Assassin!

I wasn't supposed to post until I fully rendered everything, but I want you to know I'm alive and there are more things I want to work on now (seriously, I loved some of this stuff but am waaaaaaayyyyyyy more excited about other things I have to show youuuu). So here's what I got right now. I have to go to bed, tomorrow is a running day.

Someday I'd like to flesh out some of these ideas into finished compositions so I can have a portfolio but it's time for sleep.

I don't know why I spelled "Assassin" like that.

I was really excited about this one, I may have to come back to it. But my "To finish" list gets too long...

This next one I actually rendered out quite a bit. But it looked like butt. I gave up and here you go. Those suit guys were draw different days. Their bodies are like exactly the same. I'm Mr. Generic Suit Man.

Kind of a hit-or-miss grab bag. I like how some of this stuff looks. I hate how other things look. But it was an exercise. MOVING ONNNNNNNNNNNNN

9/18 - 10/18: One Month Sketchbook!

I did it! The sketchbook I started on the 18th of September? I finished it today! I know you all didn't get to see as much as normal over the course of the last one, but trust me. It was for the best! I got a lot done, made many (good) mistakes. I feel like I grew so much during the last month. I just need to do paintings and 3D. Oh, and homework. Whoops! I think part of the reason I got sick this last week was from stress. I was so focused on my own artistic pursuits that I was neglecting important [?] school assignments. So everything kinda happened this last week and I couldn't take it and my body just decided we were done. 

I'm feeling more gooder today, but I'm not quite back to 100%. Anyway, here's some stuff from the last few pages. I'll also make my typical comment that I'd like to go back through and finish some of these, blah blah blah.

EDIT: How many times did I say "Last" on this post? Redundancy? Where is my editor? Anyway, I'm not changing it... Enjoy

Not sure what's going on with the guy on the right's torso, but I like his left arm (HIS left!).

2 Days in a Row!?

It's true.

Still feeling kind of sick. It's silly to me that these last two days I've been sick I've gotten more done than had I been in class. School's great, it just gets in the way of my education sometimes.

I have to go do some other homework, so I'll just leave these here...

Was just tinkering with this thing from yesterday:

Mushroom Jazz: Maladies, Misery!

Wellllll...

Today has been a bit of a bummer.

Yesterday, I started to feel a little bit ill. By the end of my last class I was just weak and uncomfortable. Today, I woke up at 6, and I slept well, and I wasn't sure if I was going to skip my run, but I figured I'd wear my sweatshirt so I wouldn't catch another cold to stack on top of whatever I had (Does it work that way? - Ed.), and my run wasn't too bad.

I went to work and started feeling feverish. I finished my shift and went home to prepare for class. 

I realized that I should probably bail so nobody else got sick and I've just been working on art ever since. I tried doing some painting earlier but it was just stiff and worthless. It was surprisingly warm outside, so I let the chickens out and sat in the grass and drew a little mushroom family living there, dripping snot into the yard. 

Let me show you what the mushrooms taught me. I might try to take some of these to a more finished state.

A warrior from the North! He has a neck ruff thing to keep his giraffe neck warm and there are mushrooms down in the corner.

Here's some other stuff from the week that I've had laying around.

Pumpkins

Since it's Halloween soon, I thought I'd post a picture of some orange pumpkins.

 I drew these today just for you!

"Pumpkins"

456' x 13'

2014

Red? Ask Me When I'm Not Asleep

Oh me, oh my.

It's gonna be a busy week. I have some homework to do, and it's kind of getting jammed into the little corners so I can try other things. Things like this:

Original Sketch:

MOM! I know you're peeved about his feet, cuz they're all little and tiny, but I was thinking he's like a crab guy, y'know? He has red armor and crab feet. So that's how I justify away the need to draw detailed feet. I feel like I lost some visual interest in the leg area from the sketch to the final (is it done? I have too much to do!), but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

A little update on the guy from last time, I think I might call it good unless I wake up tomorrow and absolutely have to fix something when I see it again (I'm looking away right now to make sure it doesn't happen):

A little thing. I drew a ton of stuff this weekend, and have so many ideas I'd like to push a little further lying all over my desktop. I tell myself I'm going to paint everything, but really, none of it's homework and I don't have time. So here's a pen n ink thing, but not Inktober. Just normal. So some brawler is going to brawl an opponent into submission and the ghost of his dead master hath appeared to guide him toward certain victory:

I have to finish my Gallery of Terror piece. My Flash assignments are killing me. I'm going in early tomorrow to sink three or four hours into my midterm, but I'd really like to work on some 3D stuff. I look at objects and take them apart in my mind, using Maya to reconstruct them into shapes. What tool would I use to get the curved edges? Where would I extrude? Would this work better to build from a single polygonal primitive, or should I start with several and combine them further down the line? I need to do that tomorrow night. I also need to re-teach myself how to UV a model. The default tools just aren't utilizing space effectively. Maybe I'll skip art history? Ugh!

A Brute

According to the ancient lore, the sword is "Cursed Blade Yankm'grer'g," which has to be one of the stupidest names ever

Inktober: Day -1

It's not even October yet, but I wanted to get in on this Inktober business for realz! JK, due to the new rules of this blog where I don't necessarily post every day, I won't be participating this year. You can bet that I'll be doing ink drawings as part of my standard training regimen, but I just won't be sharing them with all of you. Besides, I participated last year (Not really - Ed.). 

So here you go!

Heh. His left hand (the one holding the firearm? [And not practicing the gun safety you were flaunting a couple posts back? - Ed.)) is all wonky cuz I inked it on the bus. I was really excited about this sketch, you see, and couldn't wait for a more suitable drawing environment, so it's all messed up. 

Gallery of Terror, continued

Update on this. Still not sure if it's done, it's confusing with color, maybe I'll try to fix it. It's also showing up too dark here. Argh.

Robot!

Here is something I drew today, practicing art.

Original sketch:

We talked a whole bunch in class about using reference. Starting from today I'm gonna! It's just a pain, y'know? Like I'm all sitting in Art History, I can't focus on teacher, notes, doodles and reference. If I do reference, I'll tune out teacher. Argh. Decisions, decisions. I was also supposed to work on the alien space marine thing for Gallery of Terror tonight. Whoops! I guess I'll do it later. I was just really excited about this sketch.

I also finally broke down and bought a replacement water bottle today, I'm dying of dehydration. Kaitlin told me that as soon as I put it in the Amazon shopping cart I'd find the old one. We'll seeeeee!!!

I Forgot!

I finished my sketchbook last Thursday. Hurrah.

Here's a thing I drew today.

Just a simple post

Long time no see, here some stuff and some 3D stuff and stuff.

Too busy, school is busy, I have no time.

All works in progress unless otherwise noted. 

I May Go Blind: The Strain is Immense

My lady told me I'll go blind if I stare into the digital realms whilst my environs are darkened. I told her (or tried to, I'm looking at the text now and it was pretty cryptic) that I had to have the light off because the ceiling fan lights were way too bright and would throw light rays into my eyeballs and prevent me from working. Oh shoot, speaking of working, I was going to draw some bones for my anatomy and figure structure class. Blazes! Oh yeah! And I was going to work on the 3D thing I've been modeling. Blast! Oh my, I was also going to study art history and work on my flash homework! Blimey! Welllllll, I think this was more effective.

Have a look at what I got so far:

I used an M1 Garand as reference (Please tell me how to pronounce "Garand?"), I think it's just such a classy looking weapon. Notice the gun safety in practice here? That finger is off the trigger because he doesn't want to blow anything important to smithereens while he stands around and poses! I'm also a little embarrassed (by the way, "Embarrassed" has two "R"s and two "Ssss okay whatever punctuating/spelling that was a joke. It has two Arrs and two Esses, just a heads up) by the way that the drapery turned out... Those creases? Argh! I'll need to work out the kinks there.

And, as always, he's floating in space. Somebody draw that dude a background. Oh, you mean me? We'll see. Below is the original sketch. I scrapped the pose because it was frighteningly close to a sketch by a favorite artist of mine (Yeah, can't find a link to the sketch, but I have a link of the artist doing the sketch). I didn't have it in front of me but I came home and saw it and was like, "No, I'm no plagiarist!" And so the M1. 

I'm still alive: A work in progress, some doodles

I have to pack up and get going, but I just wanted to show you what I was working on for UVU's annual October art show, Gallery of Terror:

Here are some doodles I was tinkering with.

It's been really busy and crazy trying to schedule time to do art while school is going on. I have an anatomy and figure structure class which is adding to this stuff but everything else is very time consuming. I spent a couple hours yesterday working on 3D, but school as a whole is getting in the way of my artwork.

I might have another update this week. We'll see.

Hey, just a quick thing

I'm busy doing my best to work hard. Trying something different... Pencil and whatever.

Oh, I should have uploaded some of my figure drawrings! I blew it.

You can look at these if you want, some of my sketches from the last couple days.  I started rendering them and stuff but my eyes hurt and I'm going to bed. I'll finish these laters.

P.S. You'll be happy to hear that my sketchbook is a cornucopia of disgusting failure. It's marvelous. Mmmyes, marvelous. Simply marvelous