BONUS: ALL DIGITAL

This was done entirely digitally. No sketchbook, which is different from how things normally go around here.

Who will win!?

Hideous monster or fat old swordsman!?

And something creepy.

Warm your hands by the fire.

BONUS: Tower

I was trying to figure out if it should be darker at the top or the bottom. Then I added some lighting effects, but it looked to fancy for such a quick sketch.

No Smoking

I was going to add more color, but WORK CALLS

Sarcasm and a hideous face

LOL!

That face kind of messed up.

11:13 Ay Em

There's a fat guy who looks like Harkonnen from Dune. Also some other random stuff. OFF TO WORKKKKKKK

There's not enough room to spell "Assault".

BONUS: Maya revival

I haven't touched Maya since Fall 2012.

Today was the day I downloaded Maya again and tried to pull that info out of my skull.

It was a long time ago... And the image shows it!

It was a huge pain in the butt! As I was going stuff was coming back to me. I think the texture is 256x256, the object is far too complicated geometrically than it needs to be and I literally just blorped paint over an auto uv-mapped texture. 

So it's ugly.

But even now, my brain is remembering things and realizing where I made things complicated and where I can improve. I did this without consulting any videos or tutorials. I think this isn't bad for over a year later and about an hour and a half.

(Edit at 7:23 P.M. So yeah, it was less than a year ago. That was slightly dramatic. But it's been awhile, okay?)

(Edit at 8:19 P.M. After an hour of painting a much higher quality texture I'm still frustrated... I appear to have become stuck at the same place I do when regularly painting something. It looked much better than the image posted here but it was still ugly. Hmm. I'm going to continue practicing my mesh-building and uv-mapping skills, but painting is still scary )

Went to the zoo yesterday.

I've recovered from my sister's wedding.

I was at the zoo yesterday with the UVU Illustration Club. I have some stuff that's cool, and some stuff that's not cool. 

I'm basically most proud of this muscular giraffe torso:

I may also need a better monitor in the near future... Looking at these I can see where I erased an issue on the giraffe. 

thief

My sister is getting married tomorrow. I have no time to do anything. But yeah, don't be angry if I don't get to posting tomorrow :(

Bus 8/6/13

Bus

Women are hard to draw. That's why I spend most of my time drawing hideous aberrations. But I was dewdlin' on this and I said to myself, "That kind of looks like a girl!" and I struggled to make it so:

The pose looks uncomfortably familiar and her left arm has all sorts of problems (in addition to all the other horrendous issues. But she's cool! Reminds me of Molly from Gibson's Neuromancer. I aim to get back in there and fix her up and paint her! That would be nice. But not now because I have to go to work.

Oh, and happy birthday, Mom.

Lightsaber belt.

Erica, I gave you four (4) lightsabers per hand. I thought it was appropriate.

Where 1 lightsaber is good, eight is fantastic. More = Better. 

BONUS: "It's my fingerless gloves"

Ah, Gong Fu. I had never seen it pronounced that way before. Then, maybe a month ago I read a book called The Gone-Away World and then I've seen it like that all over the place since then. I love martial arts. I did a lot of different sports as a kid (soccer, baseball, fencing, etc) but one I really wish I stuck with was karate. Come to think of it, I'm not sure why I stopped.

Anyway, I especially love fighting in comics. I love all the weird posing and insanity. Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM in Japan) is my favorite favorite favorite (Which I've mentioned here before, I think). I love all the ridiculous action (Alita's fight with Jashugan comes immediately to mind, but pretty much any fight scene is out of control) combined with sci-fi. It's a recipe for awesome. My favorite character is Caerula Sanguis. She's not even a thing until Last Order and focuses mostly on some sort of Chinese swordplay, but when she does Gong Fu she's the best, maybe better than Alita? I like to think so. 

So yeah. This picture. That pose is ridiculous and would probably get a 0/10 combat effectiveness, but sometimes it's not about practicality. 

Hope everybody has a nice week!

Painting woes

Hmm.

But it's soon after this I start blending stuff and everything just feels muddled. It's really, really hard for me to paint when I've never really been taught... I sort of have an end-ish result in mind, but don't know how to get there. I get scared of losing my lines and the detail they represent. Ha! It's the best!

Real quick now from me sketchbook

Off to work

I want to finish these...

But I'm outta time, I gotta go to work! I really do want to color this first one. 

Have a great day!

You don't have to look at the second one. Y'know, we're just off to a rough start.

I move out this month. Hopefully the ensuing chaos will provide compost of the highest quality on which my brain may gorge itself. 

Here's some stuff from last night. I don't have time to scan what I've done today.

Lately I've been painting over the line layer before I'm ready... It's really confusing and hideous. That's what happened here... I'll just upload the lines too and you're welcome to look at it. Or not. 

When I make this mistake enough maybe I'll stop doing it? Ha!

BONUS

Today I was gonna print out an assignment that's due for class tomorrow, so I went to this local printy place. While I was waiting my antiquated phone called 911 of its own accord. It does this all the time. I normally catch it before it has a chance to connect, but today I was too slow. I hung up, and promptly received a call back from a worried lady trying to see if I was all right. I was like, "Yeah, my phone is dumb sry sry sry".

It was embarrassing. But this is the price poor students must pay.

Maximum the Hormone finally came out with a new CD and it's awesome, was listening to it while I was doodlin'. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKkPIK3__Y#t=05m44s

It makes me lol!
If the link is down, search Utsukushikihitobitonouta, that's what I was trying to show you. 

On to the artwork(?)

 The deal with the dude in the upper right hand corner is that I don't care anymore.

Yeah, I was a naughty boy this month and didn't upload something every day. I'll try to be better! Since starting this blog I've certainly been better about drawing every day, which really is the goal. Just knowing people will come look at my stuff makes me work harder.

Thanks to everyone still coming here, especially my Russian friends! You guys frequently beat my number of viewers from the United States! 

Okay, I'm going to bed.