An alien, in perspective, eating all of his Dad's lunch pasta

This was a special request.

Shopkeeper

Ugh. I'm secretly very proud of how this top one turned out. It's a robot shopkeeper, selling goodies to adventurers. "Hail!", he calls out as you enter his shop. He's got some knives, grenades, boxes of ammunition (even though you can't really tell that's what it is) and a gun. Let me tell you, that gun was awful to draw in perspective and as a result is not going to be ergonomic and comfortable to hold. I don't know what he's charging for it, but you're probably better off going to a different store to buy your firearms to fight the villains. There's also a totally unrelated assassin holding a grenade launcher having a phone call. He's busy.

This next guy fired off a buncha round from his shotgun. He's sizing things up before moving on to blast more aliens. Also a guy firing like a maniac.

Oh, and since you scrolled all the way down here to read my words, I'll talk to you about anime. Friday night a buddy of mine recommended  FLCL to me. I'd heard about it, but never seen it. It's only six episodes.

I watched it.

I loved it, and will watch it again soon. It's off the wall and doesn't look like butt, like most anime does. So yeah, it's awesome. Loved it. 

Grenade Cookin' 2: In For a [trick or] Treat

Murtcurf credited me for his most recent post over here, so I do this in exchange: might noodle on this a little more, it doesn't feel done. But I have too much to do right nao

It's late and I'm tired.

 This next one has a guy saying "Action." Or maybe his shoulder is saying that. I want to use the guy in the banner for the website, we're due for an update, aren't we?

I've been listening to my favorite band Protest the Hero's new CD, Volition. It was supposed to release on the 29th, but it leaked on the 16th and the band sent everybody who helped fund the CD on indiegogo an e-mail with download links saying that since the CD leaked they'd rather have everyone listening to the best quality. There's some good stuff, but the last track on the album, "Skies" is totally amazing. The first time I heard the chorus (which is weird for Protest; their songwriting is bizarre and typically chorus-less) I was blown away. Great song, great album. Favorite band. Nice work, guys. The song isn't about a hideous orc-looking mutant, but I was listening to Skies as I drew it and it subconsciously got onto the paper.

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.

Okay, here's some perspective stuff.

I just drew this for you! Just kidding, I drew it for me. But I'll let you look, if you promise to be good.

Perspective is all I care about.

...But I'm not uploading anything really today. It's kind of awkward, you see?

There's an alarming amount of similarity in some of my faces. 

Always room to grow, nowhere to go but up.

Morning practice

Studies in perspective

It's like there are pieces of the fundamentals I'm missing. I'm working through some thing and it's hard to figure it out.

I'm experimenting with the idea that elements closest are darker. I'm angry at how the guy in the bottom left (pointing a firearm of some sort) turned out.

I like the little guy on the right here with the antenna. It would be cool to polish that up.

 Just examples of what I've been doing nonstop. Just puzzling.

Gnomon, etc

Here are some thumbs from today. My fingers are cold now and it's uncomfortable to type.

Doing more Gnomon stuff, this time with Feng. It looks like it came from the early 00's, though. Ha! Feng, you sly time traveler, you!

Perspective is interesting to study. I have a lot to work on and plenty of things to practice. Nowhere to go but up. It's exciting.

I tried not to have a title, but it just dumped all the text I typed in the post into the title bar and it looked hideous.

I'm listening to Amon Amarth. 

See them gathered on the plains now

See an army strong and vast

As long as one of us remains here

None of them will ever pass

I'm busy.

I went and checked out some Gnomon DVD's at school (We have a million. Seriously. I wanted to take a million more but I settled on 4) and I've been working my way through the first one. I don't know how long it is, but I've been at it for about 4 hours. Just basic perspective stuff... It's hurting my brain. A GOOD HURT. So there's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff going on right now. I want to be a gooder artist. Y'know?

I'm going back to try and finish this DVD. How can it take so long for me to finish it? Maybe if I weren't pausing and rewinding all the time? UHHHHHHHHHH

Sketch from my meeting at work.

Sorry for noposting. I was at my parents house for the weekend and I forgot my scanner and graphics tablet. But I have some fun things to show. Maybe.

Here's a sketch from today:

Oops

I was reading comics and I was like, "Okay, it's time to go to bed" and so I closed all my windows and saw that I had something opened in Photoshop. 

Oops.

I meant to finish it but apparently I got distracted at some point!?

Here's what I had:

Today is October!

Some studies done in 15 MINUTES: 

This is what your hand looks like when you throw a baseball:

Rockin' a fever :(: 4: IMMENSE HEADACHE AND STUPID BRUSH

I thought I'd be feeling better today, and I sort of do, I just have a horrendous headache and I can't remember when I last took advil and I've been givin the ol liver a run for her money and out of love for my dear, dear liver I'm abstaining from stuff again until tonight (when I'll try [prolly unsuccessfully, once again] to sleep).

So yeah, I'm saying I didn't do 15 minute stuff. Maybe I will tonight! Leave me alone! You guys, my head really, really hurts, and my eyes hurt and my throat hurts and my kneecaps ache and throb. Be nice!

Adam, you created a monster when you taught us how to make custom brushes last Thursday. I have every intention of abusing this knowledge (think Papyrus, Comic Sans, and Jokerman font!).

I made a stupid brush that says "BLAM" a lot. Ha! I think it's funny.

EDIT: I forgot to say... I posted something every day in the month of September! This is a first for me! Sometimes the number of posts equaled the number of days, but it's because I did extras. I really truly did it! But did I have anything meaningful to say? Ha!

Rockin' a fever :(: 3 -The End.

I'm tired of being sick. 

Here's a picture. 

But tomorrow, I'll probably have recovered and it's back to the ESPN sketchin'!

Rockin' a fever :(: 2 - Equally Miserable!

I would have worked on Don's assignment but I don't have the concentration to do such a thing. Learning art takes all mental faculties, and that's something I definitely don't possess at the moment. So just some scribbles. Turn my brain off and scribble. Shower, bed.

I was also going to reveal what that ghost-looking thing I posted recently was, but it's too late and I don't have time to finish it. I'll work on it tomorrow, go outside, get some fresh air, try not to freeze to death.

Rockin' a fever :(

This is all I can do.

I'm going back to bed.

It's gonna be a long day today...

So I'll have to post some doodles. I'll be going straight up to Salt Lake City after work.

 Also, what is this!? Any guesses? Stay tuned!

Well... Uh...

You just have to be spatially aware of everything at once,or things end up weird and the eyes... Oh, the eyes.

I erased the line coming through his mouth and some other stuff, but the original sketch is too insane. Ha! Tomorrow we'll do better!

Fifteen minutes, truth and lies

Hey.

So things went well today. A professor mentioned yesterday that I should do 15 minute sketches of heads and hands from magazines. So, here we go, reference courtesy of ESPN:

What happened to his chin?!

It was bothering me, so I just got rid of some of those lines, just because I had to know what it looked like normally (turns out, not much better):

This was a good experience. I just wanted to upload these before I get back to work, but even from one fifteen minute sketch I was noticing things I would do differently the next time around in terms of what is important to focus on and mapping everything out. 

Okay, bye.

IMMINENT CHANGE!

I'm going to be changing the content I upload for a while.

A teacher told me that I should work from magazines, drawing hands and head at 15 minutes each. Somebody mailed a sports magazine here a few weeks ago, and it's full of the stuff. So I'm going to be doing some of that. So be ready.

Here's some stuff to look at. I'm going to my concert soon. 

BONUS: Google Hangout n stuff

The fruits of my google hangout tonight:

Muddy values on this bottom one. It's a toughie.

GREEN

Bloodbath

Ready for another week.

The crab is so cute :D

I go to see my second favorite band Between the Buried and Me on Tuesday. I'm so excited. My goodness. It's a good week.

Meh

Dude at the bottom looks like he's from Gatchaman or something