Sketchbook Challenge

 The Sketchbook Challenge is something that I found out about yesterday when I shamefully listened in accidentally heard one of my tutors talking to the First Year class about it. I thought that it sounded like a really cool idea so I looked it up and decided I'm gonna try it. :D The theme for this month is 'Animal Companions' and if anyone is interested in checking it out then there's a blog all about it here!

Unfortunately I haven't actually started because I didn't buy a sketchbook for the occasion yet, though I'm going to fix that issue tomorrow. I did do this drawing of Tyke and myself to give you a taste of what's to come, though:

Other than that quick piece I've spent pretty much all of this week working on a board game project which at the moment is still in prototype form (but ready to make pretty!). I've got a few pictures of it which I'll post below though :D so here they are:

Without making a huge text wall that totally clogs up this entry, our team is making a phonics board game that's supposed to help teach children how to read and learn words. Our game includes picture cards of various animals/objects and sound cards that you use to spell, use in sentences and think of words for. I hope that makes sense, if not just ask if you want to know more! :D 

Also just so you know for sure - this is a GROUP project so I can't take all the credit, my team-mate Sanya is also working on this so yay for her! :D

To go with that, here's a pendant that I've started on as a player counter:

 It'll have pictures of explorers in once it's done, this is just a base for it~ 

And there's also this that you don't really want to see but I drew it this week so it's only right to include it I guess:

SO. On that joyful note, I hope you have an awesome week and thanks for reading if you did. :) Prepare yourself for angsty Corn Snake pictures. Lot's and lot's of angsty Corn Snake pictures. 

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Self Conscious Potato

Do potatoes even like milk? If I offered one some would they drink it? Makes me wonder.

This week I've drawn a lot of stuff that I don't really draw much any more, I guess? You'll see what I mean in a moment. 

About 2 years ago I used to draw a LOT of quite violent monsters which are different to the ones that most of you reading this are used to seeing. This week I drew a couple more of those and while it felt 'good' to be able to do it again it felt wrong, so these are probably the only ones you'll see. Enjoy, I guess? :D 

Anyway, here they are:

Glad that's out of the way.

I also started on this staff, not really sure where I'm going to go with it but here it is anyway:

It looks very rough and kinda all over the place at the moment but hopefully I can tidy it up and make it look half decent. 

Then to end on here's a derpy partying keyboard:

Thanks for reading if you did and I hope you have an awesome week! 

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!Year 2 Activated!

On Monday I started my second year of Games Design, woo! :D It started with a half hour introductory lecture about our upcoming Contextual Studies module and then on Thursday we played & created board games. It kinda reminded me of our first week of First Year because we played board games then too, so it was kinda weird when I remembered that it was in fact, for second year! D:

Then today we spent all day texturing some awesome models. :D We had 3 choices - a Cybabe, Bunker and an Imp. I chose the Imp, though I'll warn you in advance - it has an added 'area' to it that made me a little uncomfortable. I still wanted to paint him though, so I tried to ignore it. :'D

Not to fear though, because I've censored it to protect your innocent little eyes! :D

Here's some screenshots of what I managed to do during the day:

I'm planning on putting him into UDK within the next few days too, so hopefully my next blog post will have some 'beauty' shots of that. :D I'd also really like to do a couple of variations because he was a joy to paint! 

That's all I have for this entry, thanks for reading if you did and I'm sorry for the lack of warning about the naked Imp! Have an awesome week. :)

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Detachable Feet

There's a comic at the bottom of this entry that'll help you understand that title a bit more, just so you know.

I didn't post a lot on my Facebook/Twitter this week due to only really doing hand & feet studies. D: I figured I could post a couple but I didn't want to clog my pages up with just that because they aren't the most exciting of things, so there's a collection of them here. :D 

I don't have scanner access right now, so here's some lovely terribly taken photos instead! 

 As you can see I really can't draw feet (or hands, really), so I'll be working on that some more until I get to a stage I'm happy with. I'll have to find alternative resources though because I lasted about 20 seconds on deviantART's stock & resources section under the word foot. :( I wouldn't recommend searching it, no offense to those whose photos showed up.

I'm trying to get into the habit of drawing at least a page or two of studies a night, so we'll see how that goes. So far so good. :D 

The above drawing is something I made during a 10 minute break from packing for uni. Next time I think I'll just not pack anything, it'd make life so much easier. D: Though I'm back in Preston now so I don't have to worry about packing anything again until Christmas, yay! :D

Finally here's the comic I made that ties in with the title:

Finding foot poses to draw has been a bit of a chore (considering I can't handle looking at half of them) so I had this genius idea of being able to pull your foot off and pose it yourself. Then I remembered that I could just buy one of the wooden foot mannequin things which would be so much easier, oh well. At least I got a comic out of it I guess. :D


Anyway, that's all I've got for this week. I start uni again properly next week so that'll be awesome! It'll be nice to have set projects and deadlines again, I need to get myself to do that more with personal projects. :(


Thanks for reading if you did and have an awesome week!

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Hands and Cupcakes

The title of this post pretty much sums up what I've been drawing lately. :'D A lot of cupcakes and a lot of hands.

The cupcakes for the most part aren't something that I've posted on my Facebook/Twitter/etc because they were drawn as part of a thank you card for someone important to me, so unfortunately because I wanted to keep it between the two of us I won't be posting them here, sorry. ):

 I do have a (fairly blurry) digital painting that I did of a cupcake though so not all is lost:

I also did another study of my Sister's camera from my desk, which was an experience because it was the first time in a while that I've drawn something that was in front of me physically rather than from a reference picture on the internet. It wasn't too bad though. :D 

Something I've spent the last day or two really working on is hands/arms. My hands still need a lot of work but it was fun sitting down for an hour or two to just copy down some poses. I definitely learned some things and had a lot of fun drawing these, so that was a nice experience! 

There's quite a lot of them and they can be found below:

Then the last painting I started on last night is of a Cthulhu. It's not what I usually paint and I'm not entirely sure what they're supposed to look like but this is what I have so far:

 

Finally, on a more stylised side of things, I made this cover photo for my personal Facebook. It features Porridge Warrior slipping in a river of lucky charms. :D

I'll probably end up making a banner for my art page too, it's just a matter of figuring out what to actually put on it and that could take a while. ): I'd use this one but I don't think a distressed bowl of porridge with spoons for arms gives off much of a taste of who I am or what my art is like.


... Oh wait.


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Squirrel Crossbreeds

As the title suggests, I'm back from my undeclared birthday hiatus. :D I've been strangely busy the last week and a bit so once again I've not had a chance to make much, which is frustrating. e_e 

The first thing I made was this little model... thing in Maya:

First I wanted it to be a squirrel, then I changed it to a cat, now it's some kind of weird mole/shrew/rabbit crossbreed that I sat in a hole. I have since tried to texture it but thanks to me being stupid and not having a power supply near, I completely lost what I had done when my battery ran out. Go me!

Next up is a drawing I did for a friend who asked to commission me. This is one of his characters & isn't part of the actual commission, so it should be okay to share I hope:

Her name is Chen and she's a Pokemon-based OC. I had lot's of fun drawing her. :D 

Finally is this painting I did of an owl pendant that my Dad's girlfriend gave me for my birthday:

This was the first time I've drawn something from a study on my desk instead of from the computer screen, so I'm sooorta happy with how it came out. I also improvised with the chest a little because the real thing has about 100 tiny 'diamonds' on it and as much as I love painting, that wasn't going to happen today. D:

That's all I have for this week, though now I've actually done a study I think I might try and do a few more (with backgrounds!) as well as those environments I talked about last week. 

Thanks for reading if you did and have an awesome week! 

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Lazy.

That's pretty much the only word I have to describe me the last couple of weeks. ): First I got sick, then I pulled a muscle in my neck, now I have a blog post that's 2 weeks late with not much art. Not good! D:

I do have SOME things to show though, so I guess it's not all bad, right?

Here's a WIP I've spent the last few days on. Not solidly, just casually. I can't seem to concentrate on anything long enough to get it done quickly at the moment, so who knows how long it'll take. >_>

I'm pretty certain that I'm gonna muck up the background but we'll see how it goes.

Next up is more Animal Crossing art. I know, I know, I'm overdoing it - I don't really care. It's fun to draw. :D It'll pass eventually I promise.

I also made a Facebook banner for someone, though I'm not sure if they'd be happy with me posting it here so I won't. 

Finally to finish off, here's a larger sized image of Pascal that I painted a little while ago in my picture of Tommy Des Brisay. Hopefully he looks a bit nicer this size. :D 

That's all I have for this week, I'm gonna set myself a target of 5 studies for next week, so we'll see how that goes. I also want to get working on anatomy which would be nice to sneak in too. :D 

Thanks for reading and have an awesome week! 

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