Brainwalk

Busy times. Will have to rethink posting frequency-- I like the daily stuff, but it drops quality quite a bit. I think I'll try M/W/F and see how that works out, starting next week.

moving furniture for fun!

Spent all yesterday rampaging through my apartment to reconfigure the desks, bird cage, etc. Now everyone's got their favorite spot, and a full desk. Some old markerdoodles for now!







Still totally rockin' the Lala.com thing. It's conditional, though, in my mind-- I'm going to fangirl for it on the assumption that their interface will improve as it grows, since making playlists is a bit of a gui mess. (That being said, maybe I'll just become addicted to having so much of my music-- and their suggestions-- served for free that I'll stop caring about the lame click-and-drag web interface.)

Jenn's doodle, TEH POLISHED:

Jay paint

So I got all smoosh-painty on this for a little while yesterday:



But I like the original doodle that was scrawled out loosely in ArtRage a lot more.




Back to studying for me! Had a great time at Acuitus testing their software, but now I'm back to my paint-or-bust/animate-or-cry rampage.

Iiiit's monday!

Well. It was.

full paintin'

Still only around 1/4 done-- figured out all the general linework and stuff, but I really want to go all crazy-cat Michael Whelan on this. Over the rest of the week!


The full cover: , and

my garishly colored thought process: )

stabby stabby

Part of this, only the above was a re-draw because the poses are way more fun. By the way, if you know Max Gladstone, go bug him about Three Parts Dead because it is awesome.

More marker doodles

Today:




Yesterday:




....Well yes sir I am totally cheating on my art-every-day by using up my buffer of card-art! And how. What would be an awesome part-time job feels full-time, since I still end up away from my art machine from 8am to 8pm due to stuff and things and mostly carpooling. But! I'm locked at home all weekend for my cockatiel to bite me. Something cool at the end of both Saturday and Sunday, even if it's just the long-promised work on all that WIP stuff. I might also move to a-post-every-other-day to see if that creates better quality here.

D.A.R.E. failed on me

I totally does what the cool kids tells me to do.

This was a "really this gaget is worth it" doodle for Sithel, and she told me to post it to the world.

Here you are, world.

OMG NOOOOOOOES

Er, this was a speed-cleanup of a much messier, totally craped up sektch. Check out the love on the arms. I'm working during the day now, so I'm trying to figure out how much art I can still get done nightly (so far: almost none. Boo on self-discipline.) I think I'd like to try weekly posting, but that's dull. Or maybe M/W/F posts?




The expression is supposed to be that of someone having a terrifically bad month, week, and day now being beaten up and menaced. :\ Yeah. I know. Back to the drawing board with me. Pretty awesome how a 40-second background looks a lot like those 3rd-grade school photo backdrops, huh?

warm up doodles from all over

Um. Other people's style of people snuck in there. Bottom right is how I'd draw. Actually I'd draw spiders. Which are already present. But anyway, I was trying to push out away from my default human faces, trying some proportions I don't normally do.

a photoshop idea for an illustrator thingie

flash layouts for animation tests

A head-turn-and-take, and some sweet action.

Plus a quick illustrator logo for Dan's SNPrints project:

....DAYLIGHT SAVINGS IS OVER GUYS WE GET AN HOUR BACK OF OUR LIVES AAAAAWWEESOME.

paintin' WIPs

Trying out some cool texture overlays, and kicking my background butt back in gear, since I haven't done hard perspective since....a long time. Name the book this is from, and I will draw you a hippo of your choice.

These are random doodles. My human poses could use some work. >:(

I'm headed off for the weekend to visit my grandparents!

guys, I'm out of hot women.

NOW IS ZE TIME FOR ROBOTS!!1!!1



Robots who care about YOUR health.

[inked as one spastic, pencil-less sketch while waiting for stuff on this other sketch to dry.]

Also: flying hippos.



(Giant, lardy, warm-blooded crocodiles they is.)

[totally safe for work]

This was with a reference photo. In which I think she is holding a packet of ramen, which completely consumed my brain the whole time I was drawing....mmmm....ramen.....

continuing the theme

A really quick brushpen sketch from Dr Sketchys. Lala.

And this is practice from a reference for life drawing. Mm. Ink.

[NSFW] lalala pin-ups

Boobies now; insipid cute animals later this week. Stay tuned!

[NSFW] today: anime and flash beat me up

Oow. This started out as an action animation, but swiftly died into, uh, cat girls with whips, partially out of satire, and partially because I'm skeevy like that.

But! I made some awesome beef jerky and washed like 8 loads of clothes, since it was just one of those Sundays. That squid. Workin' on it.

new toy: fast w.i.p. sketches

Alright, here's the random images:

Got a cintiq.

Never, never going back.

I've always been bad about treating real media like it's the Final Deal ("I'll just scribble this and fix it in photoshop") and I've been lately so cramped and frustrated with the lack of direct contact that I gave in. Sparkley nuggets of joy! Tons of paintings in the works! I can't wait to tackle flash with this*.

Yet I have to fess up, the top one was drawn so far with a normal Intuos; the bottom with a Cintiq. The difference was mostly on my side, since the top one took 4+ hours of painstaking tweaking, and the bottom one took about 15 minutes (including the color, which I'm not showing until tomorrow.) It's crazy how beautiful it is to draw direct! Better than an animator's desk, even, since you can have as many layers of ruffs as you want. WOoo!

*except my left side doesn't work at the moment. Yow, DTap vaccine is hardcore beating me up.

[Edit: four-word hint: "newegg open box deal"]

dr sketchy's 10-19 round II

These are all 2 or 5 min sketches... my attention span dies on 10 minute poses. :\

dr sketchy's 10-19 round I

1-3 minute poses.

Holy cats! Daily posting is hard.

It's mostly the scanning and processing side-- I'll drop another image later tonight/early tomorrow to make up for monday. This was an 8min brushpen sketch of a...demon...thingie.

wip: fatty bird-face

Since spending time on a painting and using refs are my downfall, I'm trying to kick these bad habits starting small-- this cockatiel painting is something I'm *trying* to spend 3+ hours on. So far it's 70 minutes, and from a reference photo of my pet 'tiel.

and now: octopi

(This gentlemollusc was the logical cumulative product of this series.)

These are all brushpen and copic marker. Sorry for the large image size: google's uploader is broken.

Missed Connections:

Dear Whomever Punched a Giant Crack In Our Car's Front Window To Put a Flyer for College Football:







....you jerk. >:(

Thank you card filler week!

Er. I'm hung up on a lot of half-finished paintings that I'd have a really hard time justifying inflicting on anyone....so here's a lot of Copic marker thank you cards that I made recently. (Two pictures, for Wed and today. I'm aiming for crazy-crazy daily posting!)

Illustration for Bugsby

Note to me: Strathmore Drawing paper is hateful to quill inking.

on Squidileus' wall

Old doodles from the Alarious Project, back when the main character was a nerdy Kraken.

i'd wear that tie

First page of my last sketchbook.