Mind Heist

So I listened to Zack Hemsey's "Mind Heist" the entire time drawing this. That song makes everything epic, and make's drawing extra fun! I also didn't save the file until I was done. /fail. Still not completely satisfied with the hands, I try to make them look natural, they come out mangled, blah dee blah dee blah~

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Sorry, I'm just typing the same thing over again because being the smart person I am, I accidentally posted this to Willie's "Weekly Scribblets", and then deleted the post before thinking of copy and pasting my post to my personal blog. /doublefail. So I can't remember everything I said... Oh well.

Anyway, here's what I worked on:



Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Oh, I also said something about how I've got the day off tomorrow, so drawing the night before is stress free, or something. Well, I suppose it was :D

Work Station pix

Cleaned the computer room today and did a little rearranging. I'm enjoying my current workspace:



"Quit procrastinating. Work on your art."
-The Goddamn Batman

He's a good motivational tool :D

Happy Holidays Artco!

These are caricatures of my co-workers that I did as a holiday gift. I started working on them around the start of the month and finished them up last night, just in time to show my co-workers on our last day before Christmas break (lol "break"). I was really shooting for having them finished in color, but I only had 4 colored by 3 a.m. last night and I wasn't gonna stay up all night.. so I'll have to finish coloring them later. Despite that, my co-workers loved their drawings, so I'm glad to have made their day a little brighter :D

WIP painting

Something I've been working on for a couple hours for the past few nights. I'm not too great with hands, so throw painting into the mix, and it's a mighty challenge. Anyway, I wasn't gonna show this until it was done, but Jordan wanted to see my progress haha. Probably good to show it so I can get critique anyway.

Digital sketches

I recently bought a new monitor, way larger than the previous, and let me tell you.. it makes drawing digitally SO much easier! Here's some sketches I've done in the past few days:

Did this a couple nights ago. Anatomy isn't so good


Just did this tonight, anatomy is better...


Here's a work in progress. It's gonna be a comic book cover-esque illustration. All characters are from a story I've had in my head for awhile, which I would like to somehow make into a comic someday. Heh, a comic. That's a long lasting dedication project right there. But you never know, I'm in no rush right now. Besides, I've yet to really write any of the story down... Should probably get on that.
Anyway, I'm currently doing the clean pass on this piece. It's taking awhile, but it'll get there.. Then onto coloring!

10/4/2010

Something similar to yesterday's sketch.. Guess I've got punk chicks on my mind, or something. Okay, time for bed...

Changes are to be made!

Alright, so I'm gonna have to set up a schedule for myself to make sure I get more drawing in. It's been exhausting at work lately, and when I get home I don't even wanna think about doing art.. But if I love it so much, shouldn't I try to put more effort into working more for myself? Besides, I need to try more experimenting and such to really find my voice. So, I'll try to do a daily sketch and spend around an hour on it every/every-other night.

There's a lot of things I wanna change in my life to make myself a better person and be more happy with who I am. Setting up a schedule for myself to make sure I get more art in my life is just one among other things. I hope to see changes for the better these coming months.

Anyway, to start out my new path, here's a sketch I did tonight.

1 hr 10 min.

I got lazy around some areas and even got stuck at a few points. It becomes difficult to decide which direction you want your lines to go.. especially when it comes to folds in clothing.. I didn't wanna spend too much time guessing and erasing, so I went with my gut. Not satisfied at all how that turned out, but it shows how much practice I need with that subject. and hands.. ugh.. HANDS... they're all floaty in this sketch.. lol