Working in Progresss

So I sorta painted this guy today. Now I need to figure out how to draw a background in there.

Well, I'll get to that later. I need a bit o Dark Souls today! ;)

Finished a Sketchbook! (2 Months)

Yeah, I got married last month! That's why it took two months. It was too dern busy! As an aside, Kaitlin designed and made her own dress. If you're curious, you can take a look over at her blog: https://banglestobells.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/wedding-dress-fancies/.

But yes! I just pulled these from the sketchbook stuff I did today. I'm actually not going to buy another one yet! That way I have no choice but to spend my art time painting one of these older things and practice that. Darn it! But Kaitlin pointed out that if I have a sketchbook I'll use it as a crutch and not force myself to do hard things, like paint everything. Okay!

Since the semester is also over today, I'm going to try to take a break and play some Dark Souls, since they finally removed Games for Windows Live and fixed it. My plans are to go through from scratch and get all the achievements on Steam. That'll take awhile, though. 

I'm outta heah!

My eyes!

I've been staring at my computer for awhile and my eyeballs hurt. I decided to start pushing myself on working toward more finished products. To get all achievements in Dark Souls 2 you need all the spells, and you can't get one of them without being 2nd tier in the Bell Keeper covenant. That means you have to kill at least thirty other players when they set foot into the belfries, and THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE ON NONSENSE LIKE THAT. So I kept my game idling while I drew. Every so often someone would invade a belfry, I'd be transported there to butcher them, and then come back. In between invasions I was doing thumbs. After a while I got bored and scanned everything in to Photoshop and colored stuff. I have a few more I want to develop, but ere's what I got so far:

From Friday.

Sorry I haven't been posting much. Finals, moving out, Dark Souls II, etc. It's been crazy. Here's what I did Friday, and should have more this afternoon.

Yoah!

It's me, your biggest fan.

Here's some of today's stuff (from The Sartorialist):

Also, Take Me Home, by Brother Ali.

Okay. Now I'm going to scan in the stuff from the other day...The stuff that didn't look so great?!

Perspective and fan art. LOL!

First up I got a sand worm from ARRAKIS! Joking, but not really. Then there's like a door to the dungeon. Reminds me of the entrance to The Depths in Dark Souls. Again, I'm doing tons more perspective noodling but I'm scared to upload... It's hard for me to get.

Next up we got a team of guys, just preparing to mess some bad guys up.

 Next it's some Hayao Miyazaki fan art with No Face. Ha! And a guy wearing a snapping turtle helmet. Turtles have shells, so their defensive value is high. So make equipment look like turtles. No Face doesn't give out gold nuggets in my fan art, he just gives out bombs and entire gold bars. So yeah, that would be nice. Can I also say how hard it is for me not to draw bullet casings pouring out of that gun? Any time I draw a gun, I feel obligated to have shells flying everywhere. Even if the character is reloading, shooting a revolver or not shooting at all. I read Kohta Hirano's Hellsing in high school and combined with Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun (my favorite comic ever, if I haven't mentioned that here) I was a bullet happy little boy. Lastly, if you read the word "Trigun" and thought, "Yeah, I love that anime!" do yourself a favor and read Trigun and Trigun Maximum. The anime cannot even begin to hold a candle to the comic. Seriously. Anime is wicked boring. Comic talks about wave phasing, deep space travel and other cool sci-fi garbage.