Exercise

Testing out drawing from scratch on the tablet.

It's much more difficult than I anticipated! This is a *spoiler boss* from Digital Devil Saga 2, as challenged.

Back to work I go.

Class stuff

Learning about value composition.  We tested out some effective ones and i'll post as we go.

Project 3: Sketchbook improvement

I waited for a while for the professor's approval on this image idea, but having no reply...

I went and did it anyways!  After thumbing through some old sketchbooks I came across some great ones, but this one stuck out.  It was fun to re-sketch and recalling the dream I had involving this was interesting.

The idea is based very loosely on the snake-person Vasuki.  I am not sure why my brain twisted it as so, but basically I was travelling underground searching for something important, and I came upon a cavern that was 1. waterlogged 2. the water was *glowing* and 3. it was the home to this giant....multiarmed snake dude.  Who was very offended at me entering.

Most of the dream consisted of me trying to convince the dude that I deserved to live, and it ended up turning into a really philisophical conversation.

I won't bore people with the details, but know that it was rather vivid and...quite scary, actually.

The first and fourth ones remain my favorites, and the fourth being a re-do of the original sketch.  I still feel it is the strongest.

I will upload the greyscales of these later on, but I need to get some sleep.

Edit:  The idea has been approved!  I will likely be working on the fourth example, but we shall see what happens.

Eyes!

So last week I was assigned 5 eyes to work on. I didn't finish those five on time.

However, I will post them with this week's eye.

Hopefully this resembles Napoleon

Rembrandt

Dali

In addition, I have started on project 03 and will update this post with the sketches in a bit. It's been a busy "day off'.

Van gogh style

 Leyendecker

Marc

More spheres!

I fixed some things wrong with my project! 

Here are more spheres, continuing from last week.

Comic

What did I learn last night?  Four things.

1.  Although your idea may be much better than before, it's really difficult to re-do a project in two days with a total of five classes.

2.  Even if you spend over an hour on it, there is no good way to halftone gradients.  Everything just merges together.  This makes me sad.

3. My printer is still extremely defiant.

4.  Listening to idiots recording a let's play is a great way to make hours of work fly by.

Edit: I have another one!  Fire is nearly impossible to vectorize.

Painting practice!

We made our own brushes and were shown how to customize them.

Can you tell it's been a while since I've been in the snow?

And then some more coloring practice with tin tin!  But I  can't show you due to copyright stuff =/

Finished off the day with the first half of six spheres!  it's brush practice.