A Few Things

Hi! It's been awhile, hasn't it? Finals are over, I passed all my classes (unless some horrible post-semester grading algorithm rears its head and destroys me), and I have a couple weeks to work on projects. 

You'll remember that last time I mentioned that updates here would be happening as I finished work in order to force myself to get stuff done. I can't say that I've necessarily used my time the most effectively since my last post (I'm currently playing about an hour of videogames per day on average, which is too much right now), but I've gotten some things to a state I'm calling "Done!"

Also, I'm working on another semi-secret thing that I hope to share with you next time. It blossomed out of a school assignment. That's odd in itself, as most of you know, since I despise school and have a hard time jumping through hoops and being a student. But that's just about ready to be seen. Keep an eye out for that.

Here's what I've done:

This is kind of my finished version of the guy from last time. Below that, an earlier draft can be seen for further comparison.

This next one is nice because of the speed it happened. I scribbled it out and then sat down and painted it in a couple hours. Most of the time when I try to finish stuff I hit walls. Maybe I just really liked the sketch (which I included below for reference). Kaitlin asked me what the deal was with his hand, and I guess I didn't flesh it out too much. He has a thumb, but the rest of his hand is just for clobbering.

And I've been putting some of my sketchbook stuff together when I've had free time. This is in chronological order, with newest at the bottom.

So there ya go. It was a bitter longer than I would have liked to go between updates, but I think I have some cool stuff here. I've got a couple 3D projects to finish, the aforementioned semi-secret thingy, and a sketch to polish that might be biting off more than I can comfortably chew. I certainly have my work cut out for me as I work towards the next post. See you then!

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!

Finally. And sketchdump

We're finally moving along now. Ugh. I'm glad things are finally working out. I'm getting it!

Few more hours on this and I'll be good to go. I glanced at Facebook today, and saw that Diablo III has an ad with a Crusader on it, looked similar to my paladin here, they're stealing my thunder. BLIZZARD! You fiends! But the guy they had in the advertisement is wielding his mace left-handed, you'll almost never see lefties in pictures I draw.

Here's what I've got after today:

And some sketches. They're in blue pen. Richard would kill me if he knew I was doing this (in class he said something along the lines of, "What kind of an artist uses a blue pen!?"), but this darn blue pen is working well. It's a good one! I'm constantly pleased with the sketches it cranks out. These first ones are from last night...

The HELLBOW! DESTROY!

The Ponchoah

I'm calling this done.

Some other things I did today, would like to take further, etc

I censored that guy getting shot up in the bottom left hand corner. 

Bonus: The rest of the stuff

Other stuff from today. I had this other thing but it's too late, I don't even know

Tumbleweeds: Summer Goals Recap Week the Eleventh (111111th)

0%

MOVING ON:

Today is Monday, I posted an update to last week's Summer Goals drawing today because I was unable to draw anything that didn't make me want to throw up last night. But I did some fun things today:

I'm working this guy a little bit more. He will be the most fun! 

aaaaaaaaaaa

What's up?

Sometimes I wonder how frequently I give blog posts the same title. Ha!

Update on Frog Prince (first mentioned here):

Haha. So yeah, it's turning out exactly the opposite of what I was originally thinking. He's a nice Buddhist frog princeling.

Bus. That guy in the middle was talking so loud I could hear him through my headphones, which basically meant he was screaming at the top of his lungs.

Some dumb zombie stuff. But that guy's feet are so whimsical and ridiculous. Put some shoes on, you'll step on a rusty nail and get lockjaw

Went at it with the brush pen:

BONUS: Images from April 4th.

I forgot that I had the option to have some hours taken while still being paid, so I came home, unpacked, and scanned some stuff in. I'm currently fixing the post from April 5th, but I thought I'd do this too.

I was going through my archives (LOL!) and I found images from the 4th of April I missed. Here y'are.

Unnecessary roughness, Jake Parkour. Parker.

Today Jake Parker came to my class to lecture. I'd never met him before, but I've seen his stuff. He's a really cool guy. When I think about what it must be like to be an artist I think I was imagining Jake Parker. Thanks to Will for bringing him in to class. He gave me a bookmark. His lecture was awesome. I attached the notes I took to the bottom of the post for you to peruse. But first, what I drew during class:

I'd really like to go back with this idea and... Well, you know, 

Finish it. Do a finished composition and color it so it looks like it's properly lit and doesn't look like monkey vomit.

I censored this one because it seemed needlessly graphic today.

These guys are so cool! That's what they're thinking.

These are the notes I took on Jake's lecture. Since he told us all sorts of new secrets I blocked most of it out because it sounded like he was about to publish it to the internet. I won't reveal too much of it here... You'll just have to follow him on tumblr and youtube and stuff to see. I think you'll agree, it's awesome advice.

I'm going to bed. It's too late and I have a long day tomorrow.

It's a good'n

I'm tired and I have a lot to do tomorrow.

One of my professors told me that it's good to get the whole character on the page so I've been trying really hard to plan accordingly and get it all on there. 

Festive (and Guest)

I'm a little confused as to what exactly is going on here, but I did it in Christmas colors. The words that aren't mine are the product of my friend Lauren. Her stuff is way cuter than mine and has 99.9% less violence. She does graphic design and greeting cards and stuff, if you need that check her site out! Her work has been on this site before right HERE. Yep. 

My copy of Protest the Hero's album got here today. I mean, I've been listening to it since the 16th of October and since this is a super limited edition thing I'll never open it, but it's cool just the same. My name is in the credits for it! 

BONUS: "A Brutal Mêlée" and others (November 03 Deluxe Anthology Edition)

Hey, guys. I just found out that "A post may have at most 20 labels". So tons of stuff isn't getting labeled here! ARGH!

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.