Monday, December 16, 2013

Some doodles I did a few days ago. 


Ark and Marcus looking at a weird leech-snail thing. 

A small, quick portrait thing I did of Mia and her siblings. I wanted the siblings to all have the same eye color as their mother. It's very obvious that one of them has a different biological father than the other two. XD The little girl is also the youngest between all of them with Mia being the oldest. Bonnie marries another person after Cliff leaves, hence the one more blond child in this sibling lineup. 

Something I had a sudden art craving to draw while listening to "Manchild" by Eels. I just had a weird binge of wanting to draw Ark being comforted by someone? Don't ask me why, I just did. XD After looking at the original sketch I had for this drawing, I can't help but feel like as if I liked the initial feeling I had in the thumbnail better than this sketch. I think it's probably because of the fact that the thumbnail had a bit more extreme of a down angle from The guy on the right's perspective so it looked more like he was looking down at someone and taking care of him versus this flat view I did in the end. Meh... May re-do it some time. =__=

PS - ignore the text. >__> it's just cheesy junk my brain likes to put in as text. 

The song played at the end of the Futurama episode "Game of Tones" and I just fell in love with that song, and the scene that it played during was equally beautiful - one of my favorite Futurama moments, including the older series runs list of episodes. 



I realized that I had actually forgotten to upload the animatic I did for class I did with all those character designs I posted earlier. I ended up changing the Thief's design to look more human and less like a giant bug with a bag over his head.

My animatic turned out to be really long, it runs over 100 frames with more than two characters running around at the same time for over half of those said over 100 frames.

It was worth it, though, I think. The teacher told me that if it weren't for the fact that she was only allowed to submit things that ran within a certain time limit, she would have put my animatic in at the end of the semester showing. I'm more than fine with not getting it shown, actually, I feel validated enough that spending 10 straight hours on it was worth it. XD

This animatic marks the first time I've actively integrated 3-D modelling technology into my art. I modeled the BG space in Google Sketch-up and inserted stock figures in the space to figure out which camera angles I liked. This made my process go by SO much faster, and helped me keep track of my space.

Thursday, December 12, 2013















Top two things here are some doodles I did on my comp last night. The top are Mia and Sand. I keep changing Mia/Ark's skin color. One day I'll finally settle on one. XD But their design, when I'm drawing it in a much less stylized format keeps changing. Haha...

Below is a red-headed girl who's actually an OC for a thing I'm a fan of... but too shy to talk about. =__=






















I foreshortened the knee too much, so my teacher commented that I drew a 'hero knee'. XD


















The model liked this one of him, he said he liked how I exaggerated the lean he made while he was posing. It was actually an accident, but a happy accident since the drawing ended up with a nice triangular feel to it.




Sunday, December 8, 2013

Been busy with school lately, but I've still been doodling here and there. Mainly in my sketchbooks, but sometimes I give myself some time to do some digital junk.

Here are a few I did on my computer.













It's this character as a weird rock monster thing. I was playing around with stuff I could do as a story (why I can't seem to finish anything, I partially blame myself for never deciding a mood or consistent anything...) and at some point I was playing around with a super cheesy idea where the character's powers overloads from some mystical external means.

The basic idea I had for it was that she gets sucked into some weird mystical energy thing that reconstructs her being into something that is fused right into the earth so she can just pop up at random as a rock creature of some sort. But being a piece of the earth leaves her unable to think fully straight (basically, her brain is on sensory overload since she can feel everything that's attached and moving on the planet) so she just sorta aimlessly wanders around and appears at random in random places. Chaos ensues.

I'm not quite sure if I'm really going to do anything with that idea at all, but I liked the visual idea of Mia just rising out of the ground.


















A small doodle I did of a ninja turtle, specifically Leonardo with a sword. I never finished putting his other arm in properly. I also didn't put his second sword into the pose because I seem to not know what to do with the second sword... Kudos to the people who have to work with a dual weapons character because the posing for them is trickier than I thought it'd be. @__@ Bahh....

Since I've never mentioned it on this blog, I'll mention it, now. I'm actually a HUGE ninja turtles fan.