Drawing Dump

As promised, here's the rest of the board game drawings that I did from last week. There's quite a few of them so I apologise if you have to scroll quite a lot!

Along with the front of the cards I created the back of them too. I made 3,4 & 5 number cards as well as cards for all of the Monkeys. Here they are:

They aren't anything special but I like to think that they make it easy enough to distinguish the cards from one another.

After the cards I also made the board for our game. It's quite plain but it was fun to make:

There's supposed to be one vine per player, you place your monkey tokens anywhere you like on the board and the first person to the top of their vine wins. Simple!

Then finally the last thing I made for our game were some tokens. I made one girl, one boy and a dog:

Aaaand that's that. Thanks for reading if you did and I hope you have an awesome week! :D 

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Playing Cards

This week I've been buuusy so sorry for the late post. D: It's going to be quite lengthy content wise but I've cut some stuff out to stop it being TOO lengthy.

Most of my time has been spent drawing pictures to put on the cards for our board game. Here's some of my favourites and some that I'm quite happy with:

I'll save some of the others for next week, so you're not missing out on anything, it'd just be an extremely long post if I put them all up this time. :D 

I also 'sneakily' included Tyke for our Snake card which I'm quite proud of:

Then finally here's a 3D model that I made for another project:

I'm not too sure how I feel about it but maybe I'll like it more when I texture it, we'll see. :D 

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

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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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