You're so full of Character(s)!

Does anyone know what the going rates are for paying people to come up with blog post titles? Asking for a friend...

As the title suggests, this post is gonna be filled with a load of character designs. Most of these are from my sketchbook so they aren't going to be the best quality because I'm silly and didn't scan them. I hope the images aren't too difficult to see, though! 

I'll start off with the sketchbook pictures and then move onto digital stuff. Here they are:

The top one is okay because I got to zoom in on the page, the others not so much. I'm sorry. D: I should have some of these digitalised before next week's entry so for now I'm afraid clicking to enlarge the image is the only way to see them clearer! 

Next up is the digital work, luckily I didn't have to take pictures of these ones:

I finally got the lineart for the different Grumpy Bag expression/poses done. This was fun to do so I may do more. :D

As mentioned last time - we started working with Mudbox and I think it is AMAZING. This was my first attempt at creating a rock. They're all the same just from different angles. It was so much fun and I'm really looking forward to giving modelling some of my characters a go in it.

Here's an Oddish that I drew because someone posted that spread Pokemon across Facebook thing and I wanted to try it. :D

Finally here's Clide, you maaaay recognise him from one of the sketches above...

He was suuuper fun to draw and I'm quite happy with how he turned out, so look out for more pieces based on him in the future. :)

That's all for this entry, thanks for reading if you did and have an awesome week! 

(~^-^)~

*blows away cobwebs*

*gets eaten alive by giant hoarde of tiny spiders*

I'm starting to see a trend with this - I come back for a little while and then I disappear and try and force myself to think of some kind of pun to make up for it. I don't have one this time, I'm sorry. :(

It's kinda obvious that there's been a bit of a while between the time of my last entry and now so I'll try and get things back up to speed and explain what has been going on. I also have some art to show too, gasp! 

I started semester 2 of my second year at uni. So far I've really enjoyed all of the projects we've done/had ongoing but I have a pretty big amount of personal stuff going on that is screwing me over every chance it gets, so things aren't going as well as I'd like to say they were.

I am working on it though and I'm determined to get back to wanting to do more than sleep, so hopefully that'll work out. :D 

Now that the boring bit full of excuses is out of the way, onto some art:

Here's Grumpy Bag. He's a design that popped into my head and just wouldn't go away so I figured I'd try and draw him. As you can tell by the lower half he isn't done yet but I thought he was done enough for me to be able to show you, so here he is. :D

I also did some more studies of him that I plan on cleaning up, so here's the sketches:

So blue, whoaaaaa.

Onto some 3D stuff now. We got the chance to start messing around with Specular textures and that kinda thing with Maya and UDK and I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda fascinated by it. :'D Some of these pictures will probably look kinda boring but I don't care! They're cool to me. ;-;

Here's the first test that I did (no texture):

So shiny. @u@ The next one is a bit more interesting, I promise. Here's the texture I made for it:

I should have worked on it longer but I think it came out okay for the 10 minutes I spent panic-painting it. I have to make another one so I'll be sure to spend more time on that. Here's what it looks like in UDK with a Normal and Specular map applied:

GOSH SO MAGICAL.

This week we're starting Mudbox which so far has made me make seal noises of joy because I'm easily amused, so I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully I'll have something to show of it in the next entry. 

Thanks for reading if you did and have an awesome week. :D 

(~^-^)~

Happy New Year!

Very belated, but Happy New Year! :D I hope you had an awesome lovely time filled with happiness and too much food. 

Here's some stuff that I've done recently:

This is an Orc type... thing that I made. I wanted to completely redo our DOTA character project (for anyone who needs a reminder of that project you can find it here) because it was awful, so I'm hoping to make something that isn't AS bad as the first one.

I also really liked the top lineart that I made of him, so I decided to colour it. Here's two versions that I did (one with coloured lines one without):

It was a tonne of fun to do and I can only hope (pray) that the Maya model I make of it will look somewhat similar.

Speaking of the model, here's what I have of it so far:

He's very blocky at the moment though I have a fair amount of tris left that I can use to fix that, and he doesn't have sunglasses unfortunately - I'm going to make his eyes literally stand out and hopefully it'll look as cool as what I have pictured in my head. :D

Then finally here's a digital painting I did of a singer called Kim Ryeowook from the group Super Junior:

I shouldn't really have painted this considering the other work I needed to do but I felt like I needed to do something like this to try and wake myself up a bit. I've been beyond lazy recently and feeling very burned out, so I figured it might help. Only time will tell. :)

That's all I've got for this post, thanks for reading if you did and I hope you have an awesome week! 

(~^-^)~