I Should Be Working On Other Things

Hi.

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to have a solid group of work I can use as a portfolio, including both 2D and 3D stuff. That's all well and good, but I need to actually finish something to make it happen. So I should be working on other things. I just drew some sketches today and thought I'd share with you. I may have to start a rule for myself where I can't post UNLESS I also have a finished piece to show. I hope it doesn't come to that! But that's actually a good rule. Maybe that's how it's gonna be? It's not like I shouldn't be finishing something every week. URGH.

Okay, I need to go draw/paint now.

Up first is some stuff for my head rendering class. I was glad they actually looked Asian. Success.

Next I have some jumping guys.

(This next one has some tangents but I was too lazy to fix it in Photoshop. I mean, just look at where his hand hits his foot! Jeepers)

Then I have some floating people.

Harry Potter fan art? I never thought I'd see the day! SHEESH. A Voldemort!

Then the rest of the stuff. Whatever.

Hi! To %))!!!

Hey! Sorry for my absence. You were aware, though, so don't act like I didn't tell you.

Kaitlin and I got married and we've been freakin'. Starting a household is hard work! We still need lots of little things (kitchen things, mostly) to have stuff go smoothly. We will survive, though.

Outside of a couple hours of homework on my honeymoon, I didn't draw at all that week. BUT! This week has been my first commuting down to UVU from Salt Lake City (Where we live now) and I've done some cool sketches with the large blocks of travel time. I'm excited for when things slow down so I pump some serious time into portfolio pieces. I'm at my parent's house right now using their internet and picking up my router so I can activate our internet when I get back up to SLC. Expect a number of posts this month. I don't remember where I said that I wanted to hit 500 posts by the end of the year, but it's still a thing for me and I'd really like to do that. 

...I just opened my box from Amazon to ensure it was the right router. It turns out that it wasn't a router at all, but a wedding gift from a friend. It will certainly aid us in making delicious meals, but it won't let me pay my bills online or update my blog. That seriously changes my plans for the next three days.

Okay. Back to freakin'!!

I left myself a note to mention She Who Mars the Skin of Gods. Protest the Hero is my favorite band, and since my mp3 player died a few weeks back I've been using an old iPod I had lying around. I've been at the mercy of my musical tastes from years ago, and thankfully there's some Protest on there to lessen the hurt. I really love this song, especially THIS PART to about 2:18.

This next one is me pushing comfort zones. It's a view of Salt Lake City from the North Temple Frontrunner stop.

I Get Married in a Couple Days

So I won't be around for a while. Not like it hasn't been a few days since my last update anyway... 

I need to go to sleep, I have a lot to do tomorrow. 

Here's some things.

I know they're not finished, but that's going to be one of my goals as soon as we settle in...

Portfolio pieces. 

Anyway, here's Barbarian by Electric Wizard.

I'm outta here.

It's Halloween! You win!

Congratulations, your prize is a head, floating in brine!

Where have I bean, you ask? I've been taking a break from my normal relentless sketchbook fillin' to do some homework. BONES! Just in time for Halloween! It is really too spooky for me, though... I didn't think you'd care to see but I uploaded anyway. Until this semester is over I'll be doing busy bee homework like this, please still love me and visit my blog! :(

Here's some other stupid stuff I had lying around. Do with it what you will.

Just a sketchdumppp

I'm way tired. I should be sleeping. I would have done more art stuff today but I was busy recording some stuff for a voicework demo reel. I'll post a link when I get it all done. But here's some stuff 

TL;DR: Summer Goals Recap Week the Twelfth (12th)

I may have failed completely again this week. I didn't do any research from the books I had set aside as part of my Summer goals, I didn't do any 3D and I didn't do any writing.

But this week didn't feel like a failure because I did something I really loved (click HERE to see, for those of you who didn't have a chance to see). 

Hopefully there will be more of that.

Here's what I'm currently painting: 

Here's what I want to paint this week:

Guy with obnoxious hair and face:

Legolas fan art ( I was sitting next to my fiance in church and she was like, "Is that Legolas?" so I tried it out and it worked):

Some guy who needs to have a body drawn:

SPIDERMAN

LOOK,  IT SAYS SPIDER MAN

PIGS

I didn't really have a good art day today. But I was feeling good about these pigs at least:

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?!

Face. Faeces

Everyone has the same face. I need to do more reference faces. And weird shaped heads. I think that would throw me fer a loop

I have a runny nose

I drew this a coupla days ago but never got around to posting it. I might add some more frames and animate it.

I drew this before I went to work today. I wanted to explore some different emotions besides hatred, bloodlust, and looking slyly to the left or right.

And a precious dragon and Buddha man.

ABSOLUTELY EXQUISITE!

I was in art history today (by the way, I finished the paper!) and my teacher used "ABSOLUTELY EXQUISITE!" to describe everything. She said it over and over again. So it jumped into a picture on accident... I need to do tutorials or something because I feel like I'm producing really repetetive stuff. Mix it up! I know I say that all the time... But it's close to finals week, so I can't behave myself. Whatevah.
Yeah, I just looked and I'm ending up with so many similar shapes/themes. Hmm. It's disturbing

EDIT: I removed an image so it could go sit on Pinterest instead. That way I won't have to look at this post and be haunted by the repetition

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.