below for reference). Kaitlin asked me what the deal was with his hand, and I guess I didn't flesh it out too much. He has a thumb, but the rest of his hand is just for clobbering.</div>
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And I've been putting some of my sketchbook stuff together when I've had free time. This is in chronological order, with newest at the bottom.</div>
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So there ya go. It was a bitter longer than I would have liked to go between updates, but I think I have some cool stuff here. I've got a couple 3D projects to finish, the aforementioned semi-secret thingy, and a sketch to polish that might be biting off more than I can comfortably chew. I certainly have my work cut out for me as I work towards the next post. See you then!</div>
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