Hand-to-hand studies

Hi-yah!

No reference outside my, I guess you could call it kinesthetic sense. Not satisfied with the middle kick thingy.

Kinda like the amount of suggested musculature in the bottom scribbles.

It needn't be said, this isn't at all what I intended to do when I started doodling. I actually wanted to do some character designs, but that's clearly not where it went.

I'm not very social; That's why I mostly prefer shouting into the void through my blog, instead of participating in forums or in chat or somesuch. I've had a great time at forums, mind you - Since forums are very theme-focused, they're a great place to find people in the same, or right mindset as you.

Well, it's panic o'clock, so I gotta go.

Am I Feeling Blue, Again?

Mmdunno. I just wanted to paint in a single tone. I did start out trying some pose sketches, but ... So, Yeah.
I actually used some layers when working here... one of the issues right now is, even if I become accustomed painting with Graphire, I still need to reaquaint myself with all the other tools available with digital work - layers, various modes, effects, filters, tools and such.

I kind of like some of the shades happening there. I'll likely do some more monochromatic sketches in (wait for it...)
THE FUTURE!

...Um.

I need to sleep.

Studying my failures: Pose

So... I wanted to draw a boring pose on purpose, since besides the Uncanny Valley, pose is a large part of the problem in this image. I ended up having fun, though, and while there are failures, there are also fun lines in this picture. Plus, I haven't posted anything in a while, so...

Oh! I recently ran into some very interesting youtube videos, including pencil tests animated by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. Or this clip of Masakazu Katsura drawing Zetman. Also, these pencils from DieBuster.

All in all, way too many to link. Still, wonderfully inspiring.

John Singer Sargent and OpenCanvas.

John Singer Sargent is one of my favourites. I'm also very out of touch with OpenCanvas. Tragically, I started painting with a resolution that was way too low, so this ended up being pretty much pixel painting later on.

I initially wanted to study Sargent's pencils, but this turned up, and since I did intend to do it with OpenCanvas, I though I'd try just painting it.

It... didn't end up being that good a practice, due to the too low resolution.

The source was a painting called "Louise Burckhardt aka Lady With a Rose". Is it just me, or does she totally look like someone who could be the Doctor's companion?

I was happy with today's writing; I will need to start transcribing  the initial drafts to computer. The writing itself is completely horrible, but that's what editing is for, right.

Today failed, scheduling-wise, really.

not quite as something

Brought to you by the art of procrastination. *sigh*

I'll get back to my regularly scheduled essay writing now.

Something blue terra sketch

Not that sketchy sketchy.

Was going to draw more, but this turned out relatively nice, in some areas. I'm slightly busy right now, trying to finally get my CS Bachelor's degree.

Something // Lecture doodling

...is helping me get back into drawing. That being said, I'm studying properly, which takes most of my time, but still... I'll probably draw enough, or draw something scan-worthy every now and then. Or at least, I can fire up OpenCanvas for five minutes like I did today.

My lecture doodles are something similar to this about now. There's a certain stick figures / animation vibe in what I do right now. Sort of kickstarted by re-checking them Risus rules.

Magic is imagining something and then making it happen

I actually like this one, more or less.

'tis a character.

Eyes are uneven and such. Eh, it's still okay.

Realistic, no reference

Not too lovecraftian, but I still haven't gotten over my habit of making faces. In all honestly, I don't like it too much, but practice is practice.

Neutral expression = BOOOORING. more exaggerated posing and facial expression would be lots more interesting.


Bonus.
It's supposed to be standing meditation.

As an aside... sometimes my head gets too big and heavy and I can't do anything.

Right now, I like colors and brushes and things like that.

Something the thirteenth.

Warmup. Referenced from an ad dropped in my mailbox. 

OpenGL is kinda neat. Well, no. But, a 3d API is kinda neat, VS. making one yourself. 

Still gotta do that at some point, just for kicks, but....

Well, that was... colorful. I had this lineart I drew, and started pushing and prodding it in OC, and ended up with this mess.

Now, mind you, I did learn something, perhaps, while doing it, but it sure ain't pretty. Despite all the pretty colors, too. I do like the teef, though.

Something after

Has some lines I like. It's better than nothing....

Blargh // no, just Blargh. // Triple-blargh

Things like composition and proportions, and the general whooshiness of images I do much better on pen and paper. However, the editability of digital work is also a delight.

It doesn't look that horrible at a distance. Click closer at your own risk. T_T
---
Hm. OpenCanvas was still running.


On a different note, I need to draw SIMPLER. Simplify, simplify, simplify!
I have some pen-on-paper drawings there, but, it's not a scanning kind of day, so nyah, I guess. Basically there's some junk and one decent Terra, so you're not missing much.

Sack o' Confusion

This time, I did the warm-up in OC.

So, got my GUI thing doing something, at least. I do have this feeling it's horribly slow right now, though...

Concentration problems do not seem to apply to code-work... but I did find one piece of software I wrote a while back is horribly broken. ;_;

Drawing shall commence after sleep. Coding takes a lot of time and attention...

*edit*

I'm amused. Jet Li writes:

In Chinese, kungfu is a mark for time. You can use kungfu to describe anything as long as you've spent a lot of time working on it. For example, you can say that a chef's cooking kungfu is great. Because that chef has taken 10 to 20 years to gain those abilities. Since wushu takes a lot of time to learn, so you can say your kungfu is great. But wushu actually means the art of averting conflict. Wushu includes culture, discipline, philosophy, technique as well

Something Confused

Warming up... Sometimes I don't know myself what is coming out of my pencils. All I can offer for this, is that I was listening to "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)"...

Ben claims I may actually do better work digitally than with pen and paper. I find that this is actually possible, and the thought terrifies me. Oh well. The above is very sloppy, but I kinda like the face. The rainbow effect worked okay.

The title comes from my recent lack of concentration. My head's been terribly fuzzy, I haven't been able to focus on the things I should.

I've been pondering the digital/pencil side of things, and I've concluded, that while I draw better with pencils, technically, the fact that the actual tip of a pencil has a varied shape, as well as the fact that I can keep on re-drawing digitally combined with the zoom function, is what gives the edge to digital work. This is an issue of, well, of eyesight as well as the fact I'm a relatively sloppy drawer. Not like my brother, who's first line is always the final one, too. Although, he still doesn't get line weights, really.

So, I'm taking a course on Games and Virtual Environments

Took me longer than I thought... but today, I've been Inspired.

This is, like, half-way between sketchydoodle, and something pretty nifty. I probably won't finish it, though. Kinda a shame.
I think it's a guy, BTW. Aasimar Paladin or Crusader, probably.

Oulu as a city --- or rather, the IT people here, are actually sorta trying to push this as the Game Development hub of Finland or something like that. That's what they told me at the PuzzleScape promo party, at least. And that's way more free advertisement for Farmind than I should do.

Any way, there's this Game Research Unit at Oulu, Y'know, people responsible for this, for an example.

Interesting stuff. AirBuccaneers seems like a pretty cool idea, and it's giving me some ideas, too.

I did do a re-skin of Prismatic Dragon for Galactic Destroyeriffic purposes, a while back. I did also make an Arbyfish model, but I don't have that anymore. :(

More CG junk

Okay, so after my classes were over I came back home... and effectively crashed. I slept 'til 8 PM or so, and then... well, I haven't really done that much today, all in all. :(

This is still terribly lazy and sloppy CG, but better than yesterday.

This is really kinda bad news.

Okay... OpenCanvas 1.1 doesn't work with my machine anymore. Reason unknown. oC4 works fine, but it's Shareware. It works currently thanks to reinstall monkeys, but only for a month, I think.

Havn't done CG in a while. Rusty. Lazy, too.

Something experimental... again

One wonders how dark this will turn out... as it seems these things look darker on the net for some reason. Well, shouldn't be too bad.

Terra's hair is like that because she's on the move.

I invoke ISLAGIATT!

Something isn't something.

Well now! This was supposed to be just a really quick, five-minute drabble. I ended up using almost an hour on this - partially due to the fact I worked on such a small size.

Note to self: Working on small size is not necessarily easier.
Well, it's something. It might've been junk, but... Meh.

I do kinda like Terra on the foreground. And that's all.

Ben's Birthday.

Happy birthday to you, and such.

I'm abusing my "I'm ten hours into your FUTURE!" powers. Ben got a big version of this one.
I'm thinking of painting something on actual paper and mailing it to him, too...
...
It's an excuse to paint something with actual brushes and such. Mmm... messy.
Trista looks really plain next to Saz --- but that's the idea, too, sorta. Variant sword, variant costume, variant hair for Trista... Saz got all the nifty shading, too, it seems.

Hmm.