I Can't Decide

It's funny.
I've been building websites now for a few weeks and my thoughts on many things have changed. I want to go through and fix all my labels, make them not be so utterly useless. I don't know how I'd do that, but I'm sure it would just be a quick Google search away. In fact, I'll go look right now...

Yeah, maybe it will take some time. Anyway, I feel comfortable fine-tuning a post in the HTML editor and other weird things now.

As far as the title of this post is concerned, I couldn't decide if it was worth it to throw color over this. I don't really have time to do that, but I think that it can be a simple thing. I'll try to do that next week. This week has been hectic. Anyway, here you go.

Also, Feed the Birds, from Mary Poppins. I know it's silly, but I really,really like this song. It's quite different from my normal musical choices, but there's just something about it.

I LIVE: Sitrep

Hey, I'm here. What's going on? 

School is busy. In fact, I should be patching up the holes in a 3D pelvis, then rigging and weighting the model. But I had a few thing lying around I wanted to post. 

So yeah, school. I've been busy doing paintings, which is something that I don't really like to do. I feel like rather than studying the color theory aspects of the medium (acrylic, in this case) I'm just fighting the tools. Because of that I dread it. It should be an effective exercise but it's tough to push through. 

That's been life in general, lately- just kinda tough. For me, there's a lot of fear about the future: Can I make it as an artist? Am I really getting better? Is what I'm doing getting me to improve the fastest?

I try to just relax and keep taking steps, but I wonder if I'm being proactive enough.

Time management has been another hard thing. Last week Kaitlin and I bought another calendar (we couldn't find our first one, probably got lost in the move!) and started mapping things out with the hope that it would help us use time more efficiently. Since I just started work over at Boostability, time has been even more important. 

It's overwhelming, so much so that my typically endless motivation to do art has been all over the place.

It would be easier to embrace the chaos if I could know it was all adding up properly and would mean work upon graduation, but I guess we'd all like to see bits of the future and it's not likely to happen.

Anyway, I really should get around to my homework, but I just wanted to  say it's probably time get back into a regular posting routine again. For starters I think that I'll do one post a week, maybe on Sunday nights. Hopefully that will get my art muscles feeling better again.

Head studies from class:

(Hmm, it seems like I'm ending up on the same side of the model on a regular basis. Time to move to the other side of the classroom!)

Then I've got some doodles from the last few days. This first one was from this morning and it just felt so good to do. I haven't been drawing for myself at all this semester and I think it's important to do some fun stuff aside from the grunt work so you can apply the things you're learning and actually see how far you've come.

These were some studies from people I saw at the mall last Thursday (2/26/15). The guy on the top and left, anyway. 

I Turn 25 Today

Your prize is some things I drew.

I went to a lecture by Sam Nielson on Friday, these were some People I Saw Today (and no, he wasn't smoking).

And then a couple guys I doodled in class today. I'd like to take them further, but we'll see:

School continues to keep me verrrrrrrrry busy. I was talking to classmates today about how I never really draw for myself right now- It's all homework. It was nice to doodle out the above two guys [Even though you were in class? - Ed.] and relax a bit. My goal is to get another planner (I've lost 4 in the last 4 or 5 months) and write out my life so I have time for all the things I need to do.

So yeah. I survived 24 years. Now I'm 25.

Quick Stuff

Just letting you know, I'm alive and thinking of you, you silly bloggers!

While I was out and about sketching yesterday or today, I saw all of these things.

...

ALL. Of them.

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:

I'm hungry

Some of these might look better if I did/didn't have brush pen on them.

I'm hungry

Bussin

BACK FROM SPRING BREAK: Tears Fall in Flows Torrential

Okay, party time is over, back to work! Sorry for the lack of posting this last week, I even had art stuff with me but I totally fell apart. I read a lot and played video games and spent time with friends and loved ones but now I'm back, and you can follow me on Twitter using @ZacharyHeckert.

I've been trying to work on the underdrawing. You all know this.

Here I was trying to puzzle out how to get that always-horrible view from beneath the head. Mixed results ensued, naturally.

Then I tried using my new brush pen. Mixed results ensued.

Sunday

This is Friday's post

It's really Sunday morning, though. I rode the train up to Salt Lake City to visit a friend of mine. I really did want to be home at a reasonable hour because I had to be at work at 8:00 A.M. the next day, which left me with two choices of time to catch a train: 10:05 P.M. or 11:45 P.M. It's just over an hour on the train, so if I took the later time I'd get home at 1 in the morning. That's what I ended up doing, and that's why I didn't upload this stuff that night. So here's Friday's stuff. And people move around a lot on the darn train.

This guy was squirming all over the place. I couldn't get a good angle for anything because he kept moving.

This lady was holding relatively still, so the fault that everything is broken is my fault. I constructed some good underdrawing stuff and then as I was going over it with heavier line realized that I was off on everything. When you're off on one thing you get off on other things and then it's kind of a mess and nothing is where it should be. So I'm going to try and observe more carefully next time.

The sleeping guy was the last guy I tried before I arrived at my destination. I thought that he wouldn't move or go anywhere. Things were great for about 15 minutes but then HE GOT UP AND MOVED to another part of the train! Maybe he knew I was drawing him? He was probably squinting at me through those eyes, watching me the whole time. That fiend!